Show Me the Way Home, Honey

nedjelja, 29.06.2014.

Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues: The Best Of Mamie Smith

Size: 178,2 MB
Time: 75:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2004
Styles: Pre-War Blues, Blues Jazz
Label: Columbia/Legacy
Art: Front

01. Crazy Blues 78rpm Version (With Her Jazz Hounds) (3:18)
02. It's Right Here For You (With Her Jazz Hounds) (2:50)
03. Don't Care Blues (With Her Jazz Hounds) (2:56)
04. Frankie Blues (With Her Jazz Hounds) (2:56)
05. 'U' Need Some Lovin' Blues (With Her Jazz Hounds) (2:54)
06. A-Wearin' Away The Blues (With Her Jazz Band) (3:07)
07. Down Home Blues (With Her Jazz Band) (3:01)
08. The Wang Wang Blues (With Her Jazz Band) (3:06)
09. Wabash Blues (With Her Jazz Hounds) (3:04)
10. Mean Daddy Blues (With Her Jazz Hounds) (2:54)
11. Dem Knock-Out Blues (With Her Jazz Hounds) (2:44)
12. Arkansas Blues (With Her Jazz Hounds) (3:05)
13. Mamie Smith Blues (With Her Jazz Hounds) (3:12)
14. That Da Da Strain (With Her Jazz Hounds) (2:48)
15. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll (With Her Jazz Hounds) (3:03)
16. Mean Man (With Her Jazz Hounds) (2:56)
17. The Darktown Flappers' Ball (With Her Jazz Hounds) (2:54)
18. Kansas City Man Blues 78rpm Version (With The Harlem Trio) (3:17)
19. Do It Mr. So-And-So (3:06)
20. The Lure Of The South (2:46)
21. Golfing Papa (2:43)
22. Miss Jenny's Ball (aka There'll Be No Freebies At Miss Jenny's Ball) (3:10)
23. My Sportin' Man (2:57)
24. Don't You Advertise Your Man (3:14)
25. Keep A Song In Your Soul (2:47)


Musicians: Mamie Smith (vocals), Johnny Dunn (cornet), Willie 'The Lion' Smith (piano), Dope Andrews (trombone), Ernest Elliott (clarinet, tenor sax), Leroy Parker (violin).

Simply put, this is the most extensive collection of Mamie Smith sides on one disc that is available in 2004. It goes much farther than the Classic Blues Essential disc. Between the years 1920-1931 when recording for OKeh, Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds were kindred spirits to Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Seven, though her sound is far more indicative of the music of the Harlem Renaissance than New Orleans. Sophisticated, hard-swinging, and full of the lilt of cabaret music as well as the down-home roughhouse blues, Mamie Smith had to be the first female blues superstar. This is elegant from top to bottom and offers new acquaintances a view of the blues far from its country origins and tightly woven with jazz. Amazing. ~Review by Thom Jurek


Crazy Blues


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Oznake: Mamie Smith, Pre-War Blues, Blues Jazz

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ponedjeljak, 24.02.2014.

Emmett Miller - Minstrel Man From Georgia

Styles: Minstrel, Old-Timey, Early Jazz, Blues Jazz
Label: Legacy
Released: 1996
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 139,9 MB
Time: 61:04
Art: front

1. God's River - 3:19
2. I Ain't Got Nobody - 3:05
3. Lovesick Blues - 2:48
4. The Lion Tamers - 3:10
5. Anytime - 3:20
6. St. Louis Blues - 3:01
7. Take Your Tomorrow - 3:00
8. Dusky Stevedore - 2:50
9. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of This Jelly Roll - 2:53
10. (I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way - 3:07
11. You Lose - 2:58
12. Right Or Wrong - 3:09
13. That's The Good Old Sunny South - 2:50
14. You're The Cream In My Coffee - 3:02
15. Lovin' Sam (The Sheik Of Alabam) - 2:48
16. Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now - 3:12
17. The Ghost Of The St. Louis Blues - 2:56
18. Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad) - 3:19
19. The Pickaninnies' Paradise - 3:08
20. The Blues Singer (From Alabam') - 2:59

Personnel:
Emmett Miller (vocals)
Phil Pavey (vocals)
Eddie Lang (guitar)
Jimmy Dorsey (clarinet, alto saxophone)
Manny Klein, Leo McConville (trumpet)
Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey (trombone)
Arthur Schutt (piano)
Gene Krupa, Stan King (drums)

Notes: Emmett Miller was a minstrel performer who had the good fortune to have top-notch Jazz musicians assigned to his Okeh sessions in the late 1920s. His records made between June of 1928 and September of 1929 where labeled Emmett Miller accompanied by his Georgia Crackers and are of Jazz interest only for the back-up musicians that accompany Miller on these sessions.
God knows what this is doing in Legacy's Roots N' Blues series; it's a long way from Blind Willie McTell and Bukka White to this. Anyway, this has 20 of his OKeh sides from the late '20s, including a "Lovesick Blues" that served as the model for Hank Williams' hit with the same song in 1949. The Georgia Crackers accompany Miller on every cut, with a cast including Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey (present on every track), Jack Teagarden, and Gene Krupa. More of historical interest and musical significance than anything else, with a thorough sleeve note from country music authority Charles Wolfe. ~ Richie Unterberger

Minstrel Man From Georgia



Gus Cannon - Walk Right In
Various - Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows



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Oznake: Minstrel, Old-Timey, Blues Jazz, Emmett Miller

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petak, 14.02.2014.

Luke Winslow-King - Old/New Baby / Recorded Live At Tweed Recording EP

Album: Old/New Baby
Size: 81,7 MB
Time: 34:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Ragtime, Blues Jazz, Folk Blues, Americana
Label: Fox On A Hill Productions
Art: Front

01. As April Is To May (2:12)
02. Shoeshine (2:07)
03. Never Tired (2:49)
04. Below (1:07)
05. All The Same (2:29)
06. I'll See You When I Look At You (2:13)
07. Birthday Stomp (2:45)
08. Dragon Fly, Dragon Flower (3:06)
09. Bird Dog Blues (2:26)
10. Lost Soul (1:40)
11. Airplane (1:44)
12. The Sun Slamming The Highway (2:49)
13. St. Andrew's Ferry (1:41)
14. Searchlight Waltz (2:57)
15. Your Eyes, Your Eyes (2:23)


If your mind was caught up and mesmerized by the dancing pink elephants from Disney's Fantasia and the music that accompanied that mesmer, or your heart has a tendency towards the vaudevillian aspects of early American folk music, then have I got an album for you. Luke Winslow-King is an obviously talented lad who lends his hand to churning out tunes with a seemingly colorful history behind them. On his latest record Old/New Baby Winslow-King shows off his vocal abilities to great effect, all the while buoying the melodies with brilliant and classic instrumentation. The album starts off with a jazzy, hungover ditty called "As April Is To May" that recalls the great history of animated drunkenness. The song has a swing and mood that is very dark, yet lithesome and filled with syncopated bomp. Then Winslow-King sidesteps into more comfortable ground, picking up his dobro and invoking the spirit of American folk at its finest. "Shoeshine" has the kind of drooping rhythm and slippery guitar that makes players like Bill Morrisey so fantastic, and the song has horns that carry countermelodies through the background, imbuing the track with a surreal beauty. "Never Tired" is classic folk-hop, filled with snappy snare hits and great slide guitar work, as well as sing-songy lyrics that are almost silly in their earnestness. Winslow-King somehow takes the spirit of New Orleans and fuses it into his songs, imparting a ragtime breakdown into "Below" before dropping back to the matter-of-factness of "I'll See You When I Look At You", a song that is simple in its musical approach but contains an immense amount of folky beauty. Winslow-King's blending of slide guitar, horns, ukulele, and doghouse bass is instantly likeable and mostly traditional in its approach, fusing classic musical elements with a vigor that belies his Northern origins. Don't believe me? Take a listen to the cool jazz of "Birthday Stomp" or the gritty, delta-infused blues of "Bird Dog Blues" to form your own opinion of what this Michigan-born lad has in his musical blood. ~L. Keane


Old/New Baby


Album: Recorded Live At Tweed Recording EP
Size: 29,4 MB
Time: 12:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Ragtime, Blues Jazz, Folk Blues, Americana
Label: Oxford Sounds
Art: Front

01. Miss The Mississippi And You (2:44)
02. I Know She'll Do Right By Me (2:27)
03. Ragtime Millionaire (2:32)
04. Mississippi Slow Drag (2:11)
05. The Coming Tide (2:40)


Winslow-King is from Cadillac, Michigan but he calls New Orleans home and has lived there since 2002 when his car was stolen in the French Quarter with all his musical equipment in it. At the time, the guitarist had already immersed himself in the academic study of jazz and composition. But, he found the emotional sterility and high-bandwidth musicality that informed so much bop and fusion jazz to be a dead- end, vapid and disconnected. He related instead to th folk music of the legendary Woody Guthrie and the cryptic deep blues of Mississippi John Hurt, music from, as writer Greil Marcus termed it, “the old, weird America.” Having his car stolen may, in fact, be one of the best things that ever happened to Luke Winslow-King.

He was quickly accepted into the music theory program at the University of New Orleans, and was eventually awarded a prestigious scholarship to study Czech classical music at St. Charles University in Prague. But while Winslow-King is certainly a heavy-hitter in terms of musical knowledge, instrumental prowess and compositional ability, his approach to the music of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta is never dry, never academic. His compositions are not musicological set pieces, nor do they ever reek of the dusty utility of the affected and dolorous purist. Luke Winslow-King pulled off the considerable feat of creating something beautiful and unaffected and new from the plump and thickly intertwined history of the great American musics — New Orleans jazz and Mississippi Delta blues. On these gorgeous and glowing recordings made for Oxford Sounds, you’ll hear Luke Winslow-King — accompanied by the lovely washboard percussionist and back-up singer Esther Rose and double-bassist Cassidy Holden — deliver a number of tunes that reference ragtime, dixieland jazz, minstrel tunes, and 1920’s pop. That none of this music ever sounds even remotely like a revival act is testament to his considerable skill as a songwriter, arranger, guitarist and singer. The lyrical themes, too, harmonize with a 1920’s New Orleans aesthetic but they thankfully never veer into the execrable kitsch of, say, Leon Redbone or the ham-fisted hippie humorousness of early David Bromberg or Jerry Garcia solo records. Recorded by Andrew Ratcliffe at his superlative Tweed Recording Studio in Oxford, the session features several songs taken mainly from Winslow-King’s recently released album “The Coming Tide”. “Ragtime Millionaire” is as infectious as the title suggests, totally engaging. The song “The Coming Tide” is a real classic, simple and lovely, a wonderful and contagious tune with excellent accompaniment from Esther Rose. “Mississippi Slow Drag” is nothing short of stunning, though, a great ambling dance number delivered with faint ennui and replete with cool slide guitar phrases that recall the legendary Ry Cooder as well as that other under-heralded guru of pre-rock American guitar music, David Lindley. Of course, those guys got their licks from the Delta, too. ~Pat Cochran


Recorded Live At Tweed Recording EP



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Oznake: Luke Winslow-King, Folk-Blues, Blues Jazz, New Orleans Blues

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utorak, 28.01.2014.

Cousin Joe - New York and New Orleans Blues 1945-1951

Styles: Piano Blues, Jazz Blues, Jump Blues, New Orleans Blues
Label: EPM
Released: 2002
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 143,2 MB
Time: 62:29
Art: full

1. Bad, Bad Baby Blues - 3:00
2. Broken Man Blues - 2:35
3. Just Another Woman - 2:57
4. Wedding Day Blues - 3:09
5. Desperate G.I. Blues - 3:04
6. Boogie Woogie Hannah - 2:56
7. You Ain't So-Much-A-Much - 2:48
8. The Barefoot Boy - 2:53
9. If You Just Keep Stick - 2:36
10. When You're Mother's Gone - 2:58
11. It's Dangerous to Be a Husband - 2:46
12. Death House Blues - 2:44
13. Don't Pay Me No Mind - 2:56
14. Bachelor's Blues - 2:44
15. Bad Luck Blues - 2:58
16. Box Car Shorty and Peter Blue - 2:49
17. Beggin' Woman - 2:54
18. Sadie Brown - 2:49
19. Love Sick Soul - 2:29
20. Looking for My Baby - 2:53
21. High Powered Gal - 2:55
22. Second Hand Love - 2:24

Notes: Few blues legends have the presence of mind to write autobiographies. Fortunately, Pleasant Joseph did, spinning fascinating tales of a career in his 1987 tome Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans that spanned more than half a century.
Growing up in New Orleans, Pleasant began singing in church before crossing over to the blues. Guitar and ukulele were his first axes. He eventually prioritized the piano instead, playing Crescent City clubs and riverboats. He moved to New York in 1942, gaining entry into the city's thriving jazz scene (where he played with Dizzy Gillespie, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, and a host of other luminaries).
He recorded for King, Gotham, Philo (in 1945), Savoy, and Decca along the way, doing well on the latter logo with "Box Car Shorty and Peter Blue" in 1947. After returning to New Orleans in 1948, he recorded for DeLuxe and cut a two-part "ABCs" for Imperial in 1954 as Smilin' Joe under Dave Bartholomew's supervision. But by then, his recording career had faded.
The pianist was booked on a 1964 Blues and Gospel Train tour of England, sharing stages with Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe and appearing on BBC-TV with the all-star troupe. He cut a 1971 album for the French Black & Blue label, Bad Luck Blues, that paired him with guitarists Gatemouth Brown and Jimmy Dawkins and a Chicago rhythm section -- hardly the ideal situation, but still a reasonably effective showcase for the ebullient entertainer (it was reissued in 1994 by Evidence) ~AMG.

New York and New Orleans Blues 1945-1951



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Memphis Slim and Roosvelt Sykes - Double-Barreled Boogie



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Oznake: Cousin Joe, Piano Blues, New Orleans Blues, Blues Jazz

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srijeda, 22.01.2014.

Lonnie Johnson - Blues Roots, Vol. 8: Swingin' With Lonnie

Styles: Jazz Blues, Piedmont Blues, Pre-War Country Blues
Label: Storyville
Released: 1964
File: mp3 @320K/s (from vinyl)
Size: 89,6 MB
Time: 39:07
Art: full

1. Call Me Darling - 3:17
2. Clementine Blues - 6:10
3. Jelly Jelly - 3:27
4. Please Help Me - 3:32
5. Raining On The Cold Ground - 4:55
6. See See Rider - 3:00
7. Swingin' With Lonnie - 3:19
8. Tomorrow Night - 2:55
9. Too Late To Cry - 3:43
10. Why Do You Go - 4:44

Personnel:
Lonnie Johnson - guitar, vocals
Otis Spann - piano (all except on #1)

Notes: Backed by pianist Otis Spann, singer/guitarist Lonnie Johnson performs blues and ballads on this well-rounded set. Included are such numbers as his old hit "Tomorrow Night," "See See Rider," "Jelly, Jelly" and a lone instrumental, "Swingin' With Lonnie." An above-average outing by the veteran bluesman.

Blues Roots, Vol. 8: Swingin' With Lonnie



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Oznake: Lonnie Johnson, Blues Jazz, Piedmont Blues, Pre-War Blues

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ponedjeljak, 20.01.2014.

Le Chat Mort - Le Chat Mort / Roses

Album: Le Chat Mort
Size: 60,7 MB
Time: 26:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Bluegrass, Blues, Swing
Label: EmuBands
Art: Front

01. Foggy Mountain Top (3:08)
02. Junco Partner (2:58)
03. Weeping Town (2:55)
04. Been All Around This World (4:32)
05. Careless Love (4:15)
06. Diamonds (2:59)
07. I Get Down (2:33)
08. Bloodshot Eyes (2:54)


Band:
Camilla Neideman – Lead vocal and snare drum
Bror David Nilsson – Banjo
Peter Strömquist – Guitar
Matti Friberg – Upright Bass

"It sounds strange, but maybe it was pure luck that few young musicians to his horror found a dead cat in the freezer, where the fall of 2007.
Shaken by his discovery wrote the song "Dead Cat Blues," and excited about how much fun it was to play together, so formed "Le Chat Mort"
Le Chat Mort's music quickly became too large for the small collective, it was born in and the short time the band began heard at clubs and festivals around the country.
Le Chat Mort has now, after over 5 years of playing in Sweden with trips to the United States, France, Germany, Holland and Denmark, earned a reputation as one of the country's most exciting and catchy bands on the label bluegrass / blues. There are many great bands in the style of American roots, but nothing that sounds like this "


Le Chat Mort


Album: Roses
Size: 73,7 MB
Time: 30:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Bluegrass, Blues, Swing
Label: EmuBands
Art: Front

01. Shoot Me Down (3:06)
02. Roses (2:51)
03. Didn't He Ramble (2:42)
04. Dinah (2:41)
05. Mama's Got A Baby (2:11)
06. Poor Me (2:22)
07. Eyes Closed (3:18)
08. Bye Bye Baby Bye (1:50)
09. Don't You Just Know It (2:35)
10. Fun Fun (1:51)
11. Hurt Me Too (2:45)
12. Iko Iko (2:33)


In spring of 2013, we stepped into the studio and recorded our second album, “Roses”.
This time we got a lot of inspiration from Django Reinhardt, 19302s swing music and Mardi Gras.
Even though this album is very “Rootsy,” a majority of the songs are originals written by our selfs!


Roses



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Mike Dowling - Beats Workin'

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Oznake: Le Chat Mort, Sweden, Bluegrass, Swing, Blues Jazz

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nedjelja, 29.12.2013.

Carl Leyland & Kim Cusack - Stompin' Upstairs (With Beau Sample & Alex Hall)

Size: 140,2 MB
Time: 59:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Blues Jazz, Boogie Woogie, Ragtime
Label: Rivermont Records
Art: Full

01. At At Georgia Camp Meeting (4:18)
02. Blue Prelude (5:15)
03. Cherokee (4:30)
04. Corrina Corrina (3:27)
05. If I Had You (4:50)
06. The Blue Room (4:14)
07. Upstairs Boogie (4:31)
08. We Three (4:48)
09. The Love Nest (4:50)
10. Tangerine (4:22)
11. Ramblin' Mind Blues (3:53)
12. Whispering (4:33)
13. Tell It To The Judge (6:10)


Personnel;
Carl Sonny Leyland - Piano, Vocals
Kim Cusack - Clarinet
Beau Sample - Bass
Alex Hall - Drums

Boogie-woogie pianist extraordinaire Carl Sonny Leyland and ace clarinetist Kim Cusack (of The Salty Dogs) have teamed up with bassist Beau Sample and drummer Alex Hall (of The Fat Babies in Chicago) for an exhilarating album of ragtime, boogie-woogie, blues, and jazz. Old favorites like "Whispering," "Corrina, Corrina," "Cherokee," and "The Blue Room," romp joyously alongside the dark and sultry "Blue Prelude" or "Ramblin' Mind Blues." Leyland, Cusack, Sample, and Hall play the tunes with respect, but also with infectious verve and enthusiasm. 13 selections; one full hour of music.


Stompin' Upstairs



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Oznake: Carl Leyland, Kim Cusack, Blues Jazz, Rag, Boogie Woogie

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