Little Milton - I'm A Gambler

Album: I'm A Gambler
Size: 111,0 MB
Time: 47:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Blues, soul-blues
Art: Full

1. Casino Blues (5:41)
2. I've Got The Blues (5:01)
3. Poke Salad Annie (4:22)
4. Like A Rooster On A Hen (4:21)
5. Pledging My Love (4:34)
6. Love Is A Gamble (3:44)
7. That's All Right (3:16)
8. Baby Please (3:51)
9. You've Been Gone Too Long (4:46)
10. A Man Needs A Woman (3:54)
11. That's What A Good Woman Can Do (4:20)

Malaco releases usually mix straight blues with a slicker variety of R&B aimed at "urban contemporary" radio airplay, but I'm a Gambler has a very high blues content. Milton sings with vigor, like he was feeling at the top of his game when he recorded this CD - and no wonder, since the material is quite strong. Highlights include the humorous "Casino Blues," the cocky "Like a Rooster on a Hen," and the bayou swamp rocker "Polk Salad Annie" (which Little Milton really makes his own). /Steve Hoffman, AllMusic

He may not be a household name, but die-hard blues fans know Little Milton as a superb all-around electric bluesman - a soulful singer, an evocative guitarist, an accomplished songwriter, and a skillful bandleader. He's often compared to the legendary B.B. King - as well as Bobby "Blue" Bland - for the way his signature style combines soul, blues, and R&B, a mixture that helped make him one of the biggest-selling bluesmen of the '60s (even if he's not as well-remembered as King). As time progressed, his music grew more and more orchestrated, with strings and horns galore. He maintained a steadily active recording career all the way from his 1953 debut on Sam Phillips' legendary Sun label, with his stunning longevity including notable stints at Chess (where he found his greatest commercial success), Stax, and Malaco. /Excerpt from biography by Steve Huey, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Little Milton - We're Gonna Make It + Sings Big Blues

Size: 170.7 MB
Time: 72:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1986
Styles: Chicago Blues, Blues Soul
Art: Full

01. We're Gonna Make It (2:42)
02. You're Welcome To The Club (2:45)
03. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town (3:02)
04. Blues In The Night (3:10)
05. Country Style (2:46)
06. Who's Cheating Who? (2:57)
07. Blind Man (3:24)
08. Can't Hold Back The Tears (2:35)
09. Believe In Me (2:41)
10. Stand By Me (2:53)
11. Life Is Like That (2:39)
12. Ain't No Big Deal On You (2:19)
13. Feel So Bad (4:07)
14. Reconsider Baby (3:32)
15. Stormy Monday (4:27)
16. Woke Up This Morning (3:32)
17. Hard Luck Blues (3:03)
18. Please, Please, Please (3:45)
19. Sweet Sixteen (3:38)
20. Fever (2:52)
21. Sneakin' Around (2:22)
22. Have Mercy, Baby (2:56)
23. Part Time Love (4:00)

He may not be a household name, but die-hard blues fans know Little Milton as a superb all-around electric bluesman -- a soulful singer, an evocative guitarist, an accomplished songwriter, and a skillful bandleader. He's often compared to the legendary B.B. King -- as well as Bobby "Blue" Bland -- for the way his signature style combines soul, blues, and R&B, a mixture that helped make him one of the biggest-selling bluesmen of the '60s (even if he's not as well-remembered as King). As time progressed, his music grew more and more orchestrated, with strings and horns galore. He maintained a steadily active recording career all the way from his 1953 debut on Sam Phillips' legendary Sun label, with his stunning longevity including notable stints at Chess (where he found his greatest commercial success), Stax, and Malaco.

James Milton Campbell was born September 7, 1934, in the small Delta town of Inverness, MS, and grew up in Greenville. (He would later legally drop the "James" after learning of a half-brother with the same name.) His father Big Milton, a farmer, was a local blues musician, and Milton also grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry radio program. At age 12, he began playing the guitar and saved up money from odd jobs to buy his own instrument from a mail-order catalog. By 15, he was performing for pay in local clubs and bars, influenced chiefly by T-Bone Walker but also by proto-rock & roll jump blues shouters. He made a substantial impression on other area musicians, even getting a chance to back Sonny Boy Williamson II, and caught the attention of R&B great Ike Turner, who was doubling as a talent scout for Sam Phillips at Sun. Turner introduced the still-teenaged Little Milton to Phillips, who signed him to a contract in 1953. With Turner's band backing him, Milton's Sun sides tried a little bit of everything -- he hadn't developed a signature style as of yet, but he did have a boundless youthful energy that made these early recordings some of his most exciting and rewarding. Unfortunately, none of them were hits, and Milton's association with Sun was over by the end of 1954. He set about forming his own band, which waxed one single for the small Meteor label in 1957, before picking up and moving to St. Louis in 1958.

In St. Louis, Milton befriended DJ Bob Lyons, who helped him record a demo in a bid to land a deal on Mercury. The label passed, and the two set up their own label, christened Bobbin. Little Milton's Bobbin singles finally started to attract some more widespread attention, particularly "I'm a Lonely Man," which sold 60,000 copies despite being the very first release on a small label. As head of A&R, Milton brought artists like Albert King and Fontella Bass into the Bobbin fold, and with such a high roster caliber, the label soon struck a distribution arrangement with the legendary Chess Records. Milton himself switched over to the Chess subsidiary Checker in 1961, and it was there that he would settle on his trademark soul-inflected, B.B. King-influenced style. Initially a moderate success, Milton had his big breakthrough with 1965's "We're Gonna Make It," which hit number one on the R&B charts thanks to its resonance with the civil rights movement. "We're Gonna Make It" kicked off a successful string of R&B chart singles that occasionally reached the Top Ten, highlighted by "Who's Cheating Who?," "Grits Ain't Groceries," "If Walls Could Talk," "Baby I Love You," and "Feel So Bad," among others.

The death of Leonard Chess in 1969 threw his label into disarray, and Little Milton eventually left Checker in 1971 and signed with the Memphis-based soul label Stax (also the home of his former protégé Albert King). At Stax, Milton began expanding his studio sound, adding bigger horn and string sections and spotlighting his soulful vocals more than traditional blues. Further hits followed in songs like "Annie Mae's Cafe," "Little Bluebird," "That's What Love Will Make You Do," and "Walkin' the Back Streets and Cryin'," but generally not with the same magnitude of old. Stax went bankrupt in 1975, upon which point Little Milton moved to the TK/Glades label, which was better known for its funk and disco acts. His recordings there were full-blown crossover affairs, which made "Friend of Mine" a minor success, but that label soon went out of business as well. Milton spent some time in limbo; he recorded one album for MCA in 1983 called Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number, and the following year found a home with Malaco, which sustained the careers of quite a few old-school Southern soul and blues artists. During his tenure at Malaco, Milton debuted the song that would become his latter-day anthem, the bar band staple "The Blues Is Alright," which was also widely popular with European blues fans. Milton recorded frequently and steadily for Malaco, issuing 13 albums under their aegis by the end of the millennium. In 1988, he won the W.C. Handy Award for Blues Entertainer of the Year, and was also inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

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Little Milton - Welcome To The Club: The Essential Chess Recordings (2 CD)

Album: Welcome To The Club
Size: 149,0 + 149,4 MB
Time: 63:47 + 63:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Blues/R&B/Soul
Art: Full

CD 1:
1. She Put A Spell On Me (1:56)
2. Sneaking Around (2:59)
3. I'm Coming Home (2:24)
4. Lonely No More (2:18)
5. Someone To Love (1:46)
6. I Need Somebody (2:02)
7. My Song (3:04)
8. Never Too Old (2:55)
9. I Wonder Why (2:07)
10. So Mean To Me (2:32)
11. Losing Hand (2:33)
12. Ain't No Big Deal On You (2:18)
13. Meddlin' (Instrumental) (2:14)
14. Blind Man (3:23)
15. Stand By Me (2:51)
16. Sacrifice (2:39)
17. Blues In The Night (3:09)
18. You're Welcome To The Club (2:44)
19. Can't Hold Back The Tears (2:31)
20. Country Style (2:44)
21. We're Gonna Make It (2:40)
22. Who's Cheating Who? (2:56)
23. Without My Sweet Baby (2:49)
24. Feel So Bad (4:03)

CD 2:
1. I'm Mighty Grateful (2:32)
2. Give Me This Chance (3:33)
3. Loving You (3:21)
4. Man Loves Two (Man's Temptation) (Alternate) (2:38)
5. Let Me Down Easy (2:42)
6. My Baby's Something Else (2:38)
7. Things Go Better With Coke #1 (1:02)
8. You Colored My Blues Bright (2:48)
9. Moanin' For You Girl (2:40)
10. You Mean Everything To Me (2:27)
11. Things Go Better With Coke #2 (1:05)
12. Nothing Beats A Failure (3:10)
13. More And More (2:45)
14. Don't Talk Back (2:22)
15. Twenty Three Hours (2:23)
16. Grits Ain't Groceries (2:38)
17. Just A Little Bit (2:22)
18. Steal Away (2:53)
19. If Walls Could Talk (3:07)
20. Spring (3:55)
21. I'm Tired (2:32)
22. Let's Get Together (3:00)
23. I Play Dirty (2:30)
24. Baby I Love You (2:44)

Milton was born James Milton Campbell Jr. on September 7, 1934 in Inverness, Mississippi. He was raised in Greenville, Mississippi by a farmer and local blues musician. By age twelve he was a street musician, chiefly influenced by T-Bone Walker and his blues and rock and roll contemporaries. He joined the Rhythm Aces in the early part of the 1950s, a three piece band who played throughout the Mississippi Delta area. One of the members was Eddie Cusic who taught Milton to play the guitar. In 1951, Milton recorded several sides backing pianist Willie Love for Trumpet Records.

In 1953, while still a teenager playing in local bars, he was discovered by Ike Turner, who was a talent scout for Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Milton signed a contract with the label and recorded a number of singles. None of them broke through onto radio or sold well at record stores, so Milton left the Sun label in 1955. The next two years he released singles on Modern Records' subsidiary, Meteor Records. In 1958, Milton moved to East St. Louis and set up the St. Louis-based Bobbin Records label, which ultimately scored a distribution deal with Leonard Chess' Chess Records. As a record producer, Milton helped bring artists such as Albert King and Fontella Bass to fame, while experiencing his own success for the first time. After a number of small format and regional hits, his 1962 single, "So Mean to Me," broke onto the Billboard R&B chart, eventually peaking at #14.

Following a short break to tour, managing other acts, and spending time recording new material, he returned to music in 1965 with a more polished sound, similar to that of B.B. King. After the ill-received "Blind Man" (R&B: #86), he released back-to-back hit singles. The first, "We're Gonna Make It," a blues-infused soul song, topped the R&B chart and broke through onto Top 40 radio, a format then dominated largely by white artists. He followed the song with #4 R&B hit "Who's Cheating Who?" All three songs were featured on his album, We're Gonna Make It, released that summer.

Milton's song "Let Me Down Easy" was recorded by the Spencer Davis Group on The Second Album (1965), but his authorship was not acknowledged on the record. He released a single of it himself in 1968 on Checker. It was also chosen by Etta James as the final track in her final album The Dreamer in 2011. Throughout the late 1960s Milton released a number of moderately successful singles, but did not issue a further album until 1969, with Grits Ain't Groceries featuring his hit of the same name, as well as "Just a Little Bit" and "Baby, I Love You". With the death of Leonard Chess the same year, Milton's distributor, Checker Records fell into disarray, and Milton joined the Stax label two years later. Adding complex orchestration to his works, Milton scored hits with "That's What Love Will Make You Do" and "What It Is" from his live album, What It Is: Live at Montreux. He appeared in the documentary film, Wattstax, which was released in 1973.

Stax, however, had been losing money since late in the previous decade and was forced into bankruptcy in 1975. After leaving Stax, Milton struggled to maintain a career, moving first to Evidence, then the MCA imprint Mobile Fidelity Records, before finding a home at the independent record label, Malaco Records, where he received his second GRAMMY nomination for "Welcome To Little Milton" in 1999. He remained with the label for much of the remainder of his career. His last hit single, "Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number," was released in 1983 from the album of the same name.

In 1988, Milton was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and won a W.C. Handy Award. His final album, Think of Me, was released in May 2005 on the Telarc imprint, and included writing and guitar on three songs by Peter Shoulder of the UK-based blues-rock trio Winterville. Milton died at the age of 70 on August 4, 2005 from complications following a stroke. He was posthumously honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in Inverness. /Wikipedia

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Little Milton - Little Milton Sings Big Blues

Source: Vinyl
Size: 97,7 MB
Time: 41:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1966
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Soul
Art: Front

01. Feel So Bad (4:06)
02. Reconsider Baby (3:32)
03. Stormy Monday (4:27)
04. Woke Up This Morning (3:32)
05. Hard Luck Blues (3:03)
06. Please Please Please (3:45)
07. Sweet Sixteen (3:38)
08. Fever (2:52)
09. Sneakin' Around (2:21)
10. Don't Deceive Me (3:19)
11. Have Mercy Baby (2:56)
12. Part Time Love (4:03)

He may not be a household name, but die-hard blues fans know Little Milton as a superb all-around electric bluesman -- a soulful singer, an evocative guitarist, an accomplished songwriter, and a skillful bandleader. He's often compared to the legendary B.B. King -- as well as Bobby "Blue" Bland -- for the way his signature style combines soul, blues, and R&B, a mixture that helped make him one of the biggest-selling bluesmen of the '60s (even if he's not as well-remembered as King). As time progressed, his music grew more and more orchestrated, with strings and horns galore. He maintained a steadily active recording career all the way from his 1953 debut on Sam Phillips' legendary Sun label, with his stunning longevity including notable stints at Chess (where he found his greatest commercial success), Stax, and Malaco.

James Milton Campbell was born September 7, 1934, in the small Delta town of Inverness, MS, and grew up in Greenville. (He would later legally drop the "James" after learning of a half-brother with the same name.) His father Big Milton, a farmer, was a local blues musician, and Milton also grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry radio program. At age 12, he began playing the guitar and saved up money from odd jobs to buy his own instrument from a mail-order catalog. By 15, he was performing for pay in local clubs and bars, influenced chiefly by T-Bone Walker but also by proto-rock & roll jump blues shouters. He made a substantial impression on other area musicians, even getting a chance to back Sonny Boy Williamson II, and caught the attention of R&B great Ike Turner, who was doubling as a talent scout for Sam Phillips at Sun. Turner introduced the still-teenaged Little Milton to Phillips, who signed him to a contract in 1953. With Turner's band backing him, Milton's Sun sides tried a little bit of everything -- he hadn't developed a signature style as of yet, but he did have a boundless youthful energy that made these early recordings some of his most exciting and rewarding. Unfortunately, none of them were hits, and Milton's association with Sun was over by the end of 1954. He set about forming his own band, which waxed one single for the small Meteor label in 1957, before picking up and moving to St. Louis in 1958.

In St. Louis, Milton befriended DJ Bob Lyons, who helped him record a demo in a bid to land a deal on Mercury. The label passed, and the two set up their own label, christened Bobbin. Little Milton's Bobbin singles finally started to attract some more widespread attention, particularly "I'm a Lonely Man," which sold 60,000 copies despite being the very first release on a small label. As head of A&R, Milton brought artists like Albert King and Fontella Bass into the Bobbin fold, and with such a high roster caliber, the label soon struck a distribution arrangement with the legendary Chess Records. Milton himself switched over to the Chess subsidiary Checker in 1961, and it was there that he would settle on his trademark soul-inflected, B.B. King-influenced style. Initially a moderate success, Milton had his big breakthrough with 1965's "We're Gonna Make It," which hit number one on the R&B charts thanks to its resonance with the civil rights movement. "We're Gonna Make It" kicked off a successful string of R&B chart singles that occasionally reached the Top Ten, highlighted by "Who's Cheating Who?," "Grits Ain't Groceries," "If Walls Could Talk," "Baby I Love You," and "Feel So Bad," among others.

The death of Leonard Chess in 1969 threw his label into disarray, and Little Milton eventually left Checker in 1971 and signed with the Memphis-based soul label Stax (also the home of his former protégé Albert King). At Stax, Milton began expanding his studio sound, adding bigger horn and string sections and spotlighting his soulful vocals more than traditional blues. Further hits followed in songs like "Annie Mae's Cafe," "Little Bluebird," "That's What Love Will Make You Do," and "Walkin' the Back Streets and Cryin'," but generally not with the same magnitude of old. Stax went bankrupt in 1975, upon which point Little Milton moved to the TK/Glades label, which was better known for its funk and disco acts. His recordings there were full-blown crossover affairs, which made "Friend of Mine" a minor success, but that label soon went out of business as well. Milton spent some time in limbo; he recorded one album for MCA in 1983 called Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number, and the following year found a home with Malaco, which sustained the careers of quite a few old-school Southern soul and blues artists. During his tenure at Malaco, Milton debuted the song that would become his latter-day anthem, the bar band staple "The Blues Is Alright," which was also widely popular with European blues fans. Milton recorded frequently and steadily for Malaco, issuing 13 albums under their aegis by the end of the millennium. In 1988, he won the W.C. Handy Award for Blues Entertainer of the Year, and was also inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. ~Steve Huey

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Little Milton - Too Much Pain

Year: 1990
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:51
Size: 96,7 MB
Styles: Soul-blues
Scans: Full

1. Bad Dream (4:01)
2. The Cradle Is Robbin' Me (4:14)
3. Still In Love With You (5:15)
4. Runway (4:16)
5. The Woman I Love (3:25)
6. Your Wife Is Cheating On Us (4:52)
7. Too Much Pain (6:02)
8. Gonna' Start A Rumor (4:10)
9. Count The Days (5:33)

Though not essential and not as strong as Back to Back, Too Much Pain was a welcome addition to Milton's catalog. Milton never claimed to be a purist, and the album illustrates his effectiveness as both a bluesman and a soul shouter. Highlights of this likable date range from the smooth '70s-ish uptown soul of "The Woman I Love" (which wouldn't have been inappropriate on a Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes album) to "So Much Pain," "Count the Days," and Denise LaSalle's amusing "Your Wife Is Cheating on Us." If you're into clever double entendres, get into "Runway," a Stax-ish soul gem that finds Milton equating a cheating lover with an airport runway in that everyone is landing on her. /Alex Henderson, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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VA - Sun Blues Archives & Rarities 1950-1958

Size: 404,7 MB
Time: 171:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

01. Albert Williams - Hoo Doo Man (Memphis Al) (2:48)
02. Albert Williams - Rumble Chillen (2:29)
03. Albert Williams - Shine Boy (2:27)
04. Bonnie Turner - Love Is A Gamble (2:07)
05. Bonnie Turner - Old Brother Jack (2:48)
06. Boyd Gilmore - Believe I'll Settle Down (3:07)
07. David Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago (2:55)
08. Earl Hooker - Blue Guitar (2:47)
09. Earl Hooker - Move On Down The Line (2:15)
10. Earl Hooker - Steel Guitar Rag (2:53)
11. Earl Hooker - The Drive (2:19)
12. Earl Hooker - The Hucklebuck (3:04)
13. Hot Shot Love - Harpin' On It (2:27)
14. Houston Strokes - Carry My Business On (2:34)
15. Houston Strokes - Standing In The Courthouse Crying (3:00)
16. Houston Strokes - Baby's Gone And Left Me (2:11)
17. Houston Strokes - Blue And Lonesome (2:03)
18. James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues (2:57)
19. James Cotton - Hold Me In Your Arms (2:48)
20. James Cotton - My Baby (2:25)
21. James Cotton - Straighten Up Baby (2:18)
22. Joe Hill Louis - Dorothy Mae (2:06)
23. Joe Hill Louis - Hydramatic Woman (2:32)
24. Joe Hill Louis - I'm A Poor Boy (2:57)
25. Joe Hill Louis - Keep Your Arms Around Me (2:58)
26. Joe Hill Louis - She May Be Yours (Sweetest Gal In Town) (2:52)
27. Joe Hill Louis - Tiger Man (3:13)
28. Joe Hill Louis - When I Am Gone (She Treats Me Mean And Evil) (3:45)
29. Johnny O'Neal - Dead Letter Blues (3:30)
30. Johnny O'Neal - Johnny's Dream (2:54)
31. Johnny O'Neal - Ugly Woman (Peg Leg Baby) (2:22)
32. Kenneth Banks - Blue Man (3:20)
33. Kenneth Banks - High (2:25)
34. L.C. Hubert - Lucy Done Moved (2:28)
35. Little Junior - Feelin' Bad (2:41)
36. Little Milton - Alone And Blue (3:11)
37. Little Milton - Beggin' My Baby (2:27)
38. Little Milton - Homesick For My Baby (2:49)
39. Little Milton - I Love My Baby (2:58)
40. Little Milton - If You Love Me (2:34)
41. Little Milton - Lookin' For My Baby (2:52)
42. Little Milton - Re-Beep (2:35)
43. Little Milton - Rode That Train (Lookin' For My Baby) (2:47)
44. Little Milton - She's My Queen (2:32)
45. Little Milton - Somebody Told Me (2:57)
46. Mose Vinson - 44 Blues (2:31)
47. Mose Vinson - Come See Me (Aka My Love Has Gone) (2:09)
48. Mose Vinson - Mistreatin' Boogie (2:34)
49. Mose Vinson - Reap What You Sow (2:44)
50. Mose Vinson - Worry You Off My Mind (3:09)
51. Pat Hare - Bonus Pay (2:07)
52. Pat Hare - Cheating And Lying Blues (Aka I'm Gonna Murder My Baby) (2:57)
53. Pinetop Perkins - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (2:47)
54. Raymond Hill - I'm Back Pretty Baby (2:39)
55. Raymond Hill - Long Gone Raymond (2:38)
56. Raymond Hill - My Baby Left Me (2:25)
57. Raymond Hill - Somebody's Been Carryin' Your Rollin' On (2:57)
58. Tot Randolph - Blues Train (2:34)
59. Walter Bradford - Love For My Baby (2:18)
60. Walter Bradford - Reward For My Baby (3:01)
61. Walter Bradford - Too Blue To Cry (2:45)
62. Willie Johnson & Sammy Lewis - Gonna Leave You Baby (2:21)
63. Willie Johnson & Sammy Lewis - I Feel So Worried (2:06)
64. Willie Johnson & Sammy Lewis - So Long Baby Goodbye (2:07)

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VA - Play: Blues Ballads

Size: 312,7 MB
Time: 134:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01 ZZ Top - Blue Jeans Blues (4:40)
02 T-Bone Walker - How Long Blues (5:16)
03 Fats Domino - Wait Till It Happens To You (Version 2) (2:30)
04 Freddie King - Ain't Nobody's Business What We Do (3:38)
05 Joe Turner - Still In Love (2:56)
06 Aretha Franklin - Good To Me As I Am To You (3:55)
07 Ray Charles - I Believe To My Soul (3:01)
08 Ivory Joe Hunter - Can't Explain How It Happened (2:41)
09 Lonnie Mack - What Kind Of World Is This (4:03)
10 Wilbur De Paris - Trouble In Mind (3:02)
11 Judy Henske - Every Night When The Sun Goes Down (4:02)
12 Little Milton - You're Gonna Make Me Cry (5:34)
13 Judy Clay - I Got To Love Somebody's Baby (3:28)
14 Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Please Send Me Someone To Love (Live At Winterland Ballroom) (5:21)
15 Jerry Lee Lewis - Who Will The Next Fool Be (5:47)
16 Johnnie Taylor - Little Bluebird (2:59)
17 Mem Shannon - Old Men (4:56)
18 Doug Sahm & Band - Betty Jo (Bonus Track) (4:06)
19 Low Budget Blues Band Feat. Sanne Salomonsen - Need Your Love So Bad (Feat. Sanne Salomonsen) (4:35)
20 Emmy Rossum - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (3:18)
21 Junior Mance - I Believe To My Soul (Single Version) (3:09)
22 The Watts 103rd. Street Rhythm Band - Stormy Monday (Mono Version) (4:56)
23 Billy Eckstine - Blues In The Night (3:05)
24 Delta Cross Band - Key To Highway (7:50)
25 Bobby Darin - Drown In My Own Tears (3:20)
26 Kelly Joe Phelps - Without The Light (4:47)
27 Lavern Baker - St. Louis Blues (Live In Hollywood, 1991) (8:02)
28 Robert Cray - Out Of Eden (9:18)
29 Daddy's Cash - You See Me (5:28)
30 Dr. John - In A Sentimental Mood (4:04)

Play: Blues Ballads

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Little Milton - Cheatin' Habit

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:38
Size: 106.8 MB
Styles: Soul/Blues/Funk
Year: 1996/2005
Art: Front

[4:41] 1. Kick My Cheatin' Habits
[5:32] 2. How Does A Cheatin' Woman Feel
[5:23] 3. What Do You Do When You Love Somebody
[4:40] 4. This Time They Told Me The Truth
[3:57] 5. It's Time For The Blues
[5:02] 6. It's Hard To Stumble
[4:11] 7. I Wouldn't Take Nothing For Your Love
[4:09] 8. Shake, Rattle And Roll
[3:51] 9. I Worry About You
[5:08] 10. The Other Man

Having found a suitable home at Malaco, the leading label of the '80s and '90s for Southern soul-blues, Little Milton has settled into a prolific recording schedule; Cheatin' Habit is already his tenth CD for the label (eleventh, if you count a greatest-hits compilation). It contains ingredients to satisfy his core audience, but is not one of his best. The songs are mostly of the cheatin' or leavin' variety (he's cheating or she's cheating, he's leaving or she's leaving). The guitar fills and horn parts are quite formulaic. ~Steve Hoffman

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VA - The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3: 1972-1975

Size: 1.69 GB
Time: 11:58:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Blues, Soul, R&B, Rock
Label: Stax
Art: Front, Back, CD

CD 01:
01 Eddie Floyd - Yum Yum Yum (I Want Some) (2:51)
02 Jean Knight - Carry On (2:57)
03 Isaac Hayes - Do Your Thing (3:19)
04 Frederick Knight - I've Been Lonely For So Long (3:21)
05 Annette Thomas - Nothing Is Everlasting (2:56)
06 The Soul Children - Hearsay (3:30)
07 Albert King - Angel Of Mercy (4:18)
08 The Dramatics - In The Rain (3:24)
09 Lee Sain - She's My Old Lady Too (2:42)
10 The Temprees - Explain It To Her Mama (3:00)
11 Sons Of Slum - Right On (3:27)
12 Johnnie Taylor - Doing My Own Thing (Part 1) (3:46)
13 The Emotions - My Honey And Me (3:37)
14 Isaac Hayes - Let's Stay Together (Instrumental) (3:47)
15 Hot Sauce - Bring It Home (And Give It To Me) (3:20)
16 Black Society - Look Around You (2:32)
17 The Nightingales - Don't Do It I'm With You (3:29)
18 The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There (3:14)
19 The Leaders - Which Way (2:25)
20 Veda Brown - Living A Life Without Love (3:04)
21 Harvey Scales - What's Good For You (Don't Have To Be Good To You) (2:25)
22 The Mad Lads - Let Me Repair Your Heart (4:03)
23 Eric Mercury - What's Usual Seems Natur'l (3:25)
24 Major Lance - I Wanna Make Up (Before We Break Up) (4:00)

CD 02:
01 Isaac Hayes & David Porter - Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One) (4:25)
02 Little Milton - Walking The Back Streets And Crying (5:05)
03 William Bell - Save Us (3:18)
04 Rufus Thomas - 6-3-8 (2:39)
05 Mel & Tim - Starting All Over Again (3:50)
06 Stefan - Keep On Loving Me (2:53)
07 David Porter - I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over (4:45)
08 Little Sonny - Goin' Down Slow (Parts 1 & 2) (5:35)
09 The Emotions - I Could Never Be Happy (3:30)
10 The Soul Children - Don't Take My Kindness For Weakness (2:56)
11 Albert King - I'll Play The Blues For You (Part 1) (3:42)
12 Roger Hatcher - I Dedicate My Life To You (2:28)
13 March Wind - Do The Sweetback (2:58)
14 Black Nasty - Gettin' Funky 'round Here (2:44)
15 David Porter - When The Chips Are Down (3:22)
16 Carla Thomas - Sugar (4:12)
17 Eddie Floyd - You're Good Enough (To Be My Baby) (3:16)
18 The Staple Singers - This World (3:35)
19 Jean Knight - Helping Man (2:54)
20 John Kasandra - Ain't I Good? (3:03)

CD 03:
02 The Temprees - Dedicated To The One I Love (3:35)
03 The Dramatics - Toast To The Fool (4:16)
04 Johnnie Taylor - Stop Doggin' Me (4:06)
05 Frederick Knight - Trouble (3:10)
06 Rufus Thomas - Itch And Scratch (Part 1) (3:12)
07 Ernie Hines - What Would I Do (3:37)
08 Veda Brown - I Know It's Not Right (3:26)
09 Stefan - Holy Cow (3:03)
10 Sons Of Slum - What Goes Around (Must Come Around) (3:10)
11 Isaac Hayes - Theme From The Men (Instrumental) (4:02)
12 Mavis Staples - Endlessly (3:15)
13 Inez Foxx - You Hurt Me For The Last Time (3:06)
14 John Gary Williams - My Sweet Lord (3:17)
15 Albert King - Breaking Up Somebody's Home (3:42)
16 Katie Love - How Can You Mistreat The One You Love (2:44)
17 The Emotions - From Toys To Boys (2:30)
18 Roy Lee Johnson & The Villagers - The Dryer (Vocal) (Part 1) (2:18)
19 Carla Thomas - I May Not Be All You Want (But I'm All You Got) (3:51)
20 Major Lance - Ain't No Sweat (3:20)
21 Jean Knight - Do Me (2:52)
22 Little Milton - Rainy Day (3:14)

CD 04:
01 The Soul Children - It Ain't Always What You Do (It's Who You Le See You Do It) (3:39)
02 Mel & Tim - I May Not Be What You Want (2:57)
03 Rufus Thomas - Funky Robot (Part 1) (2:43)
04 Johnnie Taylor - Don't You Fool With My Soul (Part 1) (2:55)
05 The Staple Singers - Oh La De Da (3:36)
06 Hot Sauce - What Do You See In Her? (2:45)
07 The Temprees - A Thousand Miles Away (3:20)
08 The Dramatics - Hey You! Get Off My Moutain (3:31)
09 Isaac Hayes - Rolling Down A Mountainside (4:17)
10 The Bar-Kays - You're Still My Brother (3:30)
11 Jimmy Lewis - Stop Half Loving These Women (2:56)
12 William Bell - Lovin' On Borrowed Time (3:57)
13 Eddie Floyd - Lay Your Loving On Me (3:16)
14 Inez Foxx - The Time (3:58)
15 Mel & Tim - Heaven Knows (3:53)
16 Johnnie Taylor - I Believe In You (You Believe In Me) (4:32)
17 Veda Brown - Short Stopping (2:23)
18 The Staple Singers - Be What You Are (5:00)
19 Stefan - I've Got To Love Somebody's Baby (2:58)
20 Albert King - Playing On Me (3:42)
21 David Porter - Long As You're The One Somebody In The World (2:38)

CD 05:
01 Frederick Knight - This Is My Song Of Love To You (3:11)
02 The Mgs - Sugarcone (3:08)
03 The Soul Children - Love Is A Hurtin' Thing (3:16)
04 Eddie Floyd - Baby, Lay Your Head Down (Gently On My Bed) (3:40)
05 Eddie Floyd - Check Me Out (3:37)
06 The Emotions - Runnin' Back (And Forth) (2:32)
07 Inez Foxx - Crossing Over The Bridge (2:52)
08 The Temprees - Love's Maze (3:34)
09 The Bar-Kays - It Ain't Easy (3:24)
10 Carla Thomas - Love Among People (4:07)
11 Little Milton - What It Is (3:22)
12 William Bell - I've Got To Go On Without You (3:47)
13 Eric Mercury - Love Is Taking Over (3:50)
14 Joe Hicks - Ruby Dean (3:19)
15 The Mad Lads - I'm So Glad I Fell In Love With You (2:09)
16 The Dramatics - Fell For You (3:14)
17 Johnnie Taylor - Cheaper To Keep Her (3:28)
18 Rufus Thomas - I Know You Don't Want Me No More (3:04)
19 The Staple Singers - If You're Ready (Come Go With Me) (3:20)
20 The Sweet Inspirations - Slipped And Tripped (2:57)
21 The Emotions - Peace Be Still (2:55)
22 The Soul Children - I'll Be The Other Woman (3:35)

CD 06:
01 The Newcomers - The Martian Hop (2:55)
02 Inez Foxx - I Had A Talk With My Man (4:07)
03 The Temprees - At Last (2:56)
04 Isaac Hayes - Joy (Part 1) (4:37)
05 Hot Sauce - Good Woman Turning Bad (2:50)
06 John Kasandra - Mose (Part 3) (5:41)
07 Rufus Thomas - I'll Be Your Santa Baby (3:34)
08 Eddie Floyd - I Wanna Do Things For You (3:25)
09 Albert King - That's What The Blues Is All About (3:53)
10 Carolyn Hurley - One Way Love Affair (4:16)
11 Little Milton - Tin Pan Alley (3:32)
12 Rufus Thomas - The Funky Bird (3:23)
13 Johnnie Taylor - We're Getting Careless With Our Love (3:59)
14 The Emotions - What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas (3:24)
15 Cix Bits - Season's Greetings (3:21)
16 Eric Mercury - Don't Lose Faith In Me Lord (3:32)
17 Veda Brown - Don't Start Loving Me (If You're Gonna Stop) (3:50)
18 The Staple Singers - Touch A Hand, Make A Friend (3:25)
19 The Dramatics - And I Panicked (3:32)
20 Joy Fleming - Change It All (3:22)

CD 07:
01 William Bell - Gettin' What You Want (Losin' What You Got) (3:31)
02 Jacqui Verdell - He's Mine (3:41)
03 Little Sonny - My Woman Is Good To Me (2:50)
04 David Porter - I Got You And I'm Glad (3:08)
05 The Emotions - Put A Little Love Away (3:12)
06 Frederick Knight - Suzy (3:29)
07 Mel & Tim - The Same Folks (3:11)
08 The Temprees - You Make The Sunshine (3:30)
09 John Gary Williams - The Whole Damn World Is Going Crazy (3:11)
10 Inez Foxx - Circuit's Overload (3:43)
11 Isaac Hayes - Wonderful (3:39)
12 Little Milton - Behind Closed Doors (3:58)
13 Eddie Floyd - Guess Who (3:20)
14 The Sweet Inspirations - Dirty Tricks (3:02)
15 Roebuck Pops Staples - Whicha Way Did It Go (3:11)
16 Black Nasty - Talking To The People (2:43)
17 Johnnie Taylor - I've Been Born Again (3:20)
18 The MG's - Neckbone (2:59)
19 Sandra Wright - Wounded Woman (2:29)
20 Hot Sauce - Stop Doggin' Me (3:49)
21 Kim Weston - Goodness Gracious (2:52)

CD 08:
01 The Staple Singers - City In The Sky (3:44)
02 Isaac Hayes - Title Theme (2:33)
03 Eddie Floyd - Soul Street (3:25)
04 Albert King - Flat Tire (4:19)
05 The Soul Children - Love Makes It Right (3:14)
06 The Temprees - Mr. Cool That Ain't Cool (2:51)
07 Rufus Thomas - Boogie Ain't Nuttin' (But Gettin' Down)(Part 1) (2:56)
08 Ron Banks & The Dramatics - Highway To Heaven (3:51)
09 William Bell - Get It While It's Hot (3:13)
10 Frederick Knight - Passing Thru (3:13)
11 The Newcomers - Keep And Eye On Your Close Friends (3:08)
12 The Staple Singers - My Main Man-There Is A God (5:10)
13 Mel & Tim - That's The Way I Want To Live My Life (3:06)
14 Mel & Tim - Forever And A Day (4:40)
15 The Emotions - Baby, I'm Through (3:43)
16 Johnnie Taylor - It's September (3:16)
17 Shirley Brown - Woman To Woman (3:54)
18 Randy Brown & Company - Did You Hear Yourself (Part 1) (3:21)
19 Annette Thomas - You Need A Friend Like Mine (2:54)
20 The Temprees - I Love, I Love (3:34)
21 Little Milton - Let Me Back In (3:00)

CD 09:
01 Albert King - Crosscut Saw (2:49)
02 The Bar-Kays - Coldblooded (3:07)
03 Sir Mack Rice - Bump Meat (2:42)
04 The Newcomers - (Too Little In Common To Be Lovers) Too Much Going To Say Goodbye (3:30)
05 The Wrecking Crew - Bump And Boogie (Part 1) (2:55)
06 The Soul Children - What's Happening Baby (Part 1) (2:43)
07 The Staple Singers - Who Made The Man (4:14)
08 Brook Benton - I Keep Thinking To Myself (3:12)
09 Eddie Floyd - I Got A Reason To Smile (Cause I Got You) (3:15)
10 Bessie Banks - Try To Leave Me If You Can (I Bet You Can't Do It) (4:33)
11 Willie Singleton - Burning On Both Ends (2:50)
12 The Emotions - There Are More Questions Than Answers (3:32)
13 Albert King - Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin' (3:01)
14 Hot Sauce - I Can't Let You Go (3:13)
15 Frederick Knight - I Betcha Didn't Know That (3:03)
16 Sandra Wright - Lovin' You, Lovin' Me (3:34)
17 Rufus Thomas - Do The Double Bump (3:06)
18 The Temprees - Coma And Get Your Love (3:16)
19 Sir Mack Rice - Dark Skin Woman (Part 1) (3:08)
20 Shirley Brown - It Ain't No Fun (5:26)
21 Little Milton - If You Talk In Your Sleep (2:43)
22 Eddie Floyd - Talk To The Man (3:02)

CD 10:
01 Barbara & Joe - You're Astounding (3:02)
02 The Green Brothers - Dy-No-Mite (Did You Say My Love) (3:07)
03 The Dynamic - Soul Machine: Boom-A-Rang (3:32)
04 John Gary Williams - Come What May (3:29)
05 Johnnie Taylor - Try Me Tonight (3:20)
06 Freddie Waters - Groovin' On My Baby's Love (2:45)
07 The Fiestas - I Can't Shake Your Love (3:43)
08 Frederick Knight - I Wanna Play With You (2:47)
09 Albert King - I'm Doing Fine (3:29)
10 Teresa Davis - No Way (I Can Live Without You) (3:14)
11 The Staple Singers - Back Road Into Town (4:18)
12 Eddie Floyd - I'm So Glad I Met You (3:14)
13 Little Milton - Packed Up And Took My Mind (4:00)
14 Johnnie Taylor - Just Keep On Loving Me (3:00)
15 R.B. Hudmon - How Can I Be A Witness (3:06)
16 Rufus Thomas - Jump Back '75 (Part 1) (3:34)
17 The Staple Singers - I Got To Be Myself (3:37)
18 Shirley Brown - It's Worth A Whippin' (3:32)
19 The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost (Part 1) (2:46)

As the last installment in the three-volume document of the complete Stax-Volt singles, Vol. 3: 1972-1975 is by far the weakest of the series. During those four years, the label was winding down, since it was unable to successfully make the transition from gritty soul to smoother soul and disco. Their older artists couldn't handle the newer sound, and the newer artists were generally saddled with undistinguished songs. In other words, there weren't many great singles from this era, which is what makes listening to The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972-1975 such a chore. While the sound of the set is pleasant, evoking both the funky and smooth soul of the early '70s quite well, the songs and the performances aren't particularly noteworthy. There's about a disc and a half worth of prime material scattered across this set, and only die-hard collectors and fetishists will have the patience to find them. Still, those dedicated listeners will find the box a nice way to conclude the series, since it is a well-produced and comprehensive set, even if the music itself is uneven. ~by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3 CD 01
The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3 CD 02
The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3 CD 03
The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3 CD 04
The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3 CD 05
The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3 CD 06
The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3 CD 07
The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3 CD 08
The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3 CD 09
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Various - Mississippi's Music

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:22
Size: 154.2 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Gospel blues, Electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[5:16] 1. Z.Z. Hill - Down Home Blues
[3:00] 2. King Floyd - Groove Me
[5:14] 3. The Sensational Nightingales - Saints Hold On
[4:07] 4. Bobby Blue Bland - Members Only
[3:40] 5. Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
[4:32] 6. Grady Champion - White Boy With The Blues
[3:41] 7. Keri Leigh - Here's Your Mop Mr. Johnson
[4:10] 8. The Canton Spirituals - All Of My Burdens
[4:14] 9. Little Milton - The Blues Is Alright
[4:26] 10. Bobby Rush - Scootchin
[5:28] 11. Mississippi Mass Choir - Your Grace And Mercy
[3:37] 12. Mckinley Mitchell - The End Of The Rainbow
[3:39] 13. The Jackson Southernaires - I Need You To Hold My Hand
[4:38] 14. Johnnie Taylor - I Found A Love
[4:38] 15. Denise Lasalle - Your Husband Is Cheating On Us
[2:56] 16. The Beat Daddys - Mississippi

The blues and Mississippi are synonymous to music lovers. The repertoire of any blues or rock band is full of songs, guitar licks, and vocal inflections borrowed from Mississippi bluesmen – from Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Son House to Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Joe Williams, Bukka White, and Furry Lewis – just to mention some.

As far as historians can tell, the blues were born in the Mississippi Delta, an elaboration on work chants, “sorrow” slave songs, and the lyrical and haunting “field hollers.” As early as the American Civil War, white soldiers noted a different music created by black soldiers – songs about marching and other toils of war in which they “extemporized a half-dissonant middle part.” These songs were direct precursors to the blues, if not the real thing already.

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Little Milton - Back To Back

Year: 1988
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:00
Size: 99,4 MB
Styles: Soul, soul-blues
Scans: Full

1. I Was Tryin' Not To Break Down (4:13)
2. Caught In The Act (Of Gettin' It On) (4:34)
3. You Can't Trust Your Neighbor (4:30)
4. Penitentiary Blues (4:32)
5. (I Had) Too Much Heaven Last Night (3:35)
6. I Don't Believe In Ghosts (4:18)
7. It's Hard To Explain (4:04)
8. The End Of The Rainbow (5:06)
9. Fast Young Lady (3:56)
10. The Wind Beneath My Wings (4:10)

Little Milton's in some wonderful company here – recording at the best Malaco level of the 80s, which means an equal dose of deep soul and blues! Milton's voice has only gotten better over the years – and he's honestly a more expressive singer here than during the Chess years, really developed as a vocalist especially on the mellower numbers, which are completely sublime.

There's still plenty of blues in the mix, and certainly some nice guitar – but the overall approach is more southern soul overall, as Milton really opens up on tunes written by greats like George Jackson, McKinley Mitchell, and the team of Banks & Hampton. Titles include "I Was Trying Not To Break Down", "Caught In The Act Of Getting It On", "Penitentiary Blues", "I Don't Believe In Ghosts", "The End Of The Rainbow", and "You Can't Trust Your Neighbor".

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Ike Turner - That Kat Sure Could Play!: The Singles 1951-1957 (4 CD)

Ike Turner's life may have been a controversial one, but their can be little doubt of his significant contribution to the blues, rhythm & blues and rock musical worlds. A four CD box, "The Legendary Ike Turner: The Kat Sure Could Play! presents 118 songs (and over 5 hours of music) from singles Turner played on between 1951 to 1957. Some of these recordings include famous recording like "Rocket 88" by Turner and his own band The Kings of Rhythm, and others are backings to recordings by the likes of Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Johnny Ace, Bobby Bland and Elmore James.

There are so many historic recordings here starting with Rocket 88, but also including King's 3 O'Clock Blues, Wolf's How Many More Years, Boyd Gilmore's raucous Rambling On My Mind, and Rosco Gordon's No More Doggin'. There is a terrific delta juke joint band session that produced Drifting Slim's Muddy Waters pastiche Good Morning Baby, and Sunny Blair's house rocket, Step Back Baby. Junior Brooks terrific Gonna Let You Go is a reworking of a Muddy Waters recording with Ike on piano as he is on Elmore's frantic broom dusting on Please Find My Baby. Ike is present on Little Milton's early If You Love Me Baby as well.

Ike also had his own coterie of musicians including Eugene Fox whose Sinner's Dream and the two-part The Dream, are interesting bits of story-telling with Ike's evocative use of tremolo in his guitar noticeable. As The Sly Fox, Eugene Fox had a couple of other gems with his extroverted vocals; Hoo-doo Say (with a solo from Ike) and I'm Tired of Beggin'. Lonnie the Cat's I Ain't Drunk is a choice cover of a Jimmy Liggins tune that Albert Collins made famous. Johnny Wright's The World Is Yours is one of several times Ike adapted lyrics to Guitar Slim's The Things I Used To Do with Wright shouting with considerable vigor as Ike makes effective use of his Fender's whammy bar during his solo.

Some of the latter recordings come from when Turner recorded for Federal and include such gems as Billy Gayles I'm Tore Up, Just One More Time, and Let's Call It A Day; Jackie Brenston's Gonna Wait For My Chance and Clayton Love's She Made My Blood Run Cold and Do You Mean It. Also heard are instrumentals including Cubano Bop and Trail Blazer.

Album: That Kat Sure Could Play!: The Singles 1951-1957
Year: 2011
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:32 + 78:34 + 78:33 + 79:23
Size: 182,6 + 182,6 + 182,7 + 184,9 MB
Styles: R&B, blues
Scans: Full (including two booklets)

CD 1:
1. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats - Rocket 88 (2:49)
2. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats - Come Back Where You Belong (2:44)
3. Ike Turner & His Kings Of Rhythm - I'm Lonesome Baby (3:02)
4. Ike Turner & His Kings Of Rhythm - Heartbroken & Worried (3:03)
5. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats - My Real Gone Rocket (2:30)
6. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats - Independent Woman (2:52)
7. Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years (2:42)
8. Howlin' Wolf - Riding In The Moonlight (3:04)
9. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Dry Up Baby (2:01)
10. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Crying All Night Long (3:03)
11. B.B. King - Three O'clock Blues (3:01)
12. B.B. King - Boogie Woogie Woman (2:47)
13. Boyd Gilmore - Ramblin' On My Mind (2:48)
14. Houston Boines - Going Home (2:19)
15. Houston Boines - Relation Blues (2:38)
16. Brother Bell - Whole Heap Of Mama (2:35)
17. Brother Bell - If You Feel Froggish (3:04)
18. Charley Booker - Rabbit Blues (2:21)
19. Charley Booker - No Ridin' Blues (2:53)
20. Roscoe Gordon - No More Doggin' (2:39)
21. Roscoe Gordon - Maria (2:31)
22. Driftin' Slim - Good Morning Baby (2:52)
23. Driftin' Slim - My Sweet Baby (2:55)
24. Sunny Blair - Step Back Baby (2:18)
25. Little Junior Parker - Bad Woman, Bad Whiskey (3:01)
26. Little Junior Parker - You're My Angel (1:58)
27. Bobby 'Blue' Bland w. Ike Turner Orchestra - Good Lovin (2:25)
28. Bobby 'Blue' Bland w. Ike Turner Orchestra - Drifting From Town To Town (3:04)
29. Ike Turner w. Ben Burton & His Orchestra - You're Driving Me Insane (2:22)

CD 2:
1. Ike Turner w. Ben Burton & His Orchestra - Trouble And Heartaches (2:36)
2. Boyd Gilmore - All In My Dreams (3:11)
3. Boyd Gilmore - Take A Little Walk With Me (2:32)
4. Charley Booker - Charley's Boogie Woogie (2:30)
5. Bonnie & Ike Turner - My Heart Belongs To You (2:51)
6. Bonnie & Ike Turner - Looking For My Baby (2:30)
7. B.B. King & His Orchestra - You Didn't Want Me (2:32)
8. B.B. King & His Orchestra - You Know I Love You (3:05)
9. Johnny Ace & Earl Forrest - Midnight Hour Journey (3:31)
10. Johnny Ace & Earl Forrest - Trouble And Me (2:58)
11. Mary Sue - Everybody's Talking (2:43)
12. Mary Sue - Love Is A Gamble (3:06)
13. Baby Face Turner - Blue Serenade (2:40)
14. Baby Face Turner - Gonna Let You Go (2:04)
15. Elmore James - Please Find My Baby (3:08)
16. The Prisonaires - Softly & Tenderly (2:33)
17. The Prisonaires - A Prisoner's Prayer (2:42)
18. Little Milton - Beggin' My Baby (2:29)
19. Little Milton - Somebody Told Me (2:59)
20. Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - No Teasing Around (3:02)
21. Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - If Lovin' Is Believing (2:13)
22. Little Milton - If You Love Me Baby (2:32)
23. Little Milton - Alone And Blue (3:08)
24. Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - I'm Not Going Home (3:12)
25. Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - The Woodchuck (3:08)
26. Raymond Hill - Bourbon St. Jump (2:38)
27. Raymond Hill - The Snuggle (2:59)
28. Elmore James - Hand In Hand (2:48)

CD 3:
1. Eugene Fox - Stay At Home (2:43)
2. Eugene Fox - Sinners Dream (3:26)
3. Jesse Knight & His Combo - Nothing But Money (3:08)
4. The Fox - The Dream (Pt. 1 & 2) (4:12)
5. Lover Boy (Ike Turner) - Love Is Scarce (2:18)
6. Lover Boy (Ike Turner) - The Way You Used To Treat Me (2:37)
7. Lonnie 'The Cat' w. Bobby Hines Band - I Ain't Drunk (2:23)
8. Lonnie 'The Cat' - The Road I Travel (2:05)
9. Johnny Wright - Suffocate (2:44)
10. Clayton Love - Why Don't You Believe In Me (2:53)
11. Clayton Love - Wicked Little Baby (2:33)
12. Dennis Binder & His Orchestra - I Miss You So (3:02)
13. Dennis Binder & His Orchestra - Early Times (2:28)
14. Clayton Love Orchestra - Bye Bye Baby (2:28)
15. Clayton Love Orchestra - Mary Lou (2:02)
16. Matt Cockrell - Baby Please (1:59)
17. Matt Cockrell - Gypsy Blues (3:13)
18. Billy Gayles & His Orchestra - Night Howler (2:12)
19. Billy Gayles & His Orchestra - My Heart Is In Your Hands (2:30)
20. Elmore James & His Broomdusters - Sho Nuff I Do (2:52)
21. Elmore James & His Broomdusters - 1839 Blues (3:15)
22. Ike Turner & His Orchestra - Loosely (The Wild One) (2:31)
23. Ike Turner & His Orchestra - Cubano Jump (2:17)
24. Ike Turner & His Orchestra - Cuban Get Away (Bayou Rock) (3:11)
25. The Flairs - Baby Wants (2:29)
26. The Flairs - You Were Untrue (2:44)
27. Elmore James & His Broomdusters - Rock My Baby Right (2:35)
28. The Sly Fox - Hoo-Doo Say (3:01)
29. The Sly Fox - I'm Tired Of Beggin' (2:29)

CD 4:
1. The Sly Fox - My Four Women (3:07)
2. Little Milton - Looking For My Baby (2:54)
3. Little Milton - Homesick For My Baby (2:20)
4. Ike Turner & His Orchestra - Go To It (2:22)
5. Johnny Wright w. Ike Turner's Orchestra - The World Is Yours (2:51)
6. The Trojans - As Long As I Have You (3:00)
7. The Trojans - I Wanna Make Love To You (1:58)
8. Willie King w. Ike Turner Feat. Billy Gayles - Peg Leg Woman (2:33)
9. Willie King w. Ike Turner Feat. Billy Gayles - Mistreating Me (3:08)
10. Billy Gayles w. Ike Turner's Rhythm Rockers - I'm Tore Up (2:22)
11. Billy Gayles w. Ike Turner's Rhythm Rockers - If I Had Never Known You (2:31)
12. The Rockers - What Am I To Do (2:15)
13. Billy Gayles w. Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - Let's Call It A Day (2:28)
14. Billy Gayles w. Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - Take Your Fine Frame Home (2:25)
15. The Rockers - Why Don't You Believe (2:22)
16. The Rockers - Down In The Bottom (2:24)
17. Billy Gayles w. Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - No Coming Back (2:42)
18. Billy Gayles w. Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - Do Right Baby (2:09)
19. Jackie Brenston w. Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - What Can It Be (2:24)
20. Jackie Brenston w. Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - Gonna Wait For My Chance (2:04)
21. The Gardenias - Flaming Love (2:25)
22. The Gardenias - My Baby's Tops (2:26)
23. The Starrs - Ain't Got No Home (2:36)
24. The Starrs - Crying Over You (2:33)
25. Billy Gayles w. Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - Sad As A Man Can Be (2:08)
26. Billy Gayles w. Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - Just One More Time (2:41)
27. Jackie Brenston w. Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - Much Later (2:15)
28. Jackie Brenston w. Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - The Mistreater (2:14)
29. Ike Turner & His Orchestra - Do You Mean It (2:19)
30. Ike Turner & His Orchestra - She Made My Blood Run Cold (2:20)
31. Ike Turner & His Orchestra - The Big Question (2:20)
32. Ike Turner & His Orchestra - Trail Blazer (2:32)

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Little Milton - Guitar Man

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:18
Size: 122.0 MB
Styles: Soul blues
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[4:15] 1. Guitar Man
[4:30] 2. Take Time Out To Hear Me Some Blues
[3:00] 3. Still Some Meat Left On This Bone
[5:48] 4. Blues Tune-Up
[5:13] 5. I Could Have Saved Our Love
[4:00] 6. I Wish I Could Be Your Lover
[3:11] 7. You Were On The Right Street
[5:42] 8. The Juke Joint Is Calling Me
[3:56] 9. Mr. & Mrs. Untrue
[5:08] 10. Just One Moment
[4:08] 11. Whenever You Come Around
[4:23] 12. My Way

Little Milton Campbell was by no means diminutive. Back home in Mississippi (he was born in Inverness on September 7, 1934), his dad was also named Milton, so something had to be done to differentiate between the two. "People would call him Big Milton and me Little Milton, meaning senior/junior," said the late guitarist.

Milton was raised around Greenville and Leland in the blues-fertile state, picking up guitar as a youngster. "I started trying to fool around with it when I was about 12," he said. "I really liked and always idolized T-Bone Walker. To me, he was the greatest blues guitarist that ever lived, because he didn’t fuzz up his stuff. He just picked one string at a time. And this is what I do. I like to get all I can get out of one note." Greenville’s blues scene proved seductive; Campbell made his first trip into a recording studio with pianist Willie Love for Trumpet in 1951 at age 17.

Another young Mississippian was Milton’s conduit to Sun Records in 1953. "Ike Turner took me to Sun Records for the first time and did records," he said. "We didn’t know what we were gonna do. Maybe we might have had a tune or two in our minds. But we’d just go in there, set up, start playing, and we came up with a good groove and a beat, and then we recorded it. It may be slow or fast. But actually, what the trend was, we’d go by hits that were playing on the jukeboxes and the radios. Whatever another artist had going, if it was a big record, everybody cashed in on it." Milton’s Sun debut Somebody Told Me did sound a tad familiar. "Didn’t that remind you of B.B. King’s ‘Woke Up This Morning?’" he asked. "Well, we had that in mind. What you would do was change the lyrics."

After a pair of Sun encores and two more for Lester Bihari’s Memphis-based Meteor logo in 1957, Milton became the flagship artist for the brand-new Bobbin label in his adopted hometown of St. Louis. "Ike was there about a year. He moved from Clarksdale, Mississippi up there about a year before I did," said Milton. "He'd come back (home) occasionally, and he told me how good the pickings were. So then I came. And between him and I, we were working something like 14 gigs per week apiece. We'd work every night, and we would do three or four gigs Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We was young and making money and having plenty fun!

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Little Milton - I Need Your Love So Bad

Size: 106,3 MB
Time: 45:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Blues Gospel
Art: Front & Back

01. I'm Going Home (4:07)
02. Pray On (4:58)
03. Great Change (3:23)
04. Trouble Don't Last (4:57)
05. Measure For Measure (4:40)
06. Holding On (4:18)
07. Good Time (4:03)
08. Waiting For Jesus (4:56)
09. Blowin' In The Wind (4:15)
10. Time Is Winding Up (5:39)

He may not be a household name, but die-hard blues fans know Little Milton as a superb all-around electric bluesman -- a soulful singer, an evocative guitarist, an accomplished songwriter, and a skillful bandleader. He's often compared to the legendary B.B. King -- as well as Bobby "Blue" Bland -- for the way his signature style combines soul, blues, and R&B, a mixture that helped make him one of the biggest-selling bluesmen of the '60s (even if he's not as well-remembered as King). As time progressed, his music grew more and more orchestrated, with strings and horns galore. He maintained a steadily active recording career all the way from his 1953 debut on Sam Phillips' legendary Sun label, with his stunning longevity including notable stints at Chess (where he found his greatest commercial success), Stax, and Malaco.
James Milton Campbell was born September 7, 1934, in the small Delta town of Inverness, MS, and grew up in Greenville. (He would later legally drop the "James" after learning of a half-brother with the same name.) His father Big Milton, a farmer, was a local blues musician, and Milton also grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry radio program. At age 12, he began playing the guitar and saved up money from odd jobs to buy his own instrument from a mail-order catalog. By 15, he was performing for pay in local clubs and bars, influenced chiefly by T-Bone Walker but also by proto-rock & roll jump blues shouters. He made a substantial impression on other area musicians, even getting a chance to back Sonny Boy Williamson II, and caught the attention of R&B great Ike Turner, who was doubling as a talent scout for Sam Phillips at Sun. Turner introduced the still-teenaged Little Milton to Phillips, who signed him to a contract in 1953. With Turner's band backing him, Milton's Sun sides tried a little bit of everything -- he hadn't developed a signature style as of yet, but he did have a boundless youthful energy that made these early recordings some of his most exciting and rewarding. Unfortunately, none of them were hits, and Milton's association with Sun was over by the end of 1954. He set about forming his own band, which waxed one single for the small Meteor label in 1957, before picking up and moving to St. Louis in 1958.
In St. Louis, Milton befriended DJ Bob Lyons, who helped him record a demo in a bid to land a deal on Mercury. The label passed, and the two set up their own label, christened Bobbin. Little Milton's Bobbin singles finally started to attract some more widespread attention, particularly "I'm a Lonely Man," which sold 60,000 copies despite being the very first release on a small label. As head of A&R, Milton brought artists like Albert King and Fontella Bass into the Bobbin fold, and with such a high roster caliber, the label soon struck a distribution arrangement with the legendary Chess Records. Milton himself switched over to the Chess subsidiary Checker in 1961, and it was there that he would settle on his trademark soul-inflected, B.B. King-influenced style. Initially a moderate success, Milton had his big breakthrough with 1965's "We're Gonna Make It," which hit number one on the R&B charts thanks to its resonance with the civil rights movement. "We're Gonna Make It" kicked off a successful string of R&B chart singles that occasionally reached the Top Ten, highlighted by "Who's Cheating Who?," "Grits Ain't Groceries," "If Walls Could Talk," "Baby I Love You," and "Feel So Bad," among others.

The death of Leonard Chess in 1969 threw his label into disarray, and Little Milton eventually left Checker in 1971 and signed with the Memphis-based soul label Stax (also the home of his former protégé Albert King). At Stax, Milton began expanding his studio sound, adding bigger horn and string sections and spotlighting his soulful vocals more than traditional blues. Further hits followed in songs like "Annie Mae's Cafe," "Little Bluebird," "That's What Love Will Make You Do," and "Walkin' the Back Streets and Cryin'," but generally not with the same magnitude of old. Stax went bankrupt in 1975, upon which point Little Milton moved to the TK/Glades label, which was better known for its funk and disco acts. His recordings there were full-blown crossover affairs, which made "Friend of Mine" a minor success, but that label soon went out of business as well. Milton spent some time in limbo; he recorded one album for MCA in 1983 called Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number, and the following year found a home with Malaco, which sustained the careers of quite a few old-school Southern soul and blues artists. During his tenure at Malaco, Milton debuted the song that would become his latter-day anthem, the bar band staple "The Blues Is Alright," which was also widely popular with European blues fans. Milton recorded frequently and steadily for Malaco, issuing 13 albums under their aegis by the end of the millennium. In 1988, he won the W.C. Handy Award for Blues Entertainer of the Year, and was also inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

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Little Milton - For Real

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:19
Size: 106.0 MB
Styles: R&B, Soul, Chicago blues
Year: 1998/2005
Art: Front

[3:26] 1. Big Boned Woman
[3:59] 2. He Saw An Opening
[3:49] 3. I'd Rather Be With You
[3:29] 4. What Our Love Needs
[3:32] 5. Hurts Me Too
[4:48] 6. A Rainy Night In Georgia
[3:58] 7. To Love Somebody
[5:20] 8. Blues For Mr. C
[5:09] 9. If That's What You Wanna' Do
[4:58] 10. I'd Rather Go Blind
[3:46] 11. Tear This House Down Tonight

For Real is another strong soul/blues cocktail served up by Little Milton, although it runs a bit heavy in the ballad department. Granted, Milton is plenty versatile enough to adopt the sentimental croon required to cover "To Love Somebody" and "A Rainy Night in Georgia," but he's really at his best when he's tearing into the blues with a guitar in his hands. Two slow blues numbers steal the show here: "Blues for Mr. C," which is a straightforward 12-bar burner, and "If That's What You Wanna Do," which rides a slicker, urban groove in the circa-'70s Albert King tradition. (These two songs are the only originals on the entire album.) The more upbeat R&B material on For Real generally hits its mark, albeit with a thick coat of production polish that could have used some thinning out. Not exactly the cream of the crop of his work on Malaco, but this album gets the job done. ~Ken Chang

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Little Milton - Think Of Me

Size: 105,1 MB
Time: 45:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Blues Soul
Art: Full

01. Gonna Find Me Somebody To Love (3:27)
02. Let Your Love Rain Down On Me (3:47)
03. The Blues Is My Companion (6:03)
04. Something Wonderful (3:17)
05. Gone With The Wind (3:35)
06. I'll Be (3:29)
07. Next To You (2:49)
08. Think Of Me (Thinking Of You) (3:50)
09. Reconsider Me (3:22)
10. Second Hand Love (4:08)
11. Feel Like A Man (3:30)
12. That's Where It´s At (4:04)

For his debut Telarc Blues release, Little Milton continues in the soul-blues vein he helped to popularize starting with his work for the Chess label in the mid-'60s. His impassioned vocals are as strong as ever with guitar chops to match. The 12 tracks that make up Think of Me could be likened to a classic Stax production sans the driving horn section. The first-rate work of organist Bruce Katz keeps the proceedings percolating through Little Milton's soul-blues base liberally mixed with flourishes of country music, swamp pop, R&B, and urban funk. Any fan of Little Milton's Malaco releases of the '80s and '90s will definitely want to add this to his collection. ~Review by Al Campbell

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Little Milton - Reality

Year: 1991
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:37
Size: 107,3 MB
Styles: Blues, soul
Scans: Full

1. A Right To Sing The Blues (6:42)
2. That's The Way I Feel About It (4:22)
3. I've Got To Remember (4:06)
4. I Want My Baby Back (4:12)
5. Walkin' On Thin Ice (3:53)
6. I'm Jealous Of Her Husband (4:30)
7. Angel (4:54)
8. I'm Gonna Give It Up (5:23)
9. You Better Change Your Ways (4:44)
10. You Left A Goldmine For A Golddigger (3:48)

Some blues enthusiasts would have us believe that Little Milton's heavily arranged Malaco dates have paled in comparison to his Sun, Chess, and Stax output, but in fact, they've been consistent and generally quite enjoyable. The thing is that they have as much to do with soul and R&B as they do with actual 12-bar blues, and if you're a blues purist who isn't comfortable with the idea of Milton recording a lot of songs that would have been appropriate for the O'Jays or the Dramatics in the 1970s, it's best to pass on Reality.

However, if you hold blues and '70s soul in equally high regard, you should find the CD appealing. Milton shows how gutsy a bluesman he can be on 12-bar songs like "A Right to Sing the Blues" and "I'm Jealous of Her Husband", but he's equally convincing on the '70s-type soul of "I Want My Baby Back", "I've Got to Remember", and Bobby Womack's "That's the Way I Feel About It". Milton never claimed to be a purist, and Reality points to the fact that he is anything but. /Alex Henderson, AllMusic

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Bob Corritore And Friends - Harmonica Blues

Year: 2010
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:34
Size: 142,8 MB
Styles: Harmonica Blues
Scans: Full

1. What Kind Of Man Is This? (4:18)
2. Tell Me 'Bout It (4:09)
3. Things You Do (3:01)
4. Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes (2:50)
5. 1815 West Roosevelt (3:58)
6. That's All Right (3:17)
7. Tin Pan Alley (5:30)
8. Sundown San Diego (3:50)
9. That's My Baby (4:42)
10. Things Have Changed (3:09)
11. Big Fat Mama (3:51)
12. No More Doggin' (4:24)
13. Bumble Bee (3:37)
14. I Need To Be Be'd With (3:32)
15. 6 Bits In Your Dollar (7:20)

Over two-plus decades, Bob Corritore has become one of the most reliable sidemen as a talented blues harmonica player, popular with younger musicians and veterans. This compilation features Corritore in a variety of settings over that 20-year period, with all-star bluesmen galore. Each track singles out his exploits with such notable blues legends as Koko Taylor, Louisiana Red, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Eddy Clearwater, Henry Gray, Pinetop Perkins, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, and Little Milton among countless others.

There's no way to pick the best songs (they're all great) unless you favor certain types of blues from boogie, choogling struts, or rough-edged, down-and-dirty Southside Chicago shouts. The funniest track is Nappy Brown's feature "Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes," sung in a deep, ribald manner. In an ultimately classic style, vocalist Lockwood and pianist Gray team up on "That's All Right," while Clearwater takes the cake on an upbeat and joyous "That's My Baby." The lesser known Chief Schabuttie Gilliame cops Howlin' Wolf during "No More Doggin'" and "Tell Me 'Bout It" whiles Louisiana Red comes closest to the immortal style of Muddy Waters.

Throughout is Corritore's biting, literate, clean harmonica playing that fortifies, glues together, and inspires these-well known artists. Nothing less than a fantastic collection of authentic American music, Harmonica Blues is a must-have item for any fan of this music. /Michael G. Nastos, AllMusic

(See booklet for recording info and personnel details.)

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Little Milton - Walkin' The Backstreets

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:55
Size: 89.1 MB
Styles: Soul-blues
Year: 1981/2015
Art: Front

[6:17] 1. Walking The Back Streets And Crying
[3:26] 2. Before The Honeymoon
[3:46] 3. Somebody's Tears
[5:43] 4. Blue Monday
[3:53] 5. Married Woman
[5:01] 6. Eight Men, Four Women
[3:57] 7. Open The Door To Your Heart
[3:39] 8. Letter Full Of Tears
[3:10] 9. Bet You I'll Win

Little Milton made his last batch of great studio recordings for the legendary Stax label during the early '70s, releasing the studio sets Waiting for Little Milton and Blues 'N Soul, live outings like What it Is, and a clutch of excellent 45s. Walking the Back Streets, released years after his stint with the label had ended, gathers cuts that didn't appear on the full-length albums. For his backing band, Stax provided linchpins from their typically excellent pool of session players. These included guitarists Michael Toles and Bobby Manuel, drummer Willie Hall, keyboard player Lester Snell, and, of course, the Memphis Horns. Though Milton failed to offer a great deal of fresh material during the period, this was hardly a problem, as the singer has always been an exceptional interpreter of the blues in general. Most of the songs selected here are excellent vehicles for displaying both his vocal and guitar prowess. The title track, a slice of smoldering blues driven by exquisite musicianship, still stands out. Not many instrumentalists are capable of deferring to a frontman and displaying ample chops at the same time, the way Manuel, Toles, and Snell are here. The mix enhances this fact perfectly: the rhythm guitarists split between left and right channels, Snell in between but set back in the spectrum, and Milton himself slicing away up front. The band slip into smoky blues funk on the excellent "Somebody's Tears," while "Open the Door to Your Heart," "Letter Full of Tears," and "Bet You I'll Win" all capture the singer in a soulful mood. An excellent set. ~Nathan Bush

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Little Milton - Grits Ain't Groceries (Live)

Year: 1972/1984
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s (from Flac)
Time: 38:50
Size: 89,5 MB
Styles: Soul-blues, soul
Scans: Full

1. Let Me Down Easy (7:02)
2. Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around The World) (2:48)
3. Blind Man (8:51)
4. I Can't Quit You Baby (7:45)
5. That's What Love Will Make You Do (5:00)
6. Walking The Back Streets And Crying (7:20)

After his career-defining tenure at Chess Records in the 1960s, Little Milton moved to Stax in the '70s. Interestingly, one of the first recordings Milton made for Stax was part of the 1972 Watts Summer Festival in Los Angeles. While top names on the Stax roster (Isaac Hayes, etc.) played at the L.A. Coliseum, the label set several of their stars up at the nearby Summit Club. Grits Ain't Groceries is taken from Milton's performance at the Summit, and finds the artist's searing guitar and impassioned, bluesy singing in top form.

Milton is backed here by horns and a hard-driving rhythm section that add brassy punctuation in classic Stax style. Milton's signature sound, established at Chess, was a fusion of blues and soul that owed a debt to B.B. King and Bobby "Blue" Bland, though Milton plays with more edge than either of those artists. That edge is on perfect display on this date. Milton's gutsy vocal performances are highlighted on the burning title track and on "Blind Man", while his guitar is as raw and in-your-face as on his early Sun singles. The energy - from both the band and the audience - is palpable on this great live session. /Anthony Tognazzini, AllMusic

(Note: This is not to be confused with the Checker album of the same name. That album is a studio album consisting of entirely different material and released in 1969. This is a live set from 1972 released on Stax.)

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