VA - Harmonica Blues

Size: 231,3 MB
Time: 98:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01 Linkin' Louisiana Peps - I Got My Mojo Working (2:48)
02 John Hammond - Don't Start Me Talking (2:36)
03 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Off The Wall (2:07)
04 The J. Geils Band - Whammer Jammer (2:38)
05 Toots Thielemans - The Blacksmith Blues (2:16)
06 The Edgar Broughton Band - Bring It On Home (3:27)
07 Cactus - Big Mama Boogie, Pts. 1 & 2 (5:27)
08 Tom Rush - Milk Cow Blues (3:13)
09 Low Budget Blues Band - My Babe (2:30)
10 Dr Feelgood - Boom Boom (2:41)
11 Little Feat - Forty-Four Blues / How Many More Years (6:27)
12 Jerry Jeff Walker - Harmonica Talk (1:04)
13 The Youngbloods - Kind Hearted Woman (6:09)
14 Buddy Guy - Last Night (7:52)
15 The Incredible String Band - Blues For The Muse (2:45)
16 Maria Muldaur - I'm A Woman (4:05)
17 Brownsville Station - Crazy Legs (3:21)
18 John Sebastian - Blues For Dad And JB's Happy Harmonica (Live) (3:41)
19 The Blues Brothers - Flip, Flop & Fly (Live Version) (Joe Gastwirt Remix) (3:38)
20 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Mellow Down Easy (3:03)
21 Grateful Dead - Good Morning Little School Girl (5:50)
22 Jack Champion Dupree - Baby, Please Don't Go (2:26)
23 Jarkka Rissanen & Pepe Ahlqvist - Merzedes Benz (3:29)
24 Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues For Gamblers (6:59)
25 Scott Henderson - Smelly Ol' Dog Blues (7:56)

Harmonica Blues

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Carl Verheyen Band - Trading 8s

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:22
Size: 133.6 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[6:32] 1. Highway 27 (Feat. Joe Bonamassa)
[5:47] 2. Taxman (Feat. Scott Henderson)
[6:08] 3. On Our Way (Feat. Steve Morse)
[4:50] 4. Constant As The Wind
[6:36] 5. Higher Ground (Feat. Rick Vito)
[8:58] 6. New Year's Day (Feat. Robben Ford)
[3:16] 7. Henry's Farm
[3:40] 8. Henry's Farm (Part 2) (Feat. Jim Cox)
[5:38] 9. Country Girl (Feat. Albert Lee)
[6:53] 10. Eastern Steppes

With Scott Henderson, Joe Bonamassa, Steve Morse, Rick Vito, Robben Ford, Albert Lee, Jim Cox as guest artist, there is a lot of great playing to listen to on this album! It is a treat to hear these great guest players trade off solos with Verheyen, and especially fun since they all have very unique styles. My favorite is probably Bonamassa and Henderson's appearances - some wickedly tasty licks and lines happening there by both the guests and Carl!

There are a couple of songs that are a bit dull and boring, but the rest of the tracks make up for that. Lots of great tunes. By the way, Carl sings really good too, this was a pleasant surprise! Great voice. ~DolphinStreet

Trading 8s mc
Trading 8s zippy

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Various - Blues Bureau's Slow Jams Vol. 1: Down And Dirty Blues Collection

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:46
Size: 159.7 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[6:25] 1. The Chris Duarte Group - Something Wicked
[5:30] 2. Rick Derringer - You've Got To Love Her With A Feeling
[4:16] 3. Leslie West - Third Degree
[7:26] 4. Eric Gales - Freedom From My Demons
[5:47] 5. Pat Travers - Too Much (Is Never Enough)
[9:47] 6. Stoney Curtis Band - Blues Without You
[5:46] 7. Schenker Pattison Summit - Voyager
[4:54] 8. Neal Schon - Blues For Miles
[7:17] 9. Michael Landau - Worried Life Blues
[6:21] 10. Marc Ford - Freedom Fighter
[6:13] 11. Scott Henderson - That Hurts

Not all blues artists use the phrase "low down and dirty" as a badge of honor. There are also the uptown blues artists, who are gritty and soulful but also pride themselves on their jazz-influenced sophistication. Typically, uptown blues artists love jazz (especially soul-jazz); are likely to use a Hammond B-3 organ; and have influences like Jimmy Witherspoon, Joe Williams, Percy Mayfield, and Jimmy Rushing. But in most blues circles, "low down and dirty" remains a big selling point -- and that continues to hold true in everything from acoustic Mississippi country blues to electric Chicago blues to blues-soul. On this compilation, low down and dirty usually means blues-rock. Tough, muscular, ballsy blues-rock dominates Blues Bureau's Low Down and Dirty Blues Collection, Vol. 1: Slow Jams, and there is no shortage of grit on performances by Pat Travers ("Too Much Is Never Enough"), Eric Gales ("Freedom from My Demons"), Stoney Curtis ("Blues Without You"), and Leslie West ("Third Degree"). Any CD with names like Travers, West, and Rick Derringer is bound to have a lot of rock appeal, and this 2009 release maintains a strong rock element even when it detours into more jazz-minded territory on two instrumentals: Neal Schon's "Blues for Miles" (as in Miles Davis) and Scott Henderson's "That Hurts." Henderson and Schon, however, aren't combining blues and jazz in the way that the honkers of the 1940s and 1950s or organ combos of the 1960s combined blues and jazz; "Blues for Miles" and "That Hurts" are straight-up fusion -- and despite being more cerebral than most of the other tracks, they still have plenty of guitar-powered rock bravado and don't detract from the compilation's loud-and-proud aesthetic. Blues Bureau's Low Down and Dirty Blues Collection, Vol. 1: Slow Jams isn't the last word on the label's contributions to blues-rock, but it's still a rewarding and generous sample of what the Blues Bureau catalog has to offer. ~Alex Henderson

Blues Bureau's Slow Jams Vol. 1: Down And Dirty Blues Collection mc
Blues Bureau's Slow Jams Vol. 1: Down And Dirty Blues Collection zippy

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