Various - Shrapnel Records Presents The Best Of Blues Rock

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 122:45
Size: 281.0 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[3:57] 1. Pat Travers - Statesboro Blues
[4:31] 2. Leslie West - Blues Before Sunrise
[3:56] 3. Zakk Wylde - Baby Please Don't Go
[8:29] 4. Indigenous - Don't Know What To Do
[7:55] 5. Schenker & Pattison Summit - Layla
[5:49] 6. Marc Ford - Don't Get Me Killed
[5:35] 7. Leslie West - The Thrill Is Gone
[6:43] 8. Pat Travers - Green Eyed Lady
[7:26] 9. Eric Gales - You Ain't The Boss Of Me
[5:30] 10. Frank Marino - I'll Play The Blues For You
[5:49] 11. Craig Erickson - Out Of Town
[7:33] 12. Eric Gales - Railroaded
[9:49] 13. Stoney Curtis Band - Blues Without You
[6:52] 14. Jon Butcher - Clean-Up Time
[6:20] 15. Craig Erickson - Closing Time
[6:13] 16. Michael Landau - The Darkness
[6:31] 17. Mato Nanji - I Was Wrong To Leave You
[9:19] 18. Chris Duarte Group - Sun Prairie Blues
[4:19] 19. Richie Kotzen - Broken Man Blues

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Various - 2 albums: Blues Bureau's Rowdy Roadhouse Blues / Blues Bureau International's Burnin' Blues Shuffles

Blues Bureau International is a guitar oriented, blues, blues guitar and blues rock record label.

Blues Bureau is a member of Mike Varney's Shrapnel Label Group, which also includes Shrapnel Records, another guitar oriented label which features shred guitar, hard rock, metal and progressive metal, and Tone Center Records, a jazz oriented label featuring fusion guitar as well as a number of jazz tributes. The Blues Bureau catalog is a reflection of Mr. Varney's desire to provide a platform for talented young blues guitarists, and to allow established artists to pursue their artistic vision.

Blues Bureau artists include Rick Derringer, Eric Gales, Marc Ford, Chris Duarte, Leslie West and Pat Travers.

Album: Blues Bureau's Rowdy Roadhouse Blues
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:19
Size: 112.9 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:03] 1. Pat Travers - Party Tonight
[6:00] 2. S.F.Blues Guitar - Roadhouse Stomp
[3:50] 3. Leslie West - Riot In Cell Block #9
[4:02] 4. Jon Butcher - High Heel Shoes
[2:09] 5. Rick Derringer - Red Hot
[5:07] 6. Stoney Curtis Band - That's Right
[3:19] 7. The Chris Duarte Group - Let's Have A Party
[3:15] 8. Pat Travers - Tore Up From The Floor Up
[4:07] 9. Leslie West - Baby Please Don't Go
[4:23] 10. Eric Gales - Someday
[5:51] 11. Rick Derringer - Electra Blues
[3:09] 12. Stoney Curtis Band - World Without You

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Album: Blues Bureau International's Burnin' Blues Shuffles
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:15
Size: 126.5 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:41] 1. Eric Gales - Wake Up Call
[5:05] 2. Rick Derringer - Trouble In Paradise
[3:58] 3. Pat Travers - Statesboro Blues
[4:31] 4. Leslie West - Blues Before Sunrise
[5:07] 5. Stoney Curtis Band - That's Right
[7:18] 6. The Chris Duarte Group - Hard Mind
[4:05] 7. Eric Gales - I Got Me A Woman
[4:05] 8. Rick Derringer - Let The Good Times Roll
[3:53] 9. Pat Travers - Your Cash Ain't Nothing But Trash
[3:57] 10. Leslie West - Talk To Your Daughter
[5:37] 11. Stoney Curtis Band - Mulholland Shuffle
[3:53] 12. The Chris Duarte Group - Satisfy

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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

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Stoney Curtis Band - Raw And Real

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:35
Size: 163.9 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[5:07] 1. That's Right
[4:22] 2. Sometimes She Likes Me
[5:17] 3. Girlfriend
[8:05] 4. Behind The Sun
[4:52] 5. American Lady
[5:18] 6. Black Rose
[9:49] 7. Blues Without You
[4:48] 8. Eli's Blues
[4:01] 9. Coldwater Canyon
[6:06] 10. Rain Over Me
[4:43] 11. Love & Money
[3:35] 12. Dirt
[5:24] 13. Ridin' Hard Livin' Free

Sometimes, promising debut albums are followed by disappointing second albums -- a problem that is known in the music world as the "sophomore slump" or "sophomore curse." But other times, artists who show promise on a debut album take it to the next level creatively on their second album, which is exactly what Stoney Curtis accomplishes on Raw and Real. In 2005, the Los Angeles-based blues-rocker (originally from Chicago) showed a lot of promise on his first album, Acid Blues Experience. But his excellent follow-up, Raw and Real, is an even stronger album from Curtis, whose long list of influences ranges from Jimi Hendrix, George Thorogood & the Destroyers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and Robin Trower to electric Chicago blues icons such as Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, and Muddy Waters -- and there are even traces of David Lee Roth in some of Curtis' vocals, which isn't really surprising when you consider that Van Halen had blues influences and included an arrangement of John Brim's "Ice Cream Man" on their first album. Although blues-oriented, Raw and Real is not the work of a blues purist; anyone who expects everything on this 66-minute CD to adhere to a traditional 12-bars blues structure will be disappointed. But one needn't be a rigid blues purist to be consistently blues-minded, and Curtis' passion for '60s and '70s hard rock as well as soul and funk doesn't decrease the amount of blues feeling that he brings to ballsy, hard-rocking selections like "Black Rose," "Girlfriend," "American Lady," and "That's Right" -- not at all. Curtis, who wrote or co-wrote all of the material, employs a wealth of blues feeling and blues imagery on Raw and Real, which is a consistently engaging sophomore disc from the Windy City native. ~Alex Henderson

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Various - Shrapnel Records Presents The Best Of Modern Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:00
Size: 174.0 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:52] 1. Chris Duarte & Bluestone Co. - Back In Town
[4:20] 2. Leslie West - Whiskey Train
[5:36] 3. Jay Jesse Johnson - Rollin' And Tumblin'
[5:59] 4. Paul Gilbert - Enemies (In Jail)
[4:35] 5. Blindside Blues Band - Gravy Train
[3:56] 6. Craig Erickson - Back At The Roadhouse
[3:56] 7. Rick Derringer - Pride And Joy
[4:45] 8. Eric Gales - Layin' Down The Blues
[3:09] 9. Stoney Curtis - World Without You
[3:15] 10. Pat Travers - Tore Up From The Floor Up
[7:52] 11. Michael Schenker - Layla
[6:43] 12. Joe Louis Walker - New Direction
[3:32] 13. Neal Schon - Whiskey, Women & Blues
[7:17] 14. Chris Duarte Group - One More Cup Of Coffee
[6:07] 15. Leslie West - Mississippi Queen

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