Showing posts with label Tracy Nelson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tracy Nelson. Show all posts

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Tracy Nelson - Life Don't Miss Nobody

Size: 109.4 MB
Time: 46:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Electric/Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. Strange Things Happening Every Day (3:37)
02. There Is Always One More Time (Feat. Mickey Raphael) (4:21)
03. Life Don't Miss Nobody (3:35)
04. Your Funeral And My Trial (Feat. Jontavious Willis) (3:38)
05. Yonder Come The Blues (3:12)
06. I Did My Part (Feat. Marcia Ball & Irma Thomas) (2:20)
07. Hard Times (4:34)
08. Honky Tonkin' (Feat. Willie Nelson) (2:19)
09. It Don't Make Sense (Feat. Charlie Musselwhite) (5:35)
10. Compared To What (Feat. Terry Hanck) (3:35)
11. Where Do You Go (When You Can't Go Home) (3:52)
12. Brown Eyed Handsome Man (Feat. Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas, Reba Russell, Dianne Davidson & Vickie Carrico) (2:28)
13. Hard Times (Solo Version) (3:27)

Tracy Nelson, one of the most powerful voices in American music, has emerged from a lengthy recording hiatus with the album of a lifetime, a musical self-portrait spanning her entire career. Life Don’t Miss Nobody is a 13 track collection that stretches back to her start as a guitar-picking Wisconsin teen playing coffeehouses through an unparalleled career, now in it’s sixth decade, singing blues, country, New Orleans R&B and gospel, and performing in such storied music meccas as 1960s San Francisco and 1970s Austin in her epic, genre-busting musical journey.

But this is no nostalgia trip. The title song is a brand-new composition from the woman whose “Down So Low” has become a modern standard. She’s kept busy performing and recording with long-time musical friends in projects like Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues and with the freewheeling all-star Blues Broads – Angela Strehli, Annie Sampson and Dorothy Morrison. Even so, roots lovers have waited a long time for a new Tracy Nelson album, and no one’s more excited than Tracy.

“I haven’t made a record in over 10 years,” she says. “I’ve been wanting to do every one of these songs for a really long time. I wanted to get a little bit of everything, all the kinds of music that I love.”

Life Don’t Miss Nobody is Tracy Nelson’s own Great American Songbook, featuring iconic composers like Hank Williams, Ma Rainey, Willie Dixon, Allen Toussaint, Chuck Berry, Doc Pomus, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Founding Father of American Song, Stephen Foster. Foster’s “Hard Times” in here in two settings, both featuring Tracy on 12 string, the first time she’s recorded on guitar since her 1964 debut, Deep Are The Roots.

Tracy’s labor of love includes the album’s personnel. Produced by Roger Alan Nichols (Steven Tyler, Larkin Poe) and tracked at Nashville’s Sound Emporium in just three days, Life Don’t Miss Nobody features the state-of-the-art roots rhythm section of piano masters Kevin McKendree (Delbert McClinton, Brian Setzer) and Steve Conn (Bonnie Raitt, Sonny Landreth), upright and electric bassist Byron House (Robert Plant’s Band of Joy, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), Nashville A-list drummer John Gardner (Dixie Chicks, Taylor Swift), Larry Chaney (Edwin McCain) and Mike Henderson (SteelDrivers, Chris Stapleton) on guitars.

Life Don't Miss Nobody MP3
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Friday, February 4, 2022

VA - Blues Live From Mountain Stage

Size: 139.3 MB
Time: 58:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

01 The Nighthawks - Leave My Woman Alone (Live) (2:42)
02 Tracy Nelson - It Hurts Me Too (Live) (4:26)
03 Paul Geremia - Slidell Blues (Live) (3:40)
04 Snooky Pryor - That's The Way To Do It (Live) (2:57)
05 John Hammond - My Daddy Was A Jockey (Live) (3:23)
06 Charlie Musselwhite - Blues Why Do You Worry Me (Live) (5:13)
07 Chris Smither - The Devil's Real (Live) (4:22)
08 Cephas & Wiggins - Black Cat On The Line (Live) (5:06)
09 William Clarke - Lonesome Bedroom Blues (Live) (4:04)
10 John Jackson - Louisiana Blues (Live) (2:26)
11 The Legendary Blues Band - Got Love If You Want It (Live) (3:55)
12 Johnnie Johnson - That'll Work (Live) (5:23)
13 Charles Brown - Quicksand Blues (Live) (5:09)
14 Duke Robillard - Gee I Wish (Live) (5:52)

The Blues Live from Mountain Stage series continues documenting contemporary roots music's finest performers with this fine collection of blues performances, featuring artists including Charles Brown ("Quicksand Blues"), Charlie Musselwhite ("Blues Why Do You Worry Me?"), and Tracy Nelson ("It Hurts Me Too"). ~by Jason Ankeny

Blues Live From Mountain Stage MP3
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Tracy Nelson - In The Here And Now

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:33
Size: 102.0 MB
Styles: Soul-blues, Contemporary blues
Year: 1993/2015
Art: Front

[3:36] 1. Every Night Of The Week
[4:10] 2. Living The Blues
[3:46] 3. In The Here And Now
[4:56] 4. Walk Away
[4:13] 5. Go Down, Sunshine
[4:29] 6. Motherless Child Blues
[3:14] 7. When It All Comes Down
[3:15] 8. It Hurts Me Too
[4:05] 9. Whatever I Am, You Made Me
[3:49] 10. Miss You Like The Devil
[4:54] 11. Please Send Me Someone To Love

Tracy Nelson has always brought a wealth of blues feeling to her work, but being bluesy doesn't necessarily mean that one is actually singing the blues -- one can certainly bring the feeling of the blues to rock, R&B, reggae, country, bluegrass, zydeco, or jazz (all of which have been affected by the blues). In fact, Nelson has often showed listeners just how blues-minded rock, soul, or country can be. In the Here and Now, however, isn't just bluesy -- it is blues-oriented, and this time, there are plenty of tracks that actually have 12 bars. Nelson, who was 45 when this album came out in 1993, really soars on passionate performances of "Motherless Child Blues" and "Go Down Sunshine" as well as Chicago blues gems like Elmore James' "It Hurts Me Too" and Willie Dixon's "Whatever I Am, You Made Me." And Nelson never sounded more confident than she does on "Please Send Me Someone to Love," which finds her performing a duet with veteran New Orleans soul great Irma Thomas. This Percy Mayfield classic, which was first recorded in 1950, is one of those standards that has been beaten to death over the years -- as great as the song is, there is such a thing as overkill. But Nelson and Thomas manage to make the tune sound fresh and vital, which is impressive because their 1993 version was recorded 43 years after the original version. Nelson, in fact, was only two years old when Mayfield first recorded "Please Send Me Someone to Love." In the Here and Now is hardly the only Nelson CD that is worth owning, but it is safe to say that it is among the strongest albums that she provided in the '90s. ~Alex Henderson

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Various - Blues: Live From Mountain Stage

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 58:35
Size: 134.1 MB
Styles: Blues-Country-Folk-R&B
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[2:42] 1. The Nighthawks - Leave My Woman Alone
[4:24] 2. Tracy Nelson - It Hurts Me Too
[3:40] 3. Paul Geremia - Slidell Blues
[2:57] 4. Snooky Pryor - That's The Way To Do It
[3:22] 5. John Hammond Jr. - My Daddy Was A Jockey
[5:13] 6. Charlie Musselwhite - Blues Why Do You Worry Me
[4:21] 7. Chris Smither - The Devil's Real
[5:05] 8. Cephas - Black Cat On The Line
[4:04] 9. William Clarke - Lonesome Bedroom Blues
[2:25] 10. John Jackson - Louisiana Blues
[3:55] 11. Legendary Blues Band - Got Love If You Want It
[5:22] 12. Johnnie Johnson - That'll Work
[5:09] 13. Charles Brown - Quicksand Blues
[5:51] 14. Duke Robillard - Gee I Wish

The Blues Live from Mountain Stage series continues documenting contemporary roots music's finest performers with this fine collection of blues performances, featuring artists including Charles Brown ("Quicksand Blues"), Charlie Musselwhite ("Blues Why Do You Worry Me?"), and Tracy Nelson ("It Hurts Me Too").

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Tracy Nelson - 2 albums: Victim Of The Blues / The Soul Sessions

Album: Victim Of The Blues
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:20
Size: 92.3 MB
Styles: Country blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[2:43] 1. You'll Be Mine
[3:33] 2. Lead A Horse To Water
[2:26] 3. Shoot My Baby
[3:42] 4. I Know It's A Sin
[3:42] 5. Victim Of The Blues
[3:15] 6. Howlin' For My Baby
[5:50] 7. One More Mile
[3:14] 8. Stranger In My Own Home Town
[3:08] 9. The Love You Save
[4:19] 10. Feel So Bad
[4:24] 11. Without Love

She has one of the signature voices of her generation. That natural gift has always guided Tracy Nelson’s soul; indeed allowed her to both write and seek out the deeper songs regardless of niche or genre. A fierce singer of truth, a fountain of the deepest heartache, she is an ultimate communicator and has regularly destroyed audiences across decades of performing. She is one of the few female singers who has had hit records in both blues and country genres, performing with everyone from Muddy Waters to Willie Nelson to Marcia Ball and Irma Thomas, with Grammy® nominations for both her country and blues efforts. John Swenson, writing in Rolling Stone, asserted, “Tracy Nelson proves that the human voice is the most expressive instrument in creation.” With Victim of the Blues (Delta Groove), her 26th album in just over five decades, she has circled fully, back to the original music from South Side Chicago that mesmerized her teenaged mind in the mid-1960s.

Victim Of The Blues

Album: The Soul Sessions
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 37:16
Size: 85.3 MB
Styles: Soul-Country-Blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[3:04] 1. Come See About Me
[3:06] 2. Tightrope
[3:26] 3. Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday
[3:08] 4. Suddenly
[4:08] 5. God's Song
[3:33] 6. Tears, Tears And More Tears
[3:44] 7. See Saw
[5:37] 8. Walk Away
[3:24] 9. She's Taking My Part
[4:00] 10. Hold On I'm Coming

The phrase, "Best of Rounder Records" which appears on the cover of this CD, is a misnomer, since these tracks are not, strictly speaking, from Ms. Nelson's Rounder Records sessions, which took place between 1993 and 1999. Rather, they are from her two Flying Fish albums, Homemade Songs (1978) and Come See About Me (1980) which Rounder happens to own the rights to. Nor are they necessarily the tracks that some fans would pick from those two albums, although I dare say that, in the eyes of her fans and many critics also, Tracy Nelson never recorded a bad track in her life, and I count myself among her most ardent admirers. Both albums are available on a single combo CD, also from Flying Fish (Rounder) but if you happen to just want to try Ms. Nelson out, well, you can't go wrong with just about anything she's ever released. As it stands, she is a tragically overlooked singer (in proportion to her talent), and although she has thousands of fans, she deserves millions more.

Not that any of that really matters. What matters is that this CD represents a bargain introduction to Ms. Nelson's incredible voice, which many of the uninitiated might not chance upon, if left only the option of some of her higher-priced albums. Depending on how you count, this is the 25th release in her long career, but only the second compilation album to be released under her name. A close friend and fellow fan recently mused that the release of this compilation may mean the withdrawal of the Homemade Songs/Come See About Me combo CD. I certainly hope not, for that would be a real shame. ~James Morris

The Soul Sessions

Monday, October 7, 2013

The Blues Broads - S/T

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:12
Size: 101.2 MB
Styles: Blues vocals, Electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:04] 1. Livin' The Blues
[4:38] 2. Bring Me Your Love
[4:02] 3. Two Bit Texas Town
[3:58] 4. River Deep
[3:31] 5. Blue Highway
[5:33] 6. It Won't Be Long
[5:22] 7. Walk Away
[3:17] 8. Mighty Love
[3:07] 9. Jesus, I'll Never Forget
[6:36] 10. Oh Happy Day

The Blues Broads CD/DVD includes both familiar songs associated with their respective august careers as well as newly written material that underscores the creative might of these four remarkable women. Each brings a unique perspective and history to the group that coalesced earlier this year under the aegis of Bob Brown, the album's executive producer and whose Rancho Nicasio venue in Marin County serves as the Blues Broads' unofficial home base. The DVD was directed by John Korty, the noted filmmaker, awarded both an Oscar and Directors Guild Award for the documentary Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? and an Emmy for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. He called the Blues Broads "living testimony to the persistence and longevity of musical talent, proving the value of life experience in making art." He added, "It was an honor to work with them."

Recorded live at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA

Dorothy Morrison: vocals; Tracy Nelson: vocals; Annie Sampson: vocals Angela Strehli: vocals; Steve Ehrmann: bass; Paul Revelli: drums; Gary Vogensen: guitar; Mike Emerson: keyboards; Deanna Bogart: keyboards, vocals.

The Blues Broads