Laura Rain & The Caesars - Walk With Me

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:10
Size: 94.2 MB
Styles: Soul-blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:29] 1. Walk With Me
[3:59] 2. In My Life
[4:08] 3. Hi Fidelity Man
[4:26] 4. Maybe We Can Make Things Happen
[3:58] 5. Upstream
[4:17] 6. Don't Lose Your Way
[4:04] 7. Learning The Hard Way
[4:12] 8. Tear Down These Walls
[3:51] 9. What Kind Of Love Is This
[4:41] 10. Be Your Fool

With the release of her fourth recording “Walk with Me”, Laura Rain pushes the envelope of her unique soul music. Channeling inspiration from Detroit’s long history of dance music, funk, blues, soul and r&b, Laura Rain gives modern music a raw, yet sophisticated shot of much needed authenticity and heart.

Walk With Me

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Laura Rain & The Caesars - Gold

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:11
Size: 110.3 MB
Styles: Detroit blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:00] 1. Work So Hard
[4:00] 2. Hard Times
[3:36] 3. You Can't Stop
[4:58] 4. Pay To Play
[3:36] 5. Gold
[4:09] 6. Guilty Me
[3:52] 7. Raise Your Hand
[3:43] 8. Lonely Girl
[3:48] 9. Cherry Pickin'
[5:25] 10. Ring On The Table
[2:55] 11. Better Than Me
[4:04] 12. Ready To Love

What do you get if the sound of Detroit is taken and mixed with some old fashioned blues and driven along by a funky backbeat? Answer? Laura Rain and her impressive band. This lady sings like a powerhouse and attacks the songs here with attitude and sassy confidence. With a backing band this good and a brass section that wrap the tunes in a tight grip, the rhythm is infectious. Think Etta James and Aretha Franklin, mixed with Anastasia and you are getting near the groove here. George Friend on guitar is particularly influential and his playing is really impressive, from the slow feel of Your Love is Not Broken to the strut of Squawkin’. Keyboard player Phil Hale and guest Duncan McMillan on organ also add to the warm sound and deliver some fine ensemble playing. All the tracks are strong but the tight beat of Super Duper Love and the slow burn of He Is take some beating.

Their debut CD Electrified appeared in 2013 and is followed by this impressive collection to add further claims to a career that can only get bigger. This is Memphis soul, Chicago blues and Motown funk, all in a Detroit, Motor City vehicle that is flying up the highway. Grab a seat while you can. ~ Paul McGee

Gold mc
Gold zippy

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Laura Rain & The Caesars - Electrified

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:25
Size: 104.0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:38] 1. Sunset
[4:52] 2. My Love
[4:08] 3. Electrified
[4:45] 4. Bus Stop
[3:58] 5. Four Long Years
[4:06] 6. I Don't Wanna Play
[5:12] 7. No Good Love
[4:16] 8. Lonely
[6:09] 9. This Old House
[4:16] 10. No More

The photograph of Laura Rain on the cover of Electrified captures her with her eyes tightly shut, one hand on her head, the other holding a microphone into which she is clearly letting rip. It’s a great photo, which captures an artist lost in the moment and, as visual metaphors go, it’s a pretty accurate summation of this album. Rain is blessed with a powerful, soulful beast of a voice, and she and her band, the Caesars, bring it to the forefront on the 10 retro-modern soul pieces on Electrified. The end result is a very impressive studio debut (they also released a live four track demo in 2012).

Some critics have compared Rain’s voice to Aretha Franklin. A closer comparison might be Amy Winehouse who, despite having more of a contralto range, had a similarly appealing catholic approach to her music. But where Winehouse mixed R&B, soul, jazz and reggae, Rain mixes R&B, soul, funk and blues. As a result, this is not a flat-out blues album, but is well worth a listen to any blues fan, but particularly if you are partial to the funk-influenced blues of Johnny “Guitar” Watson or the funky soul of Prince.

Laura Rain and the Caesars say they are reclaiming the storied Detroit soul music legacy from the ravages of time, neglect, and electronic dance music. On the evidence of Electrified, they are doing a pretty damn good job of it. Highly recommended.

Electrified

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Laura Rain & The Caesars - Closer

Size: 109,5 MB
Time: 46:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Blues Soul, Funk, R&B
Art: Front

01. Seasons (3:53)
02. Closer (4:05)
03. Squawkin' (4:03)
04. All Of Me (3:52)
05. Meet Me In The Middle (4:10)
06. Your Love Is Not Broken (4:18)
07. Dirty Man (4:05)
08. He Is (4:18)
09. Super Duper Love (3:45)
10. Awful Sin (3:37)
11. My Heart Is Open (6:28)

Laura Rain & the Caesars formed in the Motor City in 2012. The band performs regularly throughout the Detroit area, and is quickly attracting attention worldwide as a unique and hard driving soul blues outfit fronted by the charismatic and fiery vocals of Laura Rain. Their debut CD "Electrified" contains nods to Memphis Soul, Chicago Blues, and Motown Funk performed with a modern twist. Producer and guitarist George Friend has played with the likes of Janiva Magness, Jessy Moss, Robert Gordon, and Thornetta Davis. His bluesy guitar stylings provide the perfect catalyst for Laura's unbridled vocal style. Featuring Ron Pangborn on drums (Was Not Was, Marshall Crenshaw) and Phil Hale on organ/bass (George Clinton, Marcus Belgrave, Ridgeway Sisters) the band weaves a soulful bed of funkiness underneath it all.

Closer

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