Goree Carter - Essential Blues

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 97:07
Size: 222.4 MB
Released: 2009
Styles: Texas blues
Art: Front

1. My Wish (3:11)
2. I'll Send You (2:14)
3. My Love Is Coming Down (2:50)
4. Rock Awhile (2:41)
5. Serenade (2:57)
6. Lonely World (2:29)
7. She's My Best Bet (2:44)
8. Is It True (3:06)
9. Workin' With My Baby (3:25)
10. Sweet Ole Woman's Blues (2:34)
11. I'm Just Another Fool (2:13)
12. When Night Falls (2:31)
13. If It's True What They Tell Me (2:34)
14. Back Home Blues (2:36)
15. Everybody's Love Crazy (3:24)
16. She's Just Old Fashioned (3:06)
17. Bull Corn Blues (2:37)
18. True Love Is Hard To Find (2:32)
19. Christmas Time (2:39)
20. Love's A Gamble (2:34)
21. I'm Your Boogie Man (2:24)
22. Let's Rock (2:28)
23. Hoy-Hoy (2:56)
24. Every Dog Has His Day (2:51)
25. Tell Me, Is There Still A Chan (3:05)
26. Let's Make Love (2:37)
27. You Are My Everything (2:40)
28. Seven Days (2:36)
29. I've Got News For You (2:32)
30. Please Say You're Mine (3:21)
31. What A Friend Will Do (3:02)
32. Come On Let's Boogie (3:01)
33. Drunk Or Sober (2:54)
34. How Can You Love Me (2:45)
35. I Just Thought Of You (2:44)

T-Bone Walker inspired a legion of young Texas blues guitarists during the years following World War II with his elegant electrified riffs and fat chords. Among his legion of disciples was Houston's Goree Carter, whose big break came when Solomon Kahal signed him to Houston's Freedom Records circa 1949.

Carter's best-known waxing, the torrid "Rock Awhile" (billed to Goree Carter & His Hepcats) emerged not long thereafter, its sizzling opening lick sounding quite a bit like primordial Chuck Berry. Freedom issued plenty of Carter platters over the next few years, and he later recorded for Imperial/Bayou, Sittin' in With, Coral, Jade, and Modern without denting the national charts. Eventually, he left music behind altogether. ~Bill Dahl

Essential Blues

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Shawn Pittman - Movin' & Groovin'

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 73:12
Size: 187,0 MB
Released: 2009
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Full

1. Movin' (4:51)
2. Watch out, Baby (3:43)
3. She's Evil (3:27)
4. Yes She Does (3:17)
5. Give Me Back My Wig (3:11)
6. Cruisin' (3:20)
7. One Thing on My Mind (3:56)
8. That First Drink (3:03)
9. Something to Remember You By (3:48)
10. One of These Days (3:42)
11. Something's Gotta Give (4:35)
12. Just a Game (4:33)
13. East Side Groove (3:56)
14. Distress Signal (3:40)
15. I Smell Trouble (7:24)
16. Deals You Made (4:03)
17. Feast or Famine (4:09)
18. Reap What You Saw (4:25)

Texas-based singer, songwriter and guitarist Shawn Pittman attended the Albert King, Jimmie Vaughan school of blues guitar playing. He's not flashy, and he realizes the spaces between the notes are as important as the notes themselves. Tone and melody are just as important, to Pittman's way of thinking, than fast and flashy runs up and down the guitar neck.
By the time he was 28, Pittman had recorded and released three albums that showcase mostly his own original material.
Pittman was born and raised in Oklahoma, where his earliest musical memories were listening to his father and grandfather's record collections, which included good people like Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry. His grandmother was a boogie-woogie piano player and his grandfather played country guitar. His earliest blues heroes were Jimmy Reed and Lightnin' Hopkins. Hearing both of them for the first time was a revelation for the young, impressionable Pittman. He arrived in Dallas in 1992. Shortly after this, he jumped right into Dallas' still-bustling blues club scene, sitting in with and befriending musicians like Anson Funderburgh, Hash Brown, Mike Morgan Morgan, Tutu Jones, Mark Pollock and Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones. Being schooled by some of the best players around Dallas and Fort Worth, Pittman became a multi-dimensional guitarist who even today enjoys playing rhythm as well as lead guitar.
Pittman counts among his influences people like Lightnin' Hopkins, Hound Dog Taylor, Mike Morgan and of course, Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, who came out of the Dallas club scene before they moved to Austin, one at a time, in the late 1970's. Pittman recorded two discs for the now-defunct Cannonball Records label, "Burnin' Up" in 1997 and the Jim Gaines-produced "Something's Gotta Give" in 1998.
After spending the next two years battling some personal and professional demons, including the premature closing of Minneapolis-based Cannonball Records, Pittman moved to Austin, got his act together with the aid of two bassists, Tommy Shannon and Preston Hubbard, and released "Full Circle" in Austin.
All his fifth releases showcase a mature songwriter with something to say, deep, tone-conscious guitar playing and a fine voice. Pittman is backed by a short who's-who of Austin-area musicians, including Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton from Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble on bass and drums, as well as Riley Osborne on Hammond B-3 and keyboards, and the Moeller Bros.

Thanks to Johny Lee Ramirez
Movin' & Groovin'

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