Jimmy Johnson - Bar Room Preacher

Album: Bar Room Preacher
Size: 95,7 MB
Time: 41:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1983
Styles: Blues, Chicago blues
Art: Full

1. You Don't Know What Love Is (5:14)
2. Little By Little (4:25)
3. When My First Wife Quit Me (5:07)
4. Chicken Heads (4:01)
5. I Have The Same Old Blues (2:51)
6. Cold, Cold Feeling (5:43)
7. Happy Home (3:37)
8. Heap See (4:19)
9. Missing Link (5:59)

Unlike his Delmark sets, almost everything on this set (first issued in France on Black & Blue) is a cover (only the observant "Heap See" boasts original lyrics). Still, "Bar Room Preacher" stands as the Chicago guitarist's most satisfying and consistent album, as he deals out gorgeous, shimmering versions of "Little by Little, " "Cold, Cold Feeling, " and "You Don't Know What Love Is" tailored to his soaring vocals and twisting guitar riffs (ominous minor keys often play a role in his rearrangements). /Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Jimmy Johnson - I'm A Jockey

Album: I'm A Jockey
Size: 137,2 MB
Time: 59:28
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995/2003
Styles: Blues, Chicago blues
Art: Full

1. That Will Never Do (5:45)
2. Jockey (5:40)
3. Engine Number 9 (4:13)
4. My Ring (4:19)
5. Highway 13 (5:47)
6. As The Years Go Passing By (9:04)
7. Black & White Wall (3:57)
8. The Highway Is Like A Woman (6:37)
9. In The Midnight Hour (3:22)
10. End Of A Rainbow (4:26)
11. Look Over Yonders's Wall (6:12)

It shouldn't have taken Johnson a full decade to find his way back into a studio, but such are the injustices of the record business. The wait was worth it, though - backed by his touring trio of the timeframe, Johnson mixes blues and soul, originals (a heartfelt "Black & White Wall" and the soaring ballad "My Ring") and covers (his takes on McKinley Mitchell's "End of a Rainbow" and Wilson Pickett's "Engine Number 9" hit home), in decidedly solid contemporary form. /Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Jimmy Johnson - Livin' The Life

Album: Livin' The Life
Size: 126,5 MB
Time: 54:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1993
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. I Used To Be A Millionaire (5:41)
2. You Don't Have To Go (5:12)
3. Drowning On Dry Land (5:40)
4. Something You Got (5:32)
5. Livin' The Life (4:18)
6. The Sky Is Crying (5:42)
7. Bring It On Home To Me (4:44)
8. Pretty Baby (3:30)
9. Born Under A Bad Sign (4:18)
10. Quick Sand (6:46)
11. Where There's A Will, There's A Way (3:24)

Chicago guitarist Jimmy Johnson didn't release his first full domestic album until he was 50 years old. He's determinedly made up for lost time ever since, establishing himself as one of the Windy City's premier blues artists with a twisting, unpredictable guitar style and a soaring, soul-dripping vocal delivery that stand out from the pack.

Born into a musical family (younger brother Syl Johnson's credentials as a soul star are all in order, while sibling Mack Thompson was Magic Sam's first-call bassist), Jimmy Thompson moved to Chicago with his family in 1950. But his guitar playing remained a hobby for years - he toiled as a welder while Syl blazed a trail on the local blues circuit. Finally, in 1959, Jimmy Thompson started gigging with harpist Slim Willis around the West Side. Somewhere down the line, he changed his surname to Johnson (thus keeping pace with Syl).

Since there was more cash to be realized playing R&B during the 1960s, Jimmy Johnson concentrated on that end of the stylistic spectrum for a while. He led polished house bands on the South Side and West Side behind Otis Clay, Denise LaSalle, and Garland Green, also cutting an occasional instrumental 45. Johnson found his way back to the blues in 1974 as Jimmy Dawkins' rhythm guitarist. He toured Japan behind Otis Rush in 1975 (the journey that produced Rush's album So Many Roads - Live in Concert).

With the 1978 release of four stunning sides on Alligator's first batch of Living Chicago Blues anthologies and the issue of Johnson's Whacks, his first full domestic set on Delmark the next year, Jimmy Johnson's star began ascending rapidly. North/South, the guitarist's 1982 Delmark follow-up, and the 1983 release of Bar Room Preacher by Alligator continued to propel Johnson into the first rank of Chicago bluesdom. Then tragedy struck: on December 2, 1988, Johnson was driving his band's van when it swerved off the road in downstate Indiana, killing bassist Larry Exum and keyboardist St. James Bryant.

Understandably, Johnson, himself injured in the wreck, wasn't too interested in furthering his career for a time after the tragedy. But he was back back in the harness by the mid-'90s, cutting a solid set for Verve in 1994, I'm a Jockey, that spotlighted his blues-soul synthesis most effectively. Every Road Ends, recorded in France and released on Ruf, followed in 1999. A collaboration with his brother Syl appeared in the summer of 2002, the cleverly titled Two Johnsons Are Better Than One. Brothers Live, recorded by Jimmy Johnson and the Chicago Dave Blues Band featuring saxophonist Sam Burckhardt at Switzerland’s Basel Blues Festival in 2002, arrived in 2004. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

R.I.P. Jimmy Johnson (Nov. 25, 1928 - Jan. 31, 2022)

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Jimmy Johnson - Heap See

Album: Heap See
Size: 117,5 MB
Time: 50:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1987/2002
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Chicken Heads (4:01)
2. Cold Cold Feeling (5:44)
3. Heap See (4:19)
4. I've The Same Old Blues (2:50)
5. Little By Little (4:27)
6. When My First Wife Quit Me (5:06)
7. You Don't Know What Love Is (5:15)
8. Happy Home (3:37)
9. Tobacco Road (5:26)
10. Missing Link (6:02)
11. I Don't Want No Woman (3:55)

Chicago guitarist Jimmy Johnson didn't release his first full domestic album until he was 50 years old. He's determinedly made up for lost time ever since, establishing himself as one of the Windy City's premier blues artists with a twisting, unpredictable guitar style and a soaring, soul-dripping vocal delivery that stand out from the pack.

Born into a musical family (younger brother Syl Johnson's credentials as a soul star are all in order, while sibling Mack Thompson was Magic Sam's first-call bassist), Jimmy Thompson moved to Chicago with his family in 1950. But his guitar playing remained a hobby for years - he toiled as a welder while Syl blazed a trail on the local blues circuit. Finally, in 1959, Jimmy Thompson started gigging with harpist Slim Willis around the West Side. Somewhere down the line, he changed his surname to Johnson (thus keeping pace with Syl).

Since there was more cash to be realized playing R&B during the 1960s, Jimmy Johnson concentrated on that end of the stylistic spectrum for a while. He led polished house bands on the South Side and West Side behind Otis Clay, Denise LaSalle, and Garland Green, also cutting an occasional instrumental 45. Johnson found his way back to the blues in 1974 as Jimmy Dawkins' rhythm guitarist. He toured Japan behind Otis Rush in 1975 (the journey that produced Rush's album So Many Roads - Live in Concert).

With the 1978 release of four stunning sides on Alligator's first batch of Living Chicago Blues anthologies and the issue of Johnson's Whacks, his first full domestic set on Delmark the next year, Jimmy Johnson's star began ascending rapidly. North/South, the guitarist's 1982 Delmark follow-up, and the 1983 release of Bar Room Preacher by Alligator continued to propel Johnson into the first rank of Chicago bluesdom. Then tragedy struck: on December 2, 1988, Johnson was driving his band's van when it swerved off the road in downstate Indiana, killing bassist Larry Exum and keyboardist St. James Bryant.

Understandably, Johnson, himself injured in the wreck, wasn't too interested in furthering his career for a time after the tragedy. But he was back back in the harness by the mid-'90s, cutting a solid set for Verve in 1994, I'm a Jockey, that spotlighted his blues-soul synthesis most effectively. Every Road Ends, recorded in France and released on Ruf, followed in 1999. A collaboration with his brother Syl appeared in the summer of 2002, the cleverly titled Two Johnsons Are Better Than One. Brothers Live, recorded by Jimmy Johnson and the Chicago Dave Blues Band featuring saxophonist Sam Burckhardt at Switzerland’s Basel Blues Festival in 2002, arrived in 2004. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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R.I.P. Jimmy Johnson (Nov. 25, 1928 - Jan. 31, 2022)

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Syl & Jimmy Johnson - Two Johnsons Are Better Than One

Album: Two Johnsons Are Better Than One
Size: 140,5 MB
Time: 60:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001/2002
Styles: Blues/Funk/Soul
Art: Front, tray

1. Two Johnsons Are Better Than One (4:50)
2. Uncomplicated Life (5:26)
3. I Used To Be A Millionaire (4:24)
4. Is It Because I'm Black (5:20)
5. If I Wuz White (4:25)
6. I Feel The Pain (3:59)
7. Oprah (4:12)
8. Ashes In The Ashtray (6:06)
9. Dangerous (3:10)
10. Let Her Go (3:07)
11. Living The Life (4:00)
12. I Can't Survive (3:18)
13. Goodie Goodie Goodtime (3:44)
14. Bottoms Up (4:41)

Look beyond the jokey title on the first record co-billed to brothers Syl and Jimmy Johnson - concentrate on the music, which happens to be an easy, effortless fusion of Jimmy's modern Chicago blues and Syl's bluesy soul. Both brothers let the other breathe, giving them space to stretch out instrumentally, as well as deliver easy, soulful vocals. They smartly rely on their own material throughout most of the album, both new and old (a nice revival of Syl's classic "Is It Because I'm Black," for instance).

The production, like many contemporary blues albums, relies on cleanliness and precision instead of grit, which is too bad, but that ultimately doesn't distract too much from the performances, which are warm, friendly, and engaging, filled with brotherly love. /Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic

Personnel: Syl Johnson (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Jimmy Johnson (vocals, guitar, piano, organ); Will Crosby (guitar); Anthony Space (keyboards); Frank Collier (bass); Darrell Peyton (drums).

R.I.P. Syl Johnson (Jul. 1, 1936 - Feb. 6, 2022) & Jimmy Johnson (Nov. 25, 1928 - Jan. 31, 2022)

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Jimmy Johnson - North/South

Album: North/South
Size: 91,2 MB
Time: 39:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1982/1999
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Country Preacher (4:42)
2. Can't Go No Further (6:23)
3. Track To Run (2:52)
4. Walking On Thin Ice (4:51)
5. Talking 'Bout Chicago (4:45)
6. A Woman Ain't Supposed To Be Hard (4:32)
7. I Can't Survive (3:46)
8. Sang A Song In Heaven (2:56)
9. Dead Or Alive (4:40)

Finally reissued on CD in 1999, nearly 20 years after its initial release, Jimmy Johnson's North/South is worth the wait for fans of electric Chicago blues with soul and rock influences. Probably named in tribute to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's epic East-West album (Butterfield's guitarist Michael Bloomfield had died just prior to the album's recording), North/South is third-generation Chicago blues, far enough removed from the music's gutbucket origins to seamlessly incorporate influences like Carl Snyder's soulful organ on the opening "Country Preacher," but still connected enough to its roots that songs like "Can't Go No Further" and "A Woman Ain't Supposed to Be Hard" have the passion and soul sometimes missing from the smoother likes of Robert Cray.

Other highlights include a swinging, funky instrumental, "Walking on Thin Ice," with excellent piano and guitar solos from Snyder and Johnson, and the syncopated R&B of "Sang a Song in Heaven" - songs that prove that a true bluesman doesn't have to be constrained by the genre's rules of authenticity, and can stretch the form without being a pop sell-out. /Stewart Mason, AllMusic

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R.I.P. Jimmy Johnson (Nov. 25, 1928 - Jan. 31, 2022)

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Jimmy Johnson - Tobacco Road

Album: Tobacco Road
Size: 141,5 MB
Time: 61:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1978/1997
Styles: Blues, Chicago blues
Art: Full

1. Long About Midnight (7:08)
2. Strange Things Happening (5:27)
3. Look On Yonder Wall (3:36)
4. I'm Crazy About My Baby (4:29)
5. Tobacco Road (6:00)
6. Breaking Up Somebody's Home (5:03)
7. Sweet Little Angel (5:20)
8. Three Times Chicago (4:44)
9. Boe Ties Riff (4:55)
10. Engine No. 9 (5:13)
11. Midnight Hour (4:10)
12. Take Five (4:54)

Chicago guitarist Jimmy Johnson didn't release his first full domestic album until he was 50 years old. He's determinedly made up for lost time ever since, establishing himself as one of the Windy City's premier blues artists with a twisting, unpredictable guitar style and a soaring, soul-dripping vocal delivery that stand out from the pack.

Born into a musical family (younger brother Syl Johnson's credentials as a soul star are all in order, while sibling Mack Thompson was Magic Sam's first-call bassist), Jimmy Thompson moved to Chicago with his family in 1950. But his guitar playing remained a hobby for years - he toiled as a welder while Syl blazed a trail on the local blues circuit. Finally, in 1959, Jimmy Thompson started gigging with harpist Slim Willis around the West Side. Somewhere down the line, he changed his surname to Johnson (thus keeping pace with Syl).

Since there was more cash to be realized playing R&B during the 1960s, Jimmy Johnson concentrated on that end of the stylistic spectrum for a while. He led polished house bands on the South Side and West Side behind Otis Clay, Denise LaSalle, and Garland Green, also cutting an occasional instrumental 45. Johnson found his way back to the blues in 1974 as Jimmy Dawkins' rhythm guitarist. He toured Japan behind Otis Rush in 1975 (the journey that produced Rush's album So Many Roads - Live in Concert).

With the 1978 release of four stunning sides on Alligator's first batch of Living Chicago Blues anthologies and the issue of Johnson's Whacks, his first full domestic set on Delmark the next year, Jimmy Johnson's star began ascending rapidly. North/South, the guitarist's 1982 Delmark follow-up, and the 1983 release of Bar Room Preacher by Alligator continued to propel Johnson into the first rank of Chicago bluesdom. Then tragedy struck: on December 2, 1988, Johnson was driving his band's van when it swerved off the road in downstate Indiana, killing bassist Larry Exum and keyboardist St. James Bryant.

Understandably, Johnson, himself injured in the wreck, wasn't too interested in furthering his career for a time after the tragedy. But he was back back in the harness by the mid-'90s, cutting a solid set for Verve in 1994, I'm a Jockey, that spotlighted his blues-soul synthesis most effectively. Every Road Ends, recorded in France and released on Ruf, followed in 1999. A collaboration with his brother Syl appeared in the summer of 2002, the cleverly titled Two Johnsons Are Better Than One. Brothers Live, recorded by Jimmy Johnson and the Chicago Dave Blues Band featuring saxophonist Sam Burckhardt at Switzerland’s Basel Blues Festival in 2002, arrived in 2004. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

R.I.P. Jimmy Johnson (Nov. 25, 1928 - Jan. 31, 2022)

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Jimmy Johnson - Every Day Of Your Life

Year: 2019
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:17
Size: 102,5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front

1. Every Day Of Your Life (4:39)
2. I Need You So Bad (4:24)
3. My Ring (4:47)
4. Rattlesnake (5:43)
5. Somebody Loan Me A Dime (6:25)
6. Down In The Valley (4:38)
7. Strange Things Happening (6:02)
8. Better When It's Wet (4:34)
9. Lead Me On (3:01)

Four decades ago, Jimmy Johnson permanently established himself as a front-rank Chicago bluesman with his unusually imaginative Delmark debut album Johnson’s Whacks. Now he’s come full circle: Jimmy’s back on Delmark with this exciting release, which shows that he remains a vital blues force into his 90s. Johnson’s fluid, slicing guitar licks dart and spark with unpredictable elasticity throughout this set. His voice soars to the heavens time and again, never misplacing its melismatic passion no matter the tempo.

From the funky opening original “Every Day Of Your Life,” constructed around a wise lyrical message, to a churning “Down In The Valley” and exquisitely tailored revivals of the lights-out slow blues “Strange Things Happening” and a hard- driving “I Need You So Bad,” Jimmy is never less than masterful. Few contemporary bluesmen are so devastating when working in a minor key— witness Johnson’s personalized treatment of Fenton Robinson’s classic “Somebody Loan Me A Dime.” “My Ring,” another standout original, takes a swaying and unexpected reggae turn (pushing the stylistic envelope has long been one of Jimmy’s trademarks), and Johnson sits down behind the 88s for a solo reprise of Bobby “Blue” Bland’s uplifting “Lead Me On” to close the album in deeply moving style.?

Funny thing is, Jimmy only became a full-time blues guitarist in the mid-1970s. Prior to that, he mostly traversed the R&B side of the tracks. Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Johnson grew up along with another future blues luminary, Matt Murphy. “I picked up a guitar because Murphy had a guitar,” he says. Sacred and secular sounds competed for his attention. “My first time of singing in front of an audience, I was singing gospel,” notes Jimmy. “My uncle had a Victrola, the ones you wind up, and I got to hear John Lee Hooker, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, Sonny Boy Williamson.”

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Jimmy Johnson - Every Road Ends Somewhere

Year: 1999
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:53
Size: 117,3 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Roots Of All Evil (4:20)
2. My Baby By My Side (7:09)
3. Blue Monday (5:34)
4. Rock And A Hard Place (4:15)
5. The Street You Live On (4:52)
6. Ain't No Way (4:16)
7. Black Night (6:25)
8. Cut You Loose (5:15)
9. End Of The Road (4:30)
10. Everyday Of Your Life (4:13)

Jimmy Johnson’s debut for the German Ruf label alternately strikes creative sparks and smothers the flame. Working from a base that is as much soul as blues, the former Grammy Award nominee employs an uptown approach to both rhythm and backbeat, relying heavily on Kenny Lee’s vamping Hammond organ and a small, tight horn section. All of this is set against Johnson’s tart single-note guitar style and keening tenor vocals.

Johnson wrote seven of the album’s ten songs, and he is at his best when the words crack together with humor and wisdom. Such ditties as "Roots of All Evil," "Ain’t No Way" and "End of the Road" (featuring some energizing lead guitar from guest star Luther Allison) entertain as well as instruct his listeners on the merits of a good heart and a positive attitude. The former Magic Sam and Freddie King sideman also dishes out some tasty R&B with a reggae edge on "The Street You Live On," but this is the only diversion from a studio formula hampered by repetition.

Johnson and company seem unable to let go of a good groove and pad out nearly every tune with extra riffs and some lengthy same-sounding solos. This not only blunts the impact of the really good songs, it stagnates the slighter material. A little focus and restraint would have gone a long way toward improving these solid cover versions of "Cut You Loose" and "Black Night," yet they too are rendered tedious and overlong. A blues veteran of Johnson’s caliber is always worth a listen, but this outing would probably sit best with longtime fans rather than first-timers. /Ken Burke, BluesAccess

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VA - 1970s Slow Blues Jams

Size: 245,4 MB
Time: 105:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. John Hammond - Guitar King (3:36)
02. Big Mama Thornton - Jail (Live) (5:56)
03. Hound Dog Taylor - Sadie (6:12)
04. Son Seals - Sitting At My Window (4:30)
05. Albert Collins - When The Welfare Turns Its Back On You (5:24)
06. Jimmy Johnson - Your Turn To Cry (5:51)
07. Big Walter Horton - Little Boy Blue (3:12)
08. Left Hand Frank - One Room Country Shack (4:28)
09. Koko Taylor - Walking The Back Streets (6:46)
10. Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker - Worry, Worry (4:14)
11. Lovie Lee - Nobody Knows My Troubles (5:15)
12. Pinetop Perkins - Blues After Hours (5:00)
13. Lacy Gibson - Drown In My Own Tears (4:40)
14. Fenton Robinson - Going To Chicago (3:50)
15. Lonnie Brooks - Cold, Lonely Nights (4:42)
16. Hound Dog Taylor - Held My Baby Last Night (4:17)
17. Son Seals - Going Back Home (7:03)
18. Koko Taylor - That's Why I'm Crying (4:25)
19. Albert Collins - Conversation With Collins (8:49)
20. Big Mama Thornton - Rock Me Baby (6:42)

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Various Artists - Chicago Blues Bash

Year: 1992
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:13
Size: 93,1 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Front, back

1. Junior Wells - Good Morning Schoolgirl (3:54)
2. Big Joe Williams - I Done Stopped Hollering (4:16)
3. J.B. Hutto - Blues Do Me A Favor (3:42)
4. Jimmy Johnson - Poor Boy's Dream (4:35)
5. Big Joe Williams - Jumpin' In The Moonlight (3:39)
6. Junior Wells - Early In The Morning (4:48)
7. Big Joe Williams - Indiana Woman Blues (4:39)
8. J.B. Hutto - Young Hawks' Crawl (3:20)
9. Jimmy Johnson - Take Five (3:59)
10. Big Joe Williams - You're Gonna Need Big King Jesus (3:16)

The title Chicago Blues Bash sounds as if this material was taken from live performances by some of the Windy City's finest electric bluesmen. Unfortunately, that's not the case. These ten studio tracks, taken from the vaults of Delmark Records, include Big Joe Williams, J.B. Hutto, Jimmy Johnson, Buddy Guy, and Junior Wells.

While Chicago Blues Bash contains excellent music of the genre, pass on this Laserlight issue and go directly to the source; there are many great compilations available directly from Delmark. /Al Campbell, AllMusic

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VA - Tribute: Delmark's 65th Anniversary

Size: 113,5 MB
Time: 48:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front & Black

01 Omar Coleman - Train I Ride (4:09)
02 Lurrie Bell - One Day You're Gonna Get Lucky (3:34)
03 Linsey Alexander - All For Business (6:09)
04 Demetria Taylor - Riverboat (4:39)
05 Jimmy Burns - She Left Me A Mule To Ride (2:48)
06 Lil' Ed - Speak My Mind (3:55)
07 Jimmy Johnson - Out Of Bad Luck (5:00)
08 Corey Dennison - Broke And Hungry (4:38)
09 Mike Wheeler - So Many Roads (5:18)
10 Shirley Johnson - Need Your Love So Bad (4:17)
11 Ken Saydak - Boot That Thing (4:00)

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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
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 8

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Big Golden Wheeler - Turn My Life Around

Size: 141,7 MB
Time: 60:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. The Sun Is Shining (5:22)
02. Dirty Blues (7:00)
03. I Got To Go (4:12)
04. Good Lover (5:16)
05. Blue Guitar (5:35)
06. Hey Short Woman (8:09)
07. Crazy 'Bout You Baby (2:59)
08. Hard Luck Blues (5:44)
09. Honey Connie (6:01)
10. Turn My Life Around (6:12)
11. V.J It's O.K (4:15)

He's been part of the Chicago circuit for four decades, but Golden "Big" Wheeler waited until 1993 to release his debut album on Delmark. As befits such a veteran, Wheeler's sturdy harmonica style is a throwback to the 1950s and his idol, Little Walter.

Wheeler was first turned onto the harp while driving a cab by one of his regular fares, Buster Brown. Brown's shot at "Fannie Mae"-fired stardom was still a few decades down the line, but Wheeler's was even further off. He left Georgia in 1941, eventually settling in Chicago, where he met Little Walter. The two became friends, Walter acting as something of a mentor. Wheeler began fronting his own combo in 1956 but never really sustained a musical career (he worked as a mechanic to pay the bills).

In 1993, Delmark unleashed the harpist's debut disc, Big Wheeler's Bone Orchard, which found him backed by a young local outfit, the Ice Cream Men. Jump In followed in 1997. Wheeler's brother, guitarist James Wheeler, is also a longtime denizen of the Windy City scene; he's currently a mainstay of Mississippi Heat after spending an extended stint behind Otis Rush. ~by Bill Dahl

Live At Turn My Life Around

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Jimmy Johnson - Pepper's Hangout

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2000
Styles: Blues
Time: 34:21
Size: 79,0 MB
Art: Full

(4:34) 1. Same Old Blues
(5:24) 2. Married Woman Blues
(4:49) 3. High Heel Sneakers
(5:07) 4. The Things That I Used to Go
(4:20) 5. Pepper's Hangout
(6:04) 6. Looking for My Baby
(4:00) 7. Riding in the Moonlight

It's always sad when, for whatever reason, a worthwhile recording goes unreleased for a long time -- and that's exactly what happened with Pepper's Hangout. On March 29, 1977, a 48-year-old Jimmy Johnson entered a Chicago studio and recorded what was meant to be his first studio LP as a leader. The LP had a working title of "Chicago Roots," and Living Blues editor Jim O'Neal was hired to write the liner notes. But regrettably, an album that should have come out in 1977 wasn't released in the U.S. until 2000, when Delmark was finally able to release the session as Pepper's Hangout. Better late than never -- this CD finds Johnson in fine form and makes one wish that the singer/guitarist hadn't waited until his late 40s to record some albums. Though Johnson includes one soul number (Eddie Jones' "The Things I Used to Do"), this is a blues disc first and foremost -- and Johnson is as passionate and confident on Robert Higginbotham's "High Heel Sneakers" and Tony Hollins' "Married Woman Blues" as he is on original material like "Looking for My Baby" (which inspires comparison to Buddy Guy's "Hello, San Francisco") and the instrumental "Pepper's Hangout." Delmark, to its credit, provides two sets of liner notes: O'Neal's original notes from 1977 and some new ones that he wrote 23 years later in October 2000. Without question, the release of this session in the U.S. was long overdue. -- Allmusic.

Pepper's Hangout

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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).

Going To California mc
Going To California zippy

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Various - Blues: S**t My Dad Listened To

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:10
Size: 149.2 MB
Styles: Assorted blues styles
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:49] 1. Hound Dog Taylor - Rock Me
[2:39] 2. Junior Wells - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
[2:28] 3. John Hammond, Jr. - Seventh Son
[3:18] 4. Kenneth Banks - Blue Man
[5:29] 5. Michael Messer - Robert Johnson's Wake
[4:01] 6. Corey Harris & Henry Butler - King Cotton
[2:18] 7. James Cotton Blues Band - Cotton Crop Blues
[2:34] 8. Howlin' Wolf - Dorothy Mae
[3:13] 9. William Clarke - Fishin' Blues
[3:39] 10. Lil Charlie & The Nightcats - My Money's Green
[5:12] 11. Koko Taylor - The Man Next Door
[5:05] 12. Shemekia Copeland - The Fool You're Looking For
[2:41] 13. Charlie Musselwhite - My Road Lies
[2:32] 14. Kenny Neal - Early One Morning
[3:11] 15. Jimmy Johnson Blues Band - Ain't That Just Like A Woman
[3:01] 16. Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson - Just Like Mama Said
[3:48] 17. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Digging New Ground
[2:58] 18. Billy Boy Arnold - Move On Down The Road
[3:07] 19. The Holmes Brothers - Rounding Third

Blues: S**t My Dad Listened To

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Jimmy Johnson & The Chicago Dave Blues Band - Brothers: Live

Size: 156,1 MB
Time: 67:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. That Will Never Do ( 5:35)
02. I'm A Jockey ( 4:44)
03. Little By Little ( 5:58)
04. As The Years Go Passing By ( 9:56)
05. Engine Number Nine ( 4:58)
06. End Of The Road ( 5:51)
07. Blue Monday ( 5:13)
08. Chicken Head (10:27)
09. Rock And A Hard Place ( 6:17)
10. Look On Yonders Wall - Sweet Home Chicago (Medley) ( 8:48)

The "Chicago Dave Blues Band" is one of the best exponents of the Swiss blues scene since many many years and obviously, this got known into the USA! And it led to the cooperation with the excellent blues veteran Jimmy Johnson on this new, honest live-album. But there is even more: in addition to Jimmy Johnsons presence on the album, the outstanding jazz and blues sax player Sam Burckhardt – being native from Basle (Switzerland), but lives in Chicago since about 25 years – could also be won to be part of an exciting tour through Switzerland and the participation at the 3rd Basle blues-festival in early 2002, where these live recordings have been made. The “Chicago Dave Blues Band” got enlarged to a big band size with a four men horn section and an additional solo performer, who also added a jazzy note to the program of these nights.

Ten strong and matching blues titles have been recorded with a playing time wide over one hour and with an excellent blend of blues classics as of Robert Johnson and self penned tracks by Jimmy Johnson. The album has been completed with additional tracks of the likes as Rush Carter, James Davis, Kenny Gable, Deadric Malone, Mel London/Junior Wells and Little Milton.

The album proves who exciting “live” blues can be and which dynamic for the blues still can be found in the real veterans of that music. Jimmy Johnson is over 70 years old now and has been nominated for the WC Handy Blues Award in 1999. He still lives the blues with an outstanding presence on stage and is a remarkable blues guitar player as well as he still sings with a gospel-like tenor voice.

And let’s not forget: the “Chicago Dave Blues Band” itself, which already recorded several CDs before and is known way over the Swiss borders – and they are proud to have been working with Jimmy Johnson on this remarkable festival in Basle – and they plan another tour in 2004!

Personnel:
Jimmy Johnson (guitar, vocal); Chicago Dave (guitar, vocal); Ossy Huerlimann (bass); Daniel Jenkins Wagner (drums); Reio Schubi Schaub (piano, Hammond B); Sam Burckhardi (tenor sax); Adriano De Iorio (trombone); Simon Spinnler (tenor sax); Phillipp Wyss (trumpet)

Brothers: Live

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VA - The Chicago Blues Box: The MCM Records Story

Size: 148,0+144,8+182,4+144,7+143,7+167,5+166,7+147,5 MB
Time: 63:02+61:27+77:53+61:43+60:41+71:04+71:11+62:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

CD 1: MAGIC SLIM
Magic Slim (g, voc), Alabama Junior Pettis (g) Nick Holt (b) & Douglas Holt (d)
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, November 9, 1976

01. Magic Slim - That's All Right (5:55)
02. Magic Slim - Slim's Bump (3:57)
03. Magic Slim - Going Down Slow (7:21)
04. Magic Slim - Born In Missouri (6:43)
05. Magic Slim - Let Me Love You (6:11)
06. Magic Slim - The Things I Used To Do (7:34)
07. Magic Slim - That Ain't Right (4:02)
08. Magic Slim - Honest I Do (3:40)
09. Magic Slim - Nineteen Years Old (6:33)
10. Magic Slim - Born On A Bad Sign (7:00)
11. Magic Slim - Please Love Me (4:01)

CD 2: BIG MOJO ELEM, JOHN LITTLE JOHN
(on tracks 1-5, 7, 10-11) Big Mojo Elem (b, voc), Willie James Lyon (g) , Wayne Bennett (g), Freddy Below (d)
Recorded live at Golden Slipper, Chicago, October 12, 1977

(on tracks 6, 9 & 12) John Littlejohn (g, voc), Larry Burton (g) , Aaron Burton (b), Candy Utah (d)
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, November 8, 1976

01. Big Mojo Elem - Drowning On Dry Land ( 5:11)
02. Big Mojo Elem - Every Night And Every Day ( 3:33)
03. Big Mojo Elem - Black Nights ( 4:45)
04. Big Mojo Elem - Hush ( 5:18)
05. Big Mojo Elem - Red Light ( 5:03)
06. John Littlejohn - Dream ( 7:12)
07. Big Mojo Elem - Mojo Boogie ( 2:41)
08. Big Mojo Elem - Living In Paradise ( 2:32)
09. John Littlejohn - Twelve Years Old Boy ( 5:57)
10. Big Mojo Elem - Every Night And Every Day ( 3:32)
11. Big Mojo Elem - Long Meter Stomp (11:59)
12. John Littlejohn - Reconsider Baby ( 3:39)

CD 3: EDDIE CLEARWATER, EDDIE TAYLOR
(On tracks 1-6, 10 & 12) Eddie Clearwater (g, voc), Jimmy Dawkins (g) , Sylvester Boines(b), Freddy Below (d)
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, November 5, 1976

(on tracks 7-9 & 11) Eddie Taylor (g, voc), Lacy Gibson (g), Hayes Ware (b), Freddy Below (d)
Recorded live at Golden Slipper, Chicago, October 24, 1977.
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, November 8, 1976

01. Eddy Clearwater - Let's Jam (4:51)
02. Eddy Clearwater - I Came Up The Hard Way (6:48)
03. Eddy Clearwater - Three Ways To Skin A Cat (5:32)
04. Eddy Clearwater - Black Night (9:17)
05. Eddy Clearwater - Chicago Dailey Blues (9:26)
06. Eddy Clearwater - Hoochie Coochie Man (6:52)
07. Eddie Taylor - Jackson Town Blues (4:07)
08. Eddie Taylor - Train Fare Home (5:57)
09. Eddie Taylor - Route 66 (A One A Two) (5:47)
10. Eddy Clearwater - Rock Me Baby (6:34)
11. Eddie Taylor - Blues For Luc (4:18)
12. Eddy Clearwater - The Things I Used To Do (8:16)

CD 4: BOBBY KING
Bobby King (g, voc), Leonard Gil (g), Harry Mitchum (b), Bill Warren (d), Muddy Waters Jr (voc, on 7 & 10).
Recorded at Quuen Bee's, Chicago, October 9, 1975.

01. Bobby King - Reconsider Baby ( 5:34)
02. Bobby King - My Babe ( 5:31)
03. Bobby King - Everyday I Have The Blues ( 7:18)
04. Bobby King - The Chaser ( 4:04)
05. Bobby King - Sweet House Chicago ( 2:32)
06. Bobby King - Bad Luck ( 3:19)
07. Muddy Waters - Old Folks Boogie (13:46)
08. Bobby King - Stormy Monday Blues ( 7:18)
09. Bobby King - Hoochie Coochie Man ( 8:17)
10. Muddy Waters - Everything Gonna Be Alright ( 4:00)

CD 5: JIMMY JOHNSON, LUTHER JOHNSON JR., WILLIE KENT
(on tracks 1-4) Jimmy Johnson (g, voc), Jimmy Dawkins (g), Sylvester Boines (b), Tyrone Centuray (d)
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, October 15, 1975

(on tracks 5-7, 11-14) Luther Johnson Jr (g, voc)., Willie James Lyons (g), Willie Kent (b), Tyrone Centuray (d)
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, October 17, 1975

(on tracks 8-10) Willie Kent (b, voc), Willie James Lyons (g), Big ‘Guitar’ Red (g), Tyrone Centuray (d)
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, October 17, 1975

01. Jimmy Johnson - So Many Roads (6:28)
02. Jimmy Johnson - Crosscut Saw (4:08)
03. Jimmy Johnson - Ma Bea's Rock (3:13)
04. Jimmy Johnson - Feel So Bad (4:23)
05. Luther Johnson Jr. - I Believe My Time Ain't Long (4:54)
06. Luther Johnson Jr. - All Your Love (4:38)
07. Luther Johnson Jr. - You Gotta Have Soul (4:15)
08. Willie Kent - Little Red Rooster (4:16)
09. Willie Kent - Nineteen Years Old (4:08)
10. Willie Kent - What Will Tomorrow Bring (4:12)
11. Luther Johnson Jr. - Got A Mind To Travel (4:31)
12. Luther Johnson Jr. - Can You Use A Man Like Me (3:54)
13. Luther Johnson Jr. - I Got To Be Crazy (4:04)
14. Luther Johnson Jr. - Got Papers On You Baby (3:32)

CD 6: JIMMY DAWKINS, HIP LANKCHAN
(on tracks 1-4, 9-10) Jimmy Dawkins (g, voc), Richard Kirch (g), Sylvester Boines (b), Tyrone Centuray (d)
Recorded live at Big Duke's, Chicago, November 10, 1976.

(on tracks 5-8 & 14) Hip Lankchan (g, voc), Jimmy Miller (g) , Ernest Gatewood (b), Tyrone Centuray (d)
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, November 1, 1976

(on tracks 11-12) Jimmy Johnson (g, voc), David Matthews (g), Ike Anderson (b), Dino Neal (d)
Recorded live at Golden Slipper, Chicago, October 19, 1977

(on track 13) Alabama Junior Pettis (g, voc), Magic Slim (g), Nick Holt (b), Douglas Holt (d)
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, November 9, 1976

01. Jimmy Dawkins - Welfare Line (9:18)
02. Jimmy Dawkins - You Don't Love Me (4:27)
03. Jimmy Dawkins - Come Back Baby (5:51)
04. Jimmy Dawkins - I Got Wise (8:40)
05. Hip Lankchan - Millionaire Blues (3:57)
06. Hip Lankchan - Hip's Jam (3:22)
07. Hip Lankchan - All Right The Way You Do (2:50)
08. Hip Lankchan - Sweet House Chicago (4:05)
09. Jimmy Dawkins - Cross Road Blues (5:59)
10. Jimmy Dawkins - Blue Shadow Falling (5:26)
11. Jimmy Johnson - Little By Little (3:25)
12. Jimmy Johnson - Lucille (4:09)
13. Alabama Junior Pettis - I Want Some (4:38)
14. Hip Lankchan - Hide Away (4:50)

CD 7: BIG VOICE ODOM, JIMMY DAWKINS
Andrew Odom (voc), Jimmy Dawkins (g, voc) Jimmy Johnson (g) , Sylvester Boines (b), Tyrone Centuray (d)
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, October 28, 1976
Tracks 10 & 11, same place and personnel, recorded on October 16, 1975.

01. Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Going To California (7:41)
02. Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - I Don't Know (7:37)
03. Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Thrill Is Gone (5:25)
04. Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Stormy Monday Blues (5:45)
05. Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - All For Business (5:17)
06. Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Rock Me Baby (4:43)
07. Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Wonder Why (4:33)
08. Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - Sitting Here Wondering (6:43)
09. Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - I Can't Go On The Way (6:54)
10. Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - I Want To Know (8:59)
11. Big Voice Odom, Jimmy Dawkins - I've Been Mistreated (7:29)

CD 8: BLUEBLOOD McMAHON, JOE CARTER
(on tracks 1-9) Andrew MacMahon (voc), John Littlejohn, Jimmy Dawkins & Larry Burton (g), Aaron Burton (b), Candy Utah (d)
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, November 8, 1976

(on tracks 10-12) Andrew MacMahon (voc), Jimmy Dawkins (g), Richard Kirch (g) Sylvester Boines (b), Tyrone Centuray (d)
Recorded live at Big Duke's, Chicago, November 10, 1976

(on tracks 13-14) Louis Meyers (g), Joe Carter (g, voc) Dave Meyers (b), Freddy Below (d)
Recorded live at "Ma Bea's", Chicago, October 14, 1975.

01. Andrew McMahon - Go Get Me Baby (4:43)
02. Andrew McMahon - I Wonder Why (4:12)
03. Andrew McMahon - Change My Way Of Living (4:47)
04. Andrew McMahon - You Got To Help Yourself (4:33)
05. Andrew McMahon - Give Up And Let Me Go (2:50)
06. Andrew McMahon - What Would We Do Later On (4:06)
07. Andrew McMahon - You Don't Have To Go (5:36)
08. Andrew McMahon - It Hurts Me Too (5:37)
09. Andrew McMahon - Got My Mojo Working (4:16)
10. Andrew McMahon - Little Red Rooster (3:39)
11. Andrew McMahon - So Glad (4:14)
12. Andrew McMahon - Stranger In Your Land (5:04)
13. Joe Carter - Worried About My Baby (4:29)
14. Joe Carter - It Hurts Me Too (4:07)

The brief and dazzling life of MCM Records was a labor of love that captured many treasurable live performances from the last flowering of the classic Chicago Blues age. A young French woman Marcelle Chailleux Morgantini was married to Jacques Morgantini who changed her life into American jazz and blues.

Guitarist Jimmy Dawkins was a good friend and helped them in Chicago to meet and hear the many good blues musicians that played at the different clubs in Chicago. Marcelle returned from her Chicago pilgrimage filled with excitement. Says Jacques Morgantini: It was the year of Marcelle’s 50th birthday and she came into some money from her family. She said to me, “I do not want an expensive coat or jewels – I want to go to Chicago to record the blues. She knew that it could only be done if she had her own record label and complete artistic control. Marcelle made three trips to Chicago in 1975,1976 and 1977 and arrived with her Nagra machine, a small mixing desk and a selection of microphones.

She recorded live: Magic Slim, Big Mojo Elem,John Littlejohn, Eddie Clearwater,Eddie Taylor, Bobby King,Jimmy Johnson, Luther Johnson Jr.,Willie Kent, James Lyons,Hip Lankchan,Big Vocie Odom,Bluebloos McMahon, Joe Carter and Jimmy Dawkins at “Ma Bea’s”, “Golden Slipper”, “Queen Bea’s”, and “Big Duke’s”, on Chicago west and south side. Many of the blues musicians had not recorded before and can only been found on the Storyville label that issued all the recordings on CD’s. She was at the right place at the right time.

The Chicago Blues Box CD 1
The Chicago Blues Box CD 2
The Chicago Blues Box CD 3
The Chicago Blues Box CD 4
The Chicago Blues Box CD 5
The Chicago Blues Box CD 6
The Chicago Blues Box CD 7
The Chicago Blues Box CD 8

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Jimmy Johnson & Luther Johnson Jr. - Ma Bea's Rock

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:37
Size: 141.1 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2001
Art: Front

[6:28] 1. So Many Roads
[4:08] 2. Crosscut Saw
[3:13] 3. Ma Bea's Rock
[4:23] 4. Feel So Bad
[4:54] 5. I Believe My Time Ain't Long
[4:38] 6. All Your Love
[4:15] 7. You Gotta Have Soul
[5:30] 8. My Own Fault
[3:51] 9. Get Ready Here I Come
[4:10] 10. Same Old Blues
[4:31] 11. Got A Mind To Travel
[3:54] 12. Can You Use A Man Like Me
[4:04] 13. I Got To Be Crazy
[3:32] 14. Got Papers On You Baby

Recorded October 15&17, 1975 "live" at Ma Bea's in Chicago, IL; Jimmy Johnson, voc, g; Andrew "Big Voice" Odom, voc; Jimmy Dawkins, g; Sylvester Boines, b; Tyrone Centuray (Smith), dr; prod. by Marcelle Morgantini.

"...This disc contains some fine live music and offers a priceless look at a Chicago music scene now long gone..." ~Living Blues

Ma Bea's Rock mc
Ma Bea's Rock zippy

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