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Purchase Ray Charles CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Kenny Wayne Shepherd 10 Days Out... Blues From The Backroad CD (2007) With DVD
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Shepherd's reverence for his musical roots are centerstage on this CD/DVD package featuring the guitarslinger with rhythm section of bassist Tommy Shannon and drumer Chris slayton performing with some of the greatest blues players of our time as well as lesser-known but historically significant bluesmen. Traveling to their hometowns to record everywhere from juke joints to front porches, from New Orleans to Kansas, Shepherd celebrates and becomes part of blues history.
More than a mere live album, this collection of impromptu performances, recorded at both established venues and in kitchens and on front porches throughout the American South, captures a rapidly vanishing generation of bluesmen and women singing and playing with the blues musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his Double Trouble rhythm section. Featuring well-known artists such as B.B. King and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, as well as lesser-known performers such as Wild Child Butler and Cootie Stark, this combination CD and DVD is both a tribute to and a record of the musicians who influenced Shepherd, and a chance to observe the art form that laid the foundations for much of modern music. Often supported only by Shepherd's acoustic guitar, artists of the caliber of Cootie Stark, whose "Prison Blues" is a highlight, and the pianist Pinetop Perkins, whose "Grindin' Man" is accompanied by Muddy Waters' band, exude a matter-of-fact mastery born of decades of hard-won experience.
Born In Louisiana
The Thrill Is Gone
Chapel Hill Boogie
Knoxville Rag
Big Daddy Boogie
Tears Come Rollin' Down
Got My Mojo Working
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Personnel: Kenny Wayne Shepherd (vocals, guitar); Tommy Shannon (bass guitar); Chris Layton (drums); Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Cootie Stark, Etta Baker, George "Wild Child" Butler, Henry Gray, Henry Townsend, Hubert Sumlin, Jerry "Boogie" McCain, John Dee Holeman, Muddy Waters Band, Neal Pattman, Pinetop Perkins, B.B. King, Bryan Lee, Buddy Flett.
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| | Buddy Guy Skin Deep CD (2008)
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From the slinky, sexy opener, "Best Damn Fool," to the blues history lesson of "Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes," to the slow-burn closer "I Found Happiness," Guy doesn't seem to have mellowed with age. In fact, he wails and shreds here with as much passion as ever. Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, and Robert Randolph all lend a hand, but Buddy is in charge here, much the way he has always been.
By the time SKIN DEEP was released in 2008, Buddy Guy was in his early 70s. The thing is, there are only a few tell-tale signs that Guy has aged any since his blistering work from the 1960s and `70s, and these signs-which include the slick, contemporary production, and the veteran-performer trend of having a parade of guest artists on the album-- are largely superficial. In truth, Guy still plays and sings like the urban blues monster he remains.
Personnel: Susan Tedeschi (vocals); Quinn Sullivan, David Grissom (guitar); Derek Trucks (slide guitar); Lannie McMIllian, Kirk Smothers (tenor saxophone); James L. Spake (baritone saxophone); Mark Franklin (trumpet); Reese Wynans (keyboards); Willie Weeks (bass guitar); Tom Hambridge (drums, tambourine, percussion); Wendy Moten, Bekka Bramlett (hand claps, background vocals).
| | Alvin Lee Pure Blues CD (1995)
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Includes liner notes by Alvin Lee.
Personnel: Alvin Lee (vocals, guitar, piano); Dyan Birch, Frank Collins, Paddy McHugh (vocals); Steve Gould (guitar, keyboards); Neil Hubbard (guitar); George Harrison (slide guitar); Mel Collins (saxophone); Clarence Clemons (tenor saxophone); Chick Churchill, Steve Grant, Tim Hinkley (keyboards); Alan Young, Ric Lee, Ian Wallace (drums).
Liner Note Author: Alvin Lee .
| | Arthur Adams Stomp The Floor CD (2009)
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Arthur has been a popular mainstay of the blues scene in L.A. for many years. His first album, "It's Private Tonight," released in 1972 firmly established the silky smooth vocal presence and guitar style that he's recognized for today. Arthur has recorde
Liner Note Author: Harry Garfield.
Photographer: Joshua Temkin.
Arrangers: Hense Powell; Arthur Adams .
Personnel: Arthur Adams (vocals, guitar); Hense Powell (keyboards); James Gadson (drums).
Audio Mixers: Glenn Nishida; Arthur Adams .
| | Eric Clapton Blues CDs (1999)
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Recorded between 1970 and 1980. Includes liner notes by John McDermott.
Digitally remastered by Suha Gur (Universal Music Group Studios).
Prior to Eric Clapton's pop- and MTV-driven mid-'80s work, he spent the '70s and early '80s playing languid, singer-songwriter soft rock evocative of J.J. Cale and Don Edwards. But Clapton always kept one foot in the blues of his youth. BLUES brings this material together in one place and throughout, Slowhand taps into an inner spirituality that does these blues standards well.
The first disc contains studio recordings that include tributes to many influences including Elmore James ("The Sky Is Crying") and Willie Dixon ("Meet Me [Down At the Bottom]"). Most impressive is a stripped-down version of Little Walter's "Mean Old World," in which Clapton and Duane Allman duet using National steel and slide guitars. The tempo picks up during an alternate version of Bo Diddley's "Before You Accuse Me" that becomes a rollicking shuffle and a cover of Muddy Water's "Blow Wind Blow" in which Clapton's guitar parries with Gary Brooker's piano. On disc two, "Live Blues," Slowhand's playing deliciously simmers on material by Robert Johnson and Otis Rush. He eventually cuts loose as he trades licks with his hero Freddie King on a joyous cover of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Further on Up the Road."
Contains 5 previously unreleased tracks.
Personnel: Eric Clapton (vocals, guitar, dobro); Albert Lee (guitar, background vocals); Duane Allman, Freddie King, Dave Mason, Ron Wood, George Terry (guitar); Dick Sims (piano, organ); Bobby Whitlock (piano); Gary Brooker (keyboards, background vocals); Chris Stainton (keyboards); Carl Radle, Dave Markee (bass); Jamie Oldaker, Jim Gordon, Henry Spinetti, Al Jackson (drums); Sergio Pastora (percussion); Yvonne Elliman, Marcy Levy (background vocals).
Personnel: Eric Clapton (vocals, guitar, dobro); Albert Lee (vocals, guitar); Gary Brooker (vocals, keyboards); Marcy Levy, Yvonne Elliman (vocals); Dave Mason, D
| | Keb' Mo' Slow Down CD (1998) Enhanced CD
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SLOW DOWN is a Enhanced CD containing both a full audio program as well as multimedia computer files.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
SLOW DOWN won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
Let's dispel a common misconception right off the bat; Keb Mo is not a blues singer. To call him one would be as limiting as calling Lyle Lovett a country singer. He's got his finger in too many musical pies to be tied down to one tradition. As SLOW DOWN makes plain, his songs are certainly bluesy, but like Taj Mahal, he takes the style an mingles it with so many others that a new paradigm is created.
Keb Mo's snappy, soulful acoustic guitar is the central element of most of the tunes here, but there's everything from funk to R&B to '70s-sounding rock-pop at work in these songs. As a composer, Keb Mo knows how to get down to the basics of human emotions and trials without lapsing into cliche, and his no-nonsense vocal delivery communicates his message effectively. Blues traditionalists may not get what they've been led to expect from SLOW DOWN, but if they've got butts and feet, they won't be able to keep 'em still.
Personnel: Keb' Mo' (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Colin Linden (guitar, mandolin); Anders Osborne (guitar, background vocals); Joellen Friedkin (accordion, keyboards, synthesizers); Gerald Albright (tenor saxophone); Reggie Young (trombone); John Lewis Parker (keyboards, samples); John Barnes (keyboards); Reggie McBride (bass); Laval Belle (drums); Munyungo Jackson (percussion); Sir Harry Bowens, Sweet Pea Atkinson, Lisa Linson (background vocals).
Producers: Keb' Mo', John Lewis Parker, Chuck Trammell.
Personnel: Keb' Mo' (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Colin Linden (guitar, mandolin); Anders Osborne (guitar, background vocals); Joellen R. Friedkin (accordion, keyboards, synthesizer); Gerald Albright (tenor saxophone); John Lewis Parker (keyboards, sampler); John Barnes (keyboards); Laval Belle (drums); Munyungo Jackso
| | Tampa Red Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Volume 15: 1/49 - 12/53 CD (1993)
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$14.05
Over ten years into Tampa Red's career and ten discs into their voluminous, multi-decade-spanning series of Complete Recorded Works, Document continued as strong as ever. These 22 tracks, recorded from mid-1938 to late 1939, embrace blues, rhythm tunes, and an occasional novelty like "Booze Head Woman" or "I Got a Big Surprise for You." As on previous volumes, collectors and serious blues fans will have the most interest in this completist format; everything from poor fidelity to chronological sequencing and a lengthy running time will prevent casual listeners from enjoying the entire proceedings. ~ Thom Owens
Liner Note Author: Alan Balfour.
Personnel: Tampa Red (vocals, guitar, kazoo); Willie James Lacey (guitar); Walter Horton (harmonica); Bill Casimir (tenor saxophone); Odie Payne (drums).
Audio Remasterer: Gerhard Wessely.
| | Homesick James Juanita CD (1997)
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Recorded at Creative Workshop Studio, Nashville, Tennessee from February 10-11, 1993. Includes liner notes by David Whiteis.
Personnel includes: Homesick James (vocals, slide guitar); Casey Lutton (bass); Jim Carstein (drums).
Personnel: Homesick James (vocals, electric & slide guitar); Fred James, David "Guitar" James (guitar); Casey Lutton (bass); Jim Karstein (drums).
| | Billy Ward 1953-1954 CD (2007)
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Both Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson got their start in this pioneering R&B band, whose major claim to fame was the raunchy "Sixty Second Man." Although that song isn't here, the 22 tracks on this compilation represent some of the best R&B group-singing of the era, and include the fun "My Baby's 3-D."
The initial group were an integrated unit of both black and white singers, and so Ward named them The Dominoes, however meeting with no success, the group disbanded in 1950 and Ward set about forming a new, all-black group called The Ques. Ward was asked
Billy Ward: Billy Ward (piano); Jackie 'Sonny' Wilson, Milton Merle (tenor saxophone); James Van Loan (baritone saxophone); Clifford Givens (bass guitar).
Liner Note Author: Dave Penny.
| | King Louie One Man Band Chinese Crawfish CD (2005)
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Recording information: Katie's Red Room, New Orleans, LA.
Personnel: King Louie One Man Band (vocals, guitar, harp, harmonica, bass drum, cowbells, gong).
| | Pinetop Perkins On Top CD (2005)
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Solid entry in Pinetop Perkins' ever-growing discography of contemporary CDs. ~ Bill Dahl
Born Willie Perkins, in Belzoni, MS, in 1913, Pinetop started out playing guitar at house parties and honky tonks, and switched to piano after sustaining a serious injury that made picking a guitar painful. He came under the tutelage of Clarence ³Pinetop² Smith, for whom he composed the song entitled ³Pinetop¹s Boogie² that became a hit and, indeed, one of the more popular tunes from the boogie-woogie era. Perkins started performing the tune himself, and out of admiration for his mentor, started using the name ³Pinetop.² Perkins worked primarily in the Mississippi Delta throughout the thirties and forties, spending five years with Sonny Boy Williamson on the King Biscuit Time radio program on KFFA, Helena, Arkansas. Pinetop also toured extensively with slide guitar player Robert Nighthawk and backed him on an early Chess session. After briefly working with B.B. King in Memphis, Perkins barnstormed the South with Earl Hooker during the early fifties. The pair completed a session for Sam Phillips¹ famous Sun Records in Memphis 1953. By this time, Pinetop had developed his own unmistakable sound. His right hand plays horn lines while his left kicks out bass lines and lots of bottom. It was Pinetop, along with Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, and Little Brother Montgomery, who provided the basic format and ideas from which countless swing bands derived their sound-whole horn sections playing out what Pinetop¹s right hand was playing. Although Pinetop never played swing, it was his brand of boogie-woogie that came to structure swing and eventually, rock Œn roll. Still, with recent successes the exception, Pinetop is best known for holding down the piano chair in the great Muddy Waters Band for twelve years during the highest point of Muddy¹s career. Replacing the late, great Otis Spann in 1969, Pinetop helped shape the Waters¹ sound and anchored Muddy¹s memorable combo throughout the seventies with his brilliant piano solos. In 1980, Pinetop and other Waters¹ alumni decided to go out on their own and formed the Legendary Blues Band. Legendary recorded two records for Rounder and toured extensively. Pinetop, who had been labeled a sideman throughout most of his career, eventually left Legendary to concentrate on a solo career. Within two years, he had his first domestic record as a frontman and had a most impressive touring schedule. Since going solo, Pinetop has been featured on many nationally syndicated news and music shows, and he has appeared in numerous movie productions as well as television and radio ads. He has also headlined nearly every major showcase room in North America and most of the major festivals here and abroad.
Pinetop Perkins: David Maxwell (piano); Mudcat Ward (bass instrument); Steve Ramsey (drums); Jerry Portnoy, Paul Rishell, Ron Levy, Peter Parcek, Charles Baum.
Personnel: Pinetop Perkins (vocals, piano); T.J. Wheeler, Peter Parcek, Charles Baum (guitar); Paul Rishell (National guitar); Jerry Portnoy (harmonica); Ron Levy (organ).
Audio Mixer: Bob Kempf.
Liner Note Author: David Maxwell.
Recording information: Syncro Sund, Boston, MA (01/1992).
Photographer: Charles Robinson.
| | Tonic Sol-Fa Just One Of Those Days CD (2009)
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In their twelve years together, Tonic Sol-fa has established itself not only as the most in-demand vocal group in the Midwest, but also as one of the most successful independent acts in America. In addition to substantial CD sales of its own independent releases (1,000,000 copies sold and counting), the group has toured extensively throughout the US and abroad, building their financial base with a steady list of festivals and private shows that eventually led to sold-out tours of theaters and small arenas.Tonic Sol-fa began at St. John’s University with Mark McGowan, who sings baritone, and lead vocalist Shaun Johnson, while both were attending in the mid 1990s. Shortly after forming, the two auditioned for a local entertainment agency which helped jump-start the group’s performance and appearance schedule. Tenor, Greg Bannwarth, and bass, Jared Dove, joined soon after, completing the group. Together the quartet reached national prominence with appearances on NBC’s Today Show and in Newsweek magazine. They shared the stage with a number of recognizable performers including Jay Leno, Jeff Foxworthy and Lonestar, among others, and were recently part of Garrison Keillor’s 30th anniversary celebration of A Prairie Home Companion.From the group’s onset, the four members of Tonic Sol-fa, with a small team of driven supporters, have overseen and operated the business of Tonic Sol-fa, growing a small business of a few thousand dollars into what is today a multi-million dollar limited liability company. The group had to overcome a number of obstacles, including an unspoken apprehension to a cappella acts by individuals in the music industry and having a name that was anything but catchy (a system of naming the notes of the scale, usually do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, developed to teach singing). Still, the group persevered, recording and manufacturing its own records and selling them to a growing legion of fans via the Internet, in the lobby of the theaters where they performed, and through a growing national distribution. One could say they gained their current consumer popularity the old fashioned way; they earned it.At present, Tonic Sol-fa just released their sixth album, entitled “On Top of the World” on the heels of their previous projects (Christmas [DVD], Boston to Beijing, By Request, Red Vinyl, Sugarue, Front Row [video], and Style,). The recordings contain only four indelible voices and occasional percussion. This outstanding blend has resulted in multiple Contemporary Acappella Recording Awards, NACA entertainer of the year nominations, considerable national press, and has landed their music on the best-selling seasonal DVD at Wal-Mart, The 12 Dogs of Christmas.Further, Tonic Sol-fa released their first television holiday special in 2007, which aired over 1800 times in forty-seven states and Canada. The television special will be shown through 2010, and in 2008 will be distributed worldwide, continuing to spread their unique sound to an ever-increasing following.Tonic Sol-fa continues to tour, record, and conscientiously run their business in the only way familiar to them –differently.
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