During the first half of the 20th century, the sprawling industrial metropolis of Chicago was a favored destination for thousands of individuals from all points of the compass who flocked to the Great Lakes region in search of steady employment. While an influx of New Orleans musicians created and fueled a tremendous jazz scene, by the middle '20s the Windy City had also become a major epicenter of barrelhouse, boogie, and blues recording activity. In 2000, Catfish records released Chicago in Mind, a 23-track mini-history of classic blues that traces a chronological progression extending from 1923 to 1948. Beginning with "Chicago Bound Blues" by Ida Cox, this excellent core sample follows a logical progression of vintage recordings by artists who virtually defined the idiom over a quarter-century of social and musical evolution. There are numerous references to the city and its thoroughfares. The collection gets its name from the title of a beautiful piano solo recorded by Albert Ammons on January 6, 1939, the day on which the Blue Note record label was inaugurated. Pianist Jimmy Blythe's "Chicago Stomp" and banjoist Papa Charlie Jackson's "Maxwell Street Blues" are straight-up from the bedrock of the tradition, along with Cow Cow Davenport's "State Street Jive," Tampa Red's "Chicago Moan Blues," "Chicago's Too Much for Me" as presented by the Sparks Brothers; "Windy City" by Arnold "Doc" Wiley, and the thundering "Chicago Breakdown" by blues and boogie master Big Maceo Merriweather. This well-conceived and sensibly selected anthology of great Chicago blues also includes essential contributions by Priscilla Stewart, Big Bill Broonzy, Washboard Sam, the original Sonny Boy Williamson, and screaming Sunnyland Slim, whose "Johnson Machine Gun" contains a frightening reference to murderous rage acted out over large portions of Southern lower Michigan, from Saginaw down to Highway 94. There are no dullards in this collection. Scratch beneath the surface and you'll discover noteworthy undercover participants like Lovie Austin, Ransom Knowling, Blind John Davis, George Barnes, and Willie Dixon. Further early modern participants, representing how the blues grew up during and after the Second World War, include Baby Face Leroy Foster, Snooky Pryor, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Tommy McClennon, Little Walter, Robert Nighthawk, and Muddy Waters. As an entertaining and insightful anthology of historic recordings, Catfish's Chicago in Mind is highly recommended for anyone seeking a better understanding of what this kind of music is all about. (Allmusic)
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1. Chicago Bound Blues - Ida Cox 2. Mecca Flats Blues - Priscilla Stewart 3. Chicago Stomp - Jimmy Blythe 4. Maxwell Street Blues - Papa Charlie Jackson 5. State Street Jive - Cow Cow Davenport 6. Chicago Moan - Tampa Red 7. New Shake 'Em On Down - Big Bill Broonzy 8. Chicago's Too Much For Me - The Sparks Brothers 9. Down At The Badman's Hall - Washboard Sam 10. Rub A Dub - Sonny Boy Williamson 11. Johnson Machine Gun - Sunnyland Slim 12. Windy City - Arnold Wiley 13. Chicago Breakdown - Big Maceo 14. Dozing Blues - George Noble 15. Chicago In Mind - Albert Ammons 16. Take A Little Walk With Me - Leroy Foster 17. Big Town Playboy - Little Johnny Jones 18. Boogy Fool - Snooky Pryor 19. I'm Gonna Train My Baby - Robert Lockwood Jr. 20. Sweet Black Angel - Robert Nighthawk 21. Blue Bird Blues - Tommy McClennan 22. Oranelle Blues - Little Walter 23. I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
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Various Artists - This Is Merseybeat [Edsel, CD, 1989]
THIS IS MERSEY BEAT (1963, two volumes, Oriole PS 40047/8) In July 1963 John Schroeder brought a mobile recording unit to Liverpool and, using the Rialto Ballroom, recorded one local band after another. The albums feature ten bands and are as close as you can get to the atmosphere in the Cavern and other local beat clubs. The bands include Earl Preston and the TTs, Sonny Webb and the Cascades, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, the Merseybeats, the Nomads and the Del Renas. An EP, “Take Six” (Oriole EP 7080), was extracted from the albums. In 1982, Edsel released a 16-track compilation, mostly from these albums, and called “Let’s Stomp! Liverpool Beat 1963? (Edsel ED 103). It included a four-page fold-out history of the bands. The 28-track “This Is Mersey Beat” (1989, Edsel DED 270 (LP) and EDCD 270 (CD)) duplicates the original artwork but omits Mark Peters and the Silhouettes and adds Oriole singles from Faron’s Flamingos and Ian and the Zodiacs. As an example of the rough and ready nature of the recordings, listen to Derry Wilkie and the Seniors performing Ray Charles’ “Hallelujah I Love Her So”: Derry sings, “In the evening when the sun comes up.” What was this man on? -spencerleigh.co.uk
Info
http://www.discogs.com/Various-This-Is-Merseybeat/release/6488193
FLAC
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Expiry date 9 february 2015
This Is Reggae Music: Golden Era 1960-1975 (4-CD Box)
A wonderful introduction to reggae.
The history of Jamaica's music is a fascinating one, and seldom has a nation's pop music been so celebratory, political, and concerned with civil rights, all rolled into an upside-down one-drop rhythm that is as recognizable as it is pervasive. Part mento, part African drums, part American jazz, soul, and R&B, part a Marcus Garvey-derived treatise on human rights and repatriation, Jamaica's reggae is pop music with clear revolutionary goals, intent on dancing in the face of Babylon while forthrightly chanting it down. This four-disc box set from Trojan covers "the golden years" of reggae (1960 to 1975), cutting off just as Bob Marley's Island releases were about to take Jamaica's music all over the world. Arranged chronologically, beginning with some mento and ska sides, building through the rocksteady and early reggae years, and climaxing in the rise of roots reggae in the mid-'70s, This Is Reggae Music hits most of the historical high points, including Jamaica's entry into the international pop market with early hits like Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" (arranged by the venerable Ernest Ranglin) and Desmond Dekker's "Israelites," following these up with key tracks from Jimmy Cliff's The Harder They Come soundtrack (including Cliff's own "Many Rivers to Cross," the Maytals' "Pressure Drop," the Melodians' "Rivers of Babylon," and the Slickers' immortal "Johnny Too Bad") and some early reggae gems like Marley's "Duppy Conqueror" (produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry), the Heptones'
"Hypocrite," and Cliff's "Vietnam." The final disc finds reggae poised to take over the world (on the wings of one Bob Marley), and includes essential tracks like Delroy Wilson's "Better Must Come," Zap Pow's bit of reggae-meets-Stax, "This Is Reggae Music," Slim Smith's stunningly beautiful "The Time Has Come," and the concluding song, the classic Jack Ruby-produced "Marcus Garvey" by Burning Spear. Committed reggae collectors will have most of these sides, but it's nice to have all these songs in one package, and as a capsule history of the early years of reggae, one that hits the corners hard and fast, Trojan has done the trick. Again. -Allmusic
Info
http://www.discogs.com/Various-This-Is-Reggae-Music-The-Golden-Era-1960-1975/release/588921
FLAC incl. artwork + booklet
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Expiry date 9 february 2015
If you want the more obscure stuff, try
Muzik City: The Story of Trojan (4-CD Box)
Info
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Muzik-City-The-Story-Of-Trojan/release/3305043
MP3/320kb
http://we.tl/aZbN8pp5i3
Expire date 9 february 2015
Hi, I love your blog and am regularly, so I allow me to ask you if you could post the links of following albums Monk Higgins "MacArthur Park" and "Dance To The Disco Sax Of Monk Higgins"I am looking for long time without ever being able to find them. With my anticipated thanks and congratulations for your great blog. Best regards.
Pierre
BONUS 1 OF 7
THE WILD MAGNOLIAS - The Wild Magnolias ’73 @320
This debut marked a milestone for New Orleans music as it was one of the first major-label records from a Mardi Gras Indian tribe; this was soon to be followed by another great tribe band, the Wild Tchoupitoulas. Not to be confused with Native American tribes, the Mardi Gras Indians are part of an African-American gangland tradition dating back to the beginning of the 20th century. What began as street confrontations resulting in brawls developed into something more formal, with elaborate handmade costumes and song contests. Beginning as a practice group formed by leader Big Chief Theodore "Bo" Dollis and Joseph "Monk" Boudreaux of the Golden Eagles tribe, the Wild Magnolias caught the eye of local promoters and were recorded in 1973 with the New Orleans Project. The tribe consisted of Dollis and Boudreaux on lead vocals, with the former on tambourine and the latter on congas; with James "Gator June" Smothers or "Gate" Johnson, Jr., "Crip" Adams, and "Bubba" Scott all on background vocals and percussion instruments. They were backed by the New Orleans Project, which featured some of the cream of the studio crop in the Crescent City: guitarist Snooks Eaglin, Earl Turbinton, Jr. on reeds and winds, Willie Tee on keyboards, percussion, and background vocals, bassist Julius Farmer , drummer Larry Panna, conguero Alfred "Uganda" Roberts, and Norwood "Gitchie" Johnson on bass drum. Dollis and Boudreaux lead the group through the Indians' street call and response chants, which become mantra atop a series of furiously funky, extended New Orleans grooves. Along with inspired originals like "Handa Wanda," the traditional numbers such as "Two Way Pak E Way," and historical numbers such as "Saints" ("When the Saints Come Marching In") and "Shoo Fly" ("Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me") are radically and steamily re-arranged to provide maximum party flavor. This is an exciting non-stop dancefest and an excellent introduction for anyone interested in the music of the Big Easy. (Tom Jurek, Allmusic)
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pt.2
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INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-wild-magnolias-mw0000619660
BONUS 2 OF 7
JAMES BOOKER - Classified ’82 @320
One of the great blues albums of the early '80s, Classified captures the legendary New Orleans pianist James Booker not long before his premature death at the age of 43 on November 8, 1983. Recorded in a series of sometimes problematic sessions in 1982 -- producer Scott Billington details them in his terrific liner notes on the 2013 reissue of the record, which is remixed and expanded -- Classified appeared just a few months before Booker's death, so it's hard not to read it as something of a final statement. That said, Booker's recording career was, shall we say, erratic, consisting of many sessions and live records but only a handful of full-fledged, big-budget albums along the lines of Classified (1976's Junco Partner and the 1977 live set New Orleans Piano Wizard are the only ones that qualify). The pianist didn't intend this to be some kind of grand statement, but Billington was intent on getting a good, solid, New Orleans R&B record from Booker, pushing him through sessions that were often difficult and unfocused. That all changed on the last day, when Booker arrived fresh and recharged and proceeded to plow through a bunch of solo performances that form the bulk of the album and are even more prominent on the reissue. A few full-band songs followed but that was it -- Booker took his $3000 check and left the studio, not to be seen again for several weeks. What he left Billington with is as close to a definitive studio album as we could get from the wildly inventive pianist. In the expanded edition, there is more room for detours and Booker takes them, playing "Warsaw Concerto" and "Theme from the Godfather," which gives a great idea of his sense of melody and space, but elsewhere this is firmly rooted in New Orleans, and his takes on "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," "Lonely Avenue," "All Around the World," and a Professor Longhair Medley of "Tipitina" and "Bald Head," all showcase his idiosyncrasies; how he simultaneously builds on tradition while playing with it. All this was present on the original incarnation of Classified, but in its expanded 2013 edition, there's simply more space to showcase every one of James Booker's quirks, and that freedom is why the album remains the definitive Booker LP -- it's just even more definitive in this incarnation. (Allmusic)
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INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/classified-mw0000204183
BONUS 3 OF 7
THE ARTISTICS - I’m Gonna Miss You ’67 @320
The Artistics I’m Gonna Miss You originally released in 1967, is a superb example of vocal group soul, in a similar vein to the Chi-Lites and Four Tops, highly collectable as an original.
A Chicago R&B and soul group discovered by Major Lance, The Artistics joined Brunswick in 1966, and scored their biggest hit with “I’m Gonna Miss You,” which was also the title of their debut album for the label. “I’m Gonna Miss You” is the quintessential Chicago Soul gem: a bouncing rhythm mixed with harmony vocals and the right amount of polish.
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INFO
http://www.discogs.com/Artistics-Im-Gonna-Miss-You/release/1646037
Thank you Gyro66 for the Artistics
Thanks so much for the James Booker!
Thanks to everybody for the treasures to be had from visiting this wonderful site - Jillem, love the We Transfer for downloading (and I thought Zippy was great!)
thanks, you are correct. all the songs are quiet enjoyable. thank you.
Thanks for the Wild Mags - perfect timing with Mardi Gras season approaching. Always an important part of my annual Carnival playlist. Sadly Big Chief Dollis passed a couple weeks ago. The Parades won't be the same this year without him leading the way like he did for so long.
Pierre,
It's very nice that you love the blog as much as we do, but it's a shame that you seem to reserve your comments/thanks for when you're asking for something else.
What's the world coming to?
Hey Anon dissing Pierre: Has it ever occurred to *you* that by his request he may be spawning the availability of a few recordings that the whole body of leeches (ALL of us) may actually find to be a rare gem?? While he may not have the resources to share, he may have the knowledge of a real gem of such rarity that it may be a godsend? No? And unlike you or myself, he at least has the balls to reveal a means to identify himself and you could have just emailed him with your gripe. Now, pipe down, open links in a new tab and watch your ISP bandwidth allocation while inhaling mountains of copyrighted material. Sheesh
Like so much The Wild Magnolias with The New Orleans Project but even it was recorded in 1973, record was out in 1974. There was also a german press on Barclay at this time.
http://www.discogs.com/Wild-MagnoliasWith-New-Orleans-Project-The-Wild-Magnolias/master/136970
Thanks for it.
Fred
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Jillem
Thanks for the Merseybeat album.
This Is Reggae Music, I thought I had this but it was on a deceased hard drive, thanks for that.
Trojan, what a nice dive back into my youth, Tighten Up, Return of Django Elizabethan Reggae. I was so much younger then. But music can transport you back for a while.
Thanks
and Thanks Gyro and RYP for helping me make that journey.
My mum told me "If you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all". Leave Pierre alone.
Dear Gyro1966. Thank you very much for your kindness, generosity and erudition. I have the all the Wild Magnolia records. I don't know if you chose to make it available because of the death of their leader Big Chief Bo Dollis on 21 January 2015 or whether it was a remarkable coincidence. This is a great record as are all their others. I first saw the Wild Magnolias at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1994. They blew me away. They were one of the best bands I have ever seen let alone at the Jazzfest. Each year I went, it was to see the Wild Magnolias. They deserve to be better known. This download will help. It is little known that Willie Turbinton also known as Willie Tee plays on this record. The Northern Soul fans know him for his obscure soul singles. He was a brilliant funky influence when he played with the Wild Magnolias. They are one of the greatest bands to come out of New Orleans: Johnnie K in Auckland New Zealand
pogo, the Wild Magnolias With The New Orleans Project is the album Gyro1966 posted it!!
This is Merseybeat is such a great comp. and one of the first things I ever bought on CD! Let's Stomp!!!
Thanks!
From Jillem:
By request of.. Pierre?
Monk Higgins
Styles: Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz, Soul, Crossover Jazz, Funk
1972 - Extra Soul Perception
1972 - Heavyweight
1972 - Little Mama
1974 - Dance To The Disco Sax Of Monk Higgins (256kb)
1975 - Sheba, Baby
Biography
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/monk-higgins-mn0000589839/biography
Discography
http://www.discogs.com/artist/132148-Monk-Higgins
MP3/256kb-320kb
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Expiry date 11 february 2015
I love you guys! Thanks for everything!
Mose
p.s. I am sober
Thanks Jillem for all this treasures of reggae
LittleJack
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