Guitar Mikey & The Real Thing - 1990 - Caught Between The Squeeze [128]

Guitar Mikey, a.k.a. Mike McMillan, is a Hamilton guy who was wowing them from an early age. He went to a Muddy Waters concert at age 11, and when his dad came to pick him up afterward, Mikey was back stage, talking to the great man himself. He has been playing in working bands since age 12. Guitar Mikey helped form the Steel City Blues Band in 1980, and that year it won first place, in a field of 50 bands, at the UNICEF telethon. Shortly after, the band would welcome new member King Biscuit Boy, no less. In the '90s Mikey moved to the U.S. and has lived in Chicago, New England and now Clarksdale, Miss.

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Fiona Boyes - 2009 - Blues Woman [VBR]

Fiona Boyes is a one-woman blues tent revival. Her pulpit is the stage, which she commands with the energy of an entire flock of worshippers. And her Bible is the guitar. With her acoustic and electric virtuosity and mastery of styles, she uses it as a righteous instrument to uphold the music’s tradition, even as her strong, distinctive songwriting moves it forward.And Blues Woman, Boyes’ second album for Yellow Dog Records, is one mighty powerful sermon. Its 15 songs run a rollicking trip through the contemporary blues landscape — from Chicago to Texas to Mississippi’s hill country and the Delta, all evocatively conjured by Boyes’ and producer Mark “Kaz” Kazanoff’s true-to-the-bone arrangements.Recorded in Austin TX, with a full band including special guests Marcia Ball, Pinetop Perkins, and Watermelon Slim, Blues Woman manifests the soulful, authoritative style of this native Australian and three-time Blues Music Award nominee to full effect. GRAB IT QUICKLY!!!!

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The Boneshakers - 1997 - Book Of Spells [128]

Their union in the Boneshakers was fairly short-lived, but together guitarist/songwriter Randy Jacobs and vocalist Sweet Pea Atkinson put together two powerful, rockin' funk and soul albums and entertained some lucky audiences who became Boneshakers themselves on dance floors across the U.S.

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T-Bone Singleton - 1996 - Walkin' The Floor [VBR]

Guitarist, singer and songwriter T-Bone Singleton was born in New Orleans and grew up in Baton Rouge, where he still lives. His 1996 JSP Records release, Walkin' the Floor, is a small fraction of his output from the last ten years, and the ever-inventive songwriter and guitarist probably has another three albums worth of material ready to be recorded. Well-respected in Baton Rouge, Singleton's debut album was produced by blues guitarist and singer Larry Garner.

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Cuban Heels - 2006 - Gutbucketmusic [320]

Gritty , primal and soulful are the best words to describe Cuban Heels music . Blending their Garage Blues with a raw soul power in the vein of the great soul and gospel shouters. Influences range from blues greats such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Little Walter, through soul legends as Otis Redding and Ray Charles to garage rockers as The Stooges and The Sonics. The latter two mainly to give an impression about the raw energy of the band. Although all three Cuban Heels albums have been receiving raving reviews, third album Gutbucket Music can be seen as their ultimate so far. A Cuban Heels gig is a lot more than the average blues show. Appealing to an audience ranging from youngsters to the older, more traditional bluesfan, the band gives all they got and has left audiences breathless at renowned festivals as the North Sea Jazz, Moulin Blues and Belgian Rhythm & Blues Festival.

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Tony Joe White - 2003 - Dangerous Eyes [192]

Reissue of 1976 (Eyes) and 1983 (Dangerous) albums. Hot swamp rock, country and southern blues 'n' boogie from an enduring artist whose songs have been recorded by more than 200 artists. Includes 2 bonus tracks, rare European single b-side 'Living In The River City' and a brief interview with anecdotes and philosophies from the Swamp Fox. Informative liner notes and period photographs in a deluxe 8 page booklet. Includes such tracks as 'Swamp Boogie', 'Hold On To Your Hiney', 'Do You Have A Garter Belt?', 'The Lady In My Life', 'We Belong Together', 'Soulful Eyes'. 22 tracks in all.

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Jimmy Reed - 2000 - Blues Masters The Very Best of Jimmy Reed [320]

With his meteoric run of hits from early 1955 through late 1961, Chicago's Jimmy Reed reigned as the most popular bluesman of his day, rivaled only by fellow Mississippi transplant B.B. King. By the mid-'60s Reed was playing New York's Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theater and touring England as a star. Reed's sweet, Delta-inflected singing complemented the cool, walking bass shuffles of his cleverly crafted songs, the finest of which are to be found in this tasteful contribution to Rhino's Blues Masters series. Included here are chart toppers like "You Don't Have to Go," "Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby," "Baby, What You Want Me to Do," "Big Boss Man," and "Bright Lights, Big City," all durable standards that influenced a generation of rockers from Bob Dylan to the Rolling Stones to Jimi Hendrix and earned Reed his proper place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Jill King - 2010 - Rain On Fire [320]

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Jill King - 2008 - Somebody New [192]

It's always nice to find a singer who can embrace the traditional sounds of country music, the hillbilly sound of the backwoods Appalachians, the simple quality that makes country music COUNTRY, while at the same time presenting it with a fresh, contemporary sound. Jill King has all of that wrapped up with a beautiful voice all her own. This Alabama native knows how to belt out a real country song.

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Jill King - 2003 - Jillbilly [192]

Jill King is the flagship artist for Blue Diamond Records of Nashville. Growing up in Arab, AL, King began singing in church at the age of three and enjoyed traditional artists such as Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, and Hank Williams. King moved to Nashville in 1992 and majored in English at Vanderbilt University before receiving a position as songwriter for Gate to Gate Publishing in 1997. Over 200 songs later, Jill King released her first effort, Jillbilly, in 2003.

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Judge Jackson - 2007 - Judge Jackson [128]

Judge Jackson, the kings of the Inland Empire, who have played at every biker rally from Riverside to San Bernardino, have put out a self-released album that incorporates all the best aspects of traditional, balls-to-the-wall rock & roll. Led by singer/vocalist Todd McTavish, guitarist Lee Jackson, bassist Ryan Rogers and HITS’ own J.J. Garcia on drums, the band takes those hoary rock cliches of being an outlaw (“Bandit”), finding the right woman (“Hold My Hand,” with its affecting McTavish harp solo) or simply “Hangin’ On” and transforms them all into indelible truths by sheer force of real-life commitment. The band comes off like a cross between vintage Crazy Horse and AC/DC, creating a series of snapshots that are as timeless as this brand of rock gets, with a an honest-to-goodness flick-your-cell phone power ballad in “With You” and a touching tribute to war veterans based on an actual meeting in “Lift the Bottle.”

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Jesse Fuller - 1963 - Brother Lowdown [320]

Originally released as the Prestige albums San Francisco Bay Blues and Jesse Fuller's Favorites, these 26 sides are fine examples of Fuller's unique one-man band genius. As if guitar, harmonica, kazoo, and washboard weren't enough to occupy his musicianship, the man also invented the "fotdella," a bass he could play with his feet. Includes original release liner notes by Michael Goodwin.

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Johnny Jenkins - 2000 - All In Good Time [192]

Jenkins was born in Macon, Georgia, on March 5, 1939, and grew up in rural Swift Creek. He listened to R&B, hillbilly, and blues on a small battery-powered radio, and built his first guitar by combining a cigar box and rubber bands when he was nine. Left handed, he played the guitar upside down, a method he stuck with after his sister bought him a real guitar. Jenkins absorbed the music of his day, from Bill Doggett to Chuck Berry, and played at a local gas station for tips.While Johnny Jenkins's name never reached the heights of his contemporaries, his flamboyant guitar style backed the earliest recordings of Otis Redding and influenced Jimi Hendrix's technical flourish. Jenkins fronted the Pinetoppers in the late 1950s, had brief chart success with "Love Twist" in 1961, and recorded Ton-Ton Macoute! with members of the All-man Brothers Band in 1970 (released 1972). After 1970 Jenkins, bitter over what he considered ill-treatment by his manager, retired from the music business for the next 25 years. In 1996, however, he returned with Blessed Blues, another winning album featuring his heartfelt blues style.

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Maurizio Pugno - 2010 - Kill The Coffee [320]

Maurizio's second CD for Pacific Blues, recorded in Italy with guest artists Sugar Ray Norcia and Mark DuFresne is a rich mix of musical styles and voices. Each of the artists wrote songs especially for this recording, done live in the Gubbio Theater with the same fine musicians as the first CD, with some extra guest players. Blues, R&B flavored ballads and some swinging uptempo songs are the fare. The band and Maurizio's fine guitar mold themselves to each of the singers as if they had been together for years.

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Lazarus - 1973 - A Fool's Paradise [192]

Lazarus was a 1970s American soft-rock band. The members of Lazarus were Billie Hughes, Gary Dye, and Carl Kessee. Billie Hughes was the leader of the band, as the lead singer and songwriter.In association with Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary,"Lazarus" moved to Woodstock, N.Y., signing with the newly formed Bearsville Records (Warner Bros.) label, under the direction of Albert Grossman. A Fool's Paradise and another album were recorded and released on Bearsville, produced by Peter Yarrow and Phil Ramone. In the next four years, "Lazarus" performed extensively throughout the United States and Canada. In 1976 "Lazarus" won the Clio Award for "Lifesavers" Best Commercial of the Year which ran nine years nationwide. The band's first album, "Lazarus", was released in 1971, and "Warmth of Your Eyes" was released as a single in 1972. Their second and final album, Fool's Paradise, followed in 1973, from which Ladyfriends I (Sing a Song to Your Lady) was tagged as a single. Hughes went on to a solo career after they disbanded.

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Jimmy Rogers All Stars - 1999 - Blues Blues Blues [192]

Back in 1969, Muddy Waters and Otis Spann teamed with young guns Paul Butterfield and Michael Bloomfield to create Fathers & Sons. The idea was to match the sagacity of the "old timers" with the flash and commercial muscle of the upstarts. Nearly three decades later, Jimmy Rogers holed up in the studio with Butterfield-Bloomfield contemporaries Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and Stephen Stills; the result is Blues Blues Blues, the late singer-guitarist's swan song. Here's something to ponder: Waters was 54 when Fathers & Sons was recorded, the same age as Jagger when he cut his two tracks for this set. So maybe this collection should've been called Great-Grandfathers & Grandfathers. That said, Jagger's two contributions to Blues Blues Blues highlight this effort; he sounds invigorated dueting with the steady-rollin' Rogers on "Trouble No More" and gooses up Sonny Boy Williamson's "Don't Start Me to Talkin'" with studied nonchalance. With other rock-era titans (Taj Mahal, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page) and blues stalwarts (Carey Bell, Johnnie Johnson, Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers drummer Ted Harvey) along to lend support, Blues Blues Blues is a star-studded sendoff to one of the blues' noble patriarchs.

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V.A. - 2007 - A Richer Tradition - Country Blues & String Band Music - 1923-42 [320]

This is a real box of delights.100 rare songs from 78rpm records recorded between 1923 and 1942. These tracks were recorded when production was fairly minimal and the band stood around one mic. Just the names of the artists give an idea of whats instore,Daddy Stovepipe,Papa Charlie Jackson,Hambone willie newbern,Dixieland Jug Blowers,etc etc. The people who made these tracks have long gone,but because of collectors allowing JSP to remaster and release them in this box set everybody can own a little piece of American musical history.

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Marty Grebb - 1999 - Smooth Sailin' [320]

Smooth Sailin' is the debut release by multi-instrumentalist Marty Grebb. Back in the mid-'60s, Grebb was a founding member of the pop band the Buckinghams, and was also a backup musician who played with the Dells, Bonnie Raitt, Etta James, and Willie Nelson, to name a few. On his Telarc debut, Grebb plays piano, B-3, a bevy of saxophones, and guitar, and also handles lead vocals. He surrounds himself with high-profile guests, including Raitt, Taj Mahal, Steve Cropper, Amos Garrett, and Rick Braun. The 13 tunes are all originals by Grebb or are co-written by him, and range from horn-saturated soul-blues, lazy New Orleans grooves, and gospel-funk to smooth radio-ready contemporary blues.

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Monte Montgomery - 2005 - Live At Workplay (Video)

Singer/songwriter, Monte Montgomery, works his acoustic guitar magic in this live release. Tracks include 'Shock', 'Wishing Well', 'Come Away', 'Back To The Country', 'How The Story Goes' and many more...

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Krissy Matthews - 2007 - No Age Limit [VBR]

A variety of original blues material recorded and written by young blues guitar virtuoso Krissy Matthews from the UK.

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The Bill Nelson Band - 2010 - Don't Talk To Strange Dogs [VBR]

"Don't Talk to Strange Dogs" is the second release for Texas Gulf Coast guitarist, Bill Nelson,featuring the screaming guitar work that he is known for, as well as some sweet acoustic and resonator tones, from the Missippi Delta to the Mexican border! A BIG THANX TO THE DR.!!

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Robert 'Bilbo' Walker - 1998 - Rompin' & Stompin' [320]

Walker was born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Walker Sr. was often referred to by his nickname, Bilbo, which was then passed onto to Walker Jr., who was also sometimes called Little Junior Bilbo. Walker began to explore music after his sister's boyfriend introduced him to Ike Turner. After spending 17 years in Chicago, Illinois with his friend David Porter, Walker moved to the area around Bakersfield, California and started a farm growing such commodities as watermelon and cotton. During this time, he continued to perform at local bars in the California area, as well as in Chicago and Clarksdale when on visits. He currently still resides in California. In 1997, Walker released his first album, Promised Land, and followed it with two more records, 1998's Rompin' & Stompin' and 2001's Rock the Night.

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Krissy Matthews - 2005 - Blues Boy [VBR]

Krissy came into the blues four years ago at the age of 11. The first CD "Influences" is getting plays all across Europe and Scandinavia, although it was renamed "Blues Boy" for the Scandinavian Market.

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Miller Anderson - 2008 - Chameleon [VBR]

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Eddie Taylor - 1995 - Long Way From Home [256]

Okay effort from the venerable Chicago guitarist's later days that's not as essential as Taylor's prior recording activities.

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Paul 'Wine' Jones - 2006 - Stop Arguing Over Me [VBR]

Mississippi bluesman John Paul Jones was born July 1, 1946 in Flora, Mississippi. His style of playing can be described as a genuine, raw Delta juke joint style. His raw and edgy guitar playing, his rough and gritty voice, his jagged singing, the use of the wah-wah pedal and the distorted guitar sound are clearly away from the blues mainstream and very often not much appreciated by traditional blues lovers. On October 9, 2005, at the age of only 59 years, Jones died of cancer in a hospital in Jackson, MS.

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Lee Gates - 2006 - Black Lucy's Deuce [VBR]

Lee Gates was born in Mississippi and moved to Milwaukee in 1959 as a teenager where he has been playing his brand of down home Blues for the past 50 years. Blues legend Albert Collins is his first cousin (although it wasn’t until ‘74 that Lee met him) and you can hear the family influence in Lee’s fluid guitar style and tone.

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Julian Fauth - 2008 - Ramblin' Son [320]

Julian Fauth's music can take you to new moods, new thoughts, new enjoyment. It is rare that a CD is both challenging and purely entertaining. Mr. Fauth is a story-teller, a mood maker, a master musician, and his voice can be anything from chilling to haunting, inviting to warm. He knows a lot about life. He knows a lot about emotions. And he can blend them both in a mixture of pristine blues with a folk soul.

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Miller Anderson - 2003 - Bluesheart [320]

Bluesheart, originally released in 2003, is Miller Anderson's third solo album in a musical career that spans almost forty years. From The Keef Hartley Band through Mountain, Savoy Brown, T Rex, The Spencer Davies Group and many more. Featuring five new Miller Anderson songs that show what a great writer he is as well as being an accomplished singer and guitarist. These fine blues songs sit well alongside a powerful rendition of the classic 'House of the Rising Sun', an equally impressive 'Smokestack Lightnin' that segues nicely into 'Wang Dang Doodle'.

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