Nat Dove - Deep Blues Experience

Size: 394 MB
Time: 62:09
File: Flac
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. 24 Hours (4:48)
2. Honey Bee (6:39)
3. Mother in Law Blues (3:20)
4. Please Send Me Someone to Love (5:34)
5. I'm Tore Down (4:28)
6. Reconsider Baby (5:51)
7. Wang Dang Doodle (5:00)
8. As the Years Go Passing By (6:27)
9. Close to You (4:08)
10. I'm Ready (3:51)
11. In the Evening (5:58)
12. Got My Mojo Working (6:01)

Having better than four decades of experience under his belt at the piano, Nat Dove is a force to be reckoned with and "Deep Blues Experience" shows his muscular approach over a dozen well-chosen covers. Clocking in at over an hour of playing time, there's plenty to like here. Recorded in Japan with a cast of determined and potent sidemen, everything is in order, but just ragged enough to have the right feel and effect. The blistering rendition of Earl Gaines' "24 Hours" gets solid treatment and the sparks fly on Muddy's "Honey Bee" where Nagasaki Slim, possessor of one of the better names in blues, tosses out some fine harp licks. "Next Time You See Me" is effortless as is Freddy King's "Tore Down," with solid guitar from Tad Miura, and Lowell Fulson's "Reconsider Baby" goes straight into the alley. Dove's piano skills perhaps show best on the smoldering "As The Years Go Passing By" and a fine version of "I'm Ready" delivers well. Leroy Carr's "In The Evening" is a gripping slow blues with workmanlike vocals and a dazzling display of 88-key talent. Dove and his fine band also tackle "Mother In Law Blues," Percy Mayfield's "Please Send Me Someone To Love," and Willie Dixon's "Close To You" and "Wang Dang Doodle," in addition to another Waters' classic, "Got My Mojo Working." Dove's cohorts play with respect and restraint, but if there's one small complaint, it's that there's not enough spotlight for his assistants. Very worthwhile.

Deep Blues Experience FLAC

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Nat Dove & The Neo Classic Blues Ensemble - Real Texas Piano Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:18
Size: 103.7 MB
Styles: Texas piano blues, R&B
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[2:57] 1. Don't Mess With Texas
[4:37] 2. Rockin' And Moanin' At Midnight
[3:11] 3. If Your Ship Don't Come In
[6:41] 4. Has The World Gone Mad
[3:55] 5. Dressin' Trashy
[3:49] 6. Lie To Me
[3:27] 7. Welfare System
[4:58] 8. Wad Of Money
[2:17] 9. Leave It Where It's At
[2:50] 10. Play Them Blues
[3:18] 11. I'm Coming Home
[3:13] 12. The Song A Bluesman Sings

Nat Dove’s music career has been eclectic, vast and has spanned over five decades, in many areas of music and geographic areas as well. From his first recording as a pianist and music arranger in Hollywood, on the hit recording of the original “Part time Love” by Little Johnnie Taylor, in 1963 to “Who’ Been Talking?” and “Too Many Cooks” by Robert Cray. Nat spent many years playing piano in the Original Hound Dog Band, with Big Mama Thornton. Dove also recorded as a session musician and arranger-composer with many of the greats of all time, such as Freddie King, George Smith, Johnnie Shines, Lonesome Sundown, Sam Cooke, Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulson and Big Joe Turner, ETC.

In the 1970s Nat relocated to Paris, France, where he was appointed Composer-in-Residence at the American Cultural Center. During this period he co-authored books with the great Memphis Slim and Mickey Baker. Nat composed many Free Jazz compositions for the Noah Howard Quartet, Bobby Few Trio and also lots of music scores for theatrical stage, such as “Sail to Everest”. Nat has also composed music for many television and radio commercials. His movie compositions include the 1977 hit “Petey Wheatstraw”. Nat has also, lived and performed in concert and taught Blues music workshops and clinics in Japan for many years. After which he returned to the United States and became the director of the Bakersfield Blues Preservation Society and professor of Blues Music, History and Culture at the University of California, Bakersfield.

This CD is not meant to sound bluesy or Blues influenced. It is real Blues from the source. Nat Dove’s credentials as a veteran and a neo-traditionalist are indeed intact. Nat has performed with the great Blues people of the past and also the modern blues people as well. Real Texas Piano Blues is a unique mix of modern piano blues selections presented in neo-traditional styles. The subjects are eclectic, and run the gamut from ecology to personal motivation.

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