Mojo Buford - Mojo Workin'

Size: 76,0 MB
Time: 32:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock, Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. Help Me (4:40)
02. Blues Is A Botheration (4:54)
03. Lost Love (3:59)
04. Deep Sea Diver (5:22)
05. Love Without Jealousy (2:51)
06. Rag Picker's Blues (4:19)
07. Got My Mojo Working (4:13)
08. Stingin' Bee Blues (2:18)

A lost studio recording from a legendary blues man!

Recorded in 1969, legitimately available for the first time ever!
The bluesman's best, captured in the studio!
Buford originals and tried-and-true tunes!

Bluesman George “Mojo” Buford started blowing the harmonica in his teens, eventually linking up to tour with fellow Mississippian Muddy Waters. Adopting his nickname from ravenous crowds requesting Muddy’s “Got My Mojo Working,” Buford gained the attention of some gifted young rockers (including lead guitarist of The Trashmen!), who steered him into the studio for three smokin’ ‘69 sessions–the results of which we’re finally hearing for the first time!

The songs here mostly came out of Buford’s live repertoire at the time, including (of course) “Got My Mojo Working” as well as “Love Without Jealousy,” a song Buford co-wrote that would appear on Waters’ 1973 album Mud In Your Ear. Several others in the sessions were Buford originals: the 12-bar nugget “Deep Sea Diver” and the funkier workouts “Lost Love” and “Stingin’ Bee Blues.” He also covered his pal Otis Spann’s “Blues Is a Botheration” and Sonny Boy Williamson II’s “Help Me,” co-written by Willie Dixon.

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VA - Low Blows: An Anthology Of Chicago Harmonica Blues

Size: 122,9 MB
Time: 53:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Chicago Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. Big Guitar Red & Good Rockin' Charles - Found My Baby (Gone) (3:14)
02. Big Leon Brooks - Kicking Up Dust (3:18)
03. Mojo Buford - Don't Go No Farther (4:08)
04. Easy Baby - Good Morning Mr. Blues (5:20)
05. Good Rockin' Charles - She Loves Another Man (3:13)
06. Big Leon Brooks - Pink Champagne (4:11)
07. Joe Carter & Big John Wrencher - Take A Little Walk With Me (2:37)
08. Golden Wheeler - Good Lover (3:41)
09. Big Walter Horton & Carey Bell - Avenue Stomp (2:59)
10. Good Rockin' Charles - Ground Hog Blues (3:40)
11. Golden Wheeler - Evil Woman (3:37)
12. Big Leon Brooks - You Know (3:37)
13. Good Rockin' Charles - I Got To Go (3:23)
14. Good Rockin' Charles - Good Rockin' (2:02)
15. Joe Carter & Big John Wrencher - Honey Bee (4:00)

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Muddy Waters & Friends - Goin' Way Back (Remastered)

Size: 103,8 MB
Time: 44:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997/2019
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. Gypsy Woman (Remastered) (3:46)
02. Little Anna Mae (Remastered) (4:19)
03. My Home Is On The Delta (Remastered) (4:31)
04. Take A Little Walk (Remastered) (4:51)
05. Mean Disposition (Remastered) (5:49)
06. Laverne (Remastered) (2:47)
07. Leavin' In The Mornin' (Remastered) (3:34)
08. Got A Sweet Little Girl (Remastered) (3:36)
09. Bad Lovin' Trouble (Remastered) (3:41)
10. Nothin' Bother Me (Remastered) (4:06)
11. Crazy 'Bout You Baby (Remastered) (3:15)

Personnel:
Muddy Waters - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Otis Spann - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Sam Langhorn - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
George "Mojo" Buford as "John 'Mojo' Buford - Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica
Luther "Georgia Boy-Snake" Johnson - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

The acoustic-only mode of GOIN' WAY BACK recalls Muddy's similarly constructed FOLKSINGER album. GOIN' WAY BACK doesn't have FOLKSINGER's deep-seated ominousness, but the intimacy and warmth are comparable to that legendary recording. This album was recorded in a single afternoon during a 1967 Canadian tour. In between shows, Muddy and his band gathered in a living room, armed only with acoustic guitars, for a spirited walk through their collective blues memory. An interesting side-note is that legendary pianist Otis Spann is confined exclusively to guitar here, as are the other members of Muddy's group. As always, Muddy's voice is both authoritative and relaxed, and its depth and warmth find a unique resonance in this acoustic company. Hailing from a time when Muddy was prevailed upon to enter into incongruous musical realms in the name of crossover success, GOIN' WAY BACK is a unique, appealing snapshot of the acoustic Delta roots that the Chicago blues godfather never abandoned.

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Mojo Buford - Still Blowin' Strong

Year: 1996
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:13
Size: 150,3 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. Devil's Love (4:31)
2. Married Woman Blues (3:08)
3. Lonesome Highway (4:52)
4. Harp Blast (3:01)
5. Don't Say I Don't Love You (4:31)
6. Walkin' Down Beale Street (5:32)
7. Apple On A Tree (5:39)
8. Overplayed And Underpaid (4:13)
9. I Found Me A Bird Nest (6:32)
10. That Ain't The Way You Do It (3:50)
11. In My Younger Days (6:36)
12. Hand Me That Piano (2:37)
13. You Know I Love You (4:22)
14. Lena (5:43)

The various bands led by harmonica player and singer George "Mojo" Buford hark back to the classic Chicago blues sounds of the early '60s. Among harmonica players, Buford has the distinction of being the only musician to have played with various bands led by the late Muddy Waters in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, and '80s. (Waters died in April 1981.)

Buford left Mississippi for Memphis in his teens and honed his chops around Memphis before heading to Chicago in 1952. He began playing with Waters in Chicago in the late '50s, but by 1962 Buford relocated to Minneapolis, where he recorded several obscure albums for the Vernon and Folk-Art labels. He rejoined Waters' band in 1967 for a full year and then toured with him again in the early '70s, after harmonica player Jerry Portnoy left to form the Legendary Blues Band.

By 1979 Buford was recording and touring around with bands under his own name. He recorded Mojo Buford's Blues Summit in 1979 for Mr. Blues, later reissued on the Rooster Blues label, and his 1990s recordings include Still Blowin' Strong and Harpslinger, both issued in 1996 by the Blue Loon Records label; a 1998 release for British blues label JSP Records entitled State of the Blues Harp; and a 1998 stateside release, Home Is Where My Harps Is, also for Blue Loon.

More recently, he recorded a live album, Champagne & Reefer, in 1999 for New York-based Fedora Records and Chicago Blues Summit in 2002 for P-Vine Records. He continued to play until his death in October 2011. /Biography by Richard Skelly, AllMusic

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Mojo Buford - Chicago Blues Summit

Year: 1979/1982/1992
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:18
Size: 139,2 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Front, sleeve, inside, tray, cd

1. Mo's Jam (4:33)
2. Deep Sea Diver (7:26)
3. I Need You So Bad (2:46)
4. Sammy's Shuffle (5:46)
5. Worry Worry (3:53)
6. I'm So Glad (6:05)
7. Devil's Love Sin (2:37)
8. St. James Infirmary (3:23)
9. Sonny's Blues (4:00)
10. Don't Go No Farther (4:12)
11. Windy City Blues (3:39)
12. Watch Dog (4:08)
13. Mean Old World (3:26)
14. Blues For Georgia Boy (4:20)

Mojo Buford in the company of guitarists Smokey Smothers, Pee Wee Madison, Sammy Lawhorn and Sonny Rogers. Chicago blues at its best. /Cub Koda, AllMusic

Personnel: George 'Mojo' Buford (harmonica, vocals); Sammy Lawhorn (guitar, vocals); James 'Pee Wee' Madison (guitar, vocals); Oliver 'Sonny' Rogers (guitar, vocals); Abe 'Smokey' Smothers (guitar, vocals); Earnest Johnson (bass); Sam Lay (drums).

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Mojo Buford - Champagne & Reefer

Year: 1999
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:26
Size: 130,5 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. Champagne And Reefer (4:36)
2. Introduction By Bob Margolin (1:02)
3. Blow Wind Blow (4:56)
4. Long Distance Call (4:14)
5. Rollin' And Tumblin' (3:24)
6. Wee Wee Baby (4:55)
7. Birdnest On The Ground (5:06)
8. Don't Go No Further (2:47)
9. My Own Fault Darling (6:10)
10. You're Gonna Drive Me Away (7:25)
11. Honey Bee (4:09)
12. Nine Below Zero (3:32)
13. Big Leg Woman (4:04)

A member of the second generation of Chicago blues harpists, Mojo Buford bellows with barrel-chested authority on Champagne & Reefer. Captured live at The Rhythm Room in Phoenix, the Muddy Waters alumni pays tribute to his former mentor on Muddy originals like “Blow Wind Blow,” “Rollin’ and Tumblin’,” “Long Distance Call,” “Honey Bee” and the title track.

Guitarist Bob Margolin, himself a veteran of the Muddy Waters band, supplies authentic Chicago blues accompaniment alongside Phoenix blues musicians Johnny Rapp on guitar, Paul Thomas on upright bass and Chico Chism on drums. /JazzTimes

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Mojo Buford - State Of The Blues Harp (Remastered)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:19
Size: 149.5 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[5:09] 1. Picking Rags
[3:40] 2. Groundhog Blues
[6:40] 3. Mo's Stroll
[6:28] 4. Jealous Of My Baby
[4:03] 5. I'm A Bluesman
[4:52] 6. I Wanna Know
[3:50] 7. Jack Potato Boogie
[5:29] 8. Come Home Baby
[3:42] 9. Big Leg Woman
[4:34] 10. Watch Dog
[4:18] 11. Jealous Of My Baby (Bbc Radio Version)
[3:56] 12. Mo's Stroll (Bbc Radio Version)
[5:26] 13. Deep Sea Diver (Bbc Radio Version)
[3:06] 14. Picking Rags (Bbc Radio Version)

Mojo called out Everything's Gonna Be Alright, Richard Studholme slipped into that famous guitar intro, Mojo grinned his grin and everything was definitely going to be all right. Mojo and the band gelled immediately. There is chemistry here. Richard had already contributed to several JSP sessions and his long experience on the New York scene was invaluable. Time on the road knocked the material into shape before recording commenced. Mojo Buford was a harp player most famous for his association with Muddy Waters - but there was much, much more to the man than that - as this album shows. The majority of the tracks here were recorded in a small North London studio and the balance at the BBC. Both reveal an energy, expertise and artistry that seems to be passing with Mojo's generation of bluesmen.

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VA - Harpin' On It: A Blues Harmonica Anthology (Remastered)

Size: 173,6 MB
Time: 73:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. Mojo Buford - Picking Rags (5:12)
02. Mojo Buford - Deep Sea Diver (4:11)
03. Mojo Buford - Crawdad Hole (2:42)
04. Mojo Buford - In My Younger Days (3:20)
05. Little Mac - Home Work (2:18)
06. Johnny Mars - Johnny's Groove (6:35)
07. Jew Town Burks - Low Down Dog (2:59)
08. Jew Town Burks - From Greenwood Mississippi To Chicago (4:45)
09. Jew Town Burks - Partnership Woman (4:24)
10. Big John Wrencher - Now Darlin' (3:20)
11. Billy Branch - Hoochie Coochie (4:12)
12. Easy Baby - Good Morning Mr. Blues (3:14)
13. Jew Town Burks - Minnie Sue (4:30)
14. Jew Town Burks - Must I Holler (5:21)
15. Jew Town Burks - Operator (3:42)
16. Doc Terry - Dr. Boogie (3:18)
17. Doc Terry - Things Can't Stay The Same (4:24)
18. Hot Shot Love - Harmonica Boogie (2:24)
19. Hot Shot Love - Go Back Home (2:28)

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Mojo Buford - Harpslinger

Size: 154,6 MB
Time: 67:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1996
Styles: Chicago Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. Everything's Gonna Be Alright (4:06)
02. Oh Baby (5:53)
03. Got My Mojo Working (4:25)
04. Harpslinger (5:00)
05. I Got My Brand On You (5:19)
06. Once Upon A Time (3:30)
07. Pink Champagne (2:13)
08. Don't Whup Your Wife On A Sunday (2:03)
09. Why Did She Walk Away? (3:12)
10. Early One Morning (4:19)
11. Champagne & Reefer (4:37)
12. Upper Mississippi Shuffle (4:25)
13. Trouble No More (3:27)
14. Blues With A Feeling (5:36)
15. Sittin' Here Thinking' (4:14)
16. Ghetto Blaster (4:44)

When Muddy Waters deemed a harp player talented enough to follow Little Walter and James Cotton into his peerless combo, he must have been someone special. Mojo Buford spent several stints in the employ of the Chicago blues legend, and was his harpist of choice in the final edition of the Waters band.
George Buford left Mississippi for Memphis while still young, learning his early blues lessons there. He relocated to Chicago in 1952, eventually forming a band called the Savage Boys that mutated into the Muddy Waters, Jr. Band (no, they weren't fronted by a Waters imitator; they subbed for their mighty sponsor at local clubs when he was on the road). Buford played with Muddy Waters as early as 1959, but a 1962 uprooting to Minneapolis to front his own combo, and cut a couple of solid but extremely obscure LPs for Vernon and Folk-Art, removed him from the Windy City scene for a while. Buford returned to Waters' combo in 1967 for a year, put in a longer stint with him during the early '70s, and came back for the last time after Jerry Portnoy exited with the rest of his mates to form the Legendary Blues Band. Buford recorded as a bandleader for Mr. Blues (later reissued on Rooster Blues) and the British JSP logo, never drifting far from his enduring Chicago blues roots.

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Mojo Buford - State Of The Blues Harp (Reissue)

Year: 1989/1998
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:15
Size: 151,9 MB
Styles: Harmonica Blues
Scans: Full

1. Picking Rags (5:15)
2. Ground Hog Blues (3:44)
3. Mo's Stroll (6:44)
4. Jealous Of My Baby (6:32)
5. I'm A Blues Man (4:07)
6. I Wanna Know (4:56)
7. Jack Potato Boogie (3:54)
8. Come Home Baby (5:33)
9. Big Leg Woman (3:47)
10. Watch Dog (4:39)
11. Jealous Of My Baby (4:18)
12. Mo's Stroll (4:01)
13. Deep Sea Diver (5:31)
14. Picking Rags (3:08)

When Muddy Waters deemed a harp player talented enough to follow Little Walter and James Cotton into his peerless combo, he must have been someone special. Mojo Buford spent several stints in the employ of the Chicago blues legend, and was his harpist of choice in the final edition of the Waters band.

George Buford left Mississippi for Memphis while still young, learning his early blues lessons there. He relocated to Chicago in 1952, eventually forming a band called the Savage Boys that mutated into the Muddy Waters, Jr. Band (no, they weren't fronted by a Waters imitator; they subbed for their mighty sponsor at local clubs when he was on the road). Buford played with Muddy Waters as early as 1959, but a 1962 uprooting to Minneapolis to front his own combo, and cut a couple of solid but extremely obscure LPs for Vernon and Folk-Art, removed him from the Windy City scene for a while. Buford returned to Waters' combo in 1967 for a year, put in a longer stint with him during the early '70s, and came back for the last time after Jerry Portnoy exited with the rest of his mates to form the Legendary Blues Band. Buford recorded as a bandleader for Mr. Blues (later reissued on Rooster Blues) and the British JSP logo, never drifting far from his enduring Chicago blues roots. /Bio by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Mojo Buford - Home Is Where My Harps Is

Size: 130,8 MB
Time: 55:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Chicago Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. Mo's Boogie (4:18)
02. Picking Rags (2:59)
03. Cool And Mo Better Blues (6:32)
04. I Want You To Be My Girl (4:36)
05. You Can Steal My Chicken (5:12)
06. Gonna Get A Watchdog (3:39)
07. Harp Breaker (3:06)
08. All Over The World (3:01)
09. Trouble Don't Go No Further (5:33)
10. Don't Go No Further (3:48)
11. Memphis Bound (3:47)
12. Evilina (3:31)
13. Shame (5:37)

No, that's not a typo in the title. Those with personal knowledge of former Muddy Waters sideman Mojo Buford will tell you that this was a perfectly fitting title for his third Blue Loon release. All tunes were recorded at New Moon Studio in Mpls., half with The Senders and half with harp player Curtis Blake, several members of the Rough Cuts, and piano man Mike "Hook" Deutsch - all from Minneapolis. Buford wrote all but two of the thirteen songs, from the Hooker-influenced opener, "Mo's Boogie", to the swingin' "Harp Breaker". The lyrics are classic Mojo, enough to crack up anyone who's listened to their share of ol' time style blues vocals. In the fifth track, he sings "You can steal my chickens, but you sho can't make 'em lay; you can steal my woman, but you sure can't make her stay." Or how about this one: "We gonna boogie 'til my hair turn wet." (That's not a typo either). Mojo's harp sounds particularly sweet and catchy when paired with Curtis Blake's. Dave "Cool Breeze" Brown does a sweet, T-Bone style guitar solo on "Cool & Mo Better Blues", Mark Asche is wonderful throughout on piano, and Bill Black lays down a very funky bass solo on "I Want You To Be My Girl". It is the tracks with Blake and the Roughcuts that stand out, however. Blake's engaging harp lines actually bring to mind a visual of squawking, pecking chickens on "You Can Steal My Chicken". Dan Schwalbe's guitar playing is mighty tasty on all tracks, but is especially ear-catching on "Memphis Bound". ~Review by Ann Wickstrom

Thanks to Marc.
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