Rudi Protrudi Unfuzzed - Rudi Protrudi Unfuzzed Live [Explicit]

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2014
Time: 54:26
Size: 128,9 MB
Label: Hound Gawd! Records
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock/Chicago Blues/Electric Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Want Ad Blues - 2:34
 2. Down in the Bottom - 3:04
 3. Made Up My Mind - 2:16
 4. Big Legs Tight Skirt - 4:23
 5. Bad Like Jesse James - 5:15
 6. Black Gal - 3:57
 7. Evil - 3:13
 8. Boom Boom - 5:24
 9. Rock Me Baby - 5:48
10. Bloodstains on the Wall - 5:03
11. Dirty Motherfucker - 4:12
12. Hootchie Cootchie Man - 3:59
13. What'd I Say - 5:10

Garage Guru and founder of the legendary Fuzztones has assembled some of Berlin's finest blues musicians for his newest side-project, RUDI PROTRUDI UNFUZZED. Invoking the ghosts of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Skip James, RUDI PROTRUDI UNFUZZED transform Rock venues into backwoods jukejoints with their eclectic mix of gut-bucket country delta and Chicago-style blues.
Rudi's career spans 44 years and includes stints with Screamin' Jay Hawkins, NY Doll Sylvain Sylvain, Lydia Lunch, the Cult's Ian Astbury, and 60' Garage icon Sky Saxon.
I’ve been listening to this release, “Unfuzzed,” more than I usually listen to new music. It’s fun, familiar and fresh at the same time. And if you’re wondering what I mean by the opening sentence, I get sent so much new music each week, it’d make your pointy head spin to try and hear it all, let alone listen to it any of it repeatedly.
So here’s Rudi Protrudi in a new setting of performing blues standards rather than garage rock rave ups. And he’s right at home with the material. In particular he seems to shine brightly on the 2 John Lee Hooker numbers he plays, “Big Legs, Tight Skirt,” and the classic “Boom Boom.”
“Bloodstains on the Wall,” and “Dirty Motherfucker,” are delivered with enough panache and aplomb to be at home in the next Tarantino film featuring a roadhouse scene.
Recorded before a live audience, in Germany, from the heart of the Berlin Delta, the crowd is receptive and seems to be having as much fun as the band onstage. They wrap things up with an animated version of Ray Charles, “What’d I Say” leaving everyone wanting more. Mr. Protrudi and company are loose with the arrangements but never sloppy. Establishing a groove and getting down with it.
Yeah, just enough to make you want some more.

Rudi Protrudi Unfuzzed Live[Explicit]

Tito & Tarantula - 8 Arms to Hold You

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 39:36
Size: 90,8 MB
Label: IT Sounds
Styles: Rock/Blues Rock/Southern Rock
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. As Worlds Collide - 3:12
 2. It's Alright Now - 3:45
 3. Goodbye Good Luck - 3:12
 4. He's a Liar - 4:40
 5. Animal Dream - 4:38
 6. Heart of Hearts - 4:06
 7. Virtues Glow - 5:03
 8. Lonely Sunset - 4:14
 9. Love Sane - 3:03
10. Somewhere Between - 3:39

The long-awaited new studio album. For the recordings, Tito Larriva chose a studio near his hometown. He grew up in El Paso, Texas, and always wanted to record in this studio called Sonic Ranch, less than an hour away. He thought it would be fun to be near his dad while recording the new album. Larriva drew energy from his father, the desert, and all the magical moments he carries in his heart. From what he calls home. 8 Arms To Hold You captures the colors and smells of the desert, it's passionate and romantic. Along with Tito's electrifying vocals, another masterpiece in his long and successful career as a musician, composer, and actor. Tito & Tarantula is the US-American Chicano rock/blues rock band formed in Hollywood, California in 1992 by singer/songwriter/guitarist Tito Larriva, best known for its songs, "After Dark", "Back to the House That Love Built", "Strange Face of Love", and "Angry Cockroaches", as well as for its role in Robert Rodriguez's film From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) as the band performing at the Titty Twister nightclub. "After Dark" was the track played during Salma Hayek's iconic exotic dance scene in that film, and later became the theme for From Dusk Till Dawn.

8 Arms To Hold You

Steve Howe - The Steve Howe Trio: New Frontier

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 43:31
Size: 100,0 MB
Label: Esoteric Antenna
Styles: Progressive Rock/JRF
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Hiatus - 2:24
 2. Left to Chance - 6:33
 3. Fair Weather Friend - 4:26
 4. Zodiac - 3:07
 5. Gilded Splinter - 4:01
 6. Showdown - 4:37
 7. Missing Link - 5:02
 8. Outer Terrain - 4:51
 9. Western Sun - 4:34
10. The Changing Same - 3:51

This release reflects the jazz / fusion side of Steve Howe’s musical personality and features three compositions co-written with Bill Bruford.

The Steve Howe Trio: New Frontier

Lucky Peterson - 50 - Just warming up!

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 73:48
Size: 170,5 MB
Label: Jazz Village
Styles: Blues/Electric Blues
Art: Full

Tracks Listing:
 1. 50 Years - 4:11
 2. Pack it up - 3:57
 3. Dreamin' About You - 4:59
 4. Don't Want Nobody But You - 4:43
 5. Repossess Your Love - 4:29
 6. I Will Die 4 u - 3:55
 7. Never Make Your Move Too Soon - 5:03
 8. Clickety Click - 4:54
 9. The Blues is Driving Me - 3:57
10. Angel of Mercy - 6:33
11. Going Where My Roots Come from - 5:17
12. Takin Care of Mine - 5:42
13. Let the Good Time Party Begin - 4:31
14. Kissin' on My Lips - 2:46
15. Amazing Grace Precious Lord - 8:43

50 - Just Warming Up! is the new album from American blues legend and multi-instrumentalist Lucky Peterson. He is one of the most riveting performers of the modern blues era. A searing lead guitarist, a rich and powerful organist, and a first-rate vocalist, Lucky's musicianship effortlessly translates gospel, rock, and jazz into a 21st century blues. Many reminisce about the bygone days of the blues, but its flame still burns hot in the hands of Lucky Peterson.

50 - Just warming up!

Paul Gabriel - Man of Many Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 65:45
Size: 150,7 MB
Label: Smoke Ring Records
Styles: Blues/Electric Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. I Feel Good (feat. Frank Davis, Mark Teixeira, Bruce Bears, Lonnie Gasperini, Mark Earley & Doug James) - 4:32
 2. Maybe We Can Talk Awhile (feat. Duke Robillard, Frank Davis, Mark Teixeira & Bruce Bears) - 4:27
 3. Cold, Cold, Cold (feat. Frank Davis, Mark Teixeira, Bruce Bears, Christine Ohlman & Mark Earley) - 6:06
 4. It Be That Way Sometimes (feat. Scott Spray, Mark Teixeira, Sugar Ray Norcia, Bruce Bears & Christine Ohlman) - 6:10
 5. No Finance, No Romance (feat. Scott Spray, Mark Teixeira, Bruce Bears, Howard Eldridge, Mark Earley & Doug James) - 5:08
 6. Blues for Georgia (feat. Scott Spray, Mark Teixeira, Bruce Bears & Lonnie Gasperini) - 4:48
 7. Second Story Man (feat. Duke Robillard, Scott Spray, Mark Teixeira & Bruce Bears) - 3:54
 8. Man of Many Blues (feat. Duke Robillard, Scott Spray, Mark Teixeira & Bruce Bears) - 5:10
 9. Face Full of Frown (feat. Duke Robillard, Paul Opalach, Mark Teixeira, Bruce Bears, Lonnie Gasperini, Mark Earley & Doug James) - 3:34
10. On That Train (feat. Scott Spray, Mark Teixeira, Bruce Bears, Christine Ohlman & Mark Earley) - 4:51
11. Just a Bitterness (feat. Frank Davis, Mark Teixeira, Duke Robillard & Bruce Bears) - 6:03
12. Angel (feat. Scott Spray, Mark Teixeira & Bruce Bears) - 5:23
13. Dear John Letter (feat. Paul Opalach, Mark Teixeira, Bruce Bears & Christine Ohlman) - 5:33

Acclaimed New England-based guitarist/singer Paul Gabriel announces an August 2 release date for his latest CD, Man of Many Blues, coming from Smoke Ring Records. Produced by Duke Robillard (who also guests on the new CD), Man of Many Blues was recorded at Lake West Studio in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, by Jack Gauthier, and also includes perennial Blues Music Award nominee Sugar Ray Norcia (of Sugar Ray & the Bluetones) as a special guest. “This is one of the most special recordings I have ever done,” Gabriel says about the new album. “It’s being dedicated to my dear friend, Georgia Louis, the great 1960s Gospel and Blues singer; and it’s also special in that this is my sophomore recording with Duke Robillard producing.”
Man of Many Blues contains 13 all-original songs featuring Gabriel backed by an all-star cast of musicians, including Duke Robillard (acoustic archtop guitar, electric guitar); Scott Spray (a veteran of both Edgar and Johnny Winter bands), long-time Gabriel friend and band member Frank Davis and Paul Opalach (bass); Mark Teixeira (drums); Sugar Ray Norcia (harmonica); Bruce Bears (piano and Hammond organ; Lonnie Gasperini (Hammond organ); Howard Eldridge (vocals); Christine Ohlman (backing vocals); Mark Earley (tenor and baritone sax); and Doug James (baritone sax).
“One of the most interesting things for me while recording this record,” Gabriel remembers, “was using a very special Les Paul Guitar and Fender Super Reverb Amp exclusively that delivers a very inspiring tone, (in my opinion) somewhat reminiscent of the late Michael Bloomfield, my favorite guitarist.” Both Bruce Bears and Mark Texeira are long-time members of the Duke Robillard Band. “Many other special musical guests appear on the album,  as well,” adds Gabriel, “ including vocalist Howard Eldridge, an alumni of Matt 'Guitar' Murphy and The Blues Brothers Band; Mark Earley from Roomful of Blues; and Doug James from Roomful and The Jimmie Vaughan Band. Sugar Ray Norcia supplied magnificent harmonica, and the Beehive Queen, herself, Christine Ohlman delivered soulful backing vocals. Working with Duke Robillard and engineer Jack Gauthier is always a pleasure and a tough combination to beat. It was a constantly inspiring work environment through the entire process. I am thrilled with the outcome and consider it a great honor to have worked with everyone involved on this album.”

About Paul Gabriel
Paul Gabriel is a Blues Music Award-nominated guitarist, singer and songwriter. In March, 2018, Gabriel was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut Blues Society for excellence in guitar playing, singing and songwriting; and in July of that year, he was also inducted into the Connecticut Blues Hall of Fame as a Master Blues Artist. Over the years, he has shared the stage with B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Muddy Waters Band, Mick Taylor, James Cotton, Robert Cray, Jaimoe, Gatemouth Brown, Buckwheat Zydeco, Matt Murphy, Johnny Winter, Delbert McClinton, Duke Robillard, Ronnie Earl, Toy Caldwell, Roomful Of Blues, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Band, Lonnie Mack, Sugar Ray and The Bluetones, Mark Naftalin, Arthur Neilson, Shemekia Copeland, Bonnie Bramlett, Susan Tedeschi, Christine Ohlman, Sue Foley, Debbie Davies, Candye Kane, Tommy Castro, Joe Bonamassa, James Montgomery, Gov't Mule, Orleans, Tower Of Power, Rick Derringer, Issac Hayes and many more. He appeared on three Harry Chapin albums, played slide guitar on Rory Block’s Grammy- nominated album, Mama’s Blues, and toured with Michael Bolotin (Bolton). His last release, Paul Gabriel - What’s The Chance, was produced by Duke Robillard for Shining Stone Records and was nominated for a Blues Music Award in 2014. It charted on The Roots Music Report (for 22 week)s, plus the Living Blues, Blues Debut and Cashbox charts, reaching #8 nationally.
While almost always performing with a blues band under his own name, Gabriel has also been a member of several other groups that have made an impact; most notably Blue In The Face, The Mojomatics and HooDoo Band. “I am very grateful for the nominations and awards that I have been presented with, as it shows that my efforts for being a messenger of the Blues over the last 50 years have been well-received and appreciated,” Gabriel says.

Man of Many Blues

Jack De Keyzer - The Best of Jack De Keyzer Vol. I

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2017
Time: 70:26
Size: 161,4 MB
Label: Blue Star
Styles: Blues/Electric Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Music Is the Food of Love - 3:40
 2. Soul Lover - 4:24
 3. Ride with Me - 3:59
 4. Blues Thing - 4:29
 5. Engine Trouble - 5:40
 6. High on Your Love - 4:33
 7. That's the Only Time - 4:44
 8. Gambler's Blues - 3:08
 9. Cotton Candy - 4:45
10. Who Let the Cat Out of the Bag? - 4:28
11. Nothing in the World - 4:19
12. My Love Has Gone - 5:20
13. The Way That I Love You - 6:04
14. Hard Working Man - 4:19
15. Rock'n Roll Girl - 3:20
16. Blue Train - 3:06

Jack de Keyzer returns to Hugh’s Room Live on September 23rd with this wonderful compilation in hand. Drawn from throughout his storied, twenty-four-year career this immediately becomes a ‘must have’. For this set, he has re-mastered and re-mixed the songs and added one from his side-career as a first call guitarist for Electro-Fi Records plus three previously unreleased tunes. As this collection conclusively proves, and as his many fans already know, Jack’s mastery of different styles is his strongest suit – his blend of blues with soul and jazz is unique. The big band blues of “Music Is The Food Of Love” starts off followed by the Latin blues of “Soul Lover”. “Ride With Me” is a classic driving rocking blues. “Blues Thing” might have come from one of Albert King’s Stax discs done Whitby style. The magnificent slow blues “Engine Trouble” gets featured in almost every live show, here we get the original from Six String Lover. After the Stones/Stax “High On Your Love”, comes the songwriting award winning slow blues “That’s The Only Time”. BB King was channeled for “Gambler’s Blues” to great effect. “Cotton Candy” goes back to his Rock‘n Roll days, as do several others here. “Who Let The Cat Out Of The Bag” comes from the Willie “Big Eyes” Smith CD, Juke Joint Rockers, featuring Jack singing on a swinging group vocal blues. “Nothing In The World” was a country hit for him, we get an R&B version done live (at Hugh’s Room) on Silver Blues, the original was on Hard Working Man, from 1991. The first unreleased song is the most recent, a live performance from the 2014 Waterfront Blues Festival here. It’s another fine slow blues, “My Love Has Gone”, worth the price of admission alone. It’s followed by another live song, from The Corktown Sessions, the rocking “The Way That I Love You”. Also unreleased is “Hard Working Man”, a funky number that didn’t make it to Silver Blues, you have it now. Next up we go all the back to his earliest, rockabilly days and a live CBC recording of “Rock‘n Roll Girl”. The generous, seventy-minute set ends with 1991’s “Blue Train”, his first hit, dedicated to and about Muddy Waters. Jack has attracted many of our best players for his bands over those years, too many to list, needless to say that they all contribute mightily. Get your tickets to the Hugh’s Room show and stay in touch at www.jackdekeyzer.com.

The Best of Jack De Keyzer Vol. I

Chris Kramer - Blues 'N' Beyond Vol. I

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 44:53
Size: 102,9 MB
Label: Blow Till Midnight Records
Styles: Blues/Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. I Ain't Got No Home (feat. John Kirkbride) - 3:38
 2. Backwater Blues (feat. Long John Baldry) - 4:31
 3. Maggie Bell (feat. Long John Baldry) - 3:33
 4. You Gotta Change Your Ways (feat. Albie Donnelly) - 5:12
 5. Been Your Dog (feat. John Kirkbride) - 3:54
 6. Mastercook - 3:05
 7. Gangster Blues - 3:36
 8. Messin' with the Kid (feat. Bernhard Allison) - 4:09
 9. The One You Love (feat. Roger Sutcliffe) - 3:39
10. Train, Sweet Train (feat. Frank Diez) - 3:32
11. Apetite Blues (feat. Tom Shaka) - 5:58

Chris Kramer and the blues have been found - and have changed. Whoever thinks that the blues is only a low-pitched suicide, Kramer has never seen live. Because he lives the blues with a huge portion of self-irony and humor, Chris gives the genre a new own note. Apart from the high musical demands, this makes his concerts highly entertaining, entertaining, and sometimes drives the audience into the eye. He talks about how the beak has grown in the Ruhr area, he plays and sings with his own song material, which reflects the problems of everyday life, cariculates them and gives the amused listener often a new, casual and always entertaining view the things.

Blues 'N' Beyond Vol. I

Joel Paterson - Let It Be Guitar!: Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 43:29
Size: 101,1 MB
Label: Rock/Blues/Blues Rock
Styles: Bloodshot Records
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. All My Loving - 2:11
 2. From Me to You - 1:53
 3. And I Love Her - 2:35
 4. This Boy - 2:39
 5. If I Fell - 2:23
 6. Michelle - 2:56
 7. Girl - 2:54
 8. Things We Said Today - 2:49
 9. Honey Pie - 3:12
10. I Don't Want to Spoil the Party - 2:47
11. No Reply - 2:43
12. Can't Buy Me Love - 3:45
13. Drive My Car - 4:17
14. Because - 2:53
15. Something - 3:02
16. Her Majesty - 0:23

Here are the complete liner notes for Let It Be Guitar! Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles,  written by J.D. McPherson:
If you’re a Joel Paterson fan (as I am), you might not have expected to hear him really dive into the Beatles catalogue—but if you’re a Beatles fan (as I am), you certainly understand why he would. The wellspring of pop/rock & roll masterpieces recorded by The Fab Four beg for constant revisitation by instrumentalists and song stylists of all shapes, sizes, and string numbers. That’s why this record is so exceedingly enjoyable to me. Each of Joel’s interpretations of these songs are concise, genre-bending, stylish tone poems, mixing both Joel’s and the Beatles’ own century-spanning inspirations into one zesty musical stew. Contained within certain tracks, you may even find nods to OTHER instrumentalists who have delved into the Beatles’ body of work…It’s almost the meta-sonic equivalent of a Liverpudlian Rube Goldberg drawing. Joel’s phantasmagoric pedal steel guitar on the Santo & Johnny-esque This Boy weeps gently (pun obviously intended) against a spot-on perfect 1950s pop rhythm section, and on I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party, the guitar sound kicks into a double-clutching, gear-jamming, king-of-the-open-road anthem. With its exotica tilt, And I Love Her sounds as though it could have been recorded in a Nashville A-Team session, after the band had heard it cooing from radio speakers during a cigarette break. If we follow the rabbit a little further down the hole, on the ska-tinged No Reply, Joel respectfully channels Jamaican guitar genius Ernest Ranglin, who recorded his own delightful Beatles covers decades ago.
This ain't your uncle's Beatles cover record. This inspired recording is just what Doctor Robert ordered for Beatles fans (and contrarians) everywhere. Let It Be Guitar!

Let It Be Guitar!: Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles

Toronzo Cannon - The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 49:24
Size: 114,0 MB
Label: Alligator Records
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Get Together or Get Apart - 3:31
 2. The Preacher, The Poltician or the Pimp - 4:12
 3. The Chicago Way - 4:22
 4. Insurance - 4:34
 5. Stop Me When I’m Lying - 3:59
 6. She Loved Me (Again) - 7:09
 7. The Silence of My Friends - 4:39
 8. The First 24 - 4:38
 9. That’s What I Love About ‘cha - 4:31
10. Ordinary Woman - 3:51
11. Let Me Lay My Love on You - 3:54

Chicago’s Toronzo Cannon, a smoking hot guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and city bus driver, has a brand new record called The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp that emerges September 20th, 2019 on Alligator Records. Cannon is a longtime part of the Chicago blues community who has risen through the ranks of the always-competitive Windy City circuit over the past twenty-odd years. Cannon is one of the best songwriters working in roots music today and has a talent for writing compelling new material that speaks to modern listeners about modern topics that still rocks the house. The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp is his most powerful effort to date and is a definitive statement about what the term “contemporary blues” actually means.
Cannon was born in Chicago in 1968, and grew up in the shadows of the notoriously tough Robert Taylor Homes housing projects. He began soaking up the blues as a kid standing on the sidewalk outside of the now-legendary Theresa’s Lounge and was too young to get in to catch stars like Buddy Guy and Junior Wells who played there. He began playing guitar at age 22, soon discovering his atural talent on the instrument. He started with reggae but was soon drawn back to the blues. He soaked himself in the music of Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Hound Dog Taylor, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Jimi Hendrix, J.B. Hutto, and Lil’ Ed and forged a muscular guitar style that was his, alone. From 1996 through 2002, Cannon played as a sideman for Tommy McCracken, Wayne Baker Brooks, L.V. Banks, and Joanna Connor, becoming a full-time solo artist in 2003.
Toronzo comes out swinging from the jump on The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp, starting the party with the intense “Get Together Or Get Apart.” It’s a tough-minded track about love gone wrong and immediately treats listeners to Cannon’s screaming guitar licks. His manner of phrasing is highly individualistic and Cannon isn’t shy about playing things his own way. Too many blues players fall short of putting their own stamp on the language of the genre but Cannon quickly asserts and keeps his own musical identity.
The title song, “The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp,” is a big helping of biting social commentary wrapped up in a track heavily influenced by the sounds of vintage soul music. Cannon’s lyrics call out the three characters named in the song, asking hard questions and giving uneasy answers. He acknowledges that all three are one and the same, each one selling dreams for money most folks don’t have to give. This is the kind of song the blues world needs more of, the kind that expresses the realities of life in these times. Cannon doesn’t cling to the vocabulary and sentiments of the post-WWII world, which blues purists are sometimes too fond of. Instead, he speaks to the audience directly in front of him and delivers a cut full of wisdom and social relevance.
“Insurance” is a Jimmy Reed-type shuffle about the realities of obtaining health care in the USA. Again, Cannon takes on a relevant topic that gives a lot of modern music fans the real-life blues. The groove is subdued but the lyrics hit hard and will resonate with a wide swath of people. Also, Cannon becomes perhaps the only bluesman in history to write a song containing the word “colonoscopy,” which really catches one by surprise the first time through. “Stop Me When I’m Lying” is a humorous song about some of life’s truths discussed over a great New Orleans groove. Cannon is just as strong a songwriter and vocalist as he is a guitarist and his balancing of his gifts is what makes this song and the entire album a cut above.
The MLK-inspired “The Silence Of My Friends” uses a sanctified gospel feel to confront the questionable people in our lives and hits the mark dead on. Toronzo turns in some beautiful, restrained lead guitar here but the force of this one is his message that silence only helps evil to grow. He puts forth some real Truth on this song and also shows us the smoother side of his vocal style. “Ordinary Woman” is an upbeat, jazz-inflected minor key shuffle with excellent lyrics and some fine piano work from Roosevelt Purifoy, who plays piano and organ on the entire album. Other high-impact moments on this set include “The First 24” and the gut-punching final track “I’m Not Scared,” which bravely deals with the issue of domestic violence.
Toronzo Cannon is an amazing guitar player who teaches us again that blues music is about the words and stories it communicates much more than it is about endless soloing. His songs are the stars on The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp, even though his guitar skills are as good or better than anyone out there. Cannon is the total package as a musician and never loses sight of the big picture.
Is this the best blues record of 2019? Quite possibly.

The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp

Samantha Fish - Kill or Be Kind

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 45:39
Size: 104,9 MB
Label: Rounder
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Bulletproof (Tangle Eye Mix) - 5:19
 2. Kill or Be Kind - 3:45
 3. Love Letters - 3:39
 4. Watch It Die - 5:00
 5. Try Not to Fall in Love with You - 4:04
 6. Fair-Weather - 4:12
 7. Love Your Lies - 2:47
 8. Dream Girl - 4:15
 9. She Don’t Live Around Here - 5:45
10. Dirty - 3:27
11. You Got It Bad - 3:21

Stripped back Blues Rock opener ‘Bullet Proof’ is just part of the story of the new album from genre-bending and genre-blending guitarist, singer, and songwriter Samantha Fish. It’s a great song and certainly one to make you sit up and listen but ‘Kill Or Be Kind,’ released on 30th August, has so much more variety. You have of course already had a couple of tasters in the form of the singles ‘Watch It Die’ which really showcase’s Fish’s pipes and guitar work; and the slow simmer to sizzle of ‘Love Letters’, a song that seems to be built for the slow build and solo that burns at the end of it. Recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis and produced by three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington and mixed by two-time Grammy winner Steve Reynolds, Fish’s latest sounds great and if you wanted to pigeonhole it I guess then Blues and Roots is as close as we’ll get. Best of the lot just might be ‘You Got It Bad (Better Than You Ever Had)’ a wonderful blues rocker a song awash with guitars and sporting a chunky solo that hits the nail right on the head. There’s plenty of competition though, and variety too – the stylish Rhythm and Blues of ‘ Trying Not To Fall in Love With You’ sounds class to us, as does ‘She Don’t Live Here Anymore’ which has an even more pronounced Soul edge beneath the country guitar. Then there’s the punky proto-Rock and Roll of ‘Love Your Lies’ and right at the other end of the scale the gentle lilting country-tinged  ballad ‘Dream Girl.’ In truth though after repeated listens the Beatles-like opening to the gentle Blues of ‘Farewell My Fair Weather’ is just pipped by closer ‘You Got It Bad’ for line honours…

Kill or Be Kind

R.L. Boyce - Rattlesnake Boogie: the Instrumentals

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 38:27
Size: 99,8 MB
Label: Waxploitation Records
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Rattlesnake Boogie (Instrumental) - 3:04
 2. Rolling Through (Instrumental) - 3:56
 3. I Want You Back (Instrumental) - 3:28
 4. I Don't Need a Woman (Instrumental) - 4:09
 5. Coming Home (instrumental) - 5:21
 6. Bilbo Walker (Instrumental) - 2:26
 7. One of These Old Days (Instrumental) - 2:57
 8. Sun Goes Down (Instrumental) - 4:59
 9. Way Down Town (Instrumental) - 4:15
10. Railroad Blues (Instrumental) - 3:50

R.L. Boyce’s Hill Country Blues is effortlessly transcendent and mesmerizing. Capturing the juke-joint, moonshine fuelled, picnic party life of Como, Mississippi, Boyce takes the listener through Saturday night and over that fine line that separates it from Sunday morning. This is god-fearing music on Mississippi terms.

Rattlesnake Boogie: the Instrumentals

Forest Field - Seasons

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 63:10
Size: 145,4 MB
Label: Rock Company
Styles: Progressive Rock
Art: Front

 1. Delta Hours - 4:34
 2. Change the World - 5:45
 3. Spring is Coming - 4:13
 4. Into the Lions Den - 5:43
 5. Rain in May - 5:04
 6. Eyewitness - 5:52
 7. Circles - 4:03
 8. A Silent Cry - 6:11
 9. Autumn Sky - 4:32
10. Trading Places - 6:00
11. Storm in November - 7:32
12. On the Edge of Winter - 3:35

Musicians:
Peter Cox - all instruments, additional vocals (1, 2, 4)
Phil Vincent (Legion, Tragik) - vocals
With:
Vince O’Regan (Pulse, Legion, Bob Catley) - guitar solos (4, 10)

After a short break, Forest Field return with their fifth full length album and 6th overall release. After the award winning Angels? album (best Rock album of 2015 on One World Music Radio), and the widely praised Lonely Desert album, Seasons is another release with a theme. The title already hints about that. Things might change, but the world keeps going round and the seasons keep following up on each other. No matter how crazy it gets around us!
Once again mixing instrumental tracks with melodic progressive rock (a.k.a. elaborate rock), Forest Field keep trying to push boundaries while staying true to their brand of music. Proof is for instance the track that preceded the album, the single edit of Change The World. Their ability to combine melody with power and expert musicianship, is clearly shown throughout the whole of the album. Even when sounding heavier than ever before…

Seasons

Interphases - Psychomovie

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2006
Time: 50:28
Size: 115,9 MB
Label: Mystical Hunters Records
Styles: Progressive Rock/Neo Prog
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. The Tenant -  6:35
 2. A Change In The Weather -  5:51
 3. Movieblind -  3:01
 4. The Corner -  5:30
 5. Back To The Streets -  5:35
 6. (Stranglehold Of The) Wet Hand -  5:43
 7. Flotsam And Jetsam -  6:55
 8. Family Day - 11:12

Musicians:
Marco "Napoleon" Fioravanti - Keyboards, Piano, Bass guitar
Johannes "Snowball" Ruhle - Drums, Percussion, Piano
Jurgen "Citizen" Raab - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards
Guests:
Hans Draskowitsch - Saxophone on "Change"
Franca Fioravanti-Romei - Recitation of W. B. Yeats "The Second Coming"

The official debut-Album recorded after their reunion in 2001. It contains all the bands' stage classics from the early eighties in full cinemascopic sound.

Wenn man die aktuelle CD der Stuttgarter Formation Interphases aus dem Umschlag zieht, sieht man erstmal verblufft auf ein Amaray Case. Doch die ungewohnliche Verpackung enthalt keine DVD, sondern das Album "Psycho Movie", aufgemacht wie ein Film, von der Optik bis zu der grafischen Gestaltung und Credits. Ein wirklich witziger Einfall. Die Musik der Band, die bereits seit 1980 (!) aktiv ist, bietet auf ihrer zweiten CD (nach "The Official Live Bootleg" von 2001) und dem ersten richtigen Studiowerk eine schone Melange aus abwechslungsreichem Progressive Rock und Songwriter Rock, wobei das "Prog"-Pendel jedoch nie zu stark oder einseitig in Richtung "Neo" oder "Old School" ausschlagt, sondern einen gesunden Mix aus 70er-Jahre-Einflussen von Genesis bis Peter Gabriel und Peter Hammill ("Wet Hand") bis hin zu den 80ern a la Marillion oder einem Hauch von Rush bei der Gitarre wie in "Back to the streets". Die starksten Marillion-Einflusse sind allerdings lediglich im Opener "The tenant" zu horen, der stellenweise an "The web" erinnert, und wo Leadsanger Jurgen "Citizen" Raab seine an Fish angelehnte Gesangsstilistik voll ausspielen kann, spater kommt dieser Marillion-Touch nicht mehr so stark heraus. Die Kunst dabei ist es wohl, dass es dennoch nie dick aufgetragen und damit storend klingt. Gleich beim zweiten Track "A change in the weather" glaubt man durch die eingespielten italienischen Sprachsamples, in die Zeit des glorreichen Italo Prog Rocks versetzt zu werden, bevor einen die englischen Songlyrics wieder in die Gegenwart zuruckholen... Einen Musicaltouch mit Pop-Appeal hat "Back to the streets". Die Sprachsamples a la Floyd begegnen einem spater dann immer mal wieder und konnen wohl als abwechslungsreiches Stilmerkmal der Band gewertet werden. Bei "Humdrum" wagen sich Interphases dann noch an einen Coversong, der bisher wohl nur wenig gecovert wurde, weil er ohnehin so perfekt von Peter Gabriel interpretiert wurde. Obwohl die Band mit gro?em Respekt an den Song geht und ihm nicht zu viele neue Aspekte abgewinnen kann, so klingt er recht modern und wunderschon anzuhoren, ein wenig verwandelt dann doch am Schluss durch die Keyboards, ja, sogar Gansehaut stellt sich beim Horen ein, wie beim Original - Respekt! Ahnlich ergeht es einem auch mit dem balladesken und uberaus melancholischen "Flotsam and Jetsam". Und zum Ausklang dann der Schlusssong "Family Day", wo die Gruppe dann nochmal alle ihre stilistischen Register zieht. Auch technisch kann man mit der CD sehr zufrieden sein, eine ansprechende, transparente Produktion, die nicht uberladen klingt, ein sauberer, akzentfreier Gesang (hatten nur Eloy so einen Sanger gehabt...), mehrstimmige Arrangements, auch die musikalischen Arrangements kommen auf den Punkt, ohne Themen und Motive breitzuwalzen. Kein Wunder, hier rangiert die Lauflange der Songs um die 5-6 Minuten, der Longsong "Family Day" am Schluss ist gerade mal "nur" 11 Minuten lang. Da konnten sich manche Bands mit ihren 20- oder 30-Minutern, wo es oft viel Leerlauf gibt, eine Scheibe abschneiden. Ein durch und durch starkes, atmospharisch dichtes Album ohne Ausfalle, und ohne Anbiederung an irgendwelche aktuellen Trends, kein Neo-Prog, kein Prog-Metal, Goth-Prog oder was wei? der Geier. Einfach gute, zeitlose Musik, die wohl endlich auf CD gebannt wurde und die man sich immer wieder anhoren kann, ohne dass es langweilig wird. Empfehlung

Psychomovie

Thirteen Of Everything - Our Own Sad Fate

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 51:21
Size: 118,2 MB
Label: Basement Avatar Records
Styles: Progressive Rock/Symphonic Prog
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Dark Energy - 6:35
 2. Storm Season - 5:15
 3. Event Horizon - 8:41
 4. Walk On Water - 9:26
 5. Life Is Change - 5:13
 6. West Texas - 7:11
 7. Plague - 8:58

This is exciting modern progressive rock in the symphonic style, balancing intricate, syncopated arrangements with thoughtful lyrics, emotive melodies and contrasting moods to create compelling, adventurous music you will return to again and again.

 Our Own Sad Fate

Sophistree - Seed

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1998
Time: 73:51
Size: 172,3 MB
Label: Self Released
Styles: Progressive Rock/Eclectic Prog
Art: Full

Tracks Listing:
 1. The Snail's Shell -  9:42
 2. The Seed of My Smile - 10:42
 3. Honey Take Care -  6:52
 4. How To Make The Grass Grow - 10:16
 5. The Seven Seas -  7:18
 6. Big Love, Big Fake - 14:57
 7. In The Middle of April -  4:19
 8. Don't You Rely on Me -  9:41

5 man strong band from germany performing 8 tracks of neo-progressive music. 74 minutes totally that concentrates on guitars & keyboards.
SOPHISTREE are a progressive art-rock band from Hamburg, Germany that was formed in 1994. Starting out as a band with a KING CRIMSON style they later became more melodic and poppy, yet keeping their progressiveness. Their progressive side is shown in their complicated compositions with odd meters and tempo changes. This is their strong debut album from 1998, and it's a pleasant surprise. Their influences are SPOCK'S BEARD, UK, GENTLE GIANT, MARILLION, SAGA and TEARS FOR FEARS. Although the pop influences are very present this is true progressive rock. They are showing a high quality musicianship and the vocals are good too. The songs are long just as you'll expect from a progressive band, yet there's a lot of strong and catchy melodies. The highlights are "The Seed of my Smile", "The Seven Seas" and the epic composition "Big Love, Big Fake" that is split into two sections "i: The Kite" and "ii: Hear the Child Scream". It's also the longest track that clocks in at 14:57. It's a great album from a promising band and I wont be surprised if they are one of the future big names in progressive rock.

Seed

Schizofrantik - Ripping Heartaches

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2017
Time: 53:23
Size: 123,2 MB
Label: Gentle Art Of Music
Styles: Progressive Rock/Eclectic Prog
Art: Full

Tracks Listing:
 1. Satan and Death Separated By Sin - 12:51
 2. A New Day -  3:46
 3. Personal Hell -  5:38
 4. Hungry Ghosts -  7:23
 5. Why Is My Mind ? -  7:51
 6. Children Stopped Crying in Aleppo -  4:01
 7. Infinity - 11:50

Musicians:
Martin Mayrhofer - vocals, guitars, bass;
Henning Lubben - keyboards;
Marco Osmajic - bass;
Christian Schichtl - drums.

Ripping Heartaches is the third album release since Schizofrantik signed to the GAOM label. When you are familiar with the music of mastermind Martin Mayrhofer, it's fair to say this album feels like a continuation of the previous albums; Oddities (2011, see review) and Knight On The Shark (2013, see review). Only on this album, the boundaries of experimental progressive metal are explored even more. Musically Mayrhofer has a history as a member of the German death jazz metallers Panzerballett, something which still shines through in his inventive song writing. Both bands show a common interest in music which results in a recognizable guitar sound, applying to both bands. On Ripping Heartaches, Mayrhofer is responsible for guitar and bass, as well as all vocals. Help comes with returning drummer Andy Lund and newcomer Christian Schichtl, also keyboard player Henning Lubben. During live concerts, bass player Marco Osmajic performs alongside Mayrhofer, Schichtl and Lubben.
Ripping Heartaches turns out to be a very interesting, but more adventurous album, opener Satan And Death Separated By Sin combines the afore mentioned death jazz elements with Meshuggah's djenty heavy rhythms and dedicated guitar playing. During the instrumental parts, references of Morlbl and Mattias Eklundh pass by, resulting in a nice stretched composition that guaranties over twelve minutes of incredible and challenging music. Contrasting to the previous song the vocal track A New Day shows an other side of Schizofrantik; this is a “normal” song, focussing on Martin's very accessible vocals. This track could be a nice introduction to the band's music, if you didn't know better. Personal Hell is one of my personal favourites on the album, a solid instrumental, where the band perfectly find their balance between great craftsmanship and heavy, but still very melodic guitar lines. Distorted vocals appear in Hungry Ghosts and fuse Meshuggah style guitars with great melodies into a memorisable tune. Delicate piano parts are the perfect diverging element to the heaviness. The end part has a nice technical touch, which reminds me a bit of Virgil Donati's In This Life album. Why Is My Mind is another more accessible track with smooth funky elements, highlighting strong drum parts and nice vocals. Children Stopped Crying In Aleppo has an intense tittle, musically the music box section gives me the shivers and the acoustic guitar works as the perfect contrast. Only the end, how great the intentions are, does remind me of Steve Vai's collaboration with Devin Townsend on The Road To Mt. Calvary. Not that strong however. Talking about Vai, I think the final chapter on the album; Infinity has some vaiish hints. This quite smooth track shows great playing, acoustically as well as electric and created a strange kind of balance in the album, which does feel quite naturally. Martin Mayrhofer has brought that special balance in an album that is rare, Mayerhofer totally masters the way to combine heavy djenty guitars with delicate subtle played acoustic parts in a way they really fit together. Absolutely well done I would say! ~ Pedro Bekkers (edited by Tracy van Os van den Abeelen)

Ripping Heartaches

Barbara Diab & the Smoked Meat Band - Mojo Woman

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 45:15
Size: 104,1 MB
Label: Self-Released
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Early in the Morning - 3:55
 2. Got My Mojo Working - 3:29
 3. I Ain't Got You - 3:08
 4. I Wanna Cook in Your Kitchen - 2:36
 5. Mama's Blues - 4:33
 6. Richland Woman Blues - 4:06
 7. Santa Claus Is Back in Town - 3:05
 8. Shovelin' Man - 3:08
 9. The Bigger They Come, The Harder They Fall - 3:13
10. Woman of Your Dreams - 2:02
11. Walk If You Can't Run - 3:57
12. Wild Women Don't Have The Blues - 3:21
13. Sweet Home Chicago - 4:36

The blues enchantress has such a joy in expressing herself, her energy radiates to all those who are in her presence. With her immense vocal range, she brings a unique honesty to each song, without guile, and from the heart!(https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/barbaradiabandthesmokedmeatba1)

Mojo Woman

Murray Porter - Stand Up!

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 42:48
Size: 98,1 MB
Label: Self-Released
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. The Water - 4:13
 2. No More - 4:34
 3. Two Hearts and One Soul - 3:24
 4. Someday I'll Never Learn - 3:32
 5. Stay Gone - 4:34
 6. Highway 16 - 3:58
 7. Same Canoe - 4:18
 8. Love Will Find a Way - 3:42
 9. Mom - 3:54
10. Laffin' Lucy - 3:24
11. Don't Let Go - 3:10

In the spirit of righteous grass roots action, Murray Porter's third feature album was made with honest musical labour, community loyalty and undying passions from this Bluesman's own heart. (https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/murrayporter2)

Stand Up!

Jeff Beck - Twilight of the Idols (Live 1967-1968)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year:2019
Time: 52:39 + 30:48
Size: 120,8 MB + 70,6 MB
Label: Shockwaves
Styles: Blues Rock/Jazz Rock/Classic Rock
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
CD1
The Complete BBC Sessions
1. Hi Ho Silver Lining - 2:49
2. I'm Losing You - 2:02
3. Rock My Plimsoul - 4:14
4. Tallyman - 2:50
5. I Ain't Superstitious - 1:43
6. Jeff Beck Interview - 1:01
7. Let Me Love You - 3:19
8. Stone Cold Crazy - 3:40
9. I Ain't Superstitious - 2:29
10. Beck's Bolero - 2:54
11. You'll Never Get To Heaven - 2:39
12. You Shook Me - 2:24
13. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever - 3:06
14. Rock My Plimsoul - 2:20
15. Shapes of Things - 3:20
16. You Shook Me - 2:40
17. Mother's Old Rice Pudding - 4:14
18. Sweet Little Angel - 4:48

CD2
live At The Fillmore West
1. You Shook Me - 2:16
2. Let Me Love You - 5:56
3. Morning Dew - 4:39
4. Jeff’s Boogie - 5:22
5. The Sun Is Shining - 7:37
6. Hi Ho Silver Lining - 4:54

Classic Radio Broadcasts from San Francisco and London. Jeff Beck staggered out of The Yardbirds in early 1966 without a clear idea of where he was going next. Having walked out of the band after years of gruelling tour schedules with little in the way of either fame or fortune, he was initially launched as a solo artist by manager Simon Napier-Bell and producer Mickie Most. Although a chart hit, his debut single, Hi Ho Silver Lining, captured little of his instrumental talents or raw energy, and instead it was its B-Side, Beck s Bolero, which pointed to a possible future. Assisted by the cream of his contemporaries on the British music scene Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Nicky Hopkins and Keith Moon the track suggested Beck would still work better as part of an ensemble. In the early months of 67 he formed The Jeff Beck Group, and over the course of the year the band concentrated on building up their public profile, both domestically and internationally. In Britain, they were frequent guests on BBC radio, both on the long running Saturday Club and on John Peel s brand new show, Top Gear . Meanwhile, future Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant had spotted the huge potential of the burgeoning live music scene across the Atlantic, and he convinced the band to undertake a US tour in the Spring of 1968. The tour proved to be a massive success, with gushing reviews following the Beck Group across the country from their opening show in New York to their closing night at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. By the time the curtain came down, Grant had secured them a new recording contract with Epic records, a few weeks later Jeff Beck s Group debut album, Truth, appeared. Twilight of the Idols showcases the key live performances from across this early chapter in The Jeff Beck Group s career. Presented here are the complete BBC sessions from 1967 and 68, including the initial appearances on The Saturday Club that featured the rotating cast of players, with Mickey Waller and Dave Ambrose on the first gig replaced by Ron Wood and Anysley Dubar by the time of the second. Following the collection of BBC broadcasts we bring you the legendary show at The Fillmore West on the 24th of July 1968 - last night of the Beck Group s first US tour and a seminal moment in Jeff Beck s career. Fans of one of rock s greatest guitarists will find Twilight of the Idols to be the essential chronology of his 60s hey-day.

Twilight of the Idols (Live 1967-1968)

moe. - Headseed

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1994
Time: 63:14
Size: 145,1 MB
Label: Fat Boy Records
Styles: Rock/Alt.Rock/Jam Band
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Akimbo -  5:19
 2. Mexico -  6:51
 3. Timmy Tucker -  7:10
 4. St. Augustine -  3:50
 5. Recreational Chemistry -  6:50
 6. Time Again -  3:43
 7. Yodelittle -  8:27
 8. Brent Black -  6:07
 9. Threw it All Away -  4:22
10. Time Ed - 10:31

In a way, HeadSeed is the purest of moe.'s studio albums. Like Phish's Junta, the disc captures the band in first flowering. The basic concept of the band is stripped bare and sounds fresh: a lively mix of post-punk, ska, and hippie influences, without any particular grand aspirations other than to capture what they sound like. Just because the disc is a low budget effort doesn't mean it is without solid production values. Al Schnier and Chuck Garvey's guitars are mixed crisply, the vocals are in just the right balance, and the band resists the urge to mic the drums in any fancy manner. Most bands should be so lucky as to self-produce a disc that sounds this great. Above all, there is an amiable innocence to the music -- the classical-sounding acoustic guitar and ragamuffin harmonies on "Mexico," the swirling funk psychedelia of "Brent Black" and "Timmy Tucker," and the college pop of "St. Augustine" are all nothing less than charming as hell.

Headseed

Rocky Zharp and the Blues Crackers - Crackin' up

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2010
Time: 50:20
Size: 116,0 MB
Label: King Hudd Records
Styles: Blues/Electric Blues/Country Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Heard the News - 4:11
 2. Big Road Blues - 3:39
 3. Funky Tracks - 4:28
 4. Pallet on the Floor - 4:51
 5. Brave New Day - 4:24
 6. Hurt Me - 4:25
 7. In the Cornfield - 3:14
 8. Dylanistic - 3:13
 9. Great God Almighty - 5:04
10. Play That Country Music - 2:45
11. Harp Walk - 3:46
12. Pretty - 2:49
13. 9 LB Hammer - 3:25

the Blues Crackers (Rocky, Dan, & Mann) with special guest; Jerry Cox, bass. Kinberly Anderson, flute. Josh W. Jones, guitar. Chuck Stewart, mondolin. Banjo Ron, banjo & bk vocals. Heather Watson, Sami Contreras, Wilma Sturgis, Kimberly Sherwood, Tina McNelly, bk vocals
A little something for everyone! (https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/rockyzharp1)

Crackin' up

Rubber Rodeo - Scenic Views

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1984
Time: 39:42
Size: 91,5 MB
Label: Eat
Styles: New Wave/Country Rock
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Need You Need Me - 4:29
 2. Slow Me Down - 3:28
 3. Anywhere With You - 4:34
 4. Walking After Midnight - 3:52
 5. City Of God - 5:11
 6. The Hardest Thing - 3:13
 7. House Of Pain - 4:30
 8. Mess O' Me - 4:59
 9. Before I Go Away - 5:23

Rubber Rodeo was founded in Rhode Island in 1980, and initially consisted of Bob Holmes (vocals, guitars), Trish Milliken (vocals, keyboards), Gary Leib (synthesisers), Eddie Stern (pedal steel), Doug Allen (bass) and Bob's brother Barc Holmes (drums). Almost all were students at the Rhode Island School of Design, and lead singers Holmes and Milliken were also romantically involved. Bob Holmes later described the band as "a cross between Gene Autry and Devo". Others noted that when Milliken was singing, Rubber Rodeo sounded something like a countrified Blondie. Most of the band's material consisted of original songs composed by Bob Holmes, or by the team of Holmes and Milliken. However, the group also recorded takes on country and western classics such as Ennio Morricone's "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" and the Patsy Cline standard "Walkin' After Midnight". As well, their first independently released single was a cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" in 1981. Shortly after this single was released, pedal steel guitarist Stern left the band, to be replaced by "Easy" Mark Tomeo. After two independent EP releases, on Eat Records, in 1982 and 1983, the band recorded their full-length debut Scenic Views for Mercury Records. The LP's first single "The Hardest Thing" video received significant MTV airplay. The album's second video "Anywhere With You" also received MTV play, and the "Anywhere With You" single was a hit in the US. Later in 1984, the band picked up a Grammy nomination for a long-form video they made for Scenic Views. The video was produced by Second Story Television and written and directed by David Greenberg. The video release also included the music video for their early Eat Records single, "How The West Was Won". Before recording their follow-up album, the band's line-up was reshuffled again. Tomeo departed, to be replaced by Ray Gantek on pedal steel and dobro, and Hal Cragin joined the band, taking over for Doelp on bass. The band's second album, 1986's Heartbreak Highway, was produced by Ken Scott, who had previously produced albums by David Bowie and Devo. The group soldiered on for a while, with Reeves Gabrels taking over from Gantek as Rubber Rodeo's steel guitarist. The band split up by the end of the 1980s, with their final recording appearing on a 1991 tribute album honouring Duplex Planet poetry naif Ernest Noyes Brookings. Holmes and Milliken's marriage also came to an end in the 1990s. Bob Holmes went on to a successful production career for artists ranging from David Bowie to Nils Lofgren. Both Doug Allen and Gary Leib, meanwhile, drew upon their art school backgrounds and became noted cartoonists. Elsewhere, Reeves Gabrels moved to London and joined David Bowie's band Tin Machine.

Scenic Views

Tad Robinson - Real Street

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 47:36
Size: 109,1 MB
Label: Severn Records
Styles: Blues/Blues Soul
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Changes - 4:40
 2. Full Grown Woman - 3:11
 3. Search Your Heart - 4:24
 4. Love in the Neighborhood - 5:11
 5. Wishing Well Blues - 3:16
 6. You Got it - 4:58
 7. You Are My Dream - 3:15
 8. Make it with You - 8:41
 9. Real Street - 4:16
10. Long Way Home - 5:40

From his Manhattan roots and his Indiana and Chicago musical upbringing, Tad Robinson has caught the attention of the music world with his eight Blues Music Award nominations (the Grammys of blues music) and his many recordings on Severn Records and Delmark Records. He’s a veteran of countless national and international tours, having played in over twenty countries, performing at many of the most important international blues festivals. With harmonica chops influenced by Big Walter Horton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Junior Wells and James Cotton, among many, and vocals thatcompare to Otis Redding, Syl Johnson, Al Green, and Teddy Pendergrass, Robinson, according to Downbeat Magazine, “places near the top of the list of finest living singers of soul blues”. Tad’s new album, Real Street , (2019) on Severn Records, continues his high-level artistry. On the ten tracks on Real Street, Robinson is backed by the architects of the southern soul sound, the Hi Rhythm Section.

Real Street

Captain Morgan Express - Naked to the Nipple (Live at Slok)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 37:30
Size: 86,2 MB
Label: Eigen Beheer
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Chicken Shack Boogie (Live) -  4:15
 2. In the Middle of the Night (Live) -  3:24
 3. Icepick's Confession (Live) -  6:27
 4. Congo Square (Live) -  3:23
 5. Checking Up on My Baby (Live) -  4:49
 6. Catfish Blues (Live) -  4:35
 7. Hip Shake (Live) - 10:35

Dat een unplugged album al lang niet meer betekent, dat je dan met een gezapig album te maken hebt, bewees het ‘Naked Truth’ album van Golden Earring in het verleden al.
Ook de Utrechtse band Captain Morgan Express heeft nu een unplugged album uit, live opgenomen in het Utrechtse Café Willem Slok. Deze band stond al bekend als “the hardest hip shakers” en bewijst met dit album dat ze ook akoestisch behoorlijk energiek klinkt.
De band bestaat uit Johnny “Boy” Brouwer (zang, harmonica), Hans Gerrietsen (gitaar), Phil Admiraal (bas) en Frank Boot (drums), aangevuld met Pieter Zwerver (gitaar).
Dit is hun tweede album na het album ‘Fistful Of Dirt‘ en het album staat vol met zeven covers.
Te beginnen met een cover van het Amos Milburn nummer Chicken Shack Boogie, waarvan de band dus dacht dat het om een Rod Piazza nummer ging. Door het rauwe harmonicaspel van Johnny Brouwer, die er behoorlijk op los brult en het spetterende akoestische gitaarwerk klinkt deze versie inderdaad behoorlijk energiek.
Dat geldt ook voor het lui pompende In The Middle Of The Night waarin de harmonica beurtelings hard scheurt en pompt. Icepick’s Confession is bekend van the James Harman Band. De schroeiende harmonica steelt wederom de show in dit lui stuwende nummer.
Congo Square werd geschreven door Sonny Landreth en de van origine New Orleans klanken zijn in deze Utrechtse versie teruggebracht tot een lui swingend nummer waar een gypsy jazz luchtje aan zit door het fraaie akoestische ghitaarwerk. Sonny Boy Williamson’s Checkin’ Up On My Baby pompt lekker rauw met subtiel gitaarwerk en een uiterst rauw huilende harmonica. Catfish Blues is natuurlijk bekend van Muddy Waters en klinkt in deze versie haast funky.
De afsluiter is de ruim tien minuten lange boogie Hipshake, ook Wel bekend als “Shake Your Hips” van Slim Harpo.’ In deze energieke boogie wordt de band aan het publiek voorgesteld.
The Captain Morgan Express bewijst met dit album dat ze ook akoestisch behoorlijk overtuigend klinkt. Dus zijn ze in de buurt…akoestisch of elektrisch….ga ze bekijken en beluisteren!!!

Naked to the Nipple (Live at Slok)

Wentus Blues Band with Duke Robillard - Too Much Mustard

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 59:27
Size: 136,4 MB
Label: Ramasound Records
Styles: Blues/Electric Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Stayed at the Party - 3:08
 2. 2: 19 - 4:42
 3. Judgement Day - 3:43
 4. First We Take Manhattan - 4:19
 5. She's a Killer Hot Blonde - 3:49
 6. Right in Your Arms - 4:51
 7. Too Much Mustard - 1:54
 8. She Made My Mind - 3:34
 9. I Hear You Knockin - 3:00
10. Miranda - 3:56
11. You Got My Love - 3:14
12. Selma - 4:37
13. Feels So Bad - 5:30
14. Where Have All the Songbirds Gone - 3:15
15. Passionate Kiss - 5:47

The collaboration between Wentus Blues Band, Finland’s most international blues act, and blues legend Duke Robillard began in 1987 in Finland, when the young band got to open for the global star. They developed a warm friendship lasting many years; Robillard was a guest at WBB’s 30th anniversary celebration and also did a joint tour with the band in Sweden. Now, with ‘Too Much Mustard’, the musicians have realized a long-held plan to make an album together. “It’s not every day, every year or every decade that you see a band whose talents and personalities blend in a way that makes them such a force of nature” Robillard explains in the liner notes. “It’s a very special thing when you get to experience a group like this perform or even hang out with.”
‘Too Much Mustard’ was produced by Robillard, features some of his performances, includes some of his songs reworked with Wentus Blues Band flair, and even includes a Robillard painting on the front cover. The resulting album is a joy to experience, in which the pleasure the musicians took in working together comes through in every note. “Prepare to be taken on a great musical journey,’ Robillard writes, “sit back or put on your dancing shoes, whichever you prefer, turn your hi-fi up and dig the sounds!” (https://www.bluesmagazine.nl/wentus-blues-band-with-duke-robillard-too-much-mustard/)

Too Much Mustard

Janiva Magness - Change in the Weather: Janiva Magness Sings John Fogerty

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 47:49
Size: 109,7 MB
Label: Blue Elan Records
kStyles: Rock/Blues Rock/Roots Rock
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Change in the Weather - 4:39
 2. Lodi (feat. Sam Morrow) - 3:50
 3. Someday Never Comes - 4:02
 4. Wrote a Song for Everyone - 3:53
 5. Don't You Wish It Was True (feat. Taj Mahal) - 4:22
 6. Have You Ever Seen the Rain - 4:27
 7. Bad Moon Rising - 4:06
 8. Blueboy - 3:47
 9. Fortunate Son - 3:13
10. Deja Vu (All Over Again) - 4:06
11. A Hundred and Ten in the Shade - 4:39
12. Lookin’ Out My Back Door - 2:39

With her new Change in the Weather: Janiva Magness Sings John Fogerty, the Grammy-nominated artist is at the nexus of re-invention and tradition. The album, which will be released by Blue Élan Records on September 13, reframes 12 songs curated from the Creedence Clearwater Revival leader’s catalog in Magness’ soaring, soul-centered style. It also places her within the lineage of classic singers who have made albums devoted to exploring the work of a single writer within the Great American Songbook—a process that has yielded such historic recordings as Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin and Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook.
That comparison may sound like hyperbole until you hear how creatively Magness, who again collaborated with Grammy-nominated producer Dave Darling to make her fifteenth album, explores these songs, from the familiar Creedence hits “Lodi” and “Bad Moon Rising” to numbers from Fogerty’s solo career, like the title cut and “Don’t You Wish It Was True,” which appears here as a duet with triple-Grammy-winner and American music icon Taj Mahal. And, of course, Fogerty’s work is timeless. His songs have been part of the soundtrack of the lives of multiple generations, cutting a broad swath through rock, blues, and country, and trailblazing the eclectic, roots-based Americana genre.
Magness first opened the door to Change in the Weather: Janiva Magness Sings John Fogerty when she decided to include a passionate version of Fogerty’s gospel-fueled “Long As I Can See the Light” on 2016’s Grammy-nominated Love Wins Again. That album continued her own emergence as a songwriter, which began with 2014’s Original and came into full bloom with 2018’s Love Is an Army. The latter was a brilliantly crafted bridge between the past and present, blending echoes of classic soul and Americana music with enduring themes of love and the contemporary sounds of protest. It followed a 2017 EP, Blue Again, on which Magness, who has won seven Blues Music Awards including Entertainer of the Year, and received 28 nominations, returned to her roots with a collection of songs from that genre’s back pages.
“Kirk Pasich, the founder of Blue Élan, suggested that we record ‘Long As I Can See the Light,’” Magness explains, “and I loved adapting and singing that song, so it was a natural evolution to Change in the Weather. John Fogerty is a brilliant writer. His melodies are big and rich and provide a real highway into the heart of his songs, which is wonderful for me as a singer, and their backbone is his storytelling, which is spare and direct, and absolutely American in its imagery and themes. And those themes endure.” “A lot of the lyrics of his early material were protest-oriented, and that’s important to me—to be speaking out about the current state of affairs in our country and the world. So, songs he wrote in the late ’60s and early ’70s, like ‘Bad Moon Rising’ and ‘Wrote a Song for Everyone,’ which talk about welfare lines and turbulent times ahead, are still relevant.” Nonetheless, Change in the Weather: Janiva Magness Sings John Fogerty perfectly balances challenging realities with joyful buoyancy. “Don’t You Wish It Was True” exudes that balance. The song, which originally appeared on Fogerty’s 2007 solo album Revival, gets righteous bounce from a happy-go-lucky shuffle beat, loping and sliding guitar, and the bright vocal interplay of Mahal and Magness. Mahal, who began his influential career in 1964, has been Grammy- nominated 11 times, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association in 2014, sings like a gravel-throated Santa from the Mississippi Delta, adding cheerful asides to the tune’s utopian vision. And if anything, one of the album’s themes is its musical diversity. “Change in the Weather,” for example, gets a tent-revival treatment, with Magness’ spirited testifying, handclapped rhythmic accents, and devilish bursts of dirty guitar. On “Lodi,” which is reimagined here as a blues-rock workout with a nod to Memphis soul, Magness is joined by Los Angeles-based outlaw country singer-songwriter Sam Morrow. Once again, their voices are a contrast of sandpaper and honey that blends to elevate the song’s classic chorus. And the Creedence rock ballad “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” is slowed to the pace of a lazy river, providing Magness a showcase for elegant phrasing and stirring dynamics that elevates the song’s deep emotionalism into something even more delicate and lovely than the original. Throughout, producer Darling draws a perfectly tight and raw ensemble sound from the band: Magness’ current touring group of drummer Steve Wilson, bassist Gary Davenport and guitarist Zachary Ross. “One of the things I love about this album is that people already connect with so many of these songs,” Magness observes. “connect with these songs. And for me, connecting with people is one of the reasons I love to sing … I have to sing. I know we’re really all part of one big community and, at the heart of everything that unites and divides us, we still have so much in common and so much that we can share. If music like this can bring us all together a little more, then I’m more than happy to be a vehicle for it.”  Although Magness is already in the midst of a creative roll, releasing an album annually and touring the world, 2019 promises to be another banner year. In addition to creating Change in the Weather: Janiva Magness Sings John Fogerty, her memoir, Weeds Like Us, will be published in June. Magness fought some tough battles before she launched her career. She lost both parents to suicide as a child and was placed in a dozen foster homes. But, inspired by the encouragement of her final foster mother and a galvanizing performance by the legendary bluesman Otis Rush, she found stability and salvation—and, ultimately, triumph—in music.
Since the early ’80s, Magness has built an impressive career in American roots music, brick by hard-earned brick. She has traveled millions of miles, sung on thousands of club and festival stages, and made a string of recordings that have earned accolades and awards. Today, her albums rise to the top of Billboard’s roots music charts and the apex of the Americana and blues radio charts. She is only the second woman, following blues giant Koko Taylor, to receive the Blues Foundation’s B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award, and it was presented to her at the Memphis ceremonies by King and Bonnie Raitt. As anyone who has seen her performances or listened to her albums will attest, Magness has, indeed, earned a place in the history of American music.
“It’s hard for me to separate my life from my artist’s life,” says Magness. “It’s easy to get lost in the work and the devotion of being an artist—of trying to give as much of myself as I can to the people I sing to and to the songs themselves, whether I’ve written them or they’re the songs on Change in the Weather. But there’s one thing I know that is the absolute truth: Everything about me isn’t necessarily what you’ll hear on a record or see on a stage, yet everything about me that’s on an album or on a stage is real, every time.”

Change In The Weather: Janiva Magness Sings John Fogerty

Half a Band - Spare Ones

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 66:49
Size: 153,5 MB
Label: Self Released
Styles: Progressive Rock/Eclectic Prog
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Epsilon Zero - 21:13
 2. Next Door 50 miles -  7:56
 3. Plane with No Wings -  7:05
 4. Sandman -  6:49
 5. Polar Vortex - 23:43

Half a Band is a solo project based in the french volcanoes, producing atmospheric prog rock music with a vintage touch and a DIY approach.

Spare Ones

Artcane - Odyssee

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1977
Time: 41:50
Size: 97,3 MB
Label: Great Barrier Records (2014)
Styles: Progressive Rock/Eclectic Prog
Art: Full

Tracks Listing:
 1. Odyssee -  2:29
 2. Le Chant d'Orphee -  3:40
 3. Novembre -  9:45
 4. 25eme Anniversaire -  4:44
 5. Artcane I - 16:25
 6. Nostalgie -  4:45

"Odyssee" is the debut full-length studio album by French progressive rock act Artcane. The album was originally released in May 1977 through the Phillips Label and it´s the band´s sole album release. It´s one of those albums, which has been a collector´s item for years, as it wasn´t until 2014 that Great Barrier Records picked it up for a CD reissue. Artcane is a four-piece consisting of Daniel Locci (drums, percussion), Jack Mlynski (guitars, vocals), Stanislas Belloc (bass, vocals), and Alain Coupel (keyboards, synthesizers, vocals).
Stylistically the material on the album is a relatively heavy type of progressive rock and a King Crimson influence is heard throughout. There´s an Italian influence in there too though, and the album is generally pretty dynamic, with both edgy aggressive rhythms and more mellow spacey moments. "Odyssee" is an almost entirely instrumental release save for "Le Chant D'orphee" and "Nostalgie", which both feature French language vocals. The vocals aren´t much to write home about, but they are great for the variation of the album. The centerpiece of the album is the 16 minutes long "Artcane 1", which is quite the dynamic track, even displaying the band toying with electronic sounds. The real assets here though are the edgy fusion influenced rhythms, the energetic guitars, and the synth work.
The musicianship is obviously strong, but the sound production is a bit thin. Especially the guitars feature a thin fuzzy tone, and the music could certainly have prospered from a more rich and organic sounding guitar tone. So "Odyssee" is an album with both positive and slightly negative features.

Odyssee

Kris Barras Band - Light It Up

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 46:55
Size: 108,2 MB
Label: Provogue
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. What You Get - 3:26
 2. Broken Teeth - 3:41
 3. Vegas Son - 3:42
 4. Ignite (Light It Up) - 3:16
 5. 6AM - 3:45
 6. Rain - 3:59
 7. Counterfeit People - 3:29
 8. Let The River Run - 3:45
 9. Bullet - 3:28
10. Wound Up - 3:16
11. What A Way To Go - 3:17
12. Not Fading - 3:43
13. Pride Is Forever - 4:02

The rise of the Kris Barras Band continues with the announcement of their brand new album Light It Up, which is to be released on the 13th of September via Provogue, a month before their biggest UK headline tour to date. It follows a whirlwind 18 months since the release of The Divine and Dirty in March 2018, where he sold 75 tickets for the London album launch at Thousand Island, and only 11 months later returned to play to 500 people at the main room of the Garage, London with an incredible ride to get there.
This journey saw the band not take a breath as they criss-crossed the country on 4 UK headline tours – each time the venues increased in size, and every time with sold out shows. He joined Beth Hart for a 10 date UK run as well as shows overseas, then 9 dates on tour with Joanne Shaw Taylor, not to mention shows with GUN, King King, The Magpie Salute, Therapy?, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, an unprecedented one-in, one out performance at Planet Rockstock and a full European tour with Jonny Lang and Walter Trout. He played to 3 million people on BBC Radio 2 – which caused host Richard Madeley to exclaim, “that’s the reason I love doing this show!” They have also had numerous A-Iist singles at Planet Rock Radio, won the stations prestigious 2019 ‘Best New Band’ award which led to him being asked to guest present two shows on the station. He even found time to join Supersonic Blues Machine as the new singer-guitarist with the legendary Billy F. Gibbons, joining for their debut European tour, playing Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London and a host of sold out shows and festivals across the continent. If that wasn’t enough to keep him busy he will be joining Kentucky arena rockers Black Stone Cherry on their July UK tour and then making history as the first band ever to play Ramblin’ Man Fair, three years running on a bigger stage each year; from the Rising Stage to the Main Stage, which perfectly encapsulates this bands journey. Faraway from when Barras played the grassroots circuit with a mixture of originals in amongst covers to 20-30 people – from covering ZZ Top in pubs to playing with Billy F. Gibbons in the same band, in 2 years. Light It Up sees him at his most expressive yet, forcing himself out of his comfort zone. “I kinda forced myself to write songs a different way. The biggest difference for this album was that I didn’t pigeonhole myself in any way, I didn’t feel like I had to conform. I just sat down and wrote songs I wanted to write, with a sound I wanted to produce, not thinking about genre whatsoever.”  Produced by Josiah J Manning at Momentum Studios in Plymouth, UK, it whips you into action from the opening heart of sleeve song ‘What You Get’ which cries, “You want the best of me, but can’t take the rest of me, well my mama packaged me whole, if you can’t take one little mistake, I think I’d rather be alone.” Right from the beginning it delivers no holds barred emotion and exposes itself as raw, resilient, fragile and protective. The high octane and euphoric ‘Broken Teeth’ is about not being afraid of getting your hands dirty and get a little bit hurt, keeping the pace with an infectious groove is the living on the edge, risk taking ode ‘Vegas Son’ whilst ‘Ignite (Light It Up)’ has already became an insatiable live favourite and ‘6am’ offers a beacon for hope. Most of the songs on the album were written during the night between 11PM and 6AM. “I write most of my songs best through the night” he says. “I think it’s the de-clutter aspect, I’m quite a hyperactive person. During the day I find myself thinking of a million different things and at night I find that my mind doesn’t wander as much and I can just access the more creative part of me.”  One example is the love song, ‘Rain.’ “I was on the way back from a gig, about 1AM” he remembers. “I came up with the line, “I’ll be your roof in the rain.” I pulled over into a layby and wrote it down and then got home to bed. I woke at 6AM with the lyrics and melody going around in my head. I made myself get out of bed, picked up an acoustic guitar and wrote the chords. The song was done in about 15-20 mins. Rain is a metaphor for anything a loved one might be going through and you’ll do your best to protect them and help them through it.”  Ripping rockers follow with ‘Bullet,’ ‘Wound Up,’ ‘Counterfeit People’ whilst ‘Let The River Run’ deals with anxiety, depression and not letting it drown you with the album ending on his old fighting mantra, ‘Pride is Forever’. “It’s a trigger phrase, pain is temporary, pride is forever,” he says. “I’ve transferred it to my music. Not everyone knows how hard it can be. Some things hurt, some things are tough, but if you push through that, it is only temporary and the glory of that will last with you forever.” He’s played with some giants in music from John Mayall to Beth Hart and Rich Robinson, but it’s been the time with Billy F. Gibbons that really hit home the journey so far. “To be stood on stage with Billy Gibbons every night playing ‘Sharp Dressed Man’, that was just absolutely crazy, I never thought that would happen in my wildest dreams. Just being around Billy Gibbons is hugely inspiring. He had a phrase he used to say; “we don’t have to do it, we get to do it” and that phrase really struck a chord with me, we’re very fucking lucky to be able to go on this stage and play.”
Maybe it’s the songs, the performance and maybe it’s his personal connection to his fans that he meets every night. Because he’s been that fan. A young Kris Barras saw one of his favourite upcoming bands, Black Stone Cherry at the 200 capacity Exeter Cavern in June 2009 and now he stands on the eve, just over 10 years later about to go on tour with them, beginning with a sold out show at Caerphilly Castle. It may be a rocket of a ride so far, but it’s only just begun.

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