Peps Persson - The Sonet Blues Story Part 1 (2 CD)

Year: 2005
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:09 + 39:38
Size: 90,4 + 91,4 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Front

CD 1: Slim's Blues Gang - The Blues Ain't Strange (1971)
1. The Blues Ain't Strange (3:55)
2. I'm A Stranger Here (3:20)
3. Mother Earth (4:29)
4. Cow Cow Blues (3:22)
5. Break It On Down (4:12)
6. I Don't Believe (2:14)
7. Further On Up The Road (3:00)
8. Lucille (2:44)
9. Gone Father Blues (4:57)
10. A Change Is A-Coming (3:14)
11. Tow Away Zone (3:38)

CD 2: Peps & Slim - Blues På Svenska (1975)
1. Hokus Pokusman (4:06)
2. Fem Långa År (5:09)
3. Ropar På Min Snoppa (3:44)
4. Allt Det Där Som Sårar Dig (3:40)
5. Rullar Och Tumlar (4:04)
6. Jag Är Kär Igen (1:59)
7. Vad Jag Gjorde Förut (4:20)
8. Du E' Så Fin (3:19)
9. Liden Röd Tocke (6:27)
10. Ta Dej En Undrare, Min Vän (2:45)

This is the first part of "The Sonet Blues Story" and a re-issue of the LP "The Blues Ain't Strange" by Slim's Blues Gang from 1971 (CD 1), and the LP "Blues På Svenska" (Blues In Swedish) by Peps & Slim from 1975 (CD 2).

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Peps Persson - The Week Peps Came To Chicago (2 CD Edition)

Peps Persson was probably the most important artist in introducing blues to Sweden in the late '60s and early '70s. Since then he has had a reputation of being mainly a blues artist, but his discography shows a much wider range, including Afro-pop, reggae, R&B, and folk. Peps Persson is most easily recognized by his full and trembling voice, and his extreme deep south (Swedish) dialect that gives him a wide selection of words and rhymes. In a peculiar way it also helps him to adapt Swedish to blues music, a thing not many have mastered. In 1966, Peps Persson formed the group Downbeat Crowd and released a cover of Muddy Waters' "Got My Mojo Working" as a single.

The first LP, Blues Connection, was released 1968 on Gazell and the name of the band was now Linkin' Louisiana Peps. The coming few records were released on Sonet, a label he would keep to for most of his career, and followed a traditional blues and R&B formula. The Week Peps Came to Chicago was recorded in Chicago 1972 with Sunnyland Slim, Carey Bell, Mighty Joe Young, The Aces and Jimmy Dawkins.

Album: The Week Peps Came To Chicago
Year: 1972/2005
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:25 + 50:38
Size: 120,8 + 116,8 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

CD 1:
1. Apollo 15 (2:30)
2. You're A Part Of It (3:11)
3. There's Tears In Your Eyes (4:49)
4. Your Loving Eases My Load (2:44)
5. Carey Bell's Blues (5:24)
6. There's Tears In Your Eyes (Alternate Take) (6:30)
7. Born In The Country (3:10)
8. Five O'Clock In The Morning (4:32)
9. Jump (2:49)
10. The War Is Over (3:51)
11. Mighty Joe (4:12)
12. Born In The Country (Alternate Take) (3:35)
13. Mighty Joe (Alternate Take) (5:02)

CD 1 tracks 1-6: With Sunnyland Slim & Carey Bell
CD 1 Tracks 7-13: With Mighty Joe Young's Band

CD 2:
1. The Way You Touch Me (3:03)
2. My Friend Needs A Shot (5:13)
3. Peps' Thing (3:14)
4. Gypsy Woman (3:02)
5. Slidin' To Sweden (3:50)
6. The Way You Touch Me (Alternate Take) (3:45)
7. Gypsy Woman (Alternate Take) (3:30)
8. If There's A Train (3:35)
9. Key To The Highway (3:00)
10. Last Night (4:58)
11. Going Back To The Country (3:37)
12. If There's A Train (Alternate Take) (3:27)
13. Key To The Highway (Alternate Take) (3:00)
14. Going Back To The Country (Alternate Take) (3:18)

CD 2 tracks 1-7: With The Aces
CD 2 tracks 8-14: With Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins And His Band

(For further information on the musicians playing, see the booklet liner notes.)

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Peps & Blues Quality - Sweet Mary Jane

Year: 1969/1974/1994
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:49
Size: 83,6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Sweet Mary Jane (4:23)
2. Copenhagen Blues (5:14)
3. You're So Fine (3:56)
4. Somebody (5:23)
5. I Once Was A Gambler (6:40)
6. Sail Off To Another Shore (3:55)
7. Sad Night Is Falling (6:15)

Peps Persson was probably the most important artist in introducing blues to Sweden in the late '60s and early '70s. Since then he has had a reputation of being mainly a blues artist, but his discography shows a much wider range, including Afro-pop, reggae, R&B, and folk. Peps Persson is most easily recognized by his full and trembling voice, and his extreme deep south (Swedish) dialect that gives him a wide selection of words and rhymes. In a peculiar way it also helps him to adapt Swedish to blues music, a thing not many have mastered.

In 1966, Peps Persson formed the group Downbeat Crowd and released a cover of Muddy Waters' "Got My Mojo Working" as a single. The first LP, Blues Connection, was released 1968 on Gazell and the name of the band was now Linkin' Louisiana Peps. The coming few records were released on Sonet, a label he would keep to for most of his career, and followed a traditional blues and R&B formula. In 1973 he formed Peps Blodsband, which was to be his longest lasting group and consisted of organist and percussionist Brynn Settels, bassist Rolf Alm, and drummer Bosse Skoglund, with many musicians added on the various albums. His last pure blues album in a long time was Blues På Svenska, recorded in 1975 together with pianist Slim Notini and containing translated blues standards. The main influences the coming years were instead to be Afro-pop and reggae, and blended with R&B and blues it made up a very personal sound.

Note: "Sweet Mary Jane" is also featured on the "Sonet Blues Story Part 2" compilation album from 2005 (now with five additional bonus tracks).

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Peps Persson DownHome BluesBand - Rotblos

Size: 110,7 MB
Time: 47:16
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. For Ung Att Do (Too Young To Die) (2:37)
02. Pistolblues (Forty Four) (3:30)
03. Min Trollmoj Funkar (Got My Mojo Working) (3:18)
04. Framlingsblues (Stranger Blues) (4:24)
05. Na't Inuti Mej (Something Inside Me) (4:21)
06. Passa Dej (You Better Watch Yourself) (3:07)
07. Go'maren Lilla Skoltös (Good Morning Little Schoolgirl) (3:06)
08. Snalla Du Kom Hem (Baby Please Come On Home) (3:34)
09. Lat Inte Mej Snacka (Don't Start Me To Talkin') (2:30)
10. Skaka Kassaskrinet (Shake Your Moneymaker) (2:53)
11. Ba'na Om Vatten (I Asked For Water, She Gave Me Gasoline) (5:36)
12. Sag Mej, Kvinna (Tell Me Mama) (3:38)
13. Gunga Med Mej (Rock Me Baby) (4:37)

With Rotblos Peps Persson returned to what made him famous, Swedish translations of blues standards. Not that he ever stopped playing them, or including one or two on his more reggae-based albums, but after Blues På Svenska, it took 22 years until he released another blues album. But even on this pure Chicago album there are hints of Peps Persson's love for African music. One is in the guitar figures on "Främlingsblues," a cover of Elmore James' "Stranger Blues," that gives the song a good momentum. As usual, the band is extremely competent, and the dialect and the humour of the translated texts add a new dimension to the often chauvinistic Chicago blues lyrics, like in "Go'maren Lilla Skoltös" and Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl," a song you seem to be allowed to sing no matter your age. Peps Persson was awarded with a Swedish Grammy for Best Lyrics for Rotblos, not a common thing when it comes to translations. And blues have not often been played better in Sweden, but still, after the novelty of the translations has worn off, you may get a vague unsatisfactory feeling. It may be so that playing old songs in an old fashioned manner, no matter how good, can never really compete with the best the present has to offer. This is not only a cover album, but neither is it far enough from being. But that is the only thing that keeps this album from getting an absolute top rating.

Thanks to MrWalker
Rotblos

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Peps Persson - Sonet Blues Story Part 2: Early Peps

Size: 133,2+132,9 MB
Time: 58:11+58:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Chicago Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

CD 1: Linkin' Louisiana Peps - Blues Connection (1968)
01. Blues With A Feeling ( 6:23)
02. Dimples ( 5:09)
03. Five Long Years ( 5:19)
04. Rooster Blues ( 3:15)
05. Shake Your Money Maker ( 3:41)
06. The Sky Is Crying ( 5:51)
07. Dust My Blues ( 2:51)
08. Sportin' Life Blues ( 5:03)
09. Minglewood Blues (Prev. Unissued) (20:34)

CD 2: Peps & Blues Quality - Sweet Mary Jane (1969)
01. Sweet Mary Jane (4:22)
02. Copenhagen Blues (5:09)
03. You're So Fine (3:55)
04. Somebody (5:22)
05. Once Was A Gambler (6:39)
06. Sail Off To Another Shore (3:54)
07. Sad Night Is Falling (6:20)
08. You're So Fine (Alt. Take) (3:29)
09. It Hurts Me Too (Prev. Unissued) (5:31)
10. Sweet Mary Jane (Alt. Take) (3:36)
11. Sad Night Is Falling (Alt. Take) (5:40)
12. I Got My Mojo Working (Prev. Unissued) (4:02)

This is the second part of "The Sonet Blues Story" and a re-issue of the LP "Blues Connection" by Linkin' Louisiana Peps from 1968 (CD 1), and the LP "Sweet Mary Jane" by Peps & Blues Quality from 1969 (CD 2).

Thanks to MrWalker.
The Sonet Blues Story Part 2 CD 1
The Sonet Blues Story Part 2 CD 2

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Linkin' Louisiana Peps - Blues Connection

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 37:44
Size: 86.4 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 1968/1994
Art: Full

[6:26] 1. Blues With A Feeling
[5:11] 2. Dimples
[5:20] 3. Five Long Years
[3:14] 4. Rooster Blues
[3:45] 5. Shake Your Money Maker
[5:53] 6. The Sky Is Crying
[2:53] 7. Dust My Blues
[4:59] 8. Sportin' Life Blues

Peps Persson was probably the most important artist in introducing blues to Sweden in the late '60s and early '70s. Since then he has had a reputation of being mainly a blues artist, but his discography shows a much wider range, including Afro-pop, reggae, R&B, and folk. Peps Persson is most easily recognized by his full and trembling voice, and his extreme deep south (Swedish) dialect that gives him a wide selection of words and rhymes. In a peculiar way it also helps him to adapt Swedish to blues music, a thing not many have mastered.

In 1966, Peps Persson formed the group Downbeat Crowd and released a cover of Muddy Waters' "Got My Mojo Working" as a single. The first LP, Blues Connection, was released 1968 on Gazell and the name of the band was now Linkin' Louisiana Peps. The coming few records were released on Sonet, a label he would keep to for most of his career, and followed a traditional blues and R&B formula. The Week Peps Came to Chicago was recorded in Chicago 1972 with Sunnyland Slim and Jimmy Dawkins and in 1973 he formed Peps Blodsband. This was to be his longest lasting group and consisted of organist and percussionist Brynn Settels, bassist Rolf Alm, and drummer Bosse Skoglund, with many musicians added on the various albums. His last pure blues album in a longtime was Blues På Svenska, recorded in 1975 together with pianist Slim Notini and containing translated blues standards. The main influences the coming years were instead to be Afro-pop and reggae, and blended with R&B and blues it made up a very personal sound. This formula was tried already the same year on Hög Standard, Peps Persson's most well-known album and one that contained highly political lyrics about low wages and solidarity with liberation fronts. Such a social conscience was to show on many of his recordings, but nevertheless he was never fully accepted by the hardcore ideologists of the political 1970s, who accused him of being too commercial. The exploration of reggae continued with Peps Blodsband and other constellations on records like Droppen Urholkar Stenen and Spår, and some excursions into Swedish folk music was made on Fyra Tunnland Bedor Om Dan and Persson Sjonger Persson, where he covered classic Swedish comedy actor and singer Edward Persson. During the '80s, Peps Perssons political messages were seen as old fashioned and that helped to marginalize him. Most of the century he held a low profile, with an exception for the rock-reggae hit "Lived Po Lanned," originally "Give Me the Country" by Robert Parker. While playing blues gigs, he stayed out of the blues revival of the late '80s and early '90s and the albums instead showed an increasing influence from Afro-pop. In 1997 Peps Persson finally returned to his blues roots on the album Rotblos, which again contained blues standards translated into Swedish, a difficult task, but one that was awarded both with critical acclaim and commercial success. In playing blues Peps Persson gets to show that except for being a soulful and good singer, he is a skilled guitarist and a brilliant harmonica player, a fact that is often overlooked.

thank you mrwalker.
Blues Connection

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