Lamont Cranston Band - Live At The People's Fair 1987

Year: 2007
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:53
Size: 142,9 MB
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Front

1. Introduction (0:08)
2. Yonder Wall (5:27)
3. Too Many Drivers At The Wheel (5:08)
4. Homework (4:15)
5. I Need Your Love So Bad (7:15)
6. Cross Cut Saw (2:59)
7. Weekend Love (6:20)
8. Barefootin' (3:07)
9. House Party (4:58)
10. Part Time Love (6:08)
11. I Like Your Style (3:38)
12. Maybe I'll Get Lucky Tonight (5:20)
13. Upper Mississippi Shakedown (7:02)

The Lamont Cranston Band is one of Minnesota's well-known secrets, but relatively unknown in music circles. Lamont Cranston got his start in 1969 and his band headlined for the Rolling Stones. Lamont Cranston influenced many blues players before they became famous in their own right, such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Albert King, Johnny Lang, and countless others. Over the years, The Lamont Cranston Band has honed their chops into a tight rhythm and blues section with a primary emphasis on blues.

"Live at the People's Fair 1987" is one of The Lamont Cranston Band's best efforts that captures and covers tunes from other musicians who wrote their songs in the style of Lamont Cranston. The Lamont Cranston Band is one of this nation's best kept secrets, and they deserve much more recognition than the band currently has. Minnesota should be proud that this underrated band has been a force that opened up the way for other musicians to learn and create their own style. /Amazon (User review)

Personnel: Pat Hayes (guitar, harmonica, vocals); Mark Knoll (guitar); Charles Fletcher (bass); Mike DuBois (drums); Andy Bailey (piano, Hammond B3); Bronco (saxophone).

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Lamont Cranston Blues Band - Roll With Me

Year: 1997
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:00
Size: 112,6 MB
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Play The Blues (4:25)
2. What A Party (3:44)
3. Wild Women & Whiskey (3:19)
4. Blinded (5:21)
5. You Don't Know (3:11)
6. Roll With Me (3:31)
7. West Side Woman (3:28)
8. Country Farm (3:23)
9. Hip Cat Bounce (3:40)
10. I Couldn't Put You Down (4:21)
11. Hold On (5:13)
12. Don't Take Me Down Again (5:19)

A longtime Midwest club favorite, the Lamont Cranston Blues Band comes up to the plate with 12 strong original tracks showing that modern blues has some other agenda than merely replicating one's record collection. Guitarist/vocalist/harmonica man Pat Hayes is the heart and soul of the band, equally adept at burning up the fretboard (as he does on "West Side Woman") or blowing the walls down as he does on the title track. The genres are all familiar - as are many of the lyrics - but what Hayes creates out of these simple tools is something new and different enough to warrant a second look.

On "Hip Cat Bounce," he proves that modern blues guitar can be lowdown and dirty without a lot of note flurries or extraneous rock additions to get the point across, while on "Country Farm," he weds Little Walter-like swoops from his harp to the most Excello-like of backgrounds. He gets jazzy on "I Couldn't Put You Down" and utterly soulful on "Don't Take Me Down Again." A record so deceptively original and simple, it may take a couple of listens for it all to sink in, but one that's well worth the time put in to do it. /Cub Koda, AllMusic

Personnel: Pat Hayes (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Ted Larsen, Larry Hayes (guitar); Jim Greenwell, Johnny Reno, Larry McDonald (saxophone); Bill Brown, Andy Bailey, Bruce McCabe (keyboards); Jeff Rogers (drums); Reneé Austin (background vocals).

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VA - Bluesapolooza: Live At Bogart's

Size: 151,5 MB
Time: 65:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2007
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Joe Juliano - Cadillac Blues ( 4:29)
02. Joe Juliano - She's Into Something ( 4:18)
03. The Brothers Keller - It Takes Time ( 4:32)
04. The Brothers Keller - I Found Someone Who Loves Me ( 5:50)
05. Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls - Beldonia ( 2:34)
06. Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls - Don't You Just Know It ( 5:09)
07. Big Walter Smith & The Groove Merchants - All Your Love ( 4:34)
08. Big Walter Smith & The Groove Merchants - She's Mine ( 3:58)
09. Soulmates - Mississippi Soupbone ( 4:15)
10. Soulmates - Walkin' The Dog ( 5:09)
11. Lamont Cranston Blues Band - Got My Mojo Workin' ( 6:13)
12. Lamont Cranston Blues Band - Riding With Daddy (13:57)

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Lamont Cranston - 2 albums: Tiger In Your Tank/Lamont Cranston Blues Band Feat. Pat Hayes

Album: Tiger In Your Tank
Year: 1988/1999
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:20
Size: 81,1 MB
Styles: Blues, jump blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Hurry Hurry Baby (3:05)
2. Sittin' On It (3:29)
3. Tiger In Your Tank (4:00)
4. It Only Hurts A Little While (3:31)
5. Quarter Past Nine (3:09)
6. T-Model Boogie (3:09)
7. Ain't No Time For Fussin' (3:53)
8. House Party (3:15)
9. Shadow's Groove (2:54)
10. As The Years Go Passin' By (4:52)

This is about as energetic a jump/shuffle/boogie/blues CD as your going to get for the first nine songs and when the music finally slows down, it’s for the last song on the CD, titled, "As The Years Go Passin’ By". A beautiful and moving slow blues that features Bob Bingham’s expressive, tastefully played, sweet toned guitar that leaves you wanting the song to stretch out a while longer.

Pat Hayes is his usual self, singin’ and shoutin’ the blues, and playing stinging slide licks for the title song, Willie Dixon composed, "Tiger In Your Tank" and Elmore James’s "Quarter Past Nine." He blows one of the meanest virtuoso harps this side of Charlie Musselwhite on "It Only Hurts A Little While", "T-Model Boogie", and "Shadow’s Groove", a self- penned tune that also features some great guitar work by Bob. Every once in a while, I would catch myself thinking that Pat is getting awfully close to sounding like a B-3 on his harp. That’s a full, fat sound!

Throughout the entire CD, the rhythm section, keys, and horns are doing their thing, holding down the fort, punctuating the empty spaces, keeping the grooves churning, and from start to finish, laying down some mean, steady vibes for the rest of the band to build on. Pat, who handles the vocals, harp and slide guitar, is joined by Bob Bingham on guitar, Danny Rowles on keyboards, Bill Black on upright bass, Jim Novak on drums, Joe Chandler and Paul Scher on saxophone, Pete Masters on trombone and Tony Moen on trumpet.

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Album: Lamont Cranston Blues Band Feat. Pat Hayes
Year: 1991/1996
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:24
Size: 90,3 MB
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. I Don't Wanna Know (5:36)
2. Cold Winds (3:43)
3. Two-Way Wishing (3:52)
4. Love Grown Cold (3:08)
5. You Don't Even Know (2:58)
6. Stop On By (3:25)
7. I Got Designs On You (4:51)
8. Whole Lotta Lovin' (3:44)
9. Too Young To Die (3:52)
10. Fever (4:10)

From the rural hometown settings of Hamel, Minnesota and the river banks of Minneapolis/St. Paul, the blues influence surfaced as early as the mid 1960's for what was to become "The Lamont Cranston Blues Band". By 1969, The Lamont Cranston Blues Band was well on their way to becoming the legend that it is today. You can't seem to go anywhere today from coast to coast without running into someone that has heard of the band. They are one of the founders of the Minneapolis music scene which is flourishing more than ever to this day. From the clubs, concert halls and festivals to the auditoriums and stadiums, the Cranstons have shared the bill with Muddy Waters, Luther Allison, Albert King, Albert Collins, Jimmy Rogers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Charles Brown, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Thackery, Junior Wells, Keb Mo, Jonny Lang, Robert Cray, Son Seals, Charlie Musselwhite and many many more. Their visibility increased in the 1980's when RCA reissued the band's smash hit release "Upper Mississippi Shakedown", selling over 100,000 copies and cracking the lower reaches of the Billboard charts.

Lead singer, guitarist and harmonica giant, Pat 'Lamont' Hayes has also enjoyed his own success touring with Bonnie Raitt as a member of her band on her 1990 "Nick Of Time" tour; blowing harmonica duets with Charlie Musselwhite in Minneapolis and during a 1994 Hollywood trip after Pat received an invitation from Dan Aykroyd to be a special guest performer at a private pre-grand opening bash at Dan's new 'House Of Blues' nightclub, where he performed with Charlie and his band the first night and with The Blues Brothers band the next. Pat has been hailed by Bonnie, Dan and many others as being one of the best harmonica players around. Dan even called on the boys to play the grand opening of his new Chicago House Of Blues in November 1996, Cleveland in 2004 and Atlantic City in 2005.

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Lamont Cranston Blues Band - Lamont Live!!

Size: 135,1+142,4 MB
Time: 58:12+61:28
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Ridin' With Daddy (4:44)
02. Hoodoo Man (5:12)
03. Roll With Me (6:26)
04. What A Party (3:49)
05. I Don't Wanna Know (5:20)
06. Come On In This House (6:47)
07. I Couldn't Put You Down (4:45)
08. She's Murder (5:10)
09. Five Long Years (6:14)
10. Lickin' Stick (9:41)

CD 2:
01. Madison Blues ( 4:49)
02. Fever ( 5:28)
03. Streets Around Here ( 5:11)
04. Two-Way Wishin ( 5:18)
05. Hold On ( 5:21)
06. Sweet Sixteen (10:45)
07. Sadie ( 6:10)
08. Upper Mississippi Shakedown ( 8:07)
09. E Jam (10:14)

From the rural hometown settings of Hamel, Minnesota and the river banks of Minneapolis/St. Paul, the blues influence surfaced as early as the mid 1960's for what was to become The Lamont Cranston Blues Band.

Pat (Lamont) Hayes (with his brother Larry) founded the band in 1969 and he hasn't stopped driving the renowned boogie blues train of the one and only Lamont Cranston Band. This Minneapolis based band has a rich history in the music scene, having recorded 14 albums and written and produced a number of hit songs including the chart topping 'Upper Mississippi Shakedown." The band is going strong and turning out new material all the time.

The Cranstons have shared bills with some of the biggest names in the industry including Muddy Waters, Luther Allison, Albert King, Albert Collins, Jimmy Rogers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Charles Brown, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Thackery, Junior Wells, Keb Mo, Jonny Lang, Robert Cray, Son Seals, Charlie Musselwhite, Earl King, Mighty Joe Young, Sugar Blue, Otis Rush, Elvin Bishop, Little Feat, Delbert McClinton, Koko Taylor, Lonnie Brooks, Percy Sledge, Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown, The Climax Blues Band, Tower Of Power, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Animals II, Kansas, Yes, Jeff Healy, Wilson Pickett, Bonnie Raitt, The Blues Brothers and many more. One of the biggest thrills was opening for The Rolling Stones on a leg of their North American tour in 1981. In 2010, the band was inducted in the Mid-America Music Hall Of Fame. Just another of many well-deserved honors the band has been blessed with.

Lamont Cranston has also received the numerous Critic’s Choice AND Reader’s Choice awards for “Best Twin Cities Blues Band” by City Pages.

The band has also been featured regularily on Dan Aykroyd’s House Of Blues Radio Show. In fact, Aykroyd (the original Blues Brother!) is quite fond of Cranston proclaiming, “No one infects venues with the party virus quite like Pat Hayes and The Lamont Cranston Blues Band. They’ve always been my favorite.”

Blues great Bonnie Raitt has also showed Cranston love saying, “It’s great to hear Lamont Cranston back on the scene. Pat Hayes plays some of the baddest harp and guitar around!"

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Various - Bluesapolooza: Live At Bogart's

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 65:04
Size: 148.9 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2001/2007
Art: Front

[ 4:29] 1. Joe Juliano - Cadillac Blues
[ 4:18] 2. Joe Juliano - She's Into Something
[ 4:32] 3. The Brothers Keller - It Takes Time
[ 5:50] 4. The Brothers Keller - I Found Someone Who Loves Me
[ 2:34] 5. Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls - Beldonia
[ 5:09] 6. Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls - Don't You Just Know It
[ 4:34] 7. Big Walter Smith And The Groove Merchants - All Your Love
[ 3:58] 8. Big Walter Smith And The Groove Merchants - She's Mine
[ 4:15] 9. Soulmates - Mississippi Soupbone
[ 5:09] 10. Soulmates - Walkin' The Dog
[ 6:13] 11. Lamont Cranston Blues Band - Got My Mojo Workin'
[13:58] 12. Lamont Cranston Blues Band - Riding With Daddy (with 2 tunes by Joe Juliano tacked in at the end)

The Live Bluesapolooza benefit album was recorded in 2000, and released last year. It features six of the Twin Cities finest blues bands, all coming together to raise funds for Mark DeForrest. Each band gets a brace of tracks on the album, plus there are two bonus tracks at the end by Joe Juliano.

Guitarist Joe Juliano bookends the CD. He kicks things off with Johnnie Bassett's "Cadillac Blues" and Colin Wright's "She's Into Something," each offering something a little bit different, and each showing that Juliano is no mean guitarist. He also gets the last two (unlisted) tracks where the band is augmented by a sax player.

Juliano is followed by another guitar based group, the Keller Brothers, who also perform a couple of covers. Their version of Otis Rush's "It Takes Time" shows that they know their stuff and can certainly play. They are followed by the first of the original tracks, "Beldonia" by the Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls. It is an instrumental "Beldonia" which has a strong Muddy Waters influence running through it. They then drop into the party mood with a fun version (is there any other kind?) of "Don't You Just Know It."

Magic Sam's "All Your Love" gets a great reworking from Big Walter and the Groove Merchants who add a brass section that really makes things swing. They also do a take on Doyle Bramhall's "She's Mine" with some fine guitar from Scott Graves, before passing the baton to the Soulmates. "Mississippi Soupbone" (slang for a fine looking woman) is the best track on the album. Everything about the band just fits nicely into place and special guest Steve Vonderharr contributes the excellent harp. They also add their party bit with "Walkin' The Dog."

Fittingly, the (officially listed bit of the) party closes with local legends Lamont Cranston, still going strong after 30 years. They maintain the party mood with Pat Hayes in top form on harp and vocals as they rattle through "Got My Mojo Workin'," before rounding off with an interpretation of Howlin' Wolf's "Ridin' With Daddy" that is very much their own.

"Bluesapolooza" sounds like it was a lot of fun. There is a good-time atmosphere permeating the album, and all of the featured bands acquit themselves well. In this respect "Bluesapolooza" acts as a good introduction to the local scene, for anyone who has ever wondered about the locally based blues bands in the Twin Cities. ~Gordon Baxter

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Lamont Cranston Band - With Bruce McCabe

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 65:13
Size: 149.3 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:10] 1. Look Down
[5:09] 2. Help Your Brother
[3:21] 3. I Wanna See
[3:24] 4. 500 Dollars
[5:06] 5. Shouda Wouda Couda
[5:18] 6. '59 Cadillac
[5:48] 7. Prisoner
[3:22] 8. Weasel In The Hen House
[4:37] 9. My Hair Is Gone
[5:02] 10. Big Money
[3:24] 11. Lion And The Lamb
[3:32] 12. Bullfrog Boogie Woogie
[5:38] 13. Big Money Man
[4:49] 14. Talkin Catfish
[2:24] 15. Bustin These Chains

Bruce McCabe is a towering, albeit mild-mannered figure on the Twin Cities blues-rock scene. Co-leader of the sorely missed Hoopsnakes, McCabe is also the songwriter responsible for Jonny Lang's biggest hit, "Lie to Me," and another Lang song that Phillip Phillips recently rode to glory with on "American Idol" -- "Still Rainin.'" But before any of that, he was a fixture of the Lamont Cranston Band, with whom he's once again playing select dates.

McCabe's re-emergence alongside Pat "Lamont" Hayes and his crew is cause for celebration, since he's back from battling brain cancer -- grade 3 astrocytoma -- for the second time. "I was out jogging and got this weird feeling that seemed too familiar, and I knew I had to get looked at right away," McCabe said. "If not, my head might have exploded." He wound up at the Mayo Clinic a year ago. "I had a 10-hour surgery where I was awake throughout the whole thing, but drugged out, of course. It's amazing what doctors can do these days. I lucked out."

He's been playing around town again, first sparingly, now more regularly. "I don't have to take chemo now, which really tires you out. They'll check in a few weeks, give me another MRI, and see if stopping the chemo was a good idea." One of his first post-surgery gigs was recording the new album, "Lamont Cranston Band, With Bruce McCabe." "That was really nice of Pat Hayes to call me for the album," he said.

"Y'know, Pat kinda trained me in when I first showed up in town, was like a teacher to me. I'd played with [Fabulous Thunderbirds frontman] Kim Wilson for a year before, but Pat was the one who really showed me the ropes of the blues. He was the boss," McCabe said, chuckling. "And I think he's getting better, as he gets older, at writing good songs."

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