Keri Leigh & The Blue Devils - Blue Devil Blues

Size: 98,2 MB
Time: 42:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1991/1994
Styles: Electric blues, Texas blues
Art: Full

1. I'm Ready (3:33)
2. Train Don't Roll (4:30)
3. I Be's Troubled (2:41)
4. Roll And Tumble Blues (3:00)
5. Goin' To The Valley (4:40)
6. Tryin' To Get To You (2:55)
7. In The Mood (4:37)
8. Got Love If You Want It (4:32)
9. Terraplane (3:04)
10. Preachin' Blues (4:33)
11. On My Way (Goin' Home) (3:51)

Keri Leigh's debut album isn't much more than standard Texas blues, but her passion for the music shines through every song, and that is what makes it a worthwhile listen. Leigh and guitarist Mark Lyon lead the band through eight covers and three fairly average originals, but they deliver the material with conviction, especially when they attack nuggets like Son House's "Preachin' Blues." Leigh's forceful, raspy voice sounds terrific and Lyon is a good guitarist, but the album is hampered by its predictability. /Thom Owens, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Various - Mississippi's Music

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:22
Size: 154.2 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Gospel blues, Electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[5:16] 1. Z.Z. Hill - Down Home Blues
[3:00] 2. King Floyd - Groove Me
[5:14] 3. The Sensational Nightingales - Saints Hold On
[4:07] 4. Bobby Blue Bland - Members Only
[3:40] 5. Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
[4:32] 6. Grady Champion - White Boy With The Blues
[3:41] 7. Keri Leigh - Here's Your Mop Mr. Johnson
[4:10] 8. The Canton Spirituals - All Of My Burdens
[4:14] 9. Little Milton - The Blues Is Alright
[4:26] 10. Bobby Rush - Scootchin
[5:28] 11. Mississippi Mass Choir - Your Grace And Mercy
[3:37] 12. Mckinley Mitchell - The End Of The Rainbow
[3:39] 13. The Jackson Southernaires - I Need You To Hold My Hand
[4:38] 14. Johnnie Taylor - I Found A Love
[4:38] 15. Denise Lasalle - Your Husband Is Cheating On Us
[2:56] 16. The Beat Daddys - Mississippi

The blues and Mississippi are synonymous to music lovers. The repertoire of any blues or rock band is full of songs, guitar licks, and vocal inflections borrowed from Mississippi bluesmen – from Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Son House to Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Joe Williams, Bukka White, and Furry Lewis – just to mention some.

As far as historians can tell, the blues were born in the Mississippi Delta, an elaboration on work chants, “sorrow” slave songs, and the lyrical and haunting “field hollers.” As early as the American Civil War, white soldiers noted a different music created by black soldiers – songs about marching and other toils of war in which they “extemporized a half-dissonant middle part.” These songs were direct precursors to the blues, if not the real thing already.

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Various - Southern Shades Of Blue Vols 1 & 2

During the middle to late 1800s, the Deep South was home to hundreds of seminal bluesmen who helped to shape the music. Unfortunately, much of this original music followed these sharecroppers to their graves. But the legacy of these earliest blues pioneers can still be heard in 1920s and '30s recordings from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia and other Southern states. This music is not very far removed from the field hollers and work songs of the slaves and sharecroppers. Many of the earliest blues musicians incorporated the blues into a wider repertoire that included traditional folk songs, vaudeville music, and minstrel tunes. Without getting too technical, most blues music is comprised of 12 bars (or measures). A specific series of notes is also utilized in the blues. The individual parts of this scale are known as the blue notes.

Well-known blues pioneers from the 1920s such as Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson usually performed solo with just a guitar. Occasionally they teamed up with one or more fellow bluesmen to perform in the plantation camps, rural juke joints, and rambling shacks of the Deep South. Blues bands may have evolved from early jazz bands, gospel choirs and jug bands. Jug band music was popular in the South until the 1930s. Early jug bands variously featured jugs, guitars, mandolins, banjos, kazoos, stringed basses, harmonicas, fiddles, washboards and other everyday appliances converted into crude instruments.

When the country blues moved to the cities and other locales, it took on various regional characteristics. Hence the St. Louis blues, the Memphis blues, the Louisiana blues, etc. Chicago bluesmen such as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters were the first to electrify the blues and add drums and piano in the late 1940s. Today there are many different shades of the blues.

Album: Southern Shades Of Blue
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:06
Size: 128.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Electric blues
Year: 1995/2005
Art: Front

[5:24] 1. The Beat Daddys - Livin' This Love
[7:31] 2. Artie 'Blues Boy' White - I'm Gonna Marry My Mother-In-Law
[6:31] 3. Mike Griffin - Fifth Of Whiskey, Case Of The Blues
[4:39] 4. Poonanny - Out Grindin' The Grindin' Man
[4:21] 5. James Peterson - Don't Let The Devil Ride
[7:37] 6. Keri Leigh - Georgia Crawl
[7:48] 7. Mckinley Mitchell - You Know I've Tried
[5:21] 8. The Beat Daddys - How Blue Must I Get
[6:51] 9. Poonanny - Clean Out Your Dresser

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Album: Southern Shades Of Blue Vol. 2
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:44
Size: 141.3 MB
Styles: R&B, Retro soul, Electric blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:29] 1. Ernie Johnson - I'm In The Mood For The Blues
[3:23] 2. James Peterson - Silky Silk
[5:31] 3. Artie 'Blue Boy' White - Man Of The House
[4:19] 4. Bobby Rish - Dangerous
[4:02] 5. Poonanny - Meatman
[2:54] 6. King Floyd - Baby Let Me Kiss You
[3:31] 7. McKinley Mitchell - Trouble Blues
[3:25] 8. Artie 'Blues Boy' White - All In The Open Now
[4:42] 9. Poonanny - Packin' Heavy
[3:38] 10. Keri Leigh - Here's Your Mop Mr. Johnson
[4:25] 11. The Beat Daddys - Different Name
[3:50] 12. Big Mike Griffin - Sittin' Here With Nothing
[5:17] 13. James Peterson - Went Too Far, Stayed Too Long
[4:30] 14. Bobby Rush - Can't Save A Cent
[3:41] 15. The Beat Daddys - Train In The Distance

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Various - Daughters Of Texas

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:10
Size: 89.7 MB
Styles: Blues vocals, Texas blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:32] 1. Lou Ann Barton - Young And Dumb
[5:58] 2. Lou Ann Barton - (I Feel Like) Breaking Up Somebody's Home
[4:39] 3. Keri Leigh - In The Mood
[2:42] 4. Kathy & The Kilowatts - Say The Wrong Thing
[1:51] 5. Diane Colbe - Rock & Roll Fever
[2:10] 6. Big Martha - Horny Old Buzzard, Dirty Old Man
[2:36] 7. Big Martha - Your Magic Touch (Quit Working On Me)
[2:22] 8. Janis Joplin - Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out
[2:09] 9. Janis Joplin - Walk Right In
[2:27] 10. Jeanette Williams - I Can Tell I'm Losing You
[2:55] 11. Kathy & The Kilowatts - Stepping Up In Class
[3:55] 12. Diane Colbe - Breaking Mama's Rule
[1:49] 13. Lavenia Lewis - Ain't Nobody Gonna Take My Man

This CD is all over the map. It features women from Texas, and their styles range from the blues shouting of Big Martha, whose song "Horny Old Buzzard, Dirty Old Man" is funky and funny, to the folkie stylings of Diane Colbe. In between are two tracks by a young and tough-sounding Lou Ann Barton, a great New Orleans-style R&B shuffle from Levenia Lewis, a burning version of "In the Mood" by Keri Leigh, and two acoustic blues songs by a young and primitively recorded Janis Joplin. Even though the choice of performers seems pretty slapdash, the disc makes for a good listen. ~Tim Sendra

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Keri Leigh & The Blue Devils - No Beginner

Size: 120,2 MB
Time: 52:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1993
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front & Back

01. All Aboard (0:52)
02. Locomotive Blues (3:52)
03. Tell Mama (3:27)
04. Georgia Crawl (2:57)
05. Don't Tease Me (5:26)
06. I Was Just Thinking (3:37)
07. Green River (4:37)
08. Wild Women Don't Get The Blues (0:42)
09. No Beginner At The Blues (4:01)
10. Stone Cold In Love (4:27)
11. Lightning Strikes The Ground (4:11)
12. Full Moon Blues (6:21)
13. The House Rocker (3:55)
14. If You Love Me (3:29)

Keri Leigh's second album, No Beginner, is a more distinguished effort than her debut. Leigh and her guitarist/husband Lyon stake out a territory between Texas blues and blues-rock, much like their predecessors Stevie Ray Vaughan, Janis Joplin and ZZ Top. Leigh's music doesn't have as many rock & roll overtones, but she and her band, the Blue Devils, play with a fiery rock energy and that energy comes across more clearly here than on their debut. ~Review by Thom Owens

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