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Comment by Ryan Stapler on July 20, 2012 at 3:17pm

Just a link to a demo I recorded last night.  My diddley bow is looping in the back.

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-Ryan

The Lowbred Watts

www.thelowbredwatts.com

Comment by Graham on July 17, 2012 at 7:37pm

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Jimmy Cliff – Rebirth (2012)

If the reggae legend’s 2004 effort Black Magic was like Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett’s Duets albums –late-era, star-filled, and somewhat flat — Rebirth is Jimmy Cliff‘s American Recordings (Johnny Cash) or Praise & Blame (Tom Jones), where a veteran artist goes raw and relights the fire with the help of a kindred spirit/knowing producer. For Cash and Jones, it was Rick Rubin and Ethan Johns respectively, while here it’s a bit of a surprise with Rancid frontman and Clash devotee Tim Armstrong delivering something well above the expected punky reggae party. “Guns of Brixton” is a natural, and Cliff’s take on Rancid’s “Ruby Soho” is a ska recreation to behold, but when the sometimes poptacular reggae singer dons a wild, Lee “Scratch” Perry persona for the carnival song “Bang” …(“I came into this life, I came in with a bang/I’m living my life, I live it with a bang”), deep reggae fan Armstrong knows what to do, surrounding his man Upsetter-style with a whirling dervish of ska while adding a searing guitar solo as well. When the singer gets nostalgic on “Reggae Music” (“1962, Orange Street, Kingston Jamaica/I sang my song for Leslie Kong, he said…”) the backing track is alive with that roots based magic and one drop power, yet Cliff’s the one who seals the deal here and throughout the album, performing like a young buck while packing his years and wisdom into the songwriting. On that front, there’s the Occupy Movement theme “World Upside Down” and the powerful single “One More”, while the sweetness comes from the sentimental “Ship Is Sailing”, a nautical metaphor so warm it could be slipped into a Jimmy Buffett set easily, even as the tinkling keyboards honor reggae legend Jackie Mittoo, thus nominating Armstrong‘s loving recreation as one of the most loved. It’s a return to form and just what fans of Cliff’s early work could ask for, but it’s vital too, putting it on the man’s top shelf, somewhere in the vicinity of The Harder They Come soundtrack and Wonderful World, Beautiful People.

Comment by Naz Nomad on July 17, 2012 at 1:48pm

Blues Lightning - Back Porch Music (2012)

MP3 320 Kbps | Blues, Acoustic Blues | 54 Min | 133 Mb

Track List
01. Blue Light Blues
02. Let My Axe Do The Talking
03. The Name Of The Game
04. Long Black Train
05. I Shall Be Released
06. What's Wrong With You?
07. Done Left Me
08. Cold Wind Blowing
09. Sweet Little Bird
10. Stand In Line
11. I Got Voodoo
12. Wayfaring Stranger

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Comment by Graham on July 17, 2012 at 3:35am

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The Johnnys - 1986 - Highlights Of A Dangerous Life
There's Gonna Be A) Showdown/The Day Marty Robbins Died/Injun Joe/Move It/The Edge Of Death/Green Back Dollar/Bleeding Heart/Way Of The West/Deadmen From Boot Hill/Slip Slap Fishin/Mountain Man

The Johnnys formed in 1982 in Sydney when bass guitarist Graham Hood tried out for the Hoodoo Gurus after quitting the Allniters. He met Hoodoo Gurus' guitarist Roddy Ray'da (aka Roddy Radalj) and they discussed an idea for a side project: playing pub rock in a country music style at a punk pace—which was labelled as cow punk. Ray'da left Hoodoo Gurus and, as a lead vocalist and guitarist with Hood and drummer Billy Pommer, founded The Johnnys. The Johnnys performed its first concert at Palms disco on Oxford St, Taylors St, Darlinghurst Sydney Australia. In early 1983, New Zealand-born Spencer P. Jones joined on guitar and backing vocals. The four-piece released "I Think You're Cute" in October on Regular Records, Ray'da left the group in early 1984 and formed Love Rodeo. Jones took on lead vocals and the band signed with the Green Label to release "My Buzzsaw Baby (Really Cut Me Up)" and an extended play, The Johnnys in November.

In 1985, the band had signed with Mushroom Records which released their single, "Injun Joe" in November. "(There's Gonna Be a) Showdown" followed in March 1986 and then "Bleeding Heart " in June. Their debut album Highlights of Dangerous Life appeared in August and was produced by Ross Wilson of Daddy Cool and contained the three singles. Two non-album singles followed in 1987. Wilson produced their second album, Grown Up Wrong, released in August 1988 which included two further singles, "Motorbikin" (July) and "Anything Could Happen" (November). Michael Armiger (ex-Paul Kelly Band) replaced Hood on bass guitar. The band broke up in 1989 with Jones continuing in his side-project Beasts of Bourbon.

Comment by Graham on July 15, 2012 at 2:34am

MAN, FINALLY GOT TO LISTEN TO THE ADVENTURES OF FISHY WATERS BY GUY DAVIS - SEE POST A COUPLE BELOW - RECOMENDED TO Y'ALL - GREAT STORY TELLING

Comment by Graham on July 14, 2012 at 1:34am

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PASSWORD!!!! - rideyourpony

 

Acolyte of bluesmen Furry Lewis and Sleepy John Estes, sideman of Dylan and the Rolling Stones, producer of Big Star, the Replacements and Screamin` Jay Hawkins, world-class song bag, down-home bon vivant and fond father of several North Mississippi Allstars, Jim Dickinson is a legend.
Rare 1990 LP (Vol 2 Spring Poems) from Jim Dickinson on the long defunct New Rose label, this is a work of music done as score music for (apparently) 5 films. This was out on the market and out of print quite quickly. This may also be the first recorded appearances of Dickinson's sons, North Mississippi Allstars Luther Dickinson and Cody Dickinson.
trax recorded and compiled by James Luther Dickinson: Vol 1 - The Blues
01 Baby Please - Unknown 02 Roll Me Over Slow - Alex Teal. Chopping Wood 03 Old Hucklebuck - Johnny Woods, Lee Baker 04 I'm Black - Furry Lewis 05 Jes' Like A Monkey - Johnny Woods 06 Holy Spirit - Hammy Nixon, Sleepy John Estes, Bobby Ray Watson 07 Dozens - Thomas Pinkston 08 Ol' Man Mose - Johnny Woods, Verlina Woods, Bobby Ray Watson 09 Same Man All The Time - Thomas Pinkston 10 Policy Talk - Thomas Pinkston 11 Blind Man In The Tear Gas - Sleepy John Estes 12 Untitled - Furry Lewis 13 Blue Moon - Johnny Woods
Vol 2 - Spring Poems
14 The Great Big Fish - Beale Street Green / The Saucers Are Landing / Delta Getaway 15 The Curse Of The Alphastone - Cross Talk / Skin It Back 16 The Curse Of The Alphastone - Velvet Women 17 Painters Of The South - Camptown Races / Catfish Blues 18 Painters Of The South - Beautiful Dreamer 19 Southern Dust - Hose Job / Choke The Chicken / Death Is A Fat Cop 20 Down - Max By The Tracks / Live Bait / Brass Monkey

Comment by Graham on July 13, 2012 at 2:07am

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James Luther Dickinson & North Mississippi All Stars – I’m Just Dead I’m Not Gone (2012)
Posthumous collection from the legendary Memphis producer and musician. I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone is a reflection of Dickinson’s lifelong affinity for songs that have style, substance and, are at the same time, truthful. The blues roots of his art is present in songs from the Furry Lewis and Sleepy John Estes catalogs along with tracks emblematic of Jim’s career-long relationship with folk and soul music, all which he alchemically transformed into sanctified rock ‘n’ roll in the barrel house tradition. Dickinson is very much alive on these incendiary tracks reaffirming the prescient contention that gives this remarkable set its title.

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Guy Davis – The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed with the Blues (2012)

Guy Davis has given us not just a blues CD with The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed with the Blues, but a real audio play which tells the story of Fishy Waters, a hobo who traveled across the South. Fishy headed for Nashville to become a blues musician in the days before World War II.
Once we are introduced to Fishy, he tells tall tales, sings the blues, and shares stories of his life and the characters he meets on his travels. African-Americans and rural white people in the South shared a lot of common folklore.
After the first half of the disc one, things turn very tragic with “The Lynching,” which is followed by much darker humor. It illustrates how African-Americans often used laughter as a coping mechanism. Disc two tells Fishy’s own story, from learning the blues from his favorite alcoholic uncle, Juno, to leaving home and hitting the road. At first he’s alone, but later he’s with a group of hobos he encounters on the way.

Guy Davis completely inhabits the character of Fishy. However, he also portrays other characters in the story with great skill that was probably inherited from his famous parents, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. He is also an accomplished blues guitarist and singer, skillfully weaving his own original music with that of such blues greats as Rev. Gary Davis, Blind Willie McTell, Robert Johnson, and Big Bill Broonzy.

“The task of a story teller, in a dramatic setting, is to include stories that encompass the full range of emotion,” Davis stated in the press release for the CD. The Adventures of Fishy Waters certainly succeeds in this.

Altogether this audio play succeeds in providing a thoughtful, engrossing, and absolutely believable look into life on the road in the Deep South prior to World War II. Words and music fit together beautifully to make Fishy’s character come alive. The CD is a unique creation and well worth the attention of blues lovers and those interested in folklore and history as well

Comment by Graham on July 11, 2012 at 12:42am

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Left Lane Cruiser & James Leg – Painkillers (2012)

In case you wondered whatever became of the tradition of the blues jam, it was alive and kicking for a few days in Detroit when raw and rootsy guitar-and-drum duo Left Lane Cruiser headed into a recording studio with James Leg, the keyboard player and vocal howler from the Black Diamond Heavies, to lay down a set of high-octane cover tunes. Producer Jim Diamond sat in on bass and Harmonica Shah stopped by to blow some harp, and the result is Painkillers, a loud and rowdy collection of bluesy wailing for the 21st century. Like plenty of bands on the punk-blues axis, both Left Lane Cruiser and James Leg approach their music with the ferocity of a starving dog that’s been tossed a bloody steak, and ifyou’re looking for anything approaching subtlety, Painkillers is not for you. But the musicians on this date all seem to be on the same page — they want to get loud and boogie like they’re expecting to be taken to jail in the morning, and for a makeshift band, these performances are surprisingly tight and emphatic. Leg’s trademark “Tom Waits with a sore throat” growl is as over-the top as it’s always been, but in this context, it suits the material just fine, and his swirling organ and thickly distorted electric piano are rich and satisfying, while the manic slide guitar of Frederick “Joe” Evans IV and hard-stomping drumming of Brenn Beck are as greasy as a good burger and just as tasty. Diamond’s rock-solid bass work and full-bodied engineering is just the right icing on this particular cake, as are the primal harp blasts from Harmonica Shah, and if the set list — a list of blues and blues-rock standards ranging from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker to the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin — isn’t especially imaginative, these guys attack like the best sort of bar band, and the version of Bob Seger’s “Come to Poppa” suggests they were embracing the Detroit experience to the fullest. Painkillers suggests an overdriven, punk-infused variation on Canned Heat’s old formula, and if they’re never going to get to cut an album with John Lee Hooker, at least they have the good sense to see that their boogie isn’t endless, and for 35 minutes, this is a house party worth a visit.

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