Sean Chambers - Strong Temptation

Album: Strong Temptation
Size: 86,1 MB
Time: 37:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Blues-rock
Art: Full

1. Strong Temptation (3:05)
2. Me & My Guitar (3:21)
3. Mean Town Blues (4:09)
4. Danger Zone (3:27)
5. Crazy For Loving You (4:34)
6. Shame, Shame, Shame (3:58)
7. Dixie 45 (3:10)
8. Mojo Down The Road (4:16)
9. You Was Wrong (7:04)

After fronting an extremely popular Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute band for several years in the early '90s, this Florida native decided it was time to do his own thing. Although Strong Temptation does have glimmers of originality, however, it is still heavy on the SRV influence. "Crazy for Loving You" is a nice, slow blues similar to Gary Moore's "Still Got the Blues," featuring nice piano playing from guest artist Ben Crider. "Mojo Down the Road" is a hard-charging, ZZ Top-style tune.

"Dixie 45" is a cool instrumental centered around a fresh, creative bassline; on this one Chambers gives a nod to his first influence, Hendrix. "You Was Wrong" blends the feel of a "Texas Flood" with "Stormy Monday" and throws in some intriguing, surprising variations on the standard blues chord progressions. Chambers' vocals, although not anything particularly special, seem to do the job. This is rockin', smokin' blues with a hard edge and never a dull moment. /Ann Wickstrom, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Sean Chambers - Live From Daryl's House Club

Album: Live From Daryl's House Club
Size: 136,7 MB
Time: 58:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues-rock
Art: Front

1. Cobra (3:35)
2. I Need Your Loving (3:38)
3. Red Hot Mama (3:41)
4. Louise (5:59)
5. 10 Til Midnight (3:24)
6. Street Corner Talking (7:45)
7. Bullfrog Blues (4:19)
8. Sweeter Than A Honey Bee (4:59)
9. Trouble & Whiskey (5:38)
10. You're Gonna Miss Me (4:17)
11. Louisiana Blues (6:14)
12. Brown Sugar (5:09)

Those unfamiliar with blues rocker Sean Chambers’ name, or the music on his previous eight albums, need only know he served as band leader in Hubert Sumlin’s backing group for about five years to appreciate his credentials. As Howlin’ Wolf’s longtime shotgun-riding guitarist, Sumlin was associated with one of the undisputed legends of the blues for decades. Afterwards, as the musician went on to a solo career, he was a mentor to Chambers. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of that relationship. It was so critical to Chambers’ career that his previous studio release, 2021s ‘That’s What I’m Talkin’ About: Tribute to Hubert Sumlin,’ was a recap of tunes he played while supporting the late blues icon who passed in 2011.

Previous releases showed Chambers to be a superb, fiery, blues-bathed rocker in the shadow of Stevie Ray Vaughan (he once led an SRV tribute act), Johnny Winter and particularly Rory Gallagher. The latter gets a nod as his rollicking, signature version of “Bullfrog Blues” gets covered by Chambers’ on this second live release. He unloads in front of a small but appreciative audience, backed by the rhythm section who supported Kim Simmonds in the final years of Savoy Brown. Naturally there are some classic Brown tunes, including scorching takes on “Street Corner Talking” (nearly nine minutes worth) and Brown’s version of Muddy Waters’ “Louisiana Blues.”

It’s a rousing set. Chambers kicks off with the roaring original instrumental “Cobra” before digging into the swamp-infused, ZZ Top-inspired “I Need Your Loving” (the show closes with Top’s “Brown Sugar” (not the Stones’ song). He then moves into the pulsating rock of “Red Hot Mama” singing “she knows how to blow my fuse.” Elsewhere “Sweeter Than a Honey Bee” is reprised from an earlier album, injected with chunky chords as the Brown guys provide rugged backing and Chambers resonates with gutsy vigor. His thick Vaughan-styled tone combines with Gallagher’s notorious raucous sweat-soaked flannel shirt intensity.

He picks up slide for an excursion down to the Delta on the George Thorogood permeated “You’re Gonna Miss Me.” It’ll sear your ears as he slithers up and down the fretboard with high octane drive that starts in fifth gear and up-shifts from there. The mood eases for Howlin’ Wolf’s slow blues “Louise,” a song Sumlin likely covered in every show. But even when the atmosphere takes a rare breather, Chambers’ discharges stabbing leads like his fingers are aflame, combining short bursts of flash with less frantic movement, pushing and pulling the song with impressive dynamics. He’ll sometimes stop playing for a few seconds, enhancing the drama before diving back in. It’s the height of showmanship which the crowd eats up, as well they should.

The title track of the slightly more subdued “Trouble and Whiskey” (“trouble used to be my lover and the bottle was my only friend” he laments, completing the thought with “it’s all I ever used to know”), is revisited and punched up a notch with Chambers’ torching notes, slathering them with Albert King’s soul. Echoes of Walter Trout and Tab Benoit are evident too, inspirations celebrated for the blistering attack Chambers also displays in every performance of ‘Live from Daryl’s House Club.’ Hubert Sumlin would be proud. /Hal Horowitz, Rock & Blues Muse

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Sean Chambers Band - Live From The Long Island Blues Warehouse

Album: Live From The Long Island Blues Warehouse
Size: 104,9 MB
Time: 45:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Front, back

1. Dixie 45 (3:08)
2. Love Can Find A Way (3:34)
3. Full Moon On Main Street (4:29)
4. Strong Temptation (3:09)
5. Dust My Broom (4:27)
6. Crazy For Loving You (4:57)
7. Danger Zone (3:23)
8. Too Much Blues (3:40)
9. Hip Shake Boogie (3:54)
10. In The Winter Time (10:24)

Each of Florida-based blues guitarist Sean Chambers' three studio albums is on a different record label, so it may be that his fourth release, Live from the Long Island Blues Warehouse, which draws its repertoire from them, is a means of putting songs from the first two discs, Strong Temptation and Humble Spirits, on his current imprint, Blue Heat. In any case, it is a summing up of a talented if very familiar-sounding player whose guitar work is deep in the tradition of blues-rock as purveyed by Jimi Hendrix and, particularly, Johnny Winter. Chambers, fronting a trio that includes the rhythm section of bassist Tim Blair and drummer Paul Broderick (and with harmonica player Gary Keith piping up on "Love Can Find a Way"), plays forceful, quick-note leads on tunes that are often billed as originals, even if they sound like a lot of other blues songs.

He favors fast tempos, but even when he turns to a slow blues like his cover of the Kinsey Report's "Full Moon on Main Street," he usually sticks to a fleet-fingered approach over the reduced tempo. He sings in a baritone with gruff edges, though not nearly as much of a howl as the voice of Johnny Winter. As with his predecessors, however, the vocals aren't really what matters, and Chambers dispenses with them on "Dixie 45" and "Hip Shake Boogie," the latter billed as a new, previously unreleased original even if, as its title suggests, it's really a jam on a time-tested blues structure. Sean Chambers may not be doing anything new on this live set, but his playing is sufficiently accomplished to satisfy blues fans who have heard others play in this style before him. /William Ruhlmann, AllMusic

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Sean Chambers - Ten Til Midnight

Album: Ten Til Midnight
Size: 94,0 MB
Time: 40:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Full

1. Ten Til Midnight (3:34)
2. Blues And Rock 'N' Roll (4:10)
3. All The King's Horses (4:44)
4. You're Gonna Miss Me (3:54)
5. In The Winter Time (6:04)
6. Too Much Blues (3:36)
7. Make It Go (3:17)
8. Brown Sugar (3:58)
9. When I Get Lonely (3:12)
10. I Don't Know Why (4:09)

Introduced to the guitar at 10 years old, Sean Chambers found his calling and the blues along with Rock n' Roll became his life. Feeling his music was his approach as he shunned music lessons and was self-taught taking his lead from the sounds of the Jimi Hendrix catalogue. His talent showed through quickly and by 19 he was opening for the likes of B. B. King, Albert Collins, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Johnny Winter. Ten Til Midnight is Sean's third release after Strong Temptation (1998) and Humble Spirits (2005), but he wanted this to diverge from his other music, he was looking to depict the feeling of a live session with the band playing as if they were at a gig. From the opening riff he succeeded in projecting a live free flowing sound. Sean wrote 7 of the 10 tracks allowing for only 3 band favorite covers to be included (Brown Sugar, All The Kings Horses, and You're Gonna Miss Me).

The release opens with the title track Ten Til Midnight that blazes from the opening riff and only cools down to pass the sound to the next track. Sean's guitar work, praised as being one of the top 50 Blues guitarists of all time, is not about energy, though he has enough of that, or about speed, it is about rendering a sound that engages the listener and complements the band members and his vocals, which are raw and evocative of the music. The track Blues and Rock 'n' Roll is driven by a combination of Sean's guitar and vocals and Gary Keith's scintillating harmonica. True to the title, this is a captivating meld of blues and Rock n' Roll that pays homage to the music that bore Sean Chambers. The cover track All The Kings Horses (Luther Allison) was one of Sean's all-time favorite songs, and his rendering is as powerful and pointed as that of Luther's live gigs.

Other tracks include You're Gonna Miss Me, a fiery blues track that kicks in from the opening note; In The Winter Time is down and dirty blues with sizzling guitar work and engaging vocals "In the winter time my baby, she keeps me warm;" Make It Go, a rollicking hard-driving track that captures the musicianship of the band; the cover Brown Sugar (Bill Gibbons) feels like the band is blowing off steam as they stretch their blues and rock legs to achieve a powerful adaptation; When I Get Lonely was written while the band was on the road and was penned in a hotel room and has become a Sean Chambers standard; and the release closes with the track I Don't Know Why a number where the guitar riffs are toned down and the harmonica takes center stage to ride Sean's compelling vocals "..she left me, she left me, and I don't know why, I know she's leaving, she'll stay for good, and I will be here lonely like a good man never should."

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Sean Chambers - That's What I'm Talkin About: Tribute To Hubert Sumlin

Size: 102.3 MB
Time: 43:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Chunky (3:38)
02. Do The Do (3:16)
03. Rockin' Daddy (3:00)
04. Goin' Down Slow (5:47)
05. Hidden Charms (3:28)
06. Forty Four (3:51)
07. Taildragger (5:54)
08. Hubert's Song (3:38)
09. Sitting On Top Of The World (3:46)
10. Howlin' For My Darling (3:22)
11. Louise (3:53)

Sean Chambers is proud to share that Howlin’ Wolf’s “faithful squire”, the legendary blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin is more than his mentor and reference for a lifetime. Chambers worked as part of Sumlin’s solo career for four years. Chambers is now releasing That’s What I’m Talkin About – Tribute to Hubert Sumlin. This is his eighth album. The songs embody a handful of Chambers’ musical influences, starting from SRV and several others musicians who he played with like Jeff Healey and Leslie West, just to cite a few. It’s worth noting that his previous album Welcome To My Blues (2018) spent one week at # 9 in the Billboard Blues Albums Chart in November 2018.

The album starts with “Howlin For My Darlin”, a powerful blues rock track a la Gary Moore. The birth of the song “Sittin On the Top Of The World” remounts to the 1930s with Mississippi Sheiks band. There have been tons of versions throughout numerous recordings. But Chambers “unexpectedly” choose Howlin Wolf’s version, surely adding his killer guitar tone. I had to admit that the first time I heard the “Hidden Charms” intro, I thought that my device inadvertently started playing some tracks from the Band Of Gypsies. Apart from that resemblance, it’s one of the best songs, bringing a fresh and joyful climate to the album as well as new clothes to that Willie Dixon’s tune (also recorded by Wolf, by the way…).

“Rockin Daddy” is a direct tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan since it’s an ode (or parody) of SRV’s “Shake For Me”. In “Goin Down Slow” Chambers distills brilliant guitar lines either between the parts or solo. This track also has detached Hammond harmonies going throughout it. “Fourty-Four” has an unusual drum pace making this track a little bit different, in spite of the melody and bluesy guitar solo. The blues rock is back with “Do The Do”, where the guitar riffs make one unison and highlight the slides.

“Chunky” is a powerhouse blues where the vocals yield the spot to the Hammond. “Louise” and “Tail Dragger” are closer to a slow blues with the keys assuming all the work from behind the scenes, letting the guitar shine. Chambers uses “Hubert Song” to properly express all his gratitude towards Hubert Sumlin’s mentoring and friendship. A nice acknowledgment as well as a great song.

I think the greatest virtue of That’s What I’m Talkin About is that it brings a pleasant air that exalts the brighter and more peaceful side of blues rock. This kind of approach was rarely observed in the albums made or released during the pandemic. It’s a great achievement and milestone in the Sean Chambers discography and sounds like a new sunrise for blues rock. The Review: 8.5/10 ~Marcel Innocentini

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Sean Chambers - Welcome To My Blues

Size: 108,9 MB
Time: 46:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. Welcome To My Blues (4:52)
02. Black Eyed Susie (4:09)
03. Cherry Red Wine (4:35)
04. Boxcar Willie (3:58)
05. Cry On Me (3:25)
06. One More Night To Ride (3:19)
07. Red Hot Mama (3:45)
08. You Keep Me Satisfied (3:37)
09. Keep Moving On (5:42)
10. All Night Long (4:56)
11. Riviera Blue (4:15)

The follow up to Chambers’ previous critically acclaimed Billboard charting album “Trouble& Whiskey.” Both albums are produced by Ben Elliott who has recorded classic artists such as Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Billy Gibbons, and Steve Miller among others. The core band on the album, aside from Sean on lead vocals and lead guitar, includes John Ginty on Hammond B3 & keyboards, Todd Cook on bass and Moe Watson on drums. Special guest Jimmy Bennett plays slide guitar and backing vocals on track #6.
“Welcome To My Blues” features 11 smokin’ tracks from Chambers, including 8 new original Sean Chambers compositions, and 3 covers, including Cherry Red Wine by Luther Allison, All Night Long by T-Bone Walker and Boxcar Willie by John Ginty.

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Sean Chambers - Trouble & Whiskey

Size: 104,2 MB
Time: 44:16
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. I Need Your Lovin' (3:40)
02. Bottle Keeps Staring At Me (4:05)
03. Trouble & Whiskey (5:06)
04. Travelin North (3:40)
05. Cut Off My Right Arm (4:45)
06. Bullfrog Blues (4:31)
07. Sweeter Than A Honey Bee (4:23)
08. Handyman (5:53)
09. Be Careful With A Fool (4:53)
10. Gonna Groove (3:15)

Florida-born Sean Chambers began his career in the Blues back in 1998 when he toured with the legendary Hubert Sumlin as his guitarist and band leader until 2003. During Sean s tenure with Mr. Sumlin, Britain s own Guitarist magazine named Chambers as One of the Top 50 blues guitarists of the last century.

On March 17th 2017, Sean Chambers will release his newest album entitled Trouble & Whiskey on the American Showplace Music label. The album is produced by Ben Elliott who has recorded classic artists such as Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Billy Gibbons, and Leslie West among others. The core band on the album, aside from Sean on lead vocals and lead guitar, includes Michael Hensley on Hammond B3 & keyboards, Todd Cook on bass and Kris Schnebelen on drums. Special guests include Jimmy Bennett on guitar on track #8, John Ginty on Hammond B3 on track #4, and Andrei Koribanics on percussion on tracks #1 and #7.

Trouble & Whiskey marks the 6th release by Sean Chambers. The album is guitar driven and features 10 tracks, which include 7 new original Sean Chambers compositions, and 3 well chosen covers, including Bullfrog Blues by Rory Gallagher, Cut Off My Right Arm by Johnny Copeland and Be Careful With A Fool by Riley B. King/Joe Bihari.

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Sean Chambers - The Rock House Sessions

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:50
Size: 109.5 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[5:05] 1. World On Fire
[4:23] 2. Since I've Been Down
[4:33] 3. Healing Ground
[3:53] 4. Meant To Be
[4:47] 5. Come To Poppa
[3:12] 6. Your Love Is My Disease
[4:10] 7. Holding On
[4:30] 8. Just For The Thrill
[4:05] 9. Money In A Minute
[4:34] 10. It Hurts To See You Go
[4:33] 11. Choo Choo Mama

Opening with a Texas strut, World On Fire, Chambers steps up with strong vocals and a lot of guitar swagger. Bob Britt on guitar, Reese Wynans on keys, Tommy MacDonald on bass, TJ Klay on harp and especially Tom Hambridge on drums add a lot to the heat. On Since I've Been Down, a fast paced rocker, Wynans really carries the weight on organ and with Hambridge on drums sets up some of the most scorching guitar work on the release. Healing Ground, a bit more of a Detroit rocker, opens up a nice space for Klay on harp prior to Chambers taking his stiff arming guitar solo. On ballad Meant To Be, Chambers slows it down creating what is certainly an easy airplay track with a strong hook and solid instrumentation. On rock classic Come To Poppa, Chambers adds pop with biting vocals, wah wah guitar riffs, backing vocals from Etta Britt and backing horns from Steve Herman (trumpet) and Jim Hoke (sax). On Your Love Is My Disease, a funky rocker, Chambers rakes the strings of his guitar in rhythm creating a bit of tension before letting the dog off the hook. Stinging guitar riffs on this track along with a solid rhythm and melody make it one of the releases best. Gary Moore track Holding On is of course a ballad and with backing vocals from Britt has a R&B sound with a twist of ZZ Top (Trippin). Another track with a bit of Texas swagger is Just For The Thrill. Elmore James licks, Wynans on keys, Hambridge on drums and Klay on harp are great support for Chambers on lead vocal. Money In A Minute has the bite of an angry dog proving a strong blues rocker with gritty vocals, crisp guitar riffs and hot harp work from Klay. On BB King tinged, R&B style blues track It Hurts To See You Go, Chambers holds the listener in the palm of his hand. This is absolutely my favorite track on the release and Chambers not only delivers on vocals but really digs deep for the right riffs to send this truck over the cliff. Really nice! OK...How do you end a super blues rocker album...I'll tell you! You play a Ten Years After track and that's exactly what Chambers does with a great version of Choo Choo Mama. Now it likely isn't a secret that the early TYA stuff is among my favorite blues rock bands of all time. Chambers uses a tight arrangement not far different from the original sans substituting harp for some of Lee's flaming guitar riffs but this song is a cooker and you hate to have it end. This is a cool release and one that you should definitely check out! ~Bman

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