Joe Beard Featuring Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Blues Union

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1996
Time: 55:07 
Size: 126,8 MB 
Label: Limited Edition
Styles: Blues
Art: Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Lay for Me Sometime - 4:41
 2. Just to be with You - 5:25
 3. I Count the Days You're Gone - 3:32
 4. Sinners Prayer - 7:29
 5. Sally Mae - 2:58
 6. Please Don't Light the Flame - 4:48
 7. Feets Out in the Hall - 6:31
 8. Think - 3:21
 9. Telling It like It Is - 8:25
10. Don't Know Why - 4:07
11. Late in the Evening - 3:46

Musicians:
Joe Beard – Guitar & Vocals
Ronnie Earl – Guitar
Bruce Katz – Piano & Hammond B-3
Per Hanson – Drums
Rod Carey – Bass
Joe Dubuc – Harmonica (tracks: 2,3,6)
David "Fathead" Newman – Tenor Saxophone (tracks: 4,8)

Joe Beard's critically acclaimed debut featuring Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters
"Joe Beard has to be heard. There is so much soul power and beauty to his music."
- Ronnie Earl
"What gives overwhelming power to his music is his intense yet soothing singing."
- Living Blues

Joe Beard (February 4, 1938, Ashland, Mississippi) is an American blues and rhythm & blues musician, and is the father of blues musician Chris Beard.He was surrounded by aspiring and veteran blues musicians. Matt "Guitar" Murphy and his brother Floyd Murphy were Beard's childhood buddies and the ones who initially got him started on guitar. Beard moved to Rochester, New York, in the mid-1950's and befriended Son House, who happened to live just around the corner. From time to time would visit one of his brothers in Chicago. He became enamored with the blues being played there and eventually sat in both with John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. In Rochester, he formed the Soul Brothers Six, playing bass and singing. He wouldn't perform in public on guitar until 1965. For most of the '60s on through the '80s, Beard worked as an electrician by day and would occasionally play out at night and on weekends. He long ago gained a reputation as one of the best local players around Rochester and has sporadically been counted as one of the best nationally.

Ronnie Earl (born Ronald Horvath, March 10, 1953, Queens, New York, United States) is an American blues guitarist and music instructor.
Earl who grew up collecting various music records, pursued a degree in Special Education and Education at Boston University. He became interested in guitar after attending a Muddy Waters concert and began playing in the Boston blues scene. He later joined the band Roomful of Blues and started a solo career in 1986. In 1984, Earl formed his band, The Broadcasters, which released multiple albums over the years. Diagnosed with medical ailments in 2000, he scaled back on touring and later reformed the Broadcasters with a new lineup. As a four-time Blues Music Award winner for Guitar Player of the Year, Earl has also been an Associate Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music and released an instructional video. His band, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2018 and released their 26th studio album, Mercy Me, in 2022

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