While I agree that most of the songs don't sound like Johnny Winter blues guitar master, that is kind of the whole point of this release. It's also what makes this CD so much fun. This a glimpse of a young budding musician trying different things hoping to find his niche and break out. Early on, that meant imitating whatever was getting airplay at the time. There are a number of doo wop sounding songs, a few surf sounding instrumentals and even a few stabs at garage psychedelia.More importantly, there are little glimpses of the Johnny Winter style that was to come. Hey Hey Hey is my personal favorite from this collection and reminds a lot of Boom Boom by John Lee Hooker. Roadrunner is also a real gem. Birds Don't Row Boats is one of the garage psychedelic songs I mentioned and also a lot of fun. I have all these, plus Creepy, Ice Cube, Tramp and a few others on my Ipod in my favorites list. And, yes, there are some blues songs in the collection that would fit right in on most of the albums he would release later in his career. (Ugly Things)
trax disc 1:
01 Ice Cube 02 School Day Blues 03 You Know I Love You 04 Geisha Rock 05 Oh My Darling 06 Creepy 07 One Night Of Love 08 Hey Hey Hey Hey 09 That's What Love Does 10 Shed So Many Tears 11 Voo Doo Twist 12 Ease My Pain 13 By The Light Of The Silvery Moon 14 Road Runner 15 The Guy Left You Behind 16 Five After Four A.M. 17 Stay By My Side 18 Broke And Lonely 19 Crying In My Heart 20 Crazy Baby
trax disc 2:
01 Reeling And Rocking 02 Can't Believe You Wanna Leave 03 Gangster Of Love 04 Eternally 05 You'll Be The Death Of Me 06 Leave My Woman Alone 07 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 08 Hello My Lover 09 I Had To Cry 10 I Won't Believe It 11 Gone For Bad 12 Bad News 13 Out Of Sight 14 Parchman Farm 15 Tramp 16 Don't Hide It 17 Avocado Green 18 Easy Lovin' Girl 19 Birds Can't Row Boats 20 Leavin' Blues
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JOHNNY WINTER "Winter Essentials 1960-1967"
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gitit! no pw
CD1
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CD2
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This compilation reminds me of an album on Marble Arch - the track i was most taken by was light of the silvery moon which was (and still is) a real favorite. Thanks for making it available
Doug
BONUS 1 OF 4
CHICAGO HIT FACTORY - The Vee Jay Story 1953-1966 (10 CD BOX SET) @320
This 10-CD set traces the history of Vee-Jay Records from their very first hit, ‘Baby It’s You’ by The Spaniels, through to Jerry Butler’s re-cut of his perennial ‘For Your Precious Love’, their very last chart record in early 1966. Due to restrictions of playing time it is not possible to include every chart record, nor - for contractual reasons - is it possible to include more than a couple of tracks by The Four Seasons, The Beatles, or other licensed-in UK hits. Nonetheless, these ten discs present a coherent, enjoyable history of the Vee-Jay family - as well as the ‘parent’ label, there were also the Falcon, Abner, Tollie and Interphon subsidiaries - including a plethora of fascinating releases that didn’t quite make it.
Features a generous 269 tracks, including 112 hits, by more than 120 different artists, and a 72-page, memorabilia-laden, perfect bound booklet comprising a detailed history of the Vee-Jay family of labels and their artists, together with wealth of photos.
Disc 7 SHOOK UP OVER YOU • SOUL STIRRERS & SHAKERS
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Sanctified classics, Soul burners, dancefloor-fillers and scarcely-heard collectables; 28 tracks from 1961-1965.
1. Wade Flemons ∙ At The Party
2. Marie Gladness ∙ Cops And Robbers
3. Wade Flemons ∙ Welcome Stranger
4. Nancy Love ∙ As Sure As I Live
5. Dee Clark ∙ Dance On Little Girl
6. Nancy Love ∙ Baby, I’m Not Over You Yet
7. Nancy Love ∙ It’s Really Real
8. Gene Chandler ∙ Tear For Tear
9. Gil Hamilton ∙ Move And Groove
10. Jerry Butler ∙ Whatever You Want
11. Dee Clark ∙ Shook Up Over You
12. The Pyramids ∙ Shakin’ Fit
13. Browley Guy ∙ Do Somethin’ Baby
14. Yvonne Carroll ∙ Please Don’t Go
15. Jerry Butler ∙ I Don’t Want To Hear It Anymore
16. Betty Everett ∙ It Hurts To Be In Love
17. Barrett Strong ∙ Make Up Your Mind
18. Barrett Strong ∙ Gonna Take A Journey
19. Jerry Butler & Betty Everett ∙ Ain’t That Loving You Baby 20. The Daylighters ∙ Whisper Of The Wind
21. The Daylighters ∙ Here Alone
22. The Rivingtons ∙ I Love You Always
23. The Dontells ∙ In Your Heart (You Know I’m Right)
24. The Dells ∙ It’s Not Unusual
25. Betty Everett ∙ Gonna Be Ready
26. Joe Simon ∙ The Whoo Pee
27. Jerry Butler ∙ I Can’t Stand To See You Cry
28. Jerry Butler ∙ Just For You
COMPLETE ART
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INFO
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CHICAGO HIT FACTORY - The Vee Jay Story 1953-1966 (10 CD BOX SET) @320
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Disc 8 DREAM FOR SALE • HITS, MISSES & REGIONAL BREAKERS
A pot-pourri from the furthest recesses of Vee-Jay’s C&W, Garage and Femme Pop vaults; 30 tracks from 1962-1965.
1. Marilyn Britton ∙ Big Mr. Heartbreaker
2. Tracey Dey ∙ Jerry (I’m Your Sherry)
3. Orville Couch ∙ Hello Trouble
4. The 4 Seasons ∙ Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
5. Johnny Cymbal ∙ Bachelor Man
6. Tracey Dey ∙ Jealous Eyes
7. Barbara Jackson ∙ Second Best
8. The Society Girls ∙ S.P.C.L.G. (Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Little Girls)
9. The Angelos ∙ Just Like Taking Candy From A Baby
10. Noreen Corcoran ∙ Love Kitten
11. Mac Davis ∙ Hey Monkey
12. Wade Flemons ∙ Watch Over Her
13. Ray Smith ∙ Rockin’ Robin
14. Noreen Corcoran ∙ Dreamin’ Of You
15. The Sensations ∙ You Made A Fool Of Me
16. The Rubies ∙ A Spanish Boy
17. Billy Joe Royal ∙ Get Behind Me Devil
18. The Monsters Four ∙ Farmer John
19. Hoyt Axton ∙ Double Double Dare
20. The Honey Bees ∙ One Girl, One Boy
21. Peggy Sans ∙ Snow Man
22. The Clinger Sisters ∙ Shoop Shoop De Doop Rama Lama Ding Dong Yeah Yeah Yeah
23. The Sunbeams ∙ Good Old Days
24. The 4 Seasons ∙ Apple Of My Eye
25. Hoyt Axton ∙ Bring Your Lovin’
26. Joey Paige ∙ Dream For Sale
27. Terry Black ∙ Unless You Care
28. Shelley Fabares ∙ Lost Summer Love
29. Melinda Marx ∙ How I Wish You Came
30. The Standells ∙ Big Boss Man
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INFO
http://charly.co.uk/albums/chicago-hit-factory-the-vee-jay-story-1953-1966-10cd-box/
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SCOTTDALE STRING BAND - Old Folks Better Go To Bed: Early Country Blues, Rags, & Breakdowns '14 @320
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In the first golden age of country music, from the mid-1920s until the early ’30s, the Scottdale String Band held one of the leading names in OKeh Records’ catalog of Old Time Tunes. The band took its name from the cotton mill village of Scottdale, located between Decatur and Clarkston in DeKalb County, Georgia. Groups of mandolins, banjos, and guitars, in varying combinations, were quite well represented on records in those years. But the Scottdale String Band’s extensive and diverse legacy of sparkling performances ranging from ragtime tunes and popular songs to waltzes, breakdowns, and blues, sets them apart from their contemporaries.
This old time band—which was at its peak of popularity in the mid and late 1920s— was more prolific than most collectors realize. Working out of a mill town outside Atlanta, the group recorded over 30 tunes—all instrumentals and all featuring a ragtime style of 2 guitars and 2 mandolins. The group’s members were not ace musicians by any means, but there was obviously a market for their music, most of which featured well known tunes like SILVER BELL, CHINESE BREAKDOWN, DOWN YONDER and MY IONA. The CD is nicely presented with excellent notes by Tony Russell.
1. Chinese Breakdown 2. Carbolic Rag 3. Carolina Glide 4. Stone Mountain Wobble 5. Southern Blues 6. Old Folks Better Go to Bed 7. My Own Iona 8. Hiawatha Breakdown 9. Scottdale Stomp 10. Silver Bell 11. In the Shade of the Parasol 12. Green Mountain Polka 13. Kohala March 14. The Moonshiners' Waltz 15. Coughdrop Blues 16. Scottdale Highballers 17. Sitting on Top of the World 18. Down Yonder 19. Japanese Breakdown
INFO
http://www.arhoolie.com/country-bluegrass-old-timey/scottdale-string-band-old-folks-better-go-to-bed.html?sl=EN
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C.W. STONEKING - Gon' Boogaloo (2014)
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– Gon’ Booglaoo is a free-spirited party record that plays out loose and uninhibited.
This time ’round there’s no Joseph Conrad-style West African shipwreck and survival backstory to accompany the music à la 2008’s Jungle Blues. There’s also none of the National steel guitar that was at the heart of the debut King Hokum lp.
Inspired by Charlie Christian, Stoneking has turned on and plugged into the grid. The acoustic is gone and in its place a gold Fender Jazzmaster through an old Harmony amp. And, here’s the most exciting element – Stoneking really rips it – just like he’s realised he’s been playing too soft for too long. He plays loud and uses the whammy bar at will to slur in and out of chords.
The other grand idea that colours the album – Stoneking has constructed his songs to include some incredible call-and-response gospel-style backing vocals. Employing the power of the Bull sisters – Vika and Linda – paired with the youthful exuberance of Paul Kelly’s daughters, Madeleine and Memphis. They act as a Greek chorus on songs like the catch-your-breath first single “Get on the Floor”, the Phil Spector-esque “Good Luck Charm” and super-natural dance number, “The Zombie”.
The album, like all of his albums, has an authentic prewar sound, this one with distinct gospel overtones thanks to his preachy vocals and the chorus of backing singers. (The Australian)
INFO
http://addictedtonoise.com.au/c-w-stoneking-gon-boogaloo/
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/cw-stoneking-delivers-southern-comfort-with-new-album-gon-boogaloo/story-fn9n8gph-1227085038843?nk=05f41324ec72162803f85d79d00b6005
Ich wünsche euch allen ein schönes Wochenende
Universal Sounds Of America
A compilation of some of the finest 70's experimental jazz artists.
Universal Sounds of America is one of the early compilations for Great Britain's Soul Jazz label that made a case for a separate imprint that later became Universal Sound. Artists like Pharoah Sanders, drummer Steve Reid and the Master Brotherhood, Byron Morris & Unity Ensemble, David Durrah, New Life Trio, Marcus Belgrave, and last but not least, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Sun Ra all on the track listing for this set focus, one way or another, on "space being the place." Numerous cuts here employ the word "space" in their titles and one references it directly. Belgrave, Reid, Morris and the Art Ensemble all had titles reissued on the Universal Sound label (and Reid recorded afresh for Soul Jazz). While the focus here is on the diversity of, to borrow a term from the AEC, "Great Black Music Ancient to the Future," it is deeply rooted in '70s out jazz, with only Belgrave and Morris providing deeper, wider visions. Morris' nearly twelve-and-a-half minute "Kitty Bey" replies on modal jazz and Latin rhythms to get his killer track across. Likewise, Sanders uses an electric piano to position himself in space on the gorgeous "Astral Traveling," and Belgrave take nearly ten with his "Space Odyssey," that reflects on funk, electronic abstraction and Detroit soul-jazz to get his rather elegant point across. The rest is all beautifully played and constructed, but the sheer diversity of the sequencing -- though intentionally constructed in this way -- can be a bit much. Still, there isn't anything here not to recommend. ~ Thom Jurek
Info
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Universal-Sounds-Of-America/release/485052
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Jimmy Lewis - Still Wanna Be Black
Jimmy Lewis was (and is) one of the underrecognized southern soul talents of the 70's. This great new CD from Kent features his classic (and rare) Totally Involved LP, plus 11 extra unreleased tracks that are as great as anything from that LP. The vibe is righteous and grooving, and Jimmy's raw voice sounds great on cuts like "Message to the Ladies", "It Ain't What's On the Woman", "Is That Any Way To Treat A Lady", "Stop to Start", "When Love Is Gone", and "Still Wanna Be Black". Great stuff, and a massive tribute to a great artist! -Dusty Groove, Inc.
Info
http://www.allmusic.com/album/still-wanna-be-black-mw0000605470
320kb
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Much appreciation to G and J and R for these spectacular collections of musical goodness. Great weekend to you all,
Iggy
Jillem:
While living in Boston from the mid 70s to the early 80s my friend, who was studying at the Berklee School of Music, kept dragging me to clubs where Pharoah Sanders and Sun Ra happened to be playing. At that time they were playing some sort of zoned out Space Music that I could just not understand or get into. At the same time I was playing a hybrid music that I called Country Chic and although I was interested in Jazz I preferred charted arrangements and melodies that I could easily recognize as melody. So when I checked out "Universal Sounds Of America" over on Discogs the first thing that hit me was a 21 minute piece by Sun Ra and a song called "Astral Traveling" by Pharoah Sanders. Don't get me wrong, I love the stuff you post. But my experience with those two guys was excruciating. And the thought of 21 straight minutes of Sun Ra plain drove me away.
Jimmy Lewis? I will listen to Jimmy Lewis.
Thanks
Many thanks for this great array of music.
First CD I ever bought was Pharaoh Sanders, one of the best free jazz musicians out there.
Two more excellent volumes of the Vee-Jay series! Thanks as always, Gyro!
The Johnny Winters collection is much better than I expected. Since I'm not too big on blues rock but dig doo wop and 60s garage, I have to say that this compilation is all the Winters I need.
Thanks RYP.
I'm psyched about the Jimmy Lewis collection as well. Jillem, you make this already amazing site (already the best out there) even better!
Hi JohnnyDiego,
To me this is very accessible avant-garde/free jazz, but I'm used to listen to avant-garde noise makers like Skullflower or Merzbow.
Thanks Folks..Jillem, gyro and everybody else.
Thank You !!!
I've always loved the beautiful floating quality of Pharoah Sanders' "Astral Travelling" since it was released in 1971. The following year Santana put out Caravanseri, a great album in its own right but it's opening track "Eternal Caravan Of Reincarnation" I've always seen as a blatant copy of the Sanders song with no acknowledgement to its original songwriter Lonnie Liston Smith.
There is even a connection in both song titles associated to spirituality that makes me even more sure that Santana knew the original "Astral Travelling" & disingeniously copied it?
I'm wondering if other people who know these songs see it this way?
And a big thanks or all the great music Twilightzone puts out here.
Vielen lieben Dank.
Raimund
Jillem -- You know, there is one album that I never tire of: "Free Jazz" by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet. My mom used to cover her ears and sing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" whenever I put it on. I'm sure a download can be found or I will post it if anyone would like a copy.
Thanks for Jimmy Lewis!!
coolio!!
ta very much!!
pvc
Love the jazz comp.
great_spelunker
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