Norton Buffalo & The Knockouts - King of the Highway

Size: 403 MB
Time: 62:37
File: Flac
Released: 2000
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Is It Love (3:58)
2. Let Me Be Your Man (4:35)
3. King Of The Highway (4:33)
4. The Odds Are Against Us (6:19)
5. Hoodoo Roux (6:59)
6. Sweet Little Pumpkin (5:08)
7. Shuffalo (3:23)
8. She's Driving Me Crazy (4:39)
9. Line Of Fire (5:39)
10. I'm Tore Down (5:12)
11. Harmonica Mambo (3:20)
12. I Know I'm Fallin' (5:23)
13. The Monkey & The Man (3:22)

i was a bit concerned when the liner notes told me i wasn't going to hear any "dirty" amplified harp, exactly what i love, but you don't miss that with norton blowing. his playing is so fully nuanced and textured that a mic might even have distorted some of those wonderful tones. and while you won't find any lowdown swamp boogie here, or delta grinders, or led zep rockers, you will find plenty of smoky lounge crawlers and freeway accelerators with smoldering guitar if that's your taste. in fact norton is a master of styles and playing modes, sounding now like the harmonicats, then like larry adler, and all with a rocking, bluesy feel. he sings almost as well as he plays, too. anybody catch his playing in the movie "the dog pound shuffle" some years back, where norton does the harp work for a canadian drifter played by david soul? beautiful stuff.

King of the Highway FLAC

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Various - Rare West Coast Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:45
Size: 171.1 MB
Styles: West Coast blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:33] 1. Janiva Magness - You Got What You Wanted
[2:42] 2. Johnny Otis - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
[3:57] 3. Joe Louis Walker - Too Drunk To Drive Drunk
[5:25] 4. Johnny Heartsman -Tongue
[2:53] 5. Chuck E. Weiss - Goodbye, So Long
[5:26] 6. The Robert Cray Band - Back Door Slam
[4:19] 7. Curtis Salgado - A Woman Or The Blues
[4:59] 8. Floyd Dixon - Livin' A Lie (Weak For A Woman)
[4:07] 9. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Clothes Line
[3:19] 10. Rusty Zinn - Meet Me Halfway
[2:47] 11. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Back From The Dead
[2:25] 12. Roomful Of Blues - I Can't Stand You No More
[3:48] 13. Norton Buffalo And Roy Rogers - Don't Throw Your Changes On Me
[7:01] 14. William Clarke - Must Be Jelly
[4:13] 15. Johnny Otis - Half Steppin' Woman
[2:50] 16. Janiva Magness - Your Love Made A U-Turn
[5:22] 17. Joe Louis Walker - Black Girls
[5:29] 18. The Robert Cray Band - That's What Keeps Me Rockin'

More piano-based and jazz-influenced than anything else, West Coast Blues is -- in actuality -- the California style, with all of the genre's main practitioners coming to prominence there, if not actual natives of the state in particular. In fact, the state and the style played host to a great many post-war Texas guitar expatriates, and their jazzy, T-Bone Walker style of soloing would become an earmark of the genre. West Coast blues also features smooth, honey-toned vocals, frequently crossing into urban blues territory. The West Coast style was also home to numerous jump-blues practitioners, as many traveling bands of the 1940s ended up taking permanent residence there. Its current practitioners work almost exclusively in the standard small-combo format.

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VA - Live At The Rogue: Best Of The Blues

Size: 123,3 MB
Time: 52:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Norton Buffalo - Is It Love (Feat. Roy Rogers) (Live) (5:33)
02. Charlie Musselwhite - Been Gone To Long (Live) (5:30)
03. John Hammond - Tell Me Mama (Live) (3:33)
04. Lydia Pense & Cold Blood - You Got Me Hummin' (Live) (5:23)
05. Amazing Rhythm Aces - My Tears Still Flow (Live) (3:41)
06. Charlie Musselwhite - Charlie's Old Hwy 51 Blues (Live) (8:41)
07. John Hammond - Get Behind The Mule (Live) (4:37)
08. Lydia Pense & Cold Blood - It Takes A Lotta Good Lovin' (Live) (5:11)
09. Amazing Rhythm Aces - Out Of The Blue (Live) (4:39)
10. Norton Buffalo - Shake Your Money Maker (Feat. Roy Rogers) (Live) (6:05)

Live At The Rogue

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VA - Blind Pig Presents: Harmonica Blues

Size: 156,1 MB
Time: 67:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. Charlie Musselwhite - Harpin' On A Riff (Instrumental) (3:35)
02. George Smith - Blowing The Blues (4:13)
03. Norton Buffalo - Hoodoo Roux (6:56)
04. Big Walter Horton - The Honeydripper (Instrumental) (3:38)
05. Carey Bell - So Easy To Love You (5:25)
06. James Cotton - Honest I Do (4:11)
07. Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers - Baby Please Don't Go (4:59)
08. John Nemeth - Blues Hit Big Town (3:40)
09. Carey Bell - St. Louis Blues (Instrumental) (4:32)
10. Big Walter Horton - Tin Pan Alley (4:42)
11. Norton Buffalo - Harmonica Mambo (Instrumental) (3:16)
12. Snooky Pryor - Telephone Blues (4:29)
13. Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers - Buzzin' (Instrumental) (9:51)
14. Harper - Last Cup Of Coffee (3:34)

Blind Pig Presents: Harmonica Blues

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VA - Blind Pig Presents California Blues

Size: 198,7 MB
Time: 85:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Tommy Castro - Can't Keep A Good Man Down (3:58)
02. Roy Rogers - Mercury Blues (6:01)
03. Debbie Davies - Picture This (3:57)
04. Craig Chaquico - Blue On Blue (5:26)
05. Roy Rogers - Walkin' Blues (4:32)
06. Chris Cain - You're The Kind Of Woman That Ain't That Hard To Find (4:15)
07. Commander Cody - Let's Rock (2:17)
08. Norton Buffalo - Is It Love (3:59)
09. Coco Montoya - Monkey See, Monkey Do (4:08)
10. Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers - Bad Weather Blues (5:16)
11. Norton Buffalo - King Of The Highway (4:28)
12. Commander Cody - Truck Stop At The End Of The World (3:18)
13. Craig Chaquico - Lie To Me (4:35)
14. Tommy Castro - My Kind Of Woman (3:46)
15. Debbie Davies - Howlin' At The Moon (4:20)
16. Roy Rogers - Ramblin' Blues (5:21)
17. Chris Cain - Trouble Makin' Woman (7:07)
18. Coco Montoya - Gotta Mind To Travel (3:49)
19. Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers - West Coast Midnight Blues (Instrumental) (4:57)

Blind Pig Presents California Blues

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Norton Buffalo & Roy Rogers - Roots Of Our Nature

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:57
Size: 128.1 MB
Styles: Roots, West Coast blues
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[3:47] 1. Don't Throw Your Changes On Me
[3:39] 2. All I Want
[3:19] 3. Under The Rug
[4:08] 4. Requiem
[5:31] 5. If I Were A King
[4:48] 6. Rhythm Of The Souls
[3:05] 7. Making New Love Out Of Old
[4:47] 8. Long Hard Road
[4:06] 9. Trinity
[5:13] 10. Deny And Down The Distance
[6:18] 11. Seven Hearts
[4:19] 12. Highway Bound
[2:49] 13. Happy Go Lucky

As quintessentially American as corn on the cob or the rodeo, the blues-streaked music created here by slide guitarist Roy Rogers and harmonica player Norton Buffalo marks their first studio collaboration since two early-'90s releases. Buffalo, a longtime Steve Miller Band member, and Rogers, who has played with Bonnie Raitt and John Lee Hooker, are so musically in synch that all 13 of their original songs on this CD serve as engaging testimonials to their friendship. Each West Coaster is a virtuoso on his instrument, but neither engages in showiness. Instead, their phrases combine in low-key expressions of faith, longing, struggle, and triumph. Rogers and Norton aren't outstanding singers, yet they get by without disrupting the special guitar-harp rapport at the crux of the music. Buffalo does deliver his all-time best studio vocal on "If I Were a King." --Frank-John Hadley

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Vassar Clements - Livin' With The Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:26
Size: 138.3 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[3:12] 1. Cypress Grove
[4:19] 2. Dirty Drawers
[4:19] 3. Honey Babe Blues
[4:23] 4. Mambo Boogie
[4:43] 5. Phonograph Blues
[3:25] 6. Green Onions
[2:57] 7. Rube's Blues
[3:07] 8. Dead Cats On The Line
[3:08] 9. That's My Thing
[3:30] 10. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
[3:58] 11. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
[4:25] 12. Mama I'll All Out And Down
[2:11] 13. Fiddlin & Faddlin'
[3:42] 14. Cool Drink Of Water
[9:02] 15. Don't Stand Behind A Mule

While the extraordinary fiddler Vassar Clements is known for his countless recordings in the world of bluegrass and country music, he's also a convincing blues interpreter. He is matched with a wide-ranging group of musicians and repertoire by producer David Grisman in this delightful Acoustic Disc CD. Clements' playing takes on an almost conversational tone throughout a good part of these sessions, while he is obviously having a rollicking good time with his fellow players, no matter the setting. The legendary bluesman Robert Johnson's "Beatrice Got a Phonograph" is an amazing duet by Clements with Roy Rogers (who sings while playing an amplified Martin guitar), though it is the leader's personal sound that leaves a lasting impression. His fiddle almost seems to smirk throughout Tampa Red's "Dead Cats on the Line," which is also highlighted by Bob Brozman's guitar and Bobby Cochran's lead vocals, with Norton Buffalo providing harmony. It's hard to beat the interplay between Clements, Buffalo (on harmonica), and guitarist Bob Brozman in the trio rendition of "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning." Clements and Brozman evidently concocted "Fiddlin' and Faddlin'" in the studio, with Brozman also playing percussion on his guitar behind the leader's blistering introductory solo. Elvin Bishop adds a touch of humor with his amusing originals, including the down-home blues "Dirty Drawers" and the funky "That's My Thing," adding Norton Buffalo's soulful harmonica. Maria Muldaur's gritty vocals shine in Doc Watson's "Honey Babe Blues" and "I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle." Dave Matthews is at the piano for the infectious "Mambo Boogie" (co-written by Clements, Matthews, and Buffalo). All in all, this is a very entertaining meeting by a group of seasoned musicians. ~Ken Dryden

Livin' With The Blues

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Roy Rogers & Norton Buffalo - 2 albums: R & B / Travellin' Tracks

Album: R & B
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 43:31
Size: 99.6 MB
Styles: Country blues, Electric blues
Year: 1991
Art: Front

[3:35] 1. So Much To Say And So Few Words
[3:35] 2. Ain't No Bread In The Breadbox
[4:04] 3. Is It Love
[3:27] 4. Strange Love
[2:22] 5. Song For Jesica
[4:48] 6. Tender Heart
[3:44] 7. Heaven Sittin' Down
[3:02] 8. That's The Last Time
[2:35] 9. When They Talk Like That
[4:05] 10. You're Gone (With The Wind)
[5:04] 11. Move On Way From Here
[3:07] 12. Too Bad When You Touch It

"All it takes is a sampling of the slide-guitar/harmonica dialog on any one of these songs to comprehend how potent - and exciting - the chemistry is between Rogers and Buffalo. Buffalo's harmonica is particularly impressive and Rogers slashes, stings, and jabs as well as glides into smooth runs." ~ Downbeat

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Album: Travellin' Tracks
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 53:57
Size: 123.5 MB
Styles: Country blues, Electric blues
Year: 1992
Art: Front

[ 4:21] 1. I Still Can't Forget You
[ 4:14] 2. Big Jake
[ 3:43] 3. The Message
[ 6:01] 4. Mercury Blues
[ 3:38] 5. The Buffalo Cajun Mambo
[ 4:53] 6. Down In Mississippi
[ 3:54] 7. You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond
[ 2:55] 8. Jack Of Diamonds Queen Of Spades
[ 3:18] 9. Hey There Grandpa
[11:13] 10. Move On Way From Here
[ 5:41] 11. Shake Your Moneymaker

"This eclectic duo continues to churn out versatile and lively mergings of country, folk, and blues. Rogers and Buffalo don't just have an abundance of musical skills, they also play with feeling and passion. Dazzling harp and guitar interplay." ~ Relix

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