Kelly Joe Phelps - Lead Me On (15 Year Anniversary Edition)

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 79:55
Size: 184.9 MB
Released: 2009
Styles: Contemporary acoustic slide guitar blues
Art: Front

1. I've Been Converted (6:20)
2. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (5:27)
3. Where Do I Go Now (5:36)
4. Love Me Baby Blues (4:42)
5. Lead Me On (4:48)
6. Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed (5:18)
7. Leavin' Blues (5:55)
8. Marking Stone Blues (5:00)
9. The Black Crow Keeps On Flying (4:17)
10. I'd Be A Rich Man (4:46)
11. Someone To Save Me (6:37)
12. Motherless Children (7:25)
13. Fare Thee Well (4:32)
14. We Got To Meet Death One Day (4:55)
15. Ever Be Here Again (4:10)

15 Year Anniversary Edition includes two bonus tracks, "We Got To Meet Death One Day" & "Ever Be Here Again".
Not since Lucinda Williams debuted with an all-acoustic solo album of traditional country blues in 1979 has an artist appeared on the folk-blues scene with the immediate authority of guitarist Kelly Joe Phelps. Equally indebted to traditional pioneers of Delta-style country blues like Leadbelly and Blind Lemon Jefferson as well as more exploratory visionaries like Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, Phelps sings with dusty wisdom and plays like a master.
Lead Me On opens with the traditional gospel tune "I've Been Converted" but focuses almost exclusively on magnificent originals from then on.

Lead Me On (15 Year Anniversary Edition)

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VA - Blues Folk

Size: 207,2 MB
Time: 87:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues Folk
Art: Front

01 Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Blues In D (2:43)
02 Alvin Youngblood Hart - John Hardy (4:30)
03 60,000,000 Buffalo - American Money Blues (5:36)
04 Kelly Joe Phelps - Roll Away The Stone (4:50)
05 Thorstein Bergman - How Long Blues (Demo 1965) (2:36)
06 Blind Willie McTell - You Got To Die (3:09)
07 Judy Henske - Empty Bed Blues (3:39)
08 Grateful Dead - Dupree's Diamond Blues (3:33)
09 Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - Come On In My Kitchen - Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (4:14)
10 James Shorty - I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (3:43)
11 Felix Dukes - Motherless Children (2:49)
12 John Sebastian - Goodnight Irene (Live) (4:40)
13 Alannah Myles - Hurry Make Love (2:16)
14 Chas & Dave - Midnight Special (2:30)
15 John Lee Hooker - Drifting Blues (3:31)
16 Geoff Muldaur - Jailbird Love Song (3:56)
17 Maria Muldaur - Travelin' Shoes (2:23)
18 Odetta - Mule Skinner Blues (2:51)
19 Leadbelly - Looky Looky Yonder Black Betty Yellow Women's Door Bells (3:07)
20 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Drop Down Mama (2:52)
21 Ed Young & Lonnie Young - Chevrolet (4:04)
22 Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate - Catfish Blues (5:29)
23 Beausoleil - Les Blues De Chaleur (Hot Blues) (3:19)
24 Tim Hardin - I Cant Slow Down (3:25)
25 Lightnin' Hopkins - Bluebird Bluebird (1:26)

Back In Love MP3

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VA - Old Time Blues Mix

Size: 204,9 MB
Time: 86:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Elecric/Acoustic Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01 Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (3:01)
02 Sammy Price - Jelly Roll Junior Blues (3:02)
03 Faces - Jerusalem (1:51)
04 Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - Come On In My Kitchen - Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (4:13)
05 Blind Willie McTell - The Razor Ball (2:51)
06 Odetta - Gallows Tree (Gallows Pole) (2:49)
07 Mississippi Fred Mcdowell - Freight Train Blues (3:03)
08 Tim Hardin - I Cant Slow Down (3:25)
09 Felix Dukes - Motherless Children (2:49)
10 Kelly Joe Phelps - Goodnight Irene (5:38)
11 James Shorty - I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (3:43)
12 Odetta - Midnight Special (2:34)
13 Alvin Youngblood Hart - Illinois Blues (4:19)
14 60,000,000 Buffalo - American Money Blues (5:36)
15 Dr. John - Dear Old Southland (2:41)
16 Thorstein Bergman - How Long Blues (Demo 1965) (2:34)
17 Tim Buckley - Hong Kong Bar (6:57)
18 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - I Got My Mojo Working (3:32)
19 Maria Muldaur - Honey Babe Blues (3:07)
20 Charlie Norman - Boogie Woogie On St. Louis Blues (3:00)
21 Ray Charles - Mr. Charles Blues (2:47)
22 Mose Allison - Rollin' Stone (2:59)
23 Geoff Muldaur - Tennessee Blues (3:37)
24 Beausoleil - Les Blues De Chaleur (Hot Blues) (3:19)
25 Champion Jack Dupree - Strollin' (3:06)

Old Time Blues Mix

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VA - Slide Guitar Blues

Size: 249,0 MB
Time: 106:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01 Chuck E. Weiss - Devil With Blue Suede Shoes (5:00)
02 Kelly Joe Phelps - House Carpenter (6:43)
03 John Hammond - Shake Your Money Maker (1:58)
04 Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - Come On In My Kitchen - Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (4:15)
05 Bjoern Berge - Look On Yonder Wall (3:16)
06 Faces - Around The Plynth (5:48)
07 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning (2:44)
08 Blind Willie McTell - Motherless Children Have A Hard Time (2:54)
09 60,000,000 Buffalo - American Money Blues (5:36)
10 Little Feat - A Apolitical Blues (3:25)
11 Honey B. & T-Bones - Hawaiian Groupie (2:25)
12 Slaptones - Little Red Rooster (3:36)
13 John Fahey - Steamboat Gwine 'Round De Bend (4:14)
14 Danny O'Keefe - Steel Guitar (4:04)
15 Tom Rush - If Your Man Gets Busted (3:30)
16 Doug Sahm - Blues Stay Away From Me (4:47)
17 Foghat - Terraplane Blues (5:45)
18 Low Budget Blues Band - Tennessee Plates (3:10)
19 Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Run For Your Life (4:53)
20 Bjoern Berge - Who Do You Think You Are (4:51)
21 Delta Cross Band - Key To Highway (7:50)
22 Alvin Youngblood Hart - Mama Don't Allow (5:34)
23 Mississippi Fred McDowell - When You Get Home, Write Me A Few Little Lines (3:24)
24 Faces - Jerusalem (1:41)
25 Kelly Joe Phelps - Roll Away The Stone (4:49)

Slide Guitar Blues

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VA - Things About Comin' My Way: A Tribute To The Music Of The Mississippi Sheiks

Size: 155,7 MB
Time: 66:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Full

01. The North Mississippi Allstars - It's Backfirin' Now (3:59)
02. Ndidi Onukwulu - Things About Comin' My Way (4:58)
03. John Hammond - Stop And Listen (3:47)
04. Bruce Cockburn - Honey Babe Let The Deal Go Down (3:56)
05. Oh Susanna - Bootlegger's Blues (Arrangement By Van Dyke Parks) (3:43)
06. The Carolina Chocolate Drops - Sitting On Top Of The World (3:17)
07. Danny Barnes - Too Long (4:00)
08. Jim Byrnes - Jailbird Love Song (3:27)
09. Bill Frisell - That's It (3:10)
10. Madeleine Peyroux - Please Baby (4:11)
11. Kelly Joe Phelps - Livin' In A Strain (4:46)
12. Steve Dawson - Lonely One In This Town (3:39)
13. Geoff Muldaur & The Texas Sheiks - The World Is Going Wrong (3:08)
14. Del Rey - We Both Are Feeling Good Right Now (2:45)
15. Bob Brozman - Somebody's Gotta Help You (4:06)
16. The Sojourners - He Calls That Religion (4:00)
17. Robin Holcomb - I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You (5:21)

The Mississippi Sheiks were a short-lived but popular acoustic string band that recorded approximately 70 songs during the first half of the 1930s before receding into history. Built around guitarist/singer Walter Vinson and fiddler Lonnie Chatmon, with other musicians (notably Lonnie's guitarist brothers Bo Carter and Sam Chatmon), the Sheiks left their influence on numerous folk, country, blues, and even rock performers in later decades -- their best-known song, "Sitting on Top of the World," was recorded by a long list of artists including Howlin' Wolf, Ray Charles, Chet Atkins, Cream, Bob Dylan, and the Grateful Dead. For this tribute album, producer Steve Dawson gathered a cast of sympathetic artists to interpret songs associated with the group, giving them much leeway but keeping the proceedings from veering too far from the original spirit of the music. Dawson himself plays a variety of guitars on several tracks, and takes top billing on a perky version of "Lonely One in This Town," but largely stays behind the scenes so that the artists' personalities might meld with the new arrangements of this seven-plus-decades-old music. The performances range from the solo guitar of bluesman John Hammond and slide master Bob Brozman to the gospel of the Sojourners and the sultry, jazzy vocalizing of Madeleine Peyroux. The opening number, "It's Backfirin' Now," is given a rootsy jug band treatment by the North Mississippi Allstars and Bruce Cockburn, with trombone and Hammond organ among his accompaniment, brings a sweet and lazy New Orleans feel to "Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down." It's appropriate that the Carolina Chocolate Drops -- perhaps the closest of contemporary bands in style to the Sheiks -- get to make "Sitting on Top of the World" their own: these African-American traditionalists have a deep understanding of, and innate camaraderie with, the Sheiks' music. Not surprisingly, Geoff Muldaur -- whose own lengthy catalog is filled with tunes that draw from the Sheiks' brand of old-timey string music -- and his own Texas Sheiks nail "The World Is Going Wrong." Even jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, whose eclecticism has always been his hallmark, finds common ground with the long-gone Sheiks, dueting with trombonist Steve Moore on "That's It," a good-time melody that manages to capture the essence of the Sheiks' sound while placing it squarely in today's more complex world. ~by Jeff Tamarkin

Things About Comin' My Way

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