Ike Cosse - The Spot Is Hot

Size: 97.0 MB
Time: 41:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. Homeboy (3:08)
02. Time Clock Blues (5:25)
03. Enough Is Enough (4:19)
04. Hit The Road (3:08)
05. Feel Your Touch (3:35)
06. I Just Wanna Rent (3:40)
07. The Spot Is Hot (4:39)
08. Expanation (5:15)
09. Cold World Blues (3:56)
10. Kickin Back With Slack (4:20)

Guitarist and vocalist Issac "Ike" Cosse has been leading a band called the Coldbloods around the San Francisco Bay area for the last 20 years. Cosse took his earliest musical inspiration from guitarists like Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix, and he played jazz and fusion for some time before settling on the blues.

Cosse joined the band of saxophonist Joe Puttley in 1983 and learned the finer points of blues playing from him, as well as the need to be an entertainer when on the bandstand. After working with Puttley for a number of years, Cosse was given the chance to sing; "Crosscut Saw" and "Further On Up the Road" were the first two blues songs he performed on stage.

After forming his own band, Ike and the Coldbloods, in 1987, he began to work the clubs around the San Francisco Bay area, where he had relocated some years earlier. Ike and the Coldbloods played at Slim's in San Francisco, Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz, and other venues around the Bay area. After several years of interpreting cover songs in Bay area clubs, Cosse realized if he was going to take his music anywhere, he would need to perform original compositions.

After dropping a copy of his self-released album off at B.B. King's Club in Los Angeles, Cosse got a booking there, opening for Coco Montoya and Johnny Johnson. Cosse's first album, The Spot Is Hot, was released on his own label in 1995. Since then, he's recorded an album for JSP Records of London, The Lowdown Throwdown. Cosse currently lives in Santa Clara, California. ~Richard Skelly

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Ike Cosse - Don't Give Up On Love

Size: 165,2 MB
Time: 70:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. It's Blues Time Everybody (3:13)
02. The Love You Took Away (5:44)
03. 12 Steps Blues (6:02)
04. Memo Blues (4:57)
05. Don't Give Up On Love (5:50)
06. Crocodile Tears (3:47)
07. I'm Still Sitting Here (4:21)
08. Have You Seen My Baby (3:49)
09. It's Been A Long Long Time (5:44)
10. Friends With Benefits (5:41)
11. The Dreamer Song (4:56)
12. Paso Robles Blues (5:12)
13. The Love You Took Away (Reggae Version) (6:06)
14. Paso Robles Blues (Instrumental) (5:12)

Guitarist and vocalist Issac "Ike" Cosse has been leading a band called the Coldbloods around the San Francisco Bay area for the last 20 years. Cosse took his earliest musical inspiration from guitarists like Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix, and he played jazz and fusion for some time before settling on the blues.

Cosse joined the band of saxophonist Joe Puttley in 1983 and learned the finer points of blues playing from him, as well as the need to be an entertainer when on the bandstand. After working with Puttley for a number of years, Cosse was given the chance to sing; "Crosscut Saw" and "Further On Up the Road" were the first two blues songs he performed on stage.

After forming his own band, Ike and the Coldbloods, in 1987, he began to work the clubs around the San Francisco Bay area, where he had relocated some years earlier. Ike and the Coldbloods played at Slim's in San Francisco, Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz, and other venues around the Bay area. After several years of interpreting cover songs in Bay area clubs, Cosse realized if he was going to take his music anywhere, he would need to perform original compositions.

After dropping a copy of his self-released album off at B.B. King's Club in Los Angeles, Cosse got a booking there, opening for Coco Montoya and Johnny Johnson. Cosse's first album, The Spot Is Hot, was released on his own label in 1995. Since then, he's recorded an album for JSP Records of London, The Lowdown Throwdown. Cosse currently lives in Santa Clara, California.

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Ike Cosse - The Lowdown Throwdown Plus

Size: 156,6 MB
Time: 67:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Bang Bang Girls (5:18)
02. I Just Wanna Rent (3:13)
03. Dog Dang Shoot (4:50)
04. Hell To Pay (3:26)
05. When I Get Home (3:42)
06. My Baby's So Synical (3:59)
07. You're The Man (4:30)
08. Hubbabubba Brother (5:45)
09. Homeboy (3:08)
10. Enough Is Enough (4:19)
11. Hit The Road (3:08)
12. Feel Your Touch (3:35)
13. The Spot Is Hot (4:39)
14. Explanation (5:15)
15. Cold World Blues (3:56)
16. Kickin' Back With Slack (4:20)

Eight extra tracks from Ike's rare first recording The Spot Is Hot! on this reissue by Ike Cosse, an authentic living bluesman living and breathing amongst us who is still working and playing? he's the real deal.

I have heard old timers on the blues scene bemoaning the lack of the 'real deal' and staying at home, only listening to old records, even shutting down their fanzines in a huff! But if we only have one artist left like Ike Cosse then we have real, authentic bluesmen living and breathing amongst us. Most importantly, working and playing (when and where they are given the chance?).

If you have heard already tracks 9 to 16 then you are privileged. These tracks are from the self released album that Ike made to promote himself, called The Spot Is Hot. It might have very unfairly disappeared, but it at least got the deal with me that produced the album from which tracks 1 to 8 are taken 'The Lowdown Throwdown'.

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Ike Cosse - Cold Blooded World

Year: 2000
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:16
Size: 104,6 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. That's The Blues (3:29)
2. Nothing You Can Do Or Say (2:40)
3. Brothers Gittin' On With Others (3:02)
4. The Blues Is The Blues Is The Blues (5:11)
5. Cold Hearted World (2:02)
6. Vase Of Love (2:16)
7. Come On Home (6:58)
8. Have A Good Time (3:00)
9. Bad Decisions (2:40)
10. Black Cowboy (4:04)
11. Ike's Blues (6:03)
12. The Truth (3:45)

Santa Monica blues artist Ike Cosse dropped his backing band for his second album for JSP. Cold Blooded World is unmistakably a portrait of one man and his outlook on the world. Where other modern practitioners of his genre often seem pressured by their record companies to buff out any idiosyncrasies, Cosse isn't afraid to come across as exactly what he is: a performer who's as natural a storyteller as he is a bluesman, using simple guitar textures and spare harmonica to support tales filled with humor, heartbreak, and wry observation.

He recalls John Lee Hooker on "Brothers Gittin' on with Others," while "That's the Blues" explores the issue of gun violence over a guitar figure straightforward enough to have come from Lightnin' Hopkins or any number of early postwar legends. Novelties such as "Nothing You Can Do or Say" help keep the tone light, though even the potentially heavy numbers ("Black Cowboy," in which the singer laments the absence of his fellow African-Americans in movie Westerns) are mitigated by an observational, man-on-the-street lyrical bent.

In Cosse's world, it's raw charisma and the ability to put forth quality songs that matters, not technical prowess. Granted, Cosse's material might not always follow traditional blues in structure. But in manner and mood, he's arguably more authentic than contemporary blues acts who emphasize slickness but lack a personal creative vision. Cold Blooded World, as unpretentious as a night at a juke joint, is a document of a bluesman on the rise. /Kenneth Bays, AllMusic

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Ike Cosse - The Lowdown Throwdown

Year: 1997
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:20
Size: 113,8 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Bang Bang Girls (5:18)
2. I Just Wanna Rent (3:11)
3. Let It Happen (4:01)
4. Doggy Style (3:23)
5. Dog Dang Shoot (4:50)
6. Hell To Pay (3:24)
7. When I Get Home (3:34)
8. She's Expensive (3:24)
9. My Baby's So Cynical (3:57)
10. You're The Man (4:30)
11. Hubba Bubba Brother (5:45)
12. Let It Happen (Instrumental) (3:58)

Ike Cosse's debut for London-based JSP came about after the label's owner heard a copy of the bluesman's self-produced cassette. With The Lowdown Throwdown, Cosse proved capable of attacking the full range of blues styles; "Dog Dang Shoot" is straight Chicago material, while "Hell to Pay" offers James Brown-style funk and "Let It Happen" recalls classic R&B balladry. What's most appealing about The Lowdown Throwdown is Cosse's lyrical directness; he prefers plain speech over metaphor, describing experiences with past romantic conquests ("I Just Wanna Rent") and strip club employees ("Bang Bang Girls") with humor and frankness.

Cosse's vocals are a bit on the thin side, which is especially troublesome when he writes above his range, as on "My Baby's So Cynical." But after all, Cosse isn't setting out to be the next Bobby "Blue" Bland; he comes across on The Lowdown Throwdown as a highly individual entertainer confident in his ability to make the audience relate to his songs. Each time you start to think he's sounding too full of himself, he lets loose with a brilliant bit of self-deprecating humor. And he's not above completely hamming it up when necessary, as on one perfect couplet from "You're the Man," which recounts his attempt to move back home after leaving his father's house: "My door is always open to you for dinner/But your room is now the aerobics center." /Kenneth Bays, AllMusic

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