Harmonica Shah & Howard Glazer - Ain't Gonna Worry About Tomorrow

Size: 150,9 MB
Time: 64:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. Reality Blues (I'm Too Old To Be Your Man) (3:14)
02. My Bottle Is My Bank Account (4:16)
03. Pretty Girl, Pretty Girl (4:22)
04. When My Wife Comes Home (4:34)
05. Dirty Bastard Blues (4:39)
06. Somebody Loan Me A Dime (7:05)
07. (I Just Wanna Be) Your Floormat (4:41)
08. Please Respect Me (6:48)
09. She Penetrates My Mind (6:00)
10. Who's Been Talking? (3:42)
11. So Many Roads (6:02)
12. First Train South (2:41)
13. Ain't Gonna Worry About Tomorrow (6:24)

You didn’t think a global pandemic and the complete obliteration of the Music Industry, would stop us from trying to bring you the very best in Traditional Blues Music did you? We didn’t think so, and believe me we totally appreciate your support. The timely titled Ain’t Gonna Worry About Tomorrow is the long awaited reunion recording from the Award Winning Detroit Blues Duo of Harmonica Shah and Howard Glazer. Recorded in Detroit this past January by Joe Giese at the Mission Recording Studio, the disc features some of the Motor City’s finest players including percussion ace, Skeeto Valdez. The album’s 13 Deep Blues tracks, the majority of them original, showcase the unique talents of SHAH and HOWARD, at the peak of their respective and combined talents, together again on disc for the first time in 18 years. Ain’t Gonna Worry About Tomorrow is a Blues Reunion Party that Blues Music lovers worldwide will not want to miss!

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Harmonica Shah Feat. Howard Glazer - Deep Detroit

Year: 2000
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:03
Size: 120,5 MB
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Dun Made My Getaway (4:28)
2. Flat Down On My Back (4:07)
3. Bloodstains Upside The Wall (4:58)
4. Mellow Down Easy (4:41)
5. What's On Your Mind (5:34)
6. Woman Let It Groove (3:29)
7. Don't Kick Me To The Curb (4:27)
8. Born Blind (3:58)
9. Do You Remember (4:40)
10. Once Upon A Time (6:51)
11. Repo Man (4:46)

Deep Detroit, Harmonica Shah’s debut release in 2000 on UK label Bluetrack Records was an important album which brought him to international attention for the first time. Detroit’s legendary Harmonica Shah is soulfully powerful as he sings with an authentic jagged-edged voice. His licks on the harp deliver highly charged sound with each breath. Harmonica Shah is backed by Detroit guitarist Howard Glazer who delivers modern high energy playing that seems to speak to you with every chord.

Deep Detroit is the kind of recording rarely heard today – straight blues. It contains no overdubs and no second chances so what you hear is authentic-raw energy and drive, the real thing, the blues. John Clark of the London Times said “just when you think the blues has no more surprises, out springs Harmonica Shah who has been blowing and singing for years in Detroit but has had to wait until now to show off his undoubted skills on record”.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Harmonica Shah Blues Band - Tell It To Your Landlord

Year: 2003
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:19
Size: 155,6 MB
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Slow And Easy (5:06)
2. Welfare Shoes Blues (4:29)
3. Guilty (8:16)
4. Hey Detroit (3:30)
5. Mean And Evil (5:03)
6. I Heard You Was At The Casino (7:31)
7. Champagne (5:09)
8. Baby, Scratch My Back (3:59)
9. Bumpity Bump (5:21)
10. Crying Michigan Tears (6:11)
11. Tell It To Your Landlord (3:42)
12. Someday (8:57)

Just ask the Motor City's Harmonica Shah how he likes his blues and he'll tell you plain and simple that his preference is down and dirty, he doesn't like it clean. With blues having become more acceptable and palatable over time, we're generally left with an over-produced, multi-tracked, watered down, antiseptic outcome, thus lacking any of the real feeling it might have had to begin with.

Fear not... Harmonica Shah stands as a beacon in an otherwise dark sky. Recorded at Bleed Thru Studios in Dearborn, Michigan, Tell It To Your Landlord is as raw and nasty as it comes and follows suit with the artist's previous work. The leadoff track, Slow And Easy is a romping uptown shuffle with an abundance of grease that propels the groove and enough grit to set the stage for what's coming.

Shah's harp and vocals are in the alley here and throughout the rest of the set, but particularly strong on Welfare Shoes Blues, I Heard You Was At The Casino, and Crying Michigan Tears while the title track is a funked-up instrumental slammer with exceptional blowing. Howard Glazer's guitar work is solid from start to finish and he keeps it on track by avoiding the pitfalls of less experienced players, and a special nod is due for his work in not actually doing what we've come to expect from a "record producer."

If you prefer your blues with any production values at all, you'd do well to steer clear of this, but if you like it lowdown, stumbling, and dragging in the gutter, this will become a gem in your collection. Harmonica Shah might not win any awards as instrumentalist or vocalist of the year, but his decision to keep it crude and rude makes more sense than most will realize. The standout is the closer, Someday with its on-target lyrics, devil-may-care approach, and crackling simplicity. /Craig Ruskey

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Eliza Neals - 10,000 Feet Below

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:22
Size: 106.2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[2:34] 1. Cleotus
[4:53] 2. Another Lifetime
[4:21] 3. Burn The Tent Down
[3:27] 4. 10,000 Feet Below
[4:24] 5. You Ain't My Dog No More
[5:05] 6. Cold Cold Night
[4:10] 7. Hard Killing Floor
[3:37] 8. Call Me Moonshine
[4:06] 9. Down Hill On A Rocket
[3:13] 10. Merle Dixon
[6:29] 11. At The Crossroads

“10,000 Feet Below,” is spelunking the new depths of the Blues with Eliza Neals as your fearless guide. Cavern’s of sound well up through Eliza’s supernatural voice and piano driven songs, as Howard Glazer’s guitar pierces the echo with honest tone. Breaking and entering an abandoned temple of blues-rock left long ago, descending each rung carefully to uplift your musical soul. Producer Eliza Neals rigged the journey, surveyed then mapped the suffocating walls, while finding soulful keys through narrow fissures of sound.

Cascading guest guitarists Paul Nelson (Johnny Winter, Grammy 2015) and Billy Davis (Jimi Hendrix, Rock n Roll HOF) cast light on adventurous dark paths. Colossal drummers Skeeto Valdez (Les Clay Pool), Demarcus Sumter, Brian Clune, Rubin Nizri and John Medeiros supply a profound rumble to orientate your feet. As the ceiling drops, blasting bassists Paul Randolph, Johnny Abraham, Mike Griot (SMIBF founder) and Lenny Bradford (Joe Louis Walker) resonate through the crawlspace. Eliza Neals unflinchingly dives headfirst to underwater eyelets that only a skilled writer can reach. Falling lower to get washed up on golden grotto beaches, a new entrance to blues once left undiscovered, 10,000 Feet Below…

Produced by Eliza Neals on a 1937 Hardman grand piano, which spent most of it’s existence in a Baptist church, plus last twenty in a old music club, pours out it’s resting tuned soul for Eliza. Searching for a new underground modern blues sound cultivated on the road, touring from Maine to Florida across the pond to the United Kingdom and back. Eliza’s songs happen after playing stages, listening to the audience and respecting the greats.

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Eliza Neals - Breaking And Entering

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:46
Size: 116.2 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:03] 1. Detroit Drive
[7:03] 2. Breaking And Entering
[4:12] 3. Jekyll And A Hound
[4:00] 4. Goo Goo Glass
[5:38] 5. You
[3:15] 6. Pretty Gritty
[3:47] 7. Southern Comfort Dreams
[4:19] 8. Windshield Wipers
[4:05] 9. Sugar Daddy
[3:24] 10. I'm The Girl
[3:25] 11. Spinning
[4:30] 12. Breaking And Entering (Radio Edit)

Busting down the backdoor is Detroit’s Eliza Neals with “Breaking and Entering,” the blues-rock pry bar to her award winning album “messin with a fool.” Prowling with Detroit’s blazing blues guitarist Howard Glazer (EL 34’s) + hit producer Mike Puwal (CannonBall Records, ICP) these housebreaker’s know how to sneak their way to your crown jewels.

A team of safecracker musicians, with featured guest guitarist Kenny Olson (Kid Rock) plus Gabe Gonzelez (George Clinton) on drums drills open a pandemonium of grit-grime and gris-gris from power bluesy vocalist, musician, songwriter and producer Eliza Neals.

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Howard Glazer - Looking In The Mirror

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:31
Size: 134.0 MB
Styles: Detroit blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:10] 1. Midnight Postman
[5:17] 2. Broken Down Hotel Blues
[4:09] 3. Take Me Baby
[4:35] 4. All I Ever Wanted
[4:27] 5. Walking In Detroit
[7:27] 6. Eviction Blues
[4:18] 7. Feeling So Bad
[4:58] 8. Looking In The Mirror
[4:26] 9. Wandering Trails
[4:00] 10. Pushing The Limits
[5:06] 11. Misunderstood The Devil
[5:33] 12. Emergency

Currently reigning as the best blues and R&B Instrumentalist in Detroit, where he’s a perennial nominee for top honors, Howard Glazer delivers searing signature guitar lines regardless of the format. Equally accomplished on slide, electric and resonator guitars and a longtime veteran of the Motown music scene, he follows up his highly acclaimed 2013 release, Stepchild Of The Blues, delivering a collection of originals that stick closely to the blues format rather than blues/rock common to his most recent work.

The son of a professional sax player who worked with Don Pablo & His Orchestra, Glazer put down the trumpet for the six-string at age seven and has worked in everything from jazz to punk ever since. He grew up listening to the MC5 and the Stooges, but made his foray into the blues in the early ‘70s after meeting poet/activist John Sinclair. That relationship resulted in an introduction, recording session and long friendship with first generation superstar Honeyboy Edwards. He’s also worked extensively with Harmonica Shah.

Glazer’s style of blues has always incorporated a sense of rawness and anticipation common to Motor City Music as well as containing his own inner-most thoughts, and that’s definitely evident here. Joining Howard in the studio for this session are a rhythm section of Chris Brown on bass and Charles David Stuart on drums. They’re augmented by singers Maggie McCabe and Stephanie Johnson as well as organist Larry Marek on four tracks and trumpeter David Kocbus and flutist Tom Schmaltz on one track each.

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Willie D. Warren - Last Blues: The Detroit Sessions (Feat. Howard Glazer)

Size: 200,7+172,0 MB
Time: 86:36+74:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Detroit Blues, Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front

Last Blues: The Detroit Sessions Vol. 1:
01. Cummins Prison Farm (8:10)
02. Double Trouble (6:09)
03. Hello England (4:20)
04. Sad Day (6:21)
05. Willie Talking (2:17)
06. Landlord Blues (7:25)
07. Baby Loves To Boogie (4:02)
08. She's 19 Years Old (7:07)
09. Three Times A Fool (5:50)
10. Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home (7:42)
11. Paying The Cost To Be The Boss (3:05)
12. Everything I Do Is Wrong (5:46)
13. Kansas City (5:46)
14. Goin' Down Slow (8:20)
15. Hold That Train (4:10)

Last Blues: The Detroit Sessions Vol. 2

01. That's Alright (6:18)
02. In The Dark (3:17)
03. Caledonia (6:21)
04. Drowning On Dry Land (6:42)
05. No More Doggin' (4:37)
06. Door Lock Blues (3:42)
07. I'm Tore Down (5:58)
08. Rock Me Baby (6:00)
09. Kansas City (4:28)
10. Big Boss Man (4:47)
11. Hoochie Coochie Man (5:36)
12. If You Love Me Like You Say (3:33)
13. Lonely And Blue (4:04)
14. Messin' With The Kid (3:05)
15. Next Time You See Me (5:26)

Willie D Warren was one of the old time Detroit bluesmen deserving of recognition that he should have but didn’t receive. Back in the 1950s whilst playing with the Otis Rush band in Chicago, he was credited with inventing the electric bass by tuning down the three low strings on his guitar.

Last Blues – Volume One & Two, originally recorded for UK label, Bluetrack Records and now released by Blues Archive are exactly what they say. Recorded only a few months before his death in 2000 aged 76, these tracks give an insight into the heartfelt blues vocals and subtle guitar playing of a Detroit blues master.

Full credit for these recordings must go to Howard Glazer, the Detroit guitarist who features alongside Willie on these tracks, in getting him into the studio and recording such a large body of important work. This is especially poignant as throughout Willie D warren’s long career, he remained woefully under-recorded.

Happy New Year

Last Blues: The Detroit Sessions Vol. 1
Last Blues: The Detroit Sessions Vol. 2

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Harmonica Shah - The Detroit Sessions Vols 1 & 2

Harmonica Shah?s roots are planted firmly in three pivotal blues regions. The West Coast, where he was born in Oakland, CA. on March 31, 1946. The Texas badlands, where he spent time in his youth with his grandfather, guitarist/harpist Sam Dawson (whom Alan Lomax recorded) and his equally beloved and despised adopted hometown of the Motor City, deep in the industrial heartland. His beautician mother, set him up as a JET magazine salesman in the late 1950?s, which opened up both the doors of Oakland?s bars and clubs and the enterpising young Shah?s ears to the music of Lowell Fulson, Jimmy McCracklin, Juke Boy Bonner and Big Mama Thornton, all of whom he found behind those doors.

Album: That's Raw: The Detroit Sessions Vol 1
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 56:57
Size: 130.4 MB
Styles: Detroit blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[7:39] 1. Your Baby She Sure Ain't Like Mine
[5:41] 2. Checkin' On My Baby Caledonia
[4:06] 3. The Goat
[4:58] 4. If You Give Love
[3:55] 5. Goin' To Kansas City
[5:35] 6. I Just Want To Make Love To You
[4:07] 7. Keep On Lovin' Her Now
[5:24] 8. Key To The Highway
[4:45] 9. Dun Made My Getaway (Alternative Take)
[3:40] 10. Two Headed Woman
[3:22] 11. Woman Let It Groove (Alternative Take)
[3:40] 12. Boom Boom

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Album: Raw & Acoustic: The Detroit Sessions Vol 2
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 48:29
Size: 111.0 MB
Styles: Detroit blues, Acoustic blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[7:16] 1. Short Haired Woman
[3:29] 2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[4:30] 3. What's On Your Mind
[5:20] 4. Ship Made Of Paper (Alternative Version)
[5:19] 5. Miss Ida Bea
[2:50] 6. It Shouldn't Be That Way (Alternative Version)
[2:42] 7. Long Distance Call
[4:26] 8. I Want To Love You Baby
[5:46] 9. Ship Made Of Paper
[3:55] 10. Miss Ida Bea (Alternative Version)
[2:50] 11. It Shouldn't Be That Way

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Howard Glazer & The EL 34s - Brown Paper Bag

Size: 138,2 MB
Time: 59:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Detroit Blues
Art: Full

01. Brown Paper Bag (4:49)
02. Cold, Sad And Lonely (4:30)
03. Steamrollin' Baby (3:06)
04. Going To Chicago (3:57)
05. Sad Situation (7:08)
06. Radioactive Woman (3:47)
07. Don't Love You No More (4:09)
08. Full Moon Blues (5:13)
09. Mean Hearted Woman (4:18)
10. The Dogs They Bark At Midnight (9:20)
11. Smokin' And Drinkin' (4:03)
12. Start Again (2:59)
13. Freedom (1:46)

Personnel: Howard Glazer - Guitars, Vocals; Bob Godwin - Bass: Charles Stewart - Drums

The music that came out of Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit and other American cities in the 40s found a new friend in the electric guitar. In the hands of a skilled axman, nothing could better convey the mournful wailing and hectic existence that was the blues. The small "combo" amps of the time were all driven by the vacuum tube. Most of them had EL34s glowing in them, heating up the already soulful sound. They supplied the warm, gritty power that give the Blues and Rock & Roll their sound.
Keeping in that tradition, the EL34s will always keep their brand of High Energy Detroit Motor City Blues "as hot as a vacuum tube".

Howard is a born and bred Detroit 'Motorcity' man, who after spending some time experiencing the delights of Chicago returned to Detroit and subsequently went on to tour successfully worldwide for six years as one half of a highly acclaimed duo, the other half being 'Harmonica Shah,' since then Howard has decided to become his own man after the 'musical differences' between them caused a permanent split. Having formed the EL34's with Bob Goodwin on bass and Charles Stuart on drums, Howard completes the trio with electric and acoustic guitars and of course his eloquently delivered, soft, slightly hoarse voice. The band, I believe, have achieved the tricky (some might say the impossible) balance of merging rock with blues without losing sight (and sound) of the subtle nuances required of deftly played blues guitar. All thirteen of the numbers are Howard and the band originals: the two longest numbers "Sad Situation," lasting seven minutes and seven seconds and "The Dogs They Bark at Midnight," which at nine minutes and nineteen seconds, seem to finish all too quickly as one is compulsively drawn and immersed into the mixture of hard biting riffs and delicate soul touching picking complemented with hair straightening slide guitar.Special guest vocalists Maggie McCabe and Stephanie Johnson give fine support on "Going to Chicago," "Don't Love You No More," and "Smokin' and Drinkin'." There is a hint of a wilder side to this band with the (I presume) Hendrix influenced "Freedom," which lasts a mere one minute and forty six seconds. A very enjoyable album, I thoroughly recommend it! ~Review by Brian Harman.

Thanks to Marc.
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Howard Glazer - Stepchild Of The Blues

Size: 102,8 MB
Time: 42:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Don't Love You No More (4:53)
02. Shakin' (4:41)
03. Gas Pump Blues (4:50)
04. Telephone Blues (4:47)
05. Honey & Spice (4:19)
06. Somewhere (4:16)
07. Cried All My Tears (3:17)
08. Liquor Store Legend (5:21)
09. Hurtful Feeling (6:21)

I just received the newest release (September 17, 2013), Stepchild Of The Blues, by Howard Glazer and he lives up to his guitar man reputation. Opening with Don't Love You No More, a blues based rocker, Glazer punctuates his vocal phrases with searing riffs. On Shakin', a R&B style track along the lines of Willie and the Hand Jive. With a lot of Bo Diddly rhythm, Glazer opens a door for open range soloing and he lays it down over a fairly open rhythm pattern. Nice! Gas Pump Blues is a basic acoustic with metal bodied resonator, vocal and featuring Harmonica Shah on harp. Cool change up. Telephone Blues digs down and gets BB King style tension and bend vibratos of Johnny Winter. Larry Marek adds some really nice organ work on this track but its the bend vibrato that is king here. Honey and Spice has the rhythm pattern of Wilson Picket but with a healthy dose of blues rock guitar. Somewhere really has the feel of an early Bob Dylan or Lou Reed track but with a bit ore rock ballad intention. Solitary guitar riffs over a stripped down rhythm section of Chris Brown on bass and Charles David Stuart on drums does the trick. Cried All My Tears has a Rollin and Tumblin feel with Glazer whipping out some hot flash on slide guitar. Hurtful Feeling is a greasy slider along the lines of It Hurts Me too. With Harmonica Shah on harp, the boys dig down deep for the hottest track on the release. ~Review by Bman

Stepchild Of The Blues

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