Showing posts with label Rob Rio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rob Rio. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Nick Trill & The Thrillseekers - True Love

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:17
Size: 99.1 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[4:11] 1. Always Thought (Feat. Rob Rio)
[3:22] 2. Chickn Box Blues (Feat. Fred Kaplan)
[3:59] 3. Going Down Slow
[2:38] 4. Good Rockin' Nick (Feat. Fred Kaplan)
[2:43] 5. Hey Baby
[4:29] 6. Hiddy Ho' (Feat. Rob Rio)
[4:28] 7. Little Girl
[4:44] 8. Ninety-Nine (Feat. Rob Rio)
[4:35] 9. Packing Up
[4:30] 10. Times Is Hard (Feat. Bob Hall)
[3:33] 11. True Love (Feat. Fred Kaplan)

Nick was born in England but moved to New York at the age of three. When a friend gives a pile of plates to Nick, when he was at Junior High School, he was immediately infected by the blues virus. The blues of Paul Butterfield, John Mayall and Canned Heat changed his life. This music was totally new to him and will never let him go. As of 1977 he has been busy with all kinds of occupations in 1978 to create the Crawling Kingsnake Blues Band, which he later dubbed in Teenage Beat, named after a song by Little Walter. With Teenage Beat, he gets the opportunity to perform performances with Steve Guyger, Bill Dicey, Robert Ross, The Holmes Brothers, Hubert Sumlin and James Cotton. In 1995, Nick Trill decided to move to South Florida and set up his new formation Nick Trill And The Thrillseekers.

With the Thrillseekers he recorded the album 'Juggling The Blues' in 1999. Nobody less than Junior Watson plays on this CD as a guitarist. In addition, Nick Jimmy Pugh, currently a member of the Robert Cray Band, has been prepared to play the key players. Also for his subsequent production, "Laid Off" from 2006, which he collects with Robert Rand, he again knows the necessary top musicians to gather. On such six tracks, Mark Hummel and his Blues Survivors are present as a guest and accompanist band. And now again, for the album 'True Love', Nick has surrounded some renowned blues musicians. For example, the pianists Fred Kaplan, Rob Rio and Bob Hall will support the Thrillers on this album. The band ends with Going Down Slow of St. Louis Jimmy Oden who gets a spicy shuffle performance. Also the second track Hidy Ho has a lot of pace and a threatening groove with Rob Rio's excellent piano work. In Little Girl, the tire takes some gas back, it seems, but thanks to a nice guitar ride and a rhythm guitar slightly upset, these slowblues are still grooving. At Times Is Hard, Nick is playing acoustic harp and that fits in with Bob Hall's rolling piano game. Nick gets support from The Fishettes in this swing backing vocal. Fred Kaplan takes care of the piano work in the shuffle Good Rockin 'Nick and the slow blues Chickn Box Blues, which also features a beautiful guitar. Nick takes care of the acoustic harp in the up-shuffle True Love, which is also the title of the album. With a very upset rhythm guitar in the rocking Packing Up, the CD comes to an end. Nick Trill turns out to be an excellent mouthpiece that controls his diatonic harp both acoustically and reinforced with a fine edge. In addition, he has a very nice and flexible voice. The Thrill Seekers are thanked by Nick for their great dedication, but there seems to be so much that you can assume that Nick is working on alternate occupations. Guitarists Mark Korpi and Mark Otis, I want to mention in particular because they make such a nice contribution to this CD. ~Martin van der Velde (Translated from Dutch.)

True Love

Friday, December 11, 2015

VA - Exceptional Blues

Size: 269,3 MB
Time: 116:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01 Eddie Caldwell - Let Me Love You (3:56)
02 Chris Cooke - Feeling Rude (3:44)
03 Dave Rudolf - Little Blue Riding Hood (3:40)
04 Wade Mosher - Mean Streak (2:58)
05 The Rockin' Cinders - Love No More (2:50)
06 Mick Simpson - Can't You Hear The Wind Howl (6:00)
07 Erica Lee Page - Bye Bye Baby (3:28)
08 Rob Rio - Ode To Hook (3:12)
09 LPJ Entertainment - Long Way From Home (3:31)
10 Rick Hollander - Cell Block 9 (5:52)
11 Graham Pagano - Keep Yer Peace (3:12)
12 Robert Farrell - Hug Me Squeeze Me (4:20)
13 Al Hill - Willie Mae (5:28)
14 Azam Khan - Two Days (4:45)
15 Shay Dillon - Ill Drink Instead (4:17)
16 Ed Kliman - Love And Whiskey (2:47)
17 Richie Milton - Find Another Man (3:38)
18 Brad Kimes - Blood In The Ground (3:38)
19 Steve Johnson - Bus Blues (2:56)
20 Thornton Bowman - Politician Blues (4:07)
21 Jaja - Nothing Left To Lose (4:05)
22 Larry Folk - Hard Life (3:33)
23 Terrill Blankley - Nothing But The Blues (3:39)
24 David Tick - Do It Your Own Way (4:02)
25 Colin Ward - Cigarettes And Gasoline (3:08)
26 Matthias Wichtrup - Ain't No Fun (3:33)
27 Ideascapes Music - Why Am I Always (3:36)
28 Mick Simpson - Sometimes I Get So Lonely (3:59)
29 Ted Gonlag - Like No Other Woman (4:19)
30 Chris Juergensen - The Spirit (3:36)

Exceptional Blues

Saturday, October 31, 2015

VA - Hard Times

Size: 247,5 MB
Time: 104:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01 Don Julin - Pencil Pushin Blues (3:21)
02 Tony Denikos - She Ought To Know (4:56)
03 Apocalypse Cow - Been Down So Long (2:57)
04 Al Hill - Willie Mae (5:27)
05 Robert Farrell - Pretty Lady Blues (3:00)
06 Jarrett Fenlon - Old Crow Blues (2:42)
07 Randy Parsons - Brand New Day (3:34)
08 Robert Farrell - Hug Me Squeeze Me (4:20)
09 Steve Dafoe - Lasalle Street Chicago Piano Blues (2:31)
10 Zola Moon - Help Me (4:48)
11 Alan Marchand - Bluebelle (3:50)
12 Earl Green - Hard Times (4:14)
13 Rob Rio - Back To La (3:47)
14 Steve 'Daddy-O' Byers - She Cant Shake (2:40)
15 Masterwerks R&B - Keep Your Love Strong (2:07)
16 John Altenburgh - Woke Up In The Morning Shes Still Here (3:31)
17 Alex Paul - Blues 70 (2:08)
18 Johnny Azari - Old Time Friends (3:42)
19 Rich Harper - Blue Eyed Blues (3:51)
20 Pavel Arakelian - Daj Mne Shanets Give Me A Chance (4:48)
21 Mandy Cook - Just No Good At Being Bad (3:25)
22 Robert Farrell - Manhattan Sunburst (3:27)
23 Badabing Badaboom - Baggage (3:05)
24 Shay Dillon - I Been Good (3:54)
25 Robert Johnson - The Way You Do The Things You Do (3:13)
26 John Swanson - Everydays A Monday (3:36)
27 Ingvi Thor Kormaksson - Go Find A Millionaire (4:35)
28 John Swanson - Sycamore Drive (3:07)
29 Shay Dillon - People Say (4:04)

Hard Times

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Rob Rio - 2 albums: Bankin' On The Boogie / Swingtrain

Known by some as the "Boss of the Boogie", pianoman/vocalist ROB RIO plays the boogie-woogie and jump blues of the 40's and 50's with a virtuosity and elan that has excited audiences around the world for more than 30 years. RIO was inducted into the Boogie Woogie Hall Of Fame in 2008. He has appeared with many of the original blues greats, such as Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, James Cotton, Charles Brown, Joe Cocker, Paul Butterfield and many more, and has recorded with Mick Jagger, Canned Heat, Billy Boy Arnold, William Clarke, Coco Montoya, Finis Tasby, Walter Trout, Mud Morganfield, Phillip Walker, Jody Williams, among others.

Born and raised in the Bronx, N.Y., Rio now resides in Los Angeles and currently performs at festivals, events and clubs at home and on the road and has been a favorite attraction throughout the Southland for the last 25 years, either as a solo performer or with his 5-piece band, THE REVOLVERS. His main influences include Otis Spann, Memphis Slim, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Jimmy Yancy, and Roosevelt Sykes. Rio continues to record and perform festivals and events nationally and internationally.

Album: Bankin' On The Boogie
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:38
Size: 138.8 MB
Styles: Blues piano, Boogie woogie
Year: 1992
Art: Front

[2:24] 1. Hoy Hoy
[4:47] 2. Chiropractor Blues
[2:33] 3. Milk Milk Stomp
[2:25] 4. Just Love Me Once More
[2:18] 5. Fat Girl Boogie
[3:50] 6. Too Many Drivers
[2:43] 7. Rocket 69
[2:13] 8. Bumble Boogie
[2:37] 9. Come On
[2:59] 10. Love In The Afternoon
[3:26] 11. Dog Duty Blues
[2:18] 12. Lucky Yuppie
[3:35] 13. Time Will Tell
[4:50] 14. Big Mouth Woman
[2:26] 15. Rio A La Yancy
[2:05] 16. Lie, Lie, Lie
[2:36] 17. Rock This Joint
[2:51] 18. I'm Your Professor
[2:42] 19. When I Get Lucky
[4:52] 20. Saturday Nite Special

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Album: Swingtrain
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:19
Size: 112.9 MB
Styles: Blues piano, Boogie woogie
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Swingtrain
[3:36] 2. Rockhouse
[3:17] 3. My Baby Just Cares For Me
[2:35] 4. The Perfect Woman
[2:33] 5. L.A. Earthquake Boogie
[4:49] 6. The Reefer Smoker
[3:22] 7. Baby Let Me Bang Your Box
[2:42] 8. Save The Planet
[2:58] 9. Woe Is Me
[2:44] 10. Spann Salad
[4:21] 11. When I Most Needed You
[3:21] 12. Pacifica's Grand Boogie Woogie
[4:24] 13. Mighty Koodepakaway
[5:31] 14. Hippo Wallow

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Rob Rio - Thank You, Joe Turner! (A Tribute To Big Joe Turner)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:47
Size: 77.4 MB
Styles: Boogie woogie, Jump blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:13] 1. Thank You, Joe Turner
[3:21] 2. Shake, Rattle And Roll
[3:21] 3. Corrina, Corrina
[2:53] 4. Cherry Red
[2:56] 5. Boogiewoogie Country Girl
[2:41] 6. Lipstick, Powder And Paint
[3:56] 7. I Want A Little Girl
[4:34] 8. Wee, Wee, Baby
[3:30] 9. Back Door Blues
[3:18] 10. Flip, Flop And Fly

Boogie woogie pianist Rob Rio’s latest endeavor celebrates the “boss of the blues,” Big Joe Turner, with a selection of songs made famous by the Kansas City blues shouter who recorded a couple of these same songs—the relaxed “Cherry Red” and “Wee, Wee Baby”—with his equally famous cohort, pianist Pete Johnson. However, the accent here is mostly on the songs Turner recorded in the ’50s, during his second career: the house-rocking, let’s-have-a-party repertory that includes such genuine classics as “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” “Boogie Woogie Country Girl” and “Flip, Flop and Fly.” Rio, a terrific pianist and vocalist, is accompanied by some of L.A.’s best sidemen and the three-man horn section (Bill Flores—tenor, alto sax; Jeff Turmes—baritone, tenor sax; Corey Gemme—trumpet) lays down such solid K.C.-style riffing that it melts my heart. The CD’s title track is Rio’s tribute to Big Joe (1911-85) and echoes a sentiment dear to fans of the incomparable singer. Although the 10 songs all hover around the three-minute mark, there’s a solid 34 minutes of pure pleasure here. ~Miles Jordan

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Friday, July 11, 2014

Rob Rio - Blues From The Vault

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 45:06
Size: 103.3 MB
Styles: Boogie woogie, Piano blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[4:49] 1. Down The Road A Piece
[3:16] 2. Tight Dresses
[3:01] 3. Preachin' Blues
[4:09] 4. It Hurts Me Too
[2:48] 5. Stavin' Chain
[4:23] 6. Wee Wee Baby
[3:59] 7. Railroad Porter
[2:25] 8. Go Ahead And Cry
[3:01] 9. El Capitan
[5:17] 10. Slow Freight
[5:07] 11. Greyhound
[2:46] 12. Fool's Paradise

Boogie-woogie piano-powered rock `n' roll has spent a number of years at the peripheries of popular music since its late `50s heyday. In the UK, thanks mainly to Jools Holland, his Later show, and his willingness to put his Big Band on the road, there's been something of a comeback, and we can only hope that the man some call the "Boss of the Boogie", Rob Rio, get's his fair share of trickledown recognition and sales.

Having plied his trade with rock and blues giants like Mick Jagger, Canned Heat, Muddy Waters and Charles Brown, Rio understands the importance of a polished performance, but without sacrificing excitement and spontaneity. "Blues From The Vault" is a wonderful collection of recordings. Urgent, thrilling, bundles of fun with a timeless quality - these songs could have been cut any time in the last 50-odd years - but the listener in equally aware that they're hearing a supremely talented musician at the top of his game.

There are copious highlights, from the `educational' "Down The Road A Piece" to the rolling version of Sidney Bechet's "Preachin' Blues" and Tampa Red's "It Hurts Me Too", with Rio's resonant voice bringing out the hurt to good effect. Considering "Blues From The Vault" is a collection of previously unreleased material recorded between 1986-1990, I think his 1992 collection "Bankin' On The Boogie" has just made its way to the top of my `wants' list. ~Leicester Bangs/amazon

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