Bob Stroger & His Blues Legends - In The House: Live At Lucerne Vol. 1

Size: 157,0 MB
Time: 67:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Introduction By Fritz Jakober ( 0:07)
02. Talk To Me Mama ( 5:47)
03. Stranded In St. Louis ( 6:28)
04. Lovin' Man ( 5:27)
05. Extension 309 (10:37)
06. Gonna Make Some Changes ( 7:05)
07. Loan Me Train Fare ( 6:08)
08. Heads Up ( 6:09)
09. Thinking And Drinking ( 6:49)
10. Going To Chicago ( 8:37)
11. Keep Your Hands Off Her ( 4:19)

Bob Stroger, bass player and blues vocalist, was born in the state of Missouri. He moved to Chicago in 1955 where he lived in the back of of a night club on the westside. Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters were regulars there. 'It Looked like they were having a lot of fun, and I made up my mind that what I wanted to do was play music,' Bob remembers. A veteran of the Chicago blues music scene, Bob has recorded and worked with a long list of contemporaries. In 1998, Bob and an all-star group of fellow musicians played the 'Lucerne Blues Festival'. The recordings from those nights in Switzerland are now released as Bob Stroger's first album under his own name. Bob's supported by first-rate musicians, including in-demand session piano player and 'Delmark' recording artist, Ken Saydak and his trio, the soulful guitar of another 'Delmark' regular, James Wheeler, and Billy Flynn who's one of greatest today when it comes to soulful blues (slide)guitar playing. Swinging and groving Chicago style blues at its best!

In The House

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Big Shoulders - Big Shoulders

Year: 1989
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:28
Size: 93,3 MB
Styles: Blues/Roots/Folk mix
Scans: Full

1. Plain Folks (3:04)
2. Certain Amount Of Love (4:28)
3. Boys, Girls, And Money (4:26)
4. Big Shoulders (6:52)
5. I Got Love (2:46)
6. I Need Your Help (3:58)
7. Talk To Me (4:28)
8. Don't Give Up (3:59)
9. Shoulder Suite (6:22)

Utilizing an unusually vast array of influences, Big Shoulders has cut a pair of albums for Rounder that are difficult to categorize, encompassing rock, blues, jazz, and ethnic origins. Vocalist/keyboardist Ken Saydak and harpist Ron Sorin are veterans of the Chicago blues circuit. Other band members are guitarist Larry Clyman, bassist Gary Krolak, and drummer Lenny Marsh. /Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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VA - Tribute: Delmark's 65th Anniversary

Size: 113,5 MB
Time: 48:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front & Black

01 Omar Coleman - Train I Ride (4:09)
02 Lurrie Bell - One Day You're Gonna Get Lucky (3:34)
03 Linsey Alexander - All For Business (6:09)
04 Demetria Taylor - Riverboat (4:39)
05 Jimmy Burns - She Left Me A Mule To Ride (2:48)
06 Lil' Ed - Speak My Mind (3:55)
07 Jimmy Johnson - Out Of Bad Luck (5:00)
08 Corey Dennison - Broke And Hungry (4:38)
09 Mike Wheeler - So Many Roads (5:18)
10 Shirley Johnson - Need Your Love So Bad (4:17)
11 Ken Saydak - Boot That Thing (4:00)

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Dave Specter & The Bluebirds - Blueplicity

Year: 1994
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:55
Size: 128,9 MB
Styles: Electric blues, jazzy blues
Scans: Full

1. Ridin' High (3:42)
2. Sweet Serenity (5:45)
3. What Love Did To Me (4:30)
4. On The Outside Looking In (5:47)
5. Blueplicity (6:00)
6. What's Your Angle (4:05)
7. That's How Strong My Love Is (3:45)
8. Dose Of Reality (5:18)
9. Cool Azul (4:05)
10. What Have I Done Wrong (5:15)
11. You've Got Bad Intentions (3:09)
12. Cattin' (4:29)

Sometimes conviction, charm and humor can be as important as performing proficiency. While there's little in the playing or singing of guitarist Dave Specter or vocalist/harmonica player Tad Robinson that you haven't heard before, they so obviously enjoy what they're doing and communicate it so well that you eventually overlook their familiar material and become engrossed in their performances.

This disc has a gritty, rough-edged sound often missing from modern blues dates. The menu ranges from jazzy tunes to lowdown wailers, soul-tinged pieces, and uptempo instrumentals. /Ron Wynn, AllMusic

Personnel: Dave Specter (guitar); Tad Robinson (vocals, harmonica); Ken Saydak (piano, organ); Mike McCurdy (bass); Mark Fornek (drums); John Brumbach (tenor sax) Rob Mazurek (trumpet); Bob Dogan (piano track 12).

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Ken Saydak - It's My Soul

Year: 2005
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:33
Size: 128,2 MB
Styles: Electric blues (various styles)
Scans: Full

1. My Soul (3:05)
2. Half Assed Love (7:21)
3. All I Really Need (5:01)
4. Darling I'll Pray For You (4:25)
5. Learned My Lesson (3:07)
6. Hanging By A Thread (5:15)
7. Hard Work (5:50)
8. Two Of Everything (3:01)
9. Bonedance (3:29)
10. Love In The Dumpster (3:32)
11. Rearrange (4:46)
12. Preaching To The Choir (2:53)
13. Road And The Weather (3:41)

Born in one of the blues' most essential cities, this Chicago native learned from some of the Windy City's best by playing piano and keyboards on tours by Mighty Joe Young and Lonnie Brooks. In the 1980s, Ken Saydak played an essential part in Texas blues guitar legend Johnny Winter's renaissance as pianist on several tours and albums, including Winter's justly famous, Grammy-nominated Guitar Slinger.

This solo album, his third, would certainly be catalogued under "blues". But listened to closely, it reaches back through labels and categories to clutch the still-pumping heart of the simple and glorious music that became rock 'n' roll - the seminal, simmering soul stew bursting with different but related flavors; the twangs of country music; the tangs of New Orleans R&B; the heart pangs of gospel and the ka-bang! of the blues.

For rock and roll energy, look no further than the cannonball blast opening and title track. Then explore the rhythm underneath "Hard Work", which flows from the same pool as Fats Domino's classic New Orleans rocker "Blueberry Hill", and the slow-rolling "I'll Pray for You", which sounds like gospel, blues, and country, then tosses barrelhouse piano boogie onto its collection plate!

Saydak proves an earnest and spirited blues songwriter (composing eleven of thirteen cuts) and musician with a rich and robust voice that sounds ready-made to sing the blues. In fact, his strong voice sometimes overpowers less substantial material ("Two of Everything", "Road and the Weather"). But given more solid songs, Saydak's voice rings more true. It nurtures "Half-Assed Love" into a slow-rolling blues piano tidal wave, then spanks "Hanging by a Thread" and "Rearrange", both of which feature guitar and vocal patterns that sound like Clapton deeply steeped in the blues. /Chris M. Slawecki

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Rockwell Avenue Blues Band - Back To Chicago

Size: 161,7 MB
Time: 69:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. Blues For Hard Times (4:34)
02. Boogie In The Rain (5:07)
03. That Face (4:09)
04. Free To Love Again (4:02)
05. Lonesome Flight (6:22)
06. Chariot Gate (3:03)
07. We Believe (4:54)
08. Stranger Blues (4:42)
09. For A Reason (4:53)
10. Rich Man (3:56)
11. Hey Big Bill (3:38)
12. Love Police (6:04)
13. Back To Chicago (4:22)
14. Have You Ever Told Yourself A Lie (5:36)
15. Dream (4:07)

Featuring Steve Freund, Tad Robinson, Ken Saydak, Harlan Terson, Marty Binder.

The members of the Rockwell Avenue Blues Band have each achieved successes achieved over long parallel careers, but there was some unfinished business to attend to. Longtime bonds, which sometimes elude conscious recognition, drew them to Delmark's Riverside Studio on Chicago's North Rockwell Avenue in October of 2017. It was a joyous musical and artistic reunion. They had all recorded for Delmark over the past decades. Now it was time to join together again, as equals who had shared a lifestyle and craft, each in his own way, each with his own voice. So they took a week away from their routines to share a brief moment, frozen in time on Back To Chicago.

Back To Chicago

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Paul Filipowicz - What Have You Done For Me Lately / Chinatown

Album: What Have You Done For Me Lately
Size: 113,2 MB
Time: 47:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1999
Styles: Chicago Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Front

01. Every Night About This Time (3:16)
02. Black Spider (5:21)
03. Sportalaters Boogie (4:02)
04. Can't Take It With You (6:07)
05. Hound Dogin' (4:10)
06. Curly Sue (2:25)
07. Whiskey Man (5:21)
08. Cold Cold Cold (2:25)
09. Bone Chill (4:24)
10. Blind Eyes (2:45)
11. Heather's Mambo (2:04)
12. Fried Chicken (5:26)

This recording checked in at number seven TEXAS BLUES new releases 1999 from Real Blues magazine. What more can you say? Harp and slide that will take you there!!! This is raw, tough blues and Filipowicz plays a mean-sprited guitar with a style all his own. He is supported by a cast of musicians including harp, keyboard and sax. This is stress-busting blues for its purging properties. Filipowicz kicks butt with some totally scorching slide-guitar work that must be heard to be appreciated. The more one listens to "What Have You Done For Me Lately" the more on is inclined to realize that Paul Filipowicz is a major-league and very unique talent with a truckload of potential. This is as tough as it gets; down right nasty blues. Not for sissies.

Review:
...brutally realistic honesty...phenomenal writting with often witty and real lyrics. This one is handsdown a winner. five hats -- Big City Blues Feb-Mar 2000

...guitarist who specializes in greasy, low-down blues ...plays & sings hard, investing every ounce of emotion into his music. -- Blues Revue Jan/Feb 2000

...originals that suit his growling vocals and biting Fender-generated leads with his band offering trusty support. -- Living Blues Mar/Apr 2000

What Have You Done For Me Lately

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Album: Chinatown (Feat. Ken Saydak)
Size: 101,7 MB
Time: 43:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2004
Styles: Chicago Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Front

01. Jackson Transfer (6:54)
02. Chinatown (5:22)
03. Who Loves You (4:07)
04. Wichita Falls (5:37)
05. Too Hot To Boogie (2:18)
06. 199 Lonely Tear Drops (6:44)
07. My Kind Of Baby (5:17)
08. Nightclubbing (4:48)
09. Bootie On Duty (2:25)

CHINATOWN is Paul Filipowicz' fifth release. In thirty years plus of performing and recording blues, he has learned that "FEELING is EVERYTHING".

On this recording Paul Filipowicz and the music are one, original, just the facts, from the soul of a true blues man. You have a sample of Paul's feeling for the blues . A peak through the doorway of his live sweat drenched emotionally charged guitar workouts. He always lets it all out.

"This session was a powerful experience. These people feel the music exactly like I do. It's incredible to work under such conditions. We got 199 (#7, 199 Lonely Tear Drops) in one take. I just cranked it up and they grabbed on an away we went, talk about a gas! That's the stuff that life is all about."

"Jackson Transfer" (#1), opens the disc with an intimidating finger picked groove, Paul never uses a pick, reminiscent of the Mississippi Hill Country master R.L. Burnside or a heavier Delta, T-Model Ford. "Comparisons are great but it's my take on it. The groove came to me and the story, you get the picture."

"Chinatown" (#2) its that feeling Thing again, West Side Chicago?
"Ken Sadayak on piano, he's the best, he lays it right in there."
"This isn't supposed to be a tribute album or a return to the roots recording. This is just the way we play, straight from the shoulder. I guess my age is catching up to me."

Chicago, Memphis, Delta and Texas it's all here. A personal take, a slice of reality Paul Filipowicz' feeling that is the Blues

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Ken Saydak - Live In La Veta Vol 2

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:32
Size: 108.8 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, Piano blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:17] 1. Thinking And Drinking
[3:53] 2. Junco Partner
[4:46] 3. Expressions Of Tenderness
[4:18] 4. Ain't Found The Answer Yet
[5:02] 5. Mama Please
[5:11] 6. This Little Girl Of Mine
[4:09] 7. Wild Woman
[4:15] 8. I Need Your Help
[6:55] 9. Swanee River
[5:42] 10. Cow Cow Blues

KEN SAYDAK, a native of Chicago, Illinois, has enjoyed a more than forty-year career as a musician, writer, vocalist, and producer. He currently hosts a two-hour weekly blues radio program, The Trinidaddio Blues Hours on KCRT-FM, a commercial station near his home in southern Colorado.

Ken is the pianist, organist, and accordionist on over sixty albums by national and international artists. His 2013 release, Live In La Veta (SnailWorx) follows his other solo-career recordings, It’s My Soul (Evidence Records) in 2005 and two discs on the Delmark label, Love Without Trust (2001) and his solo debut, Foolish Man (1999). All of his recordings showcase his instantly recognizable vocals and piano style, as well as his insightful, engaging, and often humorous songwriting.

A co-producer of the two Rounder Records CDs with his 1990’s American roots band, Big Shoulders, Big Shoulders and Nickel History, he also produced his latest SnailWorx album, both of his Delmark CDs, blues singer Zora Young‘s critically acclaimed 2000 release, Learned My Lesson (Delmark), and international blues ambassador and bassist Bob Stroger‘s solo debut, In The House, recorded live at the Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland.

Ken’s career as a performer has taken him to concert and festival stages on four continents, including extensive tours and appearances in Europe, Israel, South Africa, and Japan. The list of artists who have enlisted his talents both on stage and in the studio include Johnny Winter, Otis Rush, Willie Kent, Bo Diddley, Lonnie Brooks, John Primer, Mighty Joe Young, Billy Boy Arnold, Sam Lay, Dave Specter, James Wheeler, Tad Robinson, Lurrie Bell, Mississippi Heat, Bonnie Lee, Steve Freund, Zora Young, Johnny B. Moore, Karen Carroll, Eddie Shaw, The Cash Box Kings, Billy Flynn, Jesse Fortune, Barkin’ Bill Smith, Bandallamas, Alex Wilson, Paul Filipowicz, Al Miller, and Ron Sorin.

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Eddie Shaw - Movin' & Groovin' Man (Reissue)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:06
Size: 87.2 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1982/1993/2014
Art: Front

[3:09] 1. Highway Bound
[5:55] 2. Blues Dues
[3:20] 3. Blues For Tomako
[2:42] 4. Dunkin' Donut Woman
[4:57] 5. Louisiana Blues
[2:09] 6. Movin' And Groovin' Man
[6:08] 7. Sad And Lonesome
[3:16] 8. Big Leg Woman
[2:43] 9. I've Got To Tell Somebody
[3:43] 10. My Baby And Me

Tenor saxophonist Eddie Shaw is a rarity in blues circles--a first-class instrumentalist who is not a guitarist or pianist. Shaw is a soulful, exuberant player whose lusty licks make a solid counterpoint to his rough-hewn vocals and narratives. While Shaw carries the majority of the load on this 10-cut date from 1982 previously recorded for Isabel (reissued on CD by Evidence) it is guitarist Melvin Taylor who is the revelation as second soloist. Between his work with Lucky Peterson, his own CD, and his brisk, sizzling solos and accompaniment here, Taylor merits high praise as a workmanlike, flexible contributor. The others, with the exception of the great Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, are heady pros capably handling limited support duties. ~Ron Wynn

Feat. Melvin Taylor, Ken Saydak, Harlan Terson, Merle Perkins, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson.

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Ken Saydak - 2 albums: Love Without Trust / Live In La Veta Vol 1

Album: Love Without Trust
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 50:46
Size: 116.2 MB
Styles: Piano blues, Chicago blues
Year: 2001
Art: Front

[4:51] 1. Watching The River Flow
[6:12] 2. Love Without Trust
[5:57] 3. Breakdown
[5:12] 4. Don't Blame The Messenger
[3:49] 5. Clo Clo Boogie
[3:39] 6. I Got You So Bad
[2:22] 7. Can't Trust Your Neighbor
[4:45] 8. Expression Of Tenderness
[3:57] 9. Great Northern Stomp
[6:22] 10. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
[3:36] 11. Illinois

Where the guitarless Foolish Man made Saydak's Otis Spann-influenced piano the axis around which everything else revolved, Love Without Trust places the veteran sideman in the center of a full band. The more fleshed-out treatment gives him the flexibility to try new things -- witness the grace with which he appropriates Bob Dylan's hard-driving blues shuffle "Watching the River Flow" -- but it also seems to have instilled in him a tendency toward overly obvious arrangements. Interesting ideas are confounded by generic execution, resulting in songs that work better on paper than on disc. The title cut, for example, sets up an intriguing scenario of the sort not often explored in popular song, but ends up squandering it with female duet vocals that very predictably trade off with Saydak's own. To be fair, not every track is overpowered by that kind of calculated slickness; the jazzy, philosophical "Expressions of Tenderness" shows that Saydak is still one of the keenest observers of human nature in contemporary blues. And on its best cuts, like the witty original "Don't Blame the Messenger" and the incisive cover of Don Nix's "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven," the album chugs along with confidence and uncommon conviction. In the end, Love Without Trust comes off as a solid but unadventurous sophomore effort for the gruff-voiced Saydak. ~Kenneth Bays

Love Without Trust

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Album: Live In La Veta Vol 1
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 55:07
Size: 126.2 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, Piano blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:27] 1. Spann's Stomp
[3:59] 2. Where Is My Life
[4:42] 3. Time I Spend Alone
[4:07] 4. Illinois
[4:02] 5. My Old Man
[3:35] 6. Two Of Everything
[4:41] 7. Foolish Man
[6:08] 8. Mother Earth
[4:11] 9. Love In A Dumpster
[4:42] 10. Darling I'll Pray For You
[5:48] 11. Clo-Clo Boogie
[5:39] 12. Watching The River Flow

KEN SAYDAK has enjoyed a nearly forty-year career as a musician, writer, vocalist, and producer. His work as a pianist and organist on over fifty albums is well known in the national and international blues scene. All of his recordings showcase his instantly recognizable vocal and piano styles as well as his insightful and engaging songwriting.

Ken’s career as a performer has taken him to concert and festival stages on four continents, including tours and appearances in Israel, South Africa, France, and Switzerland. The list of artists who have enlisted his talents include Johnny Winter, Otis Rush, Willie Kent, Lonnie Brooks, John Primer, Mighty Joe Young, Billy Boy Arnold, Sam Lay, Dave Specter, James Wheeler, Tad Robinson, Lurrie Bell, Johnny B. Moore, and Karen Carroll.

Live In La Veta Vol 1

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James WHEELER - Can't Take It / Ready!

Born in Albany, Georgia, Wheeler joined his brother, Golden 'Big' Wheeler, in Chicago at the age of 19. He immediately began playing guitar, inspired by Freddie King, and within a few years was playing fulltime in clubs with Joe Carter, initially on bass, later on guitar. From the early '60s to early '70s he was in an R&B band, The Jaguars, and later worked with Otis Clay, Buddy Scott, Otis Rush (1986-92), Mississippi Heat (1992-96), Magic Slim (1997-2000) and Willie Kent. He has recorded with Aaron More too.

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Album: CAN'T TAKE IT
Styles: Modern Electric Chicago Blues
Recorded: 1999
Released: 2000
Bitrate: 320k/s
Size:  169.08 MB
Time: 72:40
Art: Full

1. Who Loves You Baby? - 3:36        
2. Wasting My Time - 5:04        
3. The Weaker Sex - 4:04        
4. This Can't Be Happening To Me - 7:20        
5. Sometimes - 5:29        
6. She's Gonna Pay - 5:42        
7. Come Home - 3:31        
8. You Make It Hard Baby - 7:58        
9. I Can't Take It - 4:50        
10. These Hard Hard Times - 5:14        
11. Goin' To The Station - 5:36        
12. My Baby's Gone - 3:59        
13. Where Did You Stay Last Night? - 6:55        
14. Sweet Thang - 3:22

Personnel: James WHEELER - Guitar, Vocals
Billy Flynn - Guitar
Ken Saydak - Piano
Ron Sorin - Harmonica
Bob Stroger - Bass
Marty Binder - Drums

Note: Cant Take It is the second release from Chicago blues guitarist James Wheeler. Backed by pianist Ken Saydak, guitarist Billy Flynn (heard on the right channel), bassist Bob Stroger, drummer Marty Binder, and harp player Ron Sorin taking the place of James brother Golden Big Wheeler on this session. Wheeler's guitar playing is consistently flashy through this set, while other bright moments include Flynn's twangy solo on the dirty blues "You Make It Hard Baby" and Saydak's funky organ playing on the lazy shuffle "Goin to the Station." Wheeler isn't the strongest vocalist around but he gets his message across on tracks like "This Can't Be Happening to Me," "My Baby's Gone," and "I Can't Take It."

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Album: READY!
Styles: Modern Electric Chicago Blues 
Recorded: 1997
Released: 1998
Bitrate: 320k/s
Size:  154.74 MB
Time: 66:46
Art: Full

1. Ready - 4:43
2. This Old Freight Train - 6:12
3. Gonna Make Some Changes - 3:40
4. My Key Won't Fit That Lock No More - 5:02
5. Cold Hearted Woman - 5:05
6. Blues At Midnight - 6:59
7. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - 4:06
8. Bad Girl - 3:44
9. Extension 309 - 6:36
10. I'm Just Your Fool - 3:41
11. My Baby's Comin' Home - 3:21
12. Hound Dog - 8:45
13. Looking For My Baby - 4:04

Personnel: James WHEELER - Guitar, Vocal
Billy Flynn - Rhythm Guitar
Ken Saydak - Piano
Bob Stroger - Bass
Vernon Rodgers - Drums
and:
Golden 'Big' Wheeler - Harmonica tr.2,10
Gloria Thompson-Rodgers - Vocal tr.8

Notes: James Wheeler, begin the notes on 'Ready!', 'is a quiet man'. You might guess as much. Both his singing and his playing are unaggressive, the expressions of a temperate personality. Compared with the strenuous, emphatic music of many of his Chicago colleagues, his has a smooth, unruffled texture that evokes the cool manner of a T-Bone Walker-almost explicity in numbers like 'Extension 309' or 'Hound Dog', which is not the Leiber-Stoller breed but a hound of different colour, sleepy and slow-moving.Nonetheless, this is, for the most part, essentially Chicago-style music, as with these accompanists it could hardly fail to be, and if it taps discreetly at the listener's door rather than shout through the keyhole, there are respectable precedents for that.

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Eddie SHAW - Moovin' And Groovin' Man / Have Blues Will Travel

Album: Moovin' And Groovin' Man
Styles: Modern Electric Chicago Blues
Recorded: 1982
Released: 1993
Bitrate: 320k/s
Size: 90.36 MB
Time: 38:41
Art: Full

1. Highway Bound (3:13)
2. Blues Dues (5:59)
3. Blues For Tomako (3:23)
4. Dunkin' Donut Woman (2:45)
5. Louisiana Blues (5:00)
6. Movin' And Groovin' Man (2:12)
7. Sad And Lonesome (6:11)
8. Big Leg Woman (3:19)
9. I've Got To Tell Somebody (2:46)
10. My Baby And Me (3:43)

Personnel: Eddie SHAW - Alto, Tenor Saxophones, Harmonica, Vocals
Melvin Taylor - Guitar
Ken Saydak - Piano
Harlan Terson - Bass
Merle Perkins - Drums
with:
Eddie "Cleanhead' Vinson - Alto Saxophone tr.3

Note: Tenor saxophonist Eddie Shaw is a rarity in blues circles- a first-class instrumentalist who is not a guitarist or pianist. Shaw is a soulful, exuberant player whose lusty licks make a solid counterpoint to his rough-hewn vocals and narratives. While Shaw carries the majority of the load on this 10-cut date from 1982 previously recorded for Isabel (reissued on CD by Evidence) it is guitarist Melvin Taylor who is the revelation as second soloist. Between his work with Lucky Peterson, his own CD, and his brisk, sizzling solos and accompaniment here, Taylor merits high praise as a workmanlike, flexible contributor. The others, with the exception of the great Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, are heady pros capably handling limited support duties.

                                                     Moovin' And Groovin' Man
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Album: Have Blues Will Travel
Styles: Modern Electric Chicago Blues  
Recorded: 1966 & 1977
Released: 1977
Bitrate: 320k/s (Vinyl ripp!)
Size: 67.21 MB
Time: 29:20
Art: Full

1. I've Got To Tell Somebody (2:19)
2. This Little Voice (2:53)
3. Blues Men Of Yesterday (2:52)
4. I Can't Stop Loving You (2:42)
5. Big Leg Woman (3:53)
6. Back Door Wolf (3:58)
7. I Don't Trust Nobody (2:47)
8. Blues For The West Side (2:51)
9. Riding High (2:07)
10. I've Got To Tell Somebody-tk.2 (2:58)

Personnel: Eddie SHAW - Saxophones, Harmonica, Vocals
Hubert Sumlin - Guitar
Detroit Junior - Piano
Lafayette 'Shorty' Gilbert - Bass
Chico Chism - Drums
on tr.8,9 from 1966 SP
Magic Sam - Guitar
Mac Thompson - Bass
Bob Richey - Drums

Notes: This is first release of Shaw, after his Master - Howlin' Wolf died. On tracks 8, 9 to release on this album added his first single (45 rpm) released on Colt with Magic Sam on guitar(!). Album is a little vocals and instrumentals.

                                                            Have Blues Will Travel
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Ken Saydak - Foolish Man

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 29:20
Size: 67.2 MB
Styles: Chicago blues piano
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[4:27] 1. Mama Please
[4:23] 2. Ain't Found The Answer Yet
[4:00] 3. Where Is My Life
[4:31] 4. Time I Spend Alone
[4:23] 5. Shoppin' And Snackin'
[4:09] 6. Foolish Man
[3:22] 7. Walkin' Thing

Ken Saydak's solo debut is an accomplished set of deep bluesy songs, and sees him flavoring his Chicago blues piano with hints of Cajun gumbo, honky tonk and swing. ~ John Bush

Blues pianist/vocalist steps out as a front man, letting his skills shine through as a master of deep blues, swing & New Orleans gumbo - he paid his dues w. lengthy stints w. Mighty Joe Young & Lonnie Brooks.

Recorded at Riverside Studio, Chicago, Illinois on June 29 & 30, July 2 & August 28, 1998.

Ken Saydak (vocals, accordion, piano, organ); Ron Sorin (harmonica); Rob Amster (acoustic bass); Jon Hiller, Kenny Smith (drums). Liner Note Author: Dick Shurman.

Foolish Man

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