VA - Blue Muse

Size: 168,1 MB
Time: 71:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Acoustic/Electric Blues, Blues Folk
Art: Front

01 The Grotto Sessions - La Collegiale (3:27)
02 Taj Mahal - Spike Driver Blues (4:24)
03 Captain Luke - Old Black Buck (3:29)
04 Eddie Tigner - Route 66 (4:45)
05 Alabama Slim - I Got The Blues (4:39)
06 Robert Finley - Age Don't Mean A Thing (4:27)
07 Dom Flemons - Polly Put The Kettle On (2:14)
08 John Dee Holeman - Hambone (2:18)
09 Algia Mae Hinton - Snap Your Fingers (3:40)
10 Willie Farmer - I Am The Lightnin' (3:20)
11 Dave McGrew - D.O.C. Man (3:43)
12 Martha Spencer & Kelley Breiding - Sweet Valentine (2:24)
13 Dom Flemons - I Wanna Boogie (1:43)
14 Eric & Tim - Mississippi Blues (3:46)
15 Guitar Gabriel - Landlord Blues (2:54)
16 Drink Small - Widow Woman (4:15)
17 Sam Frazier Jr. - Cabbage Man (2:27)
18 Cary Morin - Sing It Louder (2:59)
19 Ironing Board Sam - Loose Diamonds (4:12)
20 The Branchettes - I Know I've Been Changed (3:35)
21 Theotis Taylor - Something Within Me (2:49)

Blue Muse

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Sam Frazier Jr & The SBGs - S/T

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 29:45
Size: 68.1 MB
Styles: Country blues, Harmonica blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[2:58] 1. Don't Start Me to Talkin'
[0:22] 2. Intro
[3:13] 3. Nine Below Zero
[4:00] 4. Honest I Do
[4:17] 5. Miner's Refrain
[3:15] 6. Your Cheatin' Heart
[3:17] 7. Fannie Mae
[3:22] 8. Inherit the Blues
[4:56] 9. Little Milton Jam

Sam Frazier, Jr. is a rare bluesman. He plays the harp like Sony Boy Williamson, sings the blues like Slim Harpo, and sings country like Charley Pride, or sings his own original soul music. His band is just as versatile. You are never sure what Sam and the band might play, but you can be sure it will be good. And YOU WILL be entertained!

Singer and harmonica player Sam Frazier Jr. recalled the time in the 1960s when he went to audition for a talent show held at Sonny Duke’s country music club in Birmingham, Alabama. Frazier was one of the few African-Americans who were playing country music, and this particular night he was the only black person in Duke’s. “All eyes were on me,” Frazier said. On harmonica, he played “Orange Blossom Special,” solo and also played Jimmy Reed’s tune “Big Boss Man.” When he got home, the club owners called him and asked him to play again. They told him the audience wanted him to come back to perform. Frazier became a regular performer at the club, and toured some with the house band.

The story illustrates how Frazier has comfortably moved between the worlds of country music and the blues during a music career of more than 50 years. Frazier, who has recordings in both country music and the blues, and who learned harmonica from Sonny Boy Williamson and Slim Harpo, recently became part of Music Maker Relief Foundation’s group of artists.
Frazier was born in the mining town of Edgewater, Alabama, near Birmingham. His mother would hold backyard barbecues where the liquor would flow, and musicians often would come and play. Among them were Williamson and Harpo, who both gave Frazier harmonicas and encouraged him to play. Both musicians “told me if I wanted to play it, just to stay with it,” Frazier said in a phone interview from his home in Alabama. “I picked up a lot on my own looking at them,” he said.

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