Showing posts with label Keith Dunn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keith Dunn. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Keith Dunn & The Love Gloves - Delta Roll

Year: 2006
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:00
Size: 99,5 MB
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Sometimes Woman (3:17)
2. Elevate Me (4:44)
3. Deja Vu (2:19)
4. Get 'Em While They're Hot (3:25)
5. Who Do You Love (2:56)
6. Leaving Blues (4:17)
7. Hate To See You Go (3:57)
8. Mother Don't Allow (2:29)
9. Raining In My Hart (3:42)
10. Strange Land (3:29)
11. Money Bound (3:15)
12. Waiting For The Man (2:12)
13. Bottle It Up And Go (2:53)

The unconventional songs and arrangements of Keith Dunn & The Love Gloves consist of the band's powerful minimalist rhythm, virtuoso harmonica playing and traditional finger-picking and bottleneck slide as well as single note style on guitar. Added to this are vocal harmonies, background singing and songs that use two lead-vocalists. This creates the band's original style and sound, Delta Roll. The sound is based on the delta, country and juke-joint blues of the 1920s to 1940s but also incorporates the harder electrified style of the 1950s and at times mixes the two sounds and styles. Added to this, are the harmony vocal arrangements of the 1960s.

Keith Dunn & The Love Gloves have its source in the alliance of harmonica player and singer, Keith Dunn, with the trio, The Love Gloves. Keith Dunn, who was born in Boston, has received several awards for the songwriting on his album “Alone With The Blues" as well as the Talking Blues Award for the live performance of the songs on that CD. He has performed with a myriad of Blues greats including Big Jack Johnson, Lurrie Bell, Jimmy Rogers and Muddy Waters. As a trio, The Love Gloves, from Berlin, have received the Berlin Blues Award 2004 and the Dresden Blues Award 2001, played in a German TV movie  and wrote the soundtrack for a Genion commercial spot.

After meeting at several jam sessions on various European music festivals, the quartet decided to present the personal energy and musical exhilaration of those after hour sessions in a band format. The excitement, variation and flexibility of the band´s concerts spring from the fact that they can play multiple instruments and have three singers, as well as their enthusiasm for the music.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Friday, June 17, 2016

Keith Dunn - The Keith Dunn Collection

Year: 2009
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:25
Size: 91,6 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Close To You (3:48)
2. Can't Let You Go (2:47)
3. Snatch It Back And Hold It (4:37)
4. Steal Away (6:18)
5. Wish You Would (6:36)
6. Worried Life Blues (3:46)
7. Ride With Daddy Tonite (5:06)
8. Hoy, Hoy, Hoy (3:49)
9. Baby Please Don't Go (2:34)

As a nine-year-old Dunn saw his first concert when T-Bone Walker played a free outdoor concert. At the age of 12 he bought a harmonica and began playing it at parties and with street players. He grew up listening to radio station W-I-L-D, initially taking a liking to Curtis Mayfield and Smokey Robinson. Later on he started listening to Archie Shepp and John Coltrane. He also bought records by Sonny Boy Williamson (I and II). In his early career he played only acoustic harmonica.

After seeing the Junior Wells/Buddy Guy Band he put his first real band together, Blue Lightning. They played material by Junior Wells, Jimmy Rogers, Aleck "Rice" Miller (Sonny Boy Williamson II), and also James Cotton and Muddy Waters. Dunn's second band was called the Honeydrippers which was a guitar/saxophone driven group.

Dunn presently lives in the Netherlands. He has performed with James Cotton, Hubert Sumlin, Roy Eldridge, Big Walter Horton, Lurrie Bell, Jimmy Rogers and Big Mama Thornton. He works as a record producer and gives master classes in harmonica. He regularly tours with The Love Gloves and The International Blues Band and also appears as a guest musician with different artists, for instance Big Jack Johnson. /Wikipedia

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Keith Dunn - Alone With The Blues

Year: 1998
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:04
Size: 108,5 MB
Styles: Acoustic harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Strange Things Are Happening (4:38)
2. Need To Make A Dollar (2:51)
3. Geronimo (4:31)
4. Playing The Blues (3:49)
5. Deetone Dance (1:20)
6. Bring It On Home (4:49)
7. Trouble Is Going On (4:18)
8. California Dream (0:46)
9. I Used To Have A Home (3:33)
10. Kool Struttin' (1:43)
11. A Feeling Called The Blues (2:00)
12. Face The Facts (4:27)
13. Deep In My Heart For You (3:57)
14. Myers, Below, Jacobs And Myers (3:15)

Alone With The Blues is an award-winning solo CD by independent artist Keith Dunn. It is a rare opportunity to hear the music in its most pure form as Keith performs alone; harmonica and voice, for the entire CD. Keith has more than 30 years in music. His vast musical knowledge, gained while in the company of giants such as Muddy Waters, James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers and Big Walter Horton, can be easily heard when listening to Alone With The Blues. Keith Dunn’s writing has been compared to J.B. Lenoir. That Keith is an exceptional songwriter is made evident by his thirteen compositions on this CD.

“Need To Make A Dollar” a song about joblessness leading to crime and “Strange Things Are Happening” a chronicle of inner-city problems caused by the US government received songwriting awards from the ISC. The attention brought to Alone With The Blues by these awards caused the CD to be boycotted in some places. When asked about this Keith’s response was, “I am happy for the debate that the boycott of Alone With The Blues has caused. These are subjects that should be discussed.”

In addition to the awards, the record has received favorable reviews from Living Blues in the USA, Blues and Rhythm in England, Soul Bag in France and Concerto in Austria, Alone With The Blues has enjoyed airplay in Russia, Brazil, Australia and Japan as well as throughout Europe and the USA. Keith Dunn’s inventive harmonica playing and passionate singing is showcased in a variety of styles including instrumentals, swing, back porch and the humorous “Playing The Blues”.

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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Various - Blues Is A Tramp: Live In Paradiso (2-Disc Set)

Value for money 2 CD's of live recorded Tramp Festival a happening at Amsterdam's poptempel The Paradiso. Completely sold out, it was a ball. 4 steaming bands from the Tramp label. Ides Of May, Keith Dunn & John Packer, Big Joe Louis and Blues 'N' Trouble. Dollar for dollar- this CD will dump more rockin'blues and boogie in your lap than any other I can think of.

Album: Blues Is A Tramp: Live In Paradiso (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:55
Size: 128.0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2000
Art: Front

[3:10] 1. Ides Of May - Don't Boogie On Me
[3:03] 2. Ides Of May - Slippin' And Slidin'
[2:33] 3. Ides Of May - All My Lovin' Baby
[4:12] 4. Ides Of May - You'r Out Of Sight
[2:25] 5. Ides Of May - Drivin' Around
[3:27] 6. Ides Of May - Boxin' The Blues
[2:54] 7. Ides Of May - I Cried
[3:23] 8. Ides Of May - Let 'er Roll
[4:44] 9. Keith Dunn - It Ain't Me
[5:12] 10. Keith Dunn - Tore Up
[5:11] 11. Keith Dunn - Standing Around Cryin'
[4:13] 12. Keith Dunn - Pallet On The Floor
[3:02] 13. Keith Dunn - Tell Me Why
[3:46] 14. Keith Dunn - Rockin' And Rollin'
[4:33] 15. Keith Dunn - Rock This House

Blues Is A Tramp: Live In Paradiso (Disc 1)

Album: Blues Is A Tramp: Live In Paradiso (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:48
Size: 134.6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2000
Art: Front

[5:14] 1. Big Joe Lewis & His Blues Kings - Trouble At Your Door
[3:55] 2. Big Joe Lewis & His Blues Kings - I'm So Glad
[6:07] 3. Big Joe Lewis & His Blues Kings - Married Woman Blues
[4:20] 4. Big Joe Lewis & His Blues Kings - Treat Yoiur Daddy Right
[7:27] 5. Big Joe Lewis & His Blues Kings - The Woman I Love
[3:37] 6. Big Joe Lewis & His Blues Kings - You Lied To Me Baby
[5:14] 7. Blues 'n' Trouble - Sleeping In The Ground
[4:05] 8. Blues 'n' Trouble - Born In Chicago
[4:11] 9. Blues 'n' Trouble - Emilia Jane
[4:25] 10. Blues 'n' Trouble - Why Why Why
[6:54] 11. Blues 'n' Trouble - Long Gone Man
[3:13] 12. Blues 'n' Trouble - Goin' Up The Country

Blues Is A Tramp: Live In Paradiso (Disc 2)