Showing posts with label Susan Tedeschi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Susan Tedeschi. Show all posts

Monday, September 25, 2023

Susan Tedeschi - Just Won't Burn (25th Anniversary Ed.)

Album: Just Won't Burn (25th Anniversary Edition)
Size: 159,4 MB
Time: 68:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Blues, rocking blues, rock
Art: Front

1. Rock Me Right (4:27)
2. You Need To Be With Me (3:04)
3. Little By Little (3:49)
4. It Hurt So Bad (4:50)
5. Found Someone New (2:20)
6. Looking For Answers (5:13)
7. Can't Leave You Alone (3:02)
8. Just Won't Burn (4:46)
9. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean (4:43)
10. Angel From Montgomery (5:23)
11. Friar's Point (4:23)
12. Looking For Answers (Alternate Take) (2:57)
13. Voodoo Woman (Album Outtake) (3:57)
14. Waste Of My Time (Album Outtake) (2:03)
15. Looking For Answers (Tedeschi Trucks Band, Live At The Beacon Theatre, 10-06-2022) (6:21)
16. Just Won’t Burn (Tedeschi Trucks Band, Live At The Beacon Theatre, 10-07-2022) (7:29)

This special, 16-track expanded edition features the original album plus five previously unreleased bonus tracks: an alternate take of “Looking For Answers,” two new album outtakes, and two live versions of Just Won’t Burn album tracks recorded with Tedeschi Trucks Band at NYC’s Beacon Theatre.

“Making Just Won’t Burn was a pivot,” Tedeschi says of the album, which was co-produced by Tom Hambridge and Tedeschi and recorded by Sean Carberry at Rear Window Studio, Brookline, MA. The album features musicians such as guitarists Adrienne Hayes and Sean Costello and harmonica player Annie Raines tackling Tedeschi’s original songs in tandem with material popularized by Ruth Brown, Junior Wells, and John Prine. “All of a sudden, I was working with different groups of people, new musicians, new songwriting collaborators. We had no idea how it was going to turn out. I think the thing that held it all together was the blues. Blues is a language that I love. You can take it anywhere in the world and communicate with people, which isn’t necessarily true about other forms of music. And being a white artist in a black milieu, you just have to let the music speak.”

Speak it did, as Just Won’t Burn went Platinum (a rare achievement for a blues-based album at that time) and earned Tedeschi a GRAMMY nomination for Best New Artist in 2000 (alongside the of-the-moment cast of Britney Spears, Macy Gray, Kid Rock, and Christina Aguilera). It would be the first of five GRAMMY nominations for Tedeschi as a solo artist, with each of her next three solo releases earning nods for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

Even after 25 years, the past-decade plus of which have seen Tedeschi rise to even greater heights with her husband Derek Trucks in Tedeschi Trucks Band, Just Won’t Burn remains a touchstone of blues-based rock’n’roll. “The way people react to Just Won’t Burn has always been heartwarming and surprising,” she admits. “I used to get letters from a prisoner who identified with the songs and found hope in them, and then I started getting letters from the rest of the prisoners on the cell block because it was the only cassette they had.”

“Sometimes when I look back on the 25 years since the release, I think about the places I’ve been and the adventures I’ve had, and I feel like Forrest Gump,” Tedeschi continues. “I say, ‘No! You’re a baseball mom. You didn’t do all that!’ But I must have. The blues has its demands. You have to be honest — musically, emotionally, and personally — above everything else, and that can lead to some uncomfortable truths. But the blues hasn’t burned me. It hasn’t hurt me. It’s my main resource. I can express myself and get stuff out about my life – or, like B.B. always said, ‘whatever ails you.’ The blues got me here.”

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Saturday, July 10, 2021

Susan Tedeschi - Wait For Me

Size: 106.8 MB
Time: 45:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. Alone (4:21)
02. Gonna Move (4:23)
03. Wrapped In The Arms Of Another (3:03)
04. 'til I Found You (3:32)
05. Wait For Me (4:47)
06. Feeling Music Brings (7:15)
07. In The Garden (3:45)
08. Hampmotized (3:10)
09. Don't Think Twice (4:43)
10. I Fell In Love (3:29)
11. Blues On A Holiday (3:02)

Since it comes a whopping four years after her wildly successful major-label debut and Best New Artist Grammy nomination, the appropriately titled Wait for Me is a highly anticipated follow-up for an artist who nearly slipped into the "where is she now" bin. While the album doesn't totally justify the extended wait, Tedeschi returns with a tough, uncompromising release that's the equal of its predecessor. After touring the world, then marrying and having a baby (with husband/guitarist Derek Trucks), Tedeschi has shifted styles from guitar-slinging blues mama into a subtler but still passionate R&B approach. Trucks contributes a few of the album's bluesiest moments, laying into a slide solo on Paul Pena's exuberant "Gonna Move" that injects soul into its hooky chorus and bouncy groove. The title track's low-key horns, jazzy flourishes, and gospel underpinnings recall '60s Etta James, and a version of Dylan's "Don't Think Twice It's Alright" transforms the folk chestnut into a touching, torchy swamp ballad. It's here and on Tedeschi's own lovely "In the Garden" where her expressive vocals are a ringer for Bonnie Raitt's similar style. Those fired up by Just Won't Burn will easily warm to Wait for Me. With classy yet scorching performances and songs infused with roots rock, blues, funk, and even pop, it's a crossover album that oozes with integrity, terrific playing, and a loose yet distinctive direction. ~Hal Horowitz

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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

B.B. King - Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2011

Size: 166,8 MB
Time: 72:23
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. I Need You So ( 5:20)
02. Key To The Highway ( 4:42)
03. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean ( 5:06)
04. All Over Again ( 4:18)
05. Rock Me Baby ( 9:07)
06. You Are My Sunshine ( 6:44)
07. B.B. Jams With Guests (15:22)
08. The Thrill Is Gone ( 8:08)
09. Guess Who ( 6:03)
10. When The Saints Go Marching In ( 7:29)

He may be 85 these days, but B.B. King is still B.B. King, and any time he sings or delivers those signature clean, jazzy, and warm guitar lines, it's an extra gift from a musician who has given us listeners and fans so much for so long. This warm, celebratory, and good-natured live set was recorded on June 28, 2011 at London's Royal Albert Hall and features King in chatty good humor and a whole host of guests, including guitarist Derek Trucks, singer Susan Tedeschi, the Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood, Simply Red's Mick Hucknall, and former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash. King does what he's always done, and on signature songs like "Rock Me Baby" and "The Thrill Is Gone," one gets the hopeful feeling that King could actually go on and do this forever. He's is in a talkative mood here, and the T-Bone Burnett story he tells as the introduction to a version of Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" is a funny yet tender narrative that touches on age, memory, and everything the blues can be. It's obvious that King is enjoying himself, and if this isn't the best live set he's ever done, it might be the warmest. At 85 King is still engaging, comfortable with an audience, and once he slides into one of those sweet-as-Memphis-honey guitar runs, he's everything he's always been. There's only one B.B. King and that he is still that, after all the years of fine music he's given us, is a miracle, a blessing, and a treasure. ~by Steve Leggett

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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Various - Five Star Blues Rock

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 110:17
Size: 252.5 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[5:55] 1. Jonny Lang - A Quitter Never Wins
[5:06] 2. Lucky Peterson - Compared To What
[7:16] 3. Roy Buchanan - Roy Buchanan - Pete's Blue
[3:42] 4. Eric Clapton - Rockin' Daddy
[9:43] 5. Ten Years After - I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always
[4:54] 6. The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out
[3:33] 7. Savoy Brown Blues Band - The Doormouse Rides The Rails
[4:46] 8. Susan Tedeschi - Love Me Don't Hate Me
[4:47] 9. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Don't Think Twice
[2:08] 10. Eric Clapton - Key To Love
[3:54] 11. Robert Cray - I Wonder
[4:45] 12. Takats Tamas Dirty Blues Band - Roadhouse Blues
[3:04] 13. Buddy Guy - I Got A Strange Feeling
[2:44] 14. Otis Rush - You Been An Angel
[2:49] 15. Muddy Waters - Short Dress Woman
[4:28] 16. John Scofield - I Don't Need No Doctor
[3:01] 17. Albert Collins - Frosty
[3:00] 18. Koko Taylor - What Kind Of Man Is That
[4:10] 19. Howlin' Wolf - I Ain't Superstitious
[5:34] 20. John Mayall - Force Of Nature
[5:16] 21. Luther Allison - Easy Baby
[3:26] 22. Bobby Blue Bland - Driftin' Blues
[3:59] 23. Johnny Copeland - Blues Ain't Nothin'
[3:29] 24. Joe Louis Walker - Yveline
[4:34] 25. Robben Ford - Lovin' Cup

Though much early rock & roll was based in the blues, Blues-Rock didn't fully develop into a subgenre until the late-'60s. Blues-rock emphasized two specific things -- the traditional, three-chord blues song and instrumental improvisation. Borrowing the idea of an instrumental combo and loud amplification from rock & roll, the original blues-rockers -- bands like Cream that grew out of the Alexis Korner and John Mayall tradition of British blues, as well as American bands like the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Canned Heat -- also attempted to play long, involved improvisations which were commonplace on jazz records, as well as live blues shows. The hybrid became quite popular and the bands that immediately followed them were louder and more riff-oriented. Out of this approach came heavy metal and Southern rock, which both used basic blues riffs and featured extended solos. In the early '70s, the lines between blues-rock and hard rock were barely visible, as boogie-based bands like ZZ Top employed album-rock production techniques that tended to obscure their blues roots. However, blues-rock soon backed away from hard rock, and there was a set number of acts that continued to play (and rewrite) blues standards as well as write their own songs in the same idiom. In the '80s and '90s, blues-rock was more roots-oriented than in the '60s and '70s, even when artists like the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan flirted with rock stardom. By the '80s, blues-rock had become an accepted tradition, much like the blues.

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Saturday, March 25, 2017

Various - God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:29
Size: 95.0 MB
Styles: Roots, Gospel/Blues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[3:26] 1. Tom Waits - The Soul Of A Man
[3:54] 2. Lucinda Williams - It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
[3:09] 3. Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
[4:14] 4. Cowboy Junkies - Jesus Is Coming Soon
[4:40] 5. The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Mother's Children Have A Hard Time
[3:16] 6. Sinead O'connor - Trouble Will Soon Be Over
[3:51] 7. Luther Dickinson - Bye And Bye I'm Going To See The King
[4:21] 8. Lucinda Williams - God Don't Never Change
[2:47] 9. Tom Waits - John The Revelator
[3:54] 10. Maria Mckee - Let Your Light Shine On Me
[3:52] 11. Rickie Lee Jones - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground

A stunning collection of artists and performances celebrate the timeless music of legendary gospel bluesman Blind Willie Johnson. From Derek Trucks’ and Susan Tedeschi’s reverent reading of Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning to Lucinda Williams’ slide guitar-fueled lament in Nobody’s Fault But Mine, from Luther Dickinson’s spirited take on Bye And Bye I’m Going To See The King (with The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band) to Tom Waits’ virtual embodiment of Johnson himself on The Soul Of A Man and John The Revelator, this record is packed with incomparable recordings that speak as much to the greatness of the performers as they do the enduring legacy of Blind Willie Johnson.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Buddy Guy - Skin Deep

Time: 58:15
Size: 133.3 MB
Source: LL
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Blues
Released: 2008
Covers: Full

1 Buddy Guy - Best Damn Fool {4:57}
2 Buddy Guy ft Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi - Too Many Tears {4:25}
3 Buddy Guy - Lyin' Like A Dog {7:27}
4 Buddy Guy - Show Me The Money {3:09}
5 Buddy Guy ft Eric Clapton - Every Time I Sing The Blues {7:37}
6 Buddy Guy ft Robert Randolph - Out In The Woods {5:43}
7 Buddy Guy - Hammer And A Nail {2:57}
8 Buddy Guy ft Robert Randolph - That's My Home {2:52}
9 Buddy Guy ft Derek Trucks - Skin Deep {4:29}
10 Buddy Guy - Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes {4:08}
11 Buddy Guy - Smell The Funk {4:46}
12 Buddy Guy - I Found Happiness {5:39}

It's hard to say that Buddy Guy's career was revived by his appearance in the Rolling Stones' Shine a Light, but his mesmerizing duet on Muddy Waters' "Champagne and Reefer" in that Martin Scorsese concert film was a bracing, welcome reminder of just how good Guy is, especially for listeners who may have let their attention wander in the years since Damn Right, I've Got the Blues. What made Guy so riveting was his coiled aggression: in stark contrast to the deferential Jack White, he came to cut the Stones down and he did so mercilessly, which made it the musical highlight of a show with plenty of great moments. That wildness has kept Buddy Guy unpredictable well into his senior citizenship, and it surfaces on Skin Deep, only perhaps not quite as often as it should. Touted as his first album of original material, Skin Deep does work as an effective showcase for Buddy's most original voice: his wild, gnarly guitar. The production may be crisp and clean but Buddy refuses to play polite, messing up the pristine surfaces with big, nasty, ugly smears of guitar. Even when the record gleams too brightly -- as it does just a little bit too often -- Guy sounds like he's trying to tear things apart from the inside, which lends vigor and energy to numbers that are performed with just a shade too much preciseness. Thankfully, not all of Skin Deep is so clean, as the record opens up with a pair of dynamite collaborations with Robert Randolph -- the stripped-down, swampy Delta blues "Out in the Woods" and the muscular "That's My Home." Guy also gets in a couple of good numbers with Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks -- there's also a duet with Eric Clapton on "Every Time I Sing the Blues," which slides into a too-comfortable slow groove -- and these are the moments when Skin Deep really clicks, as the songs spark and the band truly cooks. Elsewhere, the music slips toward the conventional, but at least it sounds like Guy is trying to reel it back in with that monstrous guitar, which can still sound wondrous. It's kind of fun to hear the accidental tension between Guy's guitar and the slick surfaces, but when he's paired with a band or production that matches his grit, Skin Deep is so good that it's hard not to wish the whole record sounded just like that.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Let Me Get By

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:21
Size: 129.0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[6:32] 1. Anyhow
[5:05] 2. Laugh About It
[5:57] 3. Don't Know What It Means
[4:33] 4. Right On Time
[4:28] 5. Let Me Get By
[3:37] 6. Just As Strange
[8:02] 7. Crying Over You Swamp Raga
[4:32] 8. Hear Me
[7:13] 9. I Want More
[6:18] 10. In Every Heart

Let Me Get By features ten new, original songs that together stand as a testament to the hard work, independent spirit, and full-on commitment of the entire Tedeschi Trucks Band. The album’s artwork—a Mongolian golden eagle pictured a moment after flying from its handler’s glove—and even the album title itself reflect the sense of total dedication that serves as the driving force behind this recording. From that wellspring of dedication come the most powerful TTB recordings yet. Some songs you may have heard on stage in 2015, and some others that were deliberately held back for this occasion. Susan’s vocals and Derek’s guitar soar, tumble and glide through each song, as powerful as ever, even in the album’s most understated moments.

Let Me Get By is an album of firsts – in addition to being the first TTB record Derek produced on his own (with the contribution of Doyle Bramhall II performing/co-producing on three tracks), and the first on which he and Susan co-wrote all the songs within the TTB family, it’s Derek’s first album since his 15-year run as a member of the Allman Brothers concluded when the group disbanded last year, providing time for Derek and engineer Bobby Tis to spend countless hours in the studio honing the sounds and arrangements for this album. It’s also the first lead vocals on a TTB album for Mike Mattison, whose songwriting and harmonies have always been one of the defining features of the band’s albums. Finally, it’s the first album with Tim Lefebvre on board, whose deeply propulsive bass lines drive the rhythm section in exciting new directions on record.

Each and every member of the band contributed in the recording process: there’s Kofi’s melodic keyboard wizardry, the perpetually locked-in drums and percussion of J.J. and Tyler, the always-punctual horn lines from Kebbi, Maurice and Saunders, and the rich blend of the harmony vocals from Mike, Mark and Alecia. Each individual personality has a chance to shine on Let Me Get By—even the crickets behind the studio lent their voices to the album, firmly connecting the band’s music to the Jacksonville swamps from which it emerged.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Various - Blues Rock & Roll

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 80:18
Size: 183.9 MB
Styles: Assorted styles
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[2:42] 1. Luther Allison - Someday Pretty Baby
[4:09] 2. Howlin' Wolf - I Ain't Superstitious
[3:13] 3. John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Hide Away
[5:26] 4. B.B. King - Let The Good Times Roll
[2:30] 5. Chuck Berry - Rock & Roll Music
[4:50] 6. Lucky Peterson - Up From The Skies
[2:39] 7. Little Walter - My Babe
[2:50] 8. Susan Tedeschi - You Got The Silver
[4:31] 9. Robben Ford & The Blue Line - He Don't Play Nothin' But The Blues
[4:29] 10. Howlin' Wolf - Wang Dang Doodle
[2:48] 11. Willie Dixon - Crazy For My Baby
[2:48] 12. Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing
[2:27] 13. Billy Young - Have Pity On Me
[3:06] 14. Big Maybelle - Don't Pass Me By
[3:40] 15. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Blues Power
[5:31] 16. John Lee Hooker - I'm Bad Like Jesse James
[4:13] 17. Jonny Lang - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[2:20] 18. Etta James - Tell Mama
[2:12] 19. Johnny Nash - Love Ain't Nothin' (But A Monkey On Your Back)
[2:47] 20. Juke Boy Bonner - Lonesome Ride Back Home
[3:37] 21. Joe Louis Walker - My Real Fantasy
[2:50] 22. Buddy Guy - Let Me Love You Baby
[4:32] 23. John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - They Call It Stormy Monday

The blues form was first popularized about 1911-14 by the black composer W.C. Handy (1873-1958). However, the poetic and musical form of the blues first crystallized around 1910 and gained popularity through the publication of Handy's "Memphis Blues" (1912) and "St. Louis Blues" (1914). Instrumental blues had been recorded as early as 1913. During the twenties, the blues became a national craze. Mamie Smith recorded the first vocal blues song, 'Crazy Blues' in 1920. The Blues influence on jazz brought it into the mainstream and made possible the records of blues singers like Bessie Smith and later, in the thirties, Billie Holiday.The Blues are the essence of the African American laborer, whose spirit is wed to these songs, reflecting his inner soul to all who will listen. Rhythm and Blues, is the cornerstone of all forms of African American music.

Many of Memphis' best Blues artists left the city at the time, when Mayor "Boss" Crump shut down Beale Street to stop the prostitution, gambling, and cocaine trades, effectively eliminating the musicians, and entertainers' jobs, as these businesses closed their doors. The Blues migrated to Chicago, where it became electrified, and Detroit. In northern cities like Chicago and Detroit, during the later forties and early fifties, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, and Elmore James among others, played what was basically Mississippi Delta blues, backed by bass, drums, piano and occasionally harmonica, and began scoring national hits with blues songs. At about the same time, T-Bone Walker in Houston and B.B. King in Memphis were pioneering a style of guitar playing that combined jazz technique with the blues tonality and repertoire.

Meanwhile, back in Memphis, B.B. King invented the concept of lead guitar, now standard in today's Rock bands. Bukka White (cousin to B.B. King), Leadbelly, and Son House, left Country Blues to create the sounds most of us think of today as traditional unamplified Blues. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Wyonnie Harris, and Big Mama Thorton wrote and preformed the songs that would make a young Elvis Presley world renown.

In the early nineteen-sixties, the urban bluesmen were "discovered" by young white American and European musicians. Many of these blues-based bands like the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Canned Heat, and Fleetwood Mac, brought the blues to young white audiences, something the black blues artists had been unable to do in America except through the purloined white cross-over covers of black rhythm and blues songs. Since the sixties, rock has undergone several blues revivals. Some rock guitarists, such as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Eddie Van Halen have used the blues as a foundation for offshoot styles. While the originators like John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins and B.B. King--and their heirs Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, and later Eric Clapton and the late Roy Buchanan, among many others, continued to make fantastic music in the blues tradition. The latest generation of blues players like Robert Cray and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, among others, as well as gracing the blues tradition with their incredible technicality, have drawn a new generation listeners to the blues.

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Saturday, July 19, 2014

Various - All My Friends: Celebrating The Songs & Voice Of Gregg Allman (2-Disc set)

On January 10, 2014, a multi-generational assortment of musicians from the worlds of rock, blues and country joined together at Atlanta's historic Fox Theatre for a once-in-a-lifetime all-star performance to pay tribute to the life and music of the legendary singer/musician/songwriter Gregg Allman. That live musical event can now be experienced via the new multimedia package All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman.

Shot in high definition video with 5:1 Dolby sound, this one-DVD, two-CD package captures the four-hour concert event in its entirety. The show features a diverse assortment of high-profile Allman admirers paying tribute to the iconic veteran rocker, delivering distinctive new performances of classic material drawn from his four and a half decades as a recording artist, encompassing his landmark work with the legendary Allman Brothers Band as well as his parallel solo career. The variety of the artists paying tribute to Allman, and the diversity of their interpretations of his songs, attests to the broad appeal of Allman's talents, which transcend stylistic and generational boundaries.

With musical direction by noted producer/musician Don Was, several of the guest performers are drawn from the Allman Brothers Band's extended musical family, including current ABB guitarists Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks (who also appears here with his wife and frequent musical partner Susan Tedeschi) and Gregg's talented son Devon Allman. The prestigious slate of performers also includes such Allman contemporaries as Jackson Browne, Dr. John, John Hiatt, Taj Mahal, Wet Willie singer Jimmy Hall and classic soul man Sam Moore (of Sam and Dave fame), along with such younger acts as Robert Randolph, Keb' Mo', Widespread Panic and Pat Monahan of Train. The world of country music, long a key component in Allman's musical consciousness, is represented here by such notable guest performers as Eric Church, Trace Adkins, Vince Gill, Martina McBride, Zac Brown, Brantley Gilbert and Jess Franklin.

All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman would not be complete without Allman's own authoritative voice, which is spotlighted here on collaborative readings of landmark tunes with Gregg's onetime L.A. roommate Jackson Browne ("These Days," "Melissa"), Vince Gill and Zac Brown ("Midnight Rider") and Taj Mahal ("Statesboro Blues"). Gregg also joins with the Allman Brothers Band to deliver fiery readings of the classics "Dreams" and "Whipping Post," which precede a set-closing "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," performed by the show's full cast. With the recent announcement that the Allman Brothers Band will cease touring at the end of 2014, these may be among the last recordings of the band on stage.

The All My Friends show also features a prestigious house band that includes Don Was on bass, former Allman Brothers Band members Chuck Leavell (keyboards) and Jack Pearson (guitar), ex-Black Crowes guitarist Audley Freed, Wallflowers keyboardist Rami Jaffee and renowned drummer-to-the-stars Kenny Aronoff. As Allman later enthused, "That show was one of the highlights of my life. It was great to see old friends, and everyone was so gracious and really poured their souls into my songs. It was a very special night."

Album: All My Friends: Celebrating The Songs & Voice Of Gregg Allman (Disc 1)
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 73:19
Size: 167.9 MB
Styles: Rock, Country, Blues
Year: 2014

[6:49] 1. Warren Haynes - Come And Go Blues
[5:47] 2. Warren Haynes - End Of The Line
[4:28] 3. Susan Tedeschi - Stand Back
[6:16] 4. Devon Allman - You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had
[5:00] 5. Sam Moore - Please Call Home
[6:33] 6. Keb' Mo' - Just Another Rider
[3:41] 7. Brantley Gilbert - Before The Bullets Fly
[3:40] 8. Dr. John - Let This Be A Lesson To Ya
[5:23] 9. Pat Monahan - Queen Of Hearts
[4:59] 10. John Hiatt - One Way Out
[4:41] 11. Taj Mahal - Statesboro Blues
[6:22] 12. Widespread Panic - Just Ain’t Easy
[5:42] 13. Widespread Panic - Wasted Words
[3:51] 14. Trace Adkins - I’m No Angel

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Album: All My Friends: Celebrating The Songs & Voice Of Gregg Allman (Disc 2)
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 76:29
Size: 175.1 MB
Styles: Rock, Country, Blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[ 4:10] 1. Trace Adkins - Trouble No More
[ 5:21] 2. Vince Gill - Multi-Colored Lady
[ 4:54] 3. Martina McBride - All My Friends
[ 3:24] 4. Pat Monahan - Can You Fool
[ 4:22] 5. Eric Church - Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More
[ 6:00] 6. Eric Church - Win, Lose Or Draw
[ 4:55] 7. Jackson Browne - These Days
[ 5:22] 8. Jackson Browne - Melissa
[ 5:01] 9. Vince Gill - Midnight Rider
[10:54] 10. The Allman Brothers Band - Dreams
[13:06] 11. The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post
[ 8:55] 12. Warren Haynes - Will The Circle Be Unbroken

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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Little Milton - Welcome To Little Milton

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 51:28
Size: 117.8 MB
Styles: Electric Chicago blues, Rockin blues
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[4:32] 1. When The Blues Come Knockin' (with Gov't Mule)
[5:39] 2. Right To Sing The Blues
[0:30] 3. Recitation (John Sinclair)
[3:42] 4. Mother Earth (with Susan Tedeschi)
[3:45] 5. Never Trust A Woman (with Dave Alvin)
[4:07] 6. Love Hurts (with Lucinda Williams)
[3:52] 7. Gimme' My Broom (with Keb' Mo')
[3:47] 8. Two Loves (with Peter Wolf)
[3:46] 9. Lump On Your Stump
[4:21] 10. Me And My Woman (with G. Love & Special Sauce)
[3:34] 11. Some Kind Of Wonderful (with Delbert McClinton)
[9:48] 12. Can't Quit You Baby (with Gov't Mule)

Here's Little Milton's superstar album, finding the R&B legend performing duets with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Keb' Mo', Peter Wolf, Dave Alvin, Delbert McClinton, Gov't Mule, G. Love & Special Sauce, and Susan Tedeschi. By far the most interesting track is John Sinclair's recitation of "Mother Earth" preceding the duet between Milton and Tedeschi of it. While this collection of celebrity duets has its moments, one would definitely want to look elsewhere to start a Little Milton collection. ~Cub Koda

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