If your concept of a blues singer embraces the sound of country music singer Jimmie Rodgers, as well as a Muddy Waters sideman like Jimmy Rogers, then this collection will make perfect sense to you. This superlative collection of Autry's earliest recordings for various Columbia budget labels like Melotone, Banner, Velvet Tone, Diva, and Oriole casts the latter-day cowboy hero in direct competition with Rodgers, sometimes recording covers of well-known hits by the Singing Brakeman. While seven of the 23 tracks collected here are Rodgers tunes (and superlative covers they are, too), ten of them are from Autry's pen, an indication that he not only had his own ideas to impart, but had figured the game out early from a business standpoint as well. On the majority of tracks, Autry is only accompanied by his yodeling and his acoustic guitar, but the addition on certain tracks of Roy Smeck on steel guitar or banjo certainly spices things up while allowing Autry to play some nifty fills in tandem. The biggest surprise, of course, is how comfortable Autry sounds on all of this material, clearly enjoying himself while finding his own voice as the sessions progress toward his "cowboy singer" breakthrough, only a year away from the last of these recordings. Yes, Gene Autry sang the blues and was pretty good at it, too. A landmark in country music's history while clearly demonstrating the cross-genre appeal of the blues as a musical form accessible to everyone. (Cub Koda, Allmusic)
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01 Birmingham Daddy [Album Version] 02 The Rheumatism Blues [Album Version] 03 Dallas County Jail Blues 04 Jail-House Blues [Album Version] 05 I'm Atlanta Bound [Album Version] 06 In The Jailhouse Now No. 2 [Album Version] 07 Bear Cat Papa Blues 08 Wildcat Mama Blues 09 High Steppin' Mama Blues [Album Version] 10 A Yodeling Hobo 11 T.B. Blues 12 California Blues (Blue Yodel #4) [Album Version] 13 Slu-Foot Lou [Album Version] 14 Stay Away From My Chicken House [Album Version] 15 Waiting For A Train [Album Version] 16 Frankie And Johnny 17 Do Right Daddy Blues 18 Blue Yodel No. 5 [78rpm Version] 19 My Rough And Rowdy Ways [Album Version] 20 Left My Gal In The Mountains 21 I've Always Been A Rambler [Album Version] 22 Dust Pan Blues 23 That's Why I Left The Mountains [Album Version]
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GENE AUTREY "Blues Singer 1929 - 1931"
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LIGHTNIN’ SLIM - Winter Time Blues 1962-1965 The Later Excello Sessions @320
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We come with a bang, not a whimper, to the final volume in our Lightnin' Slim reissue series. Just listen in particular to the first nine tracks on this CD, and you will find some of the greatest down-home blues cut anywhere, anytime. It's all there - Lightnin's guttural vocals, Lazy Lester's emphatic harmonica, blues songs that are well-crafted, with sympathetic production work from Jay D Miller in his studio in deepest South Louisiana.
Lightnin' had the remarkable ability to personalise his work to the extent that everything he did was indelibly his own. Take a look at the lyrics of his classic Winter Time Blues (a southern regional hit in early 1963):
Yes, the little girl is just 16 years old How'd you find out, Lightnin' (interjection by Lazy Lester) I eavesdropped and heard her mother said You know, she got a way of huggin' and kissin' She'll bring livin' back to the dead.
By the mid-1960s the down-home blues was on the way out as a commercial entity with the black audience of the South - soul music was sweeping in with the hip young sounds of the day. Producer Jay Miller did try to update Lightnin' Slim's style by introducing organs and breaking away from the standard 12-bar format, which as liner note writer Dave Sax recalls did bring moans of emotional distress' from Lightnin's keen British collectors at the time. However, Dave admits that a retrospective look...reveals positive aspects as well.
Indeed the final Excello session is as blue as can be, climaxing with a remake of his first hit Bad Luck Blues from 1954. As Sax notes, so much had changed and yet nothing had changed...these are songs about jail and the workhouse, restlessness and wondering.
Our booklet contains a discography by Dave Sax of all Lightnin' Slim's Excello recordings. It shows that of the 101 available titles, Ace will have reissued 95 with the release of Winter Time Blues. Of the remaining six unissued titles, Stranger In Town appears on our Genuine R&B compilation, and the other five are alternate takes of issued cuts. Now that's a comprehensive reissue series!
--John Broven, Ace UK
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https://acerecords.co.uk/winter-time-blues
BONUS 2 OF 5
WHEEDLE’S GOOVE: Seattle’s Finest in Funk & Soul 1965-1975 @320
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WHEEDLE’S GOOVE Volume II 1972-1987 (2014) @320
Seattle Funk, Modern Soul & Boogie
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http://blog.lightintheattic.net/?p=24881
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BONUS 4 OF 5
ARETHA FRANKLIN – Aretha’s Gold (1969, MFSL 2014)@320
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The first compilation based on Franklin's successes of 1967-1968 on Atlantic. Included among the 14 selections here are all of the big bits (nine of which went Top 10) that established Franklin's enduring reputation, from "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)" to "I Say A Little Prayer." It sometimes got as good as this afterwards, but it never got better.
Track listing:
1. I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
2. Do Right Woman-Do Right Man
3. Respect
4. Dr. Feelgood
5. Baby I Love You
6. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
7. Chain of Fools
8. Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)
9. Ain't No Way
10. Think
11. You Send Me
12. The House That Jack Built
13. I Say a Little Prayer
14. See Saw
INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/arethas-gold-mw0000203532
BONUS 5 OF 5
Charles Brown - The Johnny And Shuggie Otis Sessions @320
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Released: 2009
Label: Fantastic Voyage
Size: 86,6 MB
Time: 36:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Piano Blues, R&B
Art: Big front
01. Driftin' Blues [4:00]
02. Trouble Blues [2:37]
03. Rockin' Blues [2:53]
04. Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand [3:15]
05. Big Legged Woman [2:49]
06. Livin' In Mysery [2:41]
07. Black Night [3:05]
08. Merry Christmas Baby [2:59]
09. It's Getting' To Be Evening [3:02]
10. Let The Sun Shine In My Life [3:03]
11. Counting My Tears [3:22]
12. I Want A Girl [3:00]
How many blues artists remained at the absolute top of their game after more than a half-century of performing? One immediately leaps to mind: Charles Brown. His incredible piano skills and laid-back vocal delivery remained every bit as mesmerizing at the end of his life as they were way back in 1945, when his groundbreaking waxing of "Drifting Blues" with guitarist Johnny Moore's Three Blazers invented an entirely new blues genre for sophisticated postwar revelers: an ultra-mellow, jazz-inflected sound perfect for sipping a late-night libation in some hip after-hours joint. Brown's smooth trio format was tremendously influential to a host of high-profile disciples ó Ray Charles, Amos Milburn, and Floyd Dixon, for starters.
Classically trained on the ivories, Brown earned a degree in chemistry before moving to Los Angeles in 1943. He soon hooked up with the Blazers (Moore and bassist Eddie Williams), who modeled themselves after Nat "King" Cole's trio but retained a bluesier tone within their ballad-heavy repertoire. With Brown installed as their vocalist and pianist, the Blazers' "Drifting Blues" for Philo Records remained on Billboard's R&B charts for 23 weeks, peaking at number two. Follow-ups for Exclusive and Modern (including "Sunny Road," "So Long," "New Orleans Blues," and their immortal 1947 Yuletide classic "Merry Christmas Baby") kept the Blazers around the top of the R&B listings from 1946 through 1948, until Brown opted to go solo.
If anything, Brown was even more successful on his own. Signing with Eddie Mesner's Aladdin logo, he visited the R&B Top Ten no less than ten times from 1949 to 1952, retaining his mournful, sparsely arranged sound for the smashes "Get Yourself Another Fool," the chart-topping "Trouble Blues" and "Black Night," and "Hard Times." Despite a 1956 jaunt to New Orleans to record with the Cosimo's studio band, Brown's mellow approach failed to make the transition to rock's brasher rhythms, and he soon faded from national prominence (other than when his second holiday perennial, "Please Come Home for Christmas," hit in 1960 on the King label). Occasionally recording without causing much of a stir during the '60s and '70s, Brown began to regroup by the mid-'80s. "One More for the Road", a set cut in 1986 for the short-lived Blue Side logo, announced to anyone within earshot that Brown's talents hadn't diminished at all while he was gone (the set later re-emerged on Alligator). Bonnie Raitt took an encouraging interest in Brown's comeback bid, bringing him on tour with her as her opening act (thus introducing the blues vet to a whole new generation or two of fans). His recording career took off too, with a series of albums for Bullseye Blues (the first entry, 1990's "All My Life", is especially pleasing), and more recently, a disc for Verve.
In his last years, Brown finally received at least a portion of the recognition he deserved for so long as a genuine rhythm and blues pioneer. But the suave, elegant Brown was by no means a relic, as anyone who witnessed his thundering boogie piano style will gladly attest; he returned in 1998 with "So Goes Love" before dying on January 21, 1999.
Thanks again for Lightnin Slim!
Thanks for the Gene Autry, RYP. Fantastic voice.
There were cowboy wars in my house. I was a Roy Rogers fan mostly because of his Saturday morning TV show and I loved him in the cowboy movies when he sang those cowboy songs with the ranch hands. My dad always liked Gene Autry. He told me he and his friends used to go down to the Saturday Matinee to watch his movies. It was because of those movies that my dad had an old (circa 1930s) Gene Autry guitar with a picture of a cowboy roping a calf on its face. I learned how to play the guitar on that old Gene Autry. I played it right through the 70s and wore a hole right through where the pickguard should have been. It was really difficult to play but had such a unique rattle that I used it on a number of tunes. The thing finally fell apart in the early 80s, bless its heart.
I am familiar with some of the songs on this album but really had no idea that Mr. Autry was so prolific. In case some out there don't know it he was also an accomplished baseball player and the original owner of the Los Angeles Angels.
Thanks again. Very much.
Thanks
Thank you for Lightnin' Slim. If you've never seen it, try to see Gene Autry's Radio Ranch serial from the Forties, in which he repels invaders from Outer Space.
What's a "goove" ? ;=)
Thanx alot!
it's refreshing hearing the old charles brown tunes with shuggie's accompanyment. good stuff. gracias.
-john
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