Powder Blues - Platinum

Album: Platinum
Size: 97,0 MB
Time: 41:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2007
Styles: Blues, jump blues, R&B
Art: Front, back

1. Thirsty Ears (3:27)
2. Pink Champagne (3:55)
3. Undercover Blues (3:59)
4. Lovin', Kissin' & Huggin' (3:17)
5. Joy Ridin' (3:57)
6. She's Crazy (3:11)
7. Boppin With The Blues (3:20)
8. Doin' It Right (3:29)
9. Buzzard Luck (3:04)
10. What've I Been Drinkin' (3:17)
11. Jump Up (3:23)
12. Party Band (3:19)

For four decades Powder Blues has been Canada’s leading blues band. Their mix of swing, blues, jazz, rock & roll and R&B has an appeal so wide that people from seven to seventy often swing side by side at a Powder Blues concert. Over the years the band has toured non-stop through Canada, the United States and overseas, spreading a feel-good groove that makes people dance and shout.

Powder Blues debut album, ‘Uncut’, was shrugged off by the major labels who told the band there was "no market for the blues". Undiscouraged, the band sold it off stage and sent it to radio stations whose switchboards lit up with calls asking "who’s that?". After selling 30,000 copies in a few weeks, the same record labels competed to distribute this "non-commercial" product. To date Powder Blues have sold over a million records worldwide.

Band highlights include winning Canada’s Juno, headlining the world-famous Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, winning the Blues Foundation Award in Memphis, Tennessee and touring the US and Europe with legends like Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, James Brown, Albert Collins, James Cotton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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Powder Blues - Red Hot/True Blue

Album: Red Hot/True Blue
Size: 151,6 MB
Time: 65:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1983
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front

1. Oh Well, Oh Well (4:37)
2. You Been Mean (4:40)
3. Same Old Blues (4:41)
4. Stoop Down Baby (4:00)
5. Farmer John (2:47)
6. Woke Up This Morning (3:19)
7. Sugaree (2:59)
8. Good Rockin' Tonite (4:10)
9. Roll Over Beethoven (3:33)
10. Tore Down (3:24)
11. Craxy Mixed Up World (3:57)
12. Born In Chicago (3:58)
13. He Knows The Rules (2:50)
14. Treat Her Right (2:46)
15. Pushy (3:27)
16. Your Daddy (2:24)
17. We Got A Good Thing Goin' (3:50)
18. You Won't Let Me Go (3:56)

Guitarist Tom Lavin, bassist Jack Lavin and a keyboard player formed Powder Blues Band in 1978, later adding trumpeter Mark Hasselbach, drummer Duris Maxwell and saxophonists Wayne Kozak, Gordie Bertram and David Woodward. The group signed with Capitol, which released Uncut and Powder Blues in 1980. Other albums include Thirsty Ears (1981), Party Line (1982), Red Hot/True Blue (1983), First Decade-Greatest Hits (1990) and Let's Get Loose (1993). /Biography by John Bush, AllMusic

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Powder Blues - Swingin' The Blues

Album: Swingin' The Blues
Size: 86,9 MB
Time: 37:28
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues, jump blues
Art: Front, back

1. Good Rockin Tonight (3:24)
2. Further On Up The Road (3:47)
3. Caledonia (3:55)
4. Flip Flop And Fly (3:03)
5. Boppin With The Blues (3:13)
6. He Knows The Rules (4:11)
7. Oh Well Oh Well (3:12)
8. Buzzard Luck (3:13)
9. Lovin, Kissin And Huggin (3:28)
10. Tore Down (3:15)
11. Rockchopper (2:43)

For over two decades Powder Blues has been one of Canada's leading proponents of a vital music that incorporates some of the most vibrant elements of Swing, Blues, Rock and Roll and Rhythm and Blues into a readily identifiable sound they can truly call their own. This broad approach has resulted in an appeal whose demographic is so wide that it is not unusual to find people from seven to seventy swaying side by side at a Powder Blues concert. Throughout the years they have toured ceaselessly throughout Canada, the United States and overseas, spreading the joy of a music that makes people smile and dance.

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Powder Blues - Uncut

Album: Uncut
Size: 78,3 MB
Time: 33:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1980
Styles: Blues, jump blues
Art: LP front & back

1. Boppin With The Blues (3:08)
2. Hear That Guitar Ring (3:52)
3. Just A Little (2:46)
4. The Rockchopper (3:40)
5. Doin' It Right (3:26)
6. Buzzard Luck (3:10)
7. What've I Been Drinkin (3:08)
8. Personal Manager (6:42)
9. Sweet Little Girl (3:54)

These real-life Blues Brothers dependably deliver fun, danceable tunes in a classic jump blues groove. The Canadian West Coast band evokes Kansas City and Chicago. Tunes by Albert King and Wynonie Harris notwithstanding, the highlights here are "Doin' It Right," "Boppin' With the Blues," and "Hear That Guitar Ring" - all written by the band's likable guitarist, Tom Lavin. /Mark Allan, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Powder Blues - Live At Montreux

Album: Live At Montreux
Size: 153,0 MB
Time: 66:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1984/1997
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front

1. Oh Well Oh Well (6:05)
2. Stoop Down Baby (5:54)
3. Rockchopper (10:32)
4. You Been Mean (6:38)
5. Same Old Blues (5:42)
6. What've I Been Drinking (6:44)
7. Takin' Care Of Business (7:33)
8. Nadine (5:04)
9. Personal Manager (9:27)
10. Powder Keg (2:49)

Guitarist Tom Lavin, bassist Jack Lavin and a keyboard player formed Powder Blues Band in 1978, later adding trumpeter Mark Hasselbach, drummer Duris Maxwell and saxophonists Wayne Kozak, Gordie Bertram and David Woodward. The group signed with Capitol, which released Uncut and Powder Blues in 1980. Other albums include Thirsty Ears (1981), Party Line (1982), Red Hot/True Blue (1983), First Decade-Greatest Hits (1990) and Let's Get Loose (1993). /Biography by John Bush, AllMusic

Recorded live at Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, July 1983. This is the CD release from 1997 with 4 more tracks than the LP and so you get the whole concert digitally remastered.

Personnel: Tom Lavin (vocals, guitar); Don Cummings (bass); Duris Maxwell (drums); Willie MacCalder (piano, vocals); Dave Woodward (tenor saxophone); Bill Runge (baritone and alto saxophone); Mark Hasselbach (trumpet).

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Powder Blues - First Decade/Greatest Hits

Album: First Decade/Greatest Hits
Size: 158,1 MB
Time: 68:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1990
Styles: Blues/R&B/Rock & Roll mix
Art: Full

1. Boppin' With The Blues (3:08)
2. Hear That Guitar Ring (3:50)
3. Just A Little (2:42)
4. The Rockchopper (3:34)
5. Doin It Right (3:19)
6. Buzzard Luck (3:06)
7. What've I Been Drinkin (3:09)
8. Personal Manager (6:38)
9. Sweet Little Girl (3:41)
10. Thirsty Ears (3:27)
11. Should Be You And Me (3:26)
12. Swami Swing (3:08)
13. Joyridin' (4:12)
14. Nothin But A Tease (4:08)
15. Lovin', Kissin' And Huggin' (3:22)
16. Pushy (3:32)
17. Your Daddy (2:27)
18. Slow Motion Walter (3:19)
19. I'm On The Road Again (3:51)

Hailing from Vancouver, this lively and entertaining blues outfit had little success on the charts, but their fiery brand of Chicago-style blues was enough to give them a Juno award in 1981 (Canada's version of the Grammy) and the W.C. Handy award in 1985 for Best Foreign Blues Band, presented in Memphis, TN.

First Decade/Greatest Hits is a delectable 19-track hits package that contains all of the Powder Blues Band's most important tracks, including a handful from both 1980's Uncut album and 1981's Thirsty Ears release, with the former going double platinum, selling over 200,000 copies. Brothers Tom Lavin and Jack Lavin lead the way on guitar, sounding especially sharp on "Doin' It Right" and "Thirsty Ears," the band's biggest singles, all with the help of some highly intoxicating saxophone bits.

Mixing the blues with some solid sounding rock & roll, tracks like "Hear That Guitar Ring," "Joyridin," and "I'm on the Road Again" proved the band could integrate both styles effectively through Tom Lavin's wide-awake vocals and an even keel of piano, saxes, and trumpet. Best of all, the Powder Blues Band maintained a small-club sound without sounding amateurish, and this tasty bunch of tracks proved that their talents far exceeded their commercial accomplishments. /Mike DeGagne, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Powder Blues - Let's Get Loose

Size: 106.1 MB
Time: 45:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1993
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Let's Get Loose (4:05)
02. Rock 'n Roll Man (3:21)
03. Party All Night Sleep All Day (4:29)
04. My Guitar's My Oldest Friend (4:04)
05. Close To You (3:39)
06. You Don't Know Me (4:06)
07. Blame It On The Blues (3:25)
08. Whole Lotta Lovin (4:03)
09. Disappearing Baby Blues (3:14)
10. The Days Are Few (4:18)
11. Shiftless (3:04)
12. B.B. Be Gone (3:58)

For over four decades Powder Blues has been Canada’s leading blues band. The mix of swing, blues, jazz, rock & roll and r & b has an appeal so wide that people from seven to seventy swing side by side at a Powder Blues concert. Over the years the band has toured non-stop through Canada, the United States and overseas, spreading feel-good music that makes people dance and shout.

Powder Blues debut album, ‘Uncut’, was ignored by major labels who said there was ‘no market for the blues’. Undiscouraged, the band sold it off stage and sent it to radio stations whose switchboards lit up with calls asking, ‘who’s that?’ After selling 30,000 copies in a few weeks, the same record labels competed to distribute this ‘non-commercial’ product. To date Powder Blues have sold over a million records worldwide.

Band highlights include winning Canada’s Juno, headlining the world-famous Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, winning the Blues Foundation Award in Memphis, Tennessee and touring the US and Europe with legends like Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, James Brown, Albert Collins, James Cotton and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Leader, Tom Lavin has written many of the band’s best-known songs including ‘Doin’ It Right’ (‘On the Wrong Side of Town’) and ‘Boppin With the Blues’. Born in Chicago where he worked with local bands and blues legends, Tom moved to Vancouver gigging in the downtown nightclub scene. This led to work as studio musician, song writer, band leader, record producer and film composer.

Tom has won BCMIA awards for ‘Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter and Producer of the Year’, a Juno award for ‘Best New Band’ and the American W.C. Handy award. He has over a dozen gold, and platinum records for Powder Blues, Prism, April Wine, Long John Baldry, Amos Garrett, and many others.

2020 is the band’s 42nd Anniversary. Their more than dozen CD titles and DVD continue to sell world-wide making Tom Lavin & the Legendary Powder Blues one of Canada’s longest-standing musical ambassadors.

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Powder Blues - Thirsty Ears

Year: 1981
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:58
Size: 82,3 MB
Styles: Electric blues, rocking blues
Scans: LP front & back

1. Thirsty Ears (3:05)
2. Secret Success (3:52)
3. Pink Champagne (3:48)
4. Undercover Blues (3:54)
5. Lovin' Kissin' & Huggin' (3:15)
6. Joy Ridin' (3:51)
7. She's Crazy (3:05)
8. Nothin' But A Tease (4:01)
9. She Took My Soul (3:13)
10. Will Power (3:49)

For four decades Powder Blues has been Canada’s leading blues band. Their mix of swing, blues, jazz, rock & roll and R&B has an appeal so wide that people from seven to seventy often swing side by side at a Powder Blues concert. Over the years the band has toured non-stop through Canada, the United States and overseas, spreading a feel-good groove that makes people dance and shout.

Powder Blues debut album, ‘Uncut’, was shrugged off by the major labels who told the band there was "no market for the blues". Undiscouraged, the band sold it off stage and sent it to radio stations whose switchboards lit up with calls asking "who’s that?". After selling 30,000 copies in a few weeks, the same record labels competed to distribute this "non-commercial" product. To date Powder Blues have sold over a million records worldwide.

Band highlights include winning Canada’s Juno, headlining the world-famous Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, winning the Blues Foundation Award in Memphis, Tennessee and touring the US and Europe with legends like Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, James Brown, Albert Collins, James Cotton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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Powder Blues - Blues + Jazz = BLAZZ!

Year: 2004
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:36
Size: 84,3 MB
Styles: Swinging blues, jazzy blues
Scans: Front

1. Cooking With The Blues (3:20)
2. Runnin' Blue (3:33)
3. Well Do It (2:46)
4. Things Are Getting Better (3:42)
5. Send Out For A Bucket Of Beer (2:50)
6. Take The 'A' Train (3:13)
7. Ain't That Loving You (3:54)
8. Let's Get Loose (3:56)
9. Disappearing Baby Blues (3:06)
10. Blame It On The Blues (3:18)
11. Swami Swing (2:54)

For nearly three decades Powder Blues has been Canada's favorite blues band. Their music incorporates elements of Swing, Blues, Jazz, Rock & Roll and Rhythm & Blues into their unique and instantly identifiable sound. This broad approach has resulted in an appeal whose demographic is so wide that it is not unusual to find people from seven to seventy swaying side by side at a Powder Blues concert. Throughout the years they have toured ceaselessly throughout Canada, the United States and overseas, spreading the joy of a music that makes people smile and dance.

Fads come and go, as in the current resurgence of Swing, Juke and Jive music, but Powder Blues is no follower of trends. When they first burst upon the recording scene in late 1979, with their self-financed and self-produced debut album, "Uncut", after nearly two years of wood shedding and honing their unique blend of sounds in Vancouver's then flourishing nightclub scene, the established recording industry label giants shrugged their effort off as "not commercial". The band was told there was "no market for the blues".

Undiscouraged, the band pressed the album at their own expense and proceeded to sell it off stage and deliver it to radio stations. When the switchboards at the stations lit up with calls asking "who's that?" other stations followed suit. After selling nearly 30,000 copies in a matter of weeks, the major record labels came calling and entered a bidding war for the band's services and the right to distribute this "non-commercial" product nationally. RCA won the contract and to date that album has gone on to sell over a million copies worldwide.

The Powder Blues latest CD titled "Blues + Jazz = BLAZZ!" on Blue Wave Records which was released in 2004. The band continues to tour regularly and has never played less than 40 shows and sometimes as many as 300 shows in each of the 28 years they have been performing.

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