Hosea Hargrove - I Love My Life

Album: I Love My Life
Size: 86,0 MB
Time: 36:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. If You Love Me Like You Say (2:06)
2. I Love My Life (2:16)
3. Hoochie Coochie Man (3:25)
4. Southern Country Boy (4:13)
5. Things I Used To Do (3:21)
6. Hawaii (2:29)
7. I Stood By (3:21)
8. I Wonder Why (4:29)
9. Big Gun (3:25)
10. I'm A King Bee (3:59)
11. Caress Me Baby (3:42)

Featured in the video documentary Texas Blues Reunion, Hosea is one of the last practitioners of down-home blues still working in Central Texas. In this, his first commercial recording, Hosea puts everything right where it belongs. Interviewed for Guitar Player, Jimmie Vaughan acknowleged Hosea's impact as a teacher and mentor. Jimmie's well-known brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, also followed Hosea around for a time.

Hosea plays the blues the way it was originally played, very free, following the feeling of the groove and expressing emotions according to the whim of the creative musician. The music was emotionally profound and musically spontaneous. That's the real art form of the blues.

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Hosea Hargrove & Enter City Band - Party's On Me

Album: Party's On Me
Size: 99,1 MB
Time: 42:56
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Pain Avenue (2:30)
2. Hoochie Coochie Man (5:24)
3. Gee Hosea (4:02)
4. Gambling Woman Blues (3:43)
5. Rock Me Baby (6:54)
6. Woke Up This Morning (3:22)
7. Hawaii (3:56)
8. Love My Life (5:25)
9. Boogaloo (7:37)

Hosea Hargrove was born in 1937 in Crafts Prairie, home to such luminaries of Texas blues as Sonny Chase and Roosevelt “The Grey Ghost” Williams. His father, a local blues musician, taught him how to play guitar. His father’s friend, Sonny Chase, gave him his first guitar and gave him a ride to his first show on the back of his horse. He began playing with his father and his father’s friends at Country Suppers.

After graduating from high school in Smithville, and a brief stint working on his uncle’s farm, he moved to Dallas. He worked a variety of day jobs before heading west, working throughout the Southwest by day and singing and playing at night. It was in Phoenix, Arizona that he took up the electric guitar, infusing his traditional country blues with a new presence and edge.

Little Son Jackson from Dallas was a major influence on his music during that time. He returned to Central Texas in 1956, taking up residence in Austin’s East Side, where he became an essential element of the local blues scene. Hargrove was featured in The Blues Reunion at the Victory Grill and at Antone’s.

His influence can be seen in the playing of guitar heroes Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmy Vaughn, the latter of whom played with Hargrove for some time on the small-town blues circuit. Like his hero Lightnin’ Hopkins, Hargrove played electric blues steeped in rural traditions, and his music was a vital and evocative link between traditional country blues and modern electric blues traditions. Hargrove passed away in September, 2018.

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Hosea Hargrove & Enter City Band - Crafts Prairie Blues

Album: Crafts Prairie Blues
Size: 162,0 MB
Time: 70:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Jivin' Around (3:38)
2. If You Love Me Like You Say (4:12)
3. That's All Right (6:10)
4. Southern Country Boy (3:41)
5. I've Got My Mojo Working (4:12)
6. King Bee (6:56)
7. Big Boss Man (3:12)
8. Love My Life (3:40)
9. Big Gun (5:59)
10. Woke Up This Morning (3:18)
11. Hawaii (3:20)
12. Gambling Woman Blues (4:31)
13. Blues At Sunrise (6:54)
14. Boogaloo (6:12)
15. Boogaloop (4:04)

Hosea Hargrove was born in 1937 in Crafts Prairie, home to such luminaries of Texas blues as Sonny Chase and Roosevelt “The Grey Ghost” Williams. His father, a local blues musician, taught him how to play guitar. His father’s friend, Sonny Chase, gave him his first guitar and gave him a ride to his first show on the back of his horse. He began playing with his father and his father’s friends at Country Suppers.

After graduating from high school in Smithville, and a brief stint working on his uncle’s farm, he moved to Dallas. He worked a variety of day jobs before heading west, working throughout the Southwest by day and singing and playing at night. It was in Phoenix, Arizona that he took up the electric guitar, infusing his traditional country blues with a new presence and edge.

Little Son Jackson from Dallas was a major influence on his music during that time. He returned to Central Texas in 1956, taking up residence in Austin’s East Side, where he became an essential element of the local blues scene. Hargrove was featured in The Blues Reunion at the Victory Grill and at Antone’s.

His influence can be seen in the playing of guitar heroes Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmy Vaughn, the latter of whom played with Hargrove for some time on the small-town blues circuit. Like his hero Lightnin’ Hopkins, Hargrove played electric blues steeped in rural traditions, and his music was a vital and evocative link between traditional country blues and modern electric blues traditions. Hargrove passed away in September, 2018.

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Hosea Hargrove - Tex Golden Nugget

Album: Tex Golden Nugget
Size: 102,2 MB
Time: 44:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Negro Down (3:57)
2. Nine Pounds Of Steel (3:52)
3. 44 In My Hand (3:53)
4. Boog A Loo (3:24)
5. Booty (2:28)
6. Caress Me Baby (3:52)
7. HOSEA (2:31)
8. King Arthur (3:04)
9. If You Love Me Like You Say (3:09)
10. Love My Life (Part 2) (3:03)
11. Years Go Passing By (3:58)
12. I'm In Love With You Baby (3:43)
13. Rock Me Baby (3:10)

Growing up in Crafts Prairie, a community near Smithville and Bastrop, 80-year-old Hosea Hargrove didn't just absorb blues. They came with the territory. At 10, he fashioned his first guitar out of a cigar box and screen wire, playing until he mastered it and a local musician named Son Chase gave him the real deal. On Tex Golden Nugget, that mojo lives in every note Hargrove plays, as does the spirit of Chase and the Central Texas bluesmen that the Eastside guitarist grew up around: James Lee Williams, Sugar Taylor, Hosea Henderson, Roosevelt "Grey Ghost" Williams, "Funny Papa" Smith, and "Sunny Boy" Williams.

Sunday afternoon blues sessions from the early 1970s sounded like this, Hargrove having assembled an achingly sweet collection of blues that pulls no punches ("Negro Down"), rolls with a righteous groove ("Rock Me Baby"), and pumps funky life ("Boog a Loo"). Hargrove's vocals aren't the main attraction – they're serviceable, engaging – but his guitar, laid-back and ever-present, calls the shots. His roots in rural blues come to life in traditionals ("Nine Pounds of Steel," "44 in My Hand"), while he displays his self-referential flair in lyrics, including in the song "HOSEA." No false modesty here for a life well spent. /Margaret Moser, Austin Chronicle

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