Just as classic instrumentals like Booker T. & the MG's' "Green Onions" and Cliff Nobles' "The Horse" defied the odds to crack the charts in a soul genre dominated by vocalists, so too have obscure instrumentals like the Just Brothers' "Sliced Tomatoes" earned a place of honor in the pantheon of Northern soul greats, where every record falls into the ranks of the esoteric. Another sterling release from the Goldmine Soul Supply reissue label, Walkin' the Duck assembles close to two dozen instrumentals from Northern soul's late-'60s heyday, bringing new clarity to the percolating basslines, funky rhythms, and chicken-scratch guitar licks that comprise the bedrock of the classic soul sound. Stripped of vocals that would otherwise dominate the proceedings, cuts like André Brasseur's "The Kid" and Van McCoy's "Sweet and Easy" reveal a complexity and craft closely approximating jazz -- the interplay between the musicians is stunning, a potent reminder of the virtuosity these long-forgotten studio hotshots brought to each and every session. (Jason Ankeny, Allmusic)
trax:
1. Harlem Train - Dick Leslie 2. The Kid - Andre Brasseur 3. Sliced To - The Just Brothers 4. It's The Go-Go - The Buena Vistas 5. Don't Start None - The Mayfield Players 6. These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - The Happy Cats 7. The Joker - The Milestones 8. Condition Red - Baltimore, The & Ohio Marching Band 9. Snatch N' Grab It - The Jades 10. I Need Help - The Detroit Land Apples 11. Sawmill - The Admirals 12. Sweet And Easy - The Van McCoy Strings 13. Walkin' The Duck - Tony & The Mockin' Birds 14. Jerkin' Around - The Scepter Wand Orchestra 15. The Shing-A-Ling Thing - The Naked Truth 16. Times Gone By - The Music Track 17. Do The Pearl Girl (Part 2) - The Matta Baby 18. Zola - King Errison 19. Ready On Ready - Donnie Vann & Co. 20. Headin' West - The Pure Soul Band 21. Breakaway - The Ernie Bush Band 22. Girl You Better Wake Up - The Liberty Orchestra 23. The Penguin Breakdown - Bobby Martin's Men
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"Walkin' the Duck"
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Thanks! You keep coming up with the goods!
BONUS 1 OF 6
CARL PERKINS - Up Through The Years 1954-1957 @320 (Sun Records - Bear Family CD)
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An import collection of Perkins' groundbreaking Sun singles, Up Through the Years offers eight more tracks than Rhino's Original Sun Greatest Hits; both discs are definitive collections. (Allmusic)
Carl Perkins/Up through the years 1954-57: This is yet another Excellent CD produced by Bear Family Records. Carl did not have the radio charisma that some others had and so Carl's most brilliant songs became hits for others (from Elvis to The Beatles and to everybody else afterwards). Here, however, are the songs done by the Man himself: "Blue Suede Shoes", "Matchbox", "Honey Don't" and many others. Now as far as I'm concerned, Carl's versions are about as good as they come. I adore this CD. Highly Recommended. (Rockabilly Monthly)
1. Honky Tonk Gal
2. Movie Magg
3. Turn Around
4. Gone, Gone, Gone
5. Let The Jukebox Keep On Playing
6. You Can't Make Love To Somebody
7. Blue Suede Shoes
8. Honey Don't
9. Tennessee
10. Boppin' The Blues
11. All Mama's Children
12. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
13. Dixie Fried
14. I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry
15. You Can Do No Wrong
16. Matchbox
17. Your True Love
18. Put Your Cat Clothes On
19. Only You
20. Pink Pedal Pushers
21. That's Right
22. Lend Me Your Comb
23. Glad All Over
24. Right String Baby (Wrong Yo-Yo)
INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/up-through-the-years-1954-1957-mw0000191382
BONUS 2 OF 6
THE BEAU BRUMMELS - Bradley’s Barn ’68 @320
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After taking the Beau Brummels to the pop/folk psychedelic edge, producer Lenny Waronker took the band to Nashville, literally. Possibly influenced by the Byrds Sweetheart experiments, the group (now down to just Sal Valentino on vocals and Ron Elliott on guitars) wedded with Nashville's finest, including guitarist Jerry Reed and drummer Kenneth A. Buttrey, both veterans of Dylan's Nashville sessions. These players were not just good musicians, but smart musicians, easily embellishing the Elliott/Valentino duo as if they had been playing with the two for years, not days. The resulting masterpiece, no doubt due to the awesome Brummels original songs (especially "Cherokee Girl," "Turn Around," and "Deep Water"), is a virtual tapestry in country and rock. (Allmusic)
INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/bradleys-barn-mw0000021007
BONUS 3 OF 6
THE JAMES COTTON BAND - Cotton In Your Ears ’68
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Fine album that is now out of print.
At his high-energy, 1970s peak as a bandleader, James Cotton was a bouncing, sweaty, whirling dervish of a bluesman, roaring his vocals and all but sucking the reeds right out of his defenseless little harmonicas with his prodigious lung power. Due to throat problems, Cotton's vocals are no longer what they used to be, but he remains a masterful instrumentalist. Cotton had some gargantuan shoes to fill when he stepped into Little Walter's slot as Muddy Waters' harp ace in 1954, but for the next dozen years, the young Mississippian filled the integral role beside Chicago's blues king with power and precision. Of course, Cotton had been preparing for such a career move for a long time, having learned how to wail on harp from none other than Sonny Boy Williamson himself.
A1
Back To St. Louis
A2
Motorized Blues
A3
The Mule
A4
With You On My Mind
B1
I Can't Live Without You
B2
(Please) Tell Me Partner
B3
Duke Patrol
B4
Take Me By The Hand
B5
The Coach's Better Days
B6
Take Your Hands Off Her
INFO
http://www.discogs.com/James-Cotton-Blues-Band-Cotton-In-Your-Ears/release/1406999
BONUS 4 OF 6
THE BROTHERS OF SOUL - I Guess That Don’t Make Me A Loser 1968-1971 @320
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Brothers of Soul was a soul trio composed of Fred Bridges, Richard Knight, and Robert Eaton, who were also a songwriting team involved with around 50 singles.[1] Based in Detroit in the 60's and 70's, they recorded a number of songs, mainly with producer Ric Williams for the Zodiac and Boo labels. Their biggest hit was "I Guess That Don't Make Me a Loser,"[2] which peaked at 32 on the R&B charts in May 1968.[3]
Bridges and Knight, who had met at the Dodge Assembly Plant, did some writing for La Beat Records, where they began working with Eaton. The first song the three are credited on together is James Shorter's "Modern Day Woman".[1][4] They then got together to write a song named "Dream." While doing some freelance work for Drew Records, writing for The Precisions, they met Chicago based producer Williams, who became interested in showcasing them as a group. They chose to record under the name Brothers of Soul, a name inspired by the Detroit riots of '67. Under the coordination of Williams, they wrote for Zodiac, producing many Ruby Andrews hits.[5] Their most successful period was from 1968-1969,[6] with their last recordings in 1971.[5] Sometime during this period, Ben Knights replaced Richard Knight, who was serving time in New York.[7] They continued to work together, providing vocal accompaniment for a few years, eventually splitting apart. A hits compilation named "I Guess That Don't Make Me a Loser" was released on CD in 1995 by Collectables Records and digitally in 2008 by S.D.E.G. Records.
1
Try It Babe
3:39
2
Candy
3:02
3
Dream
3:02
4
One Minute Baby
2:56
5
Love Is Fever
2:58
6
You Better Believe It
3:11
7
A Lifetime
2:58
8
Wait For Me
3:04
9
I'd Be Grateful
2:34
10
The Love I Found In You
2:48
11
Come On Back
2:24
12
I Guess That Don't Make Me A Loser
2:55
13
Hurry, Don't Linger
2:47
14
Can't Get You Off Of My Mind
2:07
INFO
http://www.discogs.com/Brothers-Of-Soul-I-Guess-That-Dont-Make-Me-A-Loser-A-Golden-Classics-Edition/release/2309862
BONUS 5 OF 6
The Butterfield Blues Band - East-West (1966) (2014 AF Hybrid SACD) @320
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Much to the excitement of blues aficionados worldwide, Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity is releasing The Butterfield Blues Band's legendary 'East-West' album on Hybrid SACD on April 1, 2014. The Butterfield Blues Band had already shown on their first album that they had a definite command of the Chicago blues idiom. On 'East-West' they open up and branch out without losing the edge and drive of their first recording. 'East-West' represented a watershed for pop music...more maturity, better musicianship, more exploration, more successful blending of other genres. 'East-West' stretches the boundaries of the blues, above any other extended piece of the mid-Sixties, a rock band finally achieved a version of the musical freedom that free jazz had found a few years earlier. It can also be heard as part of what sparked the West Coast's rock revolution, in which song structures with extended improvisation became commonplace.
In 1966 when this album debuted, it was nothing less than astonishing. A mixed-race band? A white guy singing blues? A Jewish kid and a southern farmboy sounding like Robert Johnson on guitars? The album was recorded at the famed Chess Studios in Chicago. It peaked at #65 on the Billboard pop albums chart. This album features traditional blues covers and the guitar work of Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop. The edge this band had was it had people from Chicago, the home of urban blues, who had grown up and played with all the greats. "East-West" combines the emotion and power of the blues along with the swing and instrumental dexterity of a great jazz band. The two centerpieces of the album, the instrumentals "Work Song" written by jazz great Nat Adderly, and the title cut "East-West" are recognized by many as the first recorded versions of jazz-rock fusion put to vinyl.
"One of the essential albums everyone must own...An American milestone recording."
TRACKS
1. Walkin' Blues
2. Get Out of My Life Woman
3. I Got A Mind to Give Up Living
4. All These Blues
5. Work Song
6. Mary, Mary
7. Two Trains Running
8. Never Say No
9. East-West
See more at:
http://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/audio-fidelity-release-butterfield-blues-band-east-west-album-hybrid-sacd#sthash.C8g498g8.dpuf
BONUS 6 OF 6
Dex Romweber Duo - Images 13 (2014)
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Romweber has always possessed a style all his own, and not just due to his gritty baritone voice, and that notion is more present than ever on this punk/blues/folk/Americana hybrid album.
— New Noise Magazine
The Romweber sibling’s tunes invade listener’s ears taking them to a musical place most modern bands can only dream of. Images 13 is another batch of songs that are next to impossible to stop listening to.
— Examiner.com
Images 13 compiles tracks that hang over your rear view mirror as cultish dolls dressed for a radio ride of surf music, vengeful blues, psychobilly and garage rock.
— The Alternate Root
What branch of Americana gets you excited? Southern blues? Hard roots rock? Folk? Surf? It doesn't really matter, because Dex Romweber has got you covered.
— Exclaim
Even the greatest of roots scientists have tricky relationships with longevity, but Romweber remains a vital, vigorous artist due to healthy creative restlessness and a vast array of congruent influences. Against the odds he’s knocked out another great album. A-
— The Vinyl District
Romweber is possessed by a passionate love of American roots music that encompasses rock & roll, rockabilly, jazz, country, movie and TV themes, and anything else that radiates cool and translates to the guitar.
— AllMusic.com
INFO
https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/images-13
superb!! thank you!!
pvc
Thanks for the Carl and Beau Brummels, guys. Best wishes,
Iggy
Fantastic! Thanks especially for the Butterfield Blues Band post. It sounds amazing.
Thank you, Butterfield,what a classic.
Some excellent albums in this post. The Carl Perkins material sounds better than some other versions I have, and the Soul Brothers is simply a fantastic collection.
Thanks as always!
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