Leroy Carr - Blues Before Sunrise

Size: 118,1 MB
Time: 49:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1962/1989
Styles: Piano Blues, Pre-War Blues
Art: Full

01. Blues Before Midnight (3:34)
02. I Believe I'll Make A Change (2:58)
03. Mightnight Hour Blues (3:08)
04. Take A Walk Around The Corner (3:05)
05. Southbond Blues (2:51)
06. Mean Mistreater Mama (2:54)
07. Big Four Blues (3:05)
08. Barrelhouse Woman (2:54)
09. It's Too Short (2:57)
10. My Woman's Gone Wrong (2:28)
11. Hustler's Blues (2:37)
12. Bobo Stomp (2:52)
13. Shining Pistol (2:55)
14. Shady Lane Blues (3:43)
15. Corn Likker Blues (3:49)
16. Hurry Down Sunshine (3:41)

Despite minimal sound quality, this reissue contains some prime Leroy Carr/Scrapper Blackwell material. They were arguably the greatest piano and guitar duo to emerge in the late '20s and early '30s. You can find these tracks on other import collections, but this was among the first reissues available on a domestic label. ~Ron Wynn

Blues Before Sunrise

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Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - When the Sun Goes Down 1934 - 1941

By the late summer of 1934 Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell were among Vocalion's biggest sellers. Despite the Depression, they had visited the studio every year except 1933. Only Leroy Carr's death in 1935 brought their success to an end. Several factors contributed to this success. Carr's blues where urban in their performance, structure and in the warmth of his vocal style. The vast majority of his songs were blues. These often had a wild bite which resulted in an intensity, heightened by an almost unbearable poignancy on his finest sides. After Carr's death, it was primarily Bumble Bee Slim and Bill Gaither who filled the huge void in the world of the pre-war blues. Both singers were among the finest and most popular of the 1930s. The were superb lyricists who produced enduring examples of the genre. As Memphis Minnie said "they carried the good work on". Leroy Carr is a seminal figure in the development of the blues and it is entirely fitting to let him have the last word in the last song he recorded: "Just remember me baby, when I'm six feet of cold, cold ground. Always think of me mama, just say there's a good man gone down".

Album: When the Sun Goes Down Disc A
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2011
Styles: Blues
Time: 74:00
Size: 170,7 MB
Covers: Full

(2:52) 1. Southbound Blues
(2:54) 2. Barrel House Woman
(2:42) 3. Barrel House Woman No. 2
(2:46) 4. Florida Bound Blues
(2:49) 5. Cruel Woman Blues
(2:46) 6. Muddy Water
(2:58) 7. I Believe I'll Make a Change
(3:04) 8. Black Gal (What Makes Your Head So Hard?)
(3:01) 9. Don't Start No Stuff
(3:05) 10. George Street Blues
(2:54) 11. Bo Bo Stomp
(3:07) 12. Big For Blues
(3:08) 13. Hard Hearted Papa
(3:05) 14. Hard Hearted Papa
(3:00) 15. You Left Me Crying
(3:10) 16. You Left Me Crying
(2:48) 17. Broken Hearted Man
(2:48) 18. Evil-Hearted Woman
(3:14) 19. Evil-Hearted Woman
(2:59) 20. Good Woman Blues
(2:37) 21. Hustler's Blues
(2:59) 22. Eleven Twenty-Nine Blues
(3:11) 23. You've Got Me Grieving
(2:58) 24. Lonesome Man Blues
(2:50) 25. Lonesome Man Blues

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Album: When the Sun Goes Down Disc B
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2011
Styles: Blues
Time: 71:34
Size: 165,4 MB
Covers: Full

(3:04) 1. Bread Baker
(2:57) 2. Tight Time Blues
(2:55) 3. Longing For My Sugar
(2:42) 4. The Stuff Is here (And It's Mellow)
(3:06) 5. Black Wagon Blues
(2:58) 6. Shinin' Pistol
(3:05) 7. Arlena
(3:05) 8. Arlena
(2:57) 9. It's Too Short
(2:56) 10. It's Too Short
(2:41) 11. My Good For Nothin' Gal
(3:01) 12. Suicide Blues
(2:53) 13. Suicide Blues
(2:53) 14. Rozetta Blues
(2:32) 15. Rozetta Blues
(2:49) 16. Church House Blues
(3:07) 17. Rocks In My Bed
(2:59) 18. When The Sun Goes Down
(2:49) 19. Bad Luck All the Time
(3:11) 20. Big Four Blues
(3:11) 21. Just a Rag
(3:12) 22. Ain't It A Shame
(3:17) 23. Going Back Home
(3:03) 24. Six Cold Feet in the Ground

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Album: When the Sun Goes Down Disc C
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2011
Styles: Blues
Time: 71:45
Size: 166,8 MB
Covers: Full

Tracks 1-15 : Bumble Bee Slim
Tracks 16-24: Bill Gaither

(3:13) 1. Stepchild
(3:26) 2. New Mean Mistreater Blues
(2:44) 3. Bleeding Heart Blues
(2:51) 4. Tired of Your Low Down Nasty Ways
(2:57) 5. Good Evening Blues
(2:28) 6. Good Woman Blues
(3:08) 7. Bricks In My Pillow
(3:11) 8. The Death of Leroy Carr
(3:11) 9. Smoky Mountain Blues
(2:55) 10. How Long, How Long Blues
(2:46) 11. You Don't Mean No Good
(3:15) 12. Prison Bound Blues
(3:08) 13. Last Respects
(2:48) 14. New When The Sun Goes Down
(3:09) 15. Past and Gone
(2:59) 16. After The Sun's Gone Down
(3:14) 17. You Done Showed Your DBA
(2:40) 18. How Long Baby How Long?
(3:10) 19. L&N Blues
(2:59) 20. Stony Lonesome Graveyard
(2:49) 21. Life of Leroy Brown
(2:30) 22. Georgia Barrel House
(3:00) 23. Old Rainy Day Blues
(3:02) 24. Bad Luck Child's Request

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Album: When the Sun Goes Down Disc D
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2011
Styles: Blues
Time: 74:43
Size: 172,5 MB
Covers: Full

(3:15) 1. Stovepipe No1 - A Woman Gets Tired
(2:55) 2. Elzadie Robinson - Going South Blues
(3:21) 3. Sister Morgan - Hurry Down Sunshine
(2:56) 4. Stump Johnson - The Snitcher's Blues
(2:58) 5. Stump Johnson - Bound to be a Monkey
(3:23) 6. Sippie Wallace - Special Delivery Blues
(3:12) 7. Roosevelt Sykes - Little Sow Blues
(3:20) 8. Madlyn Davis - Winter Blues
(3:10) 9. Tampa Red - Chicago Moan Blues
(3:10) 10. Florence White - Cold Rocks Was My Pillow
(3:05) 11. Leadbelly - Leaving Blues
(3:06) 12. Leadbelly - Don't You Love Your Daddy No More
(2:51) 13. Hatter Snow - Daddy, What You Going To Do?
(3:06) 14. Tampa Red - How Long, How Long Blues
(3:21) 15. Rev A.W. Nix - How Long, How Long
(3:17) 16. Lucille Bogan - Sloppy Drunk Blues
(3:04) 17. Turner Parrish - Graveyard Blues
(3:30) 18. Turner Parrish - I Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog No More
(2:37) 19. Lucille Bogan - Tired As I Can be
(3:30) 20. Walter Davis - Shady lane
(2:21) 21. Robert Johnson -Love In Vain
(2:57) 22. Washboard Sam - Where Were You Last Night?
(3:06) 23. Frank Busby - Prisoner Bound
(3:00) 24. Scrapper Blackwellr - My Old Pal Blues

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Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone 1928-1934

Over the course of its four discs and 95 songs, this box set tells you pretty much all you could wish to know about pianist Leroy Carr and guitarist Scrapper Blackwell. They did plenty of solo work during this period, but between 1928 and 1934 they were also one of the most successful blues duos in America. Though this comprehensive collection is described as “early recordings,” there's not much more to the pair's story, since Carr died in 1935, driving a mournful Blackwell into decades of retirement. From the classic “How Long, How Long Blues” to later sides like the sorrowful “Blues Before Sunrise,” Blackwell's jazz-schooled guitar licks and Carr's urban piano style combined for a more sophisticated sound that foreshadowed blues's eventual move from the country to the city. -- Allmusic.

Album: How Long Blues Disc A
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2008
Styles: Blues
Time: 78:40
Size: 181,4 MB
Covers: Full

(3:03) 1. My Own Lonesome Blues
(3:08) 2. How Long, How Long Blues
(3:00) 3. Broken Spoke Blues
(3:03) 4. Tennessee Blues
(2:56) 5. Truthful Blues
(3:02) 6. Mean Old Train Blues
(2:53) 7. You Got to Reap What You Sow
(3:07) 8. Low Down Dirty Blues
(3:12) 9. Box Car Blues
(2:47) 10. How Long, How Long Blues No. 2
(3:11) 11. How Long, How Long Blues No. 3
(3:15) 12. Baby, Don't You Leave Me No More
(3:13) 13. Tired of Your Low Down Ways
(3:08) 14. I'm Going Away and Leave My Baby
(3:07) 15. Prison Bound Blues
(3:16) 16. You Don't Mean Me No Good
(3:28) 17. How About Me
(3:02) 18. Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 1
(3:08) 19. Think of Me Thinking of You
(3:13) 20. The Truth About the Thing
(3:22) 21. Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 2
(3:22) 22. Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 3
(3:01) 23. Lifeboat Blues
(3:09) 24. Gambler's Blues
(3:22) 25. There Ain't Nobody Got It Like She Got It

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Album: How Long Blues Disc B
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2008
Styles: Blues
Time: 74:49
Size: 172,5 MB
Covers: Full

(3:17) 1. That's All Right for You
(3:15) 2. Wrong Man Blues
(2:46) 3. Naptown Blues
(3:07) 4. New How Long, How Long Blues, Pt. 2
(3:02) 5. Love Hides All Faults
(3:22) 6. I Know That I'll Be Blue
(3:27) 7. Gettin' All Wet
(3:22) 8. Rainy Day Blues
(3:28) 9. Blue with the Blues
(2:52) 10. Just Worryin' Blues
(3:21) 11. Baby You Done Put That Thing on Me
(3:14) 12. I Won't Miss You When You're Gone
(3:07) 13. Don't You Get Tired of Riding That Same Train All the Time?
(3:15) 14. I'm Going Back to Tennessee
(3:13) 15. Christmas in Jail, Ain't That a Pain
(2:49) 16. Prison Cell Blues
(3:00) 17. That's Tellin' 'Em
(2:44) 18. Papa Wants a Cookie
(2:49) 19. Memphis Town
(2:55) 20. Don't Say Goodbye
(3:14) 21. I Ain't Got No Gal
(2:48) 22. Goodbye Blues
(2:53) 23. The Dirty Dozen
(3:17) 24. Workhouse Blues

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Album: How Long Blues Disc C
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2008
Styles: Blues
Time: 66:38
Size: 153,7 MB
Covers: Full

(3:11) 1. Let's Make up and Be Friends
(2:55) 2. Let's Disagree
(2:58) 3. Sloppy Drunk Blues
(3:28) 4. Hard Times Done Drove Me to Drink
(3:13) 5. Long Road Blues
(3:11) 6. Jail Cell Blues
(3:03) 7. Four Day Rider
(2:50) 8. Alabama Women Blues
(2:58) 9. Papa's on the Housetop
(3:03) 10. Carried Water for the Elephant
(2:48) 11. Low Down Dog Blues
(2:59) 12. Nineteen Thirty One Blues
(2:59) 13. Love Crying Blues
(3:13) 14. Papa's Got Your Bath Water On
(3:04) 15. Big House Blues
(2:49) 16. New How Long, How Long Blues, Pt. 2
(3:07) 17. What More Can I Do?
(2:32) 18. Papa Wants to Knock a Jug
(2:53) 19. How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone
(3:11) 20. Quittin' Papa
(3:05) 21. Lonesome Nights
(2:56) 22. I Keep the Blues

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Album: How Long Blues Disc D
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2008
Styles: Blues
Time: 75:42
Size: 174,7 MB
Covers: Full

(3:03) 1. Gone Mother Blues
(3:06) 2. Midnight Hour Blues
(3:11) 3. Moonlight Blues
(3:04) 4. The Depression Blues
(3:06) 5. Mean Mistreater Mama
(2:56) 6. Mean Mistreater Mama
(3:29) 7. Mean Mistreater Mama No. 2
(3:13) 8. Court Room Blues
(3:35) 9. Hurry Down Blues
(3:40) 10. Corn Licker Blues
(3:38) 11. Hold Them Puppies
(3:44) 12. Shady Lane Blues
(3:03) 13. Blues She Gave Me
(3:13) 14. You Can't Run My Business No More
(3:33) 15. Blues Before Sunrise
(3:38) 16. Blues Before Sunrise
(3:10) 17. Ain't Got No Money Now
(2:44) 18. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
(2:43) 19. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
(2:38) 20. Stormy Night Blues
(3:07) 21. Take a Walk Round the Corner
(2:26) 22. Baby Come Back to Me
(2:57) 23. Blue Night Blues
(2:31) 24. My Woman's Gone Wrong

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Leroy Carr - Sloppy Drunk

Leroy Carr was one of the most famous artists in the history of early blues (1928-1935). Together with his longtime musical partner and guitar player Scrapper Blackwell, they took their music to the top of the race music charts. They managed to build an impressive body of work with a simple concept, catchy blues based figures by Carr's keys and Blackwell's chordal accom- paniment. Many of the songs followed the same replicated structure, only deviating in terms of lyrical imagery and vocal delivery. Carr's voice was a perfect match for the blues, high-pitched and haunted with a fatalistic resolve that mirrored the sorrowful content of the songs. Meanwhile Blackwell's strumming worked mesmerically at caulking all the rhythmic nooks and crannies. Together the two blend in a tightly crafted tandem that still retained a rough and tumble coarseness. Leroy Carr sang city blues about his life, friends, acquaintances, and people he heard about secondhand and third-party. A prolific writer too, Carr scribed most of these tunes, which he sings in a sincere whisky-drenched delivery (as the title implies). These songs provide an intimate peep into black life in the late 1920s/early 1930s. This remarkable 2 disc set moves through the duo's first session to their last. - All-About-Jazz/Allmusic.

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1999
Styles: Blues
Time: 67:20 + 66;50
Size: 155,8 MB + 154,7 MB
Covers: Full

Album: Sloppy Drunk Disc 1
(3:02) 1. How Long, How Long Blues
(3:03) 2. Tennessee Blues
(2:53) 3. You Got to Reap What You Sow
(3:07) 4. Low Down Dirty Blues
(3:12) 5. Box Car Blues
(2:47) 6. How Long, How Long Blues, Pt. 2
(3:15) 7. Baby Don't You Love Me No More
(3:13) 8. Tired of Your Low Down Ways
(3:07) 9. Prison Bound Blues
(3:22) 10. Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 1
(3:22) 11. Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 2
(2:46) 12. Naptown Blues
(3:27) 13. Gettin' All Wet
(2:51) 14. Just Worryin' Blues
(3:13) 15. Christmas in Jail, Ain't That a Pain
(2:52) 16. Prison Cell Blues
(2:44) 17. Papa Wants a Cookie
(2:49) 18. Memphis Town
(2:52) 19. The Dirty Dozen
(3:00) 20. Sloppy Drunk Blues
(3:13) 21. Long Road Blues
(3:02) 22. Four Day Rider

Album: Sloppy Drunk Disc 2
(2:54) 1. Alabama Women Blues
(2:57) 2. Papa's on the Housetop
(3:12) 3. Papa's Got Your Bath Water On
(2:49) 4. New How Long, How Long Blues, Pt. 2
(3:02) 5. Gone Mother Blues
(3:06) 6. Midnight Hour Blues
(3:33) 7. Blues Before Sunrise
(3:10) 8. I Ain't Got No Money Now
(2:51) 9. South Bound Blues
(2:53) 10. Barrelhouse Woman
(2:58) 11. I Believe I'll Make a Change
(2:54) 12. Bo Bo Stomp
(2:37) 13. Hustler's Blues
(2:57) 14. It's Too Short, No. 1
(3:07) 15. Rocks in My Bed
(2:58) 16. When the Sun Goes Down
(2:48) 17. Bad Luck All the Time
(3:11) 18. Big Four Blues
(3:11) 19. Just a Rag
(3:12) 20. Ain't It a Shame
(3:16) 21. Going Back Home
(3:04) 22. Six Cold Feet in the Ground

Sloppy Drunk Disc 1
Sloppy Drunk Disc 2
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Various Artists - The Melotone Blues Story (2 CD)

Melotone began life in late 1930 as a budget record label issuing 78rpm discs in the US and Canada. The American Recording Corporation (ARC) bought out owners Warner/Brunswick and operated the label successfully during the Depression years. With its distinctive blue and silver label design, Melotone released popular music in a variety of genres such as jazz, country, dance and Mexican. Significantly it also issued early recordings by musicians who would go on to help define one of the most important musical movements of the 20th century - the blues.

Melotone was discontinued in 1938 when ARC went bankrupt and was later purchased by CBS Network founder William Paley; more recently, it was revived in 2010 as a division of Melotone Music LLC. The music industry has changed beyond all recognition since its heyday, but this compilation will transport you back to the highs and lows of the Depression era when singers as well-known as Josh White and as obscure as Washboard Sam and the Mississippi Jook Band helped popularise the blues. /Excerpt from the sleeve notes by Nigel Cross

Album: The Melotone Blues Story - CD 1
Year: 2014
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:13
Size: 144,0 MB
Styles: Blues, acoustic blues, country blues
Scans: Full

1. Blind Boy Fuller - Rag, Mama, Rag (3:07)
2. Big Bill Broonzy - Bricks In My Pillow (3:09)
3. Rev. Blind Gary Davis - The Great Change In Me (3:17)
4. Josh White - Good Gal (3:04)
5. Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson) - Changed Ways Blues (2:57)
6. Washboard Sam - I'm A Prowlin' Groundhog (3:35)
7. Peetie Wheatstraw - Remember And Forget Blues (3:11)
8. Sam Montgomery - Honey Dripper (3:06)
9. Mississippi Jook Band - Skippy Whippy (2:47)
10. Floyd 'Dipper Boy' Council - Working Man Blues (3:03)
11. Big Bill Broonzy - Match Box Blues (3:02)
12. Lil Johnson & Black Bob - Take It Easy Greasy (3:25)
13. Kid Prince Moore - Sign Of Judgement (2:57)
14. Walter Roland - 45. Pistol Blues (2:57)
15. Josh White - Did You Read That Letter (3:06)
16. George Noble - If You Lose Your Good Gal (2:57)
17. Charley Jordan - Don't Put Your Dirty Hands On Me (2:52)
18. Buddy Moss - Undertaker Blues (3:11)
19. Blind Boy Fuller - Evil Hearted Woman (3:05)
20. Leadbelly - Pig Meat Papa (3:16)

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Album: The Melotone Blues Story - CD 2
Year: 2014
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:01
Size: 139,0 MB
Styles: Blues, acoustic blues, country blues
Scans: Full

1. Josh White (Pinewood Tom) - No More Ball And Chain (3:01)
2. Leadbelly - Becky Deem, She Was A Gamblin' Girl (3:05)
3. Big Bill Broonzy - It's Too Late Now (3:08)
4. Leroy Carr - I Believe I'll Make A Change (2:58)
5. Blind Boy Fuller - Truckin' My Blues Away (3:06)
6. Walter Roland - Club Meeting Blues (3:06)
7. Sam Montgomery - Baby Please Don't Go (2:41)
8. Peetie Wheatstraw - Mistreated Love Blues (3:09)
9. Kid Prince Moore - Bug Juice Blues (2:43)
10. Lil Johnson - That Bonus Done Gone Thru (3:02)
11. Charley Jordan - Got Your Water On (2:49)
12. Blind Boy Fuller - I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy (3:06)
13. Josh White - Greenville Sheik (3:06)
14. Rev. Blind Gary Davis - I Belong To The Band, Hallelujah! (3:12)
15. George Noble - Seminole Blues (3:08)
16. Washboard Sam - Don't Tear My Clothes (2:55)
17. Big Bill Broonzy - Tell Me What You Been Doing (2:54)
18. Buddy Moss - Mistreated Boy (2:58)
19. Walter Roland - Bad Dream Blues (3:03)
20. Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson) - Lonesome Midnight Blues (2:41)

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Scrapper Blackwell - The Virtuoso Guitar Of Scrapper Blackwell

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:42
Size: 95.5 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Folk
Year: 1970/2006
Art: Front

[3:04] 1. Kokomo Blues
[2:59] 2. Down South Blues
[2:57] 3. Good Woman Blues
[3:01] 4. My Dream Blues
[2:52] 5. Hard Time Blues
[3:20] 6. Penal Farm Blues
[3:03] 7. Down In Black Bottom
[2:48] 8. Pack Up Her Trunk Blues
[2:48] 9. Back Door Blues
[2:49] 10. Blue Day Blues
[3:13] 11. Whiskey Man Blues
[3:01] 12. Trouble Blues Part 1
[2:59] 13. Trouble Blues Part 2
[2:42] 14. Barrelhouse Woman No. 2

Guitar – Scrapper Blackwell
Piano – Leroy Carr (tracks 3, 14);
Vocals – Black Bottom McPhail (tracks 4, 7, 11), Scrapper Blackwell (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13,14), Tommie Bradley (track 8).

This is a CD designed to emphasise the guitar playing of Scrapper Blackwell, a blues guitarist of the late 1920s and 1930s. It also showcases the piano playing of Blackwell's long-time partner, Leroy Carr. In fact, as good as Blackwell definitely is, I found that it is the piano playing of Carr that holds much of the CD together. His playing underscores Blackwell's guitar by providing a very solid bass rhythm that provides the fundamental basis for the toe-tapping style behind many of the tracks. A prime example of this is the fantastic "Barrelhouse Woman No. 2." The themes found on the CD are the normal classic blues themes, although they are definitely flavoured by a northern urban environment, as is most glaringly demonstrated by "Down South Blues," a litany of yearning for the south as seen by a transplanted southerner(Blackwell played out of Indianapolis). Another theme is alcohol. "Whiskey Man Blues" is hilarious, but at the same time the celebration of unrepentant over-consumption has gloomier overtones. Finally, for just sitting back and listening to some excellent guitar picking, Blackwell is a treat, and definitely worth the price of admission. ~Acnoth

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Various - That's Chicago's South Side

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:57
Size: 171.6 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[2:49] 1. Sam Theard - That's Chicago's South Side
[3:15] 2. Peetie Wheatstraw - Pete Wheatstraw
[2:59] 3. Roosevelt Sykes - Devil's Island Gin Blues
[3:16] 4. Amos Easton - Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
[3:27] 5. Joe Pullum - Black Gal, What Makes Your Head So Hard
[2:49] 6. Lil Johnson - I Lost My Baby
[2:50] 7. Big Bill Broonzy - Keep Your Hands Off Her
[2:55] 8. Leroy Carr - When The Sun Goes Down
[2:51] 9. Memphis Minnie - Selling My Pork Chops
[3:06] 10. The Sparks Brothers - Every Day I Have The Blues
[2:48] 11. Walter Davis - Sweet Sixteen
[2:57] 12. Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues
[2:39] 13. Richard M. Jones - Trouble In Mind
[3:21] 14. Merline Johnson - He Roars Like A Lion
[3:01] 15. Robert Lee Mccoy - Prowling Nighthawk
[2:58] 16. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[3:09] 17. Speckled Red - You Got To Fix It
[2:41] 18. Washboard Sam - Bucket's Got A Hole In It
[2:45] 19. Tommy Mcclennan - Bottle It Up And Go
[2:37] 20. Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway
[2:56] 21. Tampa Red - Don't You Lie To Me
[2:53] 22. Johnny Temple - What Is That She Got
[3:10] 23. St. Louis Jimmy Oden - Goin' Down To Slow
[3:17] 24. James Yank Rachel - Hobo Blues
[3:15] 25. Lonnie Johnson - He's A Jelly Roll Baker

Ask a rock & roller to discuss Chicago's contributions to the blues, and he/she is likely to talk about Chess Records and electric post-World War II greats like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Buddy Guy, and Junior Wells. But the Windy City had a healthy blues scene long before the rise of Chess -- one that went back to the days of Al Capone and Prohibition. Spanning 1931-1942, When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 3: That's Chicago's South Side spotlights the acoustic pre-Chess, pre-Muddy Waters era of Chicago blues -- an era that helped pave the way for Chess Records as well as rock & roll. The recordings on this excellent CD point to fact that, long before Chicago became synonymous with electric blues, the city had its own unique blues sound. Gems like Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning, Schoolgirl" (1937), Roosevelt Sykes' "Devil's Island Gin Blues" (1933), and Tommy McClennan's "Bottle It Up and Go" (1939) are quite different from the blues that were coming from the Deep South in the '30s and early '40s -- these artists offer an acoustic sound, but a harder, tougher acoustic sound than the Southern country blues that were coming from Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee back then. Of course, some of the artists who blues fans associate with Chicago blues were originally from the South; Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, for example, were born in Mississippi. But when Southern bluesmen moved north and interacted with Chicago-based musicians, their music could easily take on a more urban outlook. And an urban outlook definitely prevails on this CD, which underscores the richness of Chicago's pre-Chess blues scene. ~Alex Henderson

That's Chicago's South Side

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Leroy Carr - How Long How Long Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:25
Size: 161.2 MB
Styles: Piano blues, Pre-war blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:05] 1. How Long, How Long Blues, Pt. 1
[2:44] 2. How Long, How Long Blues, Pt. 2
[3:04] 3. Prison Bound Blues
[3:06] 4. Gambler's Blues
[2:43] 5. Naptown Blues
[3:04] 6. The New How Long Blues
[3:19] 7. Rainy Day Blues
[3:12] 8. I'm Going Back To Tennessee
[2:45] 9. Goodbye Blues
[2:54] 10. Sloppy Drunk Blues
[3:10] 11. Long Road Blues
[2:44] 12. Low Down Dog Blues
[2:50] 13. How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone
[3:03] 14. Midnight Hour Blues
[3:03] 15. Mean Mistreatin' Mama
[3:32] 16. Hurry Down Sunshine
[3:40] 17. Shady Lane Blues
[3:30] 18. Blues Before Sunrise
[2:50] 19. Barrelhouse Woman
[2:55] 20. I Believe I'll Make A Change
[3:05] 21. Hard Hearted Papa
[3:01] 22. Arlena
[2:55] 23. When The Sun Goes Down

Carr was the most influential male blues singer and songwriter of the first half of the 20th century, but he was nothing like the current stereotype of an early bluesman. An understated pianist with a gentle, expressive voice, he was known for his natty suits and lived most of his life in Indianapolis. His first record, "How Long — How Long Blues," in 1928, had an effect as revolutionary as Bing Crosby's pop crooning, and for similar reasons. Previous blues stars, whether vaudevillians like Bessie Smith or street singers like Blind Lemon Jefferson, had needed huge voices to project their music, but with the help of new microphone and recording technologies, Carr sounded like a cool city dude carrying on a conversation with a few close friends.

Carr's lyrics were carefully written, blending soulful poetry with wry humor, and his music had a light, lilting swing that could shift in a moment to a driving boogie. Rather than Smith's vaudeville jazz combos or Jefferson's idiosyncratic country picking, Carr sang over the solid beat of his piano and the biting guitar of his constant partner Francis (Scrapper) Blackwell. The outcome was a hip, urban club style that signaled a new era in popular music. ~Elijah Wald

How Long How Long Blues

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