Ian Anderson's Country Blues Band - Stereo Death Breakdown

Year: 1969/2009
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:12
Size: 111,4 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues, country blues
Scans: Full

1. Get In That Swing (3:18)
2. Little Boy Blue (3:42)
3. (My Babe She Ain't Nothing But A Doggone) Crazy Fool Mumble (2:51)
4. New Lonesome Day (3:01)
5. Short Haired Woman Blues (2:56)
6. Hot Times (4:26)
7. Stereo Death Breakdown (2:29)
8. When I Get To Thinking (5:20)
9. Way Up On Your Tree (3:02)
10. Break 'Em On Down (2:34)
11. That's Alright (4:04)
12. Baby Bye You Bye (3:49)
13. Put It In A Frame (3:17)
14. Stop And Listen (3:17)

At the height of the British blues boom in the late 1960s, a handful of musicians came to prominence reinterpreting the acoustic country blues of the 1920s and ’30s. So in the winter of 1968/69, Ian Anderson assembled a lively country blues band for his debut album Stereo Death Breakdown. The master tapes were thought to be lost forever, but recent detective work by Fledg’ling Records unearthed them in the vault where they’d been carefully stored.

So here, re-mastered from those original tapes, with two bonus tracks from a contemporary session and new notes by Mr. Anderson, is a long-lost British blues collectors’ piece, finally re-issued just in time for its 40th anniversary.

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Mick Abrahams - One

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:06
Size: 91.8 MB
Styles: R&B, Contemporary blues
Year: 1996/2015
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Driftin' Blues
[3:04] 2. Do Re Mi
[2:39] 3. Mystery Train
[2:30] 4. 13 Question Method
[2:24] 5. Gnatz
[3:15] 6. How Long Blues
[1:59] 7. My Uncle
[2:59] 8. Jesus On The Mainline
[2:35] 9. Saunton Strut
[3:05] 10. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
[1:38] 11. Just Passing By
[4:57] 12. Billy The Kid
[2:08] 13. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
[3:48] 14. Old Mother Nicotine

Guitar, Vocals – Mick Abrahams; Harmonica, Flute, Mandolin – Ian Anderson.

A mostly acoustic album from Blodwyn Pig main man Mick Abrahams. Seriously virtuoso guitar, with special guest Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) playing flute, mandolin and harmonica. Abrahams was born in Luton, Bedfordshire. He played on the album This Was recorded by Jethro Tull in 1968, but conflicts between Abrahams and Ian Anderson over the musical direction of the band led Abrahams to leave once the album was finished. Abrahams wanted to pursue a more blues/rock direction, while Anderson wanted to incorporate more overt folk and jazz influences. He was replaced first by Tony Iommi who would leave Tull after only a few weeks and would later go on to form Black Sabbath, and then by Martin Barre who remained with Jethro Tull until the band ceased in 2011.

One

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Mike Cooper & Ian Anderson - The Continuous Preaching Blues

Size: 112,9 MB
Time: 48:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1985/1996
Styles: Acoustic/Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Preachin' Blues (7:03)
02. New Lonesome Day (3:06)
03. Everybody's Killing Me (2:29)
04. Oh Baby, We Got A Good Thing Going (1:56)
05. Dark Is The Night (5:27)
06. City Jail Blues (4:23)
07. You Never Can Tell (2:39)
08. Tell Me (4:17)
09. Lone Wolf Blues (3:38)
10. You Got To Move (4:05)
11. Paint It, Black (2:55)
12. Hey, Space Pilot (3:28)
13. The Inverted World (2:32)

This 1984 recording (with some CD bonus tracks that date back to the late '60s and early '70s) marks yet another collaboration between Cooper and Ian Anderson, two stalwarts of the British acoustic blues scene. Well, a collaboration at times: On some tracks they appear together, like the title cut, their attempt to filer son house through the lens of Captain Beefheart in a London suburb, or a very prim take on Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell" that's more redolent of Bournemouth than New Orleans, but manages to convince with its charm. Anderson's "Everybody's Killing Me" might be a throwaway lyrically, but has a wonderful Chicago feel to the sound. Cooper's take on Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Is the Night" seems to take its cue from Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross," guitar and alto sax working together to produce some beautiful music, and on "You Got to Move" Cooper produces some searing slide work. Then, to have "Paint It, Black," the Stones' classic, revisited as a mannered folk-blues is an amusing detour and a signal that these musicians value humor as a weapon, too. The two old bonus cuts are pleasant, with pride of place going to "The Inverted World," which has aged better than "Hey Space Pilot," with Cooper and Anderson working together on national guitars. Not a release to set the world on fire, but a reminder that Brits can still play the blues. ~by Chris Nickson

The Continuous Preaching Blues

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