Showing posts with label J. Geils. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J. Geils. Show all posts

Sunday, September 20, 2020

J. Geils Band - The Morning After

Size: 80,2 MB
Time: 34:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1971
Styles: Rock/Blues
Art: Full

1. I Don't Need You No More (2:36)
2. Whammer Jammer (2:37)
3. So Sharp (3:10)
4. The Usual Place (2:45)
5. Gotta Have Your Love (4:32)
6. Looking For A Love (3:47)
7. Gonna Find Me A New Love (3:24)
8. Cry One More Time (3:23)
9. Floyd's Hotel (3:11)
10. It Ain't What You Do (It's How You Do It!) (5:12)

The Morning After is a near perfect follow-up to the J. Geils Band's self-titled debut album. It's more of the same winning blend of rocked-out blues, jumped-up soul, and pure rock & roll wildness with enough attitude and energy to get a club full of people from zero to sweaty in less than 60 seconds. Featuring the original versions of songs that became radio staples in their live incarnations ("Looking for a Love," the Magic Dick showcase "Whammer Jammer"), a batch of covers of rare soul gems ("So Sharp," Don Covay's "The Usual Place," the aforementioned "Looking for a Love"), and some fine originals (the rip-roaring opener "I Don't Need You No More," the very funky "Gotta Have Your Love," and the heart-rending ballad "Cry One More Time," which was covered memorably by Gram Parsons on G.P.), The Morning After is definite proof that the J. Geils Band were well on their way to becoming one of the best rock & roll bands of any era. /Tim Sendra, AllMusic

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Saturday, March 14, 2020

VA - Blues Rock Essentials

Size: 207,2 MB
Time: 88:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01 Graham Bond - Walkin' In The Park ( 3:06)
02 Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Win Or Lose ( 4:38)
03 Love Sculpture - Wang Dang Doodle ( 3:32)
04 The J. Geils Band - Southside Shuffle ( 3:41)
05 Blues Image - Parchman Farm ( 2:49)
06 Freddie King - Going Down (Live At Ann Arbor Blues And Jazz Festival) ( 4:22)
07 The Boogie Kings - Sweet Home Chicago ( 2:47)
08 Little Feat - Forty-Four Blues ( 3:17)
09 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - I Just Want To Make Love To You ( 3:01)
10 Foghat - It Hurts Me Too ( 5:33)
11 Cactus - You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover ( 6:32)
12 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments - Security Blues ( 4:20)
13 The Edgar Broughton Band - Smokestack Lightning (Live) (10:43)
14 The Nashville Teens - Hoochie Coochie Man ( 3:38)
15 Hurriganes - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (Live) ( 3:24)
16 MC5 - Motor City Is Burning ( 6:04)
17 The Dream Syndicate - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean ( 4:02)
18 Canned Heat - Bagful Of Boogie ( 3:34)
19 Tages - Seventh Son ( 3:14)
20 Faces - Love In Vain (Live In New York, 1970) ( 6:22)

Blues Rock Essentials

Thursday, March 1, 2018

VA - Harmonica Blues

Size: 231,3 MB
Time: 98:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01 Linkin' Louisiana Peps - I Got My Mojo Working (2:48)
02 John Hammond - Don't Start Me Talking (2:36)
03 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Off The Wall (2:07)
04 The J. Geils Band - Whammer Jammer (2:38)
05 Toots Thielemans - The Blacksmith Blues (2:16)
06 The Edgar Broughton Band - Bring It On Home (3:27)
07 Cactus - Big Mama Boogie, Pts. 1 & 2 (5:27)
08 Tom Rush - Milk Cow Blues (3:13)
09 Low Budget Blues Band - My Babe (2:30)
10 Dr Feelgood - Boom Boom (2:41)
11 Little Feat - Forty-Four Blues / How Many More Years (6:27)
12 Jerry Jeff Walker - Harmonica Talk (1:04)
13 The Youngbloods - Kind Hearted Woman (6:09)
14 Buddy Guy - Last Night (7:52)
15 The Incredible String Band - Blues For The Muse (2:45)
16 Maria Muldaur - I'm A Woman (4:05)
17 Brownsville Station - Crazy Legs (3:21)
18 John Sebastian - Blues For Dad And JB's Happy Harmonica (Live) (3:41)
19 The Blues Brothers - Flip, Flop & Fly (Live Version) (Joe Gastwirt Remix) (3:38)
20 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Mellow Down Easy (3:03)
21 Grateful Dead - Good Morning Little School Girl (5:50)
22 Jack Champion Dupree - Baby, Please Don't Go (2:26)
23 Jarkka Rissanen & Pepe Ahlqvist - Merzedes Benz (3:29)
24 Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues For Gamblers (6:59)
25 Scott Henderson - Smelly Ol' Dog Blues (7:56)

Harmonica Blues

Friday, April 14, 2017

VA - The Fillmore East: Last 3 Nites

Size: 164,8+174,8+172.5+175,5 MB
Time: 70:18+75:21+73:21+75:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues Rock, Rock
Label: Echoes
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Albert King - Bill Graham Intro ( 0:06)
02. Albert King - Knock On Wood (Remastered) ( 5:10)
03. Albert King - Got To Be Some Changes (Remastered) ( 6:06)
04. Albert King - Nothing But The Blues (Remastered) ( 3:34)
05. Albert King - Crosscut Saw (Remastered) ( 5:55)
06. Albert King - Personal Manager (Remastered) ( 6:18)
07. Albert King - Bye Bye Blues (Remastered) ( 1:39)
08. J. Geils Band - Bill Graham Intro (Remastered) ( 0:10)
09. J. Geils Band - Sno-Cone (Remastered) ( 3:23)
10. J. Geils Band - Wait (Remastered) ( 3:26)
11. J. Geils Band - First I Look At The Purse (Remastered) ( 4:49)
12. J. Geils Band - Whammer Jammer (Remastered) ( 3:04)
13. J. Geils Band - Homework (Remastered) ( 3:24)
14. J. Geils Band - Pack Fair And Square (Remastered) ( 2:23)
15. J. Geils Band - Cruisin’ For A Love (Remastered) ( 4:09)
16. J. Geils Band - Serves You Right To Suffer (Remastered) (12:29)
17. J. Geils Band - Hard Drivin’ Man (Remastered) ( 4:06)

CD 2:
01. Edgar Winter's White Trash - Bill Graham Intro (Remastered) ( 0:57)
02. Edgar Winter's White Trash - Where Would I Be (Without You) (Remastered( ( 5:14)
03. Edgar Winter's White Trash - Let’s Get It On (Remastered) ( 7:38)
04. Edgar Winter's White Trash - Tobacco Road (Remastered) (15:39)
05. Edgar Winter's White Trash - Turn On Your Love Light (Remastered) ( 8:55)
06. Mountain - Bill Graham Intro (Remastered) ( 0:25)
07. Mountain - Never In My Life (Remastered) ( 6:49)
08. Mountain - Theme From An Imaginary Western (Remastered) ( 5:21)
09. Mountain - Roll Over Beethoven (Remastered) ( 8:46)
10. Mountain - Dreams Of Milk And Honey - Swan Theme (Remastered) (15:32)

CD 3:
01. Mountain - Silver Paper (Remastered) (8:01)
02. Mountain - Mississippi Queen (Remastered) (6:21)
03. The Beach Boys - Bill Graham Intro (Remastered) (0:19)
04. The Beach Boys - Heroes And Villains (Remastered) (3:40)
05. The Beach Boys - Do It Again (Remastered) (3:00)
06. The Beach Boys - Cotton Fields (Remastered) (2:45)
07. The Beach Boys - Help Me, Rhonda (Remastered) (4:42)
08. The Beach Boys - Wouldn’t It Be Nice (Remastered) (2:54)
09. The Beach Boys - Your Song (Remastered) (4:46)
10. The Beach Boys - Student Demonstration Time (Remastered) (5:23)
11. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (Remastered) (4:53)
12. The Beach Boys - California Girls (Remastered) (2:53)
13. The Beach Boys - I Get Around (Remastered) (2:15)
14. The Beach Boys - It’s About Time (Remastered) (3:48)
15. Country Joe McDonald - Bill Graham Intro (Remastered) (0:11)
16. Country Joe McDonald - Kiss My Ass (Remastered) (2:34)
17. Country Joe McDonald - Entertainment Is My Business (Remastered) (3:23)
18. Country Joe McDonald - Fixin-To-Die-Rag (Remastered) (5:16)
19. Country Joe McDonald - Rockin’ All Around The World (Remastered) (2:41)
20. Country Joe McDonald - Hold On It’s Coming (Remastered) (3:29)

CD 4:
01. The Allman Brothers - Bill Graham Intro (Remastered) ( 0:54)
02. The Allman Brothers - Statesboro Blues (Remastered) ( 4:24)
03. The Allman Brothers - Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’ (Remastered) ( 3:41)
04. The Allman Brothers - Done Somebody Wrong (Remastered) ( 3:34)
05. The Allman Brothers - One Way Out (Remastered) ( 5:06)
06. The Allman Brothers - In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed (Remastered) (12:25)
07. The Allman Brothers - Midnight Rider (Remastered) ( 2:58)
08. The Allman Brothers - Hot ‘lanta (Remastered) ( 5:51)
09. The Allman Brothers - Whipping Post (Remastered) (19:50)
10. The Allman Brothers - You Don’t Love Me (Remastered) (16:53)

Bill Graham s Fillmore East Last Three Nights, featuring major artists; Albert King, J. Geils Band, Edgare Winter, Mountain, the Beach Boys, Allman Brothers Band & Country Joe McDonald, June 1971. The Fillmore East opened in Manhattan in March 1968. Over the next three years it hosted almost every major rock artist of the era, as well as giants of soul, blues, folk, gospel and jazz. Bill Graham decided to close it in June 1971, but before doing so he assembled a remarkable 3-day bill featuring some of the most iconic and influential acts in America, spanning pop (the Beach Boys), blues (Albert King), rock n roll (the J. Geils Band, Edgar Winter, Mountain, the Allman Brothers Band) and folk (Country Joe McDonald a nod towards the venue s psychedelic roots). Presented here is the the entire WNEW-FM broadcast of these historic closing shows..

The Fillmore East CD 1
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The Fillmore East CD 3
The Fillmore East CD 4

Thursday, April 13, 2017

J. Geils Band - Showtime!

Size: 112,4 MB
Time: 48:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1982/2003
Styles: Blues Rock, Rock
Art: Full

01. Jus' Can't Stop Me (3:44)
02. Just Can't Wait (3:28)
03. Till The Walls Come Tumblin' Down (3:30)
04. Sanctuary (3:50)
05. I'm Falling (6:01)
06. Love Rap (5:14)
07. Love Stinks (3:28)
08. Stoop Down #39 (5:56)
09. I Do (3:04)
10. Centerfold (4:04)
11. Land Of A Thousand Dances (5:38)

A great live band recorded on stage in a city that loves them. What could go wrong? Enough. For one thing, the material is not as strong as on the 1972 classic Full House Live, also recorded in Detroit. And this release is marred by a witless, overlong Peter Wolf intro to "Love Stinks." He was ousted not long after this album, and the band dispersed after one album without him. To hear this sextet at its crowd-pleasing best, delve back another decade and pluck Full House Live. ~by Mark Allan

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J. Geils Band - "Live" Full House

Year: 1972/1995
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:46
Size: 82,6 MB
Styles: Rocking blues, harmonica blues, rock & roll
Scans: Full

1. First I Look At The Purse (4:08)
2. Homework (2:43)
3. Pack Fair And Square (2:34)
4. Whammer Jammer (2:37)
5. Hard Drivin' Man (4:39)
6. Serves You Right To Suffer (9:57)
7. Cruisin' For A Love (3:37)
8. Looking For A Love (5:27)

The J. Geils Band made many fine, sometimes great, studio albums but where they really captured their full, thrilling potential was on the concert stage. Most live albums tend to be a poor excuse for actually being at the show in question, but the Geils Band's live albums jump out of the speakers with so much joy, fun, and unquenchable rock & roll spirit that you might as well be there. "Live" Full House was their first live record, and it is a blast from start to finish.

Recorded in 1972 at Detroit's Cinderella Ballroom, the group runs through songs from their first two albums, The J. Geils Band and The Morning After, kicking out the jams on rockers like the Motown chestnut "First I Look at the Purse", Otis Rush's "Homework", and one of the group's first self-penned classics, "Hard Drivin' Man", as well as positively scorching through an incredible version of John Lee Hooker's dark and evil blues "Serves You Right to Suffer".

It's easy to overlook J. Geils himself on guitar when you have a magnetic frontman like Peter Wolf or the unstoppable force that is harp player Magic Dick (check "Whammer Jammer" for proof of his greatness), but his soloing on this track serves notice that he could tear off a ferocious solo with the best of them. "Live" Full House is a short, punchy shot of rock & roll genius by one of the great bands of the '70s and one of the best live albums ever recorded. /Tim Sendra, AllMusic

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Magic Dick & Jay Geils - 2 albums: Bluestime/Little Car Blues

Album: Bluestime
Year: 1994
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:58
Size: 116,9 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Scans: Full

1. I Got To Find My Baby (3:39)
2. Pontiac Blues (5:19)
3. Can't Hold Out Much Longer (4:51)
4. She's The No Sleepinest Woman (3:15)
5. The Stuff You Gotta Watch (5:11)
6. Nine Below Zero (2:56)
7. I Stay In The Mood (3:00)
8. Too Young To Die (3:19)
9. Little Girl (4:24)
10. Full Court Press (3:15)
11. (I'm The) Coolest Cat In This Car (3:16)
12. Iodine In My Coffee (4:15)
13. Roller Coaster/Crazy Legs/I Got To Go (4:15)

Jay Geils was often the forgotten man in the band that bore his name. Though Geils was a fine blues rock guitarist, it was Peter Wolf's vocals and Magic Dick's harmonica solos that made the J. Geils Band a legendary live act in the '70s, and it was the songs written by Wolf and keyboardist Seth Justman that gave the band its pop breakthrough in the early '80s. Geils's grasp of the rhythmic requirements of the Chicago blues provided the foundation for everything the band did, however, and it provides the solid basis for this likable album with Magic Dick.

The J. Geils Band began in 1966 as a trio (Geils, Dick, and bassist Danny Klein) exploring the music of the Chicago blues giants. Now Geils and Dick are doing it again - nine of the 13 tracks on the new album are credited to Muddy Waters, Little Walter or Sonny Boy Williamson--only this time they have the maturity to let the material breathe. Instead of cramming every possible note into each song, these older, wiser musicians have pared down their arrangements to the essential notes. This allows Geils's swinging, jazz-inflected guitar solos to unfurl with natural ease and for Dick to more fully harmonize his solos.

Dick proves a competent lead singer, but he lacks the special edge of a Wolf, much less a Waters. As a result, the instrumental performances are the best part of Bluestime. /Geoffrey Himes

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Album: Little Car Blues
Year: 1996
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:11
Size: 115,2 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Bluestime Theme (2:55)
2. Tonight With A Fool (2:46)
3. The Jumpin' Blues (5:14)
4. Hot Leftover No. 1 (0:31)
5. Feel So Bad (4:24)
6. Fool That I Am (4:50)
7. Stubborn Kind Of Fellow (3:32)
8. Hot Leftover No. 2: Black And Tan Fantasy (0:59)
9. I Don't Play (3:39)
10. Last Time (3:23)
11. Some Sweet Day (4:11)
12. Hot Leftover No. 3 (0:44)
13. Little Car Blues (4:01)
14. Temperature (3:07)
15. Look How Baby (5:49)

J. Geils and Magic Dick's debut duo recording, 1994's Bluestime, was a straightforward tribute to hard-core Chicago blues, but the follow-up, Little Car Blues, embraces such far-flung blues offshoots as Kansas City jump, Duke Ellington swing, Louis Armstrong hot jazz, Etta James R&B, and Marvin Gaye soul. If the truth be told, Geils and Magic Dick are much more enjoyable as generalists than as specialists, for they can't compete with the top artists in any one genre but they cover many styles better than most. Magic Dick is a gifted harp blower, especially when he's imitating old jazz solos by Armstrong or Charlie Parker, with a quicksilver phrasing and big, reedy tone. Geils isn't particularly fast or flashy a guitarist, but he has a rare rhythmic instinct that makes the swing and jump of his tunes lively indeed. /Geoffrey Himes

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