Lefty Dizz & Big Moose Walker - Bad Avenue-1991

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2000
Time:76:53 + 77:49 
Size:177,3 MB + 180,5 MB 
Label:JSP Originals 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:

CD1
 1.Showtime - Intro -  3:37
 2.It's Alright -  5:31
 3.Bad Avenue - 11:26
 4.You Don't Love Poor Me No More -  5:32
 5.Two Trains Running -  6:14
 6.Sadie -  7:23
 7.That's Alright-In the Dark -  6:18
 8.Too Late -  9:48
 9.Baby Please Don't Go -  3:51
10.How Much Longer-Talk to Your Daughter -  6:04
11.I'm Leaving You -  5:13
12.Honest I Do -  5:52
CD2
 1.Swear to Tell the Truth - 4:45
 2.Drifting Blues - 5:37
 3.What is That You Got - 4:57
 4.Sitting on Top of the World - 2:39
 5.Footrace to a Resting Place - 2:54
 6.Second Fiddle Man - 2:23
 7.Wrong Doing Woman - 2:25
 8.The Bright Sound - 2:12
 9.Off the Hook - 1:38
10.Rambling Woman - 3:20
11.Puppy Howl Blues - 2:12
12.Footrace to a Resting Place (Version 2) - 2:53
13.Does Like a Boogaloo - 2:17
14.Tend to Your Business - 2:41
15.Things I Used to Do - 4:30
16.If You Need Love - 2:33
17.I'm Your Nitty Gritty Man - 3:02
18.Too Late (Recorded at Greater London Radio) - 3:47
19.Please Have Mercy on Me (Recorded at Greater London Radio) - 5:41
20.Chips Flying Everywhere (Recorded at Greater London Radio) - 4:30
21.Interview with Mary Costello (Recorded at Greater London Radio) - 3:29
22.Lefty's Blues Mood - 7:13

Not really a various-artists compilation, this mini box set actually consists of three separate JSP albums that were originally issued on vinyl back in the 1980s. Featuring individual efforts by Jimmy Dawkins, Brewer Phillips, and Lefty Dizz, these three solo sessions have all been remastered and, in some cases, even remixed -- with sparkling results. Each of these artists deserves a wider hearing, and this set makes that possible, putting a lot of raw blues in one place at a nice price ~ © Cub Koda /TiVo

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S.O.B. (Sons Of Blues) - Blues Live '82 - American Folk Blues Festival

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1993
Time:65:52 
Size:151,5 MB 
Label:L+R Records 
Styles:Blues/Chicago Blues/Harmonica Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Never Make Your Move To Soon -  5:49
 2. Did You Ever Love A Woman -  7:37
 3. Eyesight To The Blind -  6:09
 4. Sweet Little Angel, Take 1 -  4:39
 5. My Kind Of Woman -  5:10
 6. Reconsider Baby - 10:42
 7. Detroit, Michigan (feat.Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch) -  7:18
 8. Goin' On Main Street (feat.Carey Bell & Chicago's Young Blues Generation) -  5:30
 9. The Train I Ride (feat.Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch and Chicago's Young Blues Generation) -  7:09
10. Sweet Little Angel, Take 2 (feat.Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch and Chicago's Young Blues Generation) -  5:44

The Sons Of Blues formed by Billy Branch in the 1970s along with Lurrie Bell and Freddie Dixon. They recorded for Alligator Records and with a different line up, for Red Beans Records, Evidence and others.
This Chicago, Illinois, USA-based band (aka S.O.B. Band) originally comprised Lurrie Bell, Billy Branch, bass player Freddie Dixon (son of Willie Dixon), and Garland Whiteside. They garnered international acclaim for their recordings on Volume Three of the Alligator Records label’s groundbreaking Living Chicago Blues series. Bell left in the early 80s and so Branch assumed leadership. The band’s 1983 album for the Red Beans label, released under the Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues moniker, included solid Chicago blues and some contemporary R&B. 

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Sean McKee Band - In This Life

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2024
Time:20:26 
Size:47,2 MB 
Label:Glass Amulet Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Lusting For Gold - 3:14
 2. In This Life - 2:50
 3. Broke Tired and Lonely - 3:14
 4. East Valley Lane - 3:32
 5. Tigerfish - 3:31
 6. Monster (Live at Madcats) - 4:02

This four piece band comes from Chicago, led by guitarist and vocalist Sean McKee, with Drew D’Astice on second guitar, Chris Pecoraro on bass and Danny Lozano on drums; keys are added by Pete Spero to some tracks. Sean is now in his late twenties and has been playing since his early teens: inspired by Anthony Gomes and Nick Moss, he was mentored by Nick’s older brother Joe, who took him on the road as second guitarist for four years before Sean established his own band in 2020. Following an earlier EP entitled So Long My Queen in 2022, In This Life is his second release.
Sean handles the vocals on all tracks and does a good job. The six tunes are all originals, three written by Sean alone, two by him and Drew and one by him and Chris. Although he is from Chicago, the music is not really blues, more a Rock album with other influences coming through. “Lusting For Gold” is a strong opener with a distinctive core riff, a blend of Southern Rock with a hint of Tom Petty, swirling organ featuring in the middle section. The title track has more of a country tinge, especially in Drew’s guitar solo which sounds very much like the late Dickey Betts, while there is more of a blues feel on “Broke, Tired And Lonely”, a slower tune with some good guitar work from both players, well supported by piano. A tale of visiting a late-night party, “East Valley Lane”, rushes along with an insistent bass line and a big guitar solo and the fast pace continues with “Tigerfish” which features the guitarists working in harness. This track was released as a single, possibly because of the stop-start rhythms and choral vocals which underpin Sean’s strong lead. The album closes with “Monster”, a live track which is certainly blues-based, with big guitars in Allmans style, with lyrics about life beginning to unravel: “The monster inside me, how can I feed him?”
Not an album for blues purists, but the playing and vocals indicate a band with talent who may well go far in the blues-rock world.

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Gene Harris and Jack McDuff - (Down Home) Blues

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1997
Time:59:46 
Size:137,4 MB 
Label:Concord 
Styles:Blues/Jazz/Soul 
Art:Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Down Home Blues - 7:00
 2. J & G Blues - 9:35
 3. Soft Winds - 7:55
 4. Time After Time - 4:46
 5. Blues For Big Foot - 7:28
 6. Smack Dab In The Middle - 5:52
 7. You Don't Know What Love Is - 5:01
 8. Stormy Monday - 4:51
 9. Cayenne Blues - 7:17
Musicians:
Gene Harris - piano;
Jack McDuff - organ;
Niki Harris,Curtis Stigers - vocals;
Ron Eschete - guitar;
Luther Hughes - bass;
Paul Humphrey - drums.

When Niki Harris sings about how much she loves it "when Daddy plays those down home blues," she knows what she's talking about. The Daddy in her case is none other than Gene Harris, the 64-year-old blues pianist. Gene features his little girl (a long-tenured backup singer for Madonna as well as Anita Baker and Quincy Jones) on two numbers on his  collaboration with Brother Jack McDuff, Down Home Blues. Another singer, Curtis Stigers, is on hand on two more tracks, along with Harris' working group: Ron Escheté on guitar, Luther Hughes, bass, and Paul Humphrey, drums. This disc features the blues, joy division: celebratory, gutsy music free of angst and pretension. Niki Harris is no Yoko Ono — she is by no means present on the strength of her relations instead of her talent. Her turns on the title track and T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday" are capable and drenched in blues feeling. She knows how to invest a humdrum lyric with fire enough to make it not only immediately pleasant, but memorable. The real fireworks here, however, come from the instrumentalists, especially the two frontmen. "J&G Blues" is a showpiece of what they can do, and they can do quite a bit. Brother Jack is loose and rambling. Brother Gene cascades and exhorts. Over the space of the mere nine and a half minutes of this track, both present the world with a solid blues lesson. This is the sort of track that answers the question, "Why have these guys lasted so long, and played with everybody under the sun?" If it's a mystery to anybody out there, it won't be after this or "Blues for Big Foot," which mines the same rock-solid ground. Fletcher Henderson's "Soft Winds" starts out in a lighter vein, with Brother Jack's chords tossing out another offhand lesson: here's where Steely Dan and other jazz / blues / rockers got their sound. Stigers on the ballad "Time After Time" (Sammy Cahn's, not Cyndi Lauper's) sounds like the guy who sang "What a Day for a Daydream" in the Sixties. Here Gene Harris turns in a loose-limbed, jaunty solo. On "Smack Dab in the Middle" Stigers could be Chuck Berry's younger brother. The next track is "You Don't Know What Love Is," reminding me that Elvis made it big in 1956, the same year Sonny Rollins recorded "You Don't Know What Love Is" on his all-time classic Saxophone Colossus. Harris and McDuff illustrate that the gulf between hard bop and rhythm and blues was perhaps not as wide as it seemed then — or now. On "You Don't Know," both keyboardists get as close to the joyless blues as they do on this release, building up tremendous emotional intensity. McDuff's light touch here is overpowering. Down Home Blues. That's what these guys say it is, and that's what they deliver. Like the Heath Brothers disc, this is a contribution from masters with decades of experience and chops that show no sign of wear and tear.

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Carla Olson - Dark Horses

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2008/2016
Time:79:47 
Size:183,6 MB 
Label:Cherry Red Records 
Styles:Blues/Blues Rock/Rock 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Justice - 5:28
 2. How Many Days - 5:10
 3. World Of Pain - 5:21
 4. Kinderwars - 4:11
 5. Dark Horses - 4:31
 6. Within An Ace - 5:51
 7. Fortune - 4:31
 8. Honest as Daylight - 4:56
 9. Bills, Bills And More Bills - 5:27
10. Playing With Life - 3:46
11. Ups And Downs - 3:46
12. Reap The Whirlwind - 5:54
13. Rescue Fantasy - 5:08
14. Is The Lady Gone - 5:40
15. Clean Cut Kid - 5:29
16. Number One Is To Survive - 4:30

Singer/guitarist Carla Olson is a veteran of the American roots-rock scene, springing from her work in the 1980’s combo the Textones. British guitarist Mick Taylor, of course, is a veteran of the U.K. blues scene and a former member of the Rolling Stones. Olson has a way with an insidiously catchy melodic hook and winsome yet gutsy singing, while the underrated Taylor knows his rock and blues licks backwards and forwards. They may seem an unlikely pair but they’ve played together for years, and Taylor’s streamlined, biting guitar is a fine complement to Olson’s earnest, blue-collar tales of yearning and struggle. DARK HORSES finds these kindred souls personalizing the spirit, if not the letter, of the blues.

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Mick Taylor - Coastin' Home

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1995
Time:58:39 
Size:134,8 MB 
Label: Shattered
Styles:Blues/Blues Rock
Art:Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1.Sweet Home Chicago -  5:25
 2.Coastin' Home -  5:08
 3.I Wonder Why -  9:21
 4.You Gotta Move -  8:27
 5.You Shook Me - 13:02
 6.Can't You Hear Me Knockin' - 11:48
 7.Turns to Gold (Bonus Track) [Dead Amanda] -  5:26

One of Great Britain's (if not the world's) greatest guitarists,  Mick Taylor again shows why he has that reputation on Coastin Home.  Recorded live at the 14 Below bar in Santa Monica, CA,  Taylor is joined by blues saxophone great Joe Houston and supported by a vibrant back-up band in what was quite the evening in southern California.  Their interaction approaches stellar at some points, and Mick's performance on "I Wonder Why" is one of the best of his renditions of that song.
Although the vast majority of Rolling Stones songs from the Mick Taylor era sported Jagger/Richard writing credits, there's no denying that Taylor provided an extra creative spark for the band -- as the Stones never truly scaled the same heights as Sticky Fingers or Exile on Main St. again. And the same (albeit less surprisingly) could be said for Taylor after he went his merry way from Stones land. But Taylor remains one heck of a blues-rock guitar player to this day, as evidenced by 2003's 14 Below. Originally issued in 1995 as Live at 14 Below: Coastin' Home, the re-release features the same exact track listing but a different album cover. No matter. Taylor's playing is still exceptional, especially on readings of the Stones' "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" and Willie Dixon's "You Shook Me" (both of which are ten-minute-plus jam fests). If you've lost track of Taylor since the early '70s, 14 Below will prove that arguably the finest lead guitarist to pass through the Stones' ranks has still got what it takes.

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Sean McKee Band - So Long My Queen

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2022
Time:21:14 
Size:59,5 MB 
Label:Glass Amulet Records 
Styles:Blues Rock/Rock
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Color Outside The Lines - 2:14
 2. Under Command Of The Admiral - 3:08
 3. To Keep On Loving You - 3:56
 4. Drove Me Crazy - 2:50
 5. So Long My Queen - 2:38
 6. Ain't Talkin Bout Love - 6:26

This four piece band comes from Chicago, led by guitarist and vocalist Sean McKee, with Drew D’Astice on second guitar, Chris Pecoraro on bass and Danny Lozano on drums; keys are added by Pete Spero to some tracks. Sean is now in his late twenties and has been playing since his early teens: inspired by Anthony Gomes and Nick Moss, he was mentored by Nick’s older brother Joe, who took him on the road as second guitarist for four years before Sean established his own band in 2020. Following an earlier EP entitled So Long My Queen in 2022, In This Life is his second release.

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Canettes Blues Band - Montreux Jazz Festival 2013 (Live in the Park)

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2016
Time:72:56 
Size:168,0 MB 
Label:Big Beer Studios 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Boogie / Tore Down (Live) - 5:34
 2. Damn Right, I've Got the Blues (Live) - 4:03
 3. Little by Little (Live) - 3:58
 4. Magic Bus / Who Do You Love (Live) - 5:52
 5. Give Me One Reason (Live) - 5:00
 6. The Atlas Boogie (Live) - 3:52
 7. Green Onions / Help Me (Live) - 6:28
 8. Looking for Somebody (Live) - 6:09
 9. Checkin' on My Baby (Live) - 3:05
10. Down at the Doctors (Live) - 4:19
11. Hoochie Coochie King Snake (Live) - 6:48
12. Black Magic Woman (Live) - 8:23
13. What'd I Say? (Live) - 4:37
14. Feelin' alright (Live) - 4:40

The Canettes Blues Band is a blues group from Geneva, Switzerland, and the nearby French region known as the Pays de Gex. The name comes from the French word "canette," which can mean a screw-top bottle, a beer mug, or a duckling. The Canettes Blues Band is widely hailed as one of the greatest groups of the Versoix Delta. They frequent Geneva hangouts, such as the Mr. Pickwick Pub and The Scene, and are a favorite of local summer festival crowds. Their songs, influenced by a diverse set of blues greats, from Sonny Boy Williamson to Buddy Guy to Wilson Pickett, have been featured on WRS, BBC 2, and even NPR. 

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Joe "Survival" Caruso - I'll Never Get out of These Blues Alive

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2001
Time:51:21 
Size:118,5 MB 
Label:Southland Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Same Old Blues - 4:38
 2. I Can't Quit You Baby - 5:40
 3. Help Me - 3:29
 4. Blue Shadows Falling - 4:58
 5. The Huckle Buck - 2:47
 6. I Hear You Knocking - 2:14
 7. Crying Won't Help You - 3:17
 8. I'l Never Get out of These Blues Alive - 6:03
 9. Honky Tonk - 3:23
10. Good Lover - 3:48
11. Worried Life Blues - 3:58
12. Times Getting Tuffer - 3:52
13. Joe's Jump - 3:06

Caruso, a Big Easy native who grew up across from the historic Club Desire, channels his iconic lifetime of musicianship—honed since the 1960s backing acts like Etta James and Aaron Neville. This record features a mix of standards and traditional deep blues.
Key tracks often highlighted by blues fans include renditions of classics like “Crying Won’t Help You”, “Honky Tonk”, and “I Can’t Quit You Baby”. The record is often praised by fans as straight-ahead, unvarnished old-time blues without modern studio fluff.

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Geak Blues Trio - Box O' Blues (Gajan, Edwards & Kammien)

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1998
Time:52:42 
Size:121,1 MB 
Label:Root Records 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. So Sweet - 3:21
 2. Got My Eyes On You - 5:44
 3. I'm Your Man - 4:03
 4. Once I Had the Blues - 5:01
 5. Wave Crave - 3:49
 6. Shady Lady - 5:24
 7. Big Legged Woman - 4:43
 8. Woman Blues - 8:18
 9. Turn Yourself 'Round - 5:17
10. One...Plus More - 6:58

Blues power trio from the midwest, formed in 1994, members have extensive backgrounds with many years of work to their credit including stints with bands ranging in style from Peter Noone to Luther Allison.
"Bracing, highly recomended contemporary blues (and more). "
Open the Box O' Blues(Root 845881) and you'll find a set like a redlining hotrod. Rock solid rhythms lay the foundation for guitarist Joe Gajan, whose incisive approach incorporates unexpected big bends, quick fluries and top tone. Edwards vocals are unusually sure, all the songs are strong, nonformuliac originals (don't miss the surfy "Wave Crave"), and the recording and production are pro-quality. Tom Hyslop - July/Aug. 99' Blues Revue Magazine-
"Folks! The GEAK Blues Trio is gonna rock your cradle! I'm tellin you, if you don't give these guys a listen - well, you're missing out on some really great blues." DJ DAWG Owner / Operator -DHNR MadDawg Productions www.madawg.net-
Snappy, rhythmic blues shuffles accompany soulful singing and a tone-friendly guitar player who can hold his own (with one hand if he had to). The band's backbeat and boogie base makes them more fun to listen to than most nights at the House of Blues. Their feel makes one curious to see them live.

Box O' Blues (Gajan, Edwards & Kammien)
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Geoff Achison - Chasing My Tail

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2002
Time:54:50 
Size:125,6 MB 
Label:Jupiter 2 
Styles:Blues/Roots/Blues Rock 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Chance - 3:54
 2. Kerry Lou - 5:23
 3. You and I - 4:10
 4. Begging Bowl - 4:45
 5. Find yourself a fool - 3:27
 6. Chasing my tail - 4:07
 7. Me and my baby - 3:56
 8. Reason to live - 6:06
 9. Let it happen - 4:23
10. Kissing angels - 4:27
11. Whipping Post - 5:47
12. All the way - 4:20

Geoff Achison - Chasing My Tail:Geoff Achison (Gtr/Vox) Mal Logan (Keys) Roger McLachlan (Bass) Gerry Pantazis (Drums) + special guests/.
Renowned for his fiery guitar work, soulful voice, and genre-blending sound, Geoff Achison is a celebrated blues-roots artist from Australia whose music continues to resonate with fans around the world. With a career spanning over three decades, Geoff has earned a global reputation for his electrifying performances, inventive guitar style, and heartfelt songwriting. Drawing on a rich tapestry of influences—blues, funk, soul, acoustic folk, and roots-rock—Geoff first made his mark as lead guitarist for legendary Australian bluesman Dutch Tilders before stepping out to form his own band, The Souldiggers. His debut album Big Machine dropped in the early ’90s, launching a long and successful journey across the USA, UK, and Europe.
His playing has drawn comparisons to greats like Eric Clapton, JJ Cale, and The Allman Brothers Band, and he’s racked up numerous accolades for his musicianship along the way, including the prestigious Albert King Award at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee.

Geoff Achison - Chasing My Tail
Geoff Achison - Chasing My Tail

Gaye Delorme - Blue Wave Sessions

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1990
Time:41:52 
Size:96,6 MB 
Label:Guitar House Studio 
Styles:Miscellaneous 

Art: Front 
 1. Downtown La - 4:54
 2. Sailor Sailor - 5:45
 3. Thin Man - 6:21
 4. Lucy From Lima - 4:31
 5. Hailelujah - 5:26
 6. Fast Horizon - 5:07
 7. Hahia - 5:17
 8. Hoo Doo Trail - 4:27

Gaye James Delorme, also known as Gaye Delorme, born on March 20, 1947, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, was a Canadian songwriter, composer, and guitar player. He began playing guitar at 15 during juvenile detention and by 1967 was a professional musician in Edmonton. In the early 1970s, he led The Window, a power trio. Delorme collaborated with notable artists like Jann Arden and Lenny Breau. His work includes "Earache My Eye" with Cheech and Chong, which became widely recognized. He released several albums on his label Aqua Tarta Music, including Blue Wave Sessions (1990) and Beautiful Guitar (1998). Delorme was nominated for a Grammy Award and received the Alberta Premier's Award for Excellence. He died of a heart attack in Calgary on June 24, 2011.

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Alfie Fraction - Face 2 Face Lie

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2002
Time:70:22 
Size:162,3 MB 
Label:Mardi Gras Records 
Styles:R&B/Soul/Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Stop Calling Me - 4:38
 2. I'm Sorry Don't Put Me Out - 6:03
 3. Face 2 Face Lie - 5:19
 4. You Set My Roof on Fire - 4:03
 5. True Love - 5:03
 6. You Make Me Happy - 4:55
 7. Playin' Them Low Down Blues Songs - 6:31
 8. Please Pick Up the Phone - 4:32
 9. I'm Not Gonna Share You - 4:45
10. Do Me Baby - 6:29
11. Should I Do Right or Wrong - 7:03
12. I've Got the Night Shift - 4:21
13. Alfie's Jam Cocky Girls - 6:34

Alfie Fraction is an American R&B and soul artist, best known for his studio album "Face 2 Face Lie" (also released under the title "Alfie's Style - Face 2 Face Lie"), which was issued in 2002 on the Mardi Gras Records label. The album blends elements of classic soul, rhythm and blues, and slow-tempo blues. The artist’s most recognizable and frequently streamed track is a bonus song from the record: "Alfie's Jam (Cocky Girls)."
Living Blues - 11/02, p. 53
"...His voice is sure and emotive, capable of smooth crooning as well as harsher, more gospel-influenced intensity..."

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Ellis Hooks - Godson Of Soul

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2005
Time:54:44 
Size:125,3 MB 
Label:Evidence Music 
Styles:Soul/Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Five Times - 3:12
 2. Black Nights, Blue Moon - 3:41
 3. High Roller - 4:29
 4. Litta Bitta Lovin - 3:09
 5. Was It Something I Said? - 5:03
 6. Show Me Your Love - 3:23
 7. Chainsaw (feat. Marty Brown) - 4:09
 8. Honeysuckle - 4:08
 9. A Phase I'm Going Through - 4:32
10. You Changed My Life - 3:25
11. If God Brought You To It - 3:14
12. Go For It - 3:44
13. Sidetracked - 4:24
14. Rock My Stone - 4:05

Possessed of a voice of unfathomable depth and varied texture, Ellis Hooks sounds at once timeless and, as he sings on “Black Nights, Blue Moon,” out of time. The debt he owes to classic Southern soul music is obvious—for the sheer intensity of his vocals, he recalls James Carr as much as more popular influences like Otis Redding and Sam Cooke—and Godson of Soul, produced in Nashville by his songwriting collaborator Jon Tiven (who worked with Wilson Pickett), is a ragged throwback to that genre-defining sound without even a hint of a neo prefix.Godson of Soul sounds organic in the best possible sense of the word, and, of 2005’s excellent soul albums, it lacks the nagging questions of authenticity that hover over Jamie Liddell’s Multiply or the somewhat sterile retro-fetish conceit of Sharon Jones & the DAP Kings’s Naturally. The instrumentation, including contributions from legendary guitarist Steve Cropper (on “Was It Something I Said?”) and Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns, is truly first-rate, gritty stuff, but Tiven wisely foregrounds Hooks’s incendiary performances. The Alabama-born Hooks wails, snarls, and hollers over the course of the album’s 14 original tracks with such conviction that he’s never less than captivating. The problem, then, is that the songs themselves don’t live up to Hooks’s deliveries. References to gambling (“High Roller,” and the latter half of “Chainsaw”) and run-of-the-mill stories of love gone wrong (“Five Times,” “A Phase I’m Going Through”) mine the same territory as the classic music to which Hooks aspires without uncovering any new insights, and his lyrics are too often mired in clichéd images (“I was flirting with disaster/She was just a tease/I couldn’t see the forest/I was looking at the trees,” from “Chainsaw,” is but one offender of many).
It’s to Hooks’s credit that he makes each track sound like the most important thing he’s worked on. Still, with a style rooted in a profound understanding of the elements that have allowed Redding’s and Cooke’s work to endure, a producer and collaborator with the same perspective, and that voice, Godson of Soul nearly lives up to the implications of its title.

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Malacara Blues Band - 1000$ BLUES

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2025
Time:25:55 
Size:60,2 MB 
Label:Producciones Acaraperro 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. A Place To Let My Hat - 3:05
 2. God Will Help Us - 2:55
 3. Thousand of Bucks - 3:54
 4. Morning Blues - 2:54
 5. Hard Words - 2:51
 6. You’ll Need My Help (Someday) - 3:36
 7. Cowgirl Boots - 3:18
 8. Rowdy Soul - 3:20

Musicians:
Xavi Malacara - Vocals Guitar;
Taisen -  Double Bass / Bass;
Mario Cobo - Guitars, keyboards;
Salva "Joker" - Drums.

They call him "Malacara." A Barcelona-based musician—songwriter, bandleader, and entertainer (Malacara Wilson Band, Karma Police, Milkers)—he has firmly established himself within the Americana music scene. His music transcends the confines of genre, consistently challenging the notion that those who uphold tradition cannot also push musical boundaries.
*1000$ BLUES* is Malacara’s most electric record. The new album travels along the paths of the blues, featuring classic, elegant shuffles that move with the momentum of a locomotive. It offers electrifying guitar work and a compelling narrative—a journey toward that coveted place found deep within every human being. This, his sixth album, benefits from the guitar playing and exceptional production of Mario Cobo, who consistently elevates the band’s work to the highest levels of creativity and quality.

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