Various - Classic Piano Blues From Smithsonian Folkways

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:09
Size: 146.9 MB
Styles: Piano blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:11] 1. Memphis Slim - Dedication To Pete Johnson
[3:04] 2. Booker T. Laury - Early In The Morning
[3:19] 3. Speckled Red - How Long Blues
[2:55] 4. James P. Johnson - Yellow Dog Blues
[2:54] 5. Memphis Slim - Key To The Highway
[2:50] 6. Meade Lux Lewis - Medium Blues
[2:57] 7. Champion Jack Dupree - Black Wolf Blues
[4:53] 8. Big Chief Ellis - Dices Blues
[1:09] 9. Lead Belly - Big Fat Woman
[2:51] 10. Sammy Price - Harlem Parlor Blues
[3:03] 11. Henry Brown - Little Drops Of Water
[4:07] 12. Little Brother Montgomery - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
[3:26] 13. Speckled Red - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
[2:09] 14. Willie Dixon - Wish Me Well
[2:52] 15. Henry Townsend - All My Money's Gone
[4:32] 16. Victoria Spivey - You're My Man
[4:20] 17. Champion Jack Dupree - On My Way To See Moe Asch
[2:54] 18. Roosevelt Sykes - Sweet Old Chicago
[3:28] 19. Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider Blues
[3:03] 20. James P. Johnson - Hesitation Blues

Storyville nightclubs, Beale Street juke joints, gambling houses, barrelhouse bars in the lumber and turpentine camps of East Texas—these were the places African American piano bluesmen called home. Born of ragtime and hard times, the piano blues migrated with its players from the deep South to the urban North. Classic Piano Blues revisits raucous boogie-woogie and blues legends Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Champion Jack Dupree, Speckled Red, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Lead Belly, Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, James P. Johnson, and more, in 20 tracks drawn from the well of the Folkways Collections.

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Peter Novelli - S/T

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 71:40
Size: 164.1 MB
Styles: Texas blues, Louisiana blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[4:52] 1. Texas Tonk
[5:52] 2. Just These Blues
[5:30] 3. I'm Going To Louisiana
[4:22] 4. Lie No Better
[2:59] 5. Grand Isle Dawn
[3:53] 6. Wrong Number
[4:46] 7. Since The Hurricane
[4:59] 8. Nothin' To Say
[5:57] 9. Open The Gate
[6:41] 10. Real Man
[4:49] 11. Bulverde, Texas
[5:27] 12. Te-Ni-Ne-Ni-Nu
[2:51] 13. James Johnson On Scratch
[1:59] 14. Raful Neal On Slim Harpo And Scratch My Back
[4:41] 15. Baby Scratch My Back
[1:54] 16. Big Johnny Thomassie On New Orleans Drumming

Peter's guitar style evolved from the electric blues masters, mixed with his years playing Louisiana roots music in zydeco/cajun bands. This CD was recorded in Baton Rouge and New Orleans with former members of Gatemouth Brown's Gate's Express: David Hyde (bass), David Peters (drums) with guest appearances by other members of Gate's band (Joe Krown on B3, Bobby Henderson on alto sax, Chris Belleau on trombone. Brian Brignac (Sonny Landreth, Wayne Toups) played percussion and drums. Other guests include Dr John, Paul Barrere (Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, etc), Greg "Fingers" Taylor on harmonica, Raful Neal on harmonica, Augie Meyers on Vox organ (Texas Tornados, Sir Douglas Quintet), Olivier Scoazec (Buckwheat Zydeco, Zachary Richard), James Johnson, guitar (Slim Harpo band), David Torkanowsky on B3, Suzanne Leger (frottoir and percussion), Smoky Greenwell, harmonica (WAR), Curtis Coubello (fiddle), Nelson Blanchard on keys.

The CD includes a Tribute to Slim Harpo, two tracks (previously recorded, but unfinished) with members of Harpo's band (the late Raful Neal, James Johnson, Rudy Richard) and New Orleans legend, the late "Big" Johnny Thomassie on drums.

Peter Novelli

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