Little Joe McLerran - FaceBook Blues

Size: 102,0 MB
Time: 43:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. My Gal Kay (3:37)
02. Billy The Grinder (3:02)
03. Mornin' Blues (3:06)
04. Facebook Blues (2:55)
05. Black Hearted Woman (3:11)
06. Friends With The Guy (3:09)
07. Highway Sixty One (3:53)
08. Frenchman Street (4:09)
09. Papa's Gettin' Mad (3:05)
10. Corrine (4:30)
11. Hobo Blues (3:26)
12. Gotta Move (3:24)
13. Sixth Floor Glide (1:39)

Little Joe McLerran was born in Boulder, Colorado in July 1983. He fell in love with the guitar and began studying the Piedmont Blues style when he was 8 years old. Joe first performed for a fourth grade class program singing and playing Leadbelly’s “Take this Hammer” concluding with a complicated guitar rag by Rev. Gary Davis, “The Slow Drag”.

Little Joe started out playing a type of blues known as Piedmont Blues, a musical style common to the south eastern part of the US during the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
At 18 he released his first CD as Son Piedmont. Little Joe’s music has broadened somewhat over the years but still relies on the intricate finger picking he’s famous for. With 5 albums under his belt he continues to grow.

The International Blues Challenge is hosted each year by the Blues Foundation, headquartered in Memphis. The competition is divided into two categories, solo/duo and bands. Little Joe McLerran went solo to Memphis representing the Blues Society of Tulsa. “This is easily the BST’s biggest achievement”, said BST president Bill Martin. In an interview Little Joe said, “It feels so great. I got to bring it home to Tulsa.”

In 2010 Little Joe was selected by the US State Department to take part in the Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad. He traveled to the Persian Gulf region of the Middle East with his band, the Little Joe McLerran Quartet.

Little Joe continues to travel to festivals and for the US State Department as a musical ambassador presenting educational and cultural exchange missions and plays festivals, concerts and clubs across the state, across the country, and around the world.

FaceBook Blues MP3
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Little Joe McLerran & Flavio Guimaraes - Little Joe McLerran & Flavio Guimaraes / Month Of Sundays

Album: Little Joe McLerran & Flavio Guimaraes
Size: 100 MB
Time: 21:19
File: FLAC
Released: 2018
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Blue Crawfish Recods
Art: Front

01. Nothing But The Blues (3:35)
02. It Must Be Love (2:54)
03. You Gotta Know How (3:56)
04. Going Back To Arkansas (3:37)
05. Carinhoso (2:01)
06. Midnight Hour Blues (5:13)

Little Joe is a Piedmont Blues expert, a style that is a convergence between country blues and ragtime jazz. With a solid career and discography, he was awarded by the association Blues Foundation, of Memphis. Joe keeps fingerpicking technique and tradition alive. Your guitar may sound like two or more musicians playing simultaneously.

Flávio Guimarães is the founder and member of the Blues Etílicos, having performed opening shows for B.B. King, Ben Harper and Robert Cray, in addition to sharing the stage with some living blues legends, such as Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite and Taj Mahal. The duo toured the southern US recently, playing iconic festivals in Mississippi and performing in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Little Joe McLerran & Flavio Guimaraes

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Album: Month Of Sundays
Size: 63,1 MB
Time: 26:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. She Knows How To Stretch It (2:54)
02. Wanted $10,000 Reward (3:11)
03. Hobo Blues (3:10)
04. Promised Land (2:37)
05. Month Of Sundays (2:43)
06. My Castle's Rockin' (3:02)
07. Utah Moon (5:21)
08. Pearly Gates (3:48)

Month of Sundays is the second album of the duo formed by the North American guitarist and singer Little Joe McLerran and the Brazilian harmonica player Flávio Guimarães.

Recorded live, mixed and mastered by Pedro Garcia in November 2018, the album is being released by the Blue Crawfish Records label.

The cover art is by Marky Wildstone on top of David Berntson's photo. The setting is the Stovall farm, where Muddy Waters lived and worked in the cotton harvest until he was 30 years old.

Month Of Sundays

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Little Joe McLerran - Son Piedmont And The Blues Krewe

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 43:30
Size: 101.7 MB
Released: 2007
Styles: Country blues, Roots
Art: Front

1. Eagle Ridin' Papa (4:02)
2. Terraplane Blues (3:41)
3. Hey Daddy Blues (4:16)
4. Suburban Housewife (3:10)
5. Can't Get The Stuff No More (2:51)
6. Eight More Miles To Louisville (3:32)
7. Not Politically Correct (3:09)
8. Broke Down Engine (3:25)
9. The First Shot Got Him (3:13)
10. Fishin' Blues (3:50)
11. When The Pearly Gates Unfold (5:56)
12. Setrippa (2:20)

When he was nine, Joey and his younger brother Jesse started their first band, "Buddy Hollywood", with Jesse on drums. They would set up on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder playing Beatles, Bob Marley and all those great old blues songs. The mall patrons were amazed to see these young kids playing songs by Big Bill Broonzy, Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt followed by Ob La Dee Ob La Da or Redemption Song. They could make a couple hundred dollars on a good day. They always filled the hat whenever they made an appearance, much to the dismay of the homeless guys playing Dylan songs.
When Joey turned 15 the McLerran family moved to Tulsa. Living out in the country they could really turn it up. The kids they met at school were into Heavy Metal so Joey and Jesse invited them out to their house to jam. After a few failed attempts starting a Heavy Metal band, Jesse decided to develop a style of percussion on a washboard. Jesse patterned his own washboard after that of an old McLerran family friend, Washboard Chaz Leary, from New Orleans. Chaz was Jesse's godfather and Jesse had been watching Chaz play all his life. Joey changed his name to "Son Piedmont", taken from the term Piedmont Blues, a style popular in the southeast USA in the 20s and 30s, and Jesse became "Washboard Jesse". Without a street mall, gigs were hard to come by and they're tender young ages, 16 and 17, the bars were out of the question. They finally landed a steady Sunday afternoon gig at the Rivers Edge Bistro in Tulsa. They began to catch the attention of many of Tulsa's finest musicians. This led to a few restaurant and private party gigs. Jimmy Markham invited them to play the Oklahoma Blues Festival and gave them a lot of encouragement.
Enlisting the help of their father on bass they began working on a CD project. For several months they worked on the CD inviting their friends, Dexter Payne, a multi-instrumentalist from Boulder, and Big Mike T. Travelletti, a harp player from Sapulpa, to join them. During the final stages of mixing the CD Jesse was killed in an accident. Joey was devastated by Jesse's death and nearly a year passed before Joey could listen to those tracks again. Playing music, other than in the solitude of his home, was the last thing on Joey's mind. In memorial and as a tribute to Jesse, the "Pearly Gates" CD was released in 2004 as Son Piedmont and the Blues Krewe on the Roots Blues Reborn label.

Son Piedmont And The Blues Krewe

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