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Post by LS on Jan 16, 2003 21:40:26 GMT -5
In addition to what's already been noted... Also Up & Coming...
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Excelllent budget priced compilations from Alligator: Crucial Guitar Blues Crucial Harmonica Blues Crucial Chicago Blues
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Compliation from Telarc: Now This Is What We Call Blues Vol. 420- Various Artists
Heritage Of The Blues (Remaster)- Fred McDowell
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Blues Legends In London- Box Set
Hooker & the Hogs plus Bonus Tracks (Remaster)- John Lee Hooker
Don't Worry 'Bout The Blues- Various Artists
Roadhouse Research- Joe Kubeck
Strange Dreams- Savoy Brown
Guitar- Jimmy Thackery
First Album- Room Full Of Blues
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Key to Love: A Celebration of the Music Of John Mayall- Debbie Davies
Ready For Love- John Hammond
Stingray- Kevin Brown
Blues Booze Harps & Guitars (Remaster)- Various Artists
Heritage To The Blues: No Monkey On This Train (Remaster)- RL Burnside
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Reaching The Cold 100- Peter Green & the Splinter Group
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The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions (Deluxe Edition 2 Disc Set)- Howlin' Wolf
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Post by LS on Jan 27, 2003 21:05:42 GMT -5
ALLIGATOR'S CRUCIAL BLUES SERIES- $6.00 ea. CDCRUCIAL GUITAR BLUES -VariousTracks include: All The King's Horses - Luther Allison/ Heartless - Michael Burks/ Same Old Thing - Coco Montoya/ Lights Are On But Nobody's Home - Albert Collins/ Percolatin' - Little Charlie & The Nightcats/ To The Devil For A Dime - Tinsley Ellis/ Country Boogie - Roy Buchanan/ I Can't Hear Nothing But The Blues - Son Seals/ Phone Line - Dave Hole/ Double Whammy - Lonnie Mack/ I Smell Trouble - Johnny Winter/ Pressure Cooker - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown. (Alligator) CD $6.00 www.milesofmusic.com/cgi-moses/search.pl/momsrch?idcode=CrucialGuiBlues-Various&f_success=searchCRUCIAL CHICAGO BLUES -VariousTracks Include: Low Down And Dirty - Luther Allison/Ernestine - Koko Taylor/ Somebody Changed The Lock - Junior Wells/ Take Five - Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers/ Cotton Picking Blues - Son Seals/ Let Me Stir In Your Pot - Carey Bell/ Mama, Talk To Your Daughter - Magic Slim & The Teardrops/ Cold Lonely Nights - Lonnie Brooks/ Take It Easy, Baby - Pinetop Perkins/ My Mind Is Gone - Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials/ 23 Hours Too Long - James Cotton/I Hear Some Blues Downstairs - Fenton Robinson. (Alligator) CD $6.00 www.milesofmusic.com/cgi-moses/search.pl/momsrch?idcode=CrucialChiBlues-Various&f_success=searchCRUCIAL HARMONICA BLUES -Various[/i] Tracks Include: Make My Getaway - Charlie Musselwhite/ Have Mercy/ Shake The Boogie - Billy Boy Arnold/ Sonny's Whoopin' The Doop - Sonny Terry/ Broke And Hungry - Junior Wells/ Thank You Baby - Delbert McClinton/ Burn Your Bridges - Cephas & Wiggins/ Coastin' Hank - Little Charlie & The Nightcats/ Superharp - James Cotton/ Lonesome Stranger - Carey Bell/ One More Mile To Go - Sugar Blue/ Blowin' Like Hell - William Clarke (Alligator) CD $6.00 www.milesofmusic.com/cgi-moses/search.pl/momsrch?idcode=CrucialHarBlues-Various&f_success=search
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Post by SweetNadine on Jan 27, 2003 21:16:15 GMT -5
What a deal! Six bucks per CD. You can't go wrong with that deal.
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Post by LS on Feb 25, 2003 14:30:53 GMT -5
Late blues great Howlin' Wolf's 1971 album "The London' Howlin' Wolf Sessions" will be reissued March 4 via Chess/MCA. The digitally remastered set -- which features accompaniment from Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts, and Beatles drummer Ringo Starr (credited as "Richie") -- has grown to two discs with 12 previously unreleased tracks.
The second disc features rehearsal takes, studio dialogue, and alternate mixes of many of the original album's tracks. In addition, the first disc also boasts three tracks that appeared on the 1974 Muddy Waters/Howlin' Wolf compilation "London Revisited."
"The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions" was the artist's only album to appear on The Billboard 200, spending 15 weeks on the chart and peaking at No. 19.
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Post by SweetNadine on Mar 2, 2003 22:23:26 GMT -5
STUDIO UPDATE 02/11/03: Producer Dick Shurman, Johnny and the band have finished 5 new tracks for the upcoming release on Virgin Records. The session went really well and everyone was really pleased with the outcome. From Johnny Winter's website. I'm looking forward to this new CD.
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Post by LS on Apr 15, 2003 15:29:53 GMT -5
The King Rides Again Celebrating 50 Years With New Album Due Out June 10th
B.B. King will release "Reflections," his first album in three years, on June 10th. According to the blues legend, who celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of his first recording this year, the new batch of tracks sticks to his tried-and-true formula. "When I sing, I play in my mind," he says. "The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille." The thirteen-track album contains twelve covers, including songs by Lonnie Johnson and Clyde Otis, as well a remake of King's own "Neighborhood Affair," originally recorded half a century ago.
Reflections was produced by Simon Climie -- who also recorded Riding With the King, King's Grammy-winning 2000 collaboration with Eric Clapton -- at Record One studios in Sherman Oaks, California.
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Post by LS on Apr 24, 2003 20:47:16 GMT -5
B.B. King Album 'Reflects' On Range Of Standards B.B. King's next album, "Reflections," will find the veteran artist exploring jazz, pop, and even country standards, as well as his trademark blues. Due June 10 via MCA, the set finds King performing songs associated with Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, and Willie Nelson, among others. A 5.1 Dolby surround sound/SACD version of the album will be released June 24.
Among those songs is Armstrong's signature "What a Wonderful World," and two other standards he and many others recorded: "I Want a Little Girl" and "Exactly Like You." Other cuts King tackles on "Reflections" include Pat Best and Deek Watson's "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons," separately a hit for both Cole and Sam Cooke, and "Always on My Mind," a song famously recorded by Nelson as well as Elvis Presley.
King delves in the blues with covers of Clyde Otis' "A Mother's Love" and Lonnie Johnson's "Tomorrow Night," as well as new recordings of his own "On My Word of Honor" and "Neighborhood Affair," which date to the 1950s and '70s, respectively.
The 13-track album was produced by Simon Climie, who was behind the boards for 2000's hit King/Eric Clapton collaboration "Riding With the King" (Duck/Reprise). Backing King is a stellar band that features fellow legend Joe Sample (piano/keyboards), guitarist Doyle Bramhall II (Clapton, Sheryl Crow), bassist Nathan East (Clapton, Michael Jackson), Tim Carmon (Clapton, Macy Gray) on Hammond B3 organ and piano, and drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. (Paul McCartney, Fiction Plane).
Not surprisingly, the hard touring King will be found on the road over the next several months. A spring tour kicks off tonight (April 24) in Mt. Pleasant, Mich., and will wrap with a pair of June 15-16 shows at the New York club that bears his name. A handful of August shows are also already on his busy schedule, some of which will feature support from Galactic and Jeff Beck.
"Reflections" track list:
"Exactly Like You" "On My Word of Honor" "I Want a Little Girl" "I'll String Along With You" "I Need You So" "A Mother's Love" "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" "Neighborhood Affair" "Tomorrow Night" "There I've Said It Again" "Always on My Mind" "Cross My Heart" "What a Wonderful World" ****************************************** Legacy Tells 'The Story Of The Blues' (Release Date 6/3) Columbia/Legacy will release a two-CD blues anthology on June 3 as a prelude to Martin Scorsese's seven-part PBS series on the genre. Titled "The Story of the Blues," the 42-song set compiles cuts from the Sony vaults, stretching as far back as 1927 and as recent as 1998. Selections from Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Bessie Smith stand alongside tracks from Bob Dylan, Santana, and Keb' Mo'.
"The Story of the Blues" was originally released as a double-LP in 1969 and was compiled by British writer Paul Oliver, who authored a book of the same name. The majority of the tracks were analog transfers of 78 rpm records from the catalogs of Columbia, OKeh, Vocalion, and ARC. The expanded edition, with updated annotation from Oliver, was produced by Jerry Rappaport, who has worked on titles from Jimmy Cliff and Junior Wells, among others.
The set is divided into five parts: the origin of the blues, blues and entertainment, the '30s urban and rural blues, WWII blues, and blues rock. "The Story of the Blues" attempts to trace the lineage from Blind Willie McTell to the Memphis Jug Band to Memphis Minnie to Janis Joplin and beyond. It's the first major release from Columbia/Legacy that will hype Scorsese's fall series.
Scorsese will produce a seven-part series titled "The Blues" to air this fall on PBS. Individual segments will be directed by Scorsese, Charles Burnett, Clint Eastwood, Mike Figgis, Marc Levin, Richard Pearce, and Wim Wenders. Sony Music and Universal Music Enterprises will collaborate to produce a CD box set, a DVD set, a "best of" CD, and seven individual soundtrack CDs with each segment director selecting their own track list. HarperCollins will publish a companion book to the series.
Track list for "The Story of the Blues:"
Disc One: "Yarum Praise Song," Fra-Fra Tribesman "Stack O'Lee Blues," Mississippi John Hurt "Travelin' Blues," Blind Willie McTell "Stone Pony Blues," Charley Patton "Black Snack Moan," Blind Lemon Jefferson "Pig Meat Papa," Lead Belly "Broken Yo-Yo," Texas Alexander "Broke & Hungry Blues," Peg Leg Howell "It Won't Be Long Now," Barbecue Bob and Laughing Charley "Georgia Crawl," Henry Williams "Dangerous Woman," Mississippi Jook Band "Gator Wobblie," Memphis Jug Band "In the House Blues," Bessie Smith "Shake it Down," Lillian Glinn "Pratt City Blues," Bertha "Chippie" Hill "What it Takes To Bring You Back," Butterbeans and Susie "Midnight Hour Blues," Leroy Carr and Scrapper "East St. Louis Blues," Faber Smith and Jimmy Yancey "Good Whiskey Blues," Peetie Wheatstraw "W.P.A. Blues," Casey Bill Weldon "Sorry Feeling Blues," Bo Carter "Little Queen of Spades," Robert Johnson "Farm Blues," Bukka White "Me & My Chauffeur Blues," Memphis Minnie
Disc Two: "I Want Some of Your Pie," Blind Boy Fuller "Million Lonesome Women," Brownie McGhee "Wild Cow Moan," Big Joe Williams "All By Myself," Big Bill Broonzy "Roll 'em Pete," Joe Turner "Bald Headed Woman," Lightnin' Hopkins "You Shook Me," Willie Dixon "Manish Boy," Muddy Waters "She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule To Ride)," Taj Mahal "I Ain't Superstitious," Jeff Beck Group "Killing Floor," the Electric Flag "One Good Man," Janis Joplin "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen," Santana "Highway 61 Revisited," Johnny Winter "Texas Flood," Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble "Soon As I Get Paid," Keb' Mo' "Cry Awhile," Bob Dylan "Ride On," Little Axe ******************************************** MARCIA BALL So Many Rivers (Release Date: 4/29) (Alligator Records)
Marcia Ball follows up the best selling record of her career, Presumed Innocent, with So Many Rivers. A masterful mix of roadhouse rock, New Orleans R&B and deep soul, this radio-friendly offering is sophisticated and fun.
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