Jack De Keyzer - Wild At Heart

Album: Wild At Heart
Size: 104,8 MB
Time: 45:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Rock/Blues/Country mix
Art: Full

1. In My Wildest Dreams (4:40)
2. Goin' To Memphis (4:30)
3. Haunted Man (4:58)
4. Cotton Candy (4:46)
5. When Love Walks Out (5:28)
6. Insatiable (4:32)
7. The Way That I Love You (4:22)
8. All Your Love (4:16)
9. Cinderella (3:31)
10. Top Of The Line (4:08)

Jack DeKeyzer is a jack of many trades, skilled as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and even a producer. He has made a name for himself in the genres of rock and country, but his strongest ties are to blues. His professional musical career started in the '80s with a group called the Bopcats. After completing a couple of albums as a Bopcat, he moved on to the Rock Angels, and then finally went solo. Since breaking out on his own, DeKeyzer has won a number of awards, including Best Blues Album, Best Guitarist, Best Blues Recording, and many others. He has also been nominated for a Juno Award.

DeKeyzer was born in England. He discovered his love for music early and found that playing the guitar came easy. Over his long years in the music world, he has worked with various bands, done session guitar work for numerous artists, and started his own record label, Blue Star. His debut solo album, Hard Working Man, was released in 1991 by Warner Music. It took four years for his sophomore recording, Wild at Heart, to appear. He finished out the '90s with one more full-length offering, Down in the Groove. Some of the tunes on DeKeyzer's blues recordings are "The Way that I Love You," "I Need a Break," "High on Your Love," "Touch of the Blues," and "When Love Walks Out." /Biography by Charlotte Dillon, AllMusic

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Jack De Keyzer - Tribute

Size: 115,3 MB
Time: 49:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Are You Ready? (3:22)
02. On The Money (3:29)
03. Let's Do It (3:51)
04. That's How We Make Love (4:20)
05. Coming Up (4:42)
06. Supernatural (4:32)
07. Shake What Your Mama Gave You (3:26)
08. You Turned My World To Blue (4:47)
09. Just For The Funk (3:50)
10. If My Baby Left Me (4:06)
11. Keep The Fire Burning (4:03)
12. Forever (4:31)

For 46 years or roughly a couple million miles, bluesman, guitarist, singer, songwriter, Jack de Keyzer has been hitting the road, rail and air to bring his brand of guitar driven blues across Canada and around the globe. With 11 records, 1 DVD, 2 Junos and 7 Maple Blues Awards under his belt, de Keyzer delivers the goods wherever and whenever he performs.

Playing over 100 shows a year, de Keyzer’s music is steeped in the Chicago blues, with a broad range of influences ranging from Detroit’s Motown, Muscle Shoals deep soul, Memphis’ rock and roll, Philadelphia’s funky soul jazz and London, England’s (where de Keyzer hails from) blues rock. De Keyzer knows first hand as he has played with many first generation pioneers of these sounds and styles (Bo Diddley, Otis Rush, Etta James, King Biscuit Boy and Ronnie Hawkins to name a few).

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Jack De Keyzer - Voodoo Boogie

Year: 2014
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:05
Size: 134,0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front

1. Voodoo Boogie (5:06)
2. If You Were My Woman (5:04)
3. C.O.D. (5:14)
4. All Along The Watchtower (5:56)
5. Pleasure Is My Business (5:05)
6. I Heard It Through The Grapevine (4:56)
7. Rock Til We Drop (7:18)
8. You Shook Me (7:14)
9. Shake Your Money Maker (4:39)
10. Cinderella (7:28)

For 46 years or roughly a couple million miles, bluesman, guitarist, singer, song writer, Jack de Keyzer has been hitting the road, rail and air to bring his brand of guitar driven blues across Canada and around the globe. With 11 records, 1 DVD, 2 Junos and 7 Maple Blues Awards under his belt, de Keyzer delivers the goods wherever, whenever he performs.

Playing over 100 shows a year, de Keyzer’s music is steeped in the Chicago blues, with a broad range of influences ranging from Detroit’s Motown, Muscle Shoals deep soul, Memphis’ rock and roll, Philadelphia’s funky soul jazz and London, England’s (where de Keyzer hails from) blues rock.

De Keyzer knows first hand as he has played with many first generation pioneers of these sounds and styles - Bo Diddley, Otis Rush, Etta James, King Biscuit Boy and Ronnie Hawkins to name a few.

Personnel: Jack De Keyzer (guitar, vocals); David McMorrow (piano, organ); Alan Duffy (bass); Danny Lockwood, David Colter (drums); Chris Murphy (tenor saxophone).

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Jack De Keyzer - The Best Of Jack De Keyzer Vol. 1

Year: 2017
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:26
Size: 162,0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front

1. Music Is The Food Of Love (3:40)
2. Soul Lover (4:24)
3. Ride With Me (3:59)
4. Blues Thing (4:29)
5. Engine Trouble (5:40)
6. High On Your Love (4:33)
7. That's The Only Time (4:44)
8. Gambler's Blues (3:08)
9. Cotton Candy (4:45)
10. Who Let The Cat (Out Of The Bag) (4:28)
11. Nothing In The World (4:19)
12. My Love Has Gone (Live Waterfront Fest, 2014) (5:20)
13. The Way That I Love You (6:04)
14. Hard Working Man (4:19)
15. Rock 'N' Roll Girl (Live Diamond Club CBC, 1990) (3:20)
16. Blue Train (3:06)

Well folks, here it is in all its ragged glory. Sixteen of what I consider my best tracks, spanning 24 years of recordings, condensed into 70+ minutes of blues, rock and soul good times! Opening with a lift from Bill Shakespeare, things start off swinging regally with Music is the Food of Love, which pretty well summons up three of my musical loves - blues, soul and jazz. Soul Lover is a Latin, blues romance inspired by Chicago Blues and Mexican heat. Next we hit the road and cruise in my old Cadillac-Texas style with Ride With Me. (I drive the Hyundai minivan now!) It features a great David McMorrow solo.

Blues Thing, from the album of the same name, is somewhere between Hi, Stax, Memphis and Whitby, Ontario. Engine Trouble is one of my most popular tunes and this is the original version recorded at famed Liquid Sound, Toronto, which eventually had to close because of flooding and leaking pipes! High On Your Love is a soul rocker, evoking Stones and Stax. That’s The Only Time won the International Song Competition’s first prize for blues composition and kept me in guitar strings for a long time. I think it’s one of my best lyrics, but damn if I can ever remember them all! Gambler’s Blues is a rollicking nod to the King, featuring a young Tyler Yarema rocking the piano.

Cotton Candy goes way back to my Bopcat rock’n roll days. Speaking of cats... Who Let The Cat (Out Of The Bag) is a super fun track with a bunch of Chicago and Toronto blues legends, including the great Willie “Big Eyes” Smith on drums and Bob Stroger on bass. Nothing in the World is one of my favourite and most personal tunes and was a hit on Country Music TV back in the late 90’s. This is the R&B version recorded live, featuring a fantastic Dave Dunlop solo. My Love Has Gone was recorded live in Toronto and has never been released on CD. I think it’s a passionate performance by everyone in the band. The Way That I Love You, combines, blues and soul jazz with some interesting Groove Dr keyboards.

Next up Hard Working Man is an out take and is a funky Memphis style take on the tune that was the title track of my first solo album back in 1991. It features great solos from Martin Aucoin and Chris Murphy. Rock-a-billy was a big part of my career from 79-85 and Rock’n Roll Girl is a live CBC recording of a previously unreleased song. It is blazing. I may have to start playing a Telecaster again! Finally, my first commercially successful tune, Blue Train, although not blues, was written in honour of Muddy Waters. It’s been enjoyable and emotional revisiting all these memories and recordings. I hope you enjoy this record as much as I have loved putting it all together! /Liner notes by Jack de Keyzer

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Jack De Keyzer - Down In The Groove

Year: 1999
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:37
Size: 126,2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front

1. Down In The Groove (Pt. 1) (5:32)
2. Gambler's Blues (3:08)
3. High On Your Love (4:33)
4. Nasty Swing (3:37)
5. Love Is Right (Intro) (0:43)
6. When Love Is Right (4:48)
7. I Need A Break (3:24)
8. Touch Of The Blues (4:44)
9. I Wanna Rock (3:43)
10. Party (3:37)
11. Skid Row (4:30)
12. Ride With Me (3:59)
13. Ain't No Stopping (2:24)
14. Groove (Pt. 2) (5:48)

Jack De Keyzer is a jack of many trades, skilled as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and even a producer. He has made a name for himself in the genres of rock and country, but his strongest ties are to blues. His professional musical career started in the '80s with a group called the Bopcats. After completing a couple of albums as a Bopcat, he moved on to the Rock Angels, and then finally went solo. Since breaking out on his own, DeKeyzer has won a number of awards, including Best Blues Album, Best Guitarist, Best Blues Recording, and many others. He has also been nominated for a Juno Award.

De Keyzer was born in England. He discovered his love for music early and found that playing the guitar came easy. Over his long years in the music world, he has worked with various bands, done session guitar work for numerous artists, and started his own record label, Blue Star. His debut solo album, Hard Working Man, was released in 1991 by Warner Music. It took four years for his sophomore recording, Wild at Heart, to appear. He finished out the '90s with one more full-length offering, Down in the Groove. Some of the tunes on De Keyzer's blues recordings are "The Way that I Love You," "I Need a Break," "High on Your Love," "Touch of the Blues," and "When Love Walks Out." /Biography by Charlotte Dillon, AllMusic

Personnel: Jack de Keyzer (guitar, vocals); Alec Fraser (bass, backup vocals); Mark French (drums); Tyler Yarema (piano, organ); Pat Carey (tenor saxophone); Chris Whitely (trumpet).

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Jack De Keyzer - Silver Blues

Year: 2005
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:30
Size: 162,6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front

1. Train Called Rock & Roll (5:31)
2. That's The Way (5:24)
3. Dressed To Kill (5:50)
4. The Way That I Love You (5:38)
5. High On Your Love (6:47)
6. Cinderella (5:35)
7. You Shook Me (6:49)
8. Top Of The Line (4:36)
9. King Of The Blues (5:43)
10. Nothing In The World (4:36)
11. Lucky One (4:14)
12. Funk This (4:51)
13. Rock Til We Drop (4:51)

For 46 years or roughly a couple million miles, bluesman, guitarist, singer, songwriter, Jack de Keyzer has been hitting the road, rail and air to bring his brand of guitar driven blues across Canada and around the globe. With 11 records, 1 DVD, 2 Junos and 7 Maple Blues Awards under his belt, de Keyzer delivers the goods wherever and whenever he performs.

Playing over 100 shows a year, de Keyzer’s music is steeped in the Chicago blues, with a broad range of influences ranging from Detroit’s Motown, Muscle Shoals deep soul, Memphis’ rock and roll, Philadelphia’s funky soul jazz and London, England’s (where de Keyzer hails from) blues rock. De Keyzer knows first hand as he has played with many first generation pioneers of these sounds and styles (Bo Diddley, Otis Rush, Etta James, King Biscuit Boy and Ronnie Hawkins to name a few).

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Jack De Keyzer - 6 String Lover

Year: 2002
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:56
Size: 134,1 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front

1. Deal Me In (3:35)
2. Soul Lover (4:25)
3. Pleasure Is My Business (3:56)
4. The Answer (4:49)
5. If You Were My Woman - And I Was Your Man (4:01)
6. King Of The Blues (4:28)
7. Rock 'Til We Drop (3:43)
8. Making Love To You (3:37)
9. It's In The Way You Love (4:23)
10. Funk This (5:17)
11. Jump Right To It (3:45)
12. Engine Trouble (5:42)
13. Drivin' Home (3:24)
14. 6 String Lover (2:46)

For 46 years or roughly a couple million miles, bluesman, guitarist, singer, songwriter, Jack de Keyzer has been hitting the road, rail and air to bring his brand of guitar driven blues across Canada and around the globe. With 11 records, 1 DVD, 2 Junos and 7 Maple Blues Awards under his belt, de Keyzer delivers the goods wherever and whenever he performs.

Playing over 100 shows a year, de Keyzer’s music is steeped in the Chicago blues, with a broad range of influences ranging from Detroit’s Motown, Muscle Shoals deep soul, Memphis’ rock and roll, Philadelphia’s funky soul jazz and London, England’s (where de Keyzer hails from) blues rock. De Keyzer knows first hand as he has played with many first generation pioneers of these sounds and styles (Bo Diddley, Otis Rush, Etta James, King Biscuit Boy and Ronnie Hawkins to name a few).

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Myles Goodwyn - Myles Goodwyn And Friends Of The Blues 2

Size: 134,0 MB
Time: 57:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Hip Hip (4:57)
02. Like A Dog Ain't Had It's Day (3:15)
03. All Over Now (3:59)
04. You Got It Bad (3:00)
05. Fish Tank Blues (5:57)
06. Speedo (Revisted) (3:49)
07. Daddy Needs New Shoes (4:39)
08. Being Good (Won't Do Us Any Good Tonight) (Feat. Angel Forrest) (4:07)
09. I Love My Guitar (6:44)
10. Help Me Baby (3:16)
11. When Your Ship Came In (I Was At The Train Station Drinking) (2:31)
12. Sick And Tired (Of Being Sick And Tired Over You) (4:18)
13. I Saw Someone That Wasn't There (And It Was You) (3:41)
14. Even Singing Cowboys Get The Blues (2:51)

Myles Goodwyn has been busy: celebrating the 50th Anniversary of his band April Wine at the Ex in August, an appearance with his blues band at the Southside Shuffle and now with the release of his second blues album. Friends of the Blues 2 does carry on from the first volume in format with a star-filled list of Friends but has even better songs than that JUNO-nominated album. Most of the songs feature Russ Billard on keys, JR Smith on drums and Bruce Dixon on bass. They supply excellent support for Goodwyn and his cast of Friends. Special mention should be made of Reeny Smith and Lisa MacDougall as these two wonderful singers supply background vocals on many of the songs. The opener is a rocking delight: in “Hip Hip”, Goodwyn recalls his introduction to the blues travelling through the states as a young man, name checking Buddy Guy and with an absolutely superb piano part played by Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne. A creative arrangement graces the Womack’s “All Over Now”, making it rather different from the Stones’ version you might remember. This one has a solid harp solo from Mike “Shrimp Daddy” Reid who hasn’t been heard from much since his move to the east. “You Got it Bad” channels Sonny and Brownie in a well-sung leaving song featuring Matt Andersen on acoustic guitar and Dewey Reeds on harmonica. “Fish Tank Blues” is built on an especially raunchy slide guitar part by Halifax guitarist Will Van Hansolo but little else. “Daddy Needs New Shoes” is a great little rocker featuring Jack Semple on guitar and John Campbelljohn on slide – Daddy is sending the wife out to work. “Being Good” starts with a slow introduction by Angel Forrest before the band kicks in with Goodwyn’s verse. Angel returns and Martin Davidson gets a nice sax solo – a marvelous duet performance. “I Love my Guitar” is exactly what it says: no guests, just Goodwyn celebrating and playing. His romping “Help Me Baby”, is a jump blues that features Joe Murphy on harp and Bill Stevenson on piano, Montreal’s Steve Segal solos on electric guitar. The acoustic “When Your Ship Came In (I Was at the Airport Drinking) features Jack de Keyzer on bottleneck and Sherman Doucette on harmonica – our narrator has a problem. “I Saw Someone That Wasn’t There (And it Was You)” has David Gogo as the featured lead guitarist – his partner is long gone but not for him. Goodwyn’s Friends all contribute to making topflight albums for you to listen to at home but the fine players from the Maritimes he brings with him for live shows are special too. ~John's Blues Picks

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Jack De Keyzer - The Best Of Jack De Keyzer Vol. 1

Size: 163,6 MB
Time: 70:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Music Is The Food Of Love (3:40)
02. Soul Lover (4:24)
03. Ride With Me (3:59)
04. Blues Thing (4:29)
05. Engine Trouble (5:40)
06. High On Your Love (4:33)
07. That's The Only Time (4:44)
08. Gambler's Blues (3:08)
09. Cotton Candy (4:45)
10. Who Let The Cat Out Of The Bag? (4:28)
11. Nothing In The World (4:19)
12. My Love Has Gone (5:20)
13. The Way That I Love You (6:04)
14. Hard Working Man (4:19)
15. Rock'n Roll Girl (3:20)
16. Blue Train (3:06)

Drawn from throughout his storied, twenty-four-year career this immediately becomes a ‘must have’. For this set, he has re-mastered and re-mixed the songs and added one from his side-career as a first call guitarist for Electro-Fi Records plus three previously unreleased tunes. As this collection conclusively proves, and as his many fans already know, Jack’s mastery of different styles is his strongest suit – his blend of blues with soul and jazz is unique. The big band blues of “Music Is The Food Of Love” starts off followed by the Latin blues of “Soul Lover”. “Ride With Me” is a classic driving rocking blues. “Blues Thing” might have come from one of Albert King’s Stax discs done Whitby style. The magnificent slow blues “Engine Trouble” gets featured in almost every live show, here we get the original from Six String Lover. After the Stones/Stax “High On Your Love”, comes the songwriting award winning slow blues “That’s The Only Time”. BB King was channeled for “Gambler’s Blues” to great effect. “Cotton Candy” goes back to his Rock‘n Roll days, as do several others here. “Who Let The Cat Out Of The Bag” comes from the Willie “Big Eyes” Smith CD, Juke Joint Rockers, featuring Jack singing on a swinging group vocal blues. “Nothing In The World” was a country hit for him, we get an R&B version done live (at Hugh’s Room) on Silver Blues, the original was on Hard Working Man, from 1991. The first unreleased song is the most recent, a live performance from the 2014 Waterfront Blues Festival here. It’s another fine slow blues, “My Love Has Gone”, worth the price of admission alone. It’s followed by another live song, from The Corktown Sessions, the rocking “The Way That I Love You”. Also unreleased is “Hard Working Man”, a funky number that didn’t make it to Silver Blues, you have it now. Next up we go all the back to his earliest, rockabilly days and a live CBC recording of “Rock‘n Roll Girl”. The generous, seventy-minute set ends with 1991’s “Blue Train”, his first hit, dedicated to and about Muddy Waters. Jack has attracted many of our best players for his bands over those years, too many to list, needless to say that they all contribute mightily. ~John's Blues Picks

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Jack De Keyzer - 2 albums: Checkmate / The Corktown Sessions

When singer-guitarist Jack de Keyzer was a kid living in England during the early 1960s, Cliff Richard and the Shadows were big. Really big. “That’s what got me enamoured with the electric guitar,” de Keyzer said, paying special tribute to Hank Marvin, lead guitarist for the Shadows. “I’m about 10 years younger than those guys, but whenever you read interviews from [Jeff] Beck or [Jimmy] Page, they always cite Hank Marvin as an influence. A few years later, we had Cream and [Jimi] Hendrix and all that, so that kind of clinched it for me.”

He got his first guitar in elementary school, but he remembers its arrival being anti-climactic. “My parents didn’t know much about music, so the guitar was probably way too big for me. It kind of sat at the foot of my bed.” When the family moved to Hamilton, Ont., in 1965 — de Keyser was 10 — he got a “cheapo electric guitar,” and was off to the races.

The Beatles became a worldwide phenomenon about the same time, but the British-blues die of Cream had already been cast. De Keyzer’s fondness was not for the pop music of the Fab Four, but the rocking electric blues being made fashionable by everyone from the Rolling Stones to Jimi Hendrix. “Blues is the backbone of everything I do,” de Keyzer said. “I play a lot of different styles of music, from country to rockabilly. But if it doesn’t have blues running through it, I don’t like it. It’s got to have that greasy blues thing going on.” ~mdevlin

Album: Checkmate
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:34
Size: 120.4 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[3:52] 1. Howlin' For My Darling
[3:08] 2. All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
[4:54] 3. Stranger Blues
[3:33] 4. Talk To Me Baby
[5:57] 5. Double Trouble
[4:23] 6. Broke Down Engine Blues
[3:33] 7. Do Right Woman
[4:11] 8. Days Of Old
[3:32] 9. Evil (Is Going On)
[4:36] 10. I Ain't Superstitious
[4:02] 11. I Can't Quit You Baby
[3:39] 12. Walking Blues
[3:08] 13. Come In My Kitchen

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Album: The Corktown Sessions
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:38
Size: 152.5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[5:17] 1. Let's Have A Natural Ball
[5:19] 2. Blues Thing
[5:36] 3. When You've Got A Good Friend
[5:35] 4. King Of The Blues
[4:51] 5. Signed Sealed Delivered
[5:47] 6. I Want To Love You
[5:41] 7. The Way That I Love You
[7:07] 8. Engine Trouble
[4:57] 9. Ride With Me
[4:43] 10. Hold On I'm Coming
[6:13] 11. Soul Lover
[5:26] 12. Rock This House

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Myles Goodwyn - Myles Goodwyn And Friends Of The Blues

Size: 115,2 MB
Time: 49:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. I Hate To See You Go (But I Love To Watch You Walk Away) (Feat. Eric Khayat & Shaun Verreault) (3:57)
02. Isn't That So (Feat Sonja Ball) (4:01)
03. It'll Take Time To Get Used To (Feat. Amos Garret & Emily Lamarche) (4:41)
04. Tell Me Where I've Been (So I Don't Go There Anymore) (Eat. Kenny Blues Boss Wayne & Steve Segal) (4:55)
05. I Ain't Gonna Bath In The Kitchen Anymore (Feat. Bill Stevenson) (2:50)
06. I'll Hate You (Till Death Do Us Part) (Feat. Kenny Blues Boss Wayne & Frank Marino) (4:12)
07. Good Man In A Bad Place (Feat. Garret Mason) (3:46)
08. Brand New Cardboard Belt (Feat. Steve Segal & Frank Marino) (3:31)
09. Weeping Willow Tree Blues (Feat. David Wilcox) (4:55)
10. Last Time I'll Ever Sing The Blues (Feat. Rick Derringer) (4:39)
11. Nobody Lies (About Having The Blues) (Feat. Jack De Keyser) (5:09)
12. You Never Got The Best Of Me (Feat. Steve Segal With Amos Garret & Dewey Reeds) (2:50)

Myles Goodwyn is back with the blues and has brought some friends along with him!

Myles Goodwyn's passion for the blues began in 60's when he started listening to American blues artists like BB King, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters. Although the blues songs he wrote over the years never made it onto an April Wine album, he kept saving them for the blues album he knew he was going to make one day. Myles Goodwyn And Friends Of The Blues is the result of these sessions.

Some of the Friends joining Goodwyn are Jack de Keyzer, Garret Mason, David Wilcox, Amos Garret, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, Joe Murphy, Frank Marino, Shaun Verreault, Bill Stevenson, Rick Derringer and more.

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Harrison Kennedy - Who U Tellin'?

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:19
Size: 106.0 MB
Styles: R&B, Electric blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:43] 1. Who U Tellin'
[3:24] 2. Afraid To Fall
[3:47] 3. Can U Feel Me Now
[5:45] 4. Heavy Load
[4:02] 5. Blues Solution
[3:37] 6. Keep Your Coat On
[2:16] 7. County Party Line
[2:05] 8. Mountain Stomp
[2:35] 9. Long Pants
[2:46] 10. Hummin' Blues
[4:32] 11. Doctors In Hard Hats
[3:29] 12. Takin' It Back
[4:10] 13. Patches

Harrison Kennedy - Vocals, banjo, harmonica, spoons, acoustic guitar, tambourine; Jimmy Bowskill - Fiddle & mandolin; Jack de Keyser - Electric, acoustic & slide guitar; Julian Fauth - Piano; Alec Fraser - Cigar box bass.

Harrison grew up in a house filled with music and famous visitors such as Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Lonnie Johnson. In 1969 he took a hiatus from college to become a founding member of the million selling Detroit Soul Super Group “The Chairmen of the Board” with whom he toured the world, as well as appearing on Soul Train, American Bandstand and the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Since signing with Electro-Fi Records in 2007, Harrison Kennedy has released 5 internationally acclaimed albums and developed into one of the 21st century’s most insightful and original Blues singer/songwriters. The JUNO winning album “This Is From Here” was co-produced by keyboard ace JESSE O’BRIEN, with Roots Guitar Master COLIN LINDEN guesting on several tracks. It has also won the prestigious Academie Charles Cros in France for 2016 Blues Album of the Year. Harrison will be touring Southern Ontario in April with the dynamic RUTHIE FOSTER, in addition to performing both solo and with his band throughout North America during the Summer Festival season.

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Harmonica Shah - If You Live To Get Old, You Will Understand (With Jack De Keyzer & Julian Fauth)

Size: 142,6 MB
Time: 61:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

01. Baby, You Have Got To Change (4:47)
02. She Used To Be Beautiful (4:38)
03. Walk That Lonesome Road (5:15)
04. Two Legged Grey Mule (3:59)
05. She May Be Your Woman (4:05)
06. I Just Don't Want You No More (6:48)
07. Deep Down In The Dark (5:51)
08. Congratulations, That New Love You've Got Is My Wife (4:49)
09. My Babe Is On This Train (3:35)
10. You Don't Have To Have Liquor (To Be A Fool) (4:30)
11. Marry Who You Really Need (5:12)
12. If You Live To Get Old, You Will Understand (7:31)

After a busy Summer performing at John’s Carpet House in the Motor City and a memorable performances at the Pennsylvania Blues Festival with Detroit Guitar Ace CARLTON WASHINGTON, HARMONICA SHAH is back with another sonic sensation on Electro-Fi Records.
“If You Live To Get Old, You Will Understand” was recorded at the e-room in Toronto, this past June by Peter J. Moore (Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Cowboy Junkies) and features Shah’s hand picked favorite studio players: Juno Award Winners JACK De KEYZER on guitar, JULIAN FAUTH on Piano, Blues Music Award winner ALEC FRASER on bass, and MapleBlues award winner BUCKY BERGER on Drums. The album was co-produced by Alec Fraser and Andrew Galloway.
The disc features 12 new Harmonica Shah tunes and is over an hour of the most unique, original,hyper-realistic and brilliant Blues music that you may hear this year, or any year!

If You Live to Get Old

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Jack De Keyzer - 2 albums: Electric Love / Blues Thing

"If Jack de Keyzer was from Chicago, New York or LA, he'd be famous" ~Bob Dylan

From the Arctic Circle to Puerto Escondido, Mexico; from Athens, Greece to Hornby Island, BC, virtuoso guitarist, Jack de Keyzer plays the blues world wide. One of Canada’s most awarded and in demand live performers and session guitarists, Jack has relased 8 CD’s and 1 DVD. He has also played on hundreds of recordings and live sessions with artists ranging from Etta James to Ronnie Hawkins and Bo Diddley to Blue Rodeo. An incendiary live performer, soulful vocalist and world class song writer, de Keyzer performs an average of 180 shows per year and has brought audiences to their feet at many major Jazz and Blues Festivals including the Montreal Jazz Fest, Blues Sur Seine (France) The Ottawa Blues Festival and Puerto Blues, (Mexico). A much celebrated musician, de Keyzer has been nominated for the Juno (Blues Album of the Year) 5 times and won the Juno twice in 2003 and 2010. He has won 7 Maple Blues Awards (Canada’s national blues awards) , first place in the International Songwriting Competition and won CBC’s Great Canadian Blues Award from a poll of radio listeners. In 2009 Jack was invited to 24 Sussex Drive to give Prime Minister Stephen Harper and first lady Laureen Harper’s son a private concert and guitar lesson. Always touring with an incredible band, Jack will have you rocking in your seat and swaying to his hot blues, soulful r&b and cool soul jazz. World class.

Album: Electric Love
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 49:44
Size: 113.9 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:38] 1. Electric Love
[4:20] 2. Good Thing
[4:26] 3. Rock Me Like This
[4:18] 4. To The Beauty Of You
[4:12] 5. To Be With You
[3:36] 6. Mojo Woman
[5:17] 7. My Love Has Gone
[3:42] 8. Groove Doctor
[4:21] 9. Deep Down
[4:53] 10. Earthquake Girl
[3:31] 11. Party
[3:24] 12. Acoustic Love

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Album: Blues Thing
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 60:04
Size: 137.5 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:41] 1. Music Is The Food Of Love
[4:18] 2. If I Had Your Love
[4:27] 3. Blues Thing
[3:38] 4. I Want To Love You
[4:41] 5. That's The Only Time
[4:40] 6. That's Your Love
[5:11] 7. Cry The Blues
[4:32] 8. Good Life
[4:42] 9. Bills
[3:52] 10. Bombshell
[4:28] 11. Miss America
[4:41] 12. Merciless Beauty
[2:39] 13. We Go Together
[4:29] 14. That's How Much

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Dan McKinnon - 2 albums: Dan McKinnon / ASAP: As Sharp As Possible

Mixing equal parts musical scholar, businessman and tattooed rock n’ roll rebel, Toronto guitarist Dan McKinnon is not your average blues rocker. While his music is rooted in blues styles ranging from traditional, country and electric, McKinnon has also publicly declared his love for glam rock, fusion, hard bop, and heavy metal. It is this mélange of musical influences that has created the sound that McKinnon is known for and presents on his new CD As Sharp As Possible.

His self-titled debut E.P. was released in early 2012 to glowing reviews and widespread airplay across North America – including regular positions on the Roots Music Report charts. “Dan McKinnon is certainly ready for the spotlight. His debut EP shines a light on the wide spectrum of sounds he can create. From the slow and soulful to the edgy solos that really bite, the road ahead knows no limits.” (Blues Rock Review).

Album: Dan McKinnon
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 16:44
Size: 38.3 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:00] 1. Satisfied
[4:27] 2. Blues for Brother Nelson
[4:11] 3. Bad Habit
[4:06] 4. Some Kind of Special

Toronto bluesman Dan McKinnon shines as he shows several different sides on his new self-titled EP. He blends a lot of influences into his four songs, taking the listener right back in time.

There is beautiful Albert King style guitar playing, an unstoppable groove and a lot of big, dirty riffs, which draw the listener in right from the big riffed, funky bassline of the first track “Satisfied.” He shows a touch of jazz on the instrumental “Blues for Brother Nelson,” which features an upbeat walking bass line, plenty of groove and tasteful guitar solos interspersed throughout. He slows things down on the slinking “Bad Habit,” where he gets to show how tastefully he can play as well as how well he can sing. He ends the EP by showing his rocking side on “ Some Kind of Special,” which features a fast walking bassline and big belting vocals. All together the four songs show off the many facets of McKinnon’s bluesy personality.

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Album: ASAP: As Sharp As Possible
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:46
Size: 102.5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:47] 1. Ain't Looking Back
[4:09] 2. King Of The Hill
[4:11] 3. The Lucky One
[4:11] 4. Got It Bad
[5:09] 5. Killing Time
[4:17] 6. Heart Attack
[3:24] 7. Perfect Ten
[4:29] 8. The Recipe (Feat Jack De Keyzer)
[5:54] 9. One Regret
[4:11] 10. A Different Road

Produced by JUNO Award winning blues guitarist Jack de Keyzer and recorded at Canterbury Studios, As Sharp As Possible features Dan McKinnon on guitar and vocals, Aaron Carter on bass and Jon Foster on drums. Each of the ten songs were written by McKinnon with topics that range from relationships, self-reflection and personal loss. From the heavy opening riffs on the first track “Ain’t Looking Back”, to the slow groove and soulful solos on “Killing Time”, and the forlorn lyrics and classic blues feel on “One Regret”, the combination of McKinnon’s voice and guitar playing, along with the solid foundation from the band, As Sharp As Possible will quickly become a favourite among blues fans all over.

Only in his thirties, McKinnon’s education, life experiences and talent will certainly ensure a long and healthy career in the blues genre. “Dan McKinnon is one of the brightest new lights on the blues scene. A well-schooled guitarist, he adds just the right amount of jazz intuition to his searing blues playing. With a nice vocal tone, killer riffs and wicked guitar chops Dan McKinnon is a name you will be hearing a lot about in the coming months, years and decades.”, says producer Jack de Keyzer.

ASAP: As Sharp As Possible

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