Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels

Size: 138,9 MB
Time: 59:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Blues, Rock, Country
Art: Front

01. You Can't Rule Me (4:01)
02. Bad News Blues (4:36)
03. Man Without A Soul (5:31)
04. Big Black Train (5:27)
05. Wakin' Up (4:44)
06. Pray The Devil (5:37)
07. Shadows And Doubts (6:00)
08. When The Way Gets Dark (3:26)
09. Bone Of Contention (4:04)
10. Down Past The Bottom (3:21)
11. Big Rotator (5:19)
12. Good Souls (7:35)

Three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams unabashedly takes on some of the human, social and political issues of our day with her boldest and most direct album to date, Good Souls Better Angels. During the course of her celebrated four-decade, pioneering career Williams has never rested on her laurels as she continues to push herself as a songwriter. On Good Souls Better Angels, she has much she needs to get out.

In 2014 and 2015, Williams released two critically acclaimed double albums back to back with Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone and The Ghosts Of Highway 20, respectively. Both releases found her experimenting with arrangements, vocals, song structure and personal subject matter. On Good Souls Better Angels, Williams changes course and chooses to forgo the personal and narrative-based songcraft that has become synonymous with her name and instead speaks to some of the injustices permeating our society. The new songs cut straight to the core with frank and honest commentary on domestic abuse ("Wakin' Up"), the constant barrage of news ("Bad News Blues") the dangerous, quick to judge and convict aspects of social media ("Shadows & Doubts") and the haunting reality of the "Man Without A Soul".

Williams recorded Good Souls Better Angels backed by her remarkable, long time band, featuring Butch Norton (drums), Stuart Mathis (guitar) and David Sutton (bass). The rock-solid unit propels the music with both fire and finesse, particularly on the raw blues number "You Can't Rule Me", which kicks off the album with equal parts attitude and swing.

Good Souls Better Angels also features some of Williams' most intimate and up front vocals on record. She addresses the pain of depression on the achingly beautiful "Big Black Train" and tenderly delivers a poignant song of hope with "When The Way Gets Dark". She encourages us to push forward on the path of promise and perseverance on the deeply soulful and moving album closer "Good Souls".

Good Souls Better Angels marks the first time Williams' husband/manager Tom Overby is credited as a co-writer on many of the new songs. The album was co-produced by Williams, Overby and Ray Kennedy, who last worked with Williams on her 1998 landmark album Car Wheels On A Gravel Road.

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Lucinda Williams - Happy Woman Blues

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1980
Styles: Country/Blues/Folk
Time: 35:46
Size: 82,0 MB
Covers: Full

(3:46) 1. Lafayette
(2:56) 2. I Lost It
(3:48) 3. Maria
(3:12) 4. Happy Woman Blues
(4:05) 5. King of Hearts
(2:50) 6. Rolling Along
(2:55) 7. One Night Stand
(3:53) 8. Howlin' at Midnight
(2:25) 9. Hard Road
(2:26) 10. Louisiana Man
(3:26) 11. Sharp Cutting Wings (Song to a Poet)

Lucinda Williams' first collection of original material -- recorded in 1978 with a full band -- is stunning for its mixture of blues, folk, and country traditions with her captivating, complex, and visceral approach to writing and singing. Songs like "Lafayette," "King of Hearts," and "Sharp Cutting Wings" are classics: structurally solid and emotionally intense. A gutsy, refreshingly rootsy album. -- Allmusic.

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Various - God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:29
Size: 95.0 MB
Styles: Roots, Gospel/Blues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[3:26] 1. Tom Waits - The Soul Of A Man
[3:54] 2. Lucinda Williams - It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
[3:09] 3. Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
[4:14] 4. Cowboy Junkies - Jesus Is Coming Soon
[4:40] 5. The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Mother's Children Have A Hard Time
[3:16] 6. Sinead O'connor - Trouble Will Soon Be Over
[3:51] 7. Luther Dickinson - Bye And Bye I'm Going To See The King
[4:21] 8. Lucinda Williams - God Don't Never Change
[2:47] 9. Tom Waits - John The Revelator
[3:54] 10. Maria Mckee - Let Your Light Shine On Me
[3:52] 11. Rickie Lee Jones - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground

A stunning collection of artists and performances celebrate the timeless music of legendary gospel bluesman Blind Willie Johnson. From Derek Trucks’ and Susan Tedeschi’s reverent reading of Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning to Lucinda Williams’ slide guitar-fueled lament in Nobody’s Fault But Mine, from Luther Dickinson’s spirited take on Bye And Bye I’m Going To See The King (with The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band) to Tom Waits’ virtual embodiment of Johnson himself on The Soul Of A Man and John The Revelator, this record is packed with incomparable recordings that speak as much to the greatness of the performers as they do the enduring legacy of Blind Willie Johnson.

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Boz Scaggs - A Fool To Care

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:10
Size: 119.4 MB
Styles: R&B/Soul/Blues vocals
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Rich Woman
[2:03] 2. I'm A Fool To Care
[6:14] 3. Hell To Pay
[3:39] 4. Small Town Talk
[6:24] 5. Last Tango On 16th Street
[4:12] 6. There's A Storm A Comin'
[3:36] 7. I'm So Proud
[5:41] 8. I Want To See You
[3:34] 9. High Blood Pressure
[4:16] 10. Full Of Fire
[5:08] 11. Love Don't Love Nobody
[4:20] 12. Whispering Pines

A Fool to Care may not have a concept as linear as some of Boz Scaggs' other recent albums (2013's Southern-fried Memphis, the jazz standards on 2003's But Beautiful and 2008's Speak Low), but it sure does tell a story. These 12 songs map out a concise history of American soul, with a heavy dose of New Orleans strut — including the title track (a hit for Fats Domino) and Huey "Piano" Smith's "High Blood Pressure" — and a dollop of Chicago sweetness (the Impressions' gorgeous "I'm So Proud").

Backed throughout by a stellar group of studio aces — guitarist Ray Parker Jr., bassist Willie Weeks and drummer Steve Jordan, who also produced the album — Scaggs' well-worn, textured voice deftly navigates this range of styles. His lone composition on A Fool to Care, the sly blues "Hell to Pay" ("Between the bank boys and the lawyers/I don't know where it ends"), is a sparkling duet with Bonnie Raitt, featuring her signature slide-guitar mastery. Versions of Al Green's "Full of Fire" and the Spinners' "Love Don't Love Nobody" even recall the slinky, disco-fied grit of Scaggs' 1976 smash, Silk Degrees. The wild card, though, is the album's final track, an aching duet with Lucinda Williams on the Band's "Whispering Pines." So what if it's not an R&B song? The emotion conveyed proves that, in the end, soul is where you find it. ~Alan Light

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Buick6 - Plays Well With Others

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:22
Size: 106.2 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:32] 1. Haptic Feedback
[2:59] 2. Duplo Estojo
[3:07] 3. My 2 Sense
[3:37] 4. Cuttin' Grass
[3:28] 5. Pivot Point
[3:09] 6. Cowpunk
[3:00] 7. Hush
[5:57] 8. So Much Trouble In The World (Feat. Lucinda Williams)
[4:48] 9. Soundcheck In Delaware
[4:20] 10. Righteously
[3:12] 11. Plymouth Fury
[2:29] 12. Utterlu Useless
[2:38] 13. Yeti Rail Rider

Butch, David, and Stuart started Buick 6 while working day jobs at Krispy Kreme. Butch was the cream filler, David the glazer, and Stuart was the master batter mixer. During their breaks they would sequester themselves in Butch's Ford E250 Econoline van, where they had built a small rehearsal studio, and practice/hone their special brand of instrumental music.

Many frustrating years would pass until one fateful Monday afternoon when Lucinda Williams came in, on her regular Monday donut run, and heard this "rocking" sound emanating from the van. She pulled out her cassette recorder and secretly taped some of the Buick 6 jams. She hurried home and played the music for her producer/husband, Tom Overby, who quickly surmised that something “special” was going on here. Lu and Tom spent the next few months gathering intel on these "Buick 6" guys. They would pop into Krispy Kreme every few days to study their behavior and working patterns. Lu noticed how well they worked together and was very impressed with their camaraderie. She exclaimed to Tom, "These guys should be my rock and roll band!" Tom agreed and finally contacted the International Donut Union, I.D.U. Local 969. His goal was to break the boys out of their Krispy Kreme contract. Many legal battles and negotiations ensued but finally Lu and Tom prevailed. They saved Buick 6 from the precarious world of donuts and began the task of training them to be Lucinda’s back-up band.

In 2014 Tom decided to sign them to their first record deal on "Highway 20/Thirty Tigers Records". Plays Well With Others is their first official international release as Buick 6. All the music on this disc was born out of those jams and sweat soaked days in Butch’s van. Everything is composed by the boys except for the Bob Marley classic “So Much Trouble In The World” (hauntingly sung by Ms. Lucinda Williams herself) and an evocatively delicate rendition of Lucinda’s own tune, “Righteously”.

If this shit doesn’t make you snap your fingers, tap your toes, or shake your ass…….. then you should consider some mental health options.

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Lucinda Williams - Ramblin'

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:19
Size: 101.5 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 1979/1991
Art: Front

[2:35] 1. Ramblin' On My Mind
[3:16] 2. Me And My Chauffeur
[3:35] 3. Motherless Children
[2:34] 4. Malted Milk Blues
[2:33] 5. Disgusted
[2:27] 6. Jug Band Music
[3:24] 7. Stop Breakin' Down
[3:25] 8. Drop Down Daddy
[3:04] 9. Little Darling Pal Of Mine
[3:53] 10. Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor
[3:09] 11. Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
[3:00] 12. Great Speckled Bird
[3:12] 13. You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
[4:06] 14. Satisfied Mind

The first recordings from an artist with a gift for interpreting original blues from Robert Johnson to Memphis Minnie to The Carter Family. Williams’s unmistakable sound is powerfully direct and filled with melancholy and passion.

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Little Milton - Welcome To Little Milton

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 51:28
Size: 117.8 MB
Styles: Electric Chicago blues, Rockin blues
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[4:32] 1. When The Blues Come Knockin' (with Gov't Mule)
[5:39] 2. Right To Sing The Blues
[0:30] 3. Recitation (John Sinclair)
[3:42] 4. Mother Earth (with Susan Tedeschi)
[3:45] 5. Never Trust A Woman (with Dave Alvin)
[4:07] 6. Love Hurts (with Lucinda Williams)
[3:52] 7. Gimme' My Broom (with Keb' Mo')
[3:47] 8. Two Loves (with Peter Wolf)
[3:46] 9. Lump On Your Stump
[4:21] 10. Me And My Woman (with G. Love & Special Sauce)
[3:34] 11. Some Kind Of Wonderful (with Delbert McClinton)
[9:48] 12. Can't Quit You Baby (with Gov't Mule)

Here's Little Milton's superstar album, finding the R&B legend performing duets with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Keb' Mo', Peter Wolf, Dave Alvin, Delbert McClinton, Gov't Mule, G. Love & Special Sauce, and Susan Tedeschi. By far the most interesting track is John Sinclair's recitation of "Mother Earth" preceding the duet between Milton and Tedeschi of it. While this collection of celebrity duets has its moments, one would definitely want to look elsewhere to start a Little Milton collection. ~Cub Koda

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