Recorded in the winter of 1960, this was the first album Otis Spann made in his tragically short life. Also on the date was Robert Lockwood, Jr., the step-son of one of the most extraordinary blues singers who ever recorded, the late Robert Johnson. Like his step-father, Robert Lockwood, Jr., also sings with biting, coruscating passion. Otis played great imaginative, meaty piano blues, complementing his highly individual and expressive vocal style. (Blues World)
There is great historical significance to this 1960 record: not only was it the first solo album ever recorded by the great pianist Otis Spann, it was also the first album ever recorded for Nat Hentoff's short-lived but fruitful Candid label. However, the music within is anything but a mere footnote. Hentoff's philosophy was to let the artist's true musical nature come through in the studio, and his laissez-faire production style bore great results. For his debut, Spann employed only Robert Lockwood Jr. as his musical support, and the result is a pared-down, passionate, triumphant set that sheds light on Spann as a full-bodied vocalist as well as a pianist. The Mississippi-born Spann grew under the tutelage of Big Maceo and mastered the pounding barrelhouse piano style that Maceo brought with him to Chicago. Spann adapted this fierce, urgent style to the burgeoning electric small-band approach that was taking Chicago by storm, and he eventually became an integral element of Muddy Waters's peak ensemble. Here, with only Lockwood's guitar behind him, Spann is free to indulge in his florid runs and pulsing two-handed rhythmic attack, exploring the turf that connects the barrelhouse of his youth with the modern Chicago style. —(Marc Greilsamer, Living Blues)
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01 The Hard Way 02 Take A Little Walk With Me 03 Otis In The Dark 04 Little Boy Blue 05 Country Boy 06 Beat-Up Team 07 My Daily Wish 08 Great Northern Stomp 09 I Got Rambling On My Mind #2 10 Worried Life Blues
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OTIS SPANN "Otis Spann Is The Blues"
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THE FIVE DAY WEEK STRAW PEOPLE (1968) @320
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This rare double album has long-since earned its place on many a vinyl collector's 'want' list, both for its content and brilliant sixties cover art The Five Day Week Straw People, was the brainchild of Attack's frontman (John Du Cann) and rhythm section
The Five Day Week Straw People were a one-off, studio-only British psychedelic band that did one rare album in late 1967 (actually released in 1968) for the budget Saga label. Its ten songs were loosely centered around the concept of a typical weekend in the life of typical working British people. For a fee of 25 pounds per musician, The Five Day Week Straw People -- comprised of singer/guitarist John Du Cann (of the obscure psychedelic pop group the Attack, who did four singles for Decca), bassist Mick Hawksworth, and drummer Jack Collins -- were assembled. The album was recorded in about four hours in a London schoolroom, a remarkable achievement given that Collins had not heard any of the songs prior to the session. (Richie Unterberger, Allmusic)
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Champion Jack Dupree - Blues For Everybody (1940-1971) @320
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Boxer, hobo, cook, painter, dancer, comedian, storyteller – Champion Jack Dupree was all this things, but above all he was blues pianist and singer. His whole life was a long journey, and it took him from the streets of New Orleans across the USA, and finally to Europe, where he spend his last 30 years playing barrelhouse piano and telling jokes to enchanted audience.
01. Blues For Everybody
02. Harelip Slip
03. Stumbling Blok
04. Silnet Partner
05. Me And My Mule
06. Overhead
07. Can't Kick The Habit
08. Stack-O-Lee
09. Talkin' Out Of my Head
10. Bring me Flowers While I'm Living
11. 24 Hours
12. I Haven't Done No-One No Harm
13. Down In The Valley
14. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
15. When Things Go Wrong
16. Cabbage Gang Blues No.1
17. Chain Gang Blues
18. Angola Blues
19. Dupree Shake Dance
20. Junker Blues
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Promised Land Sound (2013) @320
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Promised Land Sound emerged from the fertile Nashville garage scene—members have played with PUJOL, Denney and the Jets, and members of JEFF The Brotherhood and Those Darlins, among others—but they have quickly evolved to deploy a more varied country and soul palette than most of their brethren and sistren. In short order, they’ve managed to attract the admiration of esteemed folks like fellow Nashvillain Jack White, who released a live 7” of theirs on his Third Man Records. Bassist and singer Joey Scala and his younger brother Evan (drums) originally hail from Roanoke, Virginia but moved to Tennessee in 2000. In another exploration of a venerable American tradition, Joey spent some time hitchhiking around after high school, eventually meeting Nashville lifer and guitar prodigy Sean Thompson and playing in a succession of local bands together before beginning to write in earnest as a team. Keyboard player and pianist Ricardo Alessio tells us he was raised by an insular homeschooling family in Southeast Michigan and classically trained. Luke Schneider sometimes guests on pedal steel. Our slack-jawed reaction upon first hearing Promised Land Sound live at the Stone Fox in Nashville abides: These dudes can play.
Paradise of Bachelors is delighted to release Promised Land Sound’s first full-length album, co-produced by Jem Cohen (the Ettes and the Parting Gifts), Andrija Tokic (known for his work with Alabama Shakes), and Nashville guitar wizard (and Hiss Golden Messenger band member) William Tyler, who also guests on the record. Keep on chooglin’.
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Three Dog Night - Cyan (1973) [2013 Japan SHM-CD UICY-75570] @320
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This album, while not their most successful, is one of Three Dog Night's most interesting. Cut during a period when they were still very hot but were almost on the downside of their career, this album has a very strong gospel feeling to it. This is most evident on the hit single "Shambala," one of the group's finest later period records. It's a masterful record that shows the factors that made the group successful -- the counterpoint vocals of Wells, Negron, and Hutton surrounded by a very heavy hard rock backing. Guitarist Mike Allsup contributes a few good originals, too. The closing track, "Into My Life," continues the gospel feeling of the record and ends it on a high note. It's nice to know that with all of the debauchery and drugs, Three Dog Night still had their spiritual priorities in some order. (Allmusic)
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Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers - Complete Specialty Recordings @320
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Trojan Sixties Box Set 1
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Thank you Gyro for all things TDN.
Well! Spann, Dupree, and on the other comments, more Linkchain. What can be said? A big THANK YOU for all this Blues.
Cheers Daniel, from Spain...
Thanks
Thanks for the Otis Spann--nice!
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