After Tea - Blues Rock

After Tea was a Dutch flower power band formed in the Hague in 1967 by Hans van Eijck (keyboards, guitar, vocals), U.K. native Ray Fenwick (guitar, vocals), Rob "Polle" Edward (bass, organ, vocals), and Martin Hage (drums). Their first hit was "Not Just a Flower in Your Hair," and they carried on, despite personnel changes, until the early '70s.

After Tea - 1970 - Jointhouse Blues

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Long John Baldry

John William "Long John" Baldry (12 January 1941 – 21 July 2005) was an English blues singer and a voice actor. He sang with many British musicians, with Rod Stewart and Elton John appearing in bands led by Baldry in the 1960s. He enjoyed pop success in the UK where Let the Heartaches Begin reached No. 1 in 1967 and in Australia where his duet with Kathi McDonald You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' reached number two in 1980. Baldry lived in Canada from the late 1970s until his death; there he continued to make records and do voiceover work. One of his best known roles in voice acting was as Dr. Robotnik in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.

John Baldry - 1971 It Ain't Easy

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Texas Harmonica Rumble

Para quem gosta da gaitinha bem chorosa...

Texas Harmonica Rumble (2006)

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Joanne Shaw Taylor - The Blues Woman II

Mais um sonzaço desta maravilhosa Blues Woman!!!!

( http://www.joanneshawtaylor.com/ )

Joanne Shaw Taylor - Songs From The Road [2013]

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Larry Jon Wilson

Larry Jon Wilson (October 7, 1940 – June 21, 2010) was an American country singer, guitarist and musician. He recorded "Through the Eyes of Little Children" and "I Betcha Heaven's on a Dirt Road". orn in Swainsboro, Georgia, Wilson picked up the guitar and taught himself how to play. In 1975, he released his debut album New Beginnings. Three more albums on the Monument record label imprint of CBS Records followed, Let Me Sing My Song to You (1976), Loose Change (1977), and The Sojourner (1979). 

Despite Wilson's accolades and fans, no hit record emerged. Wilson left the music industry in 1980. He returned in the late 1980s when other songwriters encouraged him to attend the Frank Brown International Songwriter's Festival in Perdido Key, Florida. He began touring again in 1989, and by 2003 still accepted occasional engagements. Wilson remained devoted to his music, rather than to the marketplace. Wilson appears in the documentary film Heartworn Highways recorded 1975–1976, where he is filmed recording the song "Ohoopee River Bottomland". In 2008, Sony BMG released a new Wilson album, after a thirty year hiatus from recording. In 2009, Drag City re-released the album in the US. 

Wilson died, following a stroke in June 2010, at the age of 69.

Larry Jon Wilson - 1975 - New Beginnings

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Harmonica Shah - The Detroit Sessions

Harmonica Shah (born Thaddeus Hall, March 31, 1946, Oakland, California) is an American Detroit and electric blues harmonicist and singer.[1][2] His playing was influenced by Junior Wells, Jimmy Reed, Little Walter, Lazy Lester, and Little Sonny. Born in California, Shah also spent time in Somerville, Texas, with his blues harmonica and guitar playing grandfather, Sam Dawson. Dawson had recorded for both Alan Lomax and Duke Records.His mother, a beautician, encouraged him to be a salesman for Jet magazine in the latter part of the 1950s. This allowed Shah access to Oakland's bars and clubs, where he heard musicians such as Lowell Fulson, Jimmy McCracklin, Juke Boy Bonner and Big Mama Thornton.

Shah told Living Blues magazine that his grandfather's passion for the blues inspired him. "Well see I picked it up from him, he'd be out in the fields singin' all that (sings in a slow moan) 'Tell me how long, whoa, tell me how long it's been since you've been away from home' Well, that's raw! That's a big damn difference from 'Good Golly Miss Molly'". He moved to Detroit in 1967, and worked for Ford Motors for fifteen years. Shah bought himself a cheap harmonica in 1976 and, while operating as a taxicab driver, Shah was introduced to local blues jam sessions. "Hell, that was it, no turning back then", Shah recalled.

He has toured across the United States, as well as in Europe, Russia, Japan and Australia. Closer to his roots, Shah still occasionally performs for free at John's Carpet House in East Detroit. He legally changed his birth name to Seward Shah.

Harmonica Shah – That’s Raw The Detroit Sessions Volume One (feat. Howard Glazer)

Harmonica Shah – Raw and Acoustic The Detroit Sessions Volume Two (feat. Howard Glazer) 

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Buddy Miles - Direto do Baú do Dead

21 DE JUN DE 2011

Buddy Miles "Roadrunner" (rare rip)

"Please note: This image is a general representation of the album cover, but the actual product may differ slightly in terms of color shading, logo placement, borders, or other small details. If the item offered is a used, second-hand item, please note that there may be some cosmetic differences as well."

Um dos ombudsmans desta alcatéia, o irmãozinho Celso Loos me acorda um dia gritando na porta da caverna:

"Dead que porra de disco é esse que nem na discografia do cara aparece?????"

Cara, como tem maluco nessa floresta....os caras nem dormem direito e ainda não deixam os que vivem mais a noite cochilar um pouco (apesar que já passava do meio dia eu acho, afinal lobos não usam relógio) e ainda por cima encanam com uma coisa que só na cabeça doida deles tem algum significado.

Mas vai que o camarada teve um sonho ou uma visão e tal, aí tem que ver qualé prq senão vc não tem mais sossego,rs.
E nessas peguei a encomenda, um papel riscado com um nome e uma observação que depois me enviaria o link!!!!!

Ai meu saquinho, como é dura a vida de um lobo sem juízo, mas ao mesmo tempo é isso que faz o sangue pulsar dentro das veias e a abertura é só pra chamar a atenção pra mais um do Buddy considerado obscuro, raro ou sei lá o quê e até a imagem do álbum tem observação e deixei como encontrei; obscuro.....é uma palavra bem interessante pra um cara como o Buddy não acham?

Tocou com os melhores, foi um dos melhores e ainda é reverenciado no mundo todo, mas as tais majors não soltam o material do cara, não dão e não emprestam e as que vendem é a preço de ouro sem nenhuma informação ou o que quer que o valha mostrando total desrespeito pelo artista e sua obra e por isso teimoso que sou (maluco que sou diria meu irmãozinho Raul,rs) insisto e tá aí mais um do Buddy Miles que não roda por aí prq só tem aqui,aí pai do céu ficar acordado dá nisso até rima quer inventar.

Baixem com fé e logo, aproveitem como se deve e se possível espalhem com rapidez prq a alcatéia adverte: "Este som faz muito bem pra alma", valeu Celso."Did not chart

Obscure album by Buddy Miles for the Tulsa-based T. Town label, released in 1977. After the synth-heavy 'More Miles Per Gallon', and the somewhat better 'Bicentennial Gathering' for Casablanca, this LP is a breathe of fresh air: low-fi production, raw and funky. Actually has some 'meep meeps' in the mix.

More to come on this rarity...

Singles from the LP:
- "Roadrunner Stomp" b/w "I Love You More and More"


Buddy Miles - RoadRunner

Data de lançamento:1977

Gravadora:T Town RecordsSinopse

Produced by: Buddy Miles and Monty Stark
Co Produced By: John Stevenson and Jim Paris
Associate Producer: "The RoadRunners"
Director: Jim Paris
Engineer: Monty Stark
Mixers: Monty Stark, Buddy Miles, Jim Paris
Contractor: Jim Paris
Rhythm Leader: Buddy Miles
Horns Leader: Tobie "Big Homy" Wynn
Horns Arranged By: Buddy Miles and Rusty Higgins
Song Arrangement by: Buddy Miles
Design Art Direction and Illustration: Richard OlesonMusician Credits:

Richard Cole
Richard Fortune
Rusty Higgins
Gary Hoppy Hodges
Peter Hysen
Ron Johnson
Gary Johnston
Fitzpatrick Magee
Buddy Miles
John Murray
Eddie Reddick
John Stevenson
Nah Wah Watsow
Tobie Wynn
Jimmy McKinney

Background Vocals:

Colleen Fortune
Moreen Thorton.Tracklist:

1 RoadRunner RoadRunner Stomp

2 I Love You More and More

3 Rambler

4 Pretty Bird

5 Stink Rock

6 Like in a Full Moon

7 Gentle Thoughts

8 Take Care of Yourself

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Tony McPhee, an Eccentric Man...

Tony McPhee was part of the first generation of young British blues disciples influenced by Cyril Davies and his band Blues Incorporated. 

Tony McPhee - 1996 Slide, T.S. Slide

Review by Bruce Eder

Now this is more like it -- Tony McPhee alone in his home studio with just his Yamaha FG180 on the first six tracks, doing whatever comes to mind. Mostly, as the title suggests, he plays some nimble slide guitar through some appropriately raspy-voiced renditions of "Reformed Man," "Mean Disposition," "Tell Me Baby," and the obviously autobiographical "Hooker & the Hogs." The other nine songs were cut solo by McPhee in concert during 1993, and he comes off even better there, his playing even more nimble and his singing far more expressive on songs like Son House's "Death Letter," Muddy Waters' "I Just Can't Be Satisfied," and Howlin' Wolf's "Down In the Bottom" and "No Place To Go," among others. The fidelity on the live stuff, cut with a Yamaha APX-6 in Vienna, is also excellent.

This is the definitive biography and discography of Tony McPhee, and the complete history of his legendary band The Groundhogs. Fully illustrated with several previously unpublished photographs, Eccentric Man is the authoritative account of one of the most important and influential British musicians of the last 50 years. A pioneer of rhythm and blues in the UK, McPhee learnt his craft in the 1960s backing major American blues artists (including John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed and Little Walter) during their British tours. McPhee was one of a small group of outstanding British guitarists that emerged during the formative years of rock music. He developed innovative and unique styles as a guitarist, but the factors that really set him apart were his technical knowledge of electronics, constant musical experimentation and groundbreaking recording and performing techniques. In the early 1970s Tony McPhee & The Groundhogs released two classic albums, Thank Christ For The Bomb and Split, that are acknowledged as milestones in the history of rock. At this time he was hailed as "the British Hendrix" and described by Sounds in 1974 as "the definitive rock guitarist". Today he is still recording and performing, and he is recognised as a major influence by numerous musicians, including Julian Cope, Captain Sensible, Karl Hyde, Stephen Malkmus, Mark E. Smith and the record producer Jack Endino.

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Joanne Shaw Taylor - A Blues Woman

Joanne Shaw Taylor (born 1986, England)[2] is a British blues guitarist and singer, who was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at the age of 16. The British music publication, Blues Matters!, called Taylor "the new face of the blues".

Joanne Shaw Taylor - The Dirty Truth [2014]

http://www.joanneshawtaylor.com/

"The Dirty Truth marks Joanne Shaw Taylor’s fourth studio release and second time working with producer Jim Gaines (the first being on her studio debut some five years ago) with the goal of tapping into some of what drove White Sugar. The record plays out like what we’ve come to expect from Taylor – a heady combination of not-quite-aggressive and not-quite-mellow – but this one sounds a little closer to home for Taylor. Her songs just sort of flow off of the record naturally, almost as though they’d always been out there somewhere and Taylor merely uncovered them and made them accessible. 

“Natural” is a good term to describe The Dirty Truth and Joanne Shaw Taylor’s aesthetic in general. Everything Taylor does seems to have a certain inertia to it, as though one idea gives way to the next, and to the next, until The Dirty Truth is over and you’re reaching for the “repeat” button. Joanne Taylor says that she didn’t initially set out to be a singer, and that she had a lot of insecurity regarding her voice to overcome. Strangely enough, the most captivating part of Joanne Shaw Taylor’s sound is her rasped, soulful, and absolutely effortless vocal delivery. She sort of croons in a lower register, and it sounds as though it’s no more effort for Taylor than simply breathing. Maybe this is a major contributor to the natural sound of The Dirty Truth.

The blues scene has had its eyes on Joanna Shaw Taylor for a few years now, and with good reason. Her blues-gone-rock brand of music is incredibly cohesive, and Taylor does casually what most artists strive for."

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The Keef Hartley Band

Keef Hartley (Preston, Lancashire, 8 de março de 1944 - 26 de novembro de 2011) é um músico de rock e blues. Ficou famoso por liderar a banda "Keef Hartley Band". A carreira de Hartley começou como um substituto do baterista Ringo Starr para o Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, uma banda de Liverpool. Consequentemente ele tocou e gravou com o The Artwoods e, posteriormente, atingindo grande notabilidade como baterista de John Mayall, antes de formar a "The Keef Hartley Band", banda que combinava elementos do jazz, do blues e do rock and roll dentro de um som de jazz-rock parecido com o Blood, Sweat, and Tears e Chicago. 

A "Keef Hartley Band" tocou no famoso Festival de Woodstock em 1969 e lançou quatro álbuns famosos, incluindo o Halfbreed e o The Battle of North West Six. Em novembro de 1974, a UK music magazine (revista britânica de música), NME, afirmou que Hartley, que esteve inativo por longos anos, desde o fim de sua banda, no começo de 1972, formara uma nova banda chamada Dog Soldier. Eles gravam um álbum homônimo em 1975. Em 2007, Hartley lançou uma autobiografia, "Halfbreed (A Rock and Roll Journey That Happened Against All The Odds)". Hartley escreveu sobre a sua vida, citando o seu crescimento em Preston, e falando também sobre a sua carreira como baterista e líder de banda. No livro fala também da aparição da "Keef Hartley Band" no famoso Festival de Woodstock em 1969. Hartley morreu em 26 de Novembro de 2011, no Royal Preston Hospital, aos 67 anos.

The Keef Hartley Band - 1969 Halfbreed

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Bruce Katz Band - Hammond & Blues

Um sonzão que descobri há pouco tempo. O cara esmirilha nos teclados...

Bruce Katz (born August 19, 1952) is an American musician, playing piano, organ and bass guitar. From 1996 - 2010, he was on the faculty at the Berklee College of Music in Boston as an associate professor.

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Bruce Katz Band - Homecoming (2014).

"He can play jazz, blues, Bach, anything. Man, he's a heavy!"

- Gregg Allman

"This man is as good as it gets. One of the greatest keyboard artists I've ever heard."

- John Hammond

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The Real Blues Brothers

This is a nice Vee-Jay collection with representative cuts from Pee Wee Crayton, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Lightnin' Hopkins, Billy Boy Arnold, Memphis Slim and a stray track from Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. The big ticket for collectors on this one, however, is the inexplicable bonus of a previously unissued Eddie Taylor number, "Leave This Neighborhood," reason enough for hardcore fans to want to add this one to the collection.

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Slide Guitar Men

A técnica de usar um slide em uma corda foi originalmente idealizada para instrumentos de cordas, com influência direta dos Africanos que usava um ¨arco de diddley". A técnica tornou-se popular por artistas de blues afro-americanos. O primeiro músico a ser gravado usando o estilo era Sylvester Weaver5 que gravou duas peças solo "Guitar Blues" e "Guitar Rag", em 1923. Alguns dos artistas de blues no sul dos Estados Unidos, que mais usaram o slide, incluem o cantor gospel Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Robert Johnson (Rei do blues do delta) e Casey Bill Weldon.   Provavelmente os primeiros influentes do blues elétrico no slide guitar é Elmore James, cujo riff na canção " Dust My Broom " é influência direta de Robert Johnson.  A lenda do blues Muddy Waters, foi a maior influência no blues depois de Robert Johnson. Seu talento foi decisivo para o desenvolvimento do blues elétrico de Chicago.

Convido-os a dar uma ouvida nesta seleção de Slide Guitar:

VA - Slide Guitar Classics

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So Blue, So Funky

Uma tremenda obra de arte... Este discão estava no armário de meu cunhado, esquecido, jogado 'as traças. O que estes músicos fazem com o Hammond é simplesmente inacreditável. Para ouvir e dançar!!!!

Blue Note's So Blue, So Funky, Vol. 1 is a 12-track compilation that highlights the funkiest soul-jazz organists that recorded for the label, whether it was a leader or as a sideman. Although there's a handful of cuts from the early '60s, such as "Face to Face" by the terrific, underrated Baby Face Willette, the compilation leans toward the funky fusions of the late '60s, such as Big John Patton's "Fat Judy," Lou Donaldson's "Everything I Do Is Gon' Be Funky (From Now On)," Jack McDuff's "Butter for Yo' Popcorn" and Grant Green's "Ain't It Funky Now." The best thing about this comp is that even though it has familiar names, not all of the material is readily available on CD, which makes it of interest to casual groove fans and serious collectors alike.

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Johnny Winter: Blues

John Dawson Winter III, mais conhecido como Johnny Winter (Beaumont, Texas, 23 de fevereiro de 1944) é um guitarrista e cantor de blues norte-americano. É irmão de Edgar Winter. Johnny começou a se apresentar ainda jovem com seu irmão Edgar Winter, que, assim como ele, é albino. Seu primeiro disco (School Day Blues) foi lançado quando Winter tinha 15 anos de idade. Em 1968 ele começou a tocar em um trio com o baixista Tommy Shannon e o baterista Uncle John Turner. Um artigo na revista Rolling Stone ajudou a gerar interesse no grupo. O álbum Johnny Winter foi lançado no final do ano. Em 1969 o trio se apresentou em vários festivais, incluindo Woodstock.

Em 1973, depois de se livrar das drogas, Winter retornou em forma com Still Alive and Well. Em 1977 ele produziu o álbum Hard Again de Muddy Waters. A parceria resultaria em várias indicações ao Grammy, e Johhny gravou o álbum Nothing But Blues com os integrantes da banda de Muddy. Em 1988 ele foi incluído no "Hall da Fama do Blues". Em 2012, foi considerado o 63º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

Johnny Winter - (1974) Saints & Sinners

Saints & Sinners is the sixth studio album by Johnny Winter, released in 1974.

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Blues: Guitar Women

Uma pequena homenagem às mulheres guitarristas que marcaram presença no Blues. Nada mais sexy que uma mulher, tirando um solo de blues na guitarra!!!

Blues - Guitar Women (2005) Vol 01

1. Can't Quit the Blues - Lara Price Band/Laura Chavez
2. Takin' It All to Vegas - Debbie Davies
3. The - Alice Stuart Man Is So Good
4. Mediterranean Breakfast - Sue Foley
5. The - Deborah Coleman River Wild
6. Living on the Road - Joanna Connor
7. Navajo Moon - Ana Popovic
8. Judgement Day Blues - Carolyn Wonderland
9. Lonely Lonely Nights - Eve Monsees
10. It's a Blessing - Maria Muldaur/Bonnie Raitt
11. Dreamland Blues - Erja Lyytinen
12. Lynn's Blues - Barbara Lynn
13. Goin' Down - Tracy Conover
14. Baghdad Blues - Beverly "Guitar" Watkins
15. Woke up This Mornin' - Ruthie Foster


Blues - Guitar Women (2005) Vol 02

1. Fool Me Good - Precious Bryant
2. Going Down This Road - Algia Mae Hinton
3. Doggie Treats - Sue Foley
4. Fixin' To Die - Rory Block
5. Dead End Street - Ellen McIlwaine
6. Rather Be The Devil - Alice Stuart
7. Streamline Train - Jessie Mae Hemphill
8. Nothing's Changed - Gaye Adegbalola
9. One Dime Blues - Etta Baker
10. Ain't Nothing In Ramblin' - JoAnn Kelly
11. Down The Big Road Blues - Mattie Delaney
12. Motherless Child Blues - Elvie Thomas
13. Skinny Legs Blues - Geeshie Wiley
14. In My Girlish Days - Memphis Minnie

"When a woman gets the blues, she hangs her head and cries.

When a man gets the blues, he catches a train and rides."

(Traditional blues verse, author unknown)

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