VA - The Specialty Story

Size: 880 MB
Time: 5:29:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Blues, R&B, Rock
Label: Specialty Records
Art: Full

CD 1:
01. The Sepia Tones - Boogie #1 (2:48)
02. The Blues Woman (Marion Abernathy) - Voo-It! Voo-It! (2:46)
03. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - Milton's Boogie (2:50)
04. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - R.M. Blues (2:58)
05. Jump Jackson Band - Rainy Day Blues (3:19)
06. The Blues Man (Roosevelt Sykes) - Ice Cream Freezer (2:58)
07. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - True Blues (2:49)
08. Joe Lutcher & His Society Cats - Rockin' Boogie (2:27)
09. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - Thrill Me (2:55)
10. Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy - Teardrop Blues (2:57)
11. Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy - Cadillac Boogie (2:38)
12. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket (2:23)
13. Camille Howard - X-Temporaneous Boogie (2:05)
14. Camille Howard - You Don't Love Me (2:13)
15. Jim Wynn - Fat Meat (2:40)
16. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - Everything I Do Is Wrong (3:00)
17. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - Hop, Skip, Jump (2:34)
18. Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy - Careful Love (2:33)
19. Big Maceo - Big City Blues (2:32)
20. Smokey Hogg - I Want A Roller (2:51)
21. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - The Hucklebuck (2:21)
22. Camille Howard - Fiesta In Old Mexico (2:27)
23. Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers - The Honeydripper (3:08)
24. Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy - Don't Put Me Down (2:55)
25. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - Information Blues (2:43)
26. Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers - Rag Mop (2:59)

CD 2:
01. Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers - Pink Champagne (3:02)
02. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - Junior Jives (2:37)
03. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - Where There Is No Love (2:49)
04. King Perry & His Pied Pipers - Everything's Gonna Be Allright Tonight (2:26)
05. Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone To Love (2:54)
06. Percy Mayfield - Strange Things Happening (2:50)
07. Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers - Little Joe's Boogie (2:51)
08. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - Oh Babe! (2:30)
09. Percy Mayfield - Lost Love (2:56)
10. Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers - Frankie Lee (2:53)
11. Percy Mayfield - What A Fool I Was (2:47)
12. Camille Howard - Money Blues (2:30)
13. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - It's Later Than You Think (2:39)
14. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - T-Town Twist (2:49)
15. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - I Have News For You (2:31)
16. Percy Mayfield - Prayin' For Your Return (2:57)
17. Amos Easton (Bumble Bee Slim) - Strange Angel (2:39)
18. Roy Milton And His Solid Senders - Best Wishes (2:42)
19. Percy Mayfield - Cry Baby (2:51)
20. Lil Greenwood - Love Will Make You A Slave (3:30)
21. Lester Williams - I Can't Lose With The Stuff I Use (2:12)
22. The Four Flames - Wheel Of Fortune (2:39)
23. Percy Mayfield - The Big Question (2:52)
24. Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy (2:30)
25. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - So Tired (3:12)
26. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - Night And Day (I Miss You So) (3:01)

CD 3:
01. Lloyd Price - Oooh Oooh Oooh (2:38)
02. Lloyd Price - Restless Heart (2:35)
03. Jesse & Marvin - Dream Girl (3:13)
04. Lloyd Price - Tell Me Pretty Baby (2:17)
05. Lloyd Price - Ain't It A Shame (2:42)
06. Frank Motley & His Crew - Frantic (2:41)
07. Alex Bradford - Too Close To Heaven (3:02)
08. The Swan Silvertones - I'm Coming Home (3:02)
09. The Pilgram Travelers - I've Got A New Home (2:29)
10. Mercy Dee Walton - One Room Country Shack (2:49)
11. Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues (2:32)
12. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - Early In The Morning (2:41)
13. H-Bomb Ferguson - She's Been Gone (2:24)
14. Floyd Dixon - Hard Living Alone (3:04)
15. Jimmy Liggins & His 3-D Music - Drunk (2:32)
16. Little Temple & His 88 - I Ate The Wrong Part (1:56)
17. Honeyboy - Bloodstains On The Wall (2:58)
18. Marvin & Johnny - Baby Doll (2:23)
19. Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used To Do (3:02)
20. Earl King - I'm Your Best Bet Baby (2:21)
21. The Chosen Gospel Singer - No Room In The Hotel (Feat. Lou Rawls) (2:22)
22. John Lee Hooker - I'm Mad (2:47)
23. Daddy Cleanhead - Something's Going On In My Room (2:13)
24. The Chimes - Zindy Lou (3:10)
25. The Soul Stirrers - One More River (Feat. Sam Cooke) (3:12)
26. Jesse Belvin - Where's My Girl (2:18)

CD 4:
01. Tony Allen & The ChampsNite Owl (2:45)
02. Little Richard - Tutti Frutti (2:24)
03. Ernest Kador - Eternity (2:13)
04. Li'l Millet & His Creoles - Rich Woman (2:37)
05. Clifton Chenier - Squeeze Box Boogie (1:58)
06. The Soul Stirrer - Touch The Hem Of His Garment (Feat. Sam Cooke) (2:04)
07. Little Richard - Long Tall Sally (2:09)
08. Little Richard - Slippin' And Slidin' (Peepin' And Hidin') (2:42)
09. Arthur Lee Maye & The Crowns - Oh-Rooba-Lee (2:05)
10. Arthur Lee Maye & The Crowns - Gloria (2:39)
11. Bob Landers - Cherokee Dance (With Willie Joe & His Unitar) (2:33)
12. Little Richard - Rip It Up (2:23)
13. Little Richard - Ready Teddy (2:09)
14. Vernon Green & The Phantoms - Sweet Breeze (2:04)
15. Roy Montrell - (Every Time I Hear That) Mellow Saxaphone (2:25)
16. Little Richard - She's Got It (2:26)
17. Little Richard - Heeby Jeebies (2:17)
18. Wynona Carr - Should I Ever Love Again (2:39)
19. Big Boy Myles & The Shaw-Wees - Just To Hold My Hand (2:11)
20. Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It (2:31)
21. Little Richard - All Around The World (2:27)
22. Art Neville - Oooh-Whee Baby (2:11)
23. Larry Williams - Just Because (2:48)
24. Little Richard - Lucille (2:25)
25. Little Richard - Send Me Some Lovin' (2:20)
26. Eugene Church - Open Up Your Heart (2:39)

CD 5:
01. Clydie King - Our Romance (2:45)
02. Little Richard - Jenny Jenny (2:04)
03. Little Richard - Miss Ann (2:16)
04. Larry Williams - Short Fat Fannie (2:25)
05. Don & Dewey - Leavin' It All Up To You (2:10)
06. Little Richard - Keep A-Knockin' (2:17)
07. Larry Williams - Bony Moronie (3:08)
08. Rene Hall's Orchestra - Twitchy (Feat. Willie Joe) (2:25)
09. Sam Cooke - I'll Come Running Back To You (2:13)
10. Little Richard - Good Golly, Miss Molly (2:11)
11. Larry Williams - Slow Down (2:44)
12. Larry Williams - Dizzy, Miss Lizzy (2:13)
13. Don & Dewey - Justine (2:06)
14. Little Richard - True Fine Mama (2:43)
15. Little Richard - Ooh! My Soul (1:54)
16. Jerry Byrne - Lights Out (1:53)
17. The Soul Stirrers - The Love Of God (Feat. Johnnie Taylor) (2:11)
18. Don & Dewey - Koko Joe (2:13)
19. Little Richard - Baby Face (2:16)
20. Roddy Jackson - There's A Moose On The Loose (2:11)
21. Johnny Fuller - Haunted House (2:32)
22. Larry Williams - She Said Yeah (1:51)
23. Larry Williams - Bad Boy (2:18)
24. Don & Dewey - Farmer John (2:30)
25. Don & Dewey - Big Boy Pete (2:21)
26. Little Richard - Bama Lama Bama Loo (2:13)

Label-owner Art Rupe was a savvy businessman who knew the black jukebox industry and what made it tick when he started his Specialty label in the late-'40s. This sumptuous five-disc box set contains a bevy of highlights from this seminal R&B/rock & roll label. Over the years, Rupe recorded a little bit of everything; early big band jump (the Liggins brothers), down-home blues and zydeco (Guitar Slim, Frankie Lee Sims, Clifton Chenier), gospel (early Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers), and doo wop (the Pentagons, Jesse Belvin). But with the discovery of the label's biggest star, Little Richard, in 1955, here is where the real story of rock & roll begins. A box set that no lover of the real thing can be without. ~Cub Koda

The Specialty Story Part 1
The Specialty Story Part 2
Track 1 CD 4

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Little Richard - Directly From My Heart: The Best Of The Specialty & Vee-Jay Years

Size: 363 MB
Time: 151:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Rock, Blues, R&B
Art: Front & Back

CD 1:
01. Lonesome And Blue (2:16)
02. Wonderin' (2:57)
03. All Night Long (2:12)
04. Maybe I'm Right (2:07)
05. Directly From My Heart (2:17)
06. Baby (2:03)
07. I’m Just A Lonely Guy (All Alone) (2:36)
08. Tutti Frutti (2:23)
09. Chicken Little Baby (1:58)
10. True, Fine Mama (2:41)
11. Kansas City (2:38)
12. Wonderin' - With Overdubs (2:48)
13. Slippin’ And Slidin’ (Peepin’ And Hidin’) (2:42)
14. Long Tall Sally (The Thing) (2:07)
15. Miss Ann (2:15)
16. The Most I Can Offer (Just My Heart) (2:19)
17. Oh Why? (2:07)
18. Heeby-Jeebies Love (2:09)
19. I Got It - Remastered (2:19)
20. Ready Teddy (2:07)
21. Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey (2:05)
22. Rip It Up (2:21)

CD 2:
01. Lucille (2:23)
02. Heeby-Jeebies (2:13)
03. All Around The World (2:19)
04. Shake A Hand (2:50)
05. Can't Believe You Wanna Leave (2:25)
06. She's Got It (2:24)
07. Jenny, Jenny (2:01)
08. Good Golly, Miss Molly (2:08)
09. Baby Face (2:09)
10. The Girl Can't Help It (2:29)
11. By The Light Of The Silvery Moon (2:04)
12. Send Me Some Lovin' (2:17)
13. Keep A Knockin' (2:17)
14. Ooh! My Soul (2:06)
15. I'll Never Let You Go (Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo) (2:17)
16. Early One Morning (2:13)
17. She Knows How To Rock (1:59)
18. Whole Lotta Shakin' (1:52)
19. Bama Lama Bama Loo (2:12)
20. Poor Boy Paul (2:01)
21. Annie Is Back (1:57)

CD 3:
01. Goin' Home Tomorrow (3:09)
02. Goodnight Irene (1:56)
03. Money Honey (2:17)
04. Lawdy Miss Claudy (2:17)
05. Blueberry Hill (1:44)
06. Cherry Red (2:33)
07. Only You (2:22)
08. Memories Are Made Of This (2:10)
09. Groovy Little Suzy (2:13)
10. Short Fat Fanny (2:06)
11. Cross Over (2:40)
12. My Wheels Are Slippin' All The Way (2:23)
13. It Ain't Whatcha Do (It's The Way How You Do It) (2:19)
14. Something Moves In My Heart (2:11)
15. Without Love (3:16)
16. Dance What You Wanna (2:15)
17. Talkin' 'bout Soul (2:07)
18. Dancing All Around The World (2:55)
19. You'd Better Stop (3:04)
20. I Don't Know What You've Got But It's Got Me (4:04)
21. Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used To Do) (3:06)

Little Richard quit rock & roll in 1957, just two years after "Tutti Frutti" turned him into a blazing star. He'd return to rock & roll a few years later but his speedy retreat to the church established an arc that would replay itself throughout his career: incendiary hedonism followed by repentance. This swift reversal certainly affected Richard's career in the short-term -- Art Rupe had no choice but to issue outtakes, sometimes polishing them for mass consumption, as when he turned "Keep A-Knockin'" into a raging thunderstorm -- but also the long, as it interrupted his seemingly unstoppable momentum and wound up muddying history, obscuring how his run at Specialty was a meteoric 18 months, a brief burst of brilliance that maybe was destined to flame out. Almost all of Richard's legacy, not to mention the lion's share of his compilations, is based on these 18 months but Specialty/Concord's 2015 triple-disc box Directly from My Heart: The Best of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years adds the sessions he recorded with Rupe after returning to Specialty in 1962, along with his 1964 and 1965 sides for Vee-Jay Records. This, along with some of the slower numbers from Richard's two Specialty '50s LPs, adds depth and dimension; it also turns this box into essentially The Complete Specialty and Vee-Jay Masters of Little Richard, since the only missing track out of all the singles and albums is an early '60s version of "Hound Dog," which is hardly a great loss. Remarkably, this is the first extensive box covering both Specialty and Vee-Jay to ever be released. Prior Specialty boxes dug deep into alternate takes, all good, but sometimes that played like an overdose of cayenne in chili: the strong spice overwhelmed any subtlety of the flavors. Here, it's possible to hear traces of Richard's softer early blues and gospel roots, then there are the '60s sides, where Richard relaxes and gets deeply soulful while also wildly reinventing '50s standards like "Blueberry Hill" and "Only You," turning Hank Williams' "Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)" into proto-funk. No other Little Richard set found room for these detours and they do him a considerable favor, showing the range that extended far beyond his trademark wallop and woo, and while his legacy still rests on that astonishing fireball at Specialty -- a time that started with "Tutti Frutti," contained "Slippin' and Slidin'," "Long Tall Sally," "Ready Teddy," "Rip It Up," "Lucille," "Good Golly Miss Molly," and "The Girl Can't Help It," and ended with "Keep A-Knockin'" -- it's instructive to listen beyond the hits because it shows just how good Little Richard really was. ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Directly From My Heart

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VA - The Cosimo Matassa Story Vol. 2: Gumbo Ya Ya

Size: 156.6+154,1+169,9+175,6 MB
Time: 65:37+64:33+71:27+73:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: R&B, Rock & Roll
Art: Front & Back

CD 1: One Night
01. Dave Bartholomew - Four Winds (2:25)
02. Smiley Lewis - One Night (2:20)
03. Fats Domino - I Can't Go On (2:15)
04. Fats Domino - Bo Weevil (2:10)
05. Dave Bartholomew - Shrimp And Gumbo (2:08)
06. The Spiders - Witchcraft (2:40)
07. Lloyd Price - Woe Ho Ho (2:24)
08. Little Richard - Miss Ann (2:20)
09. Smiley Lewis - She's Got Me Hook, Line And Sinker (2:29)
10. Roland Cook - Tell Me Baby (2:40)
11. Roland Cook - Hear My Plea (2:16)
12. Bobby Marchan - Chickee-Wah-Wah (2:20)
13. Bobby Marchan - Don't Take Your Love From Me (2:21)
14. Fats Domino - When My Dreamboat Comes Home (2:21)
15. Little Richard - Lucille (2:28)
16. Little Richard - All Around The World (1:57)
17. Little Richard - Shake A Hand (2:54)
18. Smiley Lewis - Mama Don't Like It (2:39)
19. Bobby Charles - Laura Lee (2:13)
20. Little Richard - Jenny Jenny (2:07)
21. Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly (2:14)
22. Little Richard - Baby Face (2:18)
23. Little Richard - By The Light Of The Silvery Moon (2:11)
24. Little Richard - Send Me Some Lovin' (2:22)
25. Sugar Boy Crawford - She's Got A Wobble (When She Walks) (2:15)
26. Fats Domino - I'm Walkin' (2:06)
27. Tommy Ridgley - When I Meet My Girl (2:11)
28. Bobby Marchan - Rockin' Behind The Iron Curtain (2:20)

CD 2: Rockin' Pneumonia
01. Huey 'Piano' Smith & The Clowns - Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (2:16)
02. Huey 'Piano' Smith & The Clowns - Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (Pt. 2) (2:23)
03. Charles 'Hungry' Williams - Darling (2:21)
04. Charles 'Hungry' Willians - So Worried (2:15)
05. Lee Allen - Walkin' With Mr. Lee (2:26)
06. Lee Allen - Tic Toc (2:36)
07. Paul Gayten - Nervous Boogie (2:22)
08. Shirley & Lee - Rockin' With The Clock (2:39)
09. Eddie Bo - Walk That Walk (1:50)
10. T.V. Slim - Flatfoot Sam (2:14)
11. Paul Gayten - Tired Of Cryin' (2:57)
12. Paul Gayten - Just One More Chance (2:03)
13. Bobby Mitchell - I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday (2:06)
14. Allen Toussaint - Java (1:57)
15. Little Booker - Teenage Rock (1:53)
16. Jerry Byrne - Lights Out (1:55)
17. Paul Gayten - Windy (1:47)
18. Joe Tex - You Little Baby Face Thing (2:26)
19. Art Neville - Zing, Zing (2:04)
20. Art Neville - Cha Dooky-Doo (2:42)
21. Eddie Bo - Oh, Oh (2:29)
22. Huey 'Piano' Smith & The Clowns - Don't You Just Know It (2:33)
23. Huey 'Piano' Smith & The Clowns - Don't You Know Yockomo (2:28)
24. Jimmy Clanton & His Rockets - Just A Dream (2:32)
25. Art Neville - What's Going On (2:03)
26. Art Neville - Arabian Love Call (2:25)
27. Fats Domino - Whole Lotta Lovin' (1:42)
28. Jimmy Clanton - A Letter To An Angel (2:53)

CD 3: Sea Cruise
01. Frankie Ford - Sea Cruise (2:47)
02. Frankie Ford - Roberta (2:28)
03. Eddie Bo - I Love To Rock 'n' Roll (2:27)
04. Lee Allen - Creole Alley (2:30)
05. Huey Smith & His Clowns - Would You Believe It (I Have A Cold) (2:22)
06. Joe & Ann - Gee Baby (2:52)
07. Frankie Ford - Alimony (2:25)
08. Fats Domino - I Want To Walk You Home (2:24)
09. Earl King - Everybody's Carried Away (2:17)
10. Johnny Adams - I Won't Cry (2:20)
11. Alvin 'Red' Tyler - Snake Eyes (2:30)
12. Mac Rebennack - Storm Warning (3:21)
13. Fats Domino - Be My Guest (2:05)
14. Charles Brown - Educated Fool (2:22)
15. Professor Longhair - Go To The Mardi Gras (2:56)
16. Joe Jones - You Talk Too Much (2:34)
17. Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Pts. 1 & 2) (4:28)
18. Jessie Hill - Whip It On Me (2:22)
19. Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns - For Crying' Out Loud (2:35)
20. Lee Dorsey - Lottie Mo (2:39)
21. Aaron Neville - Over You (2:18)
22. Frankie Ford - What's Goin' On (2:02)
23. Frankie Ford - Chinese Bandits (2:04)
24. Ernie K. Doe - Mother-In-Law (2:29)
25. Fats Domino - Walking To New Orleans (2:02)
26. Roy Montrell - Mudd (2:39)
27. Aaron Neville - Show Me The Way (2:33)
28. Big Boy Miles - New Orleans (2:22)

CD 4: It Will Stand
1. Aaron Neville - Even Though (Reality) (2:40)
02. Fats Domino - My Girl Josephine (2:08)
03. Irma Thomas - Cry On (2:30)
04. Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That (1:59)
05. Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - But I Do (2:23)
06. Ernie K. Doe - Ta-Ta-Te-Ta-Ta (2:43)
07. Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - You Always Hurt The One You Love (2:31)
08. Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - Lonely Street (2:14)
09. Alvin 'Red' Tyler & The Gyros - Peanut Vendor (2:09)
10. Alvin 'Red' Tyler & The Gyros - Junk Village (2:33)
11. Fats Domino - Let The Four Winds Blow (2:04)
12. Irma Thomas - It's Too Soon To Know (3:38)
13. Aaron Neville - Let's Live (2:41)
14. Chris Kenner - Something You Got (2:52)
15. Ernie K. Doe - I Cried My Last Tear (2:15)
16. Ernie K. Doe - A Certain Girl (2:48)
17. Diamond Joe - Moanin' And Screamin' (Pts. 1 & 2) (6:44)
18. Willie Harper - New Kind Of Love (2:20)
19. Joe Barry - I'm A Fool To Care (2:22)
20. Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya (2:28)
21. The Showmen - It Will Stand (2:18)
22. The Showmen - Country Fool (1:55)
23. Joe (Mr.G) August - Everything Happens At Night (2:36)
24. Lee Dorsey - Do-Re-Mi (2:15)
25. The Del-Royals - Always Naggin' (2:43)
26. Jessie Hill - Oogsey Moo (2:47)
27. Barbara George - I Know (2:22)
28. Barbara George - Something You Got (2:45)

A staggering 112 song collection of music recorded by the person who put New Orleans on the musical map and helped launch the careers of many famous artists.

Cosimo Matassa recorded nearly all the New Orleans R & B and Rock 'N' Roll classics that emanated from one of his four recording studios during the Crescent City's golden age.

Encompassing artists like Little Richard, Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, Art Neville, Huey 'Piano' Smith and many more, this 4CD compilation is bursting with monster hits that shaped the music of today.

The Cosimo Matassa Story Vol. 2 Part 1
The Cosimo Matassa Story Vol. 2 Part 2

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Various - The Best Of Duke-Peacock Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:25
Size: 115.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Blues
Year: 1992
Art: Front

[2:45] 1. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - My Time Is Expensive
[2:41] 2. Elmore Nixon - A Hepcat's Advice
[2:43] 3. Big Mama Thornton - Let Your Tears Fall Baby
[3:02] 4. Earl Forest - Whoopin' And Hollerin'
[2:31] 5. Johnny Ace - How Can You Be So Mean
[2:47] 6. Rosco Gordon - Keep On Doggin'
[2:45] 7. Andrew Tibbs - Rock Savoy Rock
[2:50] 8. Sonny Parker - She Sets My Soul On Fire
[2:41] 9. Memphis Slim - Living Like A King
[2:48] 10. Little Richard - Little Richard's Boogie
[2:23] 11. Peter Guitar Lewis - Goin' Crazy
[2:35] 12. Little Junior Parker - Drivin' Wheel
[2:40] 13. Larry Davis - Texas Flood
[2:45] 14. Fenton Robinson - Mississippi Steamboat
[2:54] 15. James Davis - Blue Monday
[2:39] 16. Otis Rush - Homework
[4:09] 17. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Stormy Monday Blues
[2:38] 18. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Turn On Your Love Light

Interesting collection of sides from this seminal Texas label. Highlights includes tracks by Bobby Bland ("Stormy Monday," "Turn On Your Lovelight"), Otis Rush ("Homework"), Junior Parker "Driving Wheel"), and Larry Davis' original version of "Texas Flood," made popular to a new audience by Stevie Ray Vaughan. ~Cub Koda

The Best Of Duke-Peacock Blues mc
The Best Of Duke-Peacock Blues zippy

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Percy Mayfield - Specialty Profiles (2-Disc set)

Percy Mayfield was blessed with an emotive Louisiana baritone and a poet's sensibility to sadness and pain, and few songwriters in the history of pop or R&B have written a body of work so drenched in beautiful suffering. This set features Mayfield's major hits for Art Rupe's Specialty Records, a label that Mayfield recorded for from 1950 until 1954 before leaving for Chess Records (the bonus disc included here is simply a sampler for other artists who recorded for Specialty). Given depth and atmosphere by Maxwell Davis' saxophone textures, songs like "Cry Baby" and "Please Send Me Someone to Love" were carefully written R&B symphonies to the harsh realities and downside of romance, and at times that downside morphed into relentless darkness, as is the case with the excessively maudlin "The River's Invitation," which is just this side of a melodic suicide note. Also here is the wonderful (and relatively upbeat) "Louisiana" as well as Mayfield's original version of his signature song, "Hit the Road Jack," which Ray Charles would cover and turn into a huge hit. In all, this makes a nice introduction to Mayfield's early work and spotlights his considerable skill as a songwriter. He fell in love with sadness, Mayfield said, because there was more truth in it. ~Steve Leggett

Album: Specialty Profiles (Disc 1)
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:33
Size: 81.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Urban blues
Year: 2006

[2:51] 1. Please Send Me Someone To Love
[2:47] 2. Strange Things Happening
[2:53] 3. Lost Love (Baby, Please)
[2:44] 4. What A Fool I Was
[2:48] 5. Cry Baby
[2:54] 6. Prayin' For Your Return
[2:02] 7. Louisiana
[2:48] 8. The Big Question
[2:50] 9. The River's Invitation
[1:54] 10. Loose Lips
[2:31] 11. Sugar Mama-Peachy Mama
[2:29] 12. Memory Pain
[2:25] 13. Nightless Lover
[1:30] 14. Hit The Road Jack

mc
zippy

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Album: Specialty Profiles (Disc 2)
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 26:00
Size: 59.6 MB
Styles: R&B, Assorted blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[2:56] 1. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - R.M. Blues
[2:59] 2. Joe Liggins - Pink Champagne
[2:51] 3. Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone To Love
[2:29] 4. Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy
[3:10] 5. Jesse Belvin - Dream Girl
[2:59] 6. Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used To Do
[2:07] 7. Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
[2:07] 8. Sam Cooke - I'll Come Running Back To You
[2:07] 9. Don & Dewey - Leavin' It All Up To You
[2:10] 10. Larry Williams - Dizzy Miss Lizzy

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