Blue Junction - The Journey

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2006
Time:42:02 
Size:151,6 MB 
Label:In The House Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Introduced To The Blues - 3:23
 2. The Journey - 3:15
 3. Out Of Love - 3:34
 4. Going Down To Texas - 2:49
 5. El Mercado - 0:50
 6. No Reason - 3:35
 7. Big Body Brown - 3:24
 8. Leave Me Be - 3:06
 9. Who's To Trust - 3:22
10. Give It Up Judy - 2:44
11. Peacock Johnny - 1:48
12. There Is You - 1:39
13. Runnin' The Blues - 8:27

The Blue Junction originated from the Aarhus blues scene in the mid-1990s, and consists of experienced musicians from well-known Danish professional blues bands.
With the Texas-inspired guitarist and singer Ole Frimer and the Chicago-inspired guitarist Uffe Steen in the front, and with one of the country's best and most well-played rhythm groups, Morten Brauner (bass) and Claus Daugaard (drums), they play a contemporary and original blues style that is best described as "Texas meets Chicago meets Aarhus".
The orchestra writes its own music, but also mixes its own songs with interpretations of the classic blues repertoire.
In 1998, The Blue Junction released its first album "22:17 – Live in Aarhus" on Intermusic; an album that brilliantly illustrates the orchestra's dynamic live performances.
Award-winning in America twice
The debut album was praised by both Danish and international press, not least by American music magazines and record companies, who gave it top marks and consider the orchestra to be among the world's elite.
The international attention culminated in the fall of 2001 when the orchestra received the prestigious American Real Blues award for “Best Live European Blues Recording 2000”.
In the spring of 2002, the orchestra released its second CD “Diamond On A Dump” on InTheHouse Records. The Danish press was quick to give it 5-star reviews, and it was nominated for a Danish Music Award for “Danish Roots Album of the Year”.
In 2003, the band was again awarded the American Real Blues Award for “Foreign Blues Act of the Year in America”.
In April 2004, the latest release from The Blue Junction, the album “The Journey” (InTheHouse Records, ITHCD 0018), was released.
The orchestra has now visited most Danish venues and a wide range of Scandinavian festivals.

The Journey

The Hollywood All Stars - Hard Hitting Blues from Memphis

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1987
Time:49:52 
Size:131,8 MB 
Label:Highwater Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Making a Change - 4:13
 2. I'm Tore Down - 3:27
 3. What Did I Do ? - 3:49
 4. Mannish Boy - 3:01
 5. Big Leg Woman - 6:09
 6. Going 'Cross the Bottom - 2:27
 7. It's Too Bad - 4:19
 8. Better to Take Than to Give - 5:39
 9. Ben Wilson Shuffle - 4:08
10. Let Me Play with Your Poodle - 4:03
11. That's My Woman - 3:00
12. Gambler's Blues - 5:33

"...Gentlemanly, well-played blues that suffers from covering songs so indelibly linked with their creators (Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy," Freddie King's "It's Too Bad") that the band never develops its own identity. Vocalist/guitarist Ben Wilson acquits himself quite nicely with his fluid, melodic lead playing. Unfortunately, it never helps the band rise above the level of average". 

(© John Dougan, Option q2_87 /TiVo)

Hard Hitting Blues from Memphis

Doni Harvey - Deeper Into the Blues

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2012
Time:62:14 
Size:143,2 MB 
Label:Donimusik Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Sunday Morning Blues - 4:40
 2. Hypnotized - 3:55
 3. Letter In The Mail - 5:12
 4. Lady - 3:48
 5. I Remember - 5:03
 6. Let It Rain - 5:34
 7. Only Heaven Knows - 6:00
 8. Deeper Into The Blues - 5:18
 9. My Love - 5:06
10. Tme For Me To Go - 4:24
11. No Place Like Home - 5:31
12. Warrior Blues - 7:39

This CD shows how personal, touching and unique 'The Blues' can be. Doni's intense guitar playing and his expressive melodic voice, ranging from fragile & pleading, to strong & soaring, from smooth velvet to smoky & soulful, tell stories of joy and despair, of love and grief, of longing, desire and fulfillment, told the way only Doni and 'the Blues' could tell them, with such imagery and articulate musicianship. His music is a distinct mix of blues/soul/reggae/rock/ballads coming at you in different shades of blue. Doni Harvey is the kind of musician who mesmerizes the audience with the first notes he plays. Blues is all about feeling & relating as a fellow human being, what the song is about. His blues become a near physical experience. The pictures he paints with his songs unfold in all their colors. As great singer and instrumentalist, Doni truly found his own blues voice, his darker shade of blue and created magic that must be shared with the world. . This is what Doni said about finding his Blues Voice and about choosing the title for this CD: When I say "Deeper into the Blues" it's because I have been playing the blues for quite a while now. But when you see a painter, he is using different shades of blue from sky blue, light blue, dark blue to a really nice dark blue. I see that with my music and with blues music itself: that certain of us artists, we still have that kind of medium Blue. When you get artists like Son House, Bobby Bland, BB King, Albert King, Blind Willie Johnson, Freddie King, the fellows that aren't here any more and even more modern artists like Eric Clapton: that is Blue -that rich dark Blue. So I am trying to find my shade of Blue right now. The more I play, the more I write, the more I see what's going on around me, I find that deeper shade of Blue. That's why I play by myself because I want to find Doni's voice. I have played with a whole lot of other folks, but this is the first time that I am doing this from Doni's heart, where I express what I feel. So going "Deeper into the Blues" is my aim..... I've got to find my Blue voice, I've got to find my Blue guitar - speaking the blues. 

Deeper Into the Blues

The Killer Blues Band - Mighty River

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2000
Time:56:06 
Size:129,2 MB 
Label:Blues Leaf Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1. The mighty River - 5:33
 2. Bluestone Lane - 4:13
 3. Since I've Seen The Sun - 4:25
 4. Hang My Head And Cry - 4:27
 5. Don & Dewey - 4:57
 6. Ring On Your Finger - 4:04
 7. Soul 69 - 4:44
 8. Walter Shuffle - 3:29
 9. Wicked Bad Feeling - 7:53
10. I'm So Lucky (For You, Geri) - 4:39
11. Groundscore - 3:05
12. Hard Cold Cash - 4:32

They are the culmination of those long hot nights where unknow gunslingers take the stage and proceed to raise the pulse level to the point of cardiac arrest.The sound is woven of threads from Gatemouth Brown ,Jimmy Mc Griff and Sugarcane Harris and the ride is still ferocious.
Second work of this band that usually moves around the New Jersey area where it is one of the regular groups on weekend nights. This work is the culmination of several years of continuous work and an evolution, not only in sound but in terms of the conception of the ways of composing blues. The sound is solid and compact and the blame, if we can call it blame, is due to the personal way in which the bass and drums lead the band. It must be added that, in some songs, the keyboards and the violin solos in the style of Gatemouth Brown and Sugarcane Harris, give a freshness and a very personal character to the band.

Mighty River

Dieter Kropp & The Red Hot Blues Band - Red Hot Cookin (with special guest R.J. Mischo)

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2000
Time:54:20 
Size:124,8 MB 
Label:Fuego Records 
Styles:Dlues/Harmonica Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Blowin' In - 3:52
 2. Barbecue, Whiskey, And Blues - 4:22
 3. 1896 Shuffle - 3:56
 4. Early In The Morning, No. 2 - 3:56
 5. Tryin' To Get Next To You - 4:07
 6. What In The World - 7:30
 7. The Life I Live - 2:47
 8. Slick Chick - 4:23
 9. Easy - 3:26
10. A Good One - 4:14
11. Tight Pants - 4:06
12. Just Your Fool - 2:59
13. My Blues Are Gettin' Blue - 4:36

Among harp players, one can find not bad ones, good ones, excellent ones and, like Dieter Kropp, master ones Yes, yes, yes… Kropp is a harp blowing master With such influences as Little Walter, Walter Horton or George Smoth, Dieter shows a great skill in harp technique that makes him a harp virtuoso And besides, all what he does is really good, he also knowns how to match tempos and tones Vocally speaking, he closely reminds Charlie Musselwhite’s voice, he surely admires Fluent, inspired and brilliant, Dieter is nowadays one of the most interesting harmonica players of the European blues stage This record is a complete collection of different blues styles, rhythms and tempos You can find shuffles, slows, gumbos perfectly backed by RJ Mischo’s band, and even with RJ Mischo himself, who also plays in three songs The album becomes a pleasure for all harp lovers.

Red Hot Cookin

Catfish John Tisdell - No Slowing Down

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2024
Time:42:37 
Size:98,0 MB 
Label:Self-Released 
Styles:Blues/Blues Rock 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. No Slowing Down - 4:36
 2. More or Less - 3:49
 3. When the Light Fades - 5:29
 4. We're Just Chasing Shadows - 4:17
 5. The Weight of Silence - 4:29
 6. Must Be out of Your Mind - 5:05
 7. Miles of Regret - 4:41
 8. Dusty Texas Ride - 4:42
 9. Staring Down This Crooked Road - 5:25

Since his first public performances in the early 70's in Denver, Catfish has toured the country both as a solo artist and in bands performing in clubs, coffeehouses, music festivals and concerts. His favorite style of music is a combination of Blues & Rock. He has performed in bands ranging from traditional blues and folk to more modern rock and roll. He lived on Maui for 30 years and windsurfs.

No Slowing Down

Ross William Perry - The Move

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2003
Time:43:52 
Size:100,9 MB 
Label:Self-Released 
Styles:Blues/Blues Rock 
Art:ront 

Tracks Listing:
 1. The Move - 2:47
 2. Too Much of This - 2:49
 3. Without You - 3:38
 4. Take It All - 5:59
 5. Another Deal Gone Bad - 7:12
 6. Everything's Alright - 4:26
 7. Drive Me Wild - 4:15
 8. Waiting - 3:55
 9. One Night Stand - 2:53
10. Almond Sundae - 5:53

His debut album It'll All Make Sense was released in 1999. Featuring 10 original songs, his backing musicians included the rhythm section of Blues Hall of Fame inductee Lonnie Brooks. This debut record instantly earned rave reviews in Blues Access and Blues Revue Magazines, as well as gaining strong local and nation radio play. Blues Deluxe Radio or Arlington, Texas had this to say: "He's only 19, but he sure plays like a seasoned veteran." Live: Blues In Greenville was his second disc, released in 2000. Recorded in the Northwest Iowa town of Greenville, this recording serves as a snapshot in time of his ever evolving live show. Included on this disc are a number of cover tunes in addition to four original songs. Blues Revue had this to say: "Not yet of drinking age, Perry has great road-dog instinct. Anybody who leads a release with a blasting cover of surf hymn "Pipeline" knows how to stoke a crowd. Perry's sweat-soaked leads have punk-rock energy and classic Texas electric blues intensity." His third album, The Move was released in 2003. Again containing ten original tunes, this disc helped to further cement his reputation as an original guitarist and songwriter. The tour support for this record also brought about further expansion of his live show territories - moving out beyond the previous central hub of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Gordon Baxter of Blues On Stage wrote: "The Move is a solid album, and Ross William Perry is an accomplished guitarist. If you like your blues served up with a fair sized helping of rock, then The Move fits the ticket.” 

The Move

Mike Smith & Friends - A Little Slice of Heaven

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1996
Time:48:26 
Size:111,6 MB 
Label:Mixed Results 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. A Little Slice of Heaven (Prelude) - 4:21
 2. Don't Forget Your Gun - 3:42
 3. The Things Some People Do - 4:43
 4. Daddy Loves Mom-beau - 5:30
 5. Don't Rush Me - 4:20
 6. Les Is More - 3:49
 7. Tag, You're It - 3:37
 8. Symmetrical - 3:45
 9. Gates Closed At Midnight - 6:11
10. The Agriculturalist Is in the Ravine - 4:23
11. A Little Slice of Heaven (Conclusion) - 4:00

Kansas-based guitarist/bassist/singer Mike Smith presents ten originals that mix smooth Chicago horns, a West Coast swing feel and uncluttered arrangements that keep the focus on the music rather than instrumental gymnastics. Smith leans toward a jazzy feel and a sophisticated yet uncomplicated sound, and every note on this recording is right where it's supposed to be. (Safety Zone)

A Little Slice of Heaven

Linwood Taylor Band - Make Room For The Paying Customer

Bitrate:320K/s

Year:2000
Time:58:01 
Size:133,4 MB 
Label:Mystery Media 
Styles:Blues/Modern Electric Blues/Blues Rock 
Art:Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Black Cat Bone - 4:06
 2. Psychic - 4:34
 3. Can't Get A Woman - 4:34
 4. Boogie Man - 4:58
 5. Same Thing - 5:42
 6. Charm City Pt.2 - 3:57
 7. Mercy - 4:57
 8. Good Morning Little School Girl - 5:57
 9. Don't Burn Down The Bridge - 3:55
10. Don't Dis Me - 6:28
11. Blues Man - 4:47
12. G Thang - 4:00

If you are a fan of the DC blues scene, these local legends are a must have for your collection.These guys have toured Europe and have won awards in events such as The Chesapeake Blues Festival.Linwood Taylor has played with some of the greats such as Wilson Picket and David Chase,whose early influences were Led Zeppelin,Humble Pie,Cream and others pounds out some of the best beats ever heard and has an impressive history playing a variety of music from Southern Rock to Blues.A must have for any Blues Fan.[By HCMegill (Mclean,Va USA)]

Make Room For The Paying Customer

Brian Templeton - Bloozin'

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2006
Time:53:32 
Size:123,0 MB 
Label:Self-Released 
Styles:Blues/Electric Blues/Rockin' Blues 
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Bloozin' - 2:33
 2. Stay Gone - 4:10
 3. The Reign - 4:59
 4. She's A Pleaser - 4:06
 5. Let Me Down Easy - 7:08
 6. Jean Nine Lives - 3:06
 7. Evil Love - 4:06
 8. Sugar Girl - 3:56
 9. Singin' In My Soul - 4:03
10. You Aint Coming Home - 5:16
11. He's A Mighty Good Leader - 5:45
12. An Answer For Isaac - 4:19

Qualified harp player and excellent singer, Brian Templeton surprises us with a passionate album full of beautiful vocal and instrumental harmonies and impressive horn arrangements with Greg Piccolo on tenor sax and Scott Aruda on trumpet, plus the valuable Dave Maxwell’s piano playing An exciting lively record of one of the more outstanding actual Boston scene musicians who, as years go passing by, has reached a personal style and recognition, jamming along New England blues clubs and bars with reputed musicians such as Ronnie Earl or Sugar Ray Norcia Thanks to his experience it is not a strange thing, this cd is one of the most interesting contemporary Boston blues ones Apart from Ronnie Earl and Sugar Ray Norcia, you will also find Per Hanson on drums, Michael ‘Mudcat’ Ward on bass and Kid Bangham and Monster Mike Welch on guitars Too much! A priceless treasure!

Bloozin'

Rocky Zharp & The Blues Crackers - Still Crackin'

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2007
Time:64:33 
Size:149,4 MB 
Label:Self-Released 
Styles:Blues/Harmonica Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Mind Your Own Buisness - 4:42
 2. Back Door Man - 4:05
 3. Good Woman - 3:41
 4. Writings On the Wall - 3:02
 5. Gallows Pole - 3:53
 6. Sally Said - 3:40
 7. Midnight Special - 3:51
 8. Mellow Down Easy - 4:23
 9. What More Do You Want - 4:22
10. Perfect - 3:01
11. 3 Nights in a Row - 2:39
12. Endless Sleep - 3:16
13. Time Vs Money Blues - 4:18
14. I'll Fly Away - Will the Circle Be Unbroken - 3:14
15. A Recreational Diversional Thang - 2:28
16. You Are My Sunshine - 3:43
17. Polly Woddle Doodle - 2:12
18. Still Crackin' - 3:56

"Rocky Zharp & The Blues Crackers - Still Crackin': The blues crackers are: Rocky Zharp harmonica, vocals, guitar. Mike Romaine drums. Jerry Cox 5 string electric bass. Dan Kennedy electric and slide guitar. With guests: Venus Marie, Heather Watson, Tanya Watson, & Banjo Ron".

Rocky Zharp, born in Indiana, was given his first musical instrument, a harmonica, by his great grandmother when he was a toddler.  By age 15, Rocky was working as a bass player in a three-piece rock band. Rocky won a local talent contest, before joining the army, playing guitar, harmonica and singing original songs. After moving to California, Rocky began playing harmonica with Bodie Mountain Express, a blue grass/country band, which had recorded on RCA Records and worked with Col. Tom Parker (Elvis’ manager). They performed at county fairs and festivals throughout southern California. This is when Rocky started his recording career. Before recording his own songs, Rocky did harmonica work for other recording artist. Rocky now has 7 cds out.
Rocky won the Inland Theater League Award for his part in the theater production of “The World of Carl Sandberg” and had rave reviews while performing in “Hard Travelin’ a Tribute to Woody Guthrie”. Rocky has done some stand up comedy and has been a comedy traffic violator school instructor for thirteen years. Rocky has hosted a weekly blues radio show, “The Great Blues Mix” on KHPY radio out of Moreno Valley, Ca.  Rocky has played harmonica with such jazz/blues greats as; Eric Burdon, The Mighty Flyers, The Toller Brothers, Jerry Van Blair, Bill Shields, and Big “J” McNelly. Rocky has played with other well-known artist such as: Don Ho, Freddy Fender, Rosie & the Originals, Randy Fuller, and Buddy Merrill.

Still Crackin'

Carlos Zialcita With The Johnny Otis Band - Train Through Oakland

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1999
Time:60:40 
Size:140,0 MB 
Label:J&T Records 
Styles:Blues/Funk-Soul/R&B 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Wondering and Waiting - 3:56
 2. So Fine - 4:20
 3. Moon over Cliffland - 2:54
 4. The Hunt Is On - 2:33
 5. But on the Other Hand - 4:14
 6. Fanny Mae - 3:27
 7. It Should Have Been Me - 3:13
 8. Chance for Love - 4:08
 9. I'm Runnin' - 3:54
10. We Don't See Eye to Eye - 2:19
11. Baby, Scratch My Back - 4:03
12. Now I've Got to Pay the Price - 4:59
13. I Ain't Gonna Do That No More - 4:25
14. Train Through Oakland - 3:55
15. I'll Take Care of You - 5:25
16. Jive N' Rhumba - 2:50

Carlos Zialcita was born in Manila and grew up in San Francisco after coming to the United States in 1958. He has been part of the San Francisco Bay Area jazz and blues scene for several decades as a harmonica player, singer, bandleader and educator. Zialcita is the founder and producer of the San Francisco Filipino American Jazz Festival and is the Executive Director of the Alameda Multicultural Community Center. He is one of the contributing writers to “Filipinos in San Francisco” (2011).
Philippine-born blues harmonica player/vocalist Zialcita has performed with many a blues legends, inc. Big Mama Thornton, T-Bone Walker, Charles Brown & others; here, he joins forces with R&B legend Otis & his band on this session recorded at Otis' home studio.

Train Through Oakland

W.C. Spencer - Bluescat - Over Time

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1998
Time:54:11 
Size:124,9 MB 
Label:Catscan Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Born Under A Bad Sign - 4:33
 2. Some of the Things - 4:41
 3. Atlanta Blues - 5:53
 4. Goodboy Blues - 3:23
 5. Talk To Me - 3:00
 6. My Old Home - 3:43
 7. Got My Mojo Workin' - 4:24
 8. Flying Crow Blues - 2:53
 9. The Jump - 3:39
10. Sugar Momma - 4:09
11. The Country Minstrel - 3:07
12. I'm Your Monkey - 3:46
13. Killer Filler - 3:32
14. Groundhog Stew - 3:22

Baltimore-area bluesman W.C. Spencer plays guitar, harmonica, drums, and organ and sings on his recordings, and his live shows are a spectacle, as he plays drums, guitar, and sings all at the same time, not unlike Mr. Satan of the Satan & Adam blues duo, who recorded for a variety of blues labels in the 1990s. Using an invention of his own creation, an eight-piece Alectroset hybrid drum kit that he plays with just one foot, Spencer can play an organist's bass pedals with the other foot. He plays all the instruments while singing the blues.Spencer launched his performing career in 1974, after graduating from Lynchburg College in Virginia. Through his performing career, he's had plenty of inspiration from unique guitarists like Roy Buchanan and Danny Gatton. Spencer opened shows and shared stages with both of them during the 1970s and '80s. Spencer began playing guitar in his native Baltimore as a ten-year-old and quickly took his cues from people like Libba Cotten to teach himself acoustic guitar. He wrote his first original composition as a 14-year-old, and by the time he was 15 he got his first electric guitar. In high school he formed his first band, the Heathens, who specialized in British blues and rock & roll bands like the Rolling Stones and the Animals.After four years in college in Virginia with no degree, Spencer returned to Maryland and put together a blues trio. But when his two partners on bass and drums were unable to tour with him because of day jobs and family commitments, Spencer began experimenting with a harmonica rack and a tambourine on his foot. Working with a University of Virginia engineering student, he created a rudimentary drum kit and hi-hat that he could play with his foot while playing guitar and harmonica. As he continued to hone his craft and perfect his sound, he added a foot bass pedal synthesizer as well as snare and crash and ride cymbals to supplement what he was doing on drums with his right foot.Spencer toured extensively through the late '70s and early '80s, opening shows for Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanan, Merle Haggard, and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. He returned to Baltimore in 1983 and earned his college degree at age 33. He worked a procession of conventional jobs through the 1980s but also developed a substance abuse problem. W.C. married the girlfriend who helped him overcome his alcoholism in 1991 and moved to rural Maryland. After a job layoff in 1994, Spencer recorded his first album, Bluescat, accompanied on some tracks by Hammond B-3 organists Tommy Lepson and Marty Canelli.His second album for Catscan Records, Over Time, includes a blues tune from each of the ten decades of the 20th century as well as a smattering of original songs. He covers the likes of Muddy Waters, Albert King, Tampa Red, and W.C. Handy on the album. Spencer toured extensively up and down the East Coast based on the strength of his second album, dazzling audiences with his multifaceted live show and his sheer dexterity in being able to play all his instruments simultaneously. Spencer's most recent album is 2005's Blues Explorer. Here, he tackles well-known covers like "Kansas City," "Key to the Highway," and "Worried Life Blues," but also gives fans spry originals like "I Said the Blues." ~bio by Richard Skelly

Over Time

The Cell - Keepin' On, Rollin' Hard

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2011
Time:52:41 
Size:121,3 MB 
Label:Prison Records 
Styles:Blues Rock/Southern Rock 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Time of My Life - 7:09
 2. Find My Way Home - 3:12
 3. Someday - 5:49
 4. Give Me an Answer - 3:14
 5. Too Late to Say I'm Sorry - 4:53
 6. How 'bout You - 3:00
 7. Let It Ride - 4:03
 8. Nothing Better to Do - 3:49
 9. Pieces of Wild - 3:00
10. Cameron Blues - 4:59
11. Rock Star - 4:24
12. Out of Time - 5:03

This CD by The Cell, "Keepin' On, Rollin' Hard", comes from the Czech Republic. In all honesty, I have to confess that I know little about the music scene in that region, therefore, beyond its placement in the musical context of Eastern Europe, I will dedicate myself to describing the work in question, but not before having traced a brief biography of the band.
The Cell was born in Prague in 2002 by the drummer/manager Milan Milata and David Gore, singer/guitarist originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, and composer, together with Michal Beneš (guitarist and producer of the album), of all the original songs. Gore was the lead singer on the first CD "Are You Ready?" (2006).
In about a decade, The Cell have managed to build an excellent curriculum. They have played in most of the continent, in America in 2009, and have performed as an opening act for artists and bands such as John Mayall and ZZ Top.
"Keepin' On, Rollin' Hard" is an album of "Americana" music. From the most powerful rock-blues to delicate ballads, a transversal and universal message passes, never again hindered by "cultural walls".
Among the twelve tracks of the album there is only one cover, "Nothing Better To Do", by the country singer Lee Ann Rimes (a song that entered the Top 20 of Billboard in 2007. ed.).
It starts with a southern rock in the style of Lynard Skynard, "Time Of My Life", which has an intense seventies flavor, like the following "Find My Way Home", a very catchy tune in which the guitars are the protagonists. The climate, although remaining electric, shifts towards rock blues with the ballad "Someday". The sound lights up again with "Give Mer An Answer" a rock that preludes the splendid "Too Late To Say I'm Sorry", a Westcoast ballad that shows the compositional "sweet side" of the Beneš/Gore duo. The scent of country-rock spreads, complete with banjo, thanks to the fun "How 'Bout You". In the rock-blues "Let It Ride" the harmonica peeps out while the following "Nothing better To Do" seems to me to be a bit out of context according to my canons of coherence. "Pieces Of Wild" does not escape the same logic, which seems to be taken from the repertoire of Sweet, a band that, despite having achieved considerable success, has never exactly represented my musical tastes. We return between the lines at the end of the album. "Cameron Blues" is very beautiful as is the overwhelming "Rock Star" that brings to mind the fantastic ZZ Top. The final piece is the ballad "Out Of Time", complete with Fleetwood Mac-style backing vocals, which begins acoustically and slowly grows. "Keepin' On, Rollin' Hard" is a really well-played and recorded album, properties that allow us to define The Cell as an excellent band. You can buy it directly on their website.

Keepin' On, Rollin' Hard

Chris Fitz Band - Live at Dodge Street

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2010
Time:136:29 
Size:314,1 MB 
Label:CFB Records 
Styles:Blues/Blues Rock 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Frank's Intro/It's Gonna Be Alright -  5:54
 2. Dead or Alive -  4:20
 3. Travelin' Wheel -  6:37
 4. Welcome to the Rhythm Room -  5:03
 5. Crown of Thorns -  5:52
 6. Jammin' for Jimi - 11:13
 7. Ride the Wind -  5:14
 8. Long Way Home -  8:28
 9. One More Beer -  5:51
10. Medicine for the Blues -  6:57
11. Recession Blues -  5:46
12. If You See Me Tomorrow...Tell Me 'Bout Last Night -  6:08
13. Last Train Out -  5:22
14. Jesse James Part Two -  8:23
15. Blues for Ronnie - 10:18
16. If I Go Down Dyin' -  8:07
17. Never Been to Memphis -  5:25
18. Comin' Home -  4:25
19. Freedom - 16:58

Chris Fitz personifies the powerful front man who sings, plays incendiary lead and rhythm guitar while giving the audience a breath taking performance. Dynamic highs and lows express his colorful original material on this new live, all original CD, LIVE AT DODGE STREET. Fitz's original material is fleshed out, embellished with frequent bandmate, Ken Clark, an explosive and rhythmic Hammond B-3 artist. Their collaboration is so natural. The two "have no brakes" their approach to this music is infused with natural spark. Fitz has grown up in the Blues tradition. He has a sensibility that Blues lovers can relate to. His songs are tales of a musician who has lived the Blues on the road for many years, working 7 days a week, gaining dedicated fans in audiences from all over New England to Europe and from Memphis to California. The listener is at once lifted up by his ethereal Blues and then pitched back down into the rocky road of reality, all the while thrilling to the virtuosity of this masterful guitar player. Fitz's talent spans the collection of Blues styles. He can offer a sweet Delta style finger picking tune then break into a strong, muscular sound. The next moment his sound is quite tender and haunting and he can swing with the best of them! He is a consummate entertainer. Well deserving a of a wider audience - Diana Shonk- Publisher, The Blues Audience newsletter, 2/22/2010.

Live at Dodge Street