Smokey Wilson & The Andy T Band - Ready To Roll

Size: 119.7 MB
Time: 51:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Electric Blues, West Coast Blues
Art: Full

01. I Ain't No Wolf (4:35)
02. Boogie Chillin' (4:38)
03. Here I Go Again (5:14)
04. Came Home This Morning (5:46)
05. I'll Be Around (4:06)
06. If You Love Me Like You Say (3:16)
07. Walked All Night Long (5:23)
08. Playin' My Heart Out (5:28)
09. My Home Is A Prison (6:24)
10. Hey Baby I'm Ready (6:10)

Smokey Wilson has been away from the recording studio for a few years due to a series of strokes. Luckily for us, Andy Talamantez recorded Smokey just before the strokes, and this cd is the result of those sessions. Raw & intense has always been a trademark of the Wilson credo and this cd delivers the goods. Screaming guitar, funky beats, raw edged vocals...all the things Smokey Wilson does best. Given the state of blues today, this is a good thing.

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Smokey Wilson - Push

Size: 146,2 MB
Time: 63:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1999
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Deuce & Quarter (Low Ride) (5:37)
02. You Don't Love Me Yes I Know (4:43)
03. Disco Woman (6:53)
04. Baby Please Don't Go (4:09)
05. Happy Home (3:59)
06. I'll Be Holding On To You (4:46)
07. I'm Leaving Now (5:15)
08. Goin' Away Baby Round Like An Apple (4:54)
09. I've Got The Key To Your Heart (4:30)
10. Don't Make Me Pay For Your Mistakes (6:20)
11. High Time (4:30)
12. Push (4:15)
13. Jungle Woman (3:55)

Downhome Mississippi Blues guitarist Smokey relocated to LA in his mid-thirties and opened the Pioneer Club in Watts, where he fronted the house band and booked the hottest Blues acts around. Smokey was born in the Mississippi Delta where he played with Big Jack Johnson and Frank Frost before taking his juke-joint boogie style Westwards. Smokey’s voice had a strong resemblance to Howlin’ Wolf, and he played loud guitar, cutting an album in 1977 which has only recently come to light. Appearing on stage with many Blues Legends, he played at several Blues festivals in California before his 1993 album, ‘Smoke’n’Fire’ brought him to wider attention, following up with ‘The Real Deal’ two years later and four more albums since then. Smokey’s two earlier albums ‘Push’ and ’88th Street Blues’ have been re-issued in the light of his new popularity, he died in his sleep on September 8th 2015. Smokey took a long time to burst into flames, but talent doesn’t care how old you are!

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Smokey Wilson - Round Like An Apple: The Big Town Recordings 1977-1978

Year: 2006
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:15
Size: 180,8 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. I Want To Do It To You (3:46)
2. I'm Gonna Put You Down (4:25)
3. I Wish I Was Single (5:25)
4. Low Rider (Deuce & A Quarter) (5:44)
5. You Shattered My Dreams (6:07)
6. Goin' Away Baby (Round Like An Apple) (5:07)
7. Goin' To Mississippi (4:52)
8. I'm Gonna Leave You Baby (5:03)
9. Christmas (3:10)
10. How Many More Years (3:30)
11. Night Time Is The Right Time (3:25)
12. Blues For Big Town (3:41)
13. Annie Lee (3:47)
14. Straighten Up Baby (5:02)
15. I'm No Fool, I Know The Rule (5:37)
16. I Wonder Why Strange Things Are Happening (5:13)
17. Happy Home (4:12)

A CD release for the very rare Smokey Wilson album recorded for Big Town in the late 70s. Wilson was the natural successor to Howling Wolf, with a similarly astonishing voice, who produced some of the finest blues of the 70s. When many were succumbing to the over-processed sounds of the day, Smokey was still down and dirty like good blues ought to be. This is the first UK release for Smokey Wilson apart from two tracks that appeared on Lindi Waters' Cascade blues box. Many of the tracks were speeded up in the original mix and these have been restored to the correct tempo of their recording. The legendary George 'Harmonica' Smith features on several tracks. Includes five previously unreleased tracks. /Amazon

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Various - Hard Times: L.A. Blues Anthology

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:59
Size: 135.0 MB
Styles: Electric blues, West Coast blues
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[3:15] 1. Smokey Wilson - Fine Little Mama
[3:38] 2. Curtis Jack Griffin - I Get So Lonesome
[2:48] 3. Hollywood Fats - Tribute To T-Bone Walker
[2:38] 4. Rasheed Abdullah - I Shoulda Kept On Runnin'
[6:24] 5. Smokey Wilson - Anna Lee
[3:30] 6. Johnny Dyer - So Glad I'm Livin'
[3:13] 7. Smokey Wilson - Goin' Upside Your Head
[3:51] 8. Cardell Boyette - I Miss You So
[4:19] 9. George 'Harmonica' Smith - Hard Times
[2:39] 10. Alex Schultz - Groovin' With Alex
[5:57] 11. Cardell Boyette - Black Cat Bone
[3:13] 12. Smokey Wilson - Shake For Me
[5:58] 13. Rasheed Abdullah - Racetrack Blues
[7:29] 14. Zach Zunis - 7-11 Cocktail

VOCALS: Cardell Boyette, Curtis Jack Griffin, George 'Harmonica' Smith*, Johnny Dyer, Rasheed Abdullah, Smokey Wilson
GUITAR: Alex Schultz (8), Cardell Boyette, Curtis Jack Griffin, Fred Kaplan (9), Hollywood Fats (Michael Mann), Rick Holmstrom (1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13), Smokey Wilson, Zach Zunis (2)
HARMONICA: George 'Harmonica' Smith, Johnny Dyer, William Clarke
PIANOS: Fred Kaplan (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14), Steve F'Dor (2, 6, 8, 11)
ACOUSTIC BASS: Tyler Pedersen (2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 13), Willie Brinlee (1, 5, 7, 10, 12)
BASS: John Young (14)
DRUMS: Lee Campbell (3), Eddie Clark (1,5,7,10,12,14), Jimi Bott (2,4,6,8,11,13)

This album was compiled and produced by William Clarke, and is dedicated to the memory of two great Los Angeles bluesmen - Hollywood Fats (Michael Mann) and George 'Harmonica' Smith. This anthology brings music from Los Angeles, from 1980 to 1991. Album engineered by Glenn Nishida.

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Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom - Best Grooves & Jams

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:18
Size: 158.6 MB
Styles: Blues/Jazz/Funk
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[4:08] 1. Knee Squeeze (Feat. Ronnie Earl)
[3:08] 2. Chicken Fried Snake (Feat. Jimmie Vaughn & Ronnie Earl)
[3:46] 3. Groovelatin' Acid Blues (Feat. Lowell Fulson)
[3:23] 4. Chillin Out (Feat. Albert Collins)
[5:30] 5. Defrostin' (Feat. Albert Collins & Memphis Horns)
[8:21] 6. Prayin The Blues (Feat. Gray Sargent)
[6:22] 7. Greaze Is What's Good (Feat. Melvin Sparks)
[6:53] 8. J-J-Jazz It Up (Feat. Freddie Hubbard)
[6:53] 9. U Rockin' Me (Feat. Sax Gordon & Melvin Sparks)
[5:31] 10. Square Business (Feat. Smokin' Joe Kubek)
[4:41] 11. The Life You Save (Feat. B'nois King)
[6:45] 12. Some Help I Don't Need
[3:53] 13. Smoke & Fire (Feat. Smokey Wilson)

Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom grooveliciously combines, works, plays in, stretches out, distorts, harmonizes and reflects the familiar and exotic, the smooth and toxic, the dynamic ups and the downs, the known and unknown boundaries of Blues and Jazz, Latin and Gospel, Hip-Hop and free style feelings into a unique musical gumbo, exciting young hip club and college audiences as well as the older veteran Blues and Jazz aficionados everywhere across the globe.

Levy, a steady 40+ year veteran of every cool scene to be seen, whether it be with Albert King, B.B. King, Roomful of Blues, Luther 'Guitar Jr' Johnson or Karl Denson and as organist, pianist, composer, arranger, sideman or soloist, producer and A&R man of over 200 recording projects of traditional and contemporary Blues, R&B, Jazz, Gospel, and real deal, hardcore music from New Orleans, Memphis, NYC, West Coast, Texas and beyond, has garnered many awards and nine Grammy nominations. His original compositions and recordings have been used on every television network and over a dozen films.

He has culminated and organized his musical/magical know-how and formed an elite group of top musicians, Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom. He's currently performing on side projects with the up-and-coming Blues guitarist and singer Barrett Anderson [along with Per Hanson], 2013 winners for 'Best Blues Band' at the Boston Music Awards, SPANK! [with Fuzz and Eric Kalb of Deep Banana Blackout] and Philip Pemberton, the current lead singer with Roomful of Blues. Levy and Pemberton were just inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame. [Ron is in New Hampshire's HOF too!] Levy is currently teaching Hammond organ and music theory in the Boston area and around the world via Skype as well.

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Jimmy McCracklin - A Taste Of The Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:19
Size: 103.8 MB
Styles: West Coast blues
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[3:40] 1. Boogie On Down
[3:46] 2. Lie To Me
[3:18] 3. How Do You Like You New Love
[4:11] 4. My Answer
[3:34] 5. Help The Bear
[4:57] 6. Yesterday Is Gone
[4:30] 7. I Got Juiced
[5:52] 8. Put Up Or Shut Up
[3:53] 9. Not The Right Thing
[2:43] 10. Outside Help
[4:51] 11. Taste Of The Blues

Now these are the sort of cameos that make a contemporary blues disc work! Lowell Fulson, Larry Davis, Smokey Wilson, Barbara Lynn, and Johnny Otis all guested on McCracklin's most recent album for Bullseye Blues, making it clear that the pianist is no museum piece with their swinging grooves and sharp solos. ~Bill Dahl

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Smokey Wilson - 88th Street Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 46:45
Size: 107.0 MB
Styles: West Coast blues
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[3:30] 1. Standing At The Crossroads
[2:55] 2. You Better Watch Yourself
[4:29] 3. You Don't Love Me
[4:41] 4. 88th Street Blues
[3:03] 5. Sun Is Shining
[3:21] 6. I Didn't Know
[4:18] 7. You Know What My Body Needs
[4:03] 8. Howlin' For My Darlin'
[3:47] 9. I Got Something On You Baby
[4:03] 10. How Smokey Feels
[3:01] 11. Smokey's Shuffle
[5:28] 12. Dimples

The barbed-wire vocals and slashing guitar of Mississippi-bred Smokey Wilson blend well with harpist Rod Piazza and company on this 1983 set first out on Murray Bros. Records. Not quite as stunning as his more recent work for Bullseye Blues, but definitely has some incendiary moments. ~Bill Dahl

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Smokey Wilson - Sing The Blues / With The William Clarke Band

Album: Sing The Blues
Size: 95,3 MB
Time: 40:24
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: West Coast Blues
Art: Full

01. Blues For Big Town (3:33)
02. I Wonder Why Strange Things Are Happening To Me (4:29)
03. Honey Bee (4:24)
04. I Wish I Was A Sings (5:08)
05. Loudella (4:23)
06. Someone, Guess Who (5:21)
07. I'm No Fool, I Know The Blues (4:02)
08. I Want You (2:56)
09. You Shadowed My Dreams (6:03)

When Los Angeles-based guitarist Smokey Wilson really got serious about setting a full-fledged career as a bluesman in motion, it didn't take him long to astound the aficionados with an incendiary 1993 set for Bullseye Blues, Smoke n' Fire, that conjured up echoes of the Mississippi Delta of his youth. Robert Lee Wilson lived and played the blues with Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, Big Jack Johnson, Frank Frost, and other Mississippi stalwarts before relocating to L.A. in 1970 when he was 35 years old. But instead of grabbing for the gold as a touring entity, he opened the Pioneer Club in Watts, leading the house band while the club booked the very best in blues talent (all-star attractions at the fabled joint included Joe Turner, Percy Mayfield, Pee Wee Crayton, Albert Collins, and plenty more).

Wilson recorded sparingly at first, his LPs for Big Town not doing the man justice. A 1983 set for Murray Brothers (later reissued on Blind Pig) with harpist Rod Piazza and Hollywood Fats on rhythm guitar may have been the turning point; clearly, he was gearing up to leave his Mississippi mark on Southern California blues. Smoke n' Fire from 1993, its 1995 encore The Real Deal (a title now used for three contemporary blues albums in a year's time: John Primer and Buddy Guy have also claimed it), and 1997's The Man from Mars nominate Smokey Wilson as one of the hottest late bloomers in the blues business. ~Biography by Bill Dahl

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Album: With The William Clarke Band
Size: 105,3 MB
Time: 44:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1990/1997
Styles: West Coast Blues
Art: Full

01. Down In Virginia (3:21)
02. I Wish I Was Single (5:49)
03. Howling Wolf (3:40)
04. Tell Me What Do You See (5:01)
05. Bar Room Blues (3:15)
06. Cold Chills (4:15)
07. Ghetto Woman (4:33)
08. Dimples (2:48)
09. Lein On My Body (4:29)
10. The Things I Used To Do (4:13)
11. Truckload Of Love (3:31)

This is a reissue, originally released 1990, issued posthumously in the memory of harmonica virtuoso William Clarke, who plays prominently along with his band. Both frequently performed together at Wilson's Pioneer Club and their close friendship is reflected in the musical interaction of Wilson's Mississippi roots mixed with Clarke's hard-blowin' harp attack. Wilson described his life best in "Tell Me What Do You See" with the words, "I've been all around the world/And blues is all I know to play." Other greats hop along for the ride, including keyboardist Fred Kaplan, and Mighty Flyers alumni Junior Watson and Alex Schultz. It's no accident that Wilson has some of Howlin' Wolf's vocal mannerisms on the song named after the Wolf himself. The story is that Wolf "willed" his voice to Wilson during one of Wolf's shows. ~Review by Char Ham

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Smokey Wilson - Smoke N' Fire / The Real Deal

Album: Smoke N' Fire
Size: 113,2 MB
Time: 48:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1993
Styles: West Coast Blues
Art: Full

01. Don't Burn Down L.A. (3:36)
02. You Took Everything From Me (4:40)
03. Smoke N' Fire (3:52)
04. Tired Of Cryin' (3:39)
05. 88Th Street Blues (6:25)
06. Killing Floor (5:38)
07. Tired Of Waiting On You (3:10)
08. Nobody's Bid'ness (4:11)
09. I Didn't Know (4:21)
10. Just Messin' Around (4:15)
11. Why Don't You Let Me Be (5:02)

Transplanted Mississippian Smokey Wilson has made plenty of records, but usually for poorly distributed regional labels. So although he is far from a newcomer, he might as well be a fledgling rookie to the average listener. The songs, aside from the lyrically commendable but awkward "Don't Burn Down L.A.," are primarily his own urgent expositions on love, life's unfairness, and pain. His playing blends slamming fills, chunky riffs, and sonic barrages mixed with expert uses of distortion, bent notes, and flashy chords. This is the kind of no-nonsense set that has earned Rounder/Bullseye its exemplary reputation. ~Review by Ron Wynn

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Album: The Real Deal
Size: 121,4 MB
Time: 52:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: West Coast Blues
Art: Full

01. Son Of A...Blues Player (3:32)
02. House In Hollywood (5:34)
03. Bad Boy (3:15)
04. Sittin' In Jackson (3:57)
05. Feel Like Going Home (3:19)
06. Rat Takin' Your Cheese (6:30)
07. In My Life (3:42)
08. Not Pickin' Your Cotton (6:16)
09. I Wanna Do It To You Baby (2:44)
10. When You Got Somebody (7:19)
11. Can't Make It Without You (6:17)

More steady-burning blues sparked by Wilson's unyielding guitar work and mean vocals. One difference -- he goes the unplugged route on solo versions of Muddy Waters's "Feel like Going Home" and his own "Son of A...Blues Player." Elsewhere, it's electric juke-joint nirvana, Wilson cutting close to the bone on "Rat Takin' Your Cheese," "I Wanna Do It to You Baby," and "House in Hollywood." ~Review by Bill Dahl

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