Troyce Key & J.J. Malone - I've Gotta New Car

Size: 87,7 MB
Time: 37:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s from vinyl
Released: 1978
Styles: Blues
Art: Front, rear

1. New Car (5:23)
2. Katy May (4:04)
3. You're A Good Lookin' Woman (3:09)
4. Old Fashioned Blues (5:58)
5. Crawdad Hole (5:27)
6. Sweet Taters And Possum Meat (4:08)
7. I Know You Love Me (5:54)
8. Monday Woman (3:48)

Blues musician and night club owner Troyce Key (1937-1992) was born on September 7, 1937 in Jordon Plantation, Louisiana to Verdell and Lula May Key. The child of white sharecroppers, his father at one time worked on the railroad while the family lived in a box-car. In 1938, the Key family decided to move to Oregon but ran out of gasoline and money in Bakersfield, California. The family worked as migrant workers picking cotton and grapes and settled near Fresno, California where Troyce Key attended various schools. His father played the guitar and harmonica and often sang at local house parties. Troyce Key began playing guitar as a teenager and moved to Mississippi and absorbed the country music and blues playing of local recording artists as well as those from Texas. In Mississippi he contracted tuberculosis, having a lung and some ribs removed. While recuperating at a sanatorium in the Sierras, he listened to donated rhythm and blues recordings played by staff for the benefit of the patients, becoming hooked on the music and buying a guitar. Key befriended teenage patient R.C. Gardner, and the pair tried to copy the songs that were played. Discharged in 1956, Key and R.C. began gigging around Fresno, playing R & B and Elvis Presley-influenced music. They guested on Al Radka’s House Party, a local T.V. program. Female viewer fans wrote admiring letters of Key's Elvis impersonations. Other fans called Key the “mad coon.” By 1958 he was traveling to the Bay Area to perform at rock & roll dances with a group called the Campus Kings.

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J.J. Malone - Fire & Smoke

Source: Vinyl
Size: 90,1 MB
Time: 39:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1987
Styles: R&B, Soul, Blues
Art: Front, rear

1. Here I Come (4:08)
2. It's A Good Thing (3:56)
3. Town That I Live In (4:50)
4. Sitting Here Thinking (4:47)
5. Most I Want Out Of Life (2:24)
6. Low Down Blues (6:23)
7. Here I Go Again (2:59)
8. Can I Sing A Love Song For You (3:13)
9. Blues And Misery (6:40)

John Jacob (J.J.) Malone was an American West Coast blues, electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and keyboardist. His best-known recordings were "It's a Shame" and "Danger Zone". Malone was a member of the Rhythm Rockers, and he variously worked with other musicians, such as Troyce Key, Jill Baxter, Al Green, Joe Simon, Etta James, Scott McKenzie and Frankie Lee.

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Various - Bad, Bad Whiskey

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:32
Size: 161.5 MB
Styles: R&B/Soul/Blues
Year: 1993
Art: Front

[2:19] 1. Rodger Collins - She's Looking Good
[2:25] 2. The Merced Blue Notes - Rufus Jr
[2:18] 3. Betty Everett - I Got To Tell Somebody
[2:32] 4. Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads
[2:34] 5. Bill Coday - Get Your Lie Straight
[2:23] 6. The Right Kind - (Tell Me) Why Do You Have To Lie
[2:38] 7. Sonny Rhodes - You Better Stop
[2:12] 8. Little Johnny Taylor - Nightingale Melody
[2:46] 9. Merl Saunders - I Pity The Fool
[3:29] 10. J.J. Malone - It's A Shame
[3:36] 11. Loleatta Holloway - Rainbow 71
[2:46] 12. Rodger Collins - Foxy Girls In Oakland
[2:25] 13. Bill Coday - When You Find A Fool Bump His Head
[1:54] 14. The Merced Blue Notes - Mama Rufus
[3:12] 15. Little Johnny Taylor - For Your Precious Love
[3:31] 16. Charles Brown - Abraham, Martin And John
[2:17] 17. The Merced Blue Notes - Bad, Bad Whiskey
[2:31] 18. Lenny Williams - How Can I Forget You
[2:39] 19. Betty Everett - Ain't Nothing Gonna Change Me
[2:45] 20. Bill Coday - A Woman Rules The World
[2:33] 21. Claude Huey - Why Did Our Love Go
[2:53] 22. Bill Coday - Let Me Be Your Handy Man
[2:54] 23. Bobby Eaton - Fever, Fever, Fever
[2:56] 24. Lenny Williams - Lisa's Gone
[3:28] 25. Johnny Guitar Watson - I Don't Want To Be A Lone Ranger
[2:20] 26. Rodger Collins - Get Away From Me

Galaxy Records Singles 1962-1972 digitally remastered. A subsidiary of Fantasy, the Galaxy label recorded a diverse assortment of soul and R&B in the 1960s and early '70s. This is a 26-track compilation of highlights from the company's output, covering 1962 to 1972. Landing the occasional minor R&B chart hit, Galaxy couldn't be said to have an especially distinctive label sound, though their efforts were on the whole bluesier than much soul of the era. But this is still a decent grab bag of odds and ends from soul's vintage period, with obscure sides by well-known performers like Betty Everett, Little Johnny Taylor, Lenny Williams, Charles Brown, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Merl Saunders, and a host of unknowns. Especially good are the three sides by Rodger Collins, whose 1966 single "She's Looking Good" (which leads off the CD) was one of the better regional soul hits of the '60s, and was covered by Wilson Pickett for a Top 20 smash a couple of years later. ~Richie Unterberger

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Troyce Key, J.J. Malone & The Rhythm Rockers - Younger Than Yesterday

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:00
Size: 103.0 MB
Styles: West Coast blues
Year: 1982/2009
Art: Front

[3:15] 1. Flip, Flop And Fly
[2:54] 2. Annie Maybe
[4:02] 3. It Should Have Been Me
[5:23] 4. Louisiana Blues
[3:19] 5. Crazy Little Chicken
[2:35] 6. Saturday Night Shakedown
[4:12] 7. Daddy Rollin' Stone
[6:01] 8. Sail On
[2:58] 9. Gimme Mine Out Now
[3:03] 10. Jaywalk
[5:33] 11. Outskirts Of Town
[1:38] 12. Tutti Frutti

Alto Saxophone – William Wait; Baritone Saxophone – Mike Marcus; Bass, Backing Vocals – Charles Banks; Drums – Richard Milton, Zak "Zillion" Hanson; Guitar, Piano, Vocals – J.J. Malone; Guitar, Vocals – Troyce Key; Harmonica, Vocals – Paul Green; Tenor Saxophone – Carl Green. Recorded 22nd December, 1981 at Kelly Quan Studios, San Francisco, USA

Digitally re-mastered reissue of this celebrated collaboration between two American music legends; '50s rocker Troyce Key, and Soul-Bluesman J.J. Malone, originally released in 1982. Everything you could need is here; some downright groovy horns, spine-tingling harp, but moreover, the pair's truly joyous vocals throughout - and some of the messiest guitar ever committed to vinyl. One copy per household ain't enough. Don't be embarrassed. You need two. Broadside. 2009.

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J.J. Malone - 2 albums: And The Band Played On / I've Gotta New Car

Album: And The Band Played On
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:14
Size: 101.3 MB
Styles: West Coast blues, Soul-blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[3:54] 1. The Band Played On
[3:27] 2. Crawdad Hole
[3:09] 3. Blues Is Comin' Down
[4:22] 4. Bring It On Home To Me
[2:45] 5. Norgan County Jail
[4:24] 6. Down That Lonesome Road
[4:04] 7. Come Boogie With Me
[3:17] 8. Late In The Evening
[3:40] 9. Love Song For You
[2:20] 10. You Call My Number
[3:47] 11. Honest I Do
[4:59] 12. Let's Make It Funky

J.J. Malone is a true blues original. He’s quite clear about which musicians most inspired him – Muddy Waters being his all-time favorite – but he doesn’t sound like any of ‘em – not as a singer, nor as guitarist or piano player. He cites Waters, John Lee Hooker, Doctor Clayton, and Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup as early influences on his singing, with Louis Jordan and B.B. King coming into the picture slightly later. The Decatur, Alabama-born, Fairfax, California-based bluesman doesn’t copy anyone – not even himself. Unlike many blues artists who rely on set patterns, Malone is constantly pushing the envelope, playing whatever pops into his head at the moment.

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Album: J.J. Malone, Troyce Key & The Rhythm Rockers - I've Gotta New Car
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 37:58
Size: 86.9 MB
Styles: Soul-blues, Electric blues
Year: 1980
Art: Front

[5:20] 1. New Car/Framed
[4:08] 2. Katy May
[3:09] 3. You're A Good Lookin' Woman
[5:59] 4. Old Fashioned Blues
[5:29] 5. Crawdad Hole
[4:09] 6. Sweet Taters And Possum Meat
[5:54] 7. I Know You Love Me
[3:46] 8. Monday Woman

The celebrated collaboration of two – now sadly, late – American music legends; '50s rocker Troyce Key, and soul-bluesman J.J. Malone. This is their classic good-time Rockin' Rhythm‘ N' Blues album of 1980.

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