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)

Sun Blues Archives & Rarities 1950-1958

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Various - Memphis Rent Party

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:36
Size: 111.3 MB
Styles: R&B, Memphis blues, Hill Country blues
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[4:08] 1. Jerry McGill - Desperados Waiting For A Train
[3:55] 2. Luther Dickerson - Chevrolet
[4:18] 3. Junior Kimbrough - All Night Long
[5:05] 4. Furry Lewis - Why Don't You Come Home Blues
[7:11] 5. Calvin Newborn - Frame For The Blues
[3:00] 6. Alex Chilton - Johnny Too Bad
[2:54] 7. Jerry Lee Lewis - Harbor Lights
[4:42] 8. The Fieldstones - Little Bluebird
[2:38] 9. The Panther Burns - Drop Your Mask
[2:02] 10. Mose Vinson - Same Things On My Mind
[2:32] 11. Charlie Feathers - Defrost Your Heart
[6:05] 12. Jim Dickinson - I'd Love To Be A Hippie

The compilation illustrates the eclectic scope of Bluff City music, from Furry Lewis and Junior Kimbrough to Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson and the Panther Burns. Memphis is about individualism, about distinct characters making “it” different. The best music out of Memphis — be it deep blues, early rocking Elvis, Stax soul, indie 1990s Grifters, or today’s Julien Baker or North Mississippi Allstars — forged its own sound. The Memphis aesthetic is to not sound like hits, but to sound different. Sometimes “different” hits. This soundtrack is a great companion to Memphis Rent Party, the latest book by Robert Gordon,

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Van Hunt - Blues At Home 1

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:35
Size: 161.6 MB
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:39] 1. Sweet Charlene - Sitting Here Drinking
[2:20] 2. Mose Vinson - No More Dogging
[4:33] 3. Van Hunt - Early In The Morning, About The Break Of Day (Take 1)
[2:43] 4. Van Hunt - Early In The Morning, About The Break Of Day (Take 2)
[2:18] 5. Van Hunt - Nobody's Business But Mine
[2:46] 6. Sweet Charlene - That’s All Right
[2:05] 7. Sweet Charlene - Forty-Four Blues
[2:40] 8. Sweet Charlene - Tin Pan Alley
[2:17] 9. Van Hunt - Mississippi River Blues (Take 1)
[2:42] 10. Mose Vinson - Don't The Moon Look Lonesome (Take 2)
[2:13] 11. Van Hunt - Just A Closer Walk With Thee
[2:43] 12. Mose Vinson - You Don't Need Me No More
[3:30] 13. Van Hunt - I Never Knew What Love Would Do
[3:14] 14. Van Hunt - Long Lonesome Road
[1:56] 15. Mose Vinson - Careless Love
[2:31] 16. Van Hunt - Corinna, Corinna
[2:35] 17. Mose Vinson - Old Blue Jumped A Rabbit (Take 1)
[2:57] 18. Mose Vinson - Old Blue Jumped A Rabbit (Take 2)
[2:14] 19. Mose Vinson - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
[2:06] 20. Van Hunt - The Darktown Strutters' Ball
[1:17] 21. Van Hunt - Crump And Jim Kinnane
[2:28] 22. Van Hunt - Jelly Selling Blues Tk. 2
[3:58] 23. Van Hunt - Troubled World
[3:21] 24. Van Hunt - Sunnyland Special
[1:30] 25. Mose Vinson - Mose Vinson Discusses Old Blue Jumped A Rabbit
[0:33] 26. Van Hunt - Mrs. Van Hunt Discusses Crump And Jim Kinnane
[2:14] 27. Van Hunt - Mrs. Van Hunt Discusses Bottleneck Technique
[0:58] 28. Van Hunt - Mrs. Van Hunt And Mrs. Ruth Ogilvie Discuss Repertoire

Mbirafon presents its new “Blues At Home” CD Collection, with a wide range of artists and documents, that offers research-based, in-depth information to the public worldwide. With a sober and fluent design this new collection answers every demand of the modern blues audience who expect full usability with computers and mobile devices. Every volume has been carefully produced, giving listeners the all important confidence that the material featured is as high-quality as it is authentic.

On December 1972, with the help of the legendary harmonica player Hammie Nixon, using a professional portable equipment, I had the chance to start recording blues in Memphis. The documentary research continued in July 1976, ending in July 1982. A series of informal sessions was held during the course of my five trips through Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, featuring well known, but also little known, and unknown musicians. A collection of tapes and photographs was created and kept in my private archive. In order to preserve these materials I transferred to digital those I thought were best, and by 2013 the 15-volume “Blues At Home” CD Collection was ready for release.

The first volume of the Mbirafon “Blues At Home” Collection, this CD features one of the most intense voices of the blues, Van Zula Carter Hunt. This central figure in the Memphis blues scene was born in 1901 in Somerville, Tennessee, but spent her whole life in Memphis, where she was living on South 4th Street when I met her in 1976. She started singing and playing at age five, performing with her brother and cousins in a group called Somerville Family Band. Around the late 1910s, she moved to Memphis and began her professional musical activity, traveling for several years with minstrel shows. She played with local blues artists such as Sleepy John Estes, Frank Stokes, Gus Cannon, and Memphis Minnie. In November 1930, she recorded “Selling The Jelly” (issued under the name of the Carolina Peanut Boys) in Memphis for Victor Records. She also recorded some gospel sides as a chorus member with Rev. E.D. Campbell for Victor in 1927. Van Hunt was rediscovered, through the referral of Dewey Corley, by Gene Rosenthal, who recorded her for the Adelphi label in 1969-1970.

Mose Vinson was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1917. He learned how to play the piano at the age of five from his mother, who played the organ at church. His father, also a musician and a piano player, taught him his first musical elements and some early blues. Vinson started playing in public in 1932 around the age of 15 and was spotted for his talent by some white managers in 1936. He studied and learned to read music, and joined a band in Nashville for six years. He recalled leaving Holly Springs at an early age and traveling in the areas of Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas, reaching Memphis in 1945, where he lived for the rest of his life. While in Memphis, Mose’s piano style was influenced by several musicians, mostly active in local cabarets and nightclubs where he gained some of his musical experience. He also performed during those years with B.B. King for black audiences, recalling Memphis Slim and Walter Davis as well. During the ‘50s, he recorded for several labels, including Sun Records, with Joe Hill Louis and Jimmy De Berry. Mose Vinson stopped playing at clubs around 1962, and in 1969-1970 was rediscovered and recorded by Gene Rosenthal for Adelphi Records. One of the best-known and respected Memphis piano blues players, he performed in the River City and abroad until his death in 2002 at age 85.

Van Hunt’s daughter Sweet Charlene Peeples was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1936. She received her musical training mainly in church vocal groups and during the late 1940s and 1950s in local nightclubs. She performed professionally on several Memphis stages. A very reserved person, Charlene stopped her musical activities during the early 1970s, although she made a few public appearances in 1971 at both the River City Blues Festival and the Wolf Trap National Park Festival in Virginia, and at the Beale Street Music Festival in 1979. In 1976 and 1978, I had the chance to record various sessions with Mose Vinson, Van Hunt, and Sweet Charlene. This CD features four examples of Van Hunt on vocal and guitar, and various tracks accompanied by Mose Vinson’s piano. There are also blues and boogie solos by Mose Vinson plus four pieces sung by Sweet Charlene with his piano accompaniment. All tracks have been fully digitally remastered in 2013 from the original tapes. ~Giambattista Marcucci

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Joe Hill Louis with Walter Horton & Mose Vinson - The Be-Bop Boy

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1992
Styles: Blues
Time: 74:08
Size: 171,3 MB
Art: Full (24 page booklet)

(3:48) 1. Joe Hill Louis - She Treats Me Mean and Evil
(2:07) 2. Joe Hill Louis - Dorothy Mae
(2:58) 3. Joe Hill Louis - Sweetest Gal in Town
(3:03) 4. Joe Hill Louis - Keep Your Arms Around Me
(3:04) 5. Joe Hill Louis - Got Me a New Woman
(3:04) 6. Joe Hill Louis - I'm a Poor Boy
(3:04) 7. Big Walter Horton - In the Mood
(3:06) 8. Big Walter Horton - West Winds Are Blowing
(2:39) 9. Big Walter Horton - Little Walter's Boogie
(2:45) 10. Big Walter Horton - We All Got to Go (Sometime)
(2:41) 11. Joe Hill Louis - We All Got to Go (Sometime)
(2:34) 12. Big Walter Horton - Little Walter's Boogie
(2:56) 13. Joe Hill Louis - Tiger Man
(2:48) 14. Mose Vinson - 44 Blues
(2:21) 15. Mose Vinson - My Love Has Gone
(2:35) 16. Mose Vinson - Mistreatin' Boogie
(2:45) 17. Mose Vinson - My Love Has Gone
(2:36) 18. Mose Vinson - Worry You Off My Mind
(2:49) 19. Mose Vinson - Reap What You Sow
(2:57) 20. Big Walter Horton - Walter's Instrumental
(2:34) 21. Joe Hill Louis - Hydramatic Woman
(3:15) 22. Joe Hill Louis - Tiger Man
(3:14) 23. Joe Hill Louis - Keep Your Arms Around Me
(3:04) 24. Joe Hill Louis - She Comes to See Me Sometime
(2:43) 25. Joe Hill Louis - We All Got to Go (Sometime)
(2:25) 26. Joe Hill Louis - Shine Boy

Joe Hill Louis was a raw, chaotic, one-man band blues of the highest order. Almost all of his recordings he made for Sam Phillips in Memphis in the early '50s. Also included are Sun recordings with Walter Horton and Mose Vinson that feature Joe Louis Hill. In early 1950 Hill had come to the attention of sound-engineer Sam Phillips. Phillips was attempting to start his own record label and he had partnered up with Memphis radio DJ Dewey Phillips. They recorded at least 16 sessions between 1950 and 1953, leasing the best tracks to the Bihari brothers in Los Angeles. In 1952 Phillips also send masters to Chess in Chicago. These were all fine, rocking tracks full of disorted guitar, blazing harmonica and clattering drums in a unique style. Early 1953 Sam Phillips got his Sun label up & running and he issued a Joe Hill Louis 45. Despite recording a wealth of fine material with Louis including a fantastic final session in November of '52 that saw Louis backed by Big Walter Horton on harmonica and Mose Vinson on piano, he would see no more releases on Sun Records. Lots of great performances stayed in the vaults until the 1980's when Charley released them in the Sun Blues Box.

The Be-Bop Boy
The Be-Bop Boy booklet

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Mose Vinson, Booker T. Laury - Memphis Piano Blues Today

Size: 132,5 MB
Time: 56:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1990/2015
Styles: Piano Blues
Art: Front

01. Booker T. Laury - Next Time You See Me (4:29)
02. Booker T. Laury - Big Legged Woman (3:56)
03. Booker T. Laury - Blues With A Feeling (3:08)
04. Booker T. Laury - Booker T.'s Memphis Blues (6:38)
05. Booker T. Laury - Night Time Is The Right Time (6:08)
06. Booker T. Laury - Sweet Root Man (3:53)
07. Booker T. Laury - You Can Go Your Way (4:35)
08. Booker T. Laury - Booker's Boogie (5:46)
09. Mose Vinson - Blues Jumped A Rabbit (1:45)
10. Mose Vinson - Tell Me Like It Is (2:07)
11. Mose Vinson - Boogie Woogie Blues (1:43)
12. Mose Vinson - Good Morning Memphis (2:19)
13. Mose Vinson - 44 Blues (2:10)
14. Mose Vinson - 4 O'clock Blues (1:43)
15. Mose Vinson - You're Not Too Old (1:50)
16. Mose Vinson - Lost My Mule Blues (3:58)

Booker T. Laury: Recorded Memphis Peabody Hotel 1990
Mose Vinson: Recorded in Memphis October 1990

Memphis Piano Blues Today collects a number of latter-day recordings from Mose Vinson. Although he's past his prime, the pianist is still in good form and, since he recorded so infrequently as a leader, this is a valuable addition to any serious fan of piano blues and Memphis blues. ~by Thom Owens

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Memphis Piano Blues Today

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Mose Vinson - Piano Man

Size: 100,6 MB
Time: 38:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997/2015
Styles: Piano Blues
Art: Front

01. Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (2:15)
02. Same Thing On My Mind (2:02)
03. I've Been Playing Ever Since I Was Five Years Old - Dishrag, He's Dead Now (3:46)
04. 4 O'clock In The Morning (3:05)
05. What A Friend We Have In Jesus (1:29)
06. Precious Lord, Take My Hand (1:30)
07. Darktown Strutter's Ball (1:33)
08. Just Because (1:33)
09. My Mule (3:12)
10. What Is Your Life (2:09)
11. Three Hand Boogie (1:59)
12. Boogie Woogie (1:20)
13. Tell It Like Is, My Girlfriend Won't Be Still (2:58)
14. My Father Was A Gambler… Gambler Blues (2:01)
15. 44 Blues (2:09)
16. Me And Booker T (1:35)
17. That's All Right, Little Girl (2:21)
18. Leaning On The Everlasting Arms (1:51)

Mose Vinson (June 2 or August 7, 1917 – November 16, 2002) was an American boogie-woogie, blues and jazz pianist and singer. His best known recordings were "Blues with a Feeling" and "Sweet Root Man". Over his lengthy career, Vinson worked with various musicians including Booker T. Laury and James Cotton.

Vinson was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. He taught himself how to play the piano as a child. In his teenage years, Vinson started playing his own style of barrelhouse boogie-woogie in local juke joints in Mississippi and Tennessee, incorporating both blues and jazz in his repertoire. In 1932, following a chance meeting with Sunnyland Slim, Vinson relocated from Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Vinson continued to play at local juke house and rural community parties. By the early 1950s, Vinson found employment as a custodian at the Taylor Boarding Home, where artists often stayed whilst recording next door at Sun Records studios. In the studios, Sam Phillips occasionally requested that Vinson accompany musicians. These included James Cotton on "Cotton Crop Blues" (1954), and Jimmy DeBerry on the latter's "Take a Little Chance". Phillips also allowed Vinson to record some tracks of his own, although these were not released until the 1980s. Vinson recorded two versions of "Forty-Four", one retitled "Worry You Off My Mind", and the other as "My Love Has Gone" (also known as "Come See Me"). Session musicians on these recordings included Walter Horton, Joe Hill Louis and Joe Willie Wilkins.

After a period of lesser musical activity, by the early 1980s, the Center for Southern Folklore had enlisted Vinson to perform at various cultural events, and at local schools. He became a regular at the Center, where he played and taught for twenty years. In 1990, his contribution towards the album, Memphis Piano Blues Today, was recorded at his home.

In 1997, his first full-length CD compilation album was released via the Center. Declining health, however, stopped him playing not long before his death.

Mose Vinson died of diabetes, in November 2002 in Memphis, at the age of 85.

In 2007, the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival was dedicated to his memory. ~Wikipedia

Piano Man

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Various - Sun Blues Archive

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:15
Size: 119.6 MB
Styles: Assorted blues styles
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[2:47] 1. Rufus Thomas - Tiger Man
[3:09] 2. Howlin' Wolf - Decoration Day
[2:57] 3. James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues
[2:22] 4. Little Junior Parker - Mystery Train
[2:30] 5. Albert Williams - Rhumba Chillen
[2:56] 6. Pinetop Perkins - Pinetop's Boogie
[2:29] 7. Mose Vinson - Forty Four Blues
[2:57] 8. Walter Horton - Grandma Told Grandpa
[2:44] 9. Earl Hooker - Blue Guitar
[2:45] 10. Willie Nix - Baker Shop Boogie
[3:12] 11. Sleepy John Estes - Policy Man
[2:31] 12. Little Milton - Next Time I See You Baby
[3:18] 13. Kenneth Banks - Blue Man
[2:41] 14. Joe Hill Louis - Gotta Go Baby (Gotta Let You Go)
[2:58] 15. Jimmy And Walter - Before Long
[3:02] 16. Harmonica Frank - Rockin Chair Blues
[1:56] 17. Frank Frost - Crawl Back
[2:21] 18. Billy The Kid Emerson - Feel So Good
[2:31] 19. Dr. Ross - Juke Box Boogie

The Sun Sound began when Sam Phillips launched his record company in February of 1952. He named it Sun Records as a sign of his perpetual optimism: a new day and a new beginning. Sam rented a small space at 706 Union Avenue for his own all-purpose studio. The label was launched amid a growing number of independent labels. In a short while Sun gained the reputation throughout Memphis as a label that treated local artists with respect and honesty. Sam provided a non-critical, spontaneous environment that invited creativity and vision.

As a businessman, Phillips was patient and willing to listen to almost anyone who came in off the street to record. Memphis was a happy home to a diverse musical scene: gospel, blues, hillbilly, country, boogie, and western swing. Taking advantage of this range of talent, there were no style limitations at the label. In one form or another Sun recorded them all. Sam Phillips was responsible for some of the most legendary and influential rock 'n' roll recordings of all time, but blues was his first and greatest love, and so the Sun Records vaults are full of seminal blues sides from which this collection draws quite the bounty!

Sun Blues Archive

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Various - The Story Of Piano Blues: From The Country To The City

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 74:54
Size: 171.5 MB
Styles: Piano blues
Year: 1978/2013
Art: Front

[4:03] 1. Pinetop Perkins - Five Long Years
[4:12] 2. Henry Gray - Cold Chills
[5:27] 3. James Crutchfield - Sittin On Top Of The World
[3:14] 4. Abe _Boogaloo_ Ames - Tommy Dorsey's Boogie Woogie
[5:19] 5. Jimmy Walker - Come On, Get Your Morning Exercise
[3:51] 6. Pinetop Perkins - Everyday I Have The Blues
[2:35] 7. Robert Shaw - The Cows
[4:01] 8. Henry Gray - Blues Won't Let Me Rest
[3:52] 9. Abie _Boogaloo_ Ames - After Hours
[2:16] 10. Mose Vinson - Good Morning Memphis
[4:21] 11. Big Joe Duskin - If You Want To Be My Woman
[4:43] 12. Pinetop Perkins - Kansas City
[3:57] 13. Booker T. Laury - Big Legged Woman
[4:28] 14. Henry Gray - When My First Wife Left Me
[3:58] 15. Pinetop Perkins - Kidney Stew
[4:10] 16. Big Joe Duskin - Key To The Highway
[2:22] 17. Jimmy Walker - I Had Lots Of Troubles
[3:54] 18. Booker T. Laury - You Can Go Your Way
[4:00] 19. Detroit Junior - Call My Job

All ten of the artists featured on this new Wolf Records’ release had different levels of success and accolades through their careers, yet share similar upbringings and stories. They honed their chops out of necessity in labor camps, house parties and juke joints – synthesizing individual styles that cannot simply be classified as “Blues,” as their music also incorporates Boogie, Jazz and Gospel. They came from rural communities but brought their talents to the city, where they helped to define the Blues scenes in Chicago, Memphis and Houston. And just as they were influenced by the phantom performers of a pre-war era, they too have influenced many legends of 60s and 70s Rock N’ Roll. So if you are a fanatic, enthusiast and archaeologist of music such as me, you will thoroughly enjoy and appreciate the unique piano styles found on these 20 amazing and thoroughly enjoyable tracks of pure Blues and Boogie Woogie.

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