Lightnin' Wells - Bull Frog Blues

Size: 138,0 MB
Time: 57:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Full

01. Jump Little Chilren (3:20)
02. Bullfrog Blues (2:16)
03. Keep Your Hands Off Her (2:52)
04. Gospel Train (3:04)
05. Airplane Blues (3:22)
06. One Way Gal (3:02)
07. Spank The Baby #2 (4:33)
08. Walkin' My Troubles Away (4:10)
09. Jack And Jill Blues (3:47)
10. Bull City Rag (2:07)
11. Keep It Clean (3:30)
12. Graveyard Digger's Blues (4:13)
13. Step It Up And Go (3:09)
14. Wabash Blues (3:19)
15. Billy The Weaver (1:27)
16. How Do You Want Your Rollin' Done (3:03)
17. Your Red Wagon (2:36)
18. Sitting On Top Of The World (3:47)

Bull Frog Blues was Lightnin' Wells' first CD release on the New Moon label from 1995. It's an acoustic set featuring a variety of blues stylings with a strong emphasis on the piedmont and delta blues genres. Lightnin' is featured solo as well as backed on tracks with guest artists the Ministers Of Sinister including Max Drake (guitar, mandolin), Wezo (harmonica), Calvin Johnson (bass), and Russ Wilson (washboard). Blues veteran Big Boy Henry guests on "Spank The Baby" to help recreate a 1930s juke-joint setting.

Bull Frog Blues

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Lightnin' Wells - Oh Lightnin' Where Art Thou?

Size: 143,0 MB
Time: 60:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front & Back

01. Pallet On The Floor (3:09)
02. Love In Vain (3:23)
03. Mama Don't Allow Now (3:24)
04. Jonestown Blues (3:15)
05. New York Town (2:47)
06. Waiting For The Evening Mail (3:16)
07. Sugar Baby (2:51)
08. Try Me One More Time (3:25)
09. San Francisco Bay Blues (3:39)
10. Old Jim Kinnane's (3:03)
11. Crawling King Snake (4:23)
12. My Papa Doesn't Two Time No Time (3:01)
13. Freight Train Boogie (2:59)
14. Darling Corey (4:24)
15. Guitar Rag (3:10)
16. Down In Caroline (2:55)
17. I'm Gonna Walk On The Streets Of Glory (2:59)
18. Walking My Troubles Away (4:21)

Mike "Lightnin'" Wells brings traditions together in his entertaining, informative and down-home one-man shows. His latest album, titled O Lightnin' Where Art Thou?, displays his range as never before as he plays and sings his way through songs from early country and bluegrass to blues, gospel, and old time mountain music. Born in West Virginia and largely raised in North Carolina, Lightnin' was smitten early by the famed WWVA Jamboree radio show out of Wheeling, West Virginia. When his family moved to the Chapel Hill, North Carolina area, he discovered a rich vein of piedmont blues and old time music as well. On this episode of Across the Blue Ridge, we hear selections from the new album, plus an interview and songs from his 2016 appearance at Muddy Creek Music Hall in Winston-Salem, NC. Also on the show, a selection of classic cuts from the three most significant bands in the early history of bluegrass music: Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys; The Stanley Brothers; and Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys. There's some great old time string band music as well from The Reed Island Rounders and The Camp Creek Boys.

Oh Lightnin' Where Art Thou?

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