Allen Hinds - 2008 - Falling Up [320]

The third CD from guitarist and composer Allen Hinds is by far his most adventurous and revealing. This CD sounds better and all the performances are great. Jimmy Johnson, Jeff Babko, Randy Porter, Melvin Davis, are just a few of the great players featured on this CD.

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Greg ''Fingers'' Taylor - 2003 - Hi Fi Baby [256]

This 2003 release features the blues harp master teamed with a super hot band full of special guests including Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. The long time Jimmy Buffettband member shines with down and dirty blues paying tribute to the originators of the genre.

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Willie J Foster - 1999 - Live At Airport Grocery [VBR]

One of the prime discoveries of 1999, this recording from undeservedly obscure harmonica player Willie Foster fairly oozes with the blues. Foster is, quite simply, a master at his craft; in his hands the harmonica takes on a new dimension of expression. Not to be missed.

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Willie J Foster - 1993 - At Home With The Blues [256]

Willie J. Foster provides vocals and harmonica playing as only a true Mississippi Delta bluesman can. His soulful harmonica touches the heart of all who have known the blues.
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Nande & The Big Difference - 2001 - Nande & The Big Difference [320]

15 hot Jump Blues songs. Flaming harmonica, smoking guitar and a red hot rhythm section from Denmark.

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King Biscuit Boy - 1995 - Urban Blues Re:Newell [320]

Richard Newell grew up in Canada listening to the blues. He learned to play the harmonica as a teenager and joined the Barons in 1961, releasing a single called "Bottleneck." In 1966, Newell left the band (then renamed Son Richard and the Chessmen) to join the Midknights, but then began playing with Ronnie Hawkins, who nicknamed him King Biscuit Boy. After playing with Hawkins for two years, he joined Crowbar and released Official Music (as King Biscuit Boy & Crowbar) in 1970. He recorded solo material sporadically throughout the '70s and '80s (including 1982's Mouth of Steel and Richard Newell A.K.A. King Biscuit Boy in 1988). Poor health due to alcoholism stunted his career through the 90's and on January 5, 2003 Newell succumbed to the disease at his home in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Jubal Kane - 2008 - The Empty Glass [VBR]

Double live CD.

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Zakiya Hooker - 1996 - Flavors Of The Blues [256]

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Zakiya Hooker - 1993 - Another Generation Of The Blues [320]

Zakiya Hooker was born into the blues. After all, her father is the late great blues legend John Lee Hooker. Zakiya has pursued life and music on her own terms. In 1991 Zakiya made her first public appearance with her father at the Kaiser Center Theatre in Oakland, California. Since that time Zakiya has gone on to perform on shows with Etta James, John Hammond, Taj Mahal, Charlie Musselwhite and many more artists of all genres. By 1993 Zakiya released her first CD Another Generation Of The Blues on Silvertone Records.

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Zora Young - 1992 - Travelin' Light [224]

Despite the prominent presence of celebrated blues artist Howlin' Wolf in her family tree, singer Zora Young grew up singing not blues, but gospel. Even when the Mississippi native shook off her roots at the age of seven to relocate with her family to Chicago, she attended the Greater Harvest Baptist Church and continued to sing gospel. It wasn't until later that she switched over to R&B, and evolved into a powerhouse blues vocalist with three decades of experience behind her. She has performed with a long list of artists, including Junior Wells, Jimmy Dawkins, Bobby Rush, Buddy Guy, Professor Eddie Lusk, Albert King, and B.B. King. Her recording credits include collaborations with Willie Dixon, Sunnyland Slim, Mississippi Heat, Paul deLay, and Maurice John Vaughn, among others.

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Fathead - 2007 - Building Full Of Blues [320]

Twelve great songs solid and well built, played with conviction, passion and strength, fast and effective with solos in the guitar, harmonica and saxophone, without neglecting the piano and Hammond B-3, which are handled by two guests recruited for the occasion, Jesse O'Brien and Lance Anderson.

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Rockie Charles - 1996 - Born For You [256]

Fifty-four-year-old Louisiana Native Rockie Charles emerges from the fen-sucked fog of obscurity on 'Born for You.' A singer/songwriter/guitarist known as 'The President of Soul,' he backed soul legends like Little Johnny Taylor, Percy Sledge, O.V. Wright and Otis Redding in the 1960s when he was based in Nashville. This unpretentious album of original Southern soul owes more to the music of Al Green and O.V. Wright then to blues or even 'Nawlins R&B. The five ballads suggest the influence of Percy Sledge. His sparse, clean guitar work reminds of Stax-era Steve Cropper as it fits in perfectly with the organ and horns. Sadly Rockie Charles, passed away about one month ago, after battling cancer.

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Fathead - 2010 - Where's The Blues Taking Me [320]

Fathead’s latest CD “Where's The Blues Taking Me” is the crown jewel in the band’s seven CD catalogue thus far. It’s been a long but steady climb since Fathead’s debut CD in 1995, and the band has been tearing it up on the North American festival circuit ever since – winning over new fans every time they play – making Fathead one of the country’s top roots acts.

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T. Blues Mob - 2002 - Live In Denmark [VBR]

T. Blues Mob is a band from Tbilisi, Georgia, which plays its own uncompromising version of blues based and hard-driving rock. From the very beginning the name of this band stood for class, since it was formed by one of the best rock, blues and jazz musicians of Georgia, who had long established their high reputation among both music lovers and fellow musicians. The repertoire of the band consists of both their original re-workings of standard or lesser known traditional blues songs and the groups own rock and soul compositions driven by improvisory and energetic performance style. T.Blues Mob was formed in 1998 by three former members of the famous Georgian group Blues Mobile Band - Koka Tskitishvili, Lasha Topuria and Davit Manizhashvili, now augmented with experienced and brilliant guitarist Tamaz Tkhinvaleli.

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Chris Wilson - 1994 - Live At The Continental [320]

Local hero Chris Wilson's iconic recording of his 1994 show at Prahran's much loved and sorely missed Continental Cafe, with Shane O'Mara and Jex Saarelaht, has just been re-issued as a two-disc set, featuring a newly re-mastered version of the original release, along with a bonus disc featuring 6 previously unavailable extra tracks from that memorable night.

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Chris Wilson - 1992 - Landlocked [320]

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Mark May - 1999 - Telephone Road [256]

10 of the 12 songs on Telephone Road were written or co-written by guitarist and band leader, Mark May. Mark's vocals are smooth and true, his guitar work solid. At times his guitar playing reminds Albert Collins, other times there's no comparison at all.

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Bill Sheffield - 2006 - Journal On A Shelf [VBR]

Passionate, rootsy, expressive voice and superb picking and slide guitar.

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Johnny Winter - 2004 - I'm A Bluesman [320]

Texas guitar-slinger Johnny Winter bares some of his deepest roots on his first album of new recordings since 1998. In a rare turn on acoustic slide six-string, he performs fellow Lone Star State legend Hop Wilson's "That Wouldn't Satisfy" with the sweet, lovely simplicity of a street corner singer. Then Winter plugs in for Lazy Lester's stomping primal rocker "Sugar Coated Love." But after years of health issues, Winter, who's 60, has lost the roaring vocal authority of his earlier albums and no longer takes dizzying solos at jet speed. Instead, he makes all the notes of a tune like "Lone Wolf" count, whether he's crafting a slide melody or literally howling. "The Monkey Song," a playfully sleazy double-entendre number, proves his sense of humor is intact. And harmonica ace James Montgomery, who recently joined Winter's band, provides perfect accompaniment to Winter's vocal and guitar lines. Ex-Stevie Ray Vaughan keyboardist Reese Wynans also contributes to this overdue addition to Winter's dynamic blues-rock legacy.

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Wilson-Diesel - 1996 - Short Cool Ones [256]

Short Cool Ones is a 1996 Johnny Diesel album, recorded with Chris Wilson. The album consists mainly of blues covers, with one original song, Other Man.

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John Scofield - 2009 - Piety Street [VBR]

It is a rare artist that can explore more than one kind of music with true fluency, virtuosity and sincerity. Guitarist John Scofield can, and he s proven it once again with Piety Street - a powerful collection of Gospel renditions.

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Floyd Lee - 2003 - Ain't Doin' Nothin' Wrong [320]

Veteran Harlem bluesman Lee (he's almost 70) has just released his second CD. It's a little like the Fred James projects out of Nashville except this time the sensitive producer/guitarist is Joel Poluck. The result is pretty much the same too: an excellent but long overdue recording for a very deserving musician. He's in fine, raspy voice and occasionally straps on his own guitar. He writes and performs in a traditional style and some of the songs are not all that original but some are very good indeed: "Red Sun", with its Hill Country sound or the anti-drug lyrics of "Crack Alley" to name but two.

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Chris Wilson - 1999 - The Long Weekend [320]

Chris Wilson is an Australian blues harmonica player and vocalist. He has performed as part of the Sole Twisters, Harem Scarem and Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, and fronted the band Crown of Thorns. Wilson has toured extensively and played at many festivals, both in Australia and overseas, and has shared stages with Bob Dylan and Diesel. He provided backing vocals on the Merril Bainbridge song "Under the Water" and he sang the lead vocals for the Robin Casinader album, All This Will Be Yours. The Long Weekend is a super piece of work and it covers a broad range of styles. Chris's versatility comes through exceptionally well.

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Edgar Winter - 2004 - Jazzin' The Blues [VBR]

As with Winter Blues, Edgar invited high quality guests to record Jazzin` The Blues: guitarists Steve Lukather (Toto) and Hiram Bullock, bass player Will Lee, drummers Gregg Bissonette and Rick Latham and trumpeter Lee Thornburg. Together they present an exciting voyage through the different spheres of jazz and blues, including master songwriting and creative soloing. With Jazzin` The Blues, Edgar Winter shows his ability to combine the past with the present without sounding muddled or pretentious while at the same time delivering exciting elements of new music.

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Johnny Winter - 1986 - Third Degree [320]

The third home run in a row for an artistically revitalized Johnny Winter, 1986's Third Degree follows 1985's Serious Business and 1984's Guitar Slinger as a stripped-down, no-nonsense serving of Texas-style blues rock. As on its predecessors, the emphasis here is on the blues side of the equation, with Winter originals and a sterling choice of covers fighting for equal time. The covers are exemplary, far better than the usual rote homages found on so many blues albums. Elmore James' classic "Shake Your Moneymaker" sounds so fresh it's almost as if Winter and his backing trio, featuring the Otis Spann-style playing of pianist Ken Saydak, are making the song up out of whole cloth. Johnny "Guitar" Watson's "Broke and Lonely" and the Muddy Waters title track are equally impressive. Of the originals, "Tin Pan Alley," with the great Dr. John sitting in on piano, is the clear highlight, though the sassy, Fabulous Thunderbirds-like "I'm Good" is nearly its equal.

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Johnny Winter - 1985 - Serious Business [320]

If you love long, continually-vibrant, energetic guitar solos, then this album is for you. This album has it all---slow tempo blues (with piercing, snaking, rapid-fire soloing), fast tempo boogie-woogie (with piercing, wonderfully-driving soloing), medium-tempo shuffles (more soloing, of course), and more. Check out the title song at the end--its kind of a bluegrass/blues, finger-picking masterpiece (on electric, of course)--so driving, frantic, and utterly energizing!

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Bill Sheffield - 2004 - Hearing Things [VBR]

Acoustic Blues - Bill Sheffield sings like a soulman trapped in a bluesman's body.

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Bill Sheffield - 2002 - Live At The Blue Raccoon [320]

The Delta, dark and muddy, flows through his veins. His voice laments and wails, it prays and pleads. His fingers dance along the strings of a travel-worn guitar to an ancient and mystic melody. His heart beats sin. It beats again for salvation. There may just be a hellhound on his trail, but he's got one foot on the church step. Everything about Bill Sheffield is the blues. It's there in the intense, transcendent way he finger-picks his guitar with hints of John Hurt and Blind Blake flashing through. It's there in his songs that wrestle with earthly pleasure and the need for redemption.

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Rita Chiarelli - 2008 - Uptown Goes Downtown [192]

Uptown Goes Downtown... Juno Award winner Rita Chiarelli with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. Calling it 'my most expensive back up band ever' Rita Chiarelli lets her voice soar, backed by the intricate harmonies of the TBSO. Blues and Classical make unusual bed fellows but this is a match made in heaven.

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Rita Chiarelli - 2006 - Cuore - The Italian Sessions [320]

Rita Chiarelli's Cuore - The Italian Sessions is dramatically different from Rita Chiarellis usual repertoire of blues tinged compositions. Deciding to honour her Italian heritage and roots has garnered Chiarelli unepected honours. Cuore won Chiarelli the Canadian Folk Music Artist of the year award for World Music.

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Mark May - 2004 - Doll Maker [192]

Mark May is one of the best contemporary blues artists. His guitar playing is stellar: clearly influenced by Albert Collins, his style is Texas blues with a Southern flavor. His songwriting is witty, poignant, and more subtle than most of his peers. His voice is unique, sweeter, and more musical too.

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Judie Tzuke - 1982 - Shoot The Moon [320]

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Judie Tzuke - 1980 - Sportscar [224]

British pop/rock singer Judie Tzuke enjoyed some commercial success back in her homeland for a spell during the 1980s, but was never able to translate it stateside. Tzuke's career proper began in 1977, when she signed to Elton John's label Rocket Records. Her first single on Rocket, "For You" (1978), was released under the name of Tzuke and Paxo. However, her first major success - the classic single "Stay with Me till Dawn", released in 1979 - was released simply under "Judie Tzuke". Judie's first album, Welcome to the Cruise, which featured "Stay with Me till Dawn" and some of the Tzuke and Paxo singles, achieved great critical and commercial success. In 2002, "Stay With Me till Dawn" was chosen by the British public as one of the fifty best British songs 1952-2002 (ranking number 39). The song was also sampled by Mylo in the song "Need You Tonite", which is taken from his 2004 album Destroy Rock & Roll.The singer's second album, Sportscar (1980), did not fare so well; possibly because Elton John decided to change his label's distribution company part-way through his American tour (on which Judie was support act), meaning that all support for the tour, and for Tzuke's records in the USA, was pulled. Tzuke released one more record on Rocket, I Am the Phoenix (1982), but then decided to leave for Chrysalis Records.

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Alamo Leal - 2009 - Alamo Leal [VBR]

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Alamo Leal - 1997 - Rythm Oil [256]

With almost 30 years of international career, Brazilian born musician Alamo Leal is very acclaimed on the European Circuit of blues. Native from Rio de Janeiro, he grown up listening, since he was twelve years old, the rhythms that became the major influences of the first blues players in Mississippi, at the decades of 30,40 and 50. Artists like House, Skip James, Fred MacDowell and Robert Johnson, without forget Muddy Waters, B. B. King, T. Bone Walker e Ray Charles. At the end of the 60/s, Alamo started to explore those influences and moved to London in 1971, where his professional career began. During the 70/s, he assimilated this music form and ascended as a dedicated artist, always trying to be in contact with experienced musicians. His first solo album “Rhythm Oil”, released by Armadillo-Records was elected the album of the year by the English magazine Blueprint (1998), and his group, Alamo Leal Band, was considered the best foreign group in Netherlands, in 1999.

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Willie J Foster - 1997 - My Life [160]

Although Willie Foster was a noted bluesman and accomplished harmonica player in his own right, he's best-known for playing alongside other blues greats, especially Muddy Waters. Foster discovered the blues and bought his first harmonica as a young man in the '20s, and as a teenager met Waters, who he would play with off and on throughout the years. But Foster didn't receive his first paying musical gig until the '50s, when he began playing at a St. Louis nightclub. It was during that decade that Waters and Foster played a concert together at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall. Foster kept playing throughout the years (despite being dealt such life-altering blows as losing a leg and being considered legally blind). The day after he performed at a private party in Jackson, TN, on May 19, 2001, Foster passed away from an apparent heart attack.

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Johnny Winter - 1977 - Nothing But The Blues [320]

Johnny Winter recorded this during his stint as producer and sideman for Muddy Waters through the four brilliant albums recorded for Blue Sky (late 70's and early 80's). Muddy's terrific band of the time accompanies Johnny throughout. Their influence is profound, keeping Winter grounded and unusually restrained avoiding overplaying entirely. This is his finest blues work. Muddy sings a duet with Johnny in an energetic version of Walkin' Through the Park.

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Johnny & Edgar Winter - 1976 - Together [320]

Individually, Edgar Winter and his brother Johnny Winter are powerful artists, but combined, they are virtually unstoppable. In this live set, the brothers are just having the time of their lives, digging deep into their bag of favorites, and pulling out smoking renditions of the Sam and Dave classic "Soul Man" and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling." The history of rock & roll continues with Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" and "Good Golly Miss Molly" and Chuck Berry's "Reelin' and Rockin'." The Winters go Detroit on Mitch Ryder's "Jenny Take a Ride," and pay homage to the king, Elvis Presley, with "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Jailhouse Rock." From start to finish, Edgar and Johnny are having a rockin' & rollin' good time, and that happiness channels over to the listener.

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Julie Black - 2007 - Call Me Angel For Blues [192]

Julie Black is a deep, dark & brilliant artist whose rich, soulful voice conjures up raw emotions. Black released her successful debut album Call Me Angel for Blues in 2007. The album contains all original music.

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Treasa Levasseur - 2006 - Not A Straight Line [320]

Broken-heart ballads, barroom blues, old-school gospel style inspirationals, raunchy rock...Treasa plays whatever shakes her soul. Her lyrics are smart, poetic, and socially conscious. Treasa Levasseur has a whole lot to say, and she says it with sincerity and sass, with a powerhouse voice that cannot be ignored or denied. Influenced by the whole sisterhood of soulful sirens, from Joni Mitchell to Etta James, Carole King to Dusty Springfield and all the way back to Bessie Smith, Treasa's roots spread far and dig deep. She plays piano, accordion, guitar, mandolin, and anything else she can get her hands on. This multitalented singer/songwriter is also a trained actress, a teacher, an event producer, a playwright, and has run a successful children's entertainment buisiness for the last 6 years in Toronto.

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Mickey Jupp - 1982 - Some People Can't Dance [192]

Like Dave Edmunds, guitarist/pianist/vocalist Mickey Jupp was a champion of traditional rock & roll during the late '70s, a time when it had been all but discarded. Unlike Edmunds, Jupp wrote the majority of his own material, which updated 50s rock & roll with a tongue-in-cheek irony. Jupp began his career with the Essex-based British R&B group the Orioles in the early '60s. The band earned a devoted local following in the early '60s, yet they never had the opportunity to record. The Orioles broke up late in 1965 after Jupp was arrested for not making alimony payments to his wife. Three years later, he returned to music, forming Legend, who laid the groundwork for English pub rock of the early '70s. Following the release of their third album in 1971, Legend disbanded and Jupp took another lengthy break from music. When he was coaxed back into performing in 1975 by Lee Brileaux, the lead singer of Dr. Feelgood, pub rock was in its last days yet Jupp was well respected in the scene, since both Ducks Deluxe and Dr. Feelgood had recorded versions of his songs ("Cheque Book" and "Down at the Doctors," respectively). Jupp moved over to A&M Records in 1982, releasing Some People Can't Dance.

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Jim Campilongo & The 10 Gallon Cats - 1997 - Loose [256]

One of the most riveting and upbeat albums by this inventive instrumental combo. Guitarist Jim Campilongo and his pedal steel-plunkin' cohort, Joe Goldmark, pick up where Nashville studio legends Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West left off... This disc is packed with dazzling drag-racing guitar duets, many with a country twang but also an experimental jazzy edge. Percussionist Ken Owen and bassist Chris Kee are right there, alongside the string kings, providing spare, punchy accompaniment. A nice record, midway between the poppy tunes of Martin Medeski & Wood and the old-school hillbilly hot pickers.

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Johnny Copeland - 1981 - Copeland Special [192]

This immaculate collection put the veteran Houston axeman among the blues elite; it features searing guitar and soulful vocals.

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Treasa Levasseur - 2008 - Low Fidelity [VBR]

Treasa Levasseur from Toronto,Canada has to have one of the finest upcoming voices in the industry, each and every track on her album Low Fidelity has got a real vintage tone from blues to jazz with a modern pop twist, Treasa has got a superb gospel blues voice to die for...The 10 tracks on this album has got some talented musicians on board with some fine brass and piano to melt any heart.

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Jack De Keyzer - 2009 - The Corktown Sessions [VBR]

The Corktown sessions capture Jack de Keyzer (lead vocals, guitar) and his stellar band David McMorrow (organ, piano) Alan Duffy (bass) and Danny Lockwood (drums) live in concert. The CD was multi-track recorded by Al Cannon, (May 1, 2009) in Hamilton, Ontario, in the raucous and historic, environs of the Corktown Pub. Alternately soaring, swinging, and shuffling through a dozen blues and r&b classics, five covers and seven de Keyzer originals the disc captures one of Canada's finest blues guitarists at the top of his game in front of a very vocal and enthusuastic hometown crowd.

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Boozoo Chavis & The Magic Sounds - 1999 - Who Stole My Monkey [192]

Boozoo Chavis (born: Wilson Anthony Chavis) was one of the pioneers of zydeco, the Cajun and blues hybrid originating in southwest Louisiana. Although his self-composed 1954 single, "Paper in My Shoes," was the first zydeco hit, Chavis was distrustful of the music industry and refused to perform publicly or record again until 1984. In an interview featured in the 1990 book, The New Folk Music, Chavis explained, "I got gypped out of my record. I get frustrated, sometimes. I love to play, but, when I get to thinking about 1955... They stole my record. They said that it only sold 150,000 copies. But, my cousin, who used to live in Boston, checked it out. It sold over a million copies. I was supposed to have a gold record." After leaving the music business, Chavis devoted his attention to raising champion racehorses in Shrevesport and Lafayette, Louisiana and Texas. Chavis waited until 1984 before returning to music. Signing a five-year contract with the Maison de Soul label, he recorded four albums -- Louisiana Zydico Music, Boozoo Zydeco!, Zydeco Homebrew and Zydeco Trail Ride. Chavis' 1997 album, Hey, Do Right, was produced by Terry Adams, keyboardist for NRBQ, who paid tribute to Chavis in their 1989 song, "Boozoo, That's Who."

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Did Alanson Band - 2008 - La Fièvre Du Bayou [VBR]

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Chase The Sun - 2007 - Chase The Sun [320]

This Sydney-based trio formed in 2006 and have seen their star rise steadily since then, making a definite mark on the Australian blues and roots music scene. Their self-titled debut album entered the US Billboard Blues Album Chart at #13.

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The Little Willies - 2006 - The Little Willies [VBR]

One of the freshest country albums of the year comes not out of Nashville, but rather New York, from a sporadic band with the unlikely moniker of the Little Willies. At times, the fivesome hearkens to the great historic western-swing bands--crack, loose-limbed musicians fronted by a hypnotically sublime girl singer. If that sleepy female voice sounds astonishingly like Norah Jones, that's because it is Jones, exploring the country side of the blues. The group--rounded out by Lee Alexander (bass), Jim Campilongo (electric guitar), Richard Julian (guitar, vocals), and Dan Rieser (drums)--formed in 2003 to play the Living Room on New York's Lower East Side and just do the classic American music they grew up enjoying. That's why their low-key labor of love, recorded without commercial expectations and promoted under the radar, includes both originals and covers of Hank Williams's "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive"; Nelson's "I Gotta Get Drunk" and "Nightlife"; Kris Kristofferson's "Best of All Possible Worlds"; Townes Van Zandt's "No Place to Fall"; and Leiber & Stoller's "Love Me". Throughout, the record maintains the slightly inebriated, bar-band feel of a live club performance, especially on "Lou Reed," a very funny saga of a cow-tipping incident possibly involving the dark rocker. This is an extraordinary record, not only for its musicianship, but for the infectious joy and exuberance of performers who remember just how fun it is to play music from the inside out.

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