Harry Manx - 20 Strings And The Truth

Size: 75.9 MB
Time: 33:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Delta Blues, Instrumental
Art: Front

1. Veenarama [3:24]
2. Phunkistan [4:24]
3. Summertime [2:59]
4. Waiting in Vain [4:32]
5. Blueswalk [2:36]
6. Love Is Enough [3:06]
7. At Your Feet [4:20]
8. Into to the Unknow [4:44]
9. Crazy Love (Wedding Version) [2:53]

The latest tracks from slide master Harry Manx featuring his signature instrument the Mohan Veena. Mostly instrumental, this is the 'chill' recording that Harry's fans have been waiting for.

'20 Strings and the Truth' is the most recent collection of tracks from multi instrumentalist Harry Manx. Like many of Harry's recordings, the music has its roots in both Delta Blues and Indian Classical music. This recording will stand out from Harry's previous recordings simply because it is mostly instrumental. Harry has chosen two well known vocal songs (one from George Gerswin and the other from Bob Marley) to compliment the seven instrumentals.

Harry is joined on the CD by Clayton Doley on keyboards, Kelby McNayr on drums and Niel Golden on talblas. Harry plays a wide variety of instruments including drums, all guitars (slide or otherwise) and the Mohan Veena. These tracks are all journeys unto themselves, kick back, shift into now, enjoy.

20 Strings and the Truth

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Manx Marriner Mainline - Hell Bound For Heaven

Source: CD
Size: 90,1 MB
Time: 38:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric/Acoustic Blues
Art: Full

01. Nothing (4:06)
02. Everybody Knows (3:40)
03. Hell Bound For Heaven (3:46)
04. My Lord (3:42)
05. My Only One (3:24)
06. Rattlesnake (4:07)
07. Wish I Had Answered (3:51)
08. Death Have No Mercy In This Land (4:25)
09. This Little Light Of Mine (3:13)
10. Rise And Fall In Love (3:51)

Harry Manx is a Canadian musician best known for blending slide-guitar blues, gospel music and the Mohan veena. The latter is a Hindu stringed instrument learned by him while living in India. Manx recorded his debut in 2001. His fourteen previous albums include three recorded with Kevin Breit, the last being 2011’s “Strictly Whatever” also on Stony Plain.

Steve Marriner, also Canadian, is a multi-instrumentalist best known as the harp player, guitarist and front man for the band “Monkey Junk”. Their 2010 debut “Tiger in Your Tank” won a Blues Music Award for “Best New Artist”; and Canada’s Juno Award for their 2011 album “To Behold”. Between 2008 and 2018 Marriner also won six Maple Blues Awards as Canada’s “Harmonica Player of The Year”.

“I’ve had the honor of knowing Steve Marriner for a long time”… Manx states… “It must have been around 2002 when he showed up at a club I was playing in Ottawa. He was with his father because he was only 16 and too young to drive (or drink). He asked me if he could sit in playing harmonica on a few tunes. I have to admit I was taken aback by him because he looked so young and innocent…When he started in on a solo, I was floored; so was the crowd. He played like he was channeling Sonny Boy Williamson or Little Walter”.

Manx and Marriner were re-united at the 2004 Chicago Blues Festival. The duo’s positive reception caused Manx to invite Marriner to join him on tour. The five year odyssey included the U.S., Canada, England, France and Australia. This is the duos debut collaboration.

“Hell Bound For Heaven” features Manx on slide guitar, banjo and the twenty string Mohan veena; and Marriner on various guitars, harp, organ and drums. Additional musicians include Clayton Doley on Hammond organ; Moe Duella, drums; and Jim Bowskill, violin and viola. Included are various background singers. Most notable however is that they are both fine vocalists.

The album is co-produced by Manx and Marriner and features the duo on six originals and four selected covers. Manx contributes three songs as he is an unusually gifted songwriter; “Nothing”, “Everybody Knows” and “My Only One” featuring Doley on the B-3. Two more songs are from Marriner including the title track featuring Manx on the Mohan veena; and “My Lord” with Marriner on both harp and a twelve string guitar. “Rise and Fall in Love” was co-written by the duo.

Covers include Charlie Patton’s “Rattlesnake Blues”; Pop Staples’ “Wish I Had Answered”; the Reverend Gary Davis’ “Death Have No Mercy in This Land”; and the traditional “This Little Light of Mine” with a refreshing new arrangement.

Manx and Marriner share a chemistry. Their music is both vibrant and subdued at the same time. This is one of the best new duos, and a fabulous recording. ~Richard Ludmerer

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Krishna Prasad (Harry Manx) - Beloved One

Size: 98,3 MB
Time: 42:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Acoustic Blues Folk, Raga
Art: Front & Back

01. Love Is My Home (3:32)
02. Beloved One (3:22)
03. In This Moment (5:42)
04. Grace Has Blessed Me (3:26)
05. O My Lord (4:13)
06. Here In Your Grace (3:37)
07. This Little Light Of Mine (3:14)
08. Living In The Light (5:26)
09. The Sun Rises (3:58)
10. Beloved One (Live) (3:30)
11. This Little Light Of Mine (Live) (2:07)

This refreshing and lively ‘devotional blues’ album blends the elements of blues with subtle flavours of classical Indian raga. Krishna Prasad is truly a soulful musician whose sublime, heart-stirring singing and musicianship on slide guitar, banjo and mohan veena is supported by masterful keyboards and harmonica, as well as vocals and handpan from Mooji Sangha. Moojibaba’s presence and poetic spoken words on two songs breathe a profound depth into this album which effortlessly brings you to rest in the heart of love.

Prasad (Harry Manx) was born on the Isle of Man, immigrated to Canada as a child, returned to Europe in the late seventies to spend many years working festivals as a blues lap-slide guitarist/songwriter. He then moved moved to Japan where he lived and performed for ten years.

In 1990, while Prasad was in Japan, he came across a recording of the Indian slide guitarist Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. It wasn't long before he contacted Bhatt and made arrangements to join him in India. Prasad became a student of Bhatt's and remained with him for five years. They traveled together in India and performed before large audiences.

In spring of 2000, Prasad moved back to Canada and set up residence in Saltspring Island, British Columbia. During the summer he recorded his first Canadian CD at the Barn Studios. This debut recording features fourteen tracks of Prasad doing his one-man-band sound on the lap slide guitar, the Mohan Veena, the blues harp and vocals.

He has received seven Maple Blues Awards, six Juno nominations, the Canadian Folk Music Award in 2005 for Best Solo Artist and won CBC Radio’s “Great Canadian Blues Award” in 2007.

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Various - Johnny's Blues: A Tribute To Johnny Cash

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:20
Size: 110.7 MB
Styles: Assorted styles
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[4:21] 1. Paul Reddick - Train Of Love
[3:02] 2. Clarence 'gatemouth' Brown - Get Rhythm
[4:39] 3. Maria Muldaur - Walking The Blues
[2:38] 4. Chris Thomas King - Rock Island Line
[3:07] 5. Garland Jeffreys - I Walk The Line
[4:33] 6. Blackie & The Rodeo Kings - Folsom Prison Blues
[4:39] 7. Harry Manx - Long Black Veil
[4:31] 8. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Sunday Morning Coming Down
[2:24] 9. Sleepy Labeef - Frankie's Man Johnny
[3:51] 10. Corey Harris - Redemption
[4:15] 11. Kevin Breit - Send A Picture Of Mother
[3:20] 12. Colin Linden - Big River
[2:55] 13. Mavis Staples - Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Effectively honoring an amazing song from an amazing performer requires that you kick against the grass marking the steps of the master. Cash's country music re-oriented toward its blues element gives kickers a general direction for a collection hitting more shin than soupçon. Paul Reddick's "Train of Love" whirs into life on its master tape capstan and jumps track 13 seconds in a show of off-roading; "I have wondered," he ponders in the liner notes, "how things might have been if Johnny had hired Mississippi Fred McDowell (Luther Perkins is chopped liver?) as the guitar player for the Tennessee Three." Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown joins forces with Benjy Davis to swing out "Get Rhythm," taking turns sounding agreeably road-wearied. Chris Thomas King tunes his 12-string guitar "down to B flat standard, which is the way Leadbelly played it," and recasts "Rock Island Line" as a talking blues, which it almost was anyway, then skates away on the train engineer's cheer at cheating the toll (though no one ever asks whether the burned toll man's waiting for him on the return trip). Faced with doing over a perfect song with a perfect arrangement, Garland Jeffreys brilliantly deduces that a little more makes a lot more, and filigrees "I Walk the Line" in accordion and a more pronounced "boom-chicka-boom." Harry Manx's "Long Black Veil" shimmers under his predictable but effective slide guitar and surprising touches of Indian instrumentation, plus desperate gospel-fueled backing vocals, stripping finality from tone, turning the song over into an unsolved mystery. OK, Alvin Youngblood Hart doesn't sound like he knows what he's doing on "Sunday Morning Coming Down"; he asks "Well, who hasn't been there?" in the notes, and the problem is he sounds like almost everybody else who's been there. But then along comes Sleepy LaBeef, sounding like his voice went down one half-step for each of his 68 years, singing "Frankie's Man Johnny" like no one ever told him it wasn't his. Don't settle for walking if you can swoosh. ~Andrew Hamlin

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Harry Manx & Kevin Breit - In Good We Trust

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:23
Size: 101.6 MB
Styles: Slide guitar blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:41] 1. I'm On Fire
[4:52] 2. Sometimes
[3:36] 3. Bottom Of The Hill
[2:59] 4. Better Man's Waltz
[4:41] 5. Death Have Mercy
[5:12] 6. Steal 6
[4:26] 7. Ship Of Fools
[2:47] 8. In Good We Trust
[5:01] 9. Hang On
[2:48] 10. Don't Swim, Float
[4:14] 11. Sisters

The follow-up to this pair's Jubilee album finds them basically starting where they left off. And fans should be thankful for that. The instrumentation is top-notch and the selections seem to suit the record perfectly. A great example of this is the haunting but folksy reworking of Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on Fire," which is still dark but has a certain hint of brightness thanks to the use of bazouki and tamboura. However, the original material definitely measures up to the covers, especially the smooth and tender "Sometimes," which glides along effortlessly. Meanwhile, Manx and Breit weave more magic with the strolling, ambling "Bottom of the Hill," which is quite catchy. Think of a song by Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch and it's a fair comparison. This is definitely truer during the rootsy and looser "Steal," as Manx and Breit mix roots, folk, and blues impressively. The album is offset, though, by pretty instrumentals, the first being "Better Man Blues," which has an airy yet dark quality running through it, resembling a piece of a soundtrack score thatMark Knopfler hasn't gotten around to yet. However, a rather heady, psychedelic-era tune called "Death Have Mercy" brings to mind Jeff Beck's work circa Frankie's House. Meanwhile, the title track is the Delta blues personified, even if there are flourishes of guitar strumming over the standard slow-creeping blues chords. For the homestretch, Manx and Breit create the gorgeous and cozy "Hang On," which sounds like it was recorded in one take as the sun was coming up. The album, as it states on its cover, is indeed supreme quality. ~Jason McNeil

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