Various - Blues Guitar Workshop

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:40
Size: 84.0 MB
Styles: Acoustic guitar blues
Year: 1979/2009
Art: Front

[1:34] 1. Duck Baker - Black Monk
[2:21] 2. Sam Mitchell - Cat's Squirrel
[2:42] 3. Davey Graham - How Come You Do Me Like You Do
[1:18] 4. Tom Paley - Buck Dance
[2:45] 5. Duck Baker - Turnaround
[2:29] 6. Davey Graham - I Just Want To Make Love To You
[2:16] 7. Duck Baker - Always
[3:32] 8. Davey Graham - Panic Room Blues
[4:05] 9. Mike Cooper - Morning Star Blues
[2:50] 10. Duck Baker - Forty Ton Parachute
[1:58] 11. Davey Graham - When I've Been Drinking
[1:45] 12. Duck Baker - The Stroll
[1:00] 13. Tom Paley - Blake's Rag
[2:15] 14. Sam Mitchell - Keep A Bootin'
[3:43] 15. Duck Baker - The Clown

This audio companion to the excellent Blues Guitar Workshop DVD was recorded in the late 1970s, and is a compendium of some of the acoustic guitar’s best blues players, among them Brit-folk hero Davey Graham, former New Lost City Rambler Tom Paley, and the late, renowned bottleneck player Sam Mitchell. ~Paula Carino

Blues Guitar Workshop

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Mike Cooper & Ian Anderson - The Continuous Preaching Blues

Size: 112,9 MB
Time: 48:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1985/1996
Styles: Acoustic/Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Preachin' Blues (7:03)
02. New Lonesome Day (3:06)
03. Everybody's Killing Me (2:29)
04. Oh Baby, We Got A Good Thing Going (1:56)
05. Dark Is The Night (5:27)
06. City Jail Blues (4:23)
07. You Never Can Tell (2:39)
08. Tell Me (4:17)
09. Lone Wolf Blues (3:38)
10. You Got To Move (4:05)
11. Paint It, Black (2:55)
12. Hey, Space Pilot (3:28)
13. The Inverted World (2:32)

This 1984 recording (with some CD bonus tracks that date back to the late '60s and early '70s) marks yet another collaboration between Cooper and Ian Anderson, two stalwarts of the British acoustic blues scene. Well, a collaboration at times: On some tracks they appear together, like the title cut, their attempt to filer son house through the lens of Captain Beefheart in a London suburb, or a very prim take on Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell" that's more redolent of Bournemouth than New Orleans, but manages to convince with its charm. Anderson's "Everybody's Killing Me" might be a throwaway lyrically, but has a wonderful Chicago feel to the sound. Cooper's take on Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Is the Night" seems to take its cue from Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross," guitar and alto sax working together to produce some beautiful music, and on "You Got to Move" Cooper produces some searing slide work. Then, to have "Paint It, Black," the Stones' classic, revisited as a mannered folk-blues is an amusing detour and a signal that these musicians value humor as a weapon, too. The two old bonus cuts are pleasant, with pride of place going to "The Inverted World," which has aged better than "Hey Space Pilot," with Cooper and Anderson working together on national guitars. Not a release to set the world on fire, but a reminder that Brits can still play the blues. ~by Chris Nickson

The Continuous Preaching Blues

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