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utorak, 12.11.2013.

Johnny Shines - S/T

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:58
Size: 82.4 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 1991/2012
Art: Front

[2:43] 1. Give My Heart A Break
[2:55] 2. Too Lazy
[3:22] 3. Moaning And Groaning
[3:45] 4. Just A Little Tenderness
[2:49] 5. I Know The Winds Are Blowing
[3:41] 6. Just Call Me
[3:34] 7. My Love Can't Hide
[2:49] 8. Skull And Crossbones Blues
[3:10] 9. Vallie Lee
[2:49] 10. Can't Get Along With You
[4:17] 11. Have To Pay The Cost


When his friend the legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson died, Johnny Shines decided to visit Africa to see if everything he had heard about it was true. He got sidetracked and ended up in Chicago where his musical career languished for two decades until he was rediscovered in the '60s. This 1970 recording catches Shines at his best as he alternates between traditional Delta-styled acoustic blues numbers and hard-rocking Chicago-flavored tunes. The haunting "My Love Can't Hide," with its baritone sax moaning in background, provides but one highlight. --Percy Keegan

No less than a founding father of modern blues, James 'Johnny" Shines was a valued singer/slide guitarist whose creative impulses, technical command, and expressive candor were at an extraordinarily high level in the decade or so following his mid-1960s "rediscovery." This 1970 session includes several inspired solo performances that hark back to his prewar Delta and Memphis country blues years, another elevated period in his venerable career. Of the five songs made with a tipsy West Coast ensemble, "My Love Can't Hide" drops your jaw for the ardency of his heartsick vocalization. ~ Frank John Hadley

Johnny Shines

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utorak, 15.10.2013.

Johnny Shines - Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 43:59
Size: 100.7 MB
Styles: Acoustic/electric delta blues
Year: 1978/1997
Art: Front

[2:45] 1. Sweet Home Chicago
[2:54] 2. Delta Pines
[2:38] 3. Kind Hearted Woman
[5:21] 4. I Will Be Kind
[4:37] 5. When Your Troubles Get Like Mine
[2:56] 6. Milk Cow Blues
[1:48] 7. Hey, Ba-Ba-Re-Bop
[4:26] 8. Saddle My Pony
[3:26] 9. I Had A Good Home
[2:59] 10. Terraplane Blues
[3:34] 11. Mean Mistreater
[3:55] 12. Going To The River
[2:34] 13. Do Like The Lord Say Do


At the time of this 1979 recording, Johnny Shines was a living link to blues mythology. A traveling companion to Robert Johnson in the '30s, and a translator of Delta blues language into an electric context in the '40s and '50s, Shines was largely ignored by the industry until the blues revival of the '60s. Fortunately, he was still a dynamic performer in his later years, as this live document shows. Shines nods to his association with Johnson by performing three of his songs--"Terraplane Blues," "Kind Hearted Woman," and "Sweet Home Chicago"--all given meticulous, loving treatments, with Shines's ragged tenor lending a distinctive edge. Shines's own compositions stand up as well, the boogie-inflected "I Will Be Kind" in particular, and "I Had a Good Home," a mournful meditation on losing one's house in a storm. The between-song banter shows a thoughtful, charming side of the man, though the intensity of his performances leaves a much deeper impression. Shines plays his acoustic guitar with plenty of percussive attack and dazzling, fluid embellishment, and sings with the vigor and passion characteristic of the best Delta blues. HEY BA-BA-RE-BOP! is the next best thing to having seen Shines live. Recorded live in 1971. Solo performer: Johnny Shines (vocals, guitar).

Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop

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