Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:43
Size: 120.7 MB
Styles: West Coast blues
Year: 1978/2005
Art: Front
[4:00] 1. Travelin' With The Blues
[3:20] 2. You Can't Take It With You
[4:41] 3. Gasoline Blues
[3:48] 4. You're Killing Me
[4:03] 5. Going Back To Oakland
[4:06] 6. Street Walking Woman
[2:40] 7. Juicer's Blues
[4:24] 8. Blues Got Me
[3:45] 9. Blues Up And Gone
[4:06] 10. Telephone Blues
[5:41] 11. Midnight Train
[5:35] 12. Big Drought In California
[2:27] 13. Tom's Boogie
Tom McFarland was a blues fixture in the Pacific Northwest and the Bay Area until his death in 2004. So it's perhaps apt that this CD reissue of his first album, recorded in 1978, now finds its way out. That he was a devotee of B.B. King is apparent in the way he uses his guitar to punctuate and accentuate lines, although throughout he chooses a much more brittle tone. And the West Coast attitude is apparent in the sense of easy swing in the original songs, backed by bass and drums -- nothing ever plods. There's an ebullience to McFarland's singing, nowhere more than on the bonus cut "Tom's Boogie" (one of three extra tracks here), which comes as close to driving along as anything on the disc. His tales of ordinary life, be they about prostitutes or simply trying to make ends meet as a musician, are reassuringly warm, while his signature piece, "Going Back to Oakland," has a real sense of stature. While not a major performer, there's still plenty to his work. Nothing is tossed off or haphazard; there's a real regard for the blues ~Chris Nickson
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Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:04
Size: 89.5 MB
Styles: West Coast blues
Year: 1986/2010
Art: Front
[2:54] 1. Just Got In From Portland
[5:04] 2. Worried 'bout My Baby
[4:01] 3. Cold Steel
[3:18] 4. Blues Fall Down Like Rain
[3:23] 5. The Tickler
[4:07] 6. Rainy Day Blues
[4:37] 7. Bugs
[3:19] 8. 1945
[3:26] 9. Zig Zag
[4:50] 10. Goin' Back To Oakland
Tom McFarland -- guitar and vocal Bill Coones -- bass J.W. Moore -- drums Janice Scroggins -- piano Jan Celt -- guitar Rich Halley -- sax David Mills -- trumpet Warren Rand -- sax.
Ten originals from blues shouter and guitar picker Tom McFarland with his Portland band, recorded "live" in the studio in one day to capture the sparkling feel.
Ten originals from blues shouter and guitar picker Tom McFarland with his Portland band, recorded "live" in the studio in one day to capture the sparkling feel.
Just Got In From Portland