Jelly Roll All-Stars - Must Be Jelly (Live At WROX In Clarksdale, Mississippi)

Size: 121.5 MB
Time: 51:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2004
Styles: Delta Blues
Art: Full

01. Jelly Roll All Stars Intro (0:08)
02. Baby Don't Say That No More (4:05)
03. Reed Rap (0:44)
04. I'm Gonna Get My Baby (2:36)
05. Sun Is Shining (4:12)
06. If I Ever Get Flush Again (4:01)
07. King Motel (4:05)
08. Jelly Roll Strut (4:06)
09. Arkansas Boogie (5:09)
10. Eye To Eye (6:48)
11. Feels Too Good (To Be Bad) (4:25)
12. Country Girl (5:10)
13. Nine Below Zero (2:45)
14. Tryin' To Find It (3:19)

The Jelly Roll All-Stars are a rare group of musicians comprised of some of the upper echelon of classic Blues session-men from the golden age of the genre: Calvin 'Fuzz' Jones (bass and multiple W.C. Handy Award winner) and Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith (drums, vocals) were the rhythm section for Blues great Muddy Waters for nearly two decades; Sam Carr (drums), son of Robert Nighthawk played with the Jelly Roll Kings, the Delta Jukes, and Sonny Boy Williamson II; and Arthur Williams (vocals, harp), who shared stages with Elmore James and Junior Wells. This CD was recorded raw with no overdubs in the legendary WROX Blues Radio studio in Clarksdale, Mississippi with everyone playing together in real time. Also includes accompanists Bob Lohr (piano) and Jesse Hoggard (guitar).

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Frank Frost & Sam Carr - The Jelly Roll Kings

Year: 1999
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:59
Size: 99,4 MB
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Let's Go Out Tonight (3:02)
2. It's Cold Outdoors (4:07)
3. Jelly Roll King (2:35)
4. Love I Have Is True (3:01)
5. Helena Hop (3:22)
6. Sittin' On Daddy's Knee (4:41)
7. You Took All My Dough (2:51)
8. Baby Please (4:39)
9. Mess Around (4:07)
10. Will It Be You (4:28)
11. Owl Head Woman (3:45)
12. Done With Me (2:15)

Recorded in 1998 in the Sonny Boy Williamson Memorial Music Hall in Helena, Arkansas, this pares the blues down to a bare-bones sound with Frank Frost on vocals and harmonica (piano on one track) and Sam Carr on drums (vocals on one track, "Owl Head Woman"), tied together with the overdubbed guitar work of producer Fred James, who also provides the unobtrusive bass parts in the background.

The result is a very modern-sounding (i.e., powerful) production that nonetheless keeps the format so astoundingly simple, it seems like a throwback to an earlier time. Even better is that all of the material on here is original; only a solid remake of "Jelly Roll King" (previously recorded by Frost for Sun) interrupts the flow of new songs, all of them firmly in the Delta juke-joint tradition.

There's something very alive about these recordings, even with James' overdubbed guitar or bass work, that has as much to do with the sound of the Music Hall as the performances themselves. Highlights include "Let's Go Out Tonight," "Love I Have Is True," "Sittin' On Daddy's Knee," athe low-down instrumental "Mess Around," Frost's out-of-tune piano playing behind Carr on "Owl Head Woman" and the Bo Diddley-like closer, "Done With Me," all representative of loose, wonderful, down-home blues playing captured raw, alive and exciting. /Cub Koda, AllMusic

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Willie Lomax Blues Revue - 2 albums: Ribs Are Ready / Give Me Back My Teeth

Album: Ribs Are Ready
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:25
Size: 149.8 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Southern blues rock
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[3:28] 1. Back Rub
[6:04] 2. Don't Know What I Did
[4:52] 3. For Better Or Worse
[7:04] 4. Too Many Fences
[4:41] 5. People Get Ready
[3:05] 6. Ribs Are Ready
[3:46] 7. Eddie Mae's Cafe
[4:06] 8. She's So Sweet
[3:19] 9. Hip Joint
[3:35] 10. Don't Fight The Feeling
[2:56] 11. Struttin'
[5:00] 12. Take Away Your Lonliness
[4:47] 13. I Want To Show You
[4:11] 14. Freedom Is In Your Heart
[4:22] 15. Too Many Fences (Radio Edit)

"One of 1999's best releases...literally bursting with talent...an incredible listening experience that blows away 95% of the competition on today's recording scene... hailed as the Hit of '99." ~ REAL BLUES

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Album: Give Me Back My Teeth
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:33
Size: 161.5 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Electric blues
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[ 4:18] 1. Where I've Been
[ 4:56] 2. Blues For Peewee
[ 3:10] 3. Mojo Man
[ 3:23] 4. Crumblin' Down
[ 5:17] 5. Lonely With The One You Love
[ 3:46] 6. Long Day Blues
[ 3:37] 7. Give Me Back My Teeth
[ 4:11] 8. Cow Cow Boogie (Moo Moo My Love)
[ 2:42] 9. Way A Tree Falls
[ 2:56] 10. Pretty Baby Blues
[11:42] 11. Blues For Jackie Robinson
[ 4:48] 12. King Biscuit Blues
[ 3:22] 13. Crumblin' Down (Alternate Mix)
[ 2:41] 14. Razorback
[ 2:28] 15. Keep Your Hands Off Of Him
[ 3:30] 16. Down The Road
[ 3:38] 17. Hissy Fit

Featuring Ronnie Earl, Sam Carr, James Peterson and Rock Bottom."Smouldering guitar licks" ~BLUEPRINT. "Guitar fireworks showcase elegant dynamics of touch and tone...Sam Carr's dominating delta time separates this from the hordes of generic new blues.

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Frank Frost - Live In Lucerne

Year: 2004
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:34
Size: 116,6 MB
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. You Better Watch Yourself (4:16)
2. Deep Blues (4:52)
3. Janie's On My Mind (7:05)
4. Scratch My Back (4:29)
5. I Didn't Know (4:25)
6. Frank's Mambo (4:07)
7. St. Louis Serenade (6:28)
8. Jelly Roll King (3:59)
9. Lucky To Be Living (5:45)
10. Helena Boogie (5:04)

This is Frank Frost's last recording and it is his only live album. It was recorded on his 1998 European tour at the Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland and features producer, guitarist Fred James and ex-Amazing Rhythm Aces bass player Jeff Davis, along with longtime drummer Sam Carr.

Frank passed away in 1999 and was considered to be the greatest of the second generation of Delta Blues harmonica players. He began his career, though, as a backing guitarist for Robert Nighthawk and Sonny Boy Williamson (II). It was Sonny Boy who inspired him to pick up the harmonica and the influence is obvious.

Frank Frost and drummer Sam Carr formed The Jelly Roll Kings in the late 50s as a duo with Frank playing guitar and harp on a rack. They soon added Jack Johnson on guitar and bass and it was this unit that recorded for Sun/Phillips, Jewel and Earwig.

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Frank Frost & Sam Carr - The Last Of The Jelly Roll Kings

Time: 57:11
Size: 130.9 MB
Source: LL
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Blues
Released: 2007
Covers: Full

1. Better Take It Slow {3:13}
2. Hey Baby {5:13}
3. Keep Things Right {3:16}
4. Done With You {3:20}
5. Owl Head Woman Part 2 {3:53}
6. Don't Do That {5:32}
7. Jelly Roll King {2:38}
8. Rock Me Baby {2:57}
9. Come Here Baby {2:34}
10. St. Louis Serenade {3:13}
11. How Many Times {5:14}
12. Black Cat Bone {3:08}
13. Midnight Prowler {3:55}
14. King Biscuit Blues {5:39}
15. Arkansas Shuffle {3:19}

Guitarist and harmonica player Frank Frost was essentially an Arkansas version of Jimmy Reed when he hooked up with drummer Sam Carr in the early '50s. Carr, the son of bluesman Robert Nighthawk, and Frost worked in Nighthawk's band for several years before striking out as a duo in the early '60s, and when they added guitar player and bassist Jack Johnson in 1962, they became the Jelly Roll Kings (although they wouldn't use the name for a couple of years yet). Working the Reed side of the street with a distinct Mississippi juke-joint feel, the Kings recorded for the Sun, Jewel, and Earwig labels before Johnson left in the late '80s -- the original trio reunited in 1997 for Fat Possum's Off Yonders Wall -- after which Frost and Carr began working with an ever-rotating cast of guitarists, one of whom was Fred James. James ran tape on the Kings in Helena, AR, in 1998 for an album that was eventually released as The Jelly Roll Kings on Hightone Records a year later in 1999. James also released on his own R.O.A.D. Records a live Jelly Roll Kings set recorded by a Swiss radio crew at the 1993 Lucerne Blues Festival. This collection is made up of outtakes and alternates from the Helena sessions (the first ten tracks) and a few stray songs from the Lucerne gig (the last five tracks). There are no real surprises, since with the Kings what you got was what you got, and that generally meant no-frills Southern juke-joint jams with plenty of harp breaks from Frost. Highlights here include the lead track, "Better Take It Slow," the spunky "Done with You," and the majestic and ragged "St. Louis Serenade."
AllMusic Review by Steve Leggett

The Last Of The Jelly Roll Kings

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Sam Carr's Delta Jukes - Down In The Delta

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:47
Size: 102.5 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Juke joint blues
Year: 2004/2011
Art: Front

[3:47] 1. Down In The Delta
[4:58] 2. I Got Love
[3:26] 3. All My Life
[4:02] 4. You Need Love
[4:16] 5. Blues Is A Feeling
[2:35] 6. Better Take It Slow
[5:36] 7. I'm Hungry
[3:59] 8. Juke Foint Saturday Night
[4:45] 9. Shine
[3:09] 10. I'm Tired
[4:08] 11. I Cried

The Delta Jukes are a loose configuration of veteran Mississippi blues musicians anchored by legendary Delta drummer Sam Carr. Carr is the son of bluesman Robert Nighthawk, and started out playing in his father's band alongside guitarist Frank Frost. Frost and Carr formed the Jelly Roll Kings following Nighthawk's death, adding Big Jack Johnson on guitar. When Johnson left for a solo career, and following Frost's death in 1999, Carr drafted Fred James on guitar and the group became known as the Delta Jukes. Singer/guitarist Dave Riley and singer/harmonica player John Weston round out the classic Jukes lineup. The Delta Jukes play crisp, no-frills modern Delta blues; their first album, Working for the Blues, was produced by Fred James and released in 2002. ~ Steve Leggett

Down In The Delta

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Various - The End Of An Era: 20 Years In Bluesland

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:05
Size: 139.8 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[3:29] 1. Roscoe Shelton - She's The One
[5:37] 2. Earl Gaines - I Believe In Your Love
[5:24] 3. Johnny Jones - I Can't Do That
[3:12] 4. Al Garner - Fatback
[4:23] 5. Herbert Hunter - Her Love Is Killing Me
[4:37] 6. Larry Ladon - Automobile
[3:27] 7. Charles Walker - You Got The Walk
[5:11] 8. Freddie Waters - Full Moon On Main Street
[4:09] 9. Dave Riley - Heat Up The Oven
[3:21] 10. Sam Lay - I'm The One
[6:43] 11. Homesick James Williamson - Crawlin' Kingsnake
[4:24] 12. Frank Frost - Born To Be Wise
[3:23] 13. Sam Carr - All My Life
[3:36] 14. Fred James - Herb Stuffing

Although the liner notes to this 14-track blues collection are otherwise thorough, one not so insignificant element is missing: the original release and recording dates of the material. The common thread seems to be that they were all produced by Fred James, who also plays guitar on all of the cuts, one of which, the instrumental "Herb Stuffing," is credited to James himself. Though James also wrote the notes, the time frame of the tracks (four of which were previously unissued) is maddeningly unspecific, though it can be deduced that they were all done sometime in the 20 years prior to this 2010 release. At any rate, these are pretty average, workmanlike contemporary electric blues, not many of them by big names in the field, with Earl Gaines, Frank Frost, Sam Lay, and Johnny Jones being the biggest. Sometimes performances of particular strength cut through to get noticed, especially Gaines' ballad "I Believe in Your Love," which has a rich and moving vibrato vocal. James is a decent and versatile guitarist, too, but in part owing to the substandard documentation, it's not a notable compilation of 20th into 21st century blues. ~Richie Unterberger

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VA - Last Of The Mississippi Jukes Soundtrack

Size: 158,4 MB
Time: 68:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front

01 Sam Carr, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Anthony Sherrod - Joe Friday (3:41)
02 Deep Cuts - Every Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone (4:28)
03 Bobby Rush - Garbage Man (2:12)
04 Casey Phillips & The Hounds, Greg 'Fingers' Taylor - Subway Swing (1:58)
05 Patrice Moncell, House Rockers - Stormy Monday (8:13)
06 King Edward Blues Band, Levon Lindsey, J.T. Watkins - You Know I've Tried (3:45)
07 King Edward Blues Band, Vasti Jackson - Casino In The Cottonfield (4:27)
08 Chris Thomas King - John Law Burned Down The Liquor Sto' (3:47)
09 King Edward Blues Band, Pat Brown, Dennis Fountain - Blues Is Alright (4:01)
10 Lucille, Greg 'Fingers' Taylor - What Goes Around, Comes Around (6:33)
11 King Edward Blues Band - Hole In The Wall (4:06)
12 Vasti Jackson, Patrice Moncell, House Rockers - Strokin' (9:51)
13 Abdul Rasheed, House Rockers - Members Only (3:52)
14 Virgil Brawley, David Hughes, Jimmy King - Juke Joint Jam; Last Of The Mississippi Jukes-Next Time You See Me (7:11)

Film director Robert Mugge has been responsible for a number of documentaries chronicling indigenous American musical styles, notably Deep Blues (1991) and Gather at the River: A Bluegrass Celebration (1994). Last of the Mississippi Jukes, which had its first exposure on a premium cable movie channel and was released on DVD concurrently with this audio soundtrack CD, is closest to Deep Blues among his efforts, though it is more concerned with electric blues. Mugge took his cameras into the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, MS (a re-created juke joint established by the film star Morgan Freeman), and the Subway Lounge in Jackson, MS. There he captured a variety of lively performers who are heard here. Patrice Moncell, who gets two cuts, is a particular standout, turning in a bravura treatment of the blues standard "Stormy Monday" and a lengthy, salacious recitative called "Strokin'." Other standouts include Chris Thomas King's "John Law Burned Down the Liquor Sto," a shaggy-dog bootlegging story, and Greg "Fingers" Taylor's "Subway Swing," which details goings-on at the Subway Lounge. But the entire disc demonstrates that the blues are alive and well in the clubs of Mississippi. ~Review by William Ruhlmann

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Last Of The Mississippi Jukes Soundtrack

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Sam Carr's Delta Jukes - Let The Good Times Roll

Size: 108,8 MB
Time: 46:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2007
Styles: Delta Blues, Juke Joint Blues
Art: Full

01. Thank You Baby (4:20)
02. All Night Long (3:47)
03. Jimmy Reed Medley: You Don't Have To Go/Hush Hush/Baby What You Want Me (4:58)
04. Fishing (4:05)
05. Good Man (6:25)
06. Why Do You Call (3:47)
07. That's Alright (1:56)
08. Hoover Den (2:05)
09. Little Red Rooster (5:07)
10. Big Boss Man (1:39)
11. Crawling King Snake (4:55)
12. Let The Good Times Roll (3:19)

Blues drummer Sam Carr is the son of the legendary Robert Nighthawk, and from his Mississippi birthplace arrived in St. Louis, and then for good in Helena, AK, where he formed this group, the Delta Jukes. They play authentic, raw, and untamed down-home blues, replete with the rough-hewn, basic techniques that signify blues dragged through Southern mud and somewhat refined by modern electricity. On this document are two significant vocalists in Dave Riley, who sings on six cuts, and John Weston, who plays a spare basic harmonica on all the tracks, and does the lyric on two. Weston appeared on this session shortly before passing away from heart failure. Producer Fred James plays second guitar and bass, while Andrew Turner is on third guitar. Riley sings on the ragged edge for the juke-joint shuffle "Thank You Baby," the chooglin' "All Night Long," the good-time party tune "Why Do You Call," and the rocker "Hoover Den" (a typo? "Hoover Dam"?), all of which he wrote. Weston vocally shows more range and a smoother, lower timbre during his compositions, the slow "Fishing" and slower "Good Man." The rest are well-known blues standards, including an excellent steady-rollin' three-song Jimmy Reed medley. Carr sings and plays guitar in tandem with Weston for a loosey-goosey take on "Big Boss Man" and the Jimmy Rogers-penned "Sweet Home Chicago"-sounding "That's Alright." The final two tracks are a revelation, as Turner, paralleling Lonnie Brooks in sound and stance, turns in some nasty guitar and vocal work during John Lee Hooker's "Crawling King Snake" and the party anthem "Let the Good Times Roll." Though at times a bit sloppy and imprecise, this is still a fine no-frills CD that blues lovers should easily enjoy. ~Review by Michael G. Nastos

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Let The Good Times Roll

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SAM CARR'S DELTA JUKES - Live In Europe

Styles: Modern Electric Delta Blues, Juke Joint Blues, Harmonica Blues
Recorded: 2000
Released: 2010
File: mp3 @ 320 k/s
Size: 140.04 MB
Time: 59:10
Art: Full

1. Shoppin' For My Baby (3:26)
2. So Doggone Blue (6:15)
3. Pretty Pretty Woman (3:30)
4. The Blues Got Me (8:25)
5. Automobile (4:08)
6. Living On Borrowed Time (7:33)
7. Better Take It Slow (4:16)
8. Playin' The Game (5:51)
9. About Money (5:32)
10. You Don't Have To Go (5:50)
11. I'm Not Your Garbage Man (4:24)

Personnel: Sam CARR - Drums
John Weston - Harmonica, Vocals
Dave Riley - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Fred James - Rhythm Guitar
Jeff Davis - Bass

Notes: Sam Carr is as close to royalty as you can get in the Blues world. He was born in Friar's Point, Mississippi in 1926, the son of legendary Blues man Robert Nighthawk (aka Robert Lee McCoy). Sam Carr cut his teeth playing with his father, then Sonny Boy Williamson before forming the Jelly Roll Kings with Frank Frost. In 1960 they recorded the classic 'Boss Man' album for Sam Phillips, (of Sun Records fame). Their next record was produced by Elvis' guitarist Scotty Moore and yielded a hit with 'My Back Scratcher'. After Frank Frost's death in 1996, Sam put together a new band called The Delta Jukes and these live recordings are their earliest. Live archive release from the Blues legend, recorded at the Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland in 2000. This is modern Mississippi Delta Blues at its finest.

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Dave Riley - Whiskey, Money & Women

Released: 2001
Size: 109.6 MB
Time: 47:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Blues / Rock
Art: Full

1. Call My Job [5:01]
2. There She Comes [5:08]
3. Whiskey, Money & Women [3:27]
4. Tribute [4:12]
5. Down South [4:57]
6. Smokestack Lightning [4:05]
7. Angel Of Mercy [4:44]
8. I Want To Thank You Baby [4:23]
9. My Baby's Gone [3:13]
10. Casino Blues [3:34]
11. Imagine [5:01]

Dave Riley found himself in the 70’s playing bass, and occasionally sitting in, with Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, and Howlin Wolf. In 1973, he gave up his on the road musical career to help raise his only son, Dave L. Riley, Jr. Now that his son is grown, Riley is continuing with his music career. Riley formed his own band in 1996 and soon enlisted his son, Dave “Yahni” Riley, Jr., to play bass.
In 1998 Riley’s neck was broken in a car crash with a drunken driver, ending his career at the prison and leaving him unable to play the guitar for nine months. He has now regained most of his playing ability. His first CD, Living on Borrowed Time, is the story of his own personal tragedies. His second CD, Blues Across America has been a great success. Right now he is busy touring all over the country with his band. In addition to his son, his band consists of drummer Sam Carr, and Arkansas harp man, John Weston.

Whiskey, Money & Women

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The Delta Jukes - Working For The Blues

Size: 123,8 MB
Time: 53:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Delta Blues
Art: Full

01. I'm Overdue (4:47)
02. Shopping For My Baby (3:05)
03. Play The Game (5:17)
04. Just Once More (4:31)
05. This Misery (4:35)
06. To Love Is Blues (6:31)
07. Voodoo Woman, Voodoo Man (4:39)
08. A Trade Was Made (3:23)
09. Come Here Baby (5:39)
10. Carr Hop (5:01)
11. Working For The Blues (3:17)
12. Hoover Den (2:27)

A loose aggregation of veteran Mississippi blues musicians anchored by legendary drummer Sam Carr, the Delta Jukes grew out of the ashes of the Jelly Roll Kings, and play the same kind of straight-ahead, no-frills, modern electric Delta blues. Working for the Blues is their first album in this incarnation, and it delivers the feel of a Mississippi juke joint, with solid mid-tempo songs that don't try to do too much beyond make you dance and sway. Highlights include "Shopping for My Baby," "This Misery," and the instrumental "Carr Hop." Less raw than Junior Kimbrough or R.L. Burnside, the Delta Jukes still retain an edgy tension in their delivery, a trait often lacking in much of contemporary blues. ~Review by Steve Leggett

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Working For The Blues

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