Blues Vinyl Records

1. Broke Down Engine Blues (1931)
2. Mama 'Tain't Long For Day (1927)
3. Georgia Rag (1931)
4. Love Changing Blues (1929)
5. Statesboro Blues (1928)
6. Stomp Down Rider (1931)
7. Savannah Mama (1933)

Side Two

8. Travelin' Blues (1929)
9. Drive Away Blues (1929)
10. Warm It Up To Me (1933)
11. Three Women Blues (1928)
12. Writing Paper Blues (1927)
13. Southern Can Is Mine (1931)
14. Talkin' To Myself (1930)

Featuring Christine Perfect (better known as the future Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac) the British ensemble Chicken Shack offers up a solid set of blues-influenced rock on their 1968 LP, fully titled 40 Blue Fingers Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve.

This LP was a promising debut, especially noteworthy for Stan Webb's Freddie King-inspired guitar playing and Christine Perfect's vocals. Webb does justice to his mentor with two instrumentals, King's San-Ho-Zay and his own Webbed Feet, and Christine proves the ideal counterpart: one of the few pianists paying homage to King's longtime collaborator Sonny Thompson.

It remains their finest work; Perfect left the band in 1969 when she married John McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Pianist Paul Raymond, bassist Andy Silvester, and drummer Dave Bidwell all left in 1971 to join Savoy Brown.

The album - with a nice spare sound, typical of Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label- will be enjoyed again, this time on audiophile vinyl.

* 180 grams audiophile vinyl

Track Listing:
1. The Letter
2. Lonesome Whistle Blues
3. When the Train Comes Back
4. San-Ho-Zay
5. King of the World
6. See See Baby
7. First Time I Met the Blues
8. Webbed Feet
9. You Ain't No Good
10. What You Did Last Night

1967s A Hard Road proved to be every bit as powerful and innovative as its predecessor, thanks in large part to Mayalls discovery of Claptons equally brilliant replacement, Peter Green. A one-of-a-kind player with a highly distinctive sound, Green makes his instrumental presence felt throughout A Hard Road, while delivering compelling lead vocals on You Dont Love Me and The Same Way. With sterling support from bassist John McVie and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, the material here features such Mayall originals as Hit the Highway, Leaping Christine and the title track, along with standout interpretations of tunes by Freddie King, Elmore James and Willie Cobbs. The legendarily haunting Green-penned instrumental The Supernatural previews the guitarists groundbreaking work with the original incarnation of Fleetwood Mac, which he and fellow Bluesbreaker John McVie would form a few months later.

From the pristine U.K. mono masters, with complete original artwork and photos.

Track Listing:
1. A Hard Road
2. It's Over
3. You Don't Love Me
4. The Stumble
5. Another Kind Of Love
6. Hit The Highway
7. Leaping Christine
8. Dust My Blues
9. There's Always Work
10. The Same Way
11. The Supernatural
12. Top Of The Hill
13. Someday After A While (You'll Be Sorry)
14. Living Alone

A Virtual Landslide features: the majestic "Sweet Louise" and the heartbreaking "Oh So Lonesome For You," both guided by the spirit of Roy Orbison; "There She Still Remains," a melancholy country-soul beauty complete with slide guitar from by BJ Cole that's reminiscent of '60's Nashville at its finest; the rockin country of "I Came Out Of The Wilderness" and "Goddamn Lonesome Blues"; the rollin freight train rhythms of "Adelaine"; the beautiful and wistful "One Stolen Moment"; the plaintive "Look What I Made Out Of My Head Ma"; the straight-up honesty of "I Dont Like The Man That I Am"; the Spanish-tinged "Dear Angelina"; and "Lest We Forget," a traditional lament to those lost in World War I.

Track Listing:
1. I Came Out Of The Wilderness
2. Oh So Lonesome For You
3. Adelaine
4. One Stolen Moment
5. There She Still Remains
6. Hallelujah Blues
7. Look What I Made Out Of My Head Ma
8. God Damn Lonesome Blues
9. I Don't Like The Man I Am
10. Sweet Louise
11. Dear Angelina
12. Lest We Forget

Mitch Ryders numerous appearances on national television shows, the concert circuit and continual airplay on all his records made him a fixture on the music charts. His next number of hit singles and albums truly impacted the way a lot of us listen to music to this day. The two and a half to three minute anthems like "Devil With a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly," "Too Many Fish in the Sea/Three Little Fishes" and the near riot pandemonium of "Sock It to Me-Baby" have all truly stood the test of time.

Noting all of the chart successes and sales of the Mitch Ryder name brand, the good folks at New Voice Records honored this famed artist with his own greatest hits album, the magnificent All Mitch Ryder Hits in 1968. This original album has been out of print for many years and for several decades in the vinyl format, that is until now.

Friday Music is proud to offer the original New Voice Records masterpiece, the All Mitch Ryder Hits for the first time on 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl. Mastered impeccably from the original New Voice stereo tapes by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios and at Capitol Records in Hollywood, California, this amazing album truly sounds incredible in the audiophile vinyl domain. It is also the first installment in Friday Music's Mitch Ryder Original Recording Masters series, which will feature ongoing reissues from his classic and most important recordings from the classic rock era.

This greatest hits album features all of the Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels original hit recordings mentioned above as well as more killer workouts like "Little Latin Lupe Lu," "Joy," "Breakout," "Id Rather Go to Jail" and a super soul interpretation of Wilson Picketts classic "In the Midnight Hour."

Friday Music has also included the original rare album cover artwork featuring the hip full color live front cover photo and the live concert action shots on the back cover. Their All Mitch Ryder Hits LP also includes a poly bag to protect your album cover and a poly lined vinyl sleeve to protect your 180 Gram vinyl.

Track Listing:
1. Devil With a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly
2. Jenny Take a Ride
3. Joy
4. Breakout
5. In the Midnight Hour
6. Sock It To Me, Baby!
7. Little Latin Lupe Lu
8. Takin' All I Can Get
9. Too Many Fish In the Sea/Three Little Fishes
10. I'd Rather Go To Jail
11. Shake a Tail Feather

No doubt Jimmie Lee Robinson offers a delightful taste of traditional blues. His work through the years with such stalwarts as Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Freddie King, Elmore James and Jimmy Reed have made their impressions on the man called The Lonely Traveler just as he has been credited with inspiring them.

On All My Life you'll hear standby classics like a haunting, slowed-down version of Muddy Waters' Forty Days and Forty Nights with eerie harmonica accompaniment by Madison Slim. And Jimmie Lee even covers a non-blues favorite with What a Wonderful World. His live version of that song at a 1999 concert in Blue Heaven Studios - the converted church that is home to APO Records - brought tears to scores of the 400 in attendance.

But All My Life is also packed with Jimmie Lee originals like the title track, which was once covered by John Mayall, where Jimmie Lee pleads with the woman of his dreams to return all the respect and love he's paid to her. That track is also a perfect showcase for the classic Jimmie Lee growling vocals and the spurs jangling from his boots as the only percussion.

Unlike his first APO release, Remember Me, an almost entirely-solo effort, Jimmie Lee is joined on most of the All My Life tracks by APO artist and noted-guitarist Jimmy D. Lane and journeyman harp player Madison Slim, whose knack for acoustic blues is highlighted on this release.

Jimmie Lee has gained national attention for his protest of the destruction of Chicago's famed Maxwell Street, said to be the birthplace of Chicago blues and the neighborhood where Jimmie Lee grew up. He fasted for 81 straight days, shunning solid food as if it was the wrecking ball he so badly wants to stop. His efforts were even documented on the front page of the New York Times.

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Track Listing:
1. Forty Days and Forty Nights
2. I'll Be Around
3. Love My Baby
4. The Sun Is Shining
5. Driftin' Blues
6. The Girl I Love
7. Ludella
8. All My Life
9. I'm Ready
10. What A Wonderful World
11. Too Late
12. If I Get Lucky

This cadre of, mainly, white musicians, although clearly influenced by some African-American music, were the first generation not to be fixated solely by the music of black America. This was a flowering of something more general, less clearly defined, as hazy as an Los Angelean daybreak. What is notable about the music is that its neither black nor white, but contains elements of both, and though its influences undoubtedly derive from R&B (in the old meaning of the word), there are country, jazz, funk, rock and disco tinges to many of the songs.

The songs are no less good, the production no less shimmering than any Lenny Waronker job. Wed wager youve not heard of many of the artists here and thats ultimately the purpose: to shine a light on the darker corners of American pop culture. And they dont get much more radio-friendly than this shining collection here. The tracks for this compilation were selected by Zafar Chowdhry and Mark Taylor.

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. Babadu - I Love Music
2. Eric Tagg Living Off The Love
3. Jaye P. Morgan - Can't Hide Love
4. James Walsh Gypsy Band - I've Got The Feelin'
5. Jesse McFall and The Funk Elegant Orchestra - Thought You Ought To Know
6. Lil'Albert - My Girl Friday
7. Mike Lundy - Love One Another
8. Tender Leaf - Coast To Coast

LP 2
1. 1619 Bad Ass Band - Just For You
2. Michael Killen - A Little More Time
3. Breakaway - Who Was It This Time
4. Midnight Flyer - I Just Wan To Love You
5. Ian Willson - Four In The Morning (Goodking Edit)
6. Life Force - Slow Dancer
7. Society Of Seven - Between Hello And Goodbye
8. Evans Pyramid - Never Gonna Leave You

Side A:

1. My Black Mama - Part 1 (Son House)
2. My Black Mama - Part 2 (Son House)
3. Preachin’ The Blues - Part1 (Son House)
4. Preachin’ The Blues - Part 2 (Son House)
5. Dry Spell Blues - Part 1 (Son House)
6. Dry Spell Blues - Part 2 (Son House)
7. Walkin’ Blues (Son House)

Side B:

1. Mississippi Jail House Groan (Rube Lacy)
2. Ham Hound Crave (Rube Lacy)
3. Mississippi Bottom Blues (Kid Baley)
4. Rowdy Blues (Kid Baley)
5. M & O Blues (Willie Brown)
6. Future Blues W (Willie Brown)

Side C:

1. Cottonfield Blues - Part 1 (Garfield Akers)
2. Cotton field Blues - Part 2 (Garfield Akers)
3. Dough Roller Blues (Garfield Akers)
4. Jumpin’ And Shoutin’ Blues (Garfield Akers)
5. Fare Thee Well Blues (Joe Callicott)
6. Travelling Mama Blue (Joe Callicott)

Side D:

1. Bedside Blues (Jim Thompkins)
2. Outside Woman Blues (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)
3. Nehi Blues (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)
4. Married Man Blues (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)
5. Third Street Woman Blue (Blind Joe “Willie” Reynolds)

After a self released debut solo LP Some Forgotten Country in 2007, Speer then sought out a public performance outlet with the Helix. His second solo LP Arghiledes brings a return focus upon acoustic instrumentation, with a still healthy dose of electric effects and speaker fry. Steeped in the sounds of the 1930s Piraeus Quartet, this selection of recordings is the outgrowth of a decade long engagement with the rich heritage of early 20th century Greek music.

Utilizing an array of traditional instrumentation (including trichordo bouzouki, baglamas, worry bead percussion on whiskey glass, zills and many more), Arghiledes is a work infused with improvisational fire. A true solo record in the overdub manner of Todd Rundgren and Tony McPhee, all sounds were performed, treated and mixed by D. Charles Speer.

Track Listing:
1. Markos's Cave
2. O Sinachis
3. Lost Dervish
4. Harmanis
5. Tsamiko Hijaz
6. Wildlife Preserve
7. The Heavy Heart of Ando-Yeap

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Track Listing:
Side One

1. Sawbuk
2. Mini-Minor-Mo
3. Hop House
4. Ridin' The Blinds
5. Hot Ginger
6. Funks Elegy

Side Two

1. Ascension Heights
2. Tuxedo Junction
3. Globetrottin'
4. Spider Drag
5. Mean Old Pullman
6. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

Lending strong support for Willie's recording debut is one of the brightest new blues lights to emerge in recent years, Susan Tedeschi, whose Just Won't Burn album has spent an unprecedented 41 weeks on the Billboard Blues Chart! The man behind Willie's emergence is none other than the great Mighty Sam McClain, a living R&B legend if there ever was one. Sam co-produced the album (along with Joe Harley) and also contributes his patented brand of soul singing and songwriting. Along with Jimmy D. Lane, who joins in on one track with his blazing guitar, At Last On Time proves the wisdom of the phrase better late than never!

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Track Listing:
1. Love Call
2. Fever
3. Can't Go Wrong Woman
4. Big Mary's House
5. They Call Me Weepin' Willie / Mighty Mighty
6. Glory Train
7. At Last, On Time
8. Dirty Old Man
9. Weepin Willie Boogie
10. Love Me If You Want To
11. Let The Good Times Roll

Recorded live, July 3, 1960, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island

Track Listing:
I Got My Brand On You
I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man
Baby, Please Don’t Go
Soon Forgotten
Tiger In Your Tank
I Feel So Good
I’ve Got My Mojo Working, Part 1
I’ve Got My Mojo Working, Part 2
Goodbye Newport Blues

Featuring Popa's signature searing guitar licks coupled with the power house rhythm section of A.J. Pappas (bass) and Dan Hickley (drums) results in his greatest work to date. From the Hendrix inflected wailings of "Back To New York City," to the Stevie Ray on steroied Texas boogie of "She Loves Everybody But Me," to the broken hearted dirge of "Pound Of Flesh," to the classical melodic strains of urban woe in "A Love That Will Not Die," Popa shows no signs of letting up.

Track Listing:
1. Back To New York City
2. She Loves Everybody But Me
3. Pound Of Flesh
4. Warrior God
5. The Future
6. Its About You
7. A Love That Will Not Die
8. Keep Your Woodpile Dry
9. Stand Before The Sun
10. She Made Me Beg For It
11. Jesus Joy Of Mans Desire

1. Trouble In Mind
2. Corrine Corrina
3. Cool Driver
4. They're Red Hot
5. Crossroads
6. Lost A Good Woman
7. Evening Sun
8. Peace In Hell
9. Send Your Man To War
10. Come On In My Kitchen
11. Blues Come To Texas
12. Moon Is Rising
13. Hey Bobba Re Bop
14. Terraplane
15. I Make You Happy

1. The Ballad Of John Henry
2. Stop!
3. Last Kiss
4. Jockey Full Of Bourbon
5. Story Of A Quarryman
6. Lonesome Road Blues
7. Happier Times
8. Feelin' Good
9. Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter
10. The Great Flood
11. From The Valley
12. As The Crow Flies

Side 2
1. Ball and Chain Blues
2. One For My Baby
3. Jim Crow Train
4. Told My Captain
5. So Soon in the Mornin
6. Bury My Body

Their fourth release, Be Kind To A Man When He's Down, contains songs from Frank Stokes, Pink Anderson, Big Chief Henry's String Band and many more. It features special guests Robert Crumb (underground comic legend, Cheap Suit Serenaders) on mandolin, Dom Flemons (Carolina Chocolate Drops) on guitar and old-time music legend Pat Conte (Canebreak Rattlers, Otis Brothers) on fiddle, banjo, guitar, harmonica and vocals. It features an amazing cover by Crumb as did their last two records, Drunken Barrel House Blues and Some Cold Rainy Day.

"Eden and John's East River String Band cover black country blues from the 78-rpm era with crisp fervor and a natural flair that suggests loving study and a respect for the hard lives and flight for joy on the original records." - David Fricke/Rolling Stone

Track Listing:
1. Gonna Tip Out Tonight
2. So Sorry Dear
3. Fare Thee Blues
4. Beaver Slide Rag
5. Be Kind To A Man When He's Down
6. Twelve Pound Daddy
7. On The Banks of the Kaney
8. Swanee River
9. How Long
10. There's More Pretty Girls Than One
11. Hy Patillion
12. Old Black Dog Medley
13. The Girl I Left Behind Me
14. Oh Suzanna

1. Black Betty
2. John Hardy
3. Midnight Special
4. Where Did You Sleep Last Night
5. Alberta
6. Rock Island Line
7. Goodnight Irene
8. Pick A Bale Of Cotton
9. In New Orleans (House Of The Rising Sun)
10. C.C. Rider
11. When The Boys Were Out On The Western Plain
12. Pretty Flowers In My Back Yard
13. Sail On Little Girl

LP 2

1. Take This Hammer
2. New York City
3. Packing Trunk Blues
4. Cotton Fields
5. The Bourgeois Blues
6. Easy Rider
7. Alabama Bound
8. Blue Tail Fly
9. Good Morning Blues
10. Roberta
11. Whoa Back, Buck
12. T.B. Blues
13. Bottle Up And Go

The first full-length album from the Grammy-nominated keyboardist's electric Experiment band (Casey Benjamin/sax & vocoderist, Derrick Hodge/bass and Chris Dave/drummer) also features many of Glasper's famous friends from the spectrum of urban music, seamlessly incorporating appearances from a jaw-dropping roll call of special guests including Erykah Badu, Bilal, Lupe Fiasco, Lalah Hathaway, Shafiq Husayn, KING, Ledisi, Chrisette Michele, Musiq Soulchild, Meshell Ndegeocello, Stokley Williams and Mos Def.

Throughout, the Experiment wears its eclecticism on its sleeve, presenting new collaborative originals and surprising cover songs. They transform the Afro-Cuban standard "Afro Blue" with Badu, Sade's "Cherish The Day" with Hathaway, David Bowie's "Letter to Hermione" with Bilal and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" with Benjamin's vocoder vocal.

Track Listing:
1. Lift Off ft. Shafig Husayn/Mic Check
2. Afro Blue ft. Erykah Badu
3. Cherish the Day ft. Lalah Hathaway
4. Always Shine ft. Lupe Fiasco and Bilal
5. Gonna Be Alright (F.T.B.) ft. Ledisi
6. Move Love ft. KING
7. Ah Yeah ft. Musiq Soulchild and Chrisette Michele
8. The Consequences of Jealousy ft. Meshell Ndegeocello
9. Why Do We Try ft. Stokely Williams
10. Black Radio ft. Mos Def
11. Letter to Hermione ft. Bilal
12. Smells Like Teen Spirit

Just awarded the Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award at the U.K.’s prestigious Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, bluesrock guitar hero and singer-songwriter Joe Bonamassa is set to release his tenth full-length solo album, BLACK ROCK, on March 22, 2010. This album was recorded at, and named for, Black Rock Studios in Santorini, Greece. “With this album, we wanted to explore a ‘world’ feeling, and this was the inspiration behind going to record in Greece and using some of the best Greek musicians to add a little flavor to a couple of the tracks. But it’s by no means a ‘world’ album. We wanted Joe’s usual youthful and energetic tones to play alongside the worldly vibes of the Greek bouzouki and clarino,” said producer Kevin Shirley. Bonamassa says, “It was the kind of record Kevin and I wanted to make. We needed to rock again a bit like on my first album. I wrote the whole thing there.” Also Joe signed up Blues legend B.B. King for a duet on his new album. The song they perform together is a rendition of the Willie Nelson-penned song, “Night Life,” which appeared on King’s 1967 album BLUES IS KING. Shirley says about the experience, “This is a rollicking Stonesy-vibe version of the Willie Nelson song on which B.B. King duets with Joe, both vocally and on his famous Lucille guitar. What a joy and an honor to work with the legend who is possibly the pivot point and unifying musician between Blues and Rock.” Other tracks appearing on BLACK ROCK include Jeff Beck’s “Spanish Boots,” Leonard Cohen’s poetic “Bird On A Wire,” Otis Rush’s “Three Times A Fool,” Bobby Parker’s “Steal Your Heart Away,” Blind Boy Fuller’s “Baby, You Gotta Change Your Mind,” John Hiatt’s “I Know A Place,” and James Clark’s “Look Over Yonders Wall,” as well as the originals “When The Fire Hits The Sea,” “Quarryman's Lament,” “Wandering Earth,” “Athens To Athens,” and “Blue and Evil.”

The songs on this album are especially significant because they represent the only existing recordings of John Hurt prior to the early 1960s when he was “rediscovered” by blues revivalists. In 1928, an unknown Mississippi sharecropper named John Hurt, played regular barn dances behind a white fiddle player who soon recommended Hurt to Okeh Records for recording. Okeh took the fiddle player’s advice and recorded two sessions with Hurt, one in Memphis and one in NYC, of which only a single (Nobody’s Dirty Business / Frankie) was ever recorded and promptly forgotten. Hurt spent the next 35 years sharecropping, and working for the railroad (where he learned songs like “Spike Driver Blues”, a variation on “John Henry”). “Avalon Blues”, an ode to his home town, was a song Hurt wrote during his recording session in NYC in 1928 and also the song that led to his rediscovery. Mississippi John Hurt today is one of the most appreciated of the Delta blues musicians, perhaps because his unique style makes him particularly accessible to modern audiences. Hurt, who died in 1966, lived just long enough to see his music finally appreciated by a wider audience.

Track Listing:
1. Frankie

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Track Listing:
1. I'm Tired Of Crying Over You
2. Blue Bird
3. Walkin' By Myself
4. Rock Me
5. I Lost A Good Woman
6. Howlin' For My Darling
7. Why Are You So Mean To Me
8. Blues Falling
9. Lemon Squeezer
10. That Ain't It (Baby I Need Your Love)
11. Smokestack Lighting
12. Blue And Lonesome
13. Big Boss Man

Side A:

1. Boogie Chillen
2. I'm In The Mood
3. Crawling King Snake
4. Queen Bee
5. Hobo Blues
6.Weeping Willow

Side B:

1. Cold Chills
2. Hoogie Boogie
3. Whistlin' And Moanin' Blues
4. Sally Mae
5. House Rent Boogie
6. Anybody Seen My Baby

Lacquers Cut from the Original Tapes at Sterling Sound by Iconic Engineer George Marino Under the Supervision of Eddie Kramer

Pressed and Plated at RTI: Amazing Analog Sound Betters All Prior Vinyl and Digital Editions

Hear Hendrix Propel the 12-Bar Blues Into the Future: 11 Extraordinary Songs Recorded Between 1966 and 1970

Originally released in 1994, the Jimi Hendrix Blues album features 11 blues performances recorded by Hendrix between 1966 and 1970 showcasing the guitarist's mastery of the 12-bar form. This double-LP audiophile edition of Blues is arguably the best packaged, richest sounding, most coherent post-mortem release from the Hendrix archives.

Framed by his poignant 1967 acoustic 12-string rendition of "Hear My Train 'A Comin'" and a stirring 1970 trio performance, these 11 rough and ready tracks illustrate Hendrix's deep spiritual connections to his blues roots and his daring experimental take on the shape of future blues to come. And they've never sounded so vital, necessary, or dynamic.

Cut from the original tapes at Sterling Sound by iconic engineer George Marino under the supervision of Eddie Kramer, and pressed and plated at RTI, this 2LP version will forever stand as the definitive-sounding, high-performance edition of this historic document. You know Hendrix and Co.'s penchant for thrusting the blues into new dimensions. Now experience it like never before.

"Jimi's music is as alive today as it was 40 years ago, and the success of our most recent releases with Sony Legacy provides thrilling confirmation. We have long maintained that the power of Jimi's music and the power of his message would stand the test of time and provide its own bridge to the future," said Janie Hendrix, CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC.

"Being partnered with Legacy enables us to reach a more global audience with that message. And the best is yet to come. What we have in store will propel Jimi into a new decade, with unseen footage and unheard versions of his songs that will absolutely amaze today's music lovers. And we're confident that the distribution is in good hands, opening the door to new and fresh markets. The focus of our endeavors is, and always will be, all about Jimi's music."

Track Listing:
1. Hear My Train A Comin' (Acoustic)
2. Born Under A Bad Sign
3. Red House
4. Catfish Blues
5. Voodoo Chile Blues
6. Mannish Boy
7. Once I Had A Woman
8. Bleeding Heart
9. Jam 292
10. Electric Church Red House
11. Hear My Train A Comin' (Electric)

The sound on this recording clearly carries the stamp of the young Eric Clapton who plays here on the side line, as it were. His short sojourn with the Bluesbreakers was a training camp for the guitarist who not many years later was idolized by his fans everywhere.

The original release of this debut album is a highly sought-after and expensive collectors item whose artistic level has, according to the specialists, never been surpassed.

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Track Listing:
1. All Your Love
2. Hideaway
3. Little Girl
4. Another Man
5. Double Crossing Time
6. What'd I Say
7. Key To Love
8. Parchman Farm
9. Have You Heard
10. Ramblin' On My Mind
11. Steppin' Out
12. It Ain't Right

1966s seminal Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton marked John Mayalls emergence as a major recording artist, as well as his commercial breakthrough. The 12-song LP, considered by many to be the most influential British blues album of all time, marked the official introduction of Mayalls long-running, ever-evolving combo the Bluesbreakers. Mayall shares the spotlight here with soon-to-be-superstar guitarist Eric Clapton (who quit the Yardbirds in order to pursue his blues muse with Mayall), along with future Fleetwood Mac co-founder John McVie on bass and Hughie Flint on drums. Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton is generally acknowledged as a musical milestone for Clapton; his scorching playing and over-the-top tone dominates the entire album. With the groups punchy performances captured in straightforward style by noted producer Mike Vernon, the album offers a potent combination of Mayall originals and distinctive interpretations of songs by Ray Charles, Freddie King, Little Walter and Otis Rush.

From the pristine U.K. mono masters, with complete original artwork and photos.

Track Listing:
1. All Your Love
2. Hideaway
3. Little Girl
4. Another Man
5. Double Crossing Time
6. What'd I Say
7. Key To Love
8. Parchman Farm
9. Have You Heard
10. Ramblin' On My Mind
11. Steppin' Out
12. It Ain't Right

1. Spoonful
2. Evil (Is Going On)
3. Smokestack Lightnin'
4. Don't Mess With My Baby
5. How Many More Years
6. I've Been Abused
7. I Better Go Now
8. Forty Four
9. I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
10. My Life
11. Nature
12. Poor Boy
13. Mr. Airplane Man
14. Who Will Be Next?

LP 2

1. Moanin' For My Baby
2. Crying At Daybreak
3. Who's Been Talking?
4. My Baby Stole Off
5. I Have A Little Girl
6. Change My Way
7. The Wolf Is At Your Door
8. Moanin' At Midnight
9. The Natchez Burnin'
10. Getting Old And Grey
11. You Can't Be Beat
12. No Place To Go
13. Goin' Back Home

Blues from Laurel Canyon is a 1968 album by John Mayall, featuring British blues music. It was his first album after the breakup of his band the Bluesbreakers on 14 July 1968. It was also his last album with Decca before moving to Polydor.

Track Listing:
1. Vacation
2. Walking on Sunset
3. Laurel Canyon Home
4. 2401
5. Ready to Ride
6. Medicine Man
7. Somebody's Acting Like a Child
8. The Bear
9. Miss James
10. First Time Alone
11. Long Gone Midnight
12. Fly Tomorrow

The 65 tracks on this 5LP box set represent the best of the Boddies in-house Soul Kitchen, Luau, and Bounty labels, which released an unspoiled treasure trove of kitchen-sink eccentric soul, fuzzbox funk, shoestring doo-wop, and haunted, eerily hook-laden spirituals. Enclosed inside is a mountain of office-styled ephemera: two massive booklets brimming with detail on the Boddies and their artists; extensive notes and scores of unpublished photos; a complete detailed discography folio; reproduced fliers; and a Boddie greeting card, all rendered with the handcrafted charm that was the Boddie hallmark. Call it a self-contained record industry crammed into one box.

Featuring 65 tracks on 5 LPs, two massive booklets brimming with detail, extensive notes and scores of unpublished photos, detailed discography, and reproduced fliers and a Boddie greeting card.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Creations Unlimited - Chrystal Illusion
2. Ricky Hodges & the Funky People - Don't Destroy Our Love
3. Frankie Pighee & Soulettes - Soul Feeling
4. Chantells - World Of Soul
5. Jackie Russell - If You Don't Want Me Let Me Be
6. Angela Alexander & J.D. Saddler - Spoilin' For A Fight
7. Inter-Circle - The Pusher
8. Eddie & the Ant Hill Mob - I'm A Number Runner
9. Bo & the Metros - Moving On
10. Inter-Circle - The Players
11. Creations Unlimited - Corruption Is The Thing
12. King James Version feat. King Solomon & Moses - He's Coming

LP2
13. Angela Alexander & J.D. Saddler - Don't Make Me Kill You
14. Chantells - Why Won't You Say (What You Want)
15. Frankie Pighee & Soulettes - If You Don't Think That I Love You
16. Jackie Russell - Don't Trade Love For Money
17. Bo & the Metros - Buttered Out
18. Ricky Hodges - I Feel It (The Love You Have For Me)
19. King James Version feat. King Solomon & Moses - He's Forever
20. A.C. Jones & the Atomic Aces - Oh Baby (I Love You)
21. Harvey Hall - Tell Me About it
22. Headlines - He's Looking For A Love
23. J.C. Akins - I've Got to Find A Way (To Get To Your Heart)
24. Little Anthony & the Modern Detergents - Monkey Hips & Yice
25. A.C. Jones & the Atomic Aces - Give Me Your Love

LP3
26. Harvey & the Phenomenals - Darlene (Instrumental)
27. Little Anthony & the Modern Detergents - Don't Make Me Blue
28. Penny North - Satisfied
29. J.C. Akins & the Dukes - You Upset My Very Soul
30. Harvey & the Phenomenals - All In Your Eyes
31. J.C. Akins - I Love You
32. J.C. Akins & the Dukes - New Dance
33. A.C. Jones & the Soulettes - Hole In Your Sole
34. Penny North - Thought I Had A Good Thing
35. Harvey & the Phenomenals - Darlene
36. Headlines - Baby
37. A.C. Jones & the Atomic Aces - Give Me Your Love (Instrumental)
38. Headlines - He's Looking For A Love (Demo)

LP4
39. Rev. R. L. Hubbard - Child Of The King
40. Brother Bill - Wha's Happ'nin'
41. Guiding Lights - Lost In Sin
42. Wings of Faith Juniors Of Grand Rapids, MI - I Can't Thank Him Enough
43. Seven Revelators - Keep Holding On
44. Victory 5 - Have You Been To The Pool
45. Sounds of Soul - Gospel Train
46. Corinthian Singers - Why? (It's A Shame)
47. Fantastic Lightning Ares - Jesus You Are My Shining Star
48. North Wind Of Cleveland, OH - If I've Done Any Wrong
49. Golden Harmonizers - Won't Be Back No More
50. Gospel Hebrews - Jesus Is All Over Me
51. Gospel Fabulators - Read It In The Bible
52. Spiritual Believers - Sweet To Know

LP5
53. Silver Kings Trouble - The Water
54. Cleveland Golden Echos - Used To Live On Broadway
55. Royal Kings - Look Out For Jesus
56. Swanee Nightingales - I Know The Lord Will Make A Way
57. Gospel Ensemble - What You Need
58. Juanita Ellis - Make A Joyful Noise
59. Headlines - Baby (Demo)
60. Delores White - Why Don't We Understand
61. Addie Pearl Rice - Sara Culture
62. Harvey & the Phenomenals - T.G.I.F.
63. Addie Pearl Rice - Flowers Are Blooming
64. Jackie Russell - If You Don't Want Me Let Me Be (Demo)
65. Delores White - Lover's Paradise

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Track Listing:
1. Evil Woman
2. My Crime
3. On The Road Again
4. World In A Jug
5. Turpentine Moan
6. Whiskey Headed Woman #2
7. Amphetamine Annie
8. An Owl Song
9. Marie Laveau
10. Fried Hockey Boogie

Side B - Kokomo Arnold
8. The twelves (The dirty dozens)
9. I'll be up someday
10. Busty bootin'
11. Sagefield woman blues
12. Back to the woods
13. Salty dog
14. Feels so good

27 Track 2 LP Collection

Track Listing:
LP 1

1. Every day I Have The Blues
2. The Woman I Love
3. Three O'Clock Blues
4. Early In The Morning
5. Bad Luck Soul
6. Treat Me Right
7. Sugar Mama
8. Please Love Me
9. That Ain't The Way To Do It
10. Sweet Thing
11. You've Been An Angel
12. The Fool
13. You Upset Me Baby
14. Please Accept My Love

LP 2

1. Sweet Little Angel
2. Let's Do The Boogie
3. Why Do Things Happen To Me
4. Come By Here
5. What Can I Do
6. Tomorrow Is Another Day
7. Troubles, Troubles, Troubles
8. Blind Love
9. When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer
10. Be Careful With A Fool
11. Sweet Sixteen (Part 1)
12. I Love You So
13. Hold That Train

Side B:
1. Messin' With The Kid
2. No Use Cryin'
3. Just To Be With You
4. Junior's Shuffle
5. Out Of Sight

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Track Listing:
LP1
1. Help Me (A Tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson)
2. It Hurts Me Too
3. Messin' with the Kid
4. Vietcong Blues
5. All Night Long
6. Going Ahead
7. Please Help
8. Too Much Alcohol
9. Married Woman Blues
10. That's the Truth
11. Marie
12. Burning Fire
13. S P Blues
14. Sometimes I Wonder
15. Spann's Stomp

LP2
1. Cotton Crop Blues
2. The Blues Keep Falling
3. Love Me or Leave
4. Rocket 88
5. West Helena Blues
6. Everything's Gonna Turn Out Allright
7. It's a Mean Old World
8. I Can't Quit You Baby
9. Rock
10. It's My Own Fault
11. Dust my Broom
12. Somebody Been Talkin'
13. Set a Date
14. So Mean to Me

LP3
1. One More Time
2. Kid Man Blues
3. My Black Mare
4. Stealin' Back
5. I Got Mine In Time
6. Tighten Up On It
7. Dynaflow Blues
8. Black Spider Blues
9. Layin' Down My Shoes and Clothes
10. If I Get Lucky
11. Rockin' My Boogie
12. Mr. Boweevil
13. Hey Hey

The Beale Street Sheiks was the moniker used by Memphis guitar duo Frank Stokes and Dan Sane for their Paramount recordings (made in Chicago in 1927 and 1929). Stokes (1887-1955) was one of the earliest Memphis bluesmen, and his distinct vocal and guitar style, has been imitated by many bluesmen since. Not only did he have a truly distinct style, but his repertoire was one of the most enormous and diverse in the history of blues, and his songs have become a living history of a bygone era. Although W.C. Handy is often cited as the father of Memphis blues, many scholars believe Frank Stokes to be its true originator.

Track Listing:
Side A:

1. You Shall
2. Its A Good Thing
3. Sweet To Mama
4. Half Cup Of Tea
5. Beale Town Bound
6. Last Go Round
7. Jazzin the Blues
8. You Shall
9. Its a Good Thing
10. Mr. Crump Dont Like It

Side B:

1. Chicken You Can Roost Behind the Moon
2. Blues in D
3. Ain't Goin to Do Like I Used To Do
4. Hunting Blues
5. Rockin on the Hill Blues
6. Fillin in Blues, Pt. 1
7. Fillin in Blues, Pt. 2
8. Wasnt That Doggin Me
9. Jumpin on the Hill

Hailed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, this second album of him & his band Double Trouble did everything a second album should do. It confirmed that Stevie Ray was no fluke, and it cemented his status as one of the modern blues giants. Original takes, outtakes and alternate takes of songs from the posthumously released The Sky Is Crying are also included on this double 180 grams audiophile vinyl, this version of "Couldn't Stand The Weather" has never been released before and is a Music On Vinyl exclusive!

- 180 grams audiophile vinyl
- Including 11 bonus tracks!!
- Remastered audio


Track Listing:

1. Scuttle Buttin' (1:52)
2. Couldn't Stand The Weather (4:41)
3. The Things (That) I Used To Do (4:54)
4. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (7:59)

1. Cold Shot (4:01)
2. Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town) (9:12)
3. Honey Bee (2:43)
4. Stang's Swang (2:45)

1. Empty Arms (3:28)
2. Come On (Pt. III) (4:33)
3. Look At Little Sister (2:46)
4. The Sky Is Crying (4:11)
5. Hide Away (4:03)

1. Give Me Back My Wig (4:07)
2. Boot Hill(2:27)
3. Wham (2:25)
4. Close To You (3:09)
5. Little Wing (6:48)
6. Stang's Swang (2:44)

Here, in the form of the jaw-dropping version of Voodoo Chile (Slight Return),is Vaughan's touching acknowledgment of Jimi Hendrix's looming influence. And in the hopping instrumental Scuttle Buttin, there's a lingering taste of the guitarist's playful personality and pyrotechnic skill. Brother Jimmie Vaughan assists on the title track, redolent with the slinky rhythms gleaned from rural Texas blues man and down-home attitudes. As he did on Texas Flood, Vaughan closes out the record in high style, bringing the concoction of smoldering blues, sultry shuffles, and juke joint boogies to a simmer with the instrumental Stangs Swang dedicated to jazz great Grant Green and punctuated with Stan Harrisons fiery tenor saxophone lines. Gutsy, gritty, and ceaselessly original, Couldn't Stand the Weather served further notice that Vaughan was here to stay and demanded to be heard. The double platinum sales figures and Grammy nominations were additional confirmation of that fact.

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Track Listing:
1. Scuttle Buttin'
2. Couldn't Stand The Weather
3. The Things (That) I Used to do
4. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
5. Cold Shot
6. Tin Pan Alley
7. Honey Bee
8. Stang's Swang

Side B:

1. Bluebird, Bluebird
2. See See Rider
3. Worrying My Mind
4. Til the Gin Gets Here
5. Bunion Stew
6. You Got to Work to Get Your Pay
7. Go Down Old Hannah
8. Hear My Black Dog Bark

Seldom equalled and never surpassed, Muddy Waters changed the course of popular music. Beautifully remastered to capture Muddy's intoxicating power, this Rough Guide charts his early career in the Delta and pioneering time in Chicago

Free Download Card with Extra Music: This LP includes a card allowing you to download this album to your portable music player to deliver the perfect combination of audiophile LP quality and mp3 portability. In addition the download card gives you extra Muddy Waters tracks as well as a bonus album, Original Blues Legends, featuring artists who were contemporaries of, and influenced by, the legendary Muddy Waters.

Track Listing:
1. Country Blues, Number One
2. You Got To Take Sick And Die Some Of These Days
3. I Can't Be Satisfied
4. Burying Ground Blues
5. Louisiana Blues
6. Rollin' Stone
7. Rollin' And Tumblin' (Part One)
8. Long Distance Call
9. Walking Blues
10. You Gonna Miss Me
11. Screamin And Cryin
12. Honey Bee

1967s Crusade finds John Mayall welcoming another soon-to-be-famous young guitarist18-year-old fretboard phenom Mick Taylor, who would soon become a key member of the Rolling Stonesto the Bluesbreakers fold. With John McVie on bass and Hughie Flint and Keef Hartley sharing drumming duties, Mayall tackles an adventurous 12-song set that encompasses several Mayall originals and Taylors instrumental showcase Snowy Wood, as well as numbers by such notables as Willie Dixon, Eddie Kirkland and Sonny Boy Williamson. Regarded by many fans as the final third of the influential electric-blues trilogy that began with Blues Breakers and A Hard Road, Crusade followed its predecessors into the British Top Ten, while continuing to open young American ears to the timeless power of the blues.

From the pristine U.K. mono masters, with complete original artwork and photos.

Track Listing:
1. Oh Pretty Woman
2. Stand Back Baby
3. My Time After A While
4. Snowy Wood
5. Man Of Stone
6. Tears In My Eyes
7. Driving Sideways
8. The Death Of J.B. Lenoir
9. I Can't Quit You Baby
10. Streamline
11. Me And My Woman
12. Checkin' Up On My Baby

Dyer was born and raised in the small east Texas town of Tool. He was given a guitar at age 5 but didn't learn to play until he was 18 and had moved to Austin, Texas. It was there that he began to study music seriously, attacking the guitar, and exploring his until-then untapped singing and songwriting powers.

While attending Texas State in San Marcos, Texas, Dyer formed a band, Breedlove, with guitarist Tyrone Vaughan (son of Jimmie Vaughan), drummer Jason White, keyboardist Ezra Reynolds and bassist Josh Dawkins. The group developed a dedicated following and released Reach Out in 1996 before disbanding in 1998.

From there, Dyer moved to New York City and began writing commercial music jingles, having songs placed in marketing campaigns for Budweiser, Chevrolet, Dr. Pepper and Campbell's Soup. While there, Lenny Kravitz, who had just begun a Warner Bros. imprint called Roxie Records, signed Dyer and produced his What Lies Beneath record in 2004, the first release on the label. Kravitz co-wrote four of the songs with Dyer and also played guitar on the record.

After touring for a year behind What Lies Beneath, Dyer moved to St. Louis and started a family. In 2007, he returned to Austin where he'd reunited with friend David Boyle, who recorded and produced Dyer in his converted-church studio for the self-titled Dan Dyer. The record was released in 2008 on Fat Caddy Records. From the chain gang-inspired sound of Love Chain to the gospel-tinged I Walk On Gilded Splinters and Stewart Copeland-esque syncopations of Play On Little Children, Dyer and Boyle weave a diverse fabric that extends beyond conventional musical boundaries.

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Track Listing:
1. Prisoner Of Fear
2. Howling Wind
3. Come Home
4. Come Home Pt. 2
5. Reach Out

And talented...unbelievably talented. His voice conjures thoughts of Al Green, Stevie Wonder or Sly Stone. His songwriting is deeply introspective and serious.

Dyer, who now lives in Austin, Texas, adds guitar and keyboards to his singing and is joined on these recordings by drums and backing vocals (Michael Hale) along with bass alternating with cello (Mark Williams).

Previous to his APO direct-to-disc recordings, Dyers released records for Fat Caddy Records and for a Lenny Kravitz-run Warner Bros. imprint called Roxie Records.

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Track Listing:
1. Two Caribou
2. I Emerged A Man
3. High Horse
4. On The Side
5. World Is Tumbling Down

And talented...unbelievably talented. His voice conjures thoughts of Al Green, Stevie Wonder or Sly Stone. His songwriting is deeply introspective and serious.

Dyer, who now lives in Austin, Texas, adds guitar and keyboards to his singing and is joined on these recordings by drums and backing vocals (Michael Hale) along with bass alternating with cello (Mark Williams).

Previous to his APO direct-to-disc recordings, Dyers released records for Fat Caddy Records and for a Lenny Kravitz-run Warner Bros. imprint called Roxie Records.

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Track Listing:
1. Sorry, Baby
2. Words In My Head
3. Where I'm Going
4. Happier Than Ever
5. Runnin' For Your Life
6. Anne-Marie

LP2
1. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
2. Let Your Light Shine
3. God Don't Ever Change
4. Lord I'm Fully Saved Today
5. When The War Was On
6. God Moves On The Water
7. Your Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond
8. Nobodys Fault But Mine
9. Go With Me To That Land
10. Motherless Children
11. Can't Nobody Hide From God
12. Bye & Bye I'm Going To See The King

Side B:
1. Dark Night 2:55
2. Lover's Gold 2:38
3. Cigarette Party 2:20
4. Brazil 3:36
5. Love Letters 2:58
6. The Wind Did Move 3:40
7. Grey Skies 5:15

This collection includes the best of Lightnin Hopkin's repertoire. Highlights include 'Lightnin's Special', title track 'Dirty House Blues', 'Tim Moore's Farm' and many more.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Nothin' But The Blues
2. Remember Me
3. I Love You Baby
4. Shine On Moon
5. Lightnin's Special
6. Sittin' Here Thinkin'
7. My Baby's Gone
8. Had A Gal Called Sal
9. They Wonder Who I Am
10. Everybody's Down On Me
11. Down To The River
12. Long Way From Texas
13. Tap Dance Boogie
14. I'm Begging You

LP2
1. Freight Train Blues
2. Dirty House Blues
3. Coffee Blues
4. Unkind Blues
5. Fast Life Woman
6. Another Fool In Town
7. T-Model Blues
8. Bottle It Up And Go
9. Nightmare Blues
10. West Coast Blues
11. Life I Used To Live
12. Tim Moore's Farm
13. Buck Dance Boogie
14. Shotgun Blues

Since 2008, Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside has been intertwining elements of swinging roots rock, country, jazz and blues with a contemporary lyrical stance and Ford's instantly recognizable voice. The Portland quartet has steadily ascended through the ranks, earning a growing following throughout the Pacific Northwest.

For a thumbnail sketch of the band's aesthetic on Dirty Radio, lend an ear to "Write Me A Letter," wherein Sallie reminisces about snail mail correspondence while referencing contemporary authors and musicians. "Against the Law" juxtaposes skeletal percussion and haunting guitar licks with Sallie's blunt carnality, while "Miles" and "Thirteen Years Old" show off a more torchy side, complete with judicious fiddle.

Track Listing:
1. I Swear
2. Danger
3. Cage
4. Poison Milk
5. Against the Law
6. Thirteen Years Old
7. This Crew
8. Write Me A Letter
9. Where Did You Go?
10. Miles
11. Nightmares

Greenleaf, of Houston, Texas, has a background steeped in both blues and gospel. She's been influenced by the likes of Koko Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Rosetta Tharpe, Sam Cooke and Charles Brown, and she includes intricate patches of jazz and soul in her performances.

Greenleaf came to the life of professional performing quite late, considering how much talent she has to offer. She worked as a school counselor and occasionally sang rather informally for children's and educational benefits. She and her band played a small show at a hospice in celebration of Houston blues legend Teddy Cry Cry Reynolds' birthday. Afterwards, Reynolds told Greenleaf of how he'd known her parents, both gospel musicians, and how she was not only very talented but also had a duty to continue the family legacy of performing. So insistent was Reynolds that he solicited the opinion of his old friend Katie Webster, the Swamp Boogie Queen. Webster confirmed Reynolds' assessment and encouraged Greenleaf to seriously pursue a life in music, even giving her newfound protégé rules for forming and leading a band.

In 2005, Greenleaf and Blue Mercy represented Houston in the International Blues Challenge, an annual contest in Memphis that features the world's best-unsigned blues bands. Greenleaf and Blue Mercy finished first out of 84 bands from 32 states and eight countries. What's more, Blue Mercy's guitarist, John Richardson, earned the Albert King award for Most Promising Guitarist. From there, the gigs came steadily, and the group's been booked solid ever since.

Greenleaf also served for three years as president of the Houston Blues Society, becoming the first woman elected to that post. As president, she produced the Willie Mae Thorton Blues Festival, bringing in such talent as Texas Johnny Brown, I.J. Gosey, Koko Taylor, Bernard Allison, Mel Waiters and others.

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Track Listing:
1. Crazy
2. Love Treasure
3. Double Dealing
4. The Backdoor Man (You Want To Be)
5. Resolutions

In 1979, historian David Evans, a Professor of Music at the University of Memphis, chanced upon Junior Kimbrough playing at Ethel's Juke Joint in Holly Springs, Mississippi. The University had recently created its own small record label called High Water and he brought Kimbrough in to cut some sides, including his next single at the time titled, "Keep Your Hands Off Her." The sides would be compiled for Junior's first full-length album, Do The Rump. The result has become hill country legend, and his band, featuring Calvin Jackson on drums (father to Cedric Burnside and one of the most rock steady drummers of all time), created a sound that launched a whole new generation of blues fans.

Track Listing:
1. Keep Your Hands Off Her
2. I Feel Good, Little Girl
3. You Better Run
4. Im So Glad Trouble Dont Last Always
5. Done Got Old
6. Please Dont Leave Me Baby
7. Come On and Go with Me
8. Do the Rump!
9. I Want to Know Whats Wrong with You
10. Nobody But You Baby
11. Too Late Baby
12. My Mama Done Told Me
13. Walk with Me

Dont Explain is scheduled for release on September 27 on J&R Adventuresthe independent label founded by Bonamassa and his longtime manager and business partner, Roy Weisman.

Track Listing:
1. Sinners Prayer
2. Chocolate Jesus
3. Your Heart Is As Black As Night
4. For My Friend
5. Dont Explain
6. Id Rather Go Blind
7. Somethings Got A Hold On Me
8. Ill Take Care Of You
9. Well, well
10. Aint No Way

2 LP Gatefold

Track Listing:
LP 1

1. All My Love In Vain
2. The Key (To Your Door)
3. Keep It To Yourself
4. Dissatisfied
5. Fattening Frogs And Snakes
6. Wake Up Baby
7. Your Funeral And My Trail
8. Ninety Nine
9. Cross My Heart
10. Let Me Explain
11. Don't Start Me Talkin'
12. I Don't Know
13. Your Imagination
14. Born Blind
15. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
16. Unseeing Eye

LP 2

1. Crazy 'Bout You Baby
2. Eyesight To The Blind
3. Cool, Cool Blues
4. Do It If You Wanta
5. Come On Back Home
6. Stop Crying
7. West Memphis Blues
8. Pontaic Blues
9. Sonny Boys' Christmas Blues
10. Mighty Long Time
11. Nine Below Zero
12. Mr Down Child
13. Stop Now Baby
14. Too Close Together

These recordings are from a NYC Club called The Cookery and feature Alberta with Gerald Cook (Piano) and Jimmy Lewis (Bass). The 2LP set also contains a bonus track.

Track Listing:
1. My Castle's Rockin'
2. Love I Have for You
3. I Got Rhythm
4. Downhearted Blues
5. Time Waits for No One
6. I'm Havin' a Good Time
7. Two-Fisted Double-Jointed Rough and Ready Man
8. Darktown Strutters' Ball
9. Sometimes I'm Happy
10. I've Got a Mind to Ramble
11. Old Fashioned Love
12. You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark
13. Remember My Name
14. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
15. Georgia on My Mind
16. Handy Man
17. Never Knew My Kisses
18. You're Welcome to Come Back Home

African American singer and guitar player who got his start playing on the streets of Memphis around the turn of the century. His enormous repertoire of early folk, blues, old time country and popular music, along with his influence on local musicians has made many point to him as the true father of Memphis blues. He began touring the South with a black face Medicine Show comedian in the 1910s where it is said he met and influenced Jimmie Rodgers, among others. He then moved to Tennessee where he began playing with musician Dan Sane with whom he made his first recordings as the Beale Street Sheiks for Paramount in 1927. Throughout this period Stokes recorded a number of sides for Paramount and Victor until his old time style began to lose popularity with the record buying public.

Track Listing:
1. Downtown Blues
2. Bedtime Blues
3. Whats the Matter Blues
4. Mistreatin Blues
5. It Wont Be Long Now
6. Nehi Mamma Blues
7. I Got Mine
8. Stomp That Thing
9. 'Taint Nobodys Business If I Do
10. Take Me Back
11. How Long
12. South Memphis Blues
13. Bunker Hill Blues
14. Right Now Blues
15. Shiney Town Blues
16. Frank Stokes' Dream
17. Memphis Rounders Blues

There was an almost religious quality to the way John Lee Hooker saw himself as a musician: the way a preacher is a vessel for the Word of God, John Lee Hooker was a vessel for the blues. After running away from a life of back breaking labor in the cotton fields of Mississippi at the age of 14, Hooker drifted from town to town until he ended up in the booming city of Detroit, in the early 1940s. Although Detroit‟s blues scene was small compared to that of Chicago, it wasn‟t long until young John Lee from Mississippi was a big man on campus. The five tracks on side A were recorded in Detroit between 1949 and 1950 and feature stereo recordings of mainly solo performances by John Lee Hooker. The five tracks on Side B, also recorded in Detroit, are mono recordings primarily from 1954 and feature Hooker in a band format backed by tenor sax, piano and drums.

Track Listing:
Side A:

1. Driftin From Door To Door
2. She Left Me On My Bended Knee
3. Let Your Daddy Ride
4. Turn Over A New Leaf
5. Dont You Remember Me

Side B:

1. Hug And Squeeze You
2. I Love You Baby
3. The Syndicate
4. Boogie Woogie All Night Long
5. Good Rockin Mama

Drunken Barrel House Blues is the third release from the New York City based duo Eden & John's East River String Band (Eden Brower: vocals, ukulele and guitar/John Heneghan: vocals, guitar, mandolin and kazoo). The 13-song set features classic country and blues masterpieces by legends such as Charlie Patton, Memphis Minnie and Ernest V. Stoneman and boasts the band's second cover by underground comic legend Robert Crumb (The Book Of Genesis, Heroes Of The Blues, American Splendor). Also includes special guest performances by Dom Flemons (The Carolina Chocolate Drops), Eli Smith (Down Home Radio Show, The Dust Busters) and Pat Conte (The Otis Brothers, The Secret Museum Of Mankind).

Track Listing:
1. Drunken Barrel House Blues
2. The Rain Don't Fall On Me
3. Johnson Boys
4. The Fate of Talmadge Osborne
5. Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues
6. Last Kind Word Blues
7. Gonna Raise a Ruckus Tonight
8. I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground
9. Yellow Bee
10. Too Tight Blues
11. Corrina Blues
12. Devilish Mary
13. The Spasm

Side B
1. Wee Midnight Hours
2. Honey It Must Be Love
3. Sending Up My Timber
4. Lord Have Mercy If You Please
5. Trying To Get Home (Climbing High Mountains)
6. River Jordan
7. How About You
8. Its My Desire
9. Hide Me In Thy Bosom

One step further into the life and music of this true superstar of early blues, this compilation features the two-part High Water Everywhere, considered to be one of the greatest blues songs of all time, along with other pearls like Devil Sent The Rain Blues, making this second episode of Monk's retrospective on Charley Patton, another must have. Patton's ability to put the harsh everyday struggle of the Delta dwellers into music makes him one of the most enduring and soulful musicians in the entire history of Blues.

Track Listing:
1. Hammer Blues [Take 1]
2. I Shall Not Be Moved (Alt. take)
3. High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1
4. High Water Everywhere, Pt. 2
5. I Shall Not Be Moved
6. Rattlesnake Blues
7. Going To Move To Alabama
8. Hammer Blues [Take 2]
9. Joe Kirby
10. Frankie And Albert
11. Magnolia Blues
12. Devil Sent The Rain Blues
13. Runnin Wild Blues
14. Some Happy Day
15. Mean Black Moan
16. Green River Blues

Twelve more tunes from Charley Patton's 1929 recording sessions. Here the 'Acknowledged King of the Delta Blues' perform some of his finest spiritual material, like the title track, and You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die. One of the most seminal blues artists of all time, this collection helps keep the legend alive.

Track Listing:
1. Some Of These Days Ill Be Gone
2. Elder Green Blues [Take 2] (Alt.version)
3. Jim Lee, Pt.1
4. Jim Lee, Pt.2
5. Mean Black Cat Blues
6. Jesus Is A Dying-Bed Maker
7. Elder Green Blues [Take 2]
8. When Your Way Gets Dark
9. Some Of These Days Ill Be Gone [Take 2]
10. Heart Like Railwood Steel
11. Circle Round The Moon
12. Youre Gonna Need Somebody When You Die

From the granddaddy of Delta blues comes this incredible compilation of his greatest songs. Charley Patton's influence on music cannot be overstated. He began playing music around 1900 and by the time he was 19, about a decade later, he had already written his most popular tune Pony Blues and was on his way to becoming the first superstar of the Delta Blues and a household name. He was soon the most requested performer all over the South and influenced many young musicians, like Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Robert Johnson, to name a few. But it was not only his mastery of the guitar and incredible vocal style that gained him popularity. His rock star-style showmanship and stage antics, like playing guitar down on his knees or behind his back, with a girl on each arm and a drink in hand after the show, made him the idol of young would-be musicians everywhere he played. And like a true rock star, by age 42 he was dead, which of course, only fuelled his fame.

Track Listing:
1. Pony Blues
2. A Spoonful Blues
3. Down The Dirt Road Blues
4. Prayer Of Death, Pt. 1
5. Prayer Of Death, Pt. 2
6. Screamin' & Hollerin' The Blues
7. Banty Rooster Blues Side
8. Tom Rushen Blues
9. It Won't Be Long
10. Shake It & Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama)
11. Pea Vine Blues
12. Mississippi Boweavil Blues
13. Lord I'm Discouraged
14. I'm Goin' Home

BUDDY GUY, JUNIOR WELLS, MUDDY WATERS, KOKO TAYLOR, etc ...

Track Listing:
LP 1

1. Eyesight To The Blind - Sonny Boy Williamson
2. Walkin' The Blues - Willie Dixon
3. I'm Ready- Muddy Waters
4. Groaning The Blues- Otis Rush
5. Sit And Cry (The Blues)- Buddy Guy And His Band
6. Junior's Wail- Junior Wells
7. It Must've Been The Devil- Otis Spann
8. Moanin' At Midnight- Howlin' Wolf
9. Say Man- Bo Diddley
10. Shake It Baby- Sunnyland Slim
11. Five Long Years- Eddie Boyd
12. Easy Baby- Magic Sam
13. You're So Fine- Little Walter

LP 2

1. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man- Muddy Waters
2. Keep It To Yourself- Sonny Boy Williamson
3. Smokestack Lightnin'- Howlin' Wolf
4. I Could Cry- Junior Wells
5. All Your Love- Magic Sam
6. Poison Ivy- Willie Mabon
7. Cry For Me Baby- Elmore James
8. I Can't Quit You Baby- Otis Rush
9. Woman Trouble- Sunnyland Slim
10. Juke- Little Walter And His Combo
11. Ain't That Loving You Baby- Jimmy Reed
12. I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)- Howlin' Wolf
13. Pretty Thing- Bo Diddley
14. Keep It To Yourself- Sonny Boy Williamson

1. Baby Please Don't Go- Big Joe Williams
2. Country Blues- Muddy Waters
3. Parchman Farm Blues- Bukka White
4. I Believe I'll Dust My Broom- Robert Johnson
5. Candy Man Blues- Mississippi John Hurt
6. Shady Grove Blues- John Lee Hooker

LP 1 Side 2

1. Standing At The Crossroads- Elmore James
2. Mississippi River Blues- Big Bill Broonzy
3. Crawlin' King Snake- Tony Hollins
4. Nobody's Fault But Mine- Blind Willie Johnson
5. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues- Skip James
6. Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)- Robert Johnson

LP 2 Side 1

1. Landing Blues- John Lee Hooker
2. Fixin' To Die- Bukka White
3. Canned Heat Blues- Tommy Johnson
4. Love In Vain- Robert Johnson
5. Stagolee- David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
6. Shake It And Break It- Charley Patton

LP 2 Side 2

1. Death Valley Blues- Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
2. I Be's Troubled- Muddy Waters
3. Rootin' Ground Hog- Big Joe Williams
4. My Pencil Won't Write No More- Bo Carter
5. Special Steam Lines- Bukka White
6. Hellhound On My Trail- Robert Johnson

Featuring 28 classic cuts of Texas blues, don't miss the chance to own these tracks on 180g Vinyl.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Texas Blues- Big Maceo
2. Coffee Blues- Lightnin' Hopkins
3. Freeze- Albert Collins
4. Okie Dokie Stomp- Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
5. 'T' 99 Blues- Jimmy Nelson
6. Hide Away- Freddie King
7. Crawfish- Clarence Garlow
8. Little School Girl- Smokey Hogg
9. Just Got To Know- Jimmy McCracklin
10. Rainin' In My Heart- Peppermint Harris
11. I Smell A Rat- Big Mama Thornton
12. Mean Old World- T-Bone Walker
13. It's Midnight (No Place To Go)- Little Willie Littlefield
14. What Will Lucy Do?- Frankie Lee Sims

LP2
1. Crossroads- Texas Alexander
2. Texas Hop- Pee Wee Crayton
3. Chicken-Hearted Woman- Clarence Samuels
4. Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night?- Zuzu Bollin
5. Blues Party- Gary Goodgion
6. Misery Blues- Smokey Hogg
7. Hey Joe- Clarence Samuels
8. Strollin' With The Blues- T-Bone Walker
9. Freedom Train Blues- Lil' Son Jackson
10. Linda Lu- Ray Sharpe
11. Hurry Baby- Little Willie Littlefield
12. Wrong-Doing Woman- Earl Gilliam
13. Lucy Mae Blues- Frankie Lee Sims
14. Angel Child- Peppermint Harris

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Track Listing:
1. Hard To Be
2. White Boots
3. DFW
4. Good Texan
5. Hillbillies From Outerspace
6. Long Way From Home
7. Tick Tock
8. Telephone Song
9. Baboom/Mama Said
10. Brothers

An extremely rare album of instrumental guitar, originally released as a private pressing in 1965, (while Taussig was living in Berkley, right on the cusp of the sixties revolution) and then forgotten until the album was finally saved from the black hole of music with a re-release on CD in 2006. While this album is a faithful slice of American roots, folk, traditional rags and blues, Taussig is not a mere student of these styles, rather he brings a contemporary approach and a darkly sarcastic humour to the music that is all his own. In the vein of guitarists like John Fahey, Taussig is extremely proficient on his instrument (he even wrote a book called Instrumental Techniques of American Folk Guitar), but never bound by mere technique. An important piece in the puzzle of the American folk revival. This is its first ever vinyl reissue.

Track Listing:
Side A:
1. Baby Let Me Lay It On You / That'll Never Happen No More
2. Blues For Zone VII
3. Dark Town Strutters Ball
4. R.R.Bill & Co
5. Rev's Rag
6. Sugar Babe, Your Papa Cares For You

Side B:
1. National Ragtime Stomp
2. Rondo To Death
3. Monte's Blues
4. Dorian Sonata
5. St Louis Tickle
6. Fate Is Only Once

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Track Listing:
1. Death Letter Blues
2. Pearline
3. Louise McGhee
4. John The Revelator
5. Empire State Express
6. Preachin' Blues
7. Grinnin' In Your Face
8. Sundown
9. Levee Camp Moan
10. Death Letter Blues (alternate take)
11. Levee Camp Moan (alternate take )
12. Grinnin' In Your Face (alternate take )
13. JohnThe Revelator (alternate take )
14. Preachin' Blues (alternate take )
15. President Kennedy
16. A Down The Staff
17. Motherless Children
18. Yonder Comes My Mother
19. Shake It and Break It
20. Pony Blues
21. Downhearted Blues

The Original Studio Album PLUS a Bonus LP of Live Material!

On the cover is Michelangelo's 'The Creation Of Man,' where God reaches out his hand: the intentions of the makers of Fathers And Sons could hardly be more illustrative. The enigmatic message of this album is clearly that these prodigal sons, these one-time gods of the Chicago blues, are to be given a helping hand to their comeback. And this was sorely needed, for although the Chess label had achieved good sales figures one year previously with the LP Electric Mud, they didn't really produce a convincing blues session. In order not to land once again in the pseudo-psychedelic outback with distorted electronic sound and wah-wah effects, the two legendary artists Muddy Waters and Otis Spann were joined by the three musicians who made up the Butterfield Blues Band. With this artistic core of fathers and sons and a few choice side musicians, the resulting blues recording rolled along without a hitch. A whole set of pieces were set down, enough to fill an LP, and a 30-minute live session adds further luster to the excellent studio recordings. The characteristic crisp and raw Waters studio sound is followed by a charismatic stage show which bubbles and boils with a red-hot blues atmosphere.

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Track Listing:
1. All Aboard
2. Mean Disposition
3. Blow Wind Blow
4. Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had
5. Walkin Thru The Park
6. Forty Days And Forty Nights
7. Standin ‘Round Crying
8. I’m Ready; Twenty Four Hours
9. Sugar Sweet
10. Long Distance Call
11. Baby Please Don’t Go
12. Honey Bee
13. The Same Thing
14. Got My Mojo Working Pts. 1 and 2

Limited Edition, HQ-180g vinyl pressed at Record Technologies, Inc. (RTI)

Track Listing:
1. Rock This House
2. Tricky Woman
3. Slick Chick
4. Angel Child
5. Chicago Bound
6. St. Louis
7. You DonÆt Know
8. YouÆre So Sweet (Real Audio sample)
9. Blue And Lonesome
10. She Loves Another Man
11. Out On The Road

As this appealing set indicates, he can pull more from this simple instrument than just about anyone else. - Downbeat

This very authentic session is full of soul and quiet fire. - Monthly Detroit

Track Listing:
1. Everybody's Fishin'
2. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
3. Relaxin'
4. We Gonna Move To Kansas City
5. Walter's Swing
6. Hobo Blues
7. Stop Clownin'
8. Need My Baby
9. La Cucaracha
10. Worried Life
11. Put The Kettle On

1. Baby I'm Gonna Miss You
2.Half A Stranger
3. Shake Holler And Run
4. Down Child
5. Gonna Boogie

Side B:

1. Bad Boy
2. Rock House Boogie
3. Let's Talk It Over
4. Baby You Ain't No Good
5. Lookin' For A Woman

Folk Singer has been an audiophile staple for years. It always gets a bunch of play at hi-fi shows. It's a no-doubter demonstration disc. But never before has it sounded like this! Never has it been cut at 45 RPM!

There are a handful of landmark albums in any genre. In the blues, one of them is Muddy Waters' Folk Singer. Originally released in 1964, Folk Singer was the only acoustic album Waters ever recorded, thus becoming the first and perhaps best blues concept album ever. Muddy of course started out playing acoustic blues in the Delta, and he's clearly very comfortable in this return to his roots, which was designed to appeal to the mid-1960s surge of interest in folk music.

Muddy's supporting cast includes a very young Buddy Guy on guitar, Willie Dixon at the upright bass and Clifton James on drums.

This recording has enormous presence with ample room for Muddy's booming voice to resonate.

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Track Listing:
1. My Home Is in the Delta
2. Long Distance Call
3. My Captain
4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
5. You're Gonna Need My Help
6. Cold Weather Blues
7. Big Leg Woman
8. Country Boy
9. Feel Like Going Home

'Folk, Blues and Beyond' is his second studio album, originally released in 1964. It has been considered Graham's most groundbreaking and consistent work and a defining record of the 20th century.

Most of the tracks on the album are a fusion of traditional western folk/blues and Middle-Eastern music. This synthesis of world sounds was inspired by Grahams frequent traveling across the Asian continent from the early 1950s onward.

Track Listing:
LP 1
1 Leavin' Blues
2 Cocaine
3 Sally Free and Easy
4 Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
5 Rock Me Baby
6 Seven Gypsies
7 Ballad of the Sad Young Men
8 Moanin'

LP 2
1 Skillet (Good'n'Greasy)
2 Ain't Nobody's Business What I Do
3 Maajun
4 I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes
5 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
6 My Babe
7 Goin' Down Slow
8 Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul

1. Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues (June 1929)
2. Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues (June 1929)
3. Down The Dirt Road Blues (June 1929)
4. Pony Blues (June 1929)
5. Banty Rooster Blues (June 1929)
6. It Won't Be Long (June 1929)
7. Tom Rushem Blues (June 1929)

Side Two

8. A Spoonful Blues (June 1929)
9. Shake It And Break It (June 1929)
10. Going To Move To Alabama (Nov. 1929)
11. Elder Green Blues (Nov. 1929)
12. Frankie And Albert (Nov. 1929)
13. Some These Days I'll Be Gone (Nov. 1929)
14. Green River Blues (Nov. 1929)

Side Three

15. Hammer Blues (Nov. 1929)
16. When Your Way Gets Dark (Nov. 1929)
17. High Water Everywhere Part I (Dec. 1929)
18. High Water Everywhere Part II (Dec. 1929)
19. Rattlesnake Blues (Dec. 1929)
20. Running Wild Blues (Dec. 1929)
21. Dry Well Blues (July 1930)

Side Four

22. Moon Going Down (July 1930)
23. Bird Next Bound (July 1930)
24. High Sheriff Blues (Jan. 30, 1934)
25. Stone Pony Blues (Jan. 30, 1934)
26. 34 Blues (Jan. 31, 1934)
27. Revenue Man Blues (Jan. 31, 1934)
28. Poor Me (Feb. 1, 1934)

Although his career was tragically cut short by his death at the age of 42, Freddie King was one of Americas most distinctive and influential electric blues guitarists, leaving an indelible mark on more than one generation of guitar superstars, including Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Rolling Stones Mick Taylor. The Texas-born axeman began playing guitar at the age of six, and in his teens moved with his family to the South Side of Chicago, where he was inspired by witnessing club gigs by such seminal electric bluesmen as Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers and Elmore James. Originally billed as Freddy King, he began recording in 1957, revealing a massively influential style that merged his Texas and Chicago influences, and soon achieved commercial success with a series of infectious instrumental hits.

Sundazed Musics new vinyl edition of this electric blues landmark has been sourced from the original mono master, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl. It features an exact reproduction of the original LP cover art..

Track Listing:
1. Manhole
2. Freeway 75
3. Low Tide
4. The Sad Nite Owl
5. Funnybone
6. Nickleplated
7. King-a-Ling
8. Surf Monkey
9. Freddy's Midnite Dream
10. Fish Fare
11. Cloud Sailin'
12. Remington Ride

The album is predominantly Texas blues, featuring such artists as ZZ Top, Stevie Ray Vaughan and his brother Jimmie Vaughan. The film's score was composed by Graeme Revell, and two short excerpts of his work are featured on the album.

There are also extracts of dialogue from the film. The Chicano rock band Tito & Tarantula, who portrayed the band in the Titty Twister bar, appears on the soundtrack as well.

This record – never before released on vinyl- contains a 6 panel insert and a secret bonus track.

• 180 grams audiophile vinyl
• Gatefold sleeve
• 6 page panel insert
• Secret bonus track
• First time ever on vinyl


Track Listing:

1.  Everybody Be Cool (Dialogue) (0:04)
2.  Blasters, The – Dark Night (3:48)
3.  ZZ Top – Mexican Blackbird (3:03)
4.  Jon Wayne – Texas Funeral (2:32)
5. Mavericks, The – Foolish Heart (3:31)
6.  Juliette Lewis & Quentin Tarantino – Would You Do Me A Favor? (Dialogue) (0:11)
7.  Jimmie Vaughan – Dengue Woman Blues (6:23)
8.  Leftovers, The – Torquay (2:41)
9.  ZZ Top – She's Just Killing Me (4:56)

1.  Chet's Speech (Dialogue) (0:42)
2.  Tito & Tarantula – Angry Cockroaches (Cucarachas Enojadas) (5:14)
3.  Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – Mary Had A Little Lamb (4:15)
4.  Tito & Tarantula – After Dark (4:11)
5.  Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – Willie The Wimp (And His Cadillac Coffin) (4:34)
6.  Kill The Band (Dialogue) (0:05)
7.  Graeme Revell – Mexican Standoff (0:49)
8.  Graeme Revell – Sex Machine Attacks (1:22)

Produced by: Jack White


Track Listing:

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Track Listing:
1. Get Back Home In The USA
2. TB Is Killing Me
3. Cold Chills
4. I Had A Dream Last Night
5. Love Affair
6. Little Rain
7. When My First Wife Left Me
8. Big Boss Lady
9. Back To Your Mother
10. Boogie Chillen
11. Sitting Here Thinking
12. I Wanna Ramble
13. Hi-Heel Sneakers
14. Im So Worried Baby
15. Im Going Upstairs
16. Crazy Bout You

Getting Ready... was King's first of three releases for Shelter Records, Leon Russell's Tulsa-based label. In fact, when Russell first formed Shelter, he reportedly did so partly to play out his vision of recording one of his favorites, Freddie King.

Recorded in October 1970 at the TER-MAR Chess Studios in Chicago and released in 1971, Getting Ready... is proof positive that King was the man and that Shelter Records was one cool label. The record includes a cover of Jimmy Rogers' classic "Walking By Myself" and King references Rogers also in the lyrics of another track on the record, "Living On The Highway". Rogers was the first artist to record for Acoustic Sounds' own APO Records label and the first to appear in concert at Acoustic Sounds' Blue Heaven Studios.

More APO and Blue Heaven tie-ins to Freddie King include Jimmie Lee Robinson, who while living was the veritable soul of APO and Blue Heaven. When King moved from Texas to Southside Chicago around 1950, he formed his first ever band, The Every Hour Blues Boys, with Robinson.

The backing band for Getting Ready... includes the stud cast of Leon Russell on piano and guitars, Duck Dunn on bass, Don Preston on guitar, Jon Gallie on organ, Chuck Blackwell on drums and Charles Myers on drums.

Getting Ready is among the first titles to be pressed at Acoustic Sounds' Quality Record Pressings.

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Track Listing:
1. Same Old Blues
2. Dust My Broom
3. Worried Life Blues
4. Five Long Years
5. Key to the Highway
6. Going Down
7. Living on the Highway
8. Walking by Myself
9. Tore Down
10. Palace of the King

APO owner Chad Kassem first heard the harmonica player in the early 1980s at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City - when Kassem was still flipping burgers and not even thinking about the music business - and was amazed at how few recordings Little Hatch had made (one at the time, The Little Hatchet LP in 1972).

Little Hatch (who was once nicknamed Little Walter Jr. but changed it becuase his music deserved a name of its own), made this unplanned and unrehearsed recording for Kassem's APO label at Blue Heaven Studios when Hatch found himself as a spectator during another recording session. He couldn't help himself and cut loose while the tape rolled along with the masterful guitar accompaniment of longtime associate Bill Dye.

In about three hours, Little Hatch completed 15 cuts, most on the first take. The result was traditional, raw, dirty blues at its finest with hamonica and slide guitar. The acoustics of the grand old church make it sound like Little Hatch is, indeed, playing just for you on your back porch or in your living room.

So go on back to the porch. Pull up that chair and take a listen.

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Track Listing:
1. Rock Me baby
2. Woke Up This Morning
3. She's Nineteen Years Old
4. Fannie Mae
5. Baby, Scratch My Back
6. Buzz On
7. Your Friends
8. I Got A Woman
9. Glory Glory

His backing band, The Lost Cause Minstrels, comprises some of the finest players on todays Gulf Coast music scene, including Corky Hughes on guitar, Chris Spies on keys, Christian Grizzard on bass and John Milham on drums.

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Track Listing:
1. Jane's Alley Blues
2. John The Dagger
3. The Battle Is Over
4. Give It To Me
5. Chief Seattle
6. Coconut Moonshine

His backing band, The Lost Cause Minstrels, comprises some of the finest players on todays Gulf Coast music scene, including Corky Hughes on guitar, Chris Spies on keys, Christian Grizzard on bass and John Milham on drums.

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Track Listing:
1. Get Back Up
2. A Love Song For Bobby Long
3. Lorraine's Song
4. I See You
5. Graveyard

His backing band, The Lost Cause Minstrels, comprises some of the finest players on todays Gulf Coast music scene, including Corky Hughes on guitar, Chris Spies on keys, Christian Grizzard on bass and John Milham on drums.

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Track Listing:
1. Big Ol' Woman
2. Uncle Ed Lee
3. Poison
4. Wail & Ride
5. Washboard Lisa
6. Back To The Country

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Track Listing:
C-Jam Blues
Gone Again
Will You Still Be Mine?
Willow Weep For Me
What Can I Say Dear?
Hey Now