Lee McBee - Soul Deep

Size: 107,4 MB
Time: 46:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. Ride With Me (4:14)
02. It's Your Voodoo Working (2:29)
03. Just A Feeling (4:37)
04. Twelve Hours From You (4:20)
05. Woman Down In Arkansas (3:44)
06. Soul Deep (3:07)
07. Country Blues II (4:25)
08. Gonna Find My Baby (4:15)
09. I Don't Understand (4:06)
10. Your Turn To Cry (4:50)
11. Mohair Sam (2:53)
12. Walk (3:50)

How many blues singers you know? I mean 'real' blues singers? And how many white guys do fit into that category? Four? Or five? Whoever you are naming, Lee McBee should be in that group. The man with that soulful and smoky voice, long-time partner of Texan Mike Morgan, has done it again! He's surprising the blues community with another GREAT record. The musicians were hand-picked in the Dallas area; the recordings were made at Billy Horton's famous 'Fort Horton Studio' near, Austin. Recorded the old way, live with all guys playing in one room, at the same time. Lee knows how to sing the blues. His repertoire includes rural styles as well as the soul of the big city. He is my favrite white singer. And this album is moving. A well-balanced mixture of originals, and covers, performed with energy and passion. I love it! Traditional style blues at its very best.

Soul Deep

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Various Artists - Blues Harmonica Spotlight

Blues Harmonica Spotlight focuses on New Orleans label's generous array of blues-harp talent. /AllMusic

Album: Blues Harmonica Spotlight
Year: 1992
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:04
Size: 120,2 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues
Scans: Front

1. The James Harman Band - Wake Up Call (2:37)
2. Darrell Nulisch & Texas Heat - Love And War (3:34)
3. Sam Myers & Anson Funderburgh - My Love Is Here To Stay (3:33)
4. Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers - 4811 Wadworth (5:37)
5. Mike Morgan & The Crawl Feat. Lee McBee - I Don't Want You Hanging Around (2:09)
6. Sam Myers w. Snooks Eaglin & Anson Funderburgh - Bombastic (4:05)
7. Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters Feat. Sugar Ray - My Home Is A Prison (5:16)
8. The James Harman Band - Mad About Somethin' (4:40)
9. Mike Morgan & The Crawl Feat. Lee McBee - Big D Shuffle (2:31)
10. Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers - Back Door Man (5:23)
11. Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters Feat. Kim Wilson - Ridin' In The Moonlight (4:07)
12. Sam Myers & Anson Funderburgh - Hep Cats In Big Town (4:54)
13. Lee McBee & Mike Morgan - Sweet Lolita (3:32)

Blues Harmonica Spotlight mc
Blues Harmonica Spotlight zippy

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Lee McBee & The Passions - 44

Year: 1995
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:33
Size: 106,9 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Boogie Twist (3:47)
2. Rock This Joint (3:44)
3. Forty-Four Blues (4:51)
4. Rooster Blues (3:25)
5. Call Me (4:49)
6. She Fooled Me (4:11)
7. Get Your Mind Out Of The Gutter (3:42)
8. I Been Abused (3:09)
9. Everybody Loves My Baby (4:45)
10. Train Fare (4:48)
11. I'm Gonna Love You (2:53)
12. Keep What You Got (2:25)

Though he was primarily a regional blues act in the midwest, Lee McBee gained national attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his work with Mike Morgan and the Crawl and for his band the Passions. These bands toured the United States, Canada and Europe and recorded on major blues labels. McBee grew up in Kansas City and collected blues and soul records throughout the 1960s. In 1969, he moved to lawrence, Kansas and worked in many blues and blues-rock bands, including Tide and Lynch-McBee Band, up to 1978.

From 1978 to 1982 McBee moved to Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles and recorded and performed with Bonnie Raitt, Jimmy Rogers, Doug Sahm and Johnny Winter. By the mid 1980s, he settled in Dallas and met guitarist Mike Morgan in 1985. They formed the Crawl and they would be together for the next twelve years. In 1994, McBee began a side project with The Passions. This band would be relocated to Kansas City as its base and soon evolved into Lee McBee and the Confessors. Throughout the 2000s, McBee and his band toured northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri and have released two albums.

Personnel:
Lee McBee - vocals, harmonica
Willie Campbell - upright & electric bass
Marvin Hunt - guitar (track 3)
Anson Funderburgh - guitar
Kid Ramos - guitar
Kevin McKendree - piano
Stephen Hodges - percussion

44 mc
44 zippy

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Various - Kansas City Blues: The Nineties Vol. 1

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 70:01
Size: 160.3 MB
Styles: Contemporay blues
Year: 1994
Art: Full

[5:13] 1. Lee McBee & The Passions - Do You Love Me
[8:07] 2. Lee McBee & The Passions - Sweet Blood Call
[4:35] 3. Lee McBee & The Passions - Swear To Tell The Truth
[4:21] 4. Linda Shell & The Blues Thang - Everybody Gets The Blues
[9:35] 5. Linda Shell & The Blues Thang - Mr. Blues
[5:31] 6. Fast Johnny Ricker - Wrong Place, Wrong Time
[5:53] 7. Fast Johnny Ricker - Don't Go Down There
[5:42] 8. Fast Johnny Ricker - Mighty High
[3:17] 9. Bill Carter Blues Review Feat. Lady Red - You're Breakin' My Heart
[3:48] 10. Bill Carter Blues Review Feat. Lady Red - This is My Life
[4:13] 11. Big John & The 39th Street Blues Band - Just Another Case Of The Blues
[5:20] 12. Big John & The 39th Street Blues Band - You Better Stop
[4:20] 13. Big John & The 39th Street Blues Band - We're Gonna Have A Party

To preserve a moment of sound in time is a difficult task, yet reaps tremendeous rewards for us culturally. Red Hot records has attempted to do just that by preserving today's K.C. sound in our series Kansas City Blues, The Nineties.

Kansas City's musical legacy is a long and proud one. Big Joe Turner, Bennie Moten, Count Basie, Jay McShann, Julia Lee and Charlie Parker are just a few of the musicians who have shaped the sounds of Kansas City. Today, new faces carry on that tradition of outstanding jazz and blues. The blues is an age old American art form that has survived the march of time, constantly reinventing and redefining itself through multiple incarnations and interpretations. ~from the liner notes

thank you mrwalker.
Kansas City Blues: The Nineties Vol. 1 mc
Kansas City Blues: The Nineties Vol. 1 zippy

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