Jimmy Dawkins - Chicago On My Mind

Size: 110.8 MB
Time: 47:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1972/1991
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. The Way She Walks (4:29)
02. Lick For Licks (4:19)
03. Don't Bring Me Your Trouble, Baby (6:20)
04. I Wonder Why Do You Things You Do To Me (4:04)
05. Let Me Have My Way (4:39)
06. Chicago On My Mind (7:50)
07. I've Been Walking All Night Long (3:26)
08. Blues In The Ghetto (3:15)
09. Out Of Business (5:23)
10. Low Down Dirty Dog (3:45)

Personnel:
Jimmy Dawkins - Guitar, Vocals
Georges Arvanitas - Organ
Jacky Sanson - Contrabass
Michel Denis - Drums

Recorded in Paris, June 6 1972.

Chicago guitarist Jimmy Dawkins would have preferred to leave his longtime nickname "Fast Fingers" behind. It was always something of a stylistic misnomer anyway; Dawkins' West Side-styled guitar slashed and surged, but seldom burned with incendiary speed. Dawkins' blues were generally of the brooding, introspective variety -- he didn't engage in flashy pyrotechnics or outrageous showmanship.

It took a long time for Dawkins to progress from West Side fixture to nationally known recording artist. He rode a Greyhound bus out of Mississippi in 1955, dressing warmly to ward off the Windy City's infamous chill factor. Only trouble was, he arrived on a sweltering July day! Harpist Billy Boy Arnold offered the newcomer encouragement, and he eventually carved out a niche on the competitive West Side scene (his peers included Magic Sam and Luther Allison).

Sam introduced Dawkins to Delmark Records boss Bob Koester. Fast Fingers, Dawkins' 1969 debut LP for Delmark -- which remained his best album -- was a taut, uncompromising piece of work that won the Grand Prix du Disque de Jazz from the Hot Club of France in 1971 as the year's top album. Andrew "Big Voice" Odom shared the singing and Otis Rush the second guitar duties on Dawkins' 1971 encore, All for Business. But after his Delmark LP Blisterstring, Dawkins' subsequent recordings lacked intensity until 1991's oddly titled Kant Sheck Dees Bluze for Chicago's Earwig Records. After that, Dawkins waxed discs for Ichiban and Fedora, and continued to tour extensively until health problems slowed him down. Jimmy Dawkins passed away April 10, 2013. ~Bill Dahl

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Jimmy Dawkins - B Phur Real

Album: B Phur Real
Size: 110,6 MB
Time: 47:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Two Timin' Lover (5:19)
2. Lonesome Blues (6:05)
3. If It Ain't Love (6:17)
4. B Phur Real (8:46)
5. Walk With Me (4:58)
6. Begging Business (3:51)
7. You Got It, Baby (7:23)
8. Can't Hide My Love (5:08)

Chicago guitarist Jimmy Dawkins would have preferred to leave his longtime nickname "Fast Fingers" behind. It was always something of a stylistic misnomer anyway; Dawkins' West Side-styled guitar slashed and surged, but seldom burned with incendiary speed. Dawkins' blues were generally of the brooding, introspective variety - he didn't engage in flashy pyrotechnics or outrageous showmanship.

It took a long time for Dawkins to progress from West Side fixture to nationally known recording artist. He rode a Greyhound bus out of Mississippi in 1955, dressing warmly to ward off the Windy City's infamous chill factor. Only trouble was, he arrived on a sweltering July day! Harpist Billy Boy Arnold offered the newcomer encouragement, and he eventually carved out a niche on the competitive West Side scene (his peers included Magic Sam and Luther Allison).

Sam introduced Dawkins to Delmark Records boss Bob Koester. Fast Fingers, Dawkins' 1969 debut LP for Delmark - which remained his best album - was a taut, uncompromising piece of work that won the Grand Prix du Disque de Jazz from the Hot Club of France in 1971 as the year's top album. Andrew "Big Voice" Odom shared the singing and Otis Rush the second guitar duties on Dawkins' 1971 encore, All for Business.

But after his Delmark LP Blisterstring, Dawkins' subsequent recordings lacked intensity until 1991's oddly titled Kant Sheck Dees Bluze for Chicago's Earwig Records. After that, Dawkins waxed discs for Ichiban and Fedora, and continued to tour extensively until health problems slowed him down. Jimmy Dawkins passed away April 10, 2013. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Sunnyland Slim / Big Voice Odom - Chicago Blues Festival 1974 With Jimmy Dawkins

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 72:14
Size: 167.8 MB
Released: 2010
Styles: Acoustic/electric Chicago blues
Art: Front

1. Sweet Laura (Take 4) (4:41)
2. Come To Me (Take 3) (2:26)
3. No More Troubles (5:45)
4. Tell Me Woman (3:28)
5. Don't Ever Leave Me Alone (4:53)
6. Come To Me (Take 2) (2:29)
7. Sweet Laura (Take 1) (4:29)
8. Worried About My Baby (3:01)
9. She Used To Love Me (3:04)
10. So Glad (2:50)
11. She Is So Soft And So Mellow (Take 2) (2:58)
12. Levee Camp Blues (4:17)
13. I Got To Quit My Baby (2:29)
14. Depression Blues (3:00)
15. See My Lawyer (3:25)
16. It's You Baby (2:57)
17. No More Whiskey (2:41)
18. I Done You Wrong (3:22)
19. Swingin' In Paris (2:55)
20. She Is So Soft And So Mellow (Take 1) (3:03)
21. Untitled Instrumental (3:52)

As with Big voice Odom, Jiummy Dawkin's guitar backing creates rare dramatic intensity, and every note he plays resonates with feeling.

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Nora Jean Bruso - Sings The Blues

Year: 2003
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:16
Size: 159,6 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. When You Leave Don't Take Nothing (5:48)
2. I'm Leaving You (3:39)
3. Howlin' For My Baby (2:56)
4. If That's What You Wanna' Do (5:55)
5. Doin' The Shout (3:25)
6. Members Only (3:54)
7. Untrue Lover (3:41)
8. I'd Rather Go Blind (4:51)
9. Can't Shake These Blues (5:38)
10. Who's Been Talking (3:52)
11. It Makes Me So Mad (6:15)
12. Spoonful (3:17)
13. All Your Love (3:57)
14. Big Boss Man (4:36)
15. Killing Floor (4:16)
16. He Belongs To Me (3:09)

Vocalist Nora Jean Bruso has been an up-and-comer in the blues world, but go and see her perform live at a club or a festival, and you'll quickly discover she's a polished professional, a stone cold pro. Bruso, or Elnora Wallace, was born and raised in Greenwood, Mississippi, a town famous for producing a variety of blues and gospel greats. Her father was Bobby Lee Wallace, a blues singer and sharecropper; her mother was Ida Lee Wallace, a gospel singer.

In high scool, Nora Jean won the West Tallahatchie High School Talent Show grand prize for singing, and she began to perform in other area schools with small groups. Realizing her opportunities for recognition and recording were limited in Mississippi, Bruso moved to Chicago in 1976 and began her professional singing career with Scottie and the Oasis. Six years later, Scottie passed away and the band broke up, but Nora Jean began singing with other West Side bands she had already developed relationships with, including Little Johnnie Christian. By 1985, she joined Jimmie Dawkins' band and recorded her first single, "Untrue Lover" for Dawkins' own record company, the Leric Label. (Some of Dawkins' Leric sides were reissued by Delmark Records.) She also sang on Can't Shake These Blues, an anthology released by Earwig Records.

In 1991, she recorded with Dawkins on his album for the British JSP label, Feel the Blues, which was later re-released in 2003 with a bonus track from Bruso. In 1992, she retired from the rigors of regional touring to concentrate on raising her two sons, but by 2001, she was called back into the studio by fellow Jimmie Dawkins band alumnus Billy Flynn. She provided four vocal tracks on Blues and Love, a 2002 release, and later that year, she resumed her blues career, such as it was, appearing on the main stage at the Chicago Blues Festival with Dawkins' band. Later in 2002, she recorded her first album, Nora Jean Sings the Blues, and was awarded a "Keeping the Blues Alive" citation by the Black History Association in Chicago. In 2003, she released Sings the Blues on the Red Hurricane Records label and the album garnered critical praise from radio programmers around the U.S. and Canada. She performed again at the 2003 Chicago Blues Festival and headed to Europe that summer for a tour.

By 2004, Bruso was nominated for two W.C. Handy Awards, one for Best New Artist and one for Best Traditional Female Artist. Later that year, she signed a deal with Maryland-based Severn Records and released Going Back to Mississippi, which debuted at number five on the Living Blues magazine radio charts and climbed to number one on XM satellite radio. In June, 2004, she performed again on the main stage at the Chicago Blues Festival, with her own band, and in 2005 she made a slew of other festival performances around the U.S. and Canada, including the Cape May Jazz Festival and the Pocono Blues Festival.

During the 2000s, the Nora Jean Bruso band included Carl Weathersby on guitar, James Carter, drums, Bruce Belgin, bass and Brian Lupo, guitar. When they weren't on the road, Nora Jean was based in LaPorte, Indiana. /Bio by Richard Skelly, AllMusic

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VA - The Chicago Blues Box 2

Size: 157,5+148,5+153,5+155,7+149,8+140,2+147,3+128,0 MB
Time: 67:44+64:01+66:16+67:09+64:36+60;28+63:18+55:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Eddie Taylor - Opening (2:58)
02. Eddie Taylor - Red Light (4:30)
03. Eddie Taylor - Big Town Playboy (3:23)
04. Eddie Taylor - Blow Wind Blow (4:04)
05. Eddie Taylor - Down In Virginia (2:53)
06. Eddie Taylor - Lucky Lou (4:37)
07. Eddie Taylor - Tell Me Mama (4:53)
08. Big Mojo Elem - Talk To Your Daughter (2:53)
09. Big Mojo Elem - Hide Away (4:49)
10. Big Mojo Elem - Be My Little Girl (2:28)
11. Andrew Blueblood McMahon - Red Light, Pt. 2 (3:56)
12. Andrew Blueblood McMahon - Mojo Hand (4:44)
13. Big Voice Odom - Mojo Working (2:44)
14. Big Mojo Elem - Dry Land, Pt. 2 (5:53)
15. Big Voice Odom - Where Are You Goin' (8:38)
16. Big Voice Odom - Thrill Is Gone (4:15)

CD 2:
01. Hip Lankchan - You Left Me With A Broken Heart (5:12)
02. Hip Lankchan - I'm On My Way (5:20)
03. Hip Lankchan - Last Night (4:58)
04. Hip Lankchan - All Your Love (4:47)
05. Hip Lankchan - I Don't Want No Woman (4:27)
06. Hip Lankchan - Black Nights (5:24)
07. Hip Lankchan - Somebody Loan Me A Dime (4:43)
08. Hip Lankchan - Same Old Blues (3:27)
09. Hip Lankchan - Why I Sing The Blues (5:50)
10. Eddie Clearwater - Everyday I Have The Blues (4:25)
11. Eddie Clearwater - You Don't Have To Go (4:57)
12. Eddie Clearwater - Poison Ivy (3:39)
13. Eddie Clearwater - My Babe (6:47)

CD 3:
01. Jimmy Dawkins - Way She Walks (4:27)
02. Jimmy Dawkins - Rock Me Baby (5:08)
03. Jimmy Dawkins - I Wonder Why (4:46)
04. Jimmy Dawkins - Cold Sweet Blues (7:14)
05. Jimmy Dawkins - Driving Wheel (5:39)
06. Jimmy Dawkins - Will My Baby Home Tonight (5:44)
07. Jimmy Dawkins - Big Duke's (4:40)
08. Jimmy Dawkins - Hard Road To Travel (6:54)
09. Jimmy Dawkins - J.D's Jam (3:31)
10. Jimmy Dawkins - Nature Ball (5:41)
11. Jimmy Dawkins - Pretty Woman (4:42)
12. Jimmy Dawkins - Ode To Billy Joe (7:44)

CD 4:
01. Jimmy Johnson - Long About Midnight (7:06)
02. Jimmy Johnson - Strange Thing Happening (5:29)
03. Jimmy Johnson - Look On Yonder Wall (3:34)
04. Jimmy Johnson - I'm Crazy About You Baby (4:28)
05. Jimmy Johnson - Breaking Up Somebody's Home (5:01)
06. Jimmy Johnson - Sweet Little Angel (5:22)
07. Jimmy Johnson - Three Times Chicago (4:42)
08. Jimmy Johnson - Midnight Hour (4:08)
09. Jimmy Johnson - My Own Fault (5:26)
10. Jimmy Johnson - Get Ready Here I Come (3:51)
11. Jimmy Johnson - Same Old Blues (4:09)
12. Jimmy Johnson - So Many Roads (6:45)
13. Jimmy Johnson - As The Years Go Passing By (7:02)

CD 5:
01. John Littlejohn - Dust My Broom (4:31)
02. John Littlejohn - Rob And Steal (3:39)
03. John Littlejohn - Five Long Years (3:21)
04. John Littlejohn - Kiddeo (2:44)
05. John Littlejohn - That's All Right (7:17)
06. John Littlejohn - I Can't Stay Here (5:10)
07. John Littlejohn - Bobby's Rock (3:43)
08. John Littlejohn - Twenty Nine Ways (6:13)
09. John Littlejohn - So Glad You're Mine (4:13)
10. John Littlejohn - All I Want (2:48)
11. John Littlejohn - Dream, Pt. 2 (6:39)
12. John Littlejohn - All Your Love (6:26)
13. John Littlejohn - Sunny Road (7:46)

CD 6:
01. Magic Slim - Buddy Buddy Friend (4:25)
02. Magic Slim - You Upset Me Baby (3:45)
03. Magic Slim - Born Down The Bridge (6:30)
04. Magic Slim - Rock Me Baby (5:02)
05. Magic Slim - Tell Me Baby (2:52)
06. Magic Slim - Jumpin' At Ma Bea's (4:56)
07. Magic Slim - I Don't Got Over (5:22)
08. Magic Slim - Tramp (6:04)
09. Magic Slim - Josephine's (4:49)
10. Magic Slim - As The Years Go Passing By (6:04)
11. Magic Slim - Everything Gonna Be Alright (5:02)
12. Magic Slim - Mary Lou (5:31)

CD 7:
01. The Aces - Rock Me Baby (4:25)
02. The Aces - You're The One (3:08)
03. The Aces - Baby What You Want Me To Do (4:04)
04. The Aces - Someday Baby (3:41)
05. The Aces - Off The Wall (4:24)
06. The Aces - Bobby's Rock (4:16)
07. The Aces - Kansas City (4:51)
08. The Aces - Honky Tonk (4:50)
09. The Aces - Don't Throw Your Love On Me (3:45)
10. The Aces - C.C. Rider (4:07)
11. The Aces - Sweet Home Chicago (2:49)
12. The Aces - Hide Away (5:05)
13. The Aces - Tribute To Little Walter (1:54)
14. The Aces - The Ace's Shuffle (3:09)
15. The Aces - Blues With A Feeling (3:42)
16. The Aces - Honky Tonk, Pt. 2 (5:01)

CD 8:
01. Willie Kent - I'm Not The Same Person (5:42)
02. Willie Kent - Ghetto (7:43)
03. Willie Kent - Dust My Broom (3:55)
04. Willie Kent - Chili Con Carne (3:08)
05. Willie Kent - Blue Guitar (5:26)
06. Willie Kent - Bobby's Rock (4:06)
07. Willie Kent - Sweet Home Chicago (2:54)
08. Willie Kent - Tell Him He Got To Go (4:17)
09. Willie Kent - Chicken Shack (4:10)
10. Willie Kent - 19 Years Old, Pt. 2 (3:44)
11. Willie Kent - I Love The Woman (4:44)
12. Willie Kent - You Know I Love You (5:13)

After the popularity of Storyville’s first best-selling boxed set of Chicago blues recordings, we’re delighted to present another outstanding 8 CD collection from the vaults of MCM Records. As in the first boxed set, the live atmosphere of these unedited performances shines through, revealing the true ambiance of the Chicago Blues club scene in the mid-1970s, as well as the individuals whose talents MCM Records would preserve. They captured an authenticity that rarely surfaced on the major label recordings that some of these artists made.

MCM was a labour of love by a young French woman, Marcelle Chailleux, and her future husband Jacques Morgantini. In the 1950's Jacques had brought the likes of Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker to Europe to appear at his French hometown event - a dedicated Chicago blues festival - but it was recent blues convert Marcelle who travelled to Chicago in the mid-1970s to record a unique collection of live performances.

Some of the performances presented here were by men who would become giants of the blues; others were by talented artists who never found wider fame and whose MCM recordings remain the only surviving evidence of their talent.

In this superb collection, you will find rare tracks by Eddie Taylor, Big Mojo Elem, Andrew “Blueblood” McMahon, Big Voice Odom, Hip Lankchan, Eddie Clearwater, Jimmy Dawkins, Jimmy Johnson, Magic Slim, John Littlejohn, Bobby King and The Aces. The recordings stem from famous Chicago blues venues Ma Bea’s, the Golden Slipper and Big Duke’s. Marcelle was only just in time to capture the genuine feel and sound of those old-time clubs before they disappeared. Jimmy Dawkins, bluesman par excellence, was her guide to the 1975 Chicago blues scene, and has said: “It was natural and ‘for real’ without over-preparation. You get the feeling of the room, the music, the audience, and the blues. It was the real thing. Places like Ma Bea’s and the old Golden Slipper are all gone now.” Jacques Morgantini writes in the liner notes: “These records capture the music that was played in the clubs at that time, the real Chicago blues sound! And that was exactly what Marcelle wanted: to give those musicians a chance to get themselves better known”.

The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 1
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 2
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 3
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 4
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 5
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 6
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 7
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Eddie Clearwater - Black Night

Size: 140,0 MB
Time: 61:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1979/1995
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Black Night (9:23)
02. Chicago Daily Blues (9:32)
03. My Babe (6:53)
04. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (6:58)
05. Rock Me Baby (6:40)
06. Every Day I Have The Blues (4:30)
07. The Things I Used To Do (8:20)
08. You Don't Have To Go (5:02)
09. Poison Ivy (3:41)

Personnel:
Eddie Clearwater: Guitar & vocals
Jimmy Dawkins: Guitar
Sylvester Boines: Bass
Freddie Below: Drums

Recorded November 5, 1976.

Eddie Clearwater, was born in Macon, Mississippi. An excellent guitarist, he is above all an outstanding singer with a beautifully harsh, teasing voice which he uses like an extra instrument. Making the most of this, he runs the emotional scales from desperation to exhuberance - sometimes broken with emotion other times bouyed up with a vibrant lust for life. Eddie Clean/rater's, mastery of the emotional understatement brings a renewed vitality to blues classics like ' Hoochie Coochie Man", "Rock Me Baby", "My Babe" and "Things I Used To Do", and masterly reveals the hidden beauty in less familiar numbers like "Black Night Is Falling" and "Chicago Dailey Blues". Eddie Clearwater, yet another great blues singer who could so easily have remained undiscovered outside his home town ... until now. ~Marcelle Morgantini.

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Jimmy Dawkins - Blues And Pain

Year: 1994
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:53
Size: 110,3 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. Right To Quit You (3:53)
2. No Pain (5:48)
3. Blues And Soul (3:32)
4. Lonely Guitar Man (5:20)
5. Fool In Heah (5:39)
6. Gitar Jive (4:23)
7. Know Your Lover (4:41)
8. Driftin' Sand (3:54)
9. Down With The Blues (6:44)
10. Who Done It (3:55)

Chicago guitarist Jimmy Dawkins would have preferred to leave his longtime nickname "Fast Fingers" behind. It was always something of a stylistic misnomer anyway; Dawkins' West Side-styled guitar slashed and surged, but seldom burned with incendiary speed. Dawkins' blues were generally of the brooding, introspective variety - he didn't engage in flashy pyrotechnics or outrageous showmanship.

It took a long time for Dawkins to progress from West Side fixture to nationally known recording artist. He rode a Greyhound bus out of Mississippi in 1955, dressing warmly to ward off the Windy City's infamous chill factor. Only trouble was, he arrived on a sweltering July day! Harpist Billy Boy Arnold offered the newcomer encouragement, and he eventually carved out a niche on the competitive West Side scene (his peers included Magic Sam and Luther Allison).

Sam introduced Dawkins to Delmark Records boss Bob Koester. Fast Fingers, Dawkins' 1969 debut LP for Delmark - which remained his best album - was a taut, uncompromising piece of work that won the Grand Prix du Disque de Jazz from the Hot Club of France in 1971 as the year's top album. Andrew "Big Voice" Odom shared the singing and Otis Rush the second guitar duties on Dawkins' 1971 encore, All for Business.

But after his Delmark LP Blisterstring, Dawkins' subsequent recordings lacked intensity until 1991's oddly titled Kant Sheck Dees Bluze for Chicago's Earwig Records. After that, Dawkins waxed discs for Ichiban and Fedora, and continued to tour extensively until health problems slowed him down. Jimmy Dawkins passed away April 10, 2013. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Jimmy Dawkins - Tell Me Baby

Year: 2004
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:28
Size: 130,2 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. Tell Me Baby (5:06)
2. Falling Tears (6:31)
3. Kotten Field Jump (4:11)
4. Mean O' Blues (5:44)
5. Gitar King (4:47)
6. Mid Nite Boogie (5:40)
7. Tired Of Krying (4:46)
8. Bring It Back (5:01)
9. Rumping 'N' Stomping (6:59)
10. Hard Life Blues (7:39)

Jimmy Dawkins was one of the originators of the tough West Side sound in Chicago blues. Since his initial appearance on Delmark in the late '60s, his career has had its ups and downs, often going years without recording. After a string of lackluster releases in the '80s, and some time away from performing, Dawkins started to find his feet again in the early '90s. Tell Me Baby is Dawkins' second album for Fedora and features the same core players as his earlier effort for the label from 2001: Frank Goldwasser on guitar, John Suhr on organ, and Chris Millar on drums and producing. Additionally on this 2003 session, Dawkins is rejoined by guitarist Rich Kirch, whom he played with back in the '70s.

The first track stumbles a bit, with Dawkins' guitar too low in the mix and perhaps just a bit too much production gloss. But as things progress, the band seems to pick up steam, and his guitar takes its proper place upfront. Dawkins' impassioned singing still hits home, his tough guitar soloing has lost none of its edge (there is still no one who plays quite like him), and the tunes give him plenty of room to stretch out. Tell Me Baby will never take the place of his early Delmark material, but it's good to hear an unsung bluesman like Dawkins still kicking it out after 35 years. /Sean Westergaard, AllMusic

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Jimmy Dawkins - Kant Sheck Dees Bluze

Year: 1991
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:37
Size: 162,7 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. I Ain't Got It (4:16)
2. Rockin D. Blues (5:53)
3. Made The Hard Way (5:52)
4. A Love Like That (4:08)
5. Kant Sheck Dees Bluze (9:10)
6. Gittar Rapp (4:56)
7. Too Bad Baby (4:31)
8. My Man Loves Me (4:13)
9. Get On The Ball (5:11)
10. Wes Cide Bluze (4:58)
11. Beetin Nockin Ringin (7:08)
12. Luv Sumbody (4:03)
13. Gotta Hold On (6:10)

Chicago guitarist Jimmy Dawkins would have preferred to leave his longtime nickname "Fast Fingers" behind. It was always something of a stylistic misnomer anyway; Dawkins' West Side-styled guitar slashed and surged, but seldom burned with incendiary speed. Dawkins' blues were generally of the brooding, introspective variety - he didn't engage in flashy pyrotechnics or outrageous showmanship.

It took a long time for Dawkins to progress from West Side fixture to nationally known recording artist. He rode a Greyhound bus out of Mississippi in 1955, dressing warmly to ward off the Windy City's infamous chill factor. Only trouble was, he arrived on a sweltering July day! Harpist Billy Boy Arnold offered the newcomer encouragement, and he eventually carved out a niche on the competitive West Side scene (his peers included Magic Sam and Luther Allison).

Sam introduced Dawkins to Delmark Records boss Bob Koester. Fast Fingers, Dawkins' 1969 debut LP for Delmark - which remained his best album - was a taut, uncompromising piece of work that won the Grand Prix du Disque de Jazz from the Hot Club of France in 1971 as the year's top album. Andrew "Big Voice" Odom shared the singing and Otis Rush the second guitar duties on Dawkins' 1971 encore, All for Business.

But after his Delmark LP Blisterstring, Dawkins' subsequent recordings lacked intensity until 1991's oddly titled Kant Sheck Dees Bluze for Chicago's Earwig Records. After that, Dawkins waxed discs for Ichiban and Fedora, and continued to tour extensively until health problems slowed him down. Jimmy Dawkins passed away April 10, 2013. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Jimmy Dawkins - West Side Guitar Hero

Year: 2002
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:20
Size: 134,5 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. Alley Mae (7:28)
2. Jammin' Gitar (4:11)
3. Go On Baby (6:43)
4. I'm What U Need (4:50)
5. Sweet Li'l Mama (6:36)
6. Everybody's Jumping (5:56)
7. Dollar Head Woman (5:04)
8. Wess Cide Rock (4:48)
9. Shee Leff Me (5:04)
10. So Wurrid (3:07)
11. U Made Me Luv U (4:28)

Dawkins' first new album in years. And what a great record this is! Dawkins, one of the last Westside style players of his generation, sounds 'young', powerful, almost aggressive. He still has that fat tone, and he loves to play. You'll get powerful rhythm pattern and extended never-boring solos. Good backing, too. Probably his best release since 'Kant Shack ...'. Highly recommended to all lovers of powerful electric style blues guitar!

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Jimmy Dawkins - Tribute To Orange (With Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown & Otis Rush)

Size: 147,5 MB
Time: 63:48
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1974/1993
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. All For Business (6:02)
02. You've Got To Keep On Trying (6:15)
03. Ain't Never Had Nothing (3:19)
04. Born In Poverty (4:44)
05. Marcelle Morgantini's Cassoulet (6:07)
06. Your Love (3:32)
07. Tribute To Orange (4:27)
08. Mississippi Bound (6:41)
09. Life Is A Mean Mistreater (6:11)
10. Mean Atlantic Ocean (5:45)
11. It Serves You Right To Suffer (3:43)
12. Marcelle Jacques Et Luc (3:56)
13. Ode To Billy Joe (3:00)

Jimmy Dawkins' infrequent albums are always a joy, and that was the case when he made his first sojourn to Europe in 1970 and recorded LPs for Black & Blue, Vogue, and Excello in France and England. This disc features eight numbers pairing Dawkins and the great Gatemouth Brown and another four matching him with equally sensational Otis Rush. The Brown/Dawkins tandem duel, match, and challenge each other as Dawkins' sometimes enigmatic, sometimes bemused and often compelling vocals set the stage for their instrumental encounters. The same holds true on the Rush/Dawkins cuts. While Rush provides searing licks and twisting solos, Dawkins' singing sets the tone with its urgent inflections and weary, resigned quality. ~Review by Ron Wynn

Tribute To Orange

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Jimmy Dawkins - Blisterstring

Size: 140,3 MB
Time: 61:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1977/1996
Styles: Electric Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Feel So Bad (7:38)
02. Blue Monday (4:19)
03. Chitlins Con Carne (3:51)
04. She Got The Blues Too (6:59)
05. If You're Ready (5:10)
06. Blues With A Feeling (5:55)
07. Ode To Billie Joe (4:37)
08. Welfare Line (7:58)
09. Shufflin The Blues (4:49)
10. Peeple Will Talk (6:14)
11. Sea Of Luv (3:42)

This album was the last blues session at the famous Ter-Mar studio where innumerable Chess records were made, many of them engineered, as this was, by Malcolm Chisholm. Dawkins's guitar sounds huge and utterly dominates the band. Fortunately so on the tracks where Johnson plays wah-wah rhythm guitar, a touch that dates the music as surely as if Dawkins had come to session in a kaftan. In songs like 'Welfare Line' and 'Peeple [sic!] Will Talk' the album marks the leader's transition as a singer from tentative to assured. He has also pared down his guitar playing, exchanging the frantic space-filling of his first two albums ( for Delmark) for a more economical and deliberate style. Today 'Blisterstring' stands the test of time as a perfect showcase of talents of a unique original artist.

Personnel:
Jimmy Dawkins - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Jimmy Johnson - Rhythm Guitar;
Sonny Thompson - Piano;
Sylvester Boines - Bass; Tyrone Centuray - Drums

Blisterstring

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Detroit Jr. - Blues On The Internet

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:14
Size: 140.2 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:24] 1. Call My Job
[2:45] 2. Hot Pants Baby
[5:42] 3. Weak Spot
[3:40] 4. Money Crazy
[3:38] 5. Less Violence, More Love
[3:51] 6. Love No One But You
[3:32] 7. Rockin' After Midnight
[5:23] 8. Somebody Better Do Something
[3:57] 9. Just You My Love
[2:31] 10. When It Comes To Your Love
[6:51] 11. Blues On The Internet
[2:29] 12. Messin' With The Kid
[3:17] 13. Which One Of Us You Want To Please
[4:58] 14. Man Around The House
[4:09] 15. Party All Night Long

Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Eric Schneider; Bass – Bob Stroger; Drums – Kenny Smith; Guitar – Jimmy Dawkins, Lurrie Bell, Maurice John Vaughn, Willie Davis; Horns – Sonny Cohn; Piano, Vocals – Detroit Junior.

Veteran blues pianist (and longtime Howlin' Wolf sideman) Emery Williams Jr. -- known professionally as Detroit Junior -- has had a renaissance of sorts in the past decade, releasing three albums on Blue Suit Records, and now this one, Blues on the Internet, on Delmark Records. Williams is a throwback to the classic Chicago blues piano style, and his warm, expressive vocals fall somewhere between a hoarse Ray Charles and a latter-day Bob Dylan, while his songwriting, although hardly innovative, is solid and workmanlike, avoiding most of the obvious blues clichés. His intent isn't to move blues into the 21st century so much as preserve the way it was played in Chicago in the 1950s (where Williams played alongside the likes of Jimmy Reed, Eddie Boyd, Eddie Taylor, and Little Mack Simmons), and he succeeds wonderfully on original tracks here like his signature tune, "Call My Job," "Money Crazy," and "Somebody Better Do Something," as well as a nice cover of Lowell Fulson's "Rockin' After Midnight." The disc also includes a Quicktime video of Williams, along with a short interview. Fans of vintage Chicago blues piano will find this collection a delight, while listeners looking for gutbucket electric guitar leads will be better served turning elsewhere. ~Steve Leggett

Blues On The Internet

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Jimmy Dawkins, Chicago Beau, 'Blue Ice' Bragason - Blues From Iceland

Size: 165,7 MB
Time: 71:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Welfare Line ( 7:47)
02. That's Alright ( 6:36)
03. You Don't Love Me ( 4:06)
04. Feel So Bad ( 5:21)
05. Too Much Alcohol ( 3:38)
06. Tin Pan Alley ( 7:02)
07. Help Me ( 9:01)
08. One Room Country Shack ( 8:11)
09. Nightlife ( 8:33)
10. Sometimes I Have A Heartache (11:05)

Personnel:
Jimmy Dawkins - Guitar, Vocals tr.1-4,9
Chicago BEAU - Vocals tr.5_8
'Blue Ice' Bragason, Gudmundur Petursson - Guitars
Haraldur Porrsteinsson - Bass
Asgeir Oskarsson, Johann Hjorleifsson - Drums

Dawkins's appearance at a club in Reykjavik was effected by the singer and writer Chicago Beau, who takes his place on four of the ten tracks. Petursson is evidently at home with this sort of music but the bassist sometimes drags, and the guest guitar is under-recorded. Jimmy Dawkins played and sings on five tracks. On last track vocal provided by Andrea Gylfadottir. Except Dawkins and Beau, all musicians was from Iceland.

Blues From Iceland

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Jimmy Dawkins - All For Business

Size: 140,1 MB
Time: 59:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1972/1990
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. All For Bussiness (4:46)
02. Cotton Country (8:15)
03. Moon Man (5:04)
04. Down So Long (4:03)
05. Welfare Blues (4:31)
06. Having Such A Hard Time (3:44)
07. Sweet Home Chicago (7:25)
08. Born In Poverty (7:27)
09. Jammin' With Otis (6:58)
10. Hippies Playground (3:22)
11. Moon Man (4:16)

Personnel:
Jimmy Dawkins - Guitar, Vocals on tr.4,10
Big Voice Odom - Vocals
Otis Rush - Guitar
Sonny Thompson - Piano, Organ
Jim Conley - Tenor Saxophone
Earnest Gatewood - Bass
Robert Crowder, Charles Hicks - Drums

This time around, Dawkins handed the majority of the vocal duties to Andrew "Big Voice" Odom and concentrated on his guitar (actually, he had some potent help in that department, too: Otis Rush was on second guitar). A generally solid but not overly enthralling set, with two bonus cuts and an alternate take of "Moon Man" added to the CD version. ~by Bill Dahl

All For Business

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Jimmy Dawkins - Me, My Guitar And The Blues

Size: 113,6 MB
Time: 49:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Back To School (5:00)
02. You Don't Want Me (4:27)
03. Down, Down Baby (3:20)
04. I'm Running (6:08)
05. Tuff Girl (4:59)
06. Me, My Guitar And The Blues (6:48)
07. Jimmy's Bag (3:41)
08. Tru Love (6:13)
09. Back Street Blues (3:42)
10. Cold As Hell (4:51)

Chicago guitarist Jimmy Dawkins would just as soon leave his longtime nickname "Fast Fingers" behind. It was always something of a stylistic misnomer anyway; Dawkins' West Side-styled guitar slashes and surges, but seldom burns with incendiary speed. Dawkins' blues are generally of the brooding, introspective variety -- he doesn't engage in flashy pyrotechnics or outrageous showmanship.
It took a long time for Dawkins to progress from West Side fixture to nationally known recording artist. He rode a Greyhound bus out of Mississippi in 1955, dressing warmly to ward off the Windy City's infamous chill factor. Only trouble was, he arrived on a sweltering July day! Harpist Billy Boy Arnold offered the newcomer encouragement, and he eventually carved out a niche on the competitive West Side scene (his peers included Magic Sam and Luther Allison).

Sam introduced Dawkins to Delmark Records boss Bob Koester. Fast Fingers, Dawkins' 1969 debut LP for Delmark -- still his best album to date -- was a taut, uncompromising piece of work that won the Grand Prix du Disque de Jazz from the Hot Club of France in 1971 as the year's top album. Andrew "Big Voice" Odom shared the singing and Otis Rush the second guitar duties on Dawkins' 1971 encore, All for Business. But after his Delmark LP Blisterstring, Dawkins' subsequent recordings lacked intensity until 1991's oddly titled Kant Sheck Dees Bluze for Chicago's Earwig Records. After that, Dawkins waxed discs for Ichiban and Fedora, and continued to tour extensively. ~Bio by Bill Dahl

Me, My Guitar And The Blues

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Jimmy Dawkins - Hot Wire '81

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:56
Size: 96.0 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1981/2014
Art: Front

[5:59] 1. You Just A Baby Child
[5:29] 2. Ruff Times
[8:24] 3. Welfare Line
[7:14] 4. Kold Actions
[5:08] 5. Roc-Kin-Sole
[4:24] 6. Peeper's Music
[5:15] 7. My Way

Bass – Sylvester Boines; Drums – James Schutte; Lead Guitar – Jimmy Dawkins; Rhythm Guitar – Richard Kirch; Vocals – Jimmy Dawkins. Recorded at Studio Davout, Paris, on March 22th 1981.

Chicago guitarist Jimmy Dawkins would have preferred to leave his longtime nickname "Fast Fingers" behind. It was always something of a stylistic misnomer anyway; Dawkins' West Side-styled guitar slashed and surged, but seldom burned with incendiary speed. Dawkins' blues were generally of the brooding, introspective variety -- he didn't engage in flashy pyrotechnics or outrageous showmanship. It took a long time for Dawkins to progress from West Side fixture to nationally known recording artist. He rode a Greyhound bus out of Mississippi in 1955, dressing warmly to ward off the Windy City's infamous chill factor. Only trouble was, he arrived on a sweltering July day! Harpist Billy Boy Arnold offered the newcomer encouragement, and he eventually carved out a niche on the competitive West Side scene (his peers included Magic Sam and Luther Allison). Sam introduced Dawkins to Delmark Records boss Bob Koester. Fast Fingers, Dawkins' 1969 debut LP for Delmark -- which remained his best album -- was a taut, uncompromising piece of work that won the Grand Prix du Disque de Jazz from the Hot Club of France in 1971 as the year's top album. Andrew "Big Voice" Odom shared the singing and Otis Rush the second guitar duties on Dawkins' 1971 encore, All for Business. But after his Delmark LP Blisterstring, Dawkins' subsequent recordings lacked intensity until 1991's oddly titled Kant Sheck Dees Bluze for Chicago's Earwig Records. After that, Dawkins waxed discs for Ichiban and Fedora, and continued to tour extensively until health problems slowed him down. Jimmy Dawkins passed away April 10, 2013. ~ bio by Bill Dahl

Hot Wire '81

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Peps Persson - The Week Peps Came To Chicago (2 CD Edition)

Peps Persson was probably the most important artist in introducing blues to Sweden in the late '60s and early '70s. Since then he has had a reputation of being mainly a blues artist, but his discography shows a much wider range, including Afro-pop, reggae, R&B, and folk. Peps Persson is most easily recognized by his full and trembling voice, and his extreme deep south (Swedish) dialect that gives him a wide selection of words and rhymes. In a peculiar way it also helps him to adapt Swedish to blues music, a thing not many have mastered. In 1966, Peps Persson formed the group Downbeat Crowd and released a cover of Muddy Waters' "Got My Mojo Working" as a single.

The first LP, Blues Connection, was released 1968 on Gazell and the name of the band was now Linkin' Louisiana Peps. The coming few records were released on Sonet, a label he would keep to for most of his career, and followed a traditional blues and R&B formula. The Week Peps Came to Chicago was recorded in Chicago 1972 with Sunnyland Slim, Carey Bell, Mighty Joe Young, The Aces and Jimmy Dawkins.

Album: The Week Peps Came To Chicago
Year: 1972/2005
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:25 + 50:38
Size: 120,8 + 116,8 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

CD 1:
1. Apollo 15 (2:30)
2. You're A Part Of It (3:11)
3. There's Tears In Your Eyes (4:49)
4. Your Loving Eases My Load (2:44)
5. Carey Bell's Blues (5:24)
6. There's Tears In Your Eyes (Alternate Take) (6:30)
7. Born In The Country (3:10)
8. Five O'Clock In The Morning (4:32)
9. Jump (2:49)
10. The War Is Over (3:51)
11. Mighty Joe (4:12)
12. Born In The Country (Alternate Take) (3:35)
13. Mighty Joe (Alternate Take) (5:02)

CD 1 tracks 1-6: With Sunnyland Slim & Carey Bell
CD 1 Tracks 7-13: With Mighty Joe Young's Band

CD 2:
1. The Way You Touch Me (3:03)
2. My Friend Needs A Shot (5:13)
3. Peps' Thing (3:14)
4. Gypsy Woman (3:02)
5. Slidin' To Sweden (3:50)
6. The Way You Touch Me (Alternate Take) (3:45)
7. Gypsy Woman (Alternate Take) (3:30)
8. If There's A Train (3:35)
9. Key To The Highway (3:00)
10. Last Night (4:58)
11. Going Back To The Country (3:37)
12. If There's A Train (Alternate Take) (3:27)
13. Key To The Highway (Alternate Take) (3:00)
14. Going Back To The Country (Alternate Take) (3:18)

CD 2 tracks 1-7: With The Aces
CD 2 tracks 8-14: With Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins And His Band

(For further information on the musicians playing, see the booklet liner notes.)

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Andrew 'Big Voice' Odom - Going To California

Year: 1995
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:14
Size: 134,2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Going To California (7:45)
2. I Don't Know (7:42)
3. Thrill Is Gone (5:27)
4. Stormy Monday Blues (5:51)
5. All For Business (5:21)
6. Rock Me Baby (4:48)
7. Wonder Why (4:34)
8. Sitting Here Wondering (6:48)
9. I Can't Go On The Way (7:00)
10. Mojo Working (2:53)

Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", 3001 W. Madison, October 28, 1976. Last two tracks previously unissued! Blues fans may already feel they know Andrew "Big Voice" Odom from the records he cut with Black & Blue and Delmark, or through his European tour with The Chicago Blues Festival in 1974. But to really gel to know him, you'd have had to have heard him at the "Checkerboard", "Pepper's", the "South Louise Lounge" - or as is the case here, "Ma Bea's" - the various ghetto clubs in Chicago, where he spent most of his evenings. For this recording, "Big Voice" is surrounded, supported and urged on by Jimmy Dawkin's band. He is a heart gripping, dramatic guitarist. The wonderful lyrical second guitarist, Jimmy Johnson, accompanies most of the tunes on this fine live album.

Andrew "Big Voice" Odom (vo): Jimmy Dawkins (g); Jimmy Johnson (g); Sylvester Boines (b); Tyrone Centuray (dr); Carey Bell (Harmonica on 9).

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Cousin Joe - Bad Luck Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:37
Size: 115.9 MB
Styles: New Orleans blues
Year: 1973/2007
Art: Front

[3:28] 1. I Don't Want No Second Hand Love
[5:13] 2. Goin' Down Slow
[2:29] 3. Box Car Shorty
[4:16] 4. Life Is A One Way Ticket
[2:50] 5. The Chicken And The Hawk
[3:59] 6. Bad Luck Blues
[3:14] 7. Take A Lesson From Your Teacher
[3:53] 8. I'm Living On Borrowed Time
[2:41] 9. That's Enough
[3:29] 10. Levee Blues
[3:15] 11. Tore Down
[2:41] 12. Railroad Porter Blues
[2:42] 13. Chicken And The Hawk
[4:35] 14. Goin' Down Slow
[1:44] 15. That's Enough

The New Orleans pianist ventured overseas in 1971 and waxed this CD along the way with a mighty unlikely band: guitarists Gatemouth Brown and Jimmy Dawkins and a Chicago rhythm section (bassist Mac Thompson and drummer Ted Harvey). A lesser musician might have wilted with players so unfamiliar with his basic approach, but Pleasant's bubbly ebullience and the strength of his "Box Car Shorty," "Life Is a One Way Ticket," and "Railroad Porter Blues" saved the day. ~Bill Dahl

Bad Luck Blues

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