Johnny Sansone - Into Your Blues

Size: 262 MB
Time: 50:41
File: Flac
Released: 2022
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Into Your Blues (5:33)
2. Pay for This Song (4:16)
3. Desperation (6:08)
4. Blowin Fire (3:48)
5. Willie’s Juke Joint (4:34)
6. People Like You and Me (3:25)
7. The Getaway (2:32)
8. New Crossroads (5:46)
9. Something Goods Going On (4:26)
10. Single Room (4:05)
11. Southern Dream (6:03)

Two years in the making, Johnny’s long awaited BLUES album is here! Did someone say BLUES? That’s right. Johnny Sansone’s INTO YOUR BLUES, bringing you some mighty fine performances. Eleven original songs, representing Dallas, with Mike Morgan; Chicago with Johnny Burgin. A treasure of a guest performance with the honorable Little Freddie King and wait ’til you hear the collaboration with New Orleans Mooncat himself, Jason Ricci, on Blowin’ Fire! Johnny Sansone started out early playing music. His father, a saxophonist who’d been in Dave Brubeck’s band during World War II, introduced him to the saxophone at age 8. Johnny picked up the guitar and harmonica by the time he was 10 and had a life changing experience at 12 when he saw a Howlin’ Wolf show in Florida. That was the moment the young Sansone knew he was destined to play the blues as his lifetime vocation. He sat in with Honeyboy Edwards at 13. During the 1970s Sansone studied with blues harmonica legends James Cotton and Jr. Wells. In the 1980s he toured with Ronnie Earl, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Rodgers and Robert Lockwood Jr.

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Johnny Sansone - Poor Man's Paradise

Source: CD
Size: 119,9 MB
Time: 51:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2007
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Poor Man's Paradise (6:57)
02. You Got Me (5:27)
03. Mary Full Of Tears (3:51)
04. The St. Catherine (6:53)
05. Happiness, Love & Lies (3:19)
06. You're Dead (4:23)
07. Any Dog Would Do (5:59)
08. 44 (4:57)
09. Johnny Sadsong (4:55)
10. I'm Goin' Home (4:22)

Even though Johnny Sansone lost his "jumpin" prefix, the accordion player, harpist, guitarist, pianist, vocalist hasn't sacrificed any of his spark for his first album in eight years. Produced by fellow New Orleans staple Anders Osborne who also contributes clavinet and slide guitar on two tracks, the album wades in a post-hurricane Katrina haze. Sansone doesn't waste any time attacking the Bush administration for their lackluster response to the devastating events of the storm's aftermath on the opening "Poor Man's Paradise." His accordion sets an unusually downbeat tone to the acerbic lyrics for this bitter yet melodically mid-tempo song. It doesn't really set the mood for the rest of the disc, but is clearly something Sansone needed to get off his chest. The atmosphere lightens considerably from there as he and his band breeze through nine additional tracks, most captured during their first take, live in his New Orleans residence. Even though this is a home recording of the most basic kind, the sound is full, warm, and vivid as the players feed off each other's energy. Sansone is in fine voice throughout, leading his three piece, sometimes augmented by fiddle, backing vocals, and Joe Krown's organ through a swampy set that could only have been created in New Orleans. You can practically smell the city's noted cuisine as blues, R&B, funk, and soul combine in ways that only Crescent City music can. There's occasional humor in the swagger of "Any Dog Would Do," which features a slippery slide solo from Roberto Lutti and tough Chicago styled harp from Sansone. He's witty on "Happiness, Love & Lies" as the band lays into a stripped down yet insistent beat that crackles in a way that only live music can, even if it's recorded without an audience and in a living room. It's the sound of talented friends huddled around and letting the vibe take over. There's a communal, loose knit, yet far from sloppy feel to this project that is captured on tape as the musicians follow Sansone's lead and provide the greasy fuel that powers his motor. The loping "44" sets up a lazy groove for him to glide into as he sings about a robbery gone wrong with a conversational vocal punctuated by a clinched fist harmonica solo. During "Johnny Sadsong," the band seems to be improvising as Sansone blows and the gang propels the song like the session was caught in an inspired moment that just happened to make it onto the album. The closing "I'm Goin' Home" (not the Ten Years After song), is a mournful yet spiritually uplifting gospel styled ballad that ends this sincere disc on a melancholy and introspective note. It's a fine return for a talented musician who has been out of the scene for far too long. ~Hal Horowitz

Poor Man's Paradise

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Johnny Sansone - Hopeland

Size: 81,6 MB
Time: 34:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. Derelict Junction (4:23)
02. Delta Coating (4:03)
03. Hopeland (5:24)
04. Plywood Floor (3:47)
05. Johnny Longshot (4:03)
06. Can't Get There From Here (3:16)
07. One Star Joint (5:18)
08. The Rescue (4:39)

If you don’t already know who Johnny Sansone is, it’s high time you found out about him. Long known for his instrumental prowess, particularly on harmonica and accordion, Sansone has been growing steadily as a songwriter and bandleader since surviving the events of 2005. His performances of the anthem Poor Man’s Paradise on his own and with the Voice of the Wetlands All-Stars vaulted him into the pantheon of New Orleans songwriters. A legendary series of acoustic sessions with guitarists Anders Osborne and John Fohl at Chickie Wah Wah after the flood elevated all three to another level of songwriting genius that is still playing out today.

reviews-johnnysansoneOsborne joins Sansone for these sessions with help from the Mississippi Hill Country world boogie of the Dickinson Brothers—Luther on lead, slide and bass; and Cody on drums. This is the swamp rockin’–est band sound Sansone has ever come up with and he brings the material to match. Sansone’s big, growling voice soars over the relentless pummeling of the rhythm driven by the Dickinson brothers. Luther and Anders have a formidable two-guitar attack. Anders frames these songs like a master builder while Luther darts and glides around his lines with sharp slide textures and dense cross-rhythms. The sound is Sansone’s vision, and he gives it a name as he honks and moans harmonica blasts like a freight train sounding its air horn deep in the night. “They call it the blues, they call it country, they call it rock ’n’ roll,” he sings. “It’s all just soul with a ‘Delta coating’”

The world boogie comes in right at the top with the irrepressible choogle of “Can’t Get There From Here.” “Derelict Junction” rides a deep-fried harmonica riff into a maelstrom of hard-driving frenzy that keeps building the intensity through the song. The title track is a medium tempo ballad that gives Sansone a chance to mythologize the trials of loving and losing, hitting the road and missing your roots. Luther’s slide offers appropriate sympathy. Things heat up again on the anthemic “Johnny Longshot,” which rides out on some more high-intensity slide work from Luther. “One Star Joint” is a slow-burn shuffle with Anders and Luther playing unison parts along with Sansone’s harp for a thick, raunchy sound. Johnny knows it’s a dive but he likes it as is. Things get even grittier on the hardscrabble “Plywood Floor.”

Sansone pulls out his accordion to wrap up the record on the classic ballad “The Rescue,” offering an elegiac touch that recalls the timeless “Save the Last Dance for Me.” The record is a great performance from all involved—supercharged, passionate music broken up halfway through, then again at the end by ruminative turns. The energy level peaks so hard it could easily fly off the rails, but the perfectly balanced production from Osborne, and the finishing touches from Trina Shoemaker’s superb mixing, keep the buzz and distortion from turning into a train wreck. That’s how you catch lightning in a bottle. ~by John Swenson

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Johnny Sansone - Lady On The Levee

Released: 2015
Size: 133.2 MB
Time: 58:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Harmonica Blues , R & B
Art: Front

1. Lady On The Levee [5:55]
2. Gertrude's Property Line [5:14]
3. OZ Radio [4:25]
4. Don't It Feel Good [5:56]
5. Unnecessary Pain [6:40]
6. Hey LaLa [3:08]
7. Lightning Bug Rhodes [6:52]
8. Tomato Wine [5:38]
9. One Of Us [5:53]
10. I'm Still Here [6:04]
11. Lady On The Levee Revisited [2:14]

Johnny Sansone's music is a treasure chest of Louisiana culture. The award winning songwriter is back with his eighth album, Lady on the Levee, another stellar collection of down home folk tales, deep swamp harmonica blues, front porch cajun accordion and classic R&B tunes that add to his impressive legacy. The recording was produced by Anders Osborne and recorded at the Parlor Studio in New Orleans with a cast of Louisiana greats including guitarist Osborne and John Fohl, Sansone Osborne and Fohl are bandmates in an acoustic trio that has been woodshedding at the New Orteans songwriters showcase Chickie Wah Wah since 2009. Bassist Jeffery Bridges, drummer Rob Lee, baritone saxophonist Joe Cabral and keyboardist Ivan Neville also play on the album.
Fans of Sansone's powerful singing and gutbucket harmonica will be pleased with his hard-edged tribute to New Orleans radio station WWOZ "OZ Radio". But they'll also hear a more intimate side of the singer/songwriter on "Im still here". Where Sansone accompany's himself on acoustic guitar. The record is packed with contemporary Louisiana storytelling, darkly comic tales like "Lighting Bug Rhodes", "Gertrude's property line" "one of us", "Tomato wine" and the title track.
Sansone's hair raising " The lord is waiting the devil is too"was named 2012 song of the year by the Blues Foundation, which nominated him in seven categories at the Blues Music awards. In 2013 sansone was voted best Harmonica player at the New Orleans Best of the Beat Awards.
" Johnny's like a privet detective from the '50s out in Hollywood that writes beatnik poetry with a knack for melancholy. He is a mean harmonica player on a motorcycle wearing flip flops. He writes and sings the cold hard truth leaving you feeling comfortably warm" - Anders Osborne
" Johnny Sansone sounds like he plays music because he has to, and he's got to get whatever is inside of him out or else"

Lady On The Levee

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