Phillip Walker w. Otis Grand - Big Blues From Texas

Album: Big Blues From Texas
Size: 134,6 MB
Time: 58:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1992/1999/2011
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Dressin' Trashy (3:51)
2. Young Devil (4:08)
3. She's Gone (7:01)
4. Bluesmobile (5:35)
5. Beatrice, Beatrice (4:07)
6. Don't Leave Me Baby (2:44)
7. Play Me Some Blues (8:53)
8. Insomnia (3:06)
9. Goodie Train (4:39)
10. She Torture Me (4:24)
11. You're So Fine (4:38)
12. Big Blues From Texas (5:01)

When this album was originally cut in 1992 Phillip Walker was already a veteran. His career spanned the early days with Clifton Chenier in Texas and Louisiana, a long stint in California and some seminal records in the 1970's with Bruce Bromberg. This CD was the start of his 'grand old man' phase. Backed by a superb band of musicians who had honed their skills on the road, Phillip's background, culture and musical experience just oozes out into the music.

For the new mix, add an engineer who's a genius at working on archive material to make something fresh. Otis Grand made three other 'and Otis Grand' albums for JSP - Guitar Shorty, Joe Houston and Joe Louis Walker. Arguably, none have made a better album. Originally this album was greeted as simply great. Now it sounds like a modern masterpiece. /Amazon

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Otis Grand - Live At Burnley Blues Festival / Collaborations & Rarities (2 CD)

Album: Live At Burnley Blues Festival/Collaborations & Rarities
Size: 145,7 + 175,7 MB
Time: 63:13 + 76:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2024
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
1. Please Don't Leave Me (6:43)
2. Later Than You Think (5:12)
3. Stabbed In The Back (7:44)
4. Burnley City Limits (6:21)
5. Love At First Sight (4:10)
6. Whole Lotta Lovin' (5:56)
7. Otis Rocks (5:39)
8. Woke Up This Morning (5:25)
9. Jump For Joy (6:48)
10. Down In New Orleans (3:00)
11. That's My Life (6:11)

CD 2:
1. I Like It This Way (4:56)
2. Camilla's Hop (4:09)
3. Insomnia (3:03)
4. Hot & Saucy (6:36)
5. Cheese & Crackers (3:31)
6. I'm The One (6:45)
7. Sit Right Here (5:19)
8. Chains Of Love (4:17)
9. I Want A Big Fat Mama (4:14)
10. No Reason (3:49)
11. When You Got A Woman (3:02)
12. When I Saw You This Morning (5:25)
13. All Your Love (5:51)
14. Looking Good (3:57)
15. Fear No Evil (3:19)
16. Strictly Reserved For You (3:23)
17. White Fox (4:20)

Otis Grand and I had been working on this project off and on for a few years before his tragic and untimely death. What we have here is a part of a magnificent body of work. Otis was guitarist, producer, bandleader, songwriter and general key figure on the blues scene. In the mid 1980s I was busy touring some great U.S. Blues acts all over the U.K. Suddenly out of nowhere comes this American guitarist with a British band and a great singer in Earl Green. Otis Grand became the biggest thing on the British circuit and in Europe too. Later on we would spend time together around the first Burnley Blues Festival. Otis had his very well deserved headlining spot. It's that show which is Disc A here and it is released in it's entirety for the first time.

Our first real artistic collaboration was the Guitar Shorty album. I had heard rumours of this incredible L.A. based guitarist who was the brother in law of Jimi Hendrix. I thought Otis was the perfect bandleader to back Shorty playing real blues style, no going 'commercial' and no nod to blues/rock. The result... perfection. The next opportunity was a real legend Phillip Walker. This track was cut at a lovely studio in London. Texas Blues with an L.A. twist was Phillip's style and this track stands with his best. The next studio set we collaborated on was with the man who virtually invented honking tenor sax, Joe Houston.

We also have Otis with Joe Louis Walker - both at the top of their game here. What's most important is not personalities, egos, honour or 'reputations'... but the art, the music. Throughout my time in this blues game I have become used to losing dear friends... but sometimes a loss leaves a particularly large hole in one's life. Otis Grand was a man and artist so much more than the sum of his particular parts and talents. Otis was Lebanese/American and a many faceted person who had his roots in several different cultures. It is our luck and honour that one of them was the Blues. /John Stedman

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Otis Grand - Hipster Blues

Size: 157,3 MB
Time: 68:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2006
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. Three Time Loser (Feat. Reuben Richards) (4:13)
02. Slo-Mo-Shun (3:44)
03. I'm Glad To Go (Feat. Curtis Salgado) (4:05)
04. Never Raise My Hand (Feat. Sugar Ray Norcia) (6:51)
05. Overdrive (3:52)
06. Mooki Sooki (Sleepwalk) (4:00)
07. Every Girl I See (Feat. George Bisharat) (6:08)
08. Satan's Blues (8:17)
09. Nutcracker Rock (3:12)
10. Gordon's Complaint (Feat. Serena Franklin) (3:46)
11. Hipster Blues No.5 (5:22)
12. Guitar Lovin' Blues (Feat. Jimmy Thomas) (6:41)
13. The Memphis Push (5:34)
14. Sad Blues (For Peter Green) (2:26)

This album was a long time in the making. And it's worth the wait! Recorded with a stellar band, this set mixes the greatest blues, r&b and jazz sounds from the 1950s and '60s to a rocking unit. Otis Grand loves to play. At spots he sounds like a turbo-powered Freddie King. Excellent. Imagine a mix of Federal style blues instrumentals, augmented by Hammond B-3 sounds from the Prestige label and the cool Blue Note jazz grooves. Grand sounds wild and mean. A beautiful record. Highly recommended to all lovers of great guitar playing. One of my recent favorites. OTIS GRAND - gtrs, JOHNNY HENDERSON - B-3, ANTHONY GERACI - pno/B-3, BRUCE KATZ - pno, MICHAEL 'MUDCAT' WARD - bass, NEIL GOUVIN - drums, KEVIN HAYES - drums, plus horns. Special guest vocalists: JIMMY THOMAS, 'SUGAR' RAY NORCIA, CURTIS SALGADO, etc.

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Otis Grand - He Knows The Blues

Size: 129,7 MB
Time: 55:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1992
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Things Are Getting Harder To Do (4:13)
02. You Hurt Me (5:24)
03. Jumpin' For Jimmy (Feat. Jimmy 'T99' Nelson) (4:45)
04. Grand Style (3:35)
05. Real Gone Lover (3:34)
06. SRV (My Mood Too) (5:53)
07. Leave That Girl (Feat. Joe L. Walker) (4:21)
08. Ham (5:47)
09. Your Love Pulls No Punches (5:18)
10. Swing Turn (Feat. Jimmy 'T99' Nelson) (4:50)
11. Teach Me How To Love You (2:14)
12. He Knows The Blues (0:58)
13. She Torture Me (4:21)

‘He Knows The Blues’ was released to great critical acclaim, Bill Moodie in Juke Blues calling it "absolutely indispensable", and Chris Smith in Blues & Rhythm stating it "is the best contemporary blues recording I’ve heard in a long, long time", and this opinion was not confined to this side of the Atlantic, as it was a W.C. Handy Award nominee for Best Blues Album, ‘SRV / My Mood Too’ was nominated as Best Song and Otis himself was nominated as Best Instrumentalist-Guitar, in their 1993 Awards, while back in his adopted home, Otis swept the board in the British Blues Foundation Awards, winning three categories, Best Blues Guitarist, Best Blues Band and Best Blues Album, and the CD was also Blues & Rhythm’s CD of the month in March, 1993. ‘He Knows The Blues’ had proved to be the catalyst that projected Otis’ explosive talents on to the world stage.

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Otis Grand - Perfume & Grime

Size: 156,1 MB
Time: 66:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1996
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Six Ways (Pam's Tune) (4:26)
02. How Come (5:46)
03. Between Heaven & Hell (5:26)
04. Don't Ask Why (3:44)
05. Magic Mood (3:55)
06. Knock, Knock (3:00)
07. Perfume & Grime (8:04)
08. Just One More Time (4:00)
09. 100 Years (5:38)
10. She's Got My Dog (3:17)
11. When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer (5:59)
12. It Took A Long Time (4:16)
13. Has Been Husband (3:56)
14. Grime Time (5:00)

Personnel:
Otis Grand - Guitars
Luther Allison - Guitars on "Perfume & Grime"
Joe Louis Walker - Slide Guitar on "100 Years"
Curtis Salgado- Vocals & Harp
Darrel Nulisch - Vocals
Brother Roy Oakley - Vocals
Toni Lyn Washington - Vocals on "Took a long time"
Neil Gouvin - Drums
Rob Stupka - Drums
Steve Gomes - Bass
Eddie Bo - Piano on "Knock, Knock"
Al Rapone - Accordian on "Magic Mood"
Bruce Elsensohn/Chuck Chaplin - Piano & B3
Amadee Castenel - Tenor Sax
Stacey Cole - Trumpet
Joe Saulsbury - Jnr Alto Sax
Mike Hobart - Bari Sax
Steve Diamond - Keyboard

Otis Grand - who is, unquestionably, the biggest star of British Blues and the only UK artist in the genre to have had significant success in America for decades - releases his brand new album" Perfume & Grime " on Sequel Records. This new release was recorded in New Orleans on Feb. 1996 with some of America's top blues musicians, includinging Joe Louis Walker, Curtis Salgado, Luther Allison, and Eddie Bo.

While retaining his signature sound," Perfume & Grime " finds Otis moving forwards to create contemporary blues with the flavours and crosscurrents of Rap, World music, New Orleans Funk, and southern Soul.

"I am very excited about this new album," explains Otis " I have written with the influence of my Blues mentors in mind but also thrown in contemporary attitudes and stylings that I like. PERFUME stands for the beauty and soul Blues. GRIME stands for my hard-hitting and nasty style of guitar playing."

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Otis Grand - Blues '65: ...For Listening, Swingin' & Dancing!

Size: 147,8 MB
Time: 62:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Electric Blues, Rockin' Blues
Art: Full

01. Pretend (3:21)
02. Who Will The Next Fool Be (5:33)
03. Bad News Blues On Tv (4:34)
04. Rumba Conga Twist (5:59)
05. Do You Remember (When) (7:50)
06. I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water (4:58)
07. Midnight Blues (4:54)
08. Please Don't Leave (4:53)
09. In Your Backyard (3:40)
10. The Shag Shuffle (4:31)
11. Warning Blues (4:54)
12. Those Days Are Gone (3:03)
13. Baby Please Don't Tease (4:30)

Blues.. for Listening, Swingin & Dancing! "Blues '65" is a celebration of the sounds that influenced him during his teenage years. This was an era when recordings of every genre were made to be radio friendly and charts saw Pop, Rock, Soul, R&B, and even Blues nestled comfortably together. There are no guitar pyrotechnics here - just straightforward danceable, Swingin' and listening grooves (Rumba Conga Twist). Otis, truly a master of his instrument in an age of 'guitar heroes', still plays in that authentic Blues style with simplicity, feel, lyricism and rhythmic attack to the fore. 'PRETEN'D was a big hit for Nat King Cole in 1953. It was subsequently a hit for Carl Mann in 1959 on Sun Records, and Alvin Stardust's version was a popular hit in the UK in 1981. According to Babalú Hoodoo, this could be a hit for Otis Grand in 2012. Vocals on this outing are from Otis' long-time friend and collaborator, the massively under-rated and best living bluesman today, Sugar Ray Norcia. Sugar Ray really excels on 'Pretend', 'Bad News Blues On TV', 'Midnight Blues' and on 'Who Will The Next Fool Be'. One track even sees the return from retirement of Otis' long-time touring vocalist, Brother Roy Oakley on the New Orleans soul 'Please Don't Leave'. The mission continues with Blues'65 - roll back the carpet and get ready to get down with this perfect evocation of one of the greatest periods in Blues history. And as BB King once said: "If this ain't it, I quit".

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Otis Grand, Debbie Davies, Anson Funderburgh - Grand Union

Size: 161.0 MB
Time: 68:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Soul
Art: Front & Back

01. Guitars On Fire (2:12)
02. There Was A Time (3:55)
03. Holding You Up For Love (6:11)
04. The Things I'd Do For You (5:07)
05. Bone Tones (6:55)
06. I Got Eyes (3:43)
07. Don't Talk About Me (5:33)
08. Westside Bossman (4:43)
09. TC Blues (7:36)
10. Rockin' Daddy (4:50)
11. Country Girl (6:55)
12. It's A Little Too Late (5:48)
13. The Big Prayer (5:15)

This release, Grand Union, is Grand’s first album since signing with the new Blues label. Recorded in Boston, USA. It is produced by Otis, who is also renowned for his High-value production work on Blues recordings. In Grand Union, Otis Grand has created a powerful guitar recording by inviting his long time friends Anson Funderburgh and Debbie Davies to participate in a TRIOLOGY style CD concept. The album also features the finest musicians from the USA, and includes special guests Sugar Ray Norcia, Tony Coleman and the BB King Horn section, and rare appearance by legendary R&B star Ike Turner on 2 tunes.

Grand Union reflects Otis Grand’s new approach to his latest recording in that he did not want this to be just another Otis Grand release (9 CD’s to date). Since he was invited to participate on the highly acclaimed "Great Guitars" recording by Joe Louis Walker, Otis has been consumed by expanding the project to a totally live guitar recording with his partners in the studio playing together at the same time . "All our playing is first take. It’s got that spontaneous feeling of the moment that is really the magic of playing the blues."

It was planned well in advance. Otis grand began calling musicians and assembling a common ground of songs that all guitarists felt comfortable with. These songs combine a dynamic mixture of Blues, southern soul, rocking R&B and big band influences. Whether Otis is bending, Anson is caressing or Debbie is burning every note from their guitars, the result is an innovative and fresh addition to blues. Grand / Funderburgh / Davies are so good on this release it’s scary, making this another veritable blues guitar ‘ear-gasm’ that will please all audiences across the musical divides.

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Guitar Shorty & The Otis Grand Blues Band - My Way Or The Highway

Year: 1991
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:32
Size: 121,0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. No Educated Woman (5:17)
2. You Gave Me The Blues Baby (5:13)
3. Shorty Jumps In (5:58)
4. Down Thru' The Years (5:22)
5. Red Hot Mama (3:16)
6. Hot & Saucy, Short & Grand (5:58)
7. It's Too Late (10:32)
8. Kick Out (5:08)
9. My Way Or The Highway (5:44)

Until he joined forces with British guitarist Otis Grand's band and waxed this very credible comeback set, David "Guitar Shorty" Kearney's legacy was largely limited to a solitary single for Cobra and a handful of great but legendarily obscure followups for Los Angeles-based Pull Records during the late '50s. The acrobatic guitarist informed everyone he was alive and lively with this one, exhibiting his Guitar Slim roots on "Down Thru the Years" and slashing with a vengeance on "No Educated Woman" and the title cut (but shouldn't it have read "or the highway?"). /Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Otis Grand - Nothing Else Matters

Year: 1994/2003
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:54
Size: 147,8 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Finish Line (4:38)
2. Careless Living (4:54)
3. No Reason (4:05)
4. 5 To 99 Blues (3:27)
5. Mother-In-Law Blues (4:48)
6. Marginal Man (5:19)
7. Looking For A New Baby (4:19)
8. Things I Forgot To Do (5:01)
9. Waiting For The Hard Times To Go (7:45)
10. Coldburn (The Master's Gone) (2:59)
11. All Night Long (4:23)
12. Common Sense (3:17)
13. Days Of Old (2:43)
14. You Win, I Lose (3:30)
15. Looking Good (2:39)

While British blues guitarist Otis Grand’s albums have received critical acclaim in Europe, somehow they slipped through the cracks in the U.S. market. Originally released in 1994, Nothing Else Matters was reissued in 2003 as part of the Sanctuary Blues Masters series. On this date, Grand pays tribute to guitar hero T-Bone Walker; Grand’s original composition, “5 to 99 Blues,” employs Walker’s famous riffs and he performs sincere covers of “All Night Long” and “Looking Good” from the Magic Sam catalog.

Lending a hand on the disc are Curtis Salgado and Sugar Ray Norcia, who split vocal duties; the House of Blues Horns; and Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, who blows harp and sings on his self-penned track, “Things I Forgot to Do.” Nothing Else Matters is an enjoyable modern blues date that’s not afraid to celebrate vintage influences. /Al Campbell, AllMusic

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Granada Blues Band - The Grand Sessions (Feat. Otis Grand)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:26
Size: 113.2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:34] 1. Goodbye Baby
[3:49] 2. Hoochie Coochie Man
[3:07] 3. Booggie Rambler
[3:05] 4. Little Latin Lupe Lu
[4:33] 5. I Want To Make Love To You
[7:29] 6. Pendejo Blues
[4:39] 7. Monkey In The Limb
[3:20] 8. Reconsider Baby
[4:53] 9. Black Eyed Blues
[3:25] 10. No More Dogging
[4:39] 11. Rock My Baby
[2:48] 12. Gulty

Spain’s oldest blues band (founded 1989) teams up with cosmopolitan – but long-time UK-based – guitarist Otis Grand and the result is a fine CD that reflects several of the best aspects of the contemporary sound. Otis has been at the forefront of many of the innovations that have resulted in the blues being more popular than ever these days – though conversely he also has a purist outlook that is becoming rarer by the day – and for this release he produces, arranges, contributes incisive and instantly recognisable solos to five of the dozen tracks, and he supplies three of his own numbers.

The approach is relatively traditional, but none the less effective for that; standards are given original and imaginative treatments, the sound is beefed up with some fine horns, vocals may be accented but are perfectly acceptable, and numbers are kept focussed and to the point – and this is, thankfully, blues all the way. There may be nothing too ground-breaking, but this is an album that will satisfy many blues lovers. ~Norman Darwen

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Joe Houston & Otis Grand - The Return Of Honk! (2016 Remix)

Size: 136,1 MB
Time: 58:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Sax Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Jump Blues
Art: Front

01. The Return Of Honk (2016 Remix) (6:12)
02. Camilla's Hop (2016 Remix) (4:08)
03. Mama Don't (2016 Remix) (8:24)
04. Fruit Boots (2016 Remix) (4:48)
05. Big Legged Woman (2016 Remix) (7:32)
06. They Killed Crazy Horse (2016 Remix) (3:35)
07. Castle Rock (2016 Remix) (7:16)
08. Why Oh Why (2016 Remix) (4:24)
09. Blues For T-Bone (2016 Remix) (8:08)
10. Down But Not Out (2016 Remix) (4:00)

Otis Grand had hoped to record with Joe Houston - arguably the first and the last of the bootin' saxmen - for years. Now his dream was realised.

After playing in his native Texas, Texas, Joe was recruited to the Chicago band of King Kolax. He stayed "For about three years; they played the hits of the day, they played the Blues too". After this, he played with Ray Charles and toured with Gatemouth Moore before returning to Texas. In 1952 he moved to California, then a mecca for storming sax-led R&B. There he earned such aliases as Mighty Joe Houston and 'The Wildman Of The Tenor Sax'.

Live work continued, but not recording. This CD was Joe's first in sixteen years. Joe sparked off his sidemen: "Otis is a wonderful person, I enjoyed working with him and ...some wonderful British people and one American on drums - he's a good drummer, really helped the record 100%."

Otis singled out another musician for praise: "Ray Gelato was brilliant".

For Ray Gelato, the session had a special significance; the first sax album he bought was by Joe Houston!

The Return Of Honk!

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Otis Grand - The Blues Sessions 1990-1994

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1997
Styles: Blues
Time: 63:14
Size: 145,7 MB
Art: Full

Phillip Walker - guitar & vocals (tracks 1-3)
Joe Houston - tenor saxophone & vocals (tracks 4-6)
Guitar Shorty - guitar & vocals (tracks 7-8)
Jimmy T-99 Nelson - vocals (tracks 9-10)
Rosco Gordon - piano & vocals (tracks 11-13)

(4:12) 1. Beatrice, Beatrice
(3:45) 2. Young Devil
(3:03) 3. Insomnia
(3:34) 4. They Killed Crazy Horse
(4:27) 5. Why Oh Why
(8:11) 6. Blues for T-Bone
(5:22) 7. Down Through the Years
(5:17) 8. No Educated Woman
(4:36) 9. Chains of Love
(4:51) 10. Jimmy's Jump Medley
(3:42) 11. Cheese & Crackers
(6:46) 12. I'm the One
(5:21) 13. Sit Right Here

This album contains studio & live songs, recorded between 1990 and 1994 with Otis Grand as an accompanist for Philip Walker, Joe Houston, Guitar Shorty, Jimmy 'T-99' Nelson and Rosco Gordon (live). The sessions on which Otis Grand has participated have all been critically acclaimed. Otis is a perfectionist, constantly striving to improve, to move onward and upward, so he welcomed the chance to work again on some of the previously issued tracks.

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Various Artists - No Free Rides: A Budget Blues Sampler From JSP

Year: 1995
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:49
Size: 176,1 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Phillip Walker & Otis Grand - Dressin' Trashy (3:50)
2. Tutu Jones - Stubborn Woman (3:20)
3. The Butler Twins - 1-900 (6:12)
4. Buddy Guy - Girl You're Nice & Clean (4:40)
5. Larry Garner - Thought I Had The Blues (4:49)
6. Charlie Sayles - Down And Out (2:45)
7. Guitar Shorty & Otis Grand - Hot And Saucy, Short And Grand (5:58)
8. Byther Smith - I Was Coming Home (6:00)
9. Mojo Buford - Big Leg Woman (3:46)
10. U.P. Wilson - Tell Me Baby (4:08)
11. Lefty Dizz - Where The Hell Were You When I Got Home (7:52)
12. Joe Houston & Otis Grand - Camilla's Hop (4:10)
13. Larry Garner - No Free Rides (6:15)
14. Johnny Littlejohn - You Don't Want Me (4:14)
15. Carey & Lurrie Bell - Going Back To Louisiana (4:55)
16. Fernest Arceneaux - Back To Louisiana (3:47)

JSP Records was founded on the basic idea of recording blues artists that had fresh ideas, not ones who were simply rehashing their hits from the 1950s and 1960s. John Stedman was interested in hearing new songs and comments on today, not memoirs of long ago pasts. Because of this, JSP has recorded some of the true visionaires of the blues world and also some of its most flamboyant characters. Cats like Champion Jack Dupree, Lefty Dizz, Carey Bell, Guitar Shorty and Louisiana Red all found their way into the JSP recording studios. (Excerpt from the liner notes.)

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Henry Carpaneto - Voodoo Boogie

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 61:13
Size: 140.1 MB
Styles: Piano blues, Modern electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:17] 1. Drinkin & Thinkin (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[4:55] 2. My Brain Is Gone (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[4:47] 3. One Room (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[4:36] 4. Angel Child (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[5:42] 5. Welfare Woman (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[6:19] 6. Steady Rolling (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[4:44] 7. Caldonia (Feat. Bryan Lee, Otis Grand & Tony Coleman)
[3:38] 8. Mambo Mamma (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[4:26] 9. Turn Down The Noise (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[6:33] 10. Dog & Down Blues (Feat. Bryan Lee, Otis Grand & Tony Coleman)
[6:05] 11. Rock Me Baby (Feat. Bryan Lee, Otis Grand & Tony Coleman)
[5:05] 12. Blind Man Love (Feat. Bryan Lee)

Henry Carpaneto presenta VOODOO BOOGIE! Il suo primo album come leader, grandi i nomi che hanno contribuito a questo suo primo disco, Bryan Lee, Otis Grand e Tony Coleman! Insieme a loro il sassofonista Paolo Maffi, il contrabbassista Pietro Martinelli e il batterista Andrea Tassara.

Henry Carpaneto: keys, vocals; Bryan Lee: guitar; Otis Grand: guitar; Tony Coleman: drums.

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Joe Louis Walker & Otis Grand - Guitar Brothers

Size: 121,4 MB
Time: 51:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Snake Bit (5:27)
02. Imitation Ice Cream Blues (4:22)
03. I Like It This Way (5:00)
04. Better Off Alone (7:52)
05. Friends (5:53)
06. I'm Getting Drunk (4:39)
07. Rude Women (4:41)
08. Regal Blues (4:25)
09. Bliss Street Blues (4:52)
10. I'm Gonna Love You (4:31)

Both were musically raised in San Francisco's blues scene. And this is where their first and only duo album was recorded. Backing is supplied by Joe's then regular band. They sound somewhat stiff; but the guitar players are burning blues fireworks!

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Joe Houston & Otis Grand - The Return Of Honk!

Size: 125,6 MB
Time: 54:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Sax Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Jump Blues
Art: Full

01. The Return Of Honk (5:09)
02. Camilla's Hop (4:10)
03. Mama Don't (5:24)
04. Fruit Boots (4:49)
05. Big Legged Woman (7:33)
06. They Killed Crazy Horse (3:34)
07. Castle Rock (7:17)
08. Why Oh Why (4:27)
09. Blues For T-Bone (7:39)
10. Down But Not Out (4:00)

Joe Houston, a honking R&B saxman of wallpaper-peeling potency, recorded for virtually every major independent R&B label in Los Angeles during the 1950s. When the jump blues tradition faded, he segued right into rock & roll, even cutting budget Twist and surf albums for Crown that didn't sound very different from what he was doing a decade before. Houston played around Houston, Texas with the bands of Amos Milburn and Joe Turner during the late '40s. It was Turner who got the young saxist his first deal with Freedom Records in 1949. Houston found his way to the West Coast in 1952 and commenced recording for labels big and small: Modern, RPM, Lucky, Imperial, Dootone, Recorded in Hollywood, Cash, and Money (as well as the considerably better-financed Mercury, where he scored his only national R&B hit, "Worry, Worry, Worry," in 1952). Houston's formula was simple and savagely direct -- he'd honk and wail as hard as he could, from any conceivable position: on his knees, lying on his back, walking the bar, etc. His output for the Bihari brothers' Crown label (where he was billed as "Wild Man of the Tenor Sax") is positively exhilarating: "All Nite Long," "Blow Joe Blow," and "Joe's Gone" are herculean examples of single-minded sax blasting. Joe Houston remained active musically into the 2000s, emphasizing his blues vocal talent more than previously, until suffering a stroke in 2005. He re-emerged and began playing again for a period of time thereafter, but then retreated from the public and to the company of family and friends. ~Biography by Bill Dahl

The Return Of Honk!

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Otis Grand - Live Anthology

Size: 154,7 MB
Time: 67:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Label: Mystic Records
Art: Full

01. The Freeze (4:20)
02. Blues From The Heart (8:28)
03. No Love In My Heart For You (5:30)
04. In The Open (5:42)
05. The Things I Forgot To Do (5:19)
06. Buzz Me (5:08)
07. Lonely Man (3:46)
08. Come On In This House (7:00)
09. Blues Is King (4:58)
10. Blues Get Off My Shoulder (9:35)
11. Og Ball Buster (1:33)
12. Looking Good (2:16)
13. 38Th Street Blues (3:30)

This album compiles 13 digitally remastered live recordings from accomplished European blues guitarist Otis Grand. In Grand Style collects 34 tracks from five of bluesman Otis Grand's studio releases. While the British blues guitarist has received critical acclaim in Europe, somehow his talents have only been acknowledged by blues fanatics in the U.S. market. Sanctuary Records is doing its best to correct that situation by releasing this well-packaged, two-disc set. The majority of tracks are Grand originals, bringing a breath of fresh air into a genre that can sometimes get bogged down by relying too heavily on tried and true blues classics. ~ Al Campbell Otis Grand has been voted the best UK Blues guitarist for the past seven years.In 1998 the French Blues Association awarded him the title of Best European Blues Guitarist. Otis has played with all the Blues masters and recorded six award winning studio albums for JSP and Sequel. This is his first live recording and features ten years worth of the finest digitally re - mastered recordings drawn from club, TV and arena shows. Featured musicians include Brother Roy Oakley and Curtis Salgado, roydon, Surrey, gateway to the blues!

Thanks to Marc
Live Anthology

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Otis GRAND - He Knows The Blues / Always Hot

Album: He Knows The Blues
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, B & B
Recorded: 1990
Released: 1992
Bitrate: 320k/s
Size: 118.45 MB
Time: 50:50
Art: Full

1. Things Are Getting Harder To Do (4:14)
2. You Hurt Me (5:24)
3. Jumpin' For Jimmy (4:44)
4. Grand Style (3:36)
5. Real Gone Lover (3:34)
6. SRV (My Mood Too) (5:53)
7. Leave That Girl (4:21)
8. Ham (5:47)
9. Your Love Pulls No Punches (5:18)
10. Swing Turn (4:50)
11. Teach Me How To Love You (2:14)
12. He Knows The Blues (0:55)

Personnel: Otis GRAND - Guitars, National Steel Guitar
Earl Green - Vocals
Steve Clayton, Peter Bogart  - Piano, Hammond B3
Dan Quinton - Bass
Marc Wilson - Drums
with Horn Section
and special guests:
Joe Louis Walker - Vocal, Guitar
Jimmy 'T99' Nelson - Vocals
Calvin Owens - Trumpet & Horns Arrangements
Pee Wee Ellis - Tenor Saxophone

Note: The blues guitarist Otis Grand's first CD for Sequel records was recorded in Lyon, France in 1990, but was only on general release in Feb 1992 when the UK's SEQUEL Records picked up on it. "He Knows The Blues" Featuring the support of contemporaries like Otis' old friend Joe Louis Walker, Jimmy 'T99' Nelson, and Pee Wee Ellis (of James Brown fame). Joe Walker swaps guitar solos with Otis Grand on "SRV (My mood Too)" dedicated to the late Stevie Ray Vaughn. 'T99' Nelson shouts some vintage blues on " Jumpin' for Jimmy" and "Swing Turn", recalling the great R&B shouters of the 40's and 50's - Big Joe Turner & Wynonie Harris. Saxman Pee Wee Ellis, a member of the classic James Brown band of the 60's contributes arrangements and the instrumental " Ham".

B.B.King's long time bandleader and trumpet player Calvin Owens tops things off by arranging all the superb horn parts on the CD. More importantly , Otis Grand's superb and tough blues guitar technique and playing is evident through out this set and covers a wide spectrum of blues styles.

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Album: Always Hot
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, R & B  
Recorded: 1988
Released: 1997
Bitrate: 320k/s
Size: 93.16 MB
Time: 39:09
Art: Full

1. Love At First Sight [2:56]
2. Woke Up This Morning [4:20]
3. Fix Our Love [4:45]
4. Always Hot [3:12]
5. Shame Shame Shame [3:15]
6. Whole Lotta Lovin' [4:14]
7. Rebecca [3:45]
8. Don't I Know Why [5:41]
9. Let's Party [3:10]
10. No Alibi [3:49]

Personnel: Otis GRAND - Guitars
Earl Green - Vocals
Tim Richards - Keyboards
Dan Quinton - Bass
Larry Tolfree - Drums
with five horn section

Notes: Otis says: "I have never played anything else but blues. I have never attempted to play anything else. I have never listened to anything else but blues, and its derivatives, anything that comes from it. I love western swing, people like Bob Wills, so that's the stuff I listen to. During my days in San Francisco, the big thing in San Francisco was acid rock. People like, for instance, Jefferson Airplane. They were big and you were supposed to drop acid and take drugs and listen to music like that. But I wasn't into that. I was turned on by the guitar of B.B. King, and Albert King in the '60s. They were not popular, but I had this feeling for the blues and I never stopped listening to it. My roots are in the record player. I didn't grow up on a cotton farm or anything like that! I listened and watched my favorites. You had people like B.B. King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells coming across, they were touring, making great records for Delmark and King. I was turned on and I stayed turned on. I'm proud to say that in the last 35 years my love for the blues has never stopped, and in fact it's getting greater and greater. It might seem corny, but I think I'm on a mission to introduce the blues to a lot new people."

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