Jessie Mae Hemphill - Run Get My Shotgun

Size: 80,8 MB - 207 MB
Time: 34:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s - Flac
Released: 2019
Styles: Delta blues
Art: Front

1. Run Get My Shotgun (5:27)
2. Shame On You (3:14)
3. DC 9 (2:38)
4. Go Back To Your Used To Be (3:25)
5. Holy Ghost (2:29)
6. Married Man Blues (3:17)
7. Train Train (2:42)
8. Nothing That You Say (3:06)
9. Feelin' Good (2:59)
10. Eagle Bird (5:13)

Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006) comes from a long line of legendary Mississippi blues musicians. Her great grandfather Dock Hemphill was a renowned fiddle player from Choctaw County and her grandfather Sid Hemphill was a fiddle player and bandleader who recorded for Alan Lomax and George Mitchell. Jessie Mae was a talented singer, songwriter, guitarist, and drummer whose first recordings were made with blues researcher George Mitchell and ethnomusicologist David Evans in the 1960s and ‘70s. This new release by Big Legal Mess, Run Get My Shotgun, is a collection of field recordings by the late musician from New Year’s Eve 1989, a few years prior to her retirement. The opening song and title track immediately makes clear why Jessie Mae is considered one of the pioneering female blues musicians of her era. “Run Get My Shotgun” is a foot-stomping, soulful song that sets the tone for the nine tracks to come. The recordings showcase Jessie Mae’s skillful guitar playing and gritty vocals in her usual stripped down style. Each song is simple and poignant, telling the story of lost and unrequited love. Her expressive vocals evoke sorrow and wistfulness while her guitar and tambourine playing make you want to move along to the beat. Known as the “Queen of the Guitar Boogie,” Jessie Mae Hemphill was an influential Delta blues musician who could truly do it all. Run Get My Shotgun is a fine tribute to the late artist, featuring tracks that present Hemphill in the traditional, downhome style that earned her notoriety.

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VA - Black Snake Moan OST

Size: 118,1 MB
Time: 49:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2006
Styles: Delta Blues, Blues Rock, Soundtrack
Art: Full

01. Scott Bomar - Opening Theme (0:38)
02. Son House - Ain't But One Kind Of Blues (0:11)
03. Samuel L. Jackson - Just Like A Bird Without A Feather (2:22)
04. The Black Keys - When The Lights Go Out (3:13)
05. Jessie Mae Hemphill -Standing In My Doorway Crying (4:40)
06. Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads (2:32)
07. Samuel L. Jackson - Black Snake Moan (4:04)
08. Precious Bryant - Morning Train (3:00)
09. John Doe - The Losing Kind (2:33)
10. Outrageous Cherry - Lord Have Mercy On Me (3:04)
11. Scott Bomar - Ronnie And Rae's Theme (1:08)
12. Scott Bomar - The Chain (2:50)
13. Samuel L. Jackson - Alice Mae (3:48)
14. Samuel L. Jackson - Stack-O-Lee (3:30)
15. R.L. Burnside - Old Black Mattie (4:10)
16. Son House - That's Where The Blues Started (0:21)
17. North Mississippi Allstars - Mean Ol' Wind Died Down (7:31)

This soundtrack to the film written and directed by Craig Brewer is as steeped in the Southern blues as his Hustle and Flow was in hip-hop. The biggest surprise here is how well actor Samuel L. Jackson (who seems to have a thing for "Snake" films) holds his own as a blues singer against selections from Son House and R.L. Burnside. He sounds like a throwback to the classic Delta bluesmen on "Just Like a Bird Without a Feather," does a convincing take on the Blind Lemon Jefferson title track, and rocks the juke joint on "Alice Mae" and a down-and-dirty recasting of "Stack-O-Lee." Produced by the Bo-Keys' Scott Bomar (who also scored Brewer's previous movie), the 17-cut soundtrack features a kaleidoscopic array of blues, from the primal throb of the Black Keys' "When the Lights Go Out" and the funk of Bobby Rush's classic "Chicken Heads" to the spiritual lilt of Precious Bryant's "Morning Train" and the North Mississippi Allstars' expansive finale, "Mean Ol' Wind Died Down." --Don McLeese

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VA - 50 Years Of Como MS Blues: Greatest Blues Songs Vol. 1 (Live)

Size: 169,4 MB
Time: 72:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Acoustic Delta Blues, Country Blues
Art: Front

01. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Go Back To Your Used To Be (Live) (2:27)
02. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Shame On You Part 2 (Live) (2:44)
03. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Line (Live) (4:00)
04. Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Gotta Move (Live) (3:20)
05. Ranie Burnette - I Wonder Why (Live) (4:20)
06. Ranie Burnette - I Call My Baby (Live) (4:44)
07. R.L. Boyce - Gonna Boogie-Poor Black Mattie (Live) (3:58)
08. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Train, Train (Live) (2:53)
09. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Eagle Bird (Live) (3:39)
10. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Shake It, Shake It (Live) (2:49)
11. Fred McDowel & Ellie Green - Brooks Run Into The Ocean (Live) (5:42)
12. Fred McDowel & Ellie Green - Bull Dog Blues (Live) (3:53)
13. Rannie Burnett - I`m Going Away (Live) (5:04)
14. Rannie Burnett - Moonshine Blues (Live) (4:08)
15. Rannie Burnett - Come On Baby (Live) (3:41)
16. Othar Turner - Rooster Blues (Live) (2:42)
17. R.L. Boyce - Child Of God - One Of These Days (Live) (4:34)
18. R.L Boyce - Baby Please Don’t Go Lonesome Road (Live) (4:12)
19. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Shame On You Part 1 (Live) (3:35)

Fred McDowell, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Eli Green, R.L Boyce, Ranie Burnette & Othar Turner. These musicians are definitely the best of Country Blues and a must have for all the blues fans out there! The sound of original country blues on this CD is just amazing, real feelings and emotions. The whole Wolf Records Team worked on this CD to put all impressions of Country Blues, especially from Como Mississippi into this CD! The origin of the modern popular blues comes from the country, like Como MS, so this is the real Blues.

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Jessie Mae Hemphill - Get Right Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:10
Size: 117.2 MB
Styles: Country blues
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[5:10] 1. Streamline Train
[4:02] 2. Shake Your Booty (Shake It, Baby)
[3:34] 3. Go Back To Your Used To Be
[2:45] 4. Take Me Home With You, Baby
[3:11] 5. Baby, Please Don't Go
[2:24] 6. Lord, Help The Poor And Needy
[3:31] 7. Cowgirl Blues
[2:59] 8. Little Rooster Reel
[3:22] 9. He's A Mighty Good Leader
[2:41] 10. All Night Boogie (Jessie's Boogie)
[3:40] 11. Loving In The Moonlight
[1:59] 12. Get Right, Church
[2:49] 13. Jessie's Love Song (Tell Me You Love Me)
[5:31] 14. Honey Bee
[3:26] 15. Jesus Will Fix It For You

Until a stroke sidelined her in 1993, Jessie Mae Hemphill may well have been the most accomplished and versatile of the North Mississippi folk-blues musicians who emerged in the early 1980s with a stripped down, primal version of jook blues that was (and is) at stylistic odds with most of the contemporary blues scene (not that Hemphill and company had suddenly started playing this way, just that the rest of the world finally caught up with it). Hemphill, whose grandfather was the legendary Sid Hemphill who recorded some pretty wild and wooly fife and drum-styled classics for Alan Lomax in 1942 and 1959, has a hands-on understanding of the various folk forms of her native hill country, and her soulful, vibrant music is a thing apart. Assembled by folklorist Dr. David Evans, Get Right Blues collects 15 previously unreleased recordings cut by Hemphill in 1979, 1984 and 1985, and the range of blues and spirituals presented here is impressive and inspiring. Part boogie, part folk-gospel revival, part history lesson, this collection doesn't contain a single lame track, and it's amazing that none of these have been released before, since everything here is a stunner. From the ramshackle "Streamline Train" (Hemphill's version of "Mystery Train") that opens the disc through a pair of raw, atmospheric diddley bow pieces ("Little Rooster Reel," "Get Right, Church") and a hushed solo take on Memphis Minnie's "Honey Bee," Hemphill brings a ragged, perfect sense of urgency and soul to everything she touches. Even now, unable to play guitar because of her stroke, Jessie Mae Hemphill can still stun a crowd with just her voice and a foot tambourine. She is indeed a national treasure, and Get Right Blues makes a wonderful introduction to this amazing musician. ~Steve Leggett

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Jessie Mae Hemphill - She-Wolf

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:09
Size: 128.6 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 1981/2015
Art: Front

[4:38] 1. She-Wolf
[4:37] 2. Standing In My Doorway Crying
[3:20] 3. Jump, Baby, Jump
[2:45] 4. Take Me Home With You, Baby
[4:54] 5. Black Cat Bone
[3:48] 6. Boogie 'side The Road
[2:54] 7. Hard Times
[2:07] 8. Crawdad Hole
[4:03] 9. Married Man Blues
[4:54] 10. Honey Bee
[3:18] 11. Overseas Blues
[4:51] 12. Loving In The Moonlight
[2:19] 13. Bullyin' Well
[3:57] 14. Jessie's Boogie
[3:38] 15. My Lord Do Just What He Say

Drums – Calvin Jackson (3) (tracks: 7), Joe Hicks (2) (tracks: 1, 3, 9, 11, 13); Guitar – David Evans (8) (tracks: 1 to 3, 6 to 11, 13, 15); Tambourine, Percussion [Box] – Compton Jones (tracks: 2, 5, 6, 10, 12, 14); Vocals, Guitar, Slide Guitar [Diddley Bow], Tambourine – Jessie Mae Hemphill.

This compact disc reissue gathers up all the original tracks from Jessie Mae's 1980 debut album for the French Vogue label along with four remixed bonus tracks, all seeing their first domestic release. Recorded by folklorist Dr. David Evans (who also contributes second guitar on 13 of the 15 tracks here) in various locales around Memphis and Mississippi, the music stays down-home and primal throughout. There's a strong sense of rhythm that permeates this record, whether it comes from the fife and drum-derived percussion work of Calvin Jackson and Joe Hicks or simply Jessie Mae's own foot-operated tambourine driving the beat home. Highlights include "Jessie's Boogie" and "Standing In My Doorway Crying" (both sides of her first 45 single, underwritten by the National Endowment for the Arts), "Honey Bee," "Boogie Side of the Road," "Crawdad Hole," "Lovin' In the Moonlight," "Married Man Blues" and the title track. The blues, real and raw. ~Cub Koda

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Richard Johnston - Foot Hill Stomp

Size: 106,5 MB
Time: 46:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Electric Blues, Country Blues
Art: Full

01. Miss Maebelle (4:38)
02. Do The Romp (5:22)
03. Coal Black Mattie (4:00)
04. Catfish Blues & I Feel Good Little Girl (6:00)
05. Work Me Baby (7:00)
06. Come On In (5:15)
07. That's No Way To Get Along (3:25)
08. The Shaggy Hound (5:40)
09. Chicken And Gravy (4:54)

Richard Johnston is a country blues musician who won the 2001 International Blues Talent competition award, and the 2001 Albert King Award for most promising blues guitarist. His work as a street musician on Beale Street in Memphis, TN was documented in the Alabama PBS film Richard Johnston: Hill Country Troubadour. The film, directed by Max Shores, featured Johnston singing and playing his "Lowebow" cigar box guitar. It won first place in the professional documentary film category at the 2007 George Lindsey film festival. ~Wikipedia

Driving rhythms, bass and snare drum beaters, guitar licks that you can't describe as "licks", they're more like SLICKS..... "Miss Maebelle", sonofabitch, this song makes me nuts to hear it. This is the Real Thing, and long overdue as there ain't much "real" in the way of music these days.. Miss Maebelle don't let up on you. It keeps your heart poundin' away. I ain't one who goes in for dancin' much but this sound that he's got goin' makes me want to go get shnockered and make a complete ass of myself ....Makes you wanta lift yer leg and bring your foot down hard ,then do the other leg...Clap yer hands loud and holler, shake your head, beat it on the wall... It's Juke Joint Saturday Night music and will drive you wild if you ain't laid out somewhere at room temperature with your toe tagged . Even then, that toe would start tappin' if they piped FootHill Stomp into the morgue. Miss Maebelle leads you into the world of a crazed white boy who set out to learn the real ways of blues music and learn he did. Visualize Richard as the Hill Country Elvis on Sterno.
The songs on here have mostly been written by the masters of this style namely, Junior Kimbrough, Rainey Burnette, R.L. Burnside, Reverend Robert Wilkins, Jessie Mae Hemphill , and Do-Boy Diamond and arranged by Richard into an impressive collection of gems that will raise the hairs on your neck and get your feet pattin the floor at the lowest volume. At higher volumes you may fall out a window while flailing around the room so be real careful.
Richard did several numbers on here solo. I say solo but he's running Lowebows, resos, snares, bassdiddly, and bass drum (sometimes a washboard) all at once so technically I reckon you could call it "solo" but he's a band by himself on these. You can't tell it's one guy unless you've seen him play somewhere, even then ya can't believe what yer eyes and ears are tellin ya. There are some other cuts where he's got some help from these fine folks: Robert "Nighthawk" Tooms (harmonica), Mark Simpson (guitar), Tony Ray Adams (kick and snare, cuica and three tone whistle), Cedric Burnside (drums)
O....and there's also Mz Jessie Mae Hemphill, whose high , pretty voice is heard making calls of encouragement in the background at the end of the Robert Wilkin's classic, "That's no way to get along". She's also heard on the last song of this record which she and Richard co=wrote and perform together called "Chicken and Gravy". Thank you Mz. Hemphill for passin' it on. You sound just as sweet as sugar, or honey or a sweet tater pie!
If any of you out there had thoughts that blues music has gone dead again and there ain't nothin' new under the sun that's worth a shit, think again . There's a crop of people out there that are still doin' innovating things to the Blues, while keeping the essential flavor and drive that attracted us to this music and lifestyle in the first place. Do yourself a favor, get hold of this cd and you won't be worried about any foolish ideas that the Blues is goin' down again. ~Tweed's Blues Review

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Jessie Mae Hemphill - Feelin' Good

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:36
Size: 115.9 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 1987/1997
Art: Front

[3:50] 1. Feelin' Good
[3:36] 2. Go Back To Your Used To Be
[5:30] 3. Streamline Train
[2:59] 4. Baby Please Don't Go
[2:42] 5. Tell Me You Love Me
[3:02] 6. Shake It, Baby
[3:31] 7. Shame On You
[3:53] 8. My Daddy's Blues
[2:51] 9. Broken Hearted Blues
[2:47] 10. Rolling And Tumbling
[5:50] 11. Eagle Bird
[3:22] 12. Cowgirl Blues
[3:50] 13. Merry Christmas, Pretty Baby
[2:46] 14. Lord, Help The Poor And Needy

Feelin' Good was the first album Jessie Mae Hemphill released in the United States and it differs from its predecessor She-Wolf in that it captures her at her rawest. Half of the record features her supported only by a rhythm guitar and drums, while the other half has Hemphill wailing away at her guitar and percussion simultaneously. The result is hypnotic, mesmerizing record that successfully updates Delta blues, making the covers sound as fresh as the originals. ~Thom Owens

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Jessie Mae Hemphill, Hezekiah & The Houserockers - Mississippi Blues Festival

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 46:32
Size: 106.6 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[4:08] 1. Eagle Bird
[5:06] 2. My Daddy's Blues
[4:16] 3. I'm So Glad You Don't Know Whats On My Mind
[3:00] 4. Go Back To Your Used To Be
[4:17] 5. Streamline Train
[4:21] 6. i'm so glad you don't know what's on my mind (take 2)
[5:59] 7. My Daddy's Blues
[3:46] 8. Roll Me Baby
[3:01] 9. She Used To Be Your Woman
[3:01] 10. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
[3:00] 11. Saint Louis Blues
[2:30] 12. Don't Mess With My Toot Toot

A live set recorded March 19, 1986 in Paris, France, Mississippi Blues Festival includes seven tracks by North Mississippi folk-blues artist Jessie Mae Hemphill followed by five tracks by Hezekiah & the House Rockers. Hemphill plays her trademark ragged, modal North Mississippi juke joint guitar style, and is joined by folklorist Dave Evans on guitar and Hezekiah Early on drums on three cuts, including a wonderfully ramshackle and fiery version of "Streamline Train," Hemphill's interpretation of Junior Parker's "Mystery Train." Early leads his band through five fairly generic blues rockers to close the disc, but the band's unusual instrumentation keeps things interesting, since one seldom hears a trombone (played by Pee Wee Whittaker) featured so prominently in a juke setting. Truthfully, the trombone takes some getting used to, but Early is a capable singer (Whittaker also shares the singing chores) and a wonderfully loose-as-a-goose drummer, so the set works in spite of some pitch problems. Hardly essential, Mississippi Blues Festival will be best appreciated by serious fans of the North Mississippi blues style looking to round out their collections.

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