Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart

Size: 422 MB
Time: 58:08
File: Flac
Released: 2015
Styles: Rock
Art: Full

1. Crosseyed Heart (1:52)
2. Heartstopper (3:04)
3. Amnesia (3:35)
4. Robbed Blind (4:00)
5. Trouble (4:17)
6. Love Overdue (3:28)
7. Nothing On Me (3:47)
8. Suspicious (3:42)
9. Blues In The Morning (4:26)
10. Something For Nothing (3:28)
11. Illusion (3:48)
12. Just A Gift (4:01)
13. Goodnight Irene (5:46)
14. Substantial Damage (4:21)
15. Lover's Plea (4:23)

Hardcore fans have had to wait a long time for new solo work from Keith Richards. Thirteen years after 'Main Offender', 'Crosseyed Heart', the 3rd solo album by the 71-year-old legendary guitarist of The Rolling Stones, was released on September 18. His lined face grins at you from the album cover, as if to say “here I am at last”. 'Crosseyed Heart' has again become a very recognizable Richards album. It starts subtly with the title track, a short acoustic blues in the style of Robert Johnson. Heartstopper is a blues rocker in the best tradition of The X-pensive Winos. Thumping drumming from Steve Jordan and dirty guitar work from Richards and Waddy Wachtel. Amnesia is also an uptempo rocker, dominated by the tandem of Richards and Jordan. And in this song you can hear saxophonist Bobby Keys, who passed away last year. After two rockers it is time for a beautiful country ballad, Robbed Blind. Richards with his smoked voice, acoustic guitar and piano and Larry Campbell's slide guitar. A gem that could easily have been on a Stones album. The peace is then broken by Trouble, which had been showing as a clip for weeks. Blues rock the way blues rock should sound. It has been known for years that Keith Richards is a big reggae fan and that is why a reggae song cannot be missed on this album. Love Overdue by Gregory Isaacs is another good example of this. Excellent brass players (Clifton Anderson on trombone, Kevin Batchelor on trumpet and Charles Dougherty on tenor sax). And don't forget Ivan Neville on Hammond organ. Aaron Neville can be heard on backing vocals in Nothing On Me, while Charles Hodges can be heard on Hammond organ. One of the highlights for me is Suspicious, a beautiful ballad in which Richards not only provides vocals and electric and acoustic guitar, but also plays bass, electric sitar, piano, wurlitzer and farfisa organ. The late Bobby Keys adds the exciting Blues In The Morning with his famous sax. The Harlem Gospel Choir subtly opens Something For Nothing a capella, but the song soon thunders out of the speakers like an express train with a screeching guitar solo by Waddy Wachtel and Charles Hodges on Hammond. Another highlight of the album is Illiusion with lead vocals from Norah Jones and Pino Palladino on bass. After the ballad Just A Gift with Larry Campbell on fiddle, it is the turn of Irene Goodnight, the 1936 classic by Huddie Ledbetter and John Lomax. Movingly beautiful, with back vocals from Bernard Fowler and Blondie Chaplin. In Substantial Damage, all brakes are released again. The album closes with the soul ballad Lover's Plea, beautiful brass arrangements by Lester Snell and Steve Jordan, Ivan Neville on wurlitzer, Charles Hodges and good old Spooner Oldham on Hammond.

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Keith Richards - Blues EP

Size: 174 MB
Time: 28:55
File: FLAC
Released: 2021
Styles: Electric Blues, Piano Blues
Art: Front

01. My Babe (2019 Remaster) ( 3:10)
02. Big Town Playboy (2019 Remaster) ( 4:18)
03. I Could Have Stood You Up (2019 Remaster) ( 3:12)
04. Key To The Highway ( 3:20)
05. Blues Jam (2019 Remaster) ( 4:37)
06. Slim (2019 Remaster) (10:16)

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943), often referred to during the 1960s and 1970s as Keith Richard, is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine called Richards the creator of "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him fourth on its list of 100 best guitarists in 2011. The magazine lists fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger on its "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

Richards plays both lead and rhythm guitar parts, often in the same song; the Stones are generally known for their guitar interplay of rhythm and lead ("weaving") between him and the other guitarist in the band – Brian Jones (1962–1969), Mick Taylor (1969–1975), or Ronnie Wood (1975–present). In the recording studio Richards sometimes plays all of the guitar parts, notably on the songs "Paint It Black", "Ruby Tuesday", "Sympathy for the Devil", and "Gimme Shelter". He is also a vocalist, singing backing vocals on many Rolling Stones songs as well as occasional lead vocals, such as on the Rolling Stones' 1972 single "Happy", as well as with his side project, the X-Pensive Winos.

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Keith Richards & X-Pensive Winos - Live At The Hollywood Palladium

Size: 186,0 MB
Time: 80:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Rock, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Take It So Hard (Live) (4:27)
02. How I Wish (Live) (4:04)
03. I Could Have Stood You Up (Live) (4:25)
04. Too Rude (Live) (7:48)
05. Make No Mistake (Live) (6:26)
06. Time Is On My Side (Live) (4:32)
07. Big Enough (Live) (3:45)
08. Whip It Up (Live) (5:30)
09. Locked Away (Live) (5:48)
10. Struggle (Live) (4:35)
11. Happy (Live) (7:07)
12. Connection (Live) (2:33)
13. Rockawhile (Live) (6:15)
14. I Wanna Be Your Man (Live) (3:21)
15. Little T&A (Live) (4:14)
16. You Don't Move Me (Live) (5:07)

Newly remastered 13 track live album in Mediabook packaging, recorded Live on the Talk is Cheap Tour at the Hollywood Palladium on December 15th, 1988.

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Buddy Guy - The Blues Is Alive And Well

Size: 151,5 MB
Time: 64:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. A Few Good Years (4:47)
02. Guilty As Charged (3:20)
03. Cognac (Feat. Jeff Beck & Keith Richards) (5:22)
04. The Blues Is Alive And Well (5:13)
05. Bad Day (3:48)
06. Blue No More (Feat. James Bay) (3:39)
07. Whiskey For Sale (4:02)
08. You Did The Crime (Feat. Mick Jagger) (6:53)
09. Old Fashioned (3:57)
10. When My Day Comes (4:38)
11. Nine Below Zero (6:20)
12. Ooh Daddy (3:17)
13. Somebody Up There (4:27)
14. End Of The Line (3:25)
15. Milking Muther For Ya (0:57)

I was actually a bit nervous to review Buddy Guy’s latest album. He’s 81-years-old and musicians, even great ones, eventually lose a step. Guy hasn’t lost a step, though. If anything, he’s somehow gotten better. The Blues is Alive and Well is a fantastic album, and Guys’ voice and guitar are in peak form.

How has Guy gotten better? My theory is his openness to new sounds and music. Guy inspired no shortage of musicians, from Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Ray Vaughan. But Guy has obviously spent some time listening to their work, too, and has folded it into his own music. That integration of new ideas has kept his playing from stagnating. One of the album’s more interesting tracks is “Cognac,” which he performs with Keith Richards and Jeff Beck, two legendary guitarists and both less than a decade his junior. One might expect Guy to have the more old-fashioned sound, but surprisingly it’s Richards who sounds throwback (in a good way), Guy who sounds contemporary, and Beck who, as always, sounds like he’s from the future.

The title track is pure Buddy Guy, with lots of short, jabbing licks almost hiding within the song. Guy’s solos aren’t composed so much as they’re emoted. You can’t necessarily hum them, but you’ll always feel them. He’s backed on the track by the Muscle Shoals Horns, but rather than becoming an uptown blues a la BB King, Guy keeps everything bluesy and true to his own sound. The horns are just a tool to make a great song even better. The Muscle Shoals Horns make a few appearances on the album, and provide a lift to the songs without making any of them sound like a New Orleans funeral. But the guitar is the true star of the album. So much so, that Guy’s guitars are identified in the song credits.

Guy explores some funk and some fuzzy tones, but he’s at his best when he’s delivering pure blues. For example, “Nine Below Zero,” a Sonny Boy Williamson cover, is just a perfect track. Guy’s guitar and voice are in-your-face, the drums just barely providing a beat. If not for the production, which perfectly conveys the instruments, the track could have been recorded years ago, perhaps a lost track from his (and Junior Wells’) classic Play the Blues. One of the album’s nicer moments is “Milking Muther for Ya,” which is just Guy singing along with his electric guitar and no band. The track seems like a live moment caught on tape, but seeing what Guy can do with just his voice and guitar brings home how much talent and energy he still has.

On The Blues is Alive and Well Guy shows he’s still an engaged, passionate artist. Guy uses the same band across the album, including drummer/producer Tom Hambridge, who also wrote or co-wrote most of the album’s songs. There’s a chemistry to all of the tracks because of the consistency of the line-up. But there’s also Guy and his indefatigable talent. He brings it on each and every track. Any blues fan will truly love this album. ~by Steven Ovadia

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