Up on the Mountain, Vol. 1, is a collection of songs produced, arranged, and recorded by Uncle Jim O'Neal in the mid-'50s to 1960s for his Rural Rhythm label.
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1. Whoa Mule - Raymond Fairchild 2. Foggy Mountain Top - Earl Taylor & Jim McCall 3. Nine Pound Hammer - Don Reno & Bill Harrell 4. Lonesome Road Blues - Hylo Brown & The Timberliners 5. Lee Highway Blues - Don Reno & Red Smiley 6. Salty Dog Rag - Red White & The Dixie Blue Grass Band 7. Slew Foot - Bear Tracks 8. Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone - Red Smiley & The Bluegrass Cut-Ups 9. I Don't Love Nobody - Don Reno & Bill Harrell 10. Mule Skinner Blues - Ernie & Mack With The Bluegrass Cut-Ups 11. The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee - Jim Grier & The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks 12. Lonesome Valley - Rusty York
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"UP ON THE MOUNTAIN" Vol. 2
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BONUS 1 OF 7
BO DIDDLEY - 500% More Man '65 @320
By the end of 1965, Bo was making a conscious effort to recapture both the Black listenership who had deserted him, and the white audience that was buying all of those soul records. Unfortunately, neither he nor Chess knew exactly how to go about it, and the result was another good album largely unheard by the public. The title track marks Bo's return to the Muddy Waters beat that he appropriated for "I'm a Man" (and that Muddy took back in "Mannish Boy") a decade earlier, and is one of Bo's greatest '60s sides. "Greasy Spoon" mentions Muddy amid its comical description of the offerings of a particularly unclean eatery (it's amazing when you think of it -- ten years recording in Chicago, and longer than that living there, and Bo was still nearly as much a country blues artist as he was when he started). "Let Me Pass" is a hot number with an infectious beat and some very funny lyrics, with Bo playing some delectable guitar. "Stop My Monkey," featuring Bo backed by the singing group the Cookies, has him again trying for a commercial soul-sound in a Motown vein, and "Tonight Is Ours" is one of Bo's most heartfelt romantic numbers, with the Cookies singing their hearts out while Bo tries his hand at a song that might've fit well on either of the first two albums by the Miracles, while "Hey, Red Riding Hood" brought back the Bo Diddley beat for another go around, this time with delightfully raunchy lyrics amid crisper textures, and a much finer sound than ever before. "Hey's So Mad" is pretty lackluster except for the guitar break, but "Root Hoot" should've been more widely heard than it was, being one of Bo's more infectious chant-based songs. "Corn Bread" has a neatly stinging, Slim Harpo-type lead guitar sound, and is overall an okay instrumental. And then there's "Soul Food," another great Bo Diddley rocker lost in the middle of the '60s soul boom -- Bo is so smooth, impassioned, sexy, and raw, and the Cookies sound so good backing him on one of his best instrumental tracks ever, that the fact this song was never a hit is a crime. By 1965, however, nobody in America was buying his records, even ones like this filled to bursting with good music and good humor, and even the British were beginning to lose interest in Bo's latest records. This was among Bo's last sessions with the Duchess, and the group he's using is more or less the studio equivalent of the band he's seen with in The Big TNT Show (aka That Was Rock). (Bruce Eder, Allmusic)
A1
500% More Man
A2
Let Me Pass
A3
Stop My Monkey
A4
Greasy Spoon
A5
Tonight Is Ours
A6
Root Hoot
A7
Stinkey
B1
Hey Red Riding Hood
B2
Let The Kids Dance
B3
He's So Mad
B4
Soul Food
B5
Corn Bread
B6
Somebody Beat Me
B7
Fireball
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Info
http://www.discogs.com/Bo-Diddley-500-More-Man/release/1702644
BONUS 2 OF 7
JAZZ GILLUM - Complete Recorded Works 1936-1938 (Document) Vol. 1 @320
William McKinley "Jazz" Gillum was a good-time singer and a fine harmonica player whose style predated the first Sonny Boy Williamson but was more advanced than the players of the 1920s. His complete output up to 1949 has been made available by the Austrian Document label on four CDs. The first volume has his first five sessions and one song from his sixth. Gillum is joined by guitarist Big Bill Broonzy on all of the dates with appearances by pianist John Davis, Washboard Sam and electric guitarist George Barnes (who is heard a year before Charlie Christian debuted). Highlights include "Jockey Blues," "Don't You Scandalize My Name," "Reefer Head Woman," "Good Old 51 Highway" and "You're Laughing Now." Fine blues-oriented music.
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INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/complete-recorded-works-vol-1-1936-1938-mw0000126320
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BONUS 3 OF 7
POKEY LaFARGE & The South City Three - Middle of Everywhere '11
Channeling American roots, country blues, and jazz traditions of the early 20th century, Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three's newest recording is surely a most inspired 21st-century creation. Middle of Everywhere represents the latest addition to a growing eminence in contemporary American roots music, and LaFarge is definitely paving the way. He and his crew don't just pay homage to their artistic forbears here - they commandeer their legacies and create something new - and with Midwestern country blues mashed with Western swing, sweet harmony vocals, and hints of New Orleans style horns and lap steel throughout, the title Middle of Everywhere is particularly fitting. LaFarge's honest, approachable songwriting chops shine through on such tracks as Head to Toe and Ain't the Same, with The South City Three all the while providing an impeccable up-tempo driving rhythm. LaFarge has always had the grace, charm, and flair of the musicians of long ago, but Middle of Everywhere shows just how much of a musical force he is, and how much command he possesses as he steps out with accordant confidence. (Roots & Rhythm)
[Pokey LaFarge] studies the past and makes it his own... his voice is strong and warm... The sentiment in [Feels So Good] pretty well sums up what I love about this band. --Bob Boilen, NPR
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INFO
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Everywhere-Pokey-LaFarge-South/dp/B0055I19SO
BONUS 4 OF 7
JOHNNY SHINES - Too Wet To Plow '75 @320
Johnny Shines was far from predictable. Though he recorded his share of inspired electric dates, he had no problem turning around and delivering a stripped-down, all-acoustic Delta blues session like Too Wet to Plow. Recorded in Edmonton, Canada in 1975 and reissued on CD by Concord Jazz's Blues Alliance label in 1996, Too Wet to Plow finds Shines in excellent form. His solid accompaniment includes harmonica player Sugar Blue and bassist Ron Rault, as well as guitarist/singer Louisiana Red (a superb bluesman who isn't nearly as well known as he should be), and Shines clearly has a strong rapport with them on "Red Sun," "Traveling Back Home," and other highly personal originals. Although Shines' own songs are dominant, one of the album's high points is an interpretation of Robert Johnson's "Hot Tamale." Highly recommended. (Allmusic)
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INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/too-wet-to-plow-mw0000205508
Thanks for J.Shines! An intriguing yet fabulous album.
Cheers Daniel, from Spain...
Thanks Gyro. Here's a short list of the records that with the front door of my house wide open in the Summer of 1972 and 1973 (yes, I was an asshole back then too) might blast out into the neighborhood:
Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
I'm Still In Love With You - Al Green
Future Blues - Canned Heat
Babylon - Dr. John
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500% More Man - Bo Diddley
Thanks for the post. One of my Bo Diddley favorites.
Thanks so much to G and R for the fine Rural Rhythm offerings. Whatever you may think of this "style" of music, this is much better than you think, with a remastered sound that gonna blow you away. As the old commercial said, "try it; you'll like it."
Iggy
Thanks
JohnnyDiego - You had an early jump on me! I was only ten or eleven and listening to things like Led Zeppelin at that time.
Gyro
Bo 500pct is missing tracks 7 & 14.
Quality through and through. Thank you for this entire post!
Thank you so much for continuing to share all the music. Not interested in the bluegrass offerings, although I know others probably enjoy them. (I live in western North Carolina and have been inundated with bluegrass for decades. Don't care if I never hear another godforsaken banjo! :) )
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