Johnny Copeland - Jungle Swing

Album: Jungle Swing
Size: 120,7 MB
Time: 52:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Ready, Willing, And Able (4:33)
2. The Jungle (3:06)
3. Blues Ain't Nothin' (4:02)
4. Kasavubu (8:27)
5. Hold On To What You've Got (5:41)
6. Monkey On My Back (3:37)
7. We Love Walking On The Wild Side (4:05)
8. Jungle Swing (4:42)
9. Same Thing (4:53)
10. Abidjan (4:07)
11. I Got A Love (4:56)

Johnny Copeland's eclectic nature is on display on Jungle Swing, an ambitious collaboration with jazz pianist Randy Weston. Weston brings a selection of African rhythms and melodic textures to the table, which are incorporated subtly into the rhythmic underpinnings of each song. In no sense is Jungle Swing a worldbeat experiment - it's just a small, affectionate tribute.

Even so, the African flourishes don't dominate the sound of the record. Like always, Copeland takes center stage with his clean, precise licks. At this point in his career, he knows exactly what to play and the guitarist never overplays throughout the course of the disc. There are a few weak moments on the disc, but the sheer strength of Copeland's musicianship - and his willingness to stretch out ever so slightly - make it worth the time for any of his fans. /Thom Owens, AllMusic

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Johnny Copeland - Honky Tonkin'

Size: 108,4 MB
Time: 46:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1999
Styles: Blues, soul-blues
Art: Full

1. Houston (3:34)
2. Cut Off My Right Arm (4:06)
3. Down On Bended Knee (3:26)
4. Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat (4:05)
5. Don't Stop By The Creek, Son (3:25)
6. Everybody Wants A Piece Of Me (2:56)
7. Devil's Hand (3:07)
8. Texas Party (2:42)
9. Honky Tonkin' (5:06)
10. Blues Ain't Nothin' (3:57)
11. I Wish I Was Single (4:53)
12. Kasavubu (5:32)

Johnny Copeland was one one of the great Texas bluesmen, an accomplished guitarist and grit-voiced singer whose original songs rank among the finest in contemporary blues. This collection, drawn from his six Rounder albums, offers Johnny Copeland at his very best, from big band blues with arrangements by Ken Vangel, to the small group track "Don't Stop By The Creek, Son" (with Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar), to "Kasavubu", the first recorded collaboration between an American bluesman and African musicians.

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Johnny Copeland - Blues Power

Size: 165,2 MB
Time: 70:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1989
Styles: Blues, soul-blues
Art: Full

1. Down On Bending Knees (1963) (2:38)
2. Just One More Time (1963) (2:58)
3. Heebie Jeebies (1963) (2:44)
4. Night Time Is The Right Time Part 1 & 2 (1967) (5:13)
5. That's All Right Mama (1964) (3:00)
6. Let Me Cry (Unknown) (2:52)
7. Late Hours (1960) (2:12)
8. Rock Me Baby (1960) (5:09)
9. Wella, Wella Baby (1963) (2:16)
10. Ghetto Child (1971) (3:29)
11. Mama Told Me (1963) (2:29)
12. Ain't Nobody's Business (1963) (3:40)
13. Baby Please Don't Go (1960) (2:37)
14. All These Things (1964) (2:49)
15. Working Man's Blues (ACA Version 1963) (2:43)
16. You Got Me Singing A Love Song (Live 1987) (3:48)
17. Travelling Blues (Live 1987) (4:44)
18. Drinking New York City Dry (Live 1987) (4:53)
19. Texas Party (Live 1987) (7:26)
20. Working Man's Blues (1963) (3:03)

Johnny Copeland was born March 27, 1937, in Haynesville, Louisiana, about 15 miles south of Magnolia, Arkansas (formerly Texarkana, a hotbed of blues activity in the '20s and '30s). The son of sharecroppers, his father died when he was very young, but Copeland was given his father's guitar. His first gig was with his friend Joe "Guitar" Hughes. Soon after, Hughes "took sick" for a week and the young Copeland discovered he could be a frontman and deliver vocals as well as anyone else around Houston at that time. His music, by his own reasoning, fell somewhere between the funky R&B of New Orleans and the swing and jump blues of Kansas City. After his family (sans his father) moved to Houston, a teenage Copeland was exposed to musicians from both cities. While he was becoming interested in music, he also pursued boxing, mostly as an avocation, and it is from his days as a boxer that he got his nickname "Clyde."

Copeland and Hughes fell under the spell of T-Bone Walker, whom Copeland first saw perform when he was 13 years old. As a teenager he played at locales such as Shady's Playhouse - Houston's leading blues club and host to most of the city's best bluesmen during the '50s - and the Eldorado Ballroom. Copeland and Hughes subsequently formed the Dukes of Rhythm, which became the house band at the Shady's Playhouse. After that, he spent time playing on tour with Albert Collins (himself a fellow T-Bone Walker devotee) during the '50s, and also played on-stage with Sonny Boy Williamson II, Big Mama Thornton, and Freddie King. He began recording in 1958 with "Rock 'n' Roll Lily" for Mercury, and moved between various labels during the '60s, including All Boy and Golden Eagle in Houston, where he had regional successes with "Please Let Me Know" and "Down on Bending Knees," and later for Wand and Atlantic in New York.

In 1965, he displayed a surprising prescience in terms of the pop market by cutting a version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" for Wand. After touring around the "Texas triangle" of Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas, he relocated to New York City in 1974, at the height of the disco boom. It seems this move was the best career move Copeland ever made, for he had easy access to clubs in Washington, D.C., New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Boston, all of which still had a place for blues musicians like him. Meanwhile, back in Houston, the club scene was hurting, owing partly to the oil-related recession of the mid-'70s. Copeland took a day job at a Brew 'n' Burger restaurant in New York and played his blues at night, finding receptive audiences at clubs in Harlem and Greenwich Village.

He recorded seven albums for Rounder Records, beginning in 1981 and including Copeland Special, Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat, Texas Twister, Bringing It All Back Home, When the Rain Starts a Fallin', Ain't Nothing But a Party (live, nominated for a Grammy), and Boom Boom; he also won a Grammy award in 1986 for his efforts on an Alligator album, Showdown! with Robert Cray and the late Albert Collins. Although Copeland had a booming, shouting voice and was a powerful guitarist and live performer, what most people don't realize is just how clever a songwriter he was. His latter-day releases for the PolyGram/Verve/Gitanes label, including Flyin' High (1992) and Catch Up with the Blues, provide ample evidence of this on "Life's Rainbow (Nature Song)" (from the latter album) and "Circumstances" (from the former album).

Because Copeland was only six months old when his parents split up, and he only saw his father a few times before he passed away, he never realized he had inherited a congenital heart defect from his father. He discovered this in the midst of another typically hectic tour in late 1994, when he had to go into the hospital in Colorado. After he was diagnosed with heart disease, he spent the next few years in and out of hospitals, undertaking a number of costly heart surgeries. Early in 1997, he was waiting for a heart transplant at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. As he was waiting, he was put on the L-VAD, a then-recent innovation for patients suffering from congenital heart defects. In 1995, he appeared on CNN and ABC-TV's Good Morning America, wearing his L-VAD, offering the invention valuable publicity.

Despite his health problems, Copeland continued to perform his always spirited concerts. After 20 months on the L-VAD - the longest anyone had lived on the device - he received a heart transplant on January 1, 1997 and for a few months, the heart worked fine and he continued to tour. However, the heart developed a defective valve, necessitating heart surgery in the summer. Copeland died of complications during heart surgery on July 3, 1997. /Biography by Richard Skelly, AllMusic

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Johnny Copeland - Live In Australia

Size: 102,7 MB
Time: 44:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Full

1. Further On Up The Road (3:03)
2. That's All Right (4:41)
3. Cut Off My Right Arm (5:45)
4. Excuses (3:28)
5. Wella Wella Baby (2:53)
6. Love Her With A Feeling (4:35)
7. Look On Yonder Wall (3:38)
8. Ain't Nobody's Business (7:02)
9. Nobody But You (5:52)
10. Learned My Lesson (3:28)

This is no hastily assembled disc to cash in on the late Johnny Copeland's unfortunately early demise, but one of his finest recordings. Whether in the studio or live, Copeland always pours a lot of sweat into his playing and singing. The band is tight behind him, giving him the freedom to soar. From the devastation of "Cut Off My Right Arm" to the joy in Nappy Brown's signature tune "Wella Wella Baby," all of the songs are filled with amazingly good vocals and tasteful guitar fills. This album is a fitting tribute to a man who gave his all to every performance. /Bob Gottlieb, AllMusic

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Various Artists - Popcorn Blues Party Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

Album: Popcorn Blues Party Vol. 1 (KMCD28)
Size: 137,8 MB
Time: 57:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front & Back

01 B.B. King - Sixteen Tons (2:34)
02 Johnny Copeland - Just One More Time (2:55)
03 Jody Williams - Lucky Lou (3:48)
04 John Lee Hooker - You Gotta Shake It Up And Go (2:17)
05 Memphis Slim - Steppin' Out (2:00)
06 Bo Diddley - She's Fine, She's Mine (2:42)
07 Roy Gaines - Black Gal (2:22)
08 Tabby Thomas - My Baby Got It (2:33)
09 Dennis Roberts - I Don't Care (2:43)
10 Jerry McCain - Jet Stream (2:30)
11 Sugar Boy Williams - Little Girl (2:33)
12 Jimmie Lee Robinson - Lonely Traveling (2:25)
13 Howlin' Wolf - Going Back Home (2:41)
14 Ricky Allen - Cut You A-Loose (2:48)
15 Johnny Guitar Watson - Wait A Minute Baby (2:06)
16 Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - The Cricket (2:47)
17 Jimmy Rogers - What Have I Done (2:43)
18 Sonny Boy Williamson - Help Me (3:10)
19 Freddie King - The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist (2:53)
20 Rose Mitchell - Baby Please Don't Go (2:25)
21 Otis Rush - Keep On Loving Me Baby (2:23)
22 Shakey Jake - Jake's Cha Cha (2:07)

Album: Popcorn Blues Party Vol. 2 (KMCD29)
Size: 153,1 MB
Time: 64:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front & Back

01 Albert King - Had You Told It Like It Was (3:09)
02 Bobby 'Blue' Bland - 36-22-36 (2:51)
03 Miss Lavelle White - Stop These Teardrops (2:22)
04 Ike Turner & His Orchestra - She Made My Blood Run Cold (2:21)
05 Little Joe Washington - Bossa Nova And Grits (2:12)
06 Sir Arthur Coleman - Stop Cheating On Me (2:52)
07 Albert Collins - Icy Blue (3:02)
08 Big Jack Reynolds - Made It Up In Your Mind (2:26)
09 Piney Brown - Sugar In My Tea (Cream In My Coffee) (2:30)
10 Bo Diddley - Down Home Special (3:12)
11 Louisiana Red - Sugar Hips (4:30)
12 Charles Sheffield - Its Your Voodoo Working (1:47)
13 Charles Clark - Hidden Charms (2:34)
14 Doug Johnson & The Outlaws - Quick Sand (2:40)
15 Blind Johnny Davis - Magic Carpet (2:14)
16 Nappy Brown - My Baby (2:31)
17 Otis Rush & His Band - All Your Love (2:38)
18 Willie Cobbs - You Don't Love Me (6:06)
19 Tommy Brown - Southern Women (2:29)
20 Bo Diddley - I Can Tell (4:34)
21 Peppermint Harris - Need Your Lovin' (2:50)
22 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) - Up The Line (2:07)

The Popcorn genre is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium (the Land of Beers) in the late 1960s and it got its name from a discotheque called the Popcorn. This style includes a pretty eclectic and wide range of American R&B and pop songs mostly recorded in the 1950s and mid-1960s in a slow or medium tempo and often in a minor key. Popcorn can be recognized by its tempo just as much as its sound. In an article for The Guardian titled ''Belgium's 'Popcorn: the last underground music scene in Europe'' musician and writer Bob Stanley wrote ''the purity of Belgian Popcorn is its very impurity. R&B, Broadway numbers, tangos, Phil Spector-Esque girl groups, and loungey instrumentals, they are all constituent parts of a rare, and still largely undiscovered scene. It won't stay that way forever.

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Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland - Showdown!

Year: 1985/2011
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:46
Size: 112,8 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. T-Bone Shuffle (4:55)
2. The Moon Is Full (5:01)
3. Lion's Den (3:57)
4. She's Into Something (3:49)
5. Bring Your Fine Self Home (4:31)
6. Black Cat Bone (4:56)
7. The Dream (5:32)
8. Albert's Alley (4:04)
9. Blackjack (6:29)
10. Something To Remember You By (Bonus Track) (5:27)

Cray found himself in some pretty intimidating company for this Grammy-winning blues guitar summit meeting, but he wasn't deterred, holding his own alongside his idol Albert Collins and Texas great Johnny Copeland. Cray's delivery of Muddy Waters' rhumba-rocking "She's Into Something" was one of the set's many highlights. /Bill Dahl, AllMusic

Alligator's Grammy Award winning, best-selling title of all time, remastered on CD with the added bonus track - Something to Remember You By. Universally recognized as one of the greatest blues albums of all time. A celebrated studio "cutting contest" between three legendary blues guitarists. /Amazon

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VA - Mighty Instrumentals R&B Style 1960

Size: 167,7+170:58 MB
Time: 70:36+71:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front

CD 1:
01 Don & Dewey - Jump Awhile (2:22)
02 B.B. King - Power House (2:35)
03 Preston Epps - Bongo In The Congo (1:59)
04 Jim Conley - Nite-Lite Slop (2:46)
05 Bill Parker - Boogie Bayou Shuffle (2:39)
06 Allen Toussaint - Chico (2:18)
07 Roy Montrell - Mudd (2:34)
08 Jimmy Oliver & The Rockers - Slim Jim Pt. 1 (2:39)
09 Willie Wright & His Sparklers - Bloodhound Pt. 1 (2:30)
10 Willie Wright & His Sparklers - Bloodhound Pt. 2 (2:05)
11 Grant Green - Space Flight (2:39)
12 Kid King's Combo - Shaggy Dog (2:28)
13 Curley Hamner - Piano Tuner (3:43)
14 Freddie King - San-Ho-Zay (2:38)
15 Bo Diddley - Shank (1:57)
16 Jimmy Liggins - Last Round (2:14)
17 Googie Rene - The Slide Pt. 2 (2:19)
18 Young Guitar Red - Red Hot Red (1:44)
19 Ike Turner - Doublemint (2:24)
20 Earl Hooker - Dynamite (2:22)
21 Dave 'Baby' Cortez - Hurricane (2:25)
22 Chuck Berry - Surfin' Steel (Cryin' Steel) (2:31)
23 James Booker - Cool Turkey (2:19)
24 Bill Doggett - (Let's Do) The Hully Gully Twist (1:58)
25 Buddy Guy - Gully Hully (3:06)
26 Skippy Brooks - Dim Lights (2:30)
27 Lowell Fulson - Low Society (2:33)
28 Willis Jackson - Blue Gator (4:08)

CD 2:
01 George Harmonica Smith - Loose Screws (2:27)
02 Lloyd Glenn - Universal Rock (2:32)
03 Lloyd Glenn - The Shakedown (2:30)
04 Johnny Copeland - Late Hours (2:11)
05 Robert Parker - Walkin' (2:37)
06 James Rivers - The Blue Eagle Pt. 1 (2:50)
07 James Rivers - The Blue Eagle Pt. 2 (2:45)
08 B.B. King - Goin' South Pt. 1 (2:42)
09 B.B. King - Goin' South Pt. 2 (2:10)
10 Jimmy Beck - Arabian Blues (3:09)
11 Clifton Chenier - Rockin' Accordion (2:18)
12 Elmore James - She Done Move (1:51)
13 Shakey Jake Harris - Jake's Cha Cha (2:08)
14 Sonny Boy Williamson - The Goat (2:21)
15 Jerry McCain - Rough Stuff (2:13)
16 Bill Doggett - Buttered Popcorn (2:45)
17 Gus Jenkins - Tricky Too (2:24)
18 Henry Hayes - Spring Fever (2:30)
19 B. Brown & His Rockin McVouts - Candied Yams (2:28)
20 Clifford King - Chicken Shack Boogie (2:35)
21 Henry Clement - Trojan's Walla (2:33)
22 Little Vincent - Honk Honk Honk Pt. 1 (2:17)
23 Little Vincent - Honk Honk Honk Pt. 2 (2:17)
24 Monte Easter - Weekend Blues (2:40)
25 Bo Diddley - The Twister (2:08)
26 Pee Wee Crayton - Twinky (3:10)
27 Slim Harpo - Snoopin' Around (2:17)
28 Curley Hamner & Cooper Bros - Air Raid (2:33)
29 Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo Pt. 2 (2:16)

1960 was the year that instrumentals hit the charts in a big way with guitar or sax-led rockers and slinky organ groovers. Here are the discs that teenagers wanted to hear in the juke joints: exciting, uptempo stompers with catchy, melodic riffs, along with slow, soulful, down home blues. This compilation throws the spotlight on instrumentals by artists more widely associated with vocals, along with more obscure artists who may only have had one or two releases to their name.

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Various Artists - Beware Of The Texas Blues

Year: 1991
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:57
Size: 111,0 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Scans: Full

1. Joe 'Papoose' Fritz - I'm A Stepper (2:33)
2. Henry Moore w. Guitar Slim - Can't Sleep Tonight (3:39)
3. Johnny Copeland - Working Man Blues (2:44)
4. Big Walter - Life's Highway (3:21)
5. Clarence Green - Empty House Of So Many Tears (2:25)
6. Eastwood Revue - Drowning On Dry Land (7:26)
7. Juke Boy Bonner - Rock Of Gibraltar (3:50)
8. T-Bone Walker - Farther On Up The Road (1:49)
9. Johnny Winter w. Calvin 'Loudmouth' Johnson - Lien On Your Body (4:21)
10. Albert Collins - The Freeze (2:17)
11. Piano Slim - That's Fat (2:22)
12. Johnny Copeland - Rock Me Baby (5:08)
13. Gatemouth Brown - It's Alright (2:45)
14. Lightning Hopkins - Good As Old Time Religion (3:11)

Here on one package are fourteen bluesmen, each as different from the others as night from day, yet all are bound inextricably together in their Texas heritage. The selections were all recorded between 1958 and 1988. They range the gamut from the old-fashioned "down home" blues (that has thankfully never gone out of fashion) to the up-to-date urban blues sound yet all of them exemplify that genre known as the Texas Blues.

So, better beware of these Texas Blues. They'll get you hooked if you listen to this album a few times. You will probably wind up liking all of them. /Excerpts from the liner notes by Bo Svensson

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Johnny Copeland - When The Rain Starts Fallin'

Size: 152,7 MB
Time: 65:24
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1988
Styles: Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Midnight Fantasy (3:05)
02. Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat (3:29)
03. Down On Bended Knee (3:29)
04. Jessanne (6:05)
05. Bozalimalamu (3:21)
06. Devil's Hand (3:09)
07. Third Party (4:44)
08. Conakry (4:12)
09. Old Man Blues (4:47)
10. When The Rain Starts Fallin' (4:17)
11. Same Thing (3:59)
12. I Wish I Was Single (4:58)
13. Rock'n'Roll Lilly (1:59)
14. North Carolina (3:34)
15. Big Time (3:04)
16. St.Louis Blues (7:03)

Considering the amount of time he spent steadily rolling from gig to gig, Johnny "Clyde" Copeland's rise to prominence in the blues world in the early '90s wasn't all that surprising. A contract with the PolyGram/Verve label put his '90s recordings into the hands of thousands of blues lovers around the world. It's not that Copeland's talent changed all that much since he recorded for Rounder Records in the '80s; it's just that major companies began to see the potential of great, hardworking blues musicians like Copeland. Unfortunately, he was forced to slow down in 1995-1996 because of heart-related complications, yet he continued to perform shows until his death in July of 1997.

Johnny Copeland was born March 27, 1937, in Haynesville, Louisiana, about 15 miles south of Magnolia, Arkansas (formerly Texarkana, a hotbed of blues activity in the '20s and '30s). The son of sharecroppers, his father died when he was very young, but Copeland was given his father's guitar. His first gig was with his friend Joe "Guitar" Hughes. Soon after, Hughes "took sick" for a week and the young Copeland discovered he could be a frontman and deliver vocals as well as anyone else around Houston at that time.

His music, by his own reasoning, fell somewhere between the funky R&B of New Orleans and the swing and jump blues of Kansas City. After his family (sans his father) moved to Houston, a teenage Copeland was exposed to musicians from both cities. While he was becoming interested in music, he also pursued boxing, mostly as an avocation, and it is from his days as a boxer that he got his nickname "Clyde."

Copeland and Hughes fell under the spell of T-Bone Walker, whom Copeland first saw perform when he was 13 years old. As a teenager he played at locales such as Shady's Playhouse -- Houston's leading blues club and host to most of the city's best bluesmen during the '50s -- and the Eldorado Ballroom. Copeland and Hughes subsequently formed the Dukes of Rhythm, which became the house band at the Shady's Playhouse. After that, he spent time playing on tour with Albert Collins (himself a fellow T-Bone Walker devotee) during the '50s, and also played on-stage with Sonny Boy Williamson II, Big Mama Thornton, and Freddie King. He began recording in 1958 with "Rock 'n' Roll Lily" for Mercury, and moved between various labels during the '60s, including All Boy and Golden Eagle in Houston, where he had regional successes with "Please Let Me Know" and "Down on Bending Knees," and later for Wand and Atlantic in New York. In 1965, he displayed a surprising prescience in terms of the pop market by cutting a version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" for Wand.

After touring around the "Texas triangle" of Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas, he relocated to New York City in 1974, at the height of the disco boom. It seems this move was the best career move Copeland ever made, for he had easy access to clubs in Washington, D.C., New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Boston, all of which still had a place for blues musicians like him. Meanwhile, back in Houston, the club scene was hurting, owing partly to the oil-related recession of the mid-'70s. Copeland took a day job at a Brew 'n' Burger restaurant in New York and played his blues at night, finding receptive audiences at clubs in Harlem and Greenwich Village.

He recorded seven albums for Rounder Records, beginning in 1981 and including Copeland Special, Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat, Texas Twister, Bringing It All Back Home, When the Rain Starts a Fallin', Ain't Nothing But a Party (live, nominated for a Grammy), and Boom Boom; he also won a Grammy award in 1986 for his efforts on an Alligator album, Showdown! with Robert Cray and the late Albert Collins. Although Copeland had a booming, shouting voice and was a powerful guitarist and live performer, what most people don't realize is just how clever a songwriter he was. His latter-day releases for the PolyGram/Verve/Gitanes label, including Flyin' High (1992) and Catch Up with the Blues, provide ample evidence of this on "Life's Rainbow (Nature Song)" (from the latter album) and "Circumstances" (from the former album).

Because Copeland was only six months old when his parents split up, and he only saw his father a few times before he passed away, he never realized he had inherited a congenital heart defect from his father. He discovered this in the midst of another typically hectic tour in late 1994, when he had to go into the hospital in Colorado. After he was diagnosed with heart disease, he spent the next few years in and out of hospitals, undertaking a number of costly heart surgeries. Early in 1997, he was waiting for a heart transplant at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. As he was waiting, he was put on the L-VAD, a then-recent innovation for patients suffering from congenital heart defects. In 1995, he appeared on CNN and ABC-TV's Good Morning America, wearing his L-VAD, offering the invention valuable publicity.

Despite his health problems, Copeland continued to perform his always spirited concerts. After 20 months on the L-VAD -- the longest anyone had lived on the device -- he received a heart transplant on January 1, 1997 and for a few months, the heart worked fine and he continued to tour. However, the heart developed a defective valve, necessitating heart surgery in the summer. Copeland died of complications during heart surgery on July 3, 1997. ~by Richard Skelly

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Johnny Copeland - Ghetto Child

Size: 92,9 MB
Time: 40:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001/2003
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Rock Me Baby (5:09)
02. Let Me Cry (2:49)
03. Something's Up Your Sleeve (2:20)
04. Ghetto Child (3:27)
05. Daily Bread (2:49)
06. Heebie Jeebies (2:44)
07. Mama Told Me (2:29)
08. May The Best Man Win (2:31)
09. Proving Time (2:17)
10. You've Got Me Singing A Love Song (3:42)
11. Please Let Me Know (2:27)
12. Coming To See About You (2:27)
13. House Of So Many Tears (2:23)
14. Soul Power (2:22)

If you're talking about packaging, the flaws of this disc are considerable. Comprised of 14 songs from 1960-1990 (most from 1960-71), the unifying theme is that all of them are taking from Houston recording sessions. But while recording dates and some personnel are noted, the original labels and dates of release are not. Furthermore, although the liner notes give a reasonable overview of Copeland's career, the tracks on this specific compilation are not discussed. And, putting the boot in, the cuts are not sequenced chronologically, but arranged almost as if someone had pressed the random button on a CD remote. Now, having aired all those complaints, the music is very good. These are fiery, committed performances in which the songs and arrangements often veer as much toward soul as toward blues. That's something that works to Copeland's advantage, both because he was versatile enough to combine styles well, and because it made him stand out from legions of other journeymen bluesmen. The 1960-71 material is particularly fine for its raw and unusual qualities. 1971's "Ghetto Child," for instance, has a searing wobbly organ that sounds like it was lifted from a warped Animals record, and its flip side, "Soul Power," has respectable funk rock influences. The 1963-64 cuts benefit from some Bobby "Blue" Bland-quality horn parts, and "May the Best Man Win" has some great unexpected descending chord changes, set to a Latin-esque beat. The later performances may not be as striking, yet these too are quite respectable, and 1984's "Daily Bread" is uncommonly (for Copeland) somber, unplugged gutbucket blues. If Copeland's winding discography is ever broken up into logically sequenced compilations covering different phases of his career (which seems highly unlikely), this ragtag job might be rendered redundant. But if you can live with its patchy assembly, it's highly recommended on pure musical grounds. ~Review by Richie Unterberger

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Various - The Finest Southern Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 85:30
Size: 195.7 MB
Styles: Southern blues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[2:44] 1. Charlie Musselwhite - Taylor, Arkansas
[3:23] 2. Johnny Shines - If I Get Lucky
[4:21] 3. Big Leon Brooks - Country Boy
[3:19] 4. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Louisiana Zydeco
[2:44] 5. Willie Nix - Seems Like A Million Years
[5:52] 6. W.C. Clark - Tip Of My Tongue
[9:31] 7. Tinsley Ellis - Time To Quit
[3:21] 8. Phillip Walker - Roll, Roll, Roll
[6:28] 9. Johnny Copeland - Blackjack
[3:49] 10. William Clarke - Lollipop Mama
[7:13] 11. Big Mama Thornton - Ball 'n' Chain
[2:54] 12. The Song Trust - Dawg Tired
[2:37] 13. Carey Bell - That Ain't It
[2:36] 14. Bobby Lee Trammell - Come On And Love Me
[3:55] 15. C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band - Louisiana Down Home Blues
[2:09] 16. Willie Johnson Combo - So Long Baby Goodbye
[3:40] 17. Andrew Brown - Morning, Noon And Night
[4:34] 18. Carey & Lurrie Bell - Five Long Years
[6:29] 19. Hound Dog Taylor - Phillips' Theme
[3:42] 20. Rev. Gary Davis - I Won't Be Back No More

When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues. While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond self-pity. The blues is also about overcoming hard luck, saying what you feel, ridding yourself of frustration, letting your hair down, and simply having fun. The best blues is visceral, cathartic, and starkly emotional. From unbridled joy to deep sadness, no form of music communicates more genuine emotion.

The blues has deep roots in American history, particularly African-American history. The blues originated on Southern plantations in the 19th Century. Its inventors were slaves, ex-slaves and the descendants of slaves—African-American sharecroppers who sang as they toiled in the cotton and vegetable fields. It's generally accepted that the music evolved from African spirituals, African chants, work songs, field hollers, rural fife and drum music, revivalist hymns, and country dance music. The blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Blues and jazz have always influenced each other, and they still interact in countless ways today. Unlike jazz, the blues didn't spread out significantly from the South to the Midwest until the 1930s and '40s. Once the Delta blues made their way up the Mississippi to urban areas, the music evolved into electrified Chicago blues, other regional blues styles, and various jazz-blues hybrids. A decade or so later the blues gave birth to rhythm 'n blues and rock 'n roll. ~Ed Kopp

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Johnny Copeland - It's Me: Classic Texas Soul 1965-72 (2 CD)

Johnny Copeland is one of those singers who is beloved by a few but known by only a handful more. He had his shot at the big time in the '80s, when he recorded an album called Showdown with guitarists Albert Collins and Robert Cray, but his best music was cut a decade or more before, and Ace's 2013 collection, It's Me: Classic Texas Soul 1965-1972, captures it all, tracing the As and Bs and obscure sides the singer made for any number of southern labels during that seven-year period. Here it adds up to two discs and 33 songs, none of them national hits, but some popular in their region, all holding up quite well over the years.

Copeland wasn't a flashy singer; he got the job done, something that served him well on the chitlin circuit but didn't get him much beyond that, despite ambitious, jumping covers of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" and other pop and rock hits - he does a high-stepping cover of the Everly Brothers' "Wake Up, Little Susie", which sounds just a touch too anodyne for his talents - but he always sounds best when he's singing something gritty and pure, with a serious funky undertow. He took the occasional stab at crossovers but he was at heart a journeyman, not a trailblazer, so he can sometimes seem like an old pro who is reticent to place a serious bet. He may never have taken any risks, but his wheelhouse was deep, so It's Me is a satisfying collection of little-known deep Southern soul. /Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic

Album: It's Me: Classic Texas Soul 1965-72 - CD 1
Year: 2013
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:33
Size: 151,2 MB
Styles: Soul/R&B
Scans: Full

1. It's Me (2:46)
2. The Invitation (2:35)
3. Blowin' In The Wind (2:19)
4. Dedicated To The Greatest (2:59)
5. I'm Going To Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat (3:26)
6. You're Gonna Reap What You Sow (3:39)
7. Wake Up Little Susie (2:15)
8. Mother Nature (2:25)
9. I Waited Too Long (2:34)
10. The Hip Hop (2:04)
11. Four Dried Beans (2:32)
12. Johnny Ace Medley #1: Anymore/Pledging My Love/Cross My Heart (3:57)
13. Stealing (2:20)
14. Something's Up Your Sleeve (Johnny Clyde Copeland) (2:19)
15. That's All Right Little Mama (Johnny Clyde Copeland) (2:36)
16. Coming To See About You (Johnny Clyde Copeland) (2:27)
17. All These Things (Johnny Clyde Copeland) (2:51)
18. Something You Got (2:40)
19. It's My Own Tears That's Being Wasted (2:49)
20. Slow Walk You Down (3:09)
21. Danger Zone (1:44)
22. If You're Looking For A Fool (1:54)
23. Sufferin' City (Version 2, Solo) (2:03)
24. I Wish I Was Single (3:00)

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Album: It's Me: Classic Texas Soul 1965-72 - CD 2
Year: 2013
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:36
Size: 136,4 MB
Styles: Soul/R&B
Scans: Full

1. Why Don't You Make Up Your Mind (2:24)
2. Somebody's Been Scratchin' (Johnny & Lilly) (2:06)
3. Sufferin' City (Version 2, Duet) (Johnny & Lilly) (2:06)
4. Soul Power (Johnny Copeland & His Soul Agents) (2:25)
5. Ghetto Child (Johnny Copeland & His Soul Agents) (3:34)
6. Every Dog's Got Its Day (2:58)
7. Wizard Of Art (2:38)
8. Dear Mother (3:21)
9. You Must Believe In Yourself (2:28)
10. Love Attack (3:48)
11. Old Man Blues (3:27)
12. No Puppy Love (2:18)
13. I Waited Too Long (Demo) (2:48)
14. The Hip Hop (Demo) (2:13)
15. The Invitation (Demo) (2:23)
16. Johnny Ace Medley #2: Cross My Heart/Saving My Love For You/Angel/Anymore (Demo) (9:04)
17. Blowing In The Wind (Demo) (2:30)
18. I'm Going To Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat (Demo) (2:54)
19. Wake Up Little Susie (Overdubbed Version) (2:02)

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Johnny Copeland - Boom Boom

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:35
Size: 81.5 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 1989
Art: Front

[3:46] 1. Nobody But You
[4:04] 2. Daily Bread
[2:40] 3. Texas Party
[4:00] 4. Flamin' Mamie
[3:19] 5. Pie In The Sky
[4:43] 6. I Was Born All Over
[4:05] 7. Cut Off My Right Arm
[4:55] 8. Beat The Boom Boom Baby
[3:58] 9. Blues Ain't Nothin'

Sometimes Copeland's Texas shuffle blues just don't have any bite. He came perilously close on this set to having to depend on gimmicks and experience. Copeland couldn't find anyway to refresh material like "Beat the Boom Boom Baby" and "Pie in the Sky," although he tried hard with shouts, cries, and moans. He was more successful on "Nobody But You," "I Was Born All Over," and "Blues Ain't Nothin'," where his soul and gospel roots helped inject some life into the lyrics. His band tried to help matters, but really couldn't elevate the proceedings. If you're only a mild to casual fan, this wasn't one of Copeland's greatest. ~Ron Wynn

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Johnny Copeland - The Johnny Copeland Collection: Working Man's Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:14
Size: 112.7 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[2:26] 1. Down On Bended Knee
[2:24] 2. Please Let Me Know
[1:56] 3. Hear What I Said
[2:07] 4. Late Hours
[3:12] 5. I Need You Now
[2:37] 6. Heebie Jeebies
[2:53] 7. Just One More Time
[2:24] 8. There's A Blessing
[2:27] 9. May The Best Man Win
[2:26] 10. Mama Told Me
[2:29] 11. Your Game Is Working
[2:50] 12. I'll Be Around
[2:44] 13. Funny Feeling
[2:49] 14. I Got To Go Home
[3:01] 15. Working Man's Blues
[2:25] 16. Coming To See About You
[2:46] 17. Let Me Cry
[5:09] 18. Night Time Is The Right Time, Pts. 1 & 2

WORKING MAN'S BLUES is an excellent compilation of early recordings by the "Texas Twister" Johnny Copeland. Though he wouldn't make a name for himself until recording for Rounder in the 1980s, these recordings from the '60s prove that Copeland--only in his early 20s at the time--was already an impressive axe-slinger. Taking his cue from other local heroes like Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Albert Collins, Copeland possessed a raw, stinging style that fit firmly in the Texas six-string electric-blues tradition.

Copeland spent most of the '60s recording for small Texas labels (Golden Eagle, All Boy, Paradise), but the elements of his mature style were already in place. Copeland's ragged, appealing tenor carries tracks like "Down on Bending Knees" and "Please Let Me Know," while his fierce leads can be heard on cuts like "Mama Told Me." Interestingly, there is less emphasis on Copeland's guitar work here than on pop and R&B-influenced songcraft ("Heebie Jeebies" and "Your Game Is Working" resemble rock & roll radio hits). The comparative difference between these sides and Copeland's later work makes this set all the more appealing, and a fine early snapshot of one of Texas's best latter-day bluesmen. ~AMG

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Johnny Copeland - 2 albums: Flyin' High / Just One More Time

Considering the amount of time he spent steadily rolling from gig to gig, Johnny "Clyde" Copeland's rise to prominence in the blues world in the early '90s wasn't all that surprising. A contract with the PolyGram/Verve label put his '90s recordings into the hands of thousands of blues lovers around the world. It's not that Copeland's talent changed all that much since he recorded for Rounder Records in the 1980s; it's just that major companies began to see the potential of great, hardworking blues musicians like Copeland. Unfortunately, Copeland was forced to slow down in 1995-96 by heart-related complications, yet he continued to perform shows until his death in July of 1997.

Johnny Copeland was born March 27, 1937, in Haynesville, LA, about 15 miles south of Magnolia, AR (formerly Texarkana, a hotbed of blues activity in the 1920s and '30s). The son of sharecroppers, his father died when he was very young, but Copeland was given his father's guitar. His first gig was with his friend Joe "Guitar" Hughes. Soon after, Hughes "took sick" for a week and the young Copeland discovered he could be a front man and deliver vocals as well as anyone else around Houston at that time.

His music, by his own reasoning, fell somewhere between the funky R&B of New Orleans and the swing and jump blues of Kansas City. After his family (sans his father) moved to Houston, Copeland was exposed, as a teen, to musicians from both cities. While he was becoming interested in music, he also pursued boxing, mostly as an avocation, and it is from his days as a boxer that he got his nickname "Clyde."

Copeland and Hughes fell under the spell of T-Bone Walker, whom Copeland first saw perform when he was 13 years old. As a teenager he played at locales such as Shady's Playhouse -- Houston's leading blues club, host to most of the city's best bluesmen during the 1950s -- and the Eldorado Ballroom. Copeland and Hughes subsequently formed The Dukes of Rhythm, which became the house band at the Shady's Playhouse. After that, he spent time playing on tour with Albert Collins (himself a fellow T-Bone Walker devotee) during the 1950s, and also played on stage with Sonny Boy Williamson II, Big Mama Thornton, and Freddie King. He began recording in 1958 with "Rock 'n' Roll Lily" for Mercury, and moved between various labels during the 1960s, including All Boy and Golden Eagle in Houston, where he had regional successes with "Please Let Me Know" and "Down on Bending Knees," and later for Wand and Atlantic in New York. In 1965, he displayed a surprising prescience in terms of the pop market by cutting a version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" for Wand.

Despite his health problems, Copeland continued to perform and his always spirited concerts did not diminished all that much. After living 20 months on the L-VAD -- the longest anyone had lived on the device -- he received a heart transplant on January 1, 1997 and for a few months, the heart worked fine and he continued to tour. However, the heart developed a defective valve, necessitating heart surgery in the summer. Copeland died of complications during heart surgery on July 3, 1997. ~bio by Richard Skelly & Bruce Eder

Album: Flyin' High
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:18
Size: 94.5 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 1992
Art: Front

[3:14] 1. Flyin' High (Yesterday)
[4:14] 2. Hooked, Hogtied & Collared
[4:39] 3. Greater Man
[3:41] 4. Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
[3:22] 5. San Antone
[3:40] 6. Thigpen (Cornball)
[4:50] 7. Promised Myself
[3:26] 8. Love Song
[5:05] 9. Circumstances
[5:02] 10. Around The World

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Album: Just One More Time
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:17
Size: 92.2 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[2:53] 1. Down On Bended Knee
[2:58] 2. Just One More Time
[2:08] 3. Late Hours
[2:25] 4. Please Let Me Know
[2:40] 5. Working Man's Blues
[2:11] 6. Wella Wella Baby
[5:08] 7. Night Time Is The Right Time, Pts. 1 & 2
[1:53] 8. That's All Right Mama (Demo)
[2:57] 9. That's Alright Mama
[2:30] 10. Your Game Is Working
[2:24] 11. There's A Blessing
[2:08] 12. It Must Be Love
[2:48] 13. I Got To Go Home
[3:13] 14. I Need You Now
[1:52] 15. I Feel Like I Wanna Cry

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VA - Contemporary Blues Collaborations

Size: 139,5 MB
Time: 59:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Electric Blues, Chicago Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. B.B. King & Eric Clapton - Rock Me Baby ( 6:35)
02. Shemekia Copeland & Dr. John - The Push I Need ( 3:44)
03. Koko Taylor & Buddy Guy - Born Under A Bad Sign ( 6:22)
04. Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland - She's Into Something ( 3:49)
05. Lonnie Brooks, Long John Hunter & Phillip Walker - It's Mighty Crazy ( 3:44)
06. Koko Taylor & Lonnie Brooks - It's A Dirty Job ( 5:29)
07. James Cotton, Junior Wells, Carey Bell & Billy Branch - Second Hand Man ( 4:01)
08. Elvin Bishop & Little Smokey Smothers - Roll Your Moneymaker ( 4:03)
09. Corey Harris & Henry Butler - Shake What Your Mama Gave You ( 3:21)
10. Junior Wells & Junior Wells - Give Me My Coat And Shoes ( 3:48)
11. Carey Bell & Lurrie Bell - Rock Me ( 4:20)
12. All Star Jam - Sweet Home Chicago (10:27)

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Various - The Classics: Rock 'n' Roll Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:41
Size: 141.2 MB
Styles: Assorted blues styles
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[2:38] 1. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
[3:56] 2. Mighty Joe Young - Rock Me Baby
[4:19] 3. John Lee Hooker - Shake It Baby
[2:44] 4. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
[3:03] 5. Little Walter - Rocker
[1:42] 6. Snooks Eaglin - Shake, Rattle And Roll
[2:44] 7. Earl King - Come Let The Good Times Roll
[2:13] 8. Howlin' Wolf - Shake For Me
[4:34] 9. Robert Cray - Foul Play
[3:23] 10. Johnny Copeland - Cold, Cold Winter
[2:18] 11. Chuck Berry - Maybellene
[3:41] 12. Lucky Peterson - It's Your Thing
[2:19] 13. Bo Diddley - I Need You Baby
[3:35] 14. James Cotton - The Hucklebuck
[3:40] 15. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Blues Power
[2:46] 16. Etta James, Harvey Fuqua - Spoonful
[3:04] 17. Earl King - Let's Make A Better World
[2:21] 18. Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
[3:05] 19. Muddy Waters - Forty Days And Forty Nights
[3:26] 20. B.B. King - A Whole Lot Of Lovin'

The music we know as rock and roll emerged in the mid 1950s, although its advent had been on the horizon for at least a decade. A quarter of the American population moved during World War II, and that brought southern, rural, sacred and secular traditions into new contact with urban based music and audiences. The product of many regional musical scenes and independent record labels, rock and roll emerged in Memphis, Los Angeles, Shreveport, New York, Detroit, Baltimore, and dozens of other cities. It was, in historian Charlie Gillett’s words, the Sound of the City.

Rock and roll drew on many different styles. Combining the boogie woogie rhythms of R&B, the hillbilly twang of country, the fervor of gospel and the moans of the blues, the new mongrel music excited a worldwide generation of young listeners, while upsetting established social, cultural and musical authorities. The charisma and musical bravado of early rock and roll heroes such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard inspired fans and young musicians alike. With the maturing of an unprecedentedly vast and affluent teenage audience, rock and roll music became the sound of young America and soon spread around the world.

It is difficult today to understand the bitter criticism the new music generated. The popular music establishment, anchored in the lucrative venues of Hollywood and Broadway, saw the challenge as both aesthetic and economic. Their spokesmen dismissed the music for its supposed simplicity and crudity; eventually they went so far as to charge, falsely, that rock and roll dominated their airwaves because promoters bribed disc jockeys. Radio stations in turn often refused to play the new music, claiming that its lyrics promoted sex and delinquency. Pallid “cover” versions by mainstream artists copied rock and roll hit songs, while draining them of their musical vitality, energy, and above all, their overt indebtedness to black musical traditions. Moral authorities, black and white, were quick to condemn the music for its supposed sexual references, and they targeted key performers from Elvis Presley to Fats Domino for censorship or ridicule. Finally, columnists, critics, educators and police all feared the overt racial mixing of not only the music, but its audiences. At a time when American race relations were severely tested by massive white Southern resistance to integration, and northern dismissal of black rights, rock and roll remade integration in a cultural form. Sexual, working class and multi-racial, rock and roll transgressed the most fiercely guarded social boundaries of the time. ~Charles McGovern

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Johnny Copeland - 2 albums: Texas Twister / Catch Up With The Blues

Album: Texas Twister
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 66:24
Size: 152.0 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 1986
Art: Front

[2:55] 1. Everybody Wants A Piece Of Me
[3:06] 2. Copeland Special
[4:49] 3. It's My Own Tears
[3:32] 4. Claim Jumper
[3:24] 5. Natural Born Believer
[3:57] 6. Cold Outside
[5:06] 7. Honky Tonkin'
[3:50] 8. Love Utopia
[4:03] 9. Don't Stop By The Creek, Son
[3:31] 10. Houston
[6:52] 11. I De Go Now
[3:27] 12. Excuses
[8:41] 13. Ngote
[5:30] 14. Kasavubu
[3:36] 15. Abidjan

Johnny Copeland's tenure on Rounder Records was mostly productive. He made several albums that ranged from decent to very good, increased his audience and name recognition, and got better recording facilities and company support than at most times in his career. The 15 numbers on this anthology cover four Rounder sessions, and include competent renditions of familiar numbers. But what makes things special are the final three selections; these were part of Copeland's superb and unjustly underrated Bringin' It All Back Home album, recorded in Africa, which matched Texas shuffle licks with swaying, riveting African rhythms. ~Ron Wynn

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Album: Catch Up With The Blues
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 54:12
Size: 124.1 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[4:58] 1. Catch Up With The Blues
[6:31] 2. Rolling With The Punches
[4:50] 3. Every Dog's Got His Day
[3:23] 4. Cold, Cold Winter
[3:19] 5. Making A Fool Of Myself
[5:59] 6. Rain
[3:50] 7. The Grammy Song
[4:46] 8. Bye, Bye Baby
[4:43] 9. Another Man's Wife
[2:48] 10. I'm Creepin'
[3:39] 11. Pedal To The Metal
[5:19] 12. Life's Rainbow (Nature Song)

Recorded at Kiva Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee in April and May 1993. Johnny Copeland (vocals, guitar); Joe "Guitar" Hughes (vocals, guitar); Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (guitar, violin); Lonnie Brooks, Bobby Kyle (guitar); Richard Ford (steel guitar); Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (harmonica); Andrew Love (tenor saxophone); Wayne Jackson (trumpet, trombone); Floyd Phillips (piano); Barry Harrison (drums); Robert Hall (tambourine); Jacquelyn Reddick, Jacqueline Johnson (background vocals). Recording information: Kiva Studios, Memphis, TN (04/27/1993-05/03/1993).

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Various - The Blues Came From Texas

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 37:31
Size: 85.9 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[2:53] 1. Johnny Copeland - Down On Bended Knees
[1:17] 2. T-Bone Walker - Baby Please Don't Go
[3:05] 3. Johnny Winter - Ease My Pain
[2:36] 4. Lightnin' Hopkins - Rock Me Mama
[2:18] 5. Albert Collins - The Freeze
[2:59] 6. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - It's Alright
[6:42] 7. Big Mama Thornton - All Right Baby
[2:45] 8. Zuzu Bollin - Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night
[2:59] 9. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Black Snake Moan
[2:41] 10. Smokey Hogg - Worried Blues
[3:00] 11. Clarence Green - Walking The Baby
[4:11] 12. Johnny Copeland - Working Man Blues

The Blues Came from Texas brings together various tracks recorded by such influential Lone Star State artists as T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins, and Big Mama Thornton. Unfortunately, most of the tracks were recorded late in the artists' careers and do not represent them well. Despite being a living legend at the time this version of "Baby Please Don't Go" must have been recorded, Walker sounds tired and lacks any of the creative fire that marked his iconic late-'40s sides. Unless you're a completist, those looking for a nice single-disc introduction to Texas blues would be well-advised to search out the recordings these artists made in their prime. ~Matt Collar

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VA - Texas Guitar Greats Vol. 2

Size: 103,9 MB
Time: 44:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1992
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Front

01 Lowdown Brown - Mud Alley (2:53)
02 Al Bettis - Dynaflow (2:43)
03 Little Junoir One Hand - Floyd's Guitar Blues (2:08)
04 Johnny Winter - Hook You (3:24)
05 Clarence Green - Blue Billie Blues (3:49)
06 Royal Earl - Talking Guitar, Pt. 1 (1:54)
07 Royal Earl - Talking Guitar, Pt. 2 (2:09)
08 Bender, D.C. & Big Son Tillis - Cold Blues (2:45)
09 Johnny Winter - Sloppy Drunk (2:16)
10 Sheetrockers - Night Owl (5:04)
11 Little Joe - Little Joe's Cut Out (3:20)
12 Houston Guitar Slim - Things That I Used To Do (4:00)
13 Johnny Copeland - Traveling Man (4:46)
14 Al Bettis - Congo Mongo (2:53)

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