Ry Cooder & David Lindley - Vienna 1995

Size: 163.0 MB
Time: 70:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Blues, Rock, Country
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Promised Land ( 7:37)
02. Jesus On The Mainline ( 6:15)
03. Mercury Blues ( 7:16)
04. Afindrafindrao ( 5:48)
05. Si Beg Si Mhor ( 3:57)
06. Paris Texas/Vigilante Man (14:31)
07. The Girls From Texas ( 7:46)
08. All Shook Up ( 5:24)
09. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live ( 7:00)
10. Leave Home Blues ( 4:37)

CD 2:
01. I'm A Lonesome Fugitive (3:51)
02. Me And My Chauffeur (4:16)
03. Ain't No Way Baby (4:57)
04. Break Up Your Happy Home (4:06)
05. Little Sister (4:13)
06. Play It All Night Long (6:44)
07. If Walls Could Talk / Smell / 5-10-15 (8:15)
08. Hold That Snake (5:50)
09. Talk To The Lawyer (5:49)
10. Goodnight Irene (9:16)
11. The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (6:35)
12. Do You Want My Job' (6:20)

Personnel:
Vocals, Guitar, Accordion, Bouzouki, Tambora, Mandolin – Ry Cooder
Vocals, Guitar, Bajo Sexto, Bouzouki, Tambora – David Lindley
Drums, Percussion – Joachim Cooder
Vocals, Guitar – Rosanne Lindley

Live album recorded in The Vienna Opera House 1995-07-06.

In 1995, when Ry Cooder & David Lindley went out on a short tour across Europe, Cooder s last solo-album had been 1987 s Get Rhythm. He had, however been spending time working alongside a number of fellow musicians during this period, such as Malain guitarist, Ali Farka Touré, Hindi slide and classical guitarist, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and, most successfully, with John Hiatt, Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner, as a member of Little Village. David Lindley, as was his want, had also been collaborating with others, most recently with Warren Zevon, on Zevon s ninth record Mutineer. But in the early summer of 95, both these master musicians decided to keep it in the family , and indeed set out for a jaunt with Cooder s son, drummer, percussionist and keyboard player Joaquim in tow, and with Lindley s daughter, vocalist Roseanne, on what came to be known as The Family Tour. The entourage performed in the UK, the Netherlands, France, Italy et al, and on 6th July they played in Vienna at the prestigious State Opera House, for a concert that was recorded and broadcast both locally and back home in the US. Playing a superb and eclectic set, with all members of the line-up taking turns to front this delightful combo, the full recording is now available on this double CD set.

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Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - Get On Board: The Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

Album: Get On Board
Size: 103,0 MB
Time: 44:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2022
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues, roots
Art: Front, back

1. My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door (4:15)
2. The Midnight Special (3:26)
3. Hooray Hooray (4:20)
4. Deep Sea Diver (5:17)
5. Pick A Bale Of Cotton (3:02)
6. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (3:15)
7. What A Beautiful City (4:11)
8. Pawn Shop Blues (5:51)
9. Cornbread, Peas, Black Molasses (3:43)
10. Packing Up Getting Ready To Go (2:49)
11. I Shall Not Be Moved (4:19)

Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder played together during the mid-'60s as part of roots rock band Rising Sons and cut an unreleased album for Columbia. In 1968, Cooder, then 17, played guitar behind Jesse Ed Davis on Mahal's eponymously titled Columbia debut. The raucous, woolly, Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee places them in the studio together for the first time in more than 50 years.

All 11 songs are drawn from the Terry-McGhee catalog, including three that originally appeared on the guitar-and-harmonica duo's 1952 Folkways recording Get On Board (even the album cover was modeled on the original). Terry and McGhee made records, but as fresh fare for their many live performances - they toured constantly during the '50s and '60s. Their influence and impact on Mahal and Cooder is incalculable; it completely informed their long careers. Though this pair are grizzled veterans, they perform with the joy of a Saturday-night jam session, rendering the material with rowdy exuberance, killer vibes, and chops galore.

On 1952's Get On Board, Terry and McGhee were accompanied by Coyal McMahan on maracas. Here, Cooder's son Joachim joins on bass and percussion. Mahal takes on the role of harmonicist Terry. He is one of the most innovative and resonant blues singers in history, and like Terry, he offers amazing rhythmic statements with both voice and harp. (His lusty delivery on opener "My Baby Done Changed the Lock on the Door" is alone worth the album's price tag.) Cooder claims guitarist McGhee as his role model here. His strumming and fingerpicking styles were directly inspired by his predecessor's playing technique. On the same opening tune, Cooder's distorted electric strum provides the bountiful grit and groove quotient for his partner. He takes the lead vocal on a jaunty version of the standard "The Midnight Special." Mahal's harmonica and backing vocal offer inventive lyricism and pulsing rhythm accompaniment as Joachim bangs on boxes and snares underneath.

"Deep Sea Diver" is rendered with Mahal playing barrelhouse piano. Atop a filthy electric guitar, Cooder delivers one of his most impassioned, soulful vocals. Mahal grunts, growls, and snarls in "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" as Cooder punctuates the lines with a biting acoustic slide and affirmative shouted commentary. "Cornbread, Peas, Black Molasses" is a homesick country blues sung in duet amid wrangling guitars and wailing harp. "Packing Up Getting Ready to Go" has modern sonics, staggered vocal harmonies, and swampy midnight guitar from Cooder; the lyrics reference death and salvation as imminent.

Get On Board closes with the gospel nugget "I Shall Not Be Moved," offered loosely as spiritual conviction, truth, and a symbol of earthly resistance to injustice amid joyfully strummed guitars, piping harp, and thudding percussion. Mahal and Cooder stay close to the originals, but whether faithfully evoking the sound and spirit of their mentors or using them as lift-off points for expansion, this glorious album honors their subjects with joy and swagger as well as devotion. /Thom Jurek, AllMusic

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Ry Cooder - Vigilante Man

Size: 148,8+136,0+101,5+136,0+145,0+103,1 MB
Time: 63:22+57:51+43:33+58:32+62:19+44:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Blues, Folk, Country, Rock
Art: Full

CD 1:
01. Woody Guthrie - Vigilante Man (3:20)
02. Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues (2:27)
03. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night (3:18)
04. Leadbelly - On A Monday (1:47)
05. Blind Blake - Diddie Wah Diddie (2:56)
06. Sleepy John Estes - Brownsville Blues (3:08)
07. Woody Guthrie - Do Re Mi (2:32)
08. Washington Phillips - You Can't Stop A Tattler, Pt. 1 (2:50)
09. Washington Phillips - You Can't Stop A Tattler, Pt. 2 (2:48)
10. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues (3:06)
11. Bo Carter - Corrine, Corrina (3:17)
12. Leadbelly - Pigmeat Papa (3:14)
13. Fiddlin' John Carson - Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All (2:50)
14. Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene (2:54)
15. Blind Alfred Reed - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (3:10)
16. Blind Blake - Police Dog Blues (2:51)
17. Leadbelly - Bourgeois Blues (5:35)
18. Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man Blues (2:47)
19. Charley Patton - Poor Me (2:55)
20. Skip James - Cherry Ball Blues (2:48)
21. Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (2:37)

CD 2:
01. Interview (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (1:15)
02. Police Dog Blues (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (2:47)
03. WWII Story (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (1:42)
04. Comin' In On A Wing & A Prayer (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (3:06)
05. Joseph Spence Story (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (1:07)
06. Great Dream From Heaven (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (2:21)
07. Sleepy John Estes Story (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (1:23)
08. Clean Up At Home (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (3:18)
09. Dedication To The Radio Ranch Staff (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (0:55)
10. Tattler (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (5:51)
11. You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (3:07)
12. Wmms Announcement (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (0:58)
13. F.D.R. In Trinidad (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (3:15)
14. Sleepy John Estes Story, Pt. 2 (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (1:14)
15. Floating Bridge (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (5:11)
16. Billy The Kid (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (3:35)
17. Diddy Wah Ditty (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (2:56)
18. Dark Was The Night. Cold Was The Ground (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (4:49)
19. Jesus Is On The Mainline (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (4:10)
20. Going To Brownsville (Live At Radio Ranch, Cleveland Oh. 12-12-72 WMMS-FM Broadcast) (4:44)

CD 3:
01. Too Tight Blues No. 2 (Live At Bottom Line, NYC 16-05-74) (3:28)
02. FDR In Trinidad (Live At Bottom Line, Nyc 16-05-74) (4:53)
03. The Tattle (Live At Bottom Line, Nyc 16-05-74) (5:46)
04. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Live At Bottom Line, Nyc 16-05-74) (4:47)
05. I Can Tell By The Way You Smell (Live At Bottom Line, Nyc 16-05-74) (3:24)
06. Kentucky Blues (Live At Bottom Line, Nyc 16-05-74) (4:42)
07. One Meatball (Live At Bottom Line, Nyc 16-05-74) (1:36)
08. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (Live At Bottom Line, Nyc 16-05-74) (7:57)
09. Preacher (Live At Bottom Line, Nyc 16-05-74) (2:51)
10. Vigilante Man (Live At Bottom Line, Nyc 16-05-74) (4:04)

CD 4:
01. Too Tight This Rag Of Mine (Live At Ebbets Field, Denver, Co 20-05-74 KCUV-FM Broadcast) (3:18)
02. I Can Tell By The Way You Smell (Live At Ebbets Field, Denver, Co 20-05-74 KCUV-FM Broadcast) (2:59)
03. Sleepy John Estes Story - Blind Man In The Tear Gas (Live At Ebbets Field, Denver, Co 20-05-74 KCUV-FM Broadcast) (6:53)
04. Great Dream From Heaven (Live At Ebbets Field, Denver, Co 20-05-74 KCUV-FM Broadcast) (3:47)
05. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (Live At Ebbets Field, Denver, Co 20-05-74 KCUV-FM Broadcast) (8:00)
06. Ax Sweet Mama - Sleepy John Estes Story 2 (Live At Ebbets Field, Denver, Co 20-05-74 KCUV-FM Broadcast) (7:47)
07. Floating Bridge (Live At Ebbets Field, Denver, Co 20-05-74 KCUV-FM Broadcast) (4:54)
08. Fool For A Cigarette - Feelin' Good (Live At Ebbets Field, Denver, Co 20-05-74 KCUV-FM Broadcast) (6:04)
09. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know) (Live At Ebbets Field, Denver, Co 20-05-74 KCUV-FM Broadcast) (5:09)
10. Kentucky Blues (Live At Ebbets Field, Denver, Co 20-05-74 KCUV-FM Broadcast) (5:06)
11. Don't Take Everybody To Be A Friend (Live At Ebbets Field, Denver, Co 20-05-74 KCUV-FM Broadcast) (4:30)

CD 5:
01. Tom Donahue Intro - Police Dog Blues (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (4:18)
02. F.D.R. In Trinidad (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (3:24)
03. If Walls Could Talk (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (4:03)
04. Tamp'em Up Solid (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (3:50)
05. Ax Sweet Mama (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (4:13)
06. Billy The Kid (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (6:16)
07. Vigilante Man (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (5:08)
08. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (9:13)
09. Tattler (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (4:39)
10. Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (5:14)
11. Alimony (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (4:20)
12. Teardrops Will Fall (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (3:41)
13. I'm A Pilgrim (Live At Record Plant, Sausalito, CA 07-07-74 KSAN-FM Broadcast) (3:55)

CD 6:
01. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Live At Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA 13-09-89 WXPN-FM Broadcast) (6:48)
02. Money Honey (Live At Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA 13-09-89 WXPN-FM Broadcast) (3:46)
03. Across The Borderline (Live At Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA 13-09-89 WXPN-FM Broadcast) (5:09)
04. Hard Times Come Again No More (Live At Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA 13-09-89 WXPN-FM Broadcast) (5:04)
05. Railroad Blues (Live At Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA 13-09-89 WXPN-FM Broadcast) (6:21)
06. Vigilante Man (Live At Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA 13-09-89 WXPN-FM Broadcast) (6:17)
07. Crawling King Snake (Live At House Of Blues, West Hollywood, CA 30-06-95 WLUP-FM Broadcast) (3:59)
08. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (Live At House Of Blues, West Hollywood, CA 30-06-95 WLUP-FM Broadcast) (3:31)
09. Boom Boom (Live At House Of Blues, West Hollywood, CA 30-06-95 WLUP-FM Broadcast) (3:23)

Limited edition 6CD Box Set featuring six live performances from 1972, 1974, 1989 and 1995. Consummate playing, from the master, throughout these great sounding recordings. Mastered from the original FM broadcasts. Also includes a cd of influences and original versions. Concerts include: The Radio Ranch, Cleveland, Ohio, December 12th 1972 WMMS-FM, Bottom Line, New York City, NY may 16th 1974, Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, May 20th 1974 - KCUV-FM, The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA July 7th 1974 KSAN-FM, New Orleans Artists Against Hunger, Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA, September 13th 1989 - WXPN-FM, House of Blues, West Hollywood, CA, June 30th 1995 - WLUP-FM (with John Lee Hooker & The Duke Robillard Band)

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Ry Cooder - The Prodigal Son

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:36
Size: 113.6 MB
Styles: Roots/Blues
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[4:00] 1. Straight Street
[4:05] 2. Shrinking Man
[3:11] 3. Gentrification
[3:45] 4. Everybody Ought To Treat A Stranger Right
[4:37] 5. The Prodigal Son
[6:07] 6. Nobody's Fault But Mine
[5:24] 7. You Must Unload
[3:09] 8. I'll Be Rested When The Roll Is Called
[5:43] 9. Harbor Of Love
[5:54] 10. Jesus And Woody
[3:35] 11. In His Care

Guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder has spent the majority of his 50-year career as one of the country's most vital communal historians and champions of roots music, illuminating and reanimating everything from bolero to bluegrass. Over the past decade or so, Cooder has also emerged out of his group of Sixties and Seventies contemporaries as one of folk music's preeminent polemicists, channeling Occupy Wall Street angst on 2011's recession-era lament Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down and, more recently, lambasting the GOP on 2012's Election Special.

On The Prodigal Son, however, Cooder returns to his foundation as vital roots music re-furbisher, spending the majority of the album dismantling and reassembling a series of 20th-century gospel, blues, folk and bluegrass traditionals. The never-predictable results range from rousing (see Cooder's partially rewritten title track) to revelatory ("Straight Street," "Harbor of Love"). And although there are no condemnation as literal as 2012's "Mutt Romney Blues" to be found this time around, Cooder is far from apolitical. In his mere three originals, the singer-songwriter-arranger, fueled by a mix of offbeat humor and righteous crankiness, crams references to climate change, third-world sweatshops, gentrification and fascists – the latter, most pointedly, on his six-minute epic "Jesus and Woody."

The Prodigal Son, Cooder's first album in six years, serves both as an urgent commentary on our current dystopia and a satisfying window into the interpretive process of a musical mastermind. ~Jonathan Bernstein

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Ry Cooder - Get Rhythm

MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR !

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:42
Size: 93.2 MB
Styles: Roots, Blues
Year: 1987/2009
Art: Front

[3:15] 1. Get Rhythm
[3:08] 2. Low--Commotion
[4:40] 3. Going Back To Okinawa
[3:38] 4. 13 Question Method
[5:48] 5. Women Will Rule The World
[3:30] 6. All Shook Up
[4:32] 7. I Can Tell By The Way You Smell
[6:18] 8. Across The Borderline
[5:49] 9. Let's Have A Ball

"The Musician's Musician." "The Master of the Eclectic." There are probably a dozen more titles by which this "guitar player" is known. To even refer to him as a guitar player is probably a gross mislabeling of this musician. He defies any sort of categorization; this is his greatest strength and for some his weakness. The theme for these nine cuts is rhythm of all different ilk. I won't even give the parameters because he seems to have none. I wondered how many different instruments he played on this album (I thought I counted five different types of guitar); it only says guitar and vocal for his credits. Listen to his version of "All Shook Up," more bop and rhythm than Elvis could put into four of his songs. It seems musicians line up to play with him, and they feel he did them a favor by letting them play on his albums. He always gives them plenty of space to do what they do. This CD will make the dead start tapping their toes. ~Bob Gottlieb

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Ry Cooder & David Lindley - The Family Tour: State Opera House Vienna

Size: 326 MB
Time: 2:19:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Promised Land ( 7:35)
02. Jesus On The Mainline ( 6:13)
03. Mercury Blues ( 7:14)
04. Afindafrindrao ( 5:46)
05. Si Beg Si Mhor ( 3:55)
06. Paris Texas - Vigilante Man (14:29)
07. The Girls From Texas ( 7:44)
08. All Shook Up ( 5:22)
09. How Can A Poor Man ( 6:58)
10. Leave Home Blues ( 4:35)

CD 2:
01. I'm A Lonesome Man (3:49)
02. Me And My Chauffeur (4:14)
03. Ain't No Way (4:55)
04. Breaking Up Somebody's Home (4:04)
05. Little Sister (4:11)06. Play It All Night Long (6:42)
07. If Walls Could Talk (8:13)
08. Hold That Snake (5:48)
09. Talk To The Lawyer (5:47)
10. Goodnight Irene (9:14)
11. The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor) (6:33)
12. Do You Want My Job (6:18)

Personnel:
Ry Cooder : Vocals, Guitar, Accordian, Bouzouki, Tambour, Mandolin
Joachim Cooder : Drums, Percussion
David Lindley : Vocals, Guitar, Bajo-sexto, Bouzouki, Tambour
Rosanne Lindley : Vocals, Guitar

Ry Cooder and David Lindley have performed and recorded together on numerous occasions. In 1995 they toured together with Ry's son, Joachim Cooder, on percussion and David's daughter, Rosanne Lindley, as vocalist. David Lindley released a double disc recording of their performance in the Vienna State Opera House.

The Family Tour

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John Lee Hooker & Friends - Live From The House Of Blues (Remastered)

Size: 158,3 MB
Time: 68:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Elwood Blues Intro - Look Me Up (Zakiya Hooker & Duke Robillard Band) (4:00)
02. Too Hot To Handle (Duke Robillard) (6:29)
03. Dyin' Flu (Duke Robillard) (7:58)
04. Sugar Coated Love (Lazy Lester) (4:10)
05. Come On In My Kitchen (John Hammond) (3:55)
06. Found Love (John Hammond & The Duke Robillard Band) (3:09)
07. Blues Overtook Me (Charlie Musselwhite) (5:23)
08. Help Me (Charlie Musselwhite) (8:04)
09. Big Leg Mama (Taj Mahal & The Duke Robillard Band) (4:09)
10. Strut (Taj Mahal & The Duke Robillard Band) (5:57)
11. She Caught The Katy (Taj Mahal & The Duke Robillard Band) (3:13)
12. Crawling Kingsnake (John Lee Hooker With Ry Cooder & The Duke Robillard Band) (4:13)
13. One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer (John Lee Hooker With Ry Cooder & The Duke Robillard Band) (3:37)
14. Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker With Ry Cooder & The Duke Robillard Band) (3:31)

A rich combination of blues talent and spice assembled in West Hollywood in June 1995 for Live From The House Of Blues, a spectacular display of collaborations with equally impressive names from the blues scene. John Lee Hooker's own Daughter Zakiya opened the event backed by the Duke Robillard Band. Added to the day's event was a prized collection of genial giants in Charlie Musselwhite, Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, John Hammond, Lazy Lester and of course, the boom, boom blues of the legendary John Lee Hooker. Duke Robillard s band offered a prominent backing for most of the guests and sealed the day with Ry Cooder's subliminal workout alongside Hooker for his signature R&B Boom, Boom. Klondike proudly presents the entire WLUP-FM broadcast of Live At The House Of Blues, a gathering of genial blues giants and friends of John Lee Hooker.

Live From The House Of Blues

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Ry Cooder - Live On Air

Size: 133,7 MB
Time: 57:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Blues Rock, Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. Police Dog Blues (3:53)
02. F.D.R. In Trinidad (3:23)
03. If Walls Could Talk (4:02)
04. Tamp 'em Up Solid (3:49)
05. Ax Sweet Mama (4:11)
06. Billy The Kid (6:14)
07. Vigilante Man (5:06)
08. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times... (6:36)
09. Tattler (3:59)
10. Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer (5:18)
11. Alimony (4:08)
12. Teardrops Will Fall (3:34)
13. I'm A Pilgrim (2:58)

Personnel: Ry Cooder - guitars, vocals, mandolin; Russ Titelman - bass; Jim Keltner - percussion, drums; Milt Holland - percussion, drums; Bobby King - backing vocals; Gene Mumford - backing vocals; Cliff Givens - backing vocals

Ry Cooder remains one of the very few studio icons who has gained the reputation as a "musician's musician." This recording from KSAN's broadcast series, captured at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, is essentially a solo acoustic show with Cooder, although longtime associates Jim Dickinson and Jim Keltner participate on bass and drums, respectively.

Cooder was promoting his third solo album, Paradise & Lunch, which most critics still regard as his best LP to date. Personable, humorous, and unquestionably talented, this intimate performance by Cooder is a long lost gem in his long and well-celebrated career. He performs a wide spectrum of material that includes covers and originals from his then-current and previous Warner Brother's albums. Whether it's a Depression-era styled blues classic, such as "Police Dog Blues," or Little Miton's "If The Walls Could Talk," Cooder is a master at the craft of blending smooth vocals and tasteful guitar licks around a compelling storyline song. If you don't love the characters he sings about, you are bound to love his true musicianship, which has graced hundreds of recordings by the likes of James Taylor and The Rolling Stones.(concertvault.com). If you enjoy stripped down arrangements that focus on Ry's playing, this one's for you. ~JBS

Live On Air

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Terry Evans - 2 albums: Fire In The Feeling / Puttin' It Down

Album: Fire In The Feeling
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:14
Size: 133.3 MB
Styles: R&B, Electric blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:48] 1. Uphill Climb (To The Bottom)
[4:17] 2. Nothing Wrong With Texas (That Leaving Won't Fix)
[6:53] 3. My Baby Joined The Army
[5:12] 4. Let's Get Gone
[6:34] 5. Turn On Your Lovelight
[4:59] 6. I'll Be Your Shelter (In The Time Of Storm)
[4:54] 7. Discover Me
[3:55] 8. I Got A Pony (She Likes To Ride)
[5:52] 9. What About Me
[3:26] 10. Racket In The Room
[7:20] 11. Walkin' Chains

After marking time with a live release, Terry Evans returns after four years with a studio collection that, while it doesn't explore new territory, revels in the gospel-laced rocking R&B that has always been his forte. Old friend Ry Cooder sits this one out again (he does contribute a terrific if slightly off-kilter love song in "My Baby Joined the Army"), but his influence is never far from the proceedings when Mark Shark, Joe Colombo, or especially ex-Cooder cohort David Lindley picks up a slide guitar. Evans plays some rhythm guitar and penned or co-wrote six of these 11 songs, including the stirring "Walkin' Chains," the album's longest and most intense piece. Here the swamp, religious, blues, R&B, and folk strains that appear throughout the disc collide in an explosive, moving ballad that builds to a shattering climax with Colombo's Cooder-ish guitar wailing away. There's plenty of party music, too, with the self-explanatory double entendre "I Got a Pony (She Likes to Ride)," the funky "Let's Get Gone," and the jaunty "Nothing Wrong with Texas (That Leaving Won't Fix)." Evans balances these upbeat tunes with slower, more pensive and brooding material, making for a varied and eclectic outing. The singer is in typically fine voice, shifting from an angelic falsetto to a lowdown growl in seconds. When he spars with legendary trombonist George Bohannon, who sizzles on the jazz-funk groove of "Discover Me," the sparks really fly. This is as good as anything Terry Evans has done, and those unfamiliar with his brand of rootsy R&B can start here. Established fans will feel right at home with this typically tough and tender release from an unfortunately underappreciated artist who is keeping roots R&B and soul music alive, one album at a time. ~Hal Horowitz

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Album: Puttin' It Down
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:35
Size: 120.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Electric blues
Year: 1995/2000
Art: Front

[4:06] 1. Money In Your Pocket
[5:37] 2. Too Many Ups And Downs
[4:29] 3. Walking In The Same Tracks
[7:46] 4. Down In Mississippi
[4:15] 5. In This Day And Time
[5:48] 6. Rooftop Tomcat
[4:08] 7. A Lover Like You
[5:01] 8. One Sided Love Affair
[3:15] 9. Nasty Doll
[8:06] 10. Blues No More

Terry Evans' second solo release (after a few with his singing partner Bobby King) further explores his swampy gospel, rock, R&B, and blues roots. Backed by veteran musicians like former employer Ry Cooder, bassist/songwriter Jorge Calderon, and even legendary jazz/funk trombonist George Bohanon (who tears it up with his solo on the album-closing slow groove of "Blues No More"), Evans proves that he's one of the most underrated vocalists on the blues/roots scene. Growling, humming, and testifying through an album primarily comprised of originals, Evans is in terrific voice. Much of the material sounds like it could have been on a mid-'70s Cooder release, but the singer adds additional vocal bite to this rootsy material. He's as comfortable with the upbeat approach of the humorous leadoff track, "Put the Money in Your Pocket," as with the searing, almost frightening deep blues of "Down in Mississippi" (reprised and rescued from obscurity on the Crossroads soundtrack), which at nearly eight minutes is the album's centerpiece and most intense piece. Here Evans uses his gruff voice to swoop and moan over eerie, snaking slide guitar and Jim Keltner's ominous, pounding drums. What's refreshing is how effectively Evans avoids typical blues clichés, preferring a more rhythmic approach -- one that Cooder's quicksilver lines do much to enhance. Soulful and emotional, Puttin' It Down is a dusty gem of an album. Like Evans' entire catalog, it's well worth exploring for blues/gospel fans looking for music that effectively combines the urging truth of gospel with the sensual grit of Memphis R&B. ~Hal Horowitz

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Ry Cooder - 2 albums: Get Rhythm / The Slide Area

Album: Get Rhythm
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:39
Size: 93.1 MB
Styles: Roots, Electric blues
Year: 1982
Art: Front

[3:15] 1. Get Rhythm
[3:08] 2. Low Commotion
[4:40] 3. Going Back To Okinawa
[3:38] 4. 13 Question Method
[5:48] 5. Women Will Rule The World
[3:29] 6. All Shook Up
[4:31] 7. I Can Tell By The Way You Smell
[6:16] 8. Across The Borderline
[5:49] 9. Let's Have A Ball

Ry Cooder was originally best known for his Delta blues & Dust Bowl balladry, later better known for his movie soundtracks & exploration of ethnic music from Cuba, Africa & India. This one is none of the above. It is the closest Ry came to straight-ahead blues-based rock & roll. There are a few resurrected obscurities to be sure, but this shows the side of Ry that is probably the closest to his years as a Rolling Stones sideman.

Fans of Ry's more acoustic offerings should like this as well, so long as they are open to his electric, louder side. It sounds little like Boomer's Story or other early works, but the songs & performances are up to the quality from his classic era. Basically, much of this CD is rent-party stompers. The covers of Get Rhythm and All Shook Up are a hoot. ~Strom1513

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Album: The Slide Area
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:56
Size: 89.1 MB
Styles: Roots, Electric blues
Year: 1970/1982
Art: Front

[4:58] 1. UFO Has Landed In The Ghetto
[4:34] 2. I Need A Woman
[4:02] 3. Gypsy Woman
[5:18] 4. Blue Suede Shoes
[5:56] 5. Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean
[4:34] 6. I'm Drinking Again
[3:44] 7. Which Came First
[5:46] 8. That's The Way Love Turned Out For Me

This CD opens with an outrageous and exceedingly funky "UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto," and which seems so out of place with the other material. Yes, it is a rhythm & blues, bordering at times on funk album, and rap is one direction R&B took, but.... Listen to the groove on "Which Came First," and try to keep your body from bobbing to the strong rhythm laid down by Jim Keltner, Tim Drummond, and the background vocalists. While we are on the subject of vocals, this is one of Ry Cooder's best efforts, and his backup vocalists are key here and deserve special recognition: Bobby King, John Hiatt, Willie Greene, and Herman Johnson for most of the CD. The two gems on this are the phenomenal treatments of both "Blue Suede Shoes" and Bob Dylan's "I Need a Woman." Two songs as different in the original forms as pigs and gerbils are converted to R&B hit status. Both contain some memorable slide guitar work, but isn't that what we expect from this master of the guitar family. The album is very good but those two songs make it a gem. ~Bob Gottlieb

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Ry Cooder - Broadcast From The Plant: 1974 Record Plant, Sausalito, CA

Size: 131,9 MB
Time: 57:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Gospel, Acoustic Blues, Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Police Dog Blues (3:53)
02. F.D.R In Trinidad (3:24)
03. If Walls Could Talk (4:02)
04. Tamp 'em Up Solid (3:48)
05. Ax Sweet Mama (4:11)
06. Billy The Kid (6:14)
07. Vigilante Man (5:06)
08. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (6:36)
09. Tattler (3:59)
10. Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer (5:17)
11. Alimony (4:08)
12. Teardrops Will Fall (3:34)
13. I'm A Pilgrim (2:55)

This is a live set recorded at the The Record Plant Studios in Sausalito. It was originally broadcast on KSAN Radio. It's never been released on CD but has been widely bootlegged. There seems to be a bit of confusion as to whether it was from 1973 or 1974... but I think it's '74. It captures Ry Cooder at the most exciting time of his career, and is essential listening for fans.
This was around the same time that he released his Paradise & Lunch album, and as of such it features Bobby King on backing vocals, alongside Gene Mumford and Cliff Givens. They add a big dose of soul and gospel to Cooder's sound. Also backing Cooder are Russ Titelman (bass), Jim Keltner (drums) and Milt Holland (percussion/marimba). The result is a really fantastic lineup, with a minimalistic sound which suits the intimate setting and lets Cooder's guitar really shine. Holland's marimba playing also adds some really lovely touches to a few of the songs. Five of the songs are performed solo by Cooder on acoustic guitar or mandolin, and the other seven are with the band.
It includes various songs from his first four albums, blending blues, folk, soul and gospel effortlessly. The real gem is the last song of the set, where Bobby King sings lead on a spine-tingling gospel reading of the traditional tune "I Am A Pilgrim".

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