James & Lucky Peterson - If You Can't Fix It

Year: 2004
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:08
Size: 117,8 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front, tray

1. Strange Things Happen Every Day (4:34)
2. Time To Go (4:31)
3. Cripple Man (5:04)
4. Somewhere In Between (5:00)
5. If You Can't Fix It (5:35)
6. Never Take Sand To The Beach (4:12)
7. Get Down (6:33)
8. Too Young To Die (7:45)
9. Don't Give The Devil No Ground (3:43)
10. More Harm Than Good (4:06)

A rare new release from the folk and blues reissue specialist label JSP, James & Lucky Peterson's If You Can't Fix It is the first full-length collaboration by the father and son bluesmen. Neither man overshadows the other, as they take turns showcasing their own songs and each man's uniformly fine guitar playing.

The best track by far is James' fiery "Cripple Man," one of his most passionate and driven performances in years, on a song that has the potential to become a modern Chicago-style blues standard. Lucky's standout is the epic "Too Young to Die," which evolves into an extended guitar duel between father and son. In a rather unusual turn for traditional electric blues recordings, If You Can't Fix It was released in the nascent SACD (Super Audio CD) format before it was available as a standard compact disc. /Stewart Mason, AllMusic

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James & Lucky Peterson - The Father, The Son, The Blues

Size: 86,0 MB
Time: 36:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1972/2011
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. The Way A Tree Falls (3:31)
02. I Need You At Home (6:15)
03. What Would I Give (4:52)
04. Every Goodbye Ain't Gone (3:04)
05. Jacksonville (3:29)
06. Don't Put Off Today For Tomorrow (6:06)
07. Music Is The Thing (3:04)
08. Florene (2:20)
09. Daddy Come Home For Christmas (4:15)

Lucky Peterson was born as Judge Kenneth Peterson; December 13, 1964 in Buffalo, New York. Peterson's father, bluesman James Peterson, owned a nightclub in Buffalo called The Governor's Inn. The club was a regular stop for fellow bluesmen such as Willie Dixon. Dixon saw a five-year-old Lucky Peterson performing at the club and Peterson "under his wing." In 9691 he recorded his first album, "Our Future: 5 Year Old Lucky Peterson". Viewed as a child prodigy, Peterson got to perform on "The Tonight Show", "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "What's My Line?" in 1971, singing "1-2-3-4", a cover version of "Please, Please, Please" by James Brown. The song reached #40 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart.

In 1972 Lucky and father James recorded their first album together, "The Father, The Son, The Blues". It would be another dozen years before Peterson released a new album. In 1984 the now 19 year old issued "Ridin'" on Isabel Records (Evidence re-released in 1993 with a different cover). Alligator Records signed Lucky in the late 80s. The label released two LPs on him ("Lucky Strikes" in 1989 and "Triple Play" in 1990.)

In 1992 Lucky jointed Verve's subsidiary Gitanes Jazz Productions, resulting in five full albums ("I'm Ready", "Beyond Cool", "Lifetime", "Move" and "Lucky Peterson"). While on Verve, Peterson also collaborated with Mavis Staples on a tribute to gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, called "Spirituals & Gospel" on which Peterson played electronic organ behind Staples' singing.

He started label-hoping in 2001 with the release of "Double Dealin'" on Blue Thumb. During this period he began a long standing relationship with JSP Records commencing with his second collaborative LP with father James ("If You Can't Fix It"). As of 2017 Lucky has four solo albums, three more collaborative albums (with Bernard Allison, Larry McCray and Carl Weathersby on "Triple Fret", with Andy Aledort on "Tête A Tête", and with daughter Tamara on "Darling Forever") and one "best of" collection for JSP. In between this activity Lucky released two LPs for Dreyfuss Jazz ("Black Midnight Sun", "You Can Always Turn Around"), two for Blues Blvd (with Tommy McCoy on "Lay My Demons Down" and the live "I'm Back Again") and one for Jazzbook ("Son Of A Bluesman").

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Willie Lomax Blues Revue - 2 albums: Ribs Are Ready / Give Me Back My Teeth

Album: Ribs Are Ready
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:25
Size: 149.8 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Southern blues rock
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[3:28] 1. Back Rub
[6:04] 2. Don't Know What I Did
[4:52] 3. For Better Or Worse
[7:04] 4. Too Many Fences
[4:41] 5. People Get Ready
[3:05] 6. Ribs Are Ready
[3:46] 7. Eddie Mae's Cafe
[4:06] 8. She's So Sweet
[3:19] 9. Hip Joint
[3:35] 10. Don't Fight The Feeling
[2:56] 11. Struttin'
[5:00] 12. Take Away Your Lonliness
[4:47] 13. I Want To Show You
[4:11] 14. Freedom Is In Your Heart
[4:22] 15. Too Many Fences (Radio Edit)

"One of 1999's best releases...literally bursting with talent...an incredible listening experience that blows away 95% of the competition on today's recording scene... hailed as the Hit of '99." ~ REAL BLUES

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Album: Give Me Back My Teeth
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:33
Size: 161.5 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Electric blues
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[ 4:18] 1. Where I've Been
[ 4:56] 2. Blues For Peewee
[ 3:10] 3. Mojo Man
[ 3:23] 4. Crumblin' Down
[ 5:17] 5. Lonely With The One You Love
[ 3:46] 6. Long Day Blues
[ 3:37] 7. Give Me Back My Teeth
[ 4:11] 8. Cow Cow Boogie (Moo Moo My Love)
[ 2:42] 9. Way A Tree Falls
[ 2:56] 10. Pretty Baby Blues
[11:42] 11. Blues For Jackie Robinson
[ 4:48] 12. King Biscuit Blues
[ 3:22] 13. Crumblin' Down (Alternate Mix)
[ 2:41] 14. Razorback
[ 2:28] 15. Keep Your Hands Off Of Him
[ 3:30] 16. Down The Road
[ 3:38] 17. Hissy Fit

Featuring Ronnie Earl, Sam Carr, James Peterson and Rock Bottom."Smouldering guitar licks" ~BLUEPRINT. "Guitar fireworks showcase elegant dynamics of touch and tone...Sam Carr's dominating delta time separates this from the hordes of generic new blues.

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Lucky Peterson - What Have I Done Wrong: The Best Of The JSP Sessions

Size: 131,0 MB
Time: 56:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. After The Dance (3:40)
02. Til' My Dyin' Day (Feat. Andy Aledort) (6:17)
03. Age Ain't Nothing But A Number (Feat. James Peterson) (3:48)
04. Strange Things Happening Every Day (Feat. Tamara Peterson) (4:29)
05. Lost The Right (3:07)
06. What Have I Done Wrong (3:36)
07. Never Coming Back (3:13)
08. Where's Lucky (Feat. Bernard Allison, Larry McCray & Carl Weathersby/) (7:16)
09. Have You Ever (Could Have Been You) (4:41)
10. From Me (Previously Unissued Track) (6:51)
11. Back To Sing The Blues (Previously Unissued Track) (4:29)
12. I'm Lucky Man (Feat. Tamara Peterson) (Previously Unissued Track) (4:31)

Multi-instrumentalist Lucky Peterson cements his position as one of the era's leading Bluesmen with this Best of the JSP sessions. Features various special guests and this edition comes with 4 bonus unreleased tracks.

A protege of Willie Dixon's he performed at the age of five on the Ed Sullivan show. Acclaimed as a child prodigy, he consolidated his musical skills at Buffalo Academy, before bowing to the inevitable and playing guitar and keyboards for the likes of Etta James. Bobby Bland and Little Milton. That pedigree is evident in every track here. We hear Lucky evolving from assurance to sheer mastery. And that's to say nothing of his singing, songwriting, and band leading skills.

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Various - Southern Shades Of Blue Vols 1 & 2

During the middle to late 1800s, the Deep South was home to hundreds of seminal bluesmen who helped to shape the music. Unfortunately, much of this original music followed these sharecroppers to their graves. But the legacy of these earliest blues pioneers can still be heard in 1920s and '30s recordings from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia and other Southern states. This music is not very far removed from the field hollers and work songs of the slaves and sharecroppers. Many of the earliest blues musicians incorporated the blues into a wider repertoire that included traditional folk songs, vaudeville music, and minstrel tunes. Without getting too technical, most blues music is comprised of 12 bars (or measures). A specific series of notes is also utilized in the blues. The individual parts of this scale are known as the blue notes.

Well-known blues pioneers from the 1920s such as Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson usually performed solo with just a guitar. Occasionally they teamed up with one or more fellow bluesmen to perform in the plantation camps, rural juke joints, and rambling shacks of the Deep South. Blues bands may have evolved from early jazz bands, gospel choirs and jug bands. Jug band music was popular in the South until the 1930s. Early jug bands variously featured jugs, guitars, mandolins, banjos, kazoos, stringed basses, harmonicas, fiddles, washboards and other everyday appliances converted into crude instruments.

When the country blues moved to the cities and other locales, it took on various regional characteristics. Hence the St. Louis blues, the Memphis blues, the Louisiana blues, etc. Chicago bluesmen such as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters were the first to electrify the blues and add drums and piano in the late 1940s. Today there are many different shades of the blues.

Album: Southern Shades Of Blue
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:06
Size: 128.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Electric blues
Year: 1995/2005
Art: Front

[5:24] 1. The Beat Daddys - Livin' This Love
[7:31] 2. Artie 'Blues Boy' White - I'm Gonna Marry My Mother-In-Law
[6:31] 3. Mike Griffin - Fifth Of Whiskey, Case Of The Blues
[4:39] 4. Poonanny - Out Grindin' The Grindin' Man
[4:21] 5. James Peterson - Don't Let The Devil Ride
[7:37] 6. Keri Leigh - Georgia Crawl
[7:48] 7. Mckinley Mitchell - You Know I've Tried
[5:21] 8. The Beat Daddys - How Blue Must I Get
[6:51] 9. Poonanny - Clean Out Your Dresser

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Album: Southern Shades Of Blue Vol. 2
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:44
Size: 141.3 MB
Styles: R&B, Retro soul, Electric blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:29] 1. Ernie Johnson - I'm In The Mood For The Blues
[3:23] 2. James Peterson - Silky Silk
[5:31] 3. Artie 'Blue Boy' White - Man Of The House
[4:19] 4. Bobby Rish - Dangerous
[4:02] 5. Poonanny - Meatman
[2:54] 6. King Floyd - Baby Let Me Kiss You
[3:31] 7. McKinley Mitchell - Trouble Blues
[3:25] 8. Artie 'Blues Boy' White - All In The Open Now
[4:42] 9. Poonanny - Packin' Heavy
[3:38] 10. Keri Leigh - Here's Your Mop Mr. Johnson
[4:25] 11. The Beat Daddys - Different Name
[3:50] 12. Big Mike Griffin - Sittin' Here With Nothing
[5:17] 13. James Peterson - Went Too Far, Stayed Too Long
[4:30] 14. Bobby Rush - Can't Save A Cent
[3:41] 15. The Beat Daddys - Train In The Distance

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James Peterson - Don't Let The Devil Ride

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:24
Size: 99.4 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Soul-blues
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[4:25] 1. Don't Let The Devil Ride
[4:47] 2. Children Gotta Eat
[4:49] 3. I Need You At Home
[4:07] 4. Bite My Hook
[4:14] 5. Boat Won't Float
[4:41] 6. It's So Good
[2:50] 7. Ain't Got Enough Gas To Get Over The Line
[5:17] 8. Went Too Far, Stayed Too Long
[3:22] 9. Tired Of Catchin' Hell
[4:50] 10. Playin' The Game

Looking every inch the bluesman, his broad smile reveals two gold teeth adorned with raised gold letters "JP," followed by a star. He surveys the crowd, playfully demanding to know if "everyone is alright" and "are we gonna have a good time tonight?" Yeeaahh!! James Peterson, with his own hotter-than-a-firecracker combination of playing and singing the blues, definitely knows how to have a good time.
A native of Russel County, Alabama, Peterson was born in 1937 to a farming family. His first lessons in the blues came from the wonderful sounds drifting out of the little juke joint run by his father. It was these sounds that filled the air late into the night. He bought his first guitar at age fifteen, and after teaching himself how to play, took the route many before him had chosen. He headed north to Chicago, where he began singing with John Scott's band.

In 1965, Peterson opened "The Governor's Inn, House of Blues," in Buffalo, New York. This allowed him to pursue his love of the blues, while keeping his family close to him. His band served as the house band, backing such blues luminaries as Howlin' Wolf, Big Joe Turner, and Freddie King, Koko Taylor and Lowell Fulson. Peterson's first album, "The Father, Song and the Blues," produced and co-written with the legendary Willie Dixon, also featured his then five year old son, blues great Lucky Peterson. Three more albums followed on various record labels, all serving as stepping stones to number five. Destined to propel James Peterson further into the blues spotlight, "Don't Let The Devil Ride," is his first release on Waldoxy Records.

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James Peterson - 2 albums: Too Many Knots / Preachin' The Blues

Alabama-born and Florida-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter James Peterson played a gritty style of Southern-fried blues at times reminiscent of Howlin' Wolf and other times more along the lines of Freddie King. He formed his first band while he was living in Buffalo, New York and running the Governor's Inn House of Blues in the 1960s. He and his band would back up the traveling musicians who came through, including blues legends like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Big Joe Turner, Freddie King, Lowell Fulson, and Koko Taylor.

Peterson was born November 4, 1937 in Russell County, Alabama. Peterson was strongly influenced by gospel music in the rural area he grew up in, and he began singing in church as a child. Thanks to his father's juke joint, he was exposed to blues at an early age, and later followed in his footsteps in upstate New York. After leaving home at age 14, he headed to Gary, Indiana, where he sang with his friend John Scott. While still a teen, he began playing guitar, entirely self-taught. Peterson cited musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett), Jimmy Reed, and B.B. King as his early role models.After moving to Buffalo in 1955, he continued playing with various area blues bands, and ten years later he opened his own blues club.

In 1970, Peterson recorded his first album, The Father, the Son, the Blues on the Perception/Today label. While he ran his blues club at night, he supplemented his income by running a used-car lot during the day. Peterson's debut album was produced and co-written with Willie Dixon, and it featured a then-five-year-old Lucky Peterson on keyboards. Peterson followed it up with Tryin' to Keep the Blues Alive a few years later. Peterson's other albums included Rough and Ready and Too Many Knots for the Kingsnake and Ichiban labels in 1990 and 1991, respectively.

The album that put Peterson back on the road as a national touring act was 1995's Don't Let the Devil Ride for the Jackson, Mississippi-based Waldoxy Records. Throughout the '90s and up to the mid-2000s, Peterson was also an active live presence on the Tampa, Florida blues scene, and the 2000s also saw Peterson record another duo album with son Lucky, 2004's If You Can't Fix It on the JSP label. Peterson returned to Alabama in the mid-2000s, and died of a heart attack there on December 12, 2010. A master showman who learned from the best and knew how to work an audience, James Peterson left a legacy not only as an accomplished blues guitarist, but also as a crafty songwriter endowed with a deep, gospel-drenched singing style. ~bio by Richard Skelly

Album: Too Many Knots
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 46:23
Size: 106.2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 1991
Art: Front

[4:05] 1. Fish Ain't Bitin'
[4:07] 2. Flip Floppin' My Love
[4:09] 3. Call Before You Come Home
[4:43] 4. Long Handled Spoon
[6:15] 5. Slob On The Knob
[3:32] 6. Too Many Knots
[2:55] 7. Jacksonville
[4:38] 8. Every Goodbye Ain't Gone
[4:07] 9. More Then One Way To Skin A Cat
[3:20] 10. Blind Can't Lead The Blind
[4:26] 11. Killer Rock

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Album: Preachin' The Blues
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 46:44
Size: 107.0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 1996/2005
Art: Front

[4:54] 1. Shoe On The Other Foot
[4:16] 2. Who Shot John
[4:30] 3. Lost What I Had
[3:24] 4. Silky Silk
[7:23] 5. Come Home To Eat
[4:10] 6. The Bottom Line
[4:16] 7. Women's Pet
[4:26] 8. Why Mama Had To Cry
[3:55] 9. I've Got A Problem
[5:27] 10. Some Things A Man Shouldn't Have To Do

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James Peterson - Wrong Bed

Size: 99,7 MB
Time: 43:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Wrong Bed (4:13)
02. Ends Meet (5:55)
03. Four Little Boys (4:15)
04. Blood Runs Cold (4:32)
05. Keep On Pumpin' (5:11)
06. You Gotta Pay (3:41)
07. Right Place, Wrong Time (4:24)
08. Memphis Smoke (2:54)
09. Fishin' (2:50)
10. Cryin' Time (5:00)

Sixty-six year old James Peterson has been playing the blues for 46 years and has been recording since 1970. Wrong Bed! is the guitarist, singer and songwriter’s seventh album.

The CD was produced by James and his famous son, Lucky Peterson. Other family members, including his wife and daughter, lent their support. Recorded in Dallas, it was engineered by DeWayne Riley and mixed by Jon Ligon.

All of the songs were written by James, which is refreshing for a blues album. Way too often, blues records contain rehashed versions of well known classic songs — appearing to be just filler material. This is not the case with Wrong Bed! ~By Sonny Boy Lee

The CD kicks off with the title track, "Wrong Bed," and for me, the late Z.Z. Hill comes to mind. It has that same groove and feel. Some might say that this style of Rhythm and Blues is dated, but this is the real thing. There are no annoying drum machines, samples, boring synthesizers or monotonous vocals.

"Keep on Pumpin’," "Memphis Smoke" and "You Gotta Pay" get into an Albert Collins kind of groove with songs that are in the slot and allow musicians to stretch out and jam. There is a neat wah-wah guitar solo on "You Gotta Pay." James gets down on some slow blues with "Blood Runs Cold" and gets biographical with "Four Little Boys," which deals with his mother’s untimely death in 1939. This is not lightweight material, my friends. James speaks from his soul — honest and on the mark. But he also knows how to inject humor into his material, something that is sadly lacking in most blues recordings today. Too many contemporary blues performers take themselves way too seriously.

A wah-wah slide guitar weaves through "Right Place, Wrong Time." "Cryin’ Time" is reminiscent of earlier blues ballads in the vein of "I Found a Love" (Wilson Pickett) and "Cry Baby" (Garnet Mimms). Those songs were cool when they were first produced and they are cool today.

James Peterson’s most recent offering sounds great. The musicianship is top rate and a listening pleasure.

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