It’s hard for me to write with any real sense of objectivity about Z Z Hill as his music has meant so much to me for well over four decades now. In the pantheon of southern soul singers, indeed soul singers period, Arzell Hill occupies a special place. From his earliest “home made” 45s for his brother Matt to his final years with Malaco, his profile output was chock full of quality music, wherever it was cut and whoever was producing it, and his throaty powerful baritone was always a joy to hear. Throughout his career he always walked the line between soul and blues, and although he used a lot of gospel tricks and traits in his singing, he never lost the blues man’s minor key vocal nuances either. He truly did combine the best of both worlds. (by Sir Shambling @ Sir Shambling’s Deep Soul Heaven)
INFO
http://sirshambling.com/articles/z_z_hill/index.php
trax:
01 When Something Is Wrong With My Baby 02 What Am I Living For 03 Nothing Takes The Place Of You 04 Knock On Wood 05 Steal Away 06 You Gonna Make Me Cry 07 You Send Me 08 Midnight Hour 09 When A Man Loves A Woman 10 Make Me Yours 11 Nothing Can Change The Love I Have For You 12 Greatest Love
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Z.Z. Hill "A Whole Lot Of Soul"
…A Big Thanks To clash For This Share! served by Gyro1966...
gitit! no pw
http://www30.zippyshare.com/v/dnNq6ShX/file.html
I've been looking for this for ages, thank you clash for this super-rare share !!
Eltel or Northern Madman
Can you please help with the following Goldmine/Soul Supply releases
Please...
This Is Northern Soul gscd14
Detroit Soul From The Vaults Vol.1 gscd19
Groovesville Collection gscd56
Totally Solid Hitbound gscd70
Many Thanks in advance
RYP and Clash Thank you for the ZZ Hill!
Thanks again clash. It is (imho) his best work.
BONUS 1 OF 6
Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 1-4: Ballads, Songs, Social Music, Rhythmic Changes (2014 Reissue) @320
Mississippi Records have truly outdone themselves this time! They’ve managed to pull off EXACT reproductions of the original pressings of Harry Smith’s alchemical and endlessly wonderful Anthology of American Folk Music. Each volume is 2 LPs – all 8 LPs sleeved in beautiful cloth-bound volumes with exact reproductions of the original booklets! Unavailable on vinyl for years, and never reissued in this painstaking way, this is a rare chance to get up close and personal with the REAL Old Weird America. An essential purchase for every home. Seriously.
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/1168-anthology-of-american-folk-music-vols-1-4-ballads-songs-social-music-rhythmic-changes
Originally released in 1952 as a quasi-legal set of 3 double-LPs and reissued several times since (with varying cover art), The Anthology of American Folk Music could well be the most influential document of the ’50s folk revival. Many of the recordings which appeared on it had languished in obscurity for 20 years, and it proved a revelation to a new group of folkies — from Pete Seeger to John Fahey to Bob Dylan — who covered the songs, tracked down the artists, and made new field recordings to document other strands of folk music.
The man that made the Anthology possible was editor and compiler Harry Smith, a man born in Washington but a drifter much of his life, as well as a painter, filmmaker and anthropologist. From his collection of thousands of old 78-rpm records,Smith compiled 84 of his favorite hillbilly, gospel, blues and Cajun performances from the late ’20s and early ’30s (all originally issued by labels such as Columbia and Victor), and divided each into one of three categories: Ballads, Social Music and Songs.
Smith sequenced the three volumes with a great amount of care, placing songs on the Ballads volume in historical order (not to be confused with chronological order) so as to create an LP that traces the folk tradition, beginning with some of the earliest Childe ballads of the British Isles and ending with several story songs of the early 20th century. The cast of artists includes pioneers in several fields, from the Carter Family and Uncle Dave Macon to Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mississippi John Hurt, and the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers. Many of the most interesting selections on the Anthology, however, are taken from artists even more obscure, such as Clarence Ashley, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, and Buell Kazee.
The fourth volume of the Anthology was never finished by Smith. He managed to choose and sequence the tracks but never submitted liner notes to Folkways.
Volume One-Ballads
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http://www96.zippyshare.com/v/tewUrvBx/file.html
Volume Two-Social Music
http://www96.zippyshare.com/v/4vaCxYBc/file.html
Volume Three-Songs
http://www96.zippyshare.com/v/9sicbpNN/file.html
Volume Four-Rhythmic Changes
http://www96.zippyshare.com/v/ScE7koYb/file.html
INFO
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/1168-anthology-of-american-folk-music-vols-1-4-ballads-songs-social-music-rhythmic-changes
BONUS 2 OF 6
Kinky Friedman - Sold American '73 @320
Although Kinky Friedman has become better-known for his best-selling mystery novels than for his music, the country music renegade and self-proclaimed "Texas Jewboy" was one of the '70s' most iconoclastic and memorable performers. A singer/songwriter with a degree in psychology, a Peace Corps stint on his resumé, and a wicked sense of humor, Friedman was adept at raising either eyebrows or hackles with songs like "High on Jesus" and "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed," but songs like "We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You" and "The Ballad of Charles Whitman" (about the military-trained sniper who shot and killed several people from the clock tower at the University of Texas while Friedman was a student there) show that he was more interested in smart alecky social commentary than cheap shocks and sensationalism. Indeed, the provocatively titled "Ride 'Em Jewboy" is actually a moving statement of Friedman's religious and cultural faith. The album's highlight, however, is the aching title track, the high point of Friedman's entire musical career. A sympathetic portrait of a down-and-out former country star dying on skid row, "Sold American" is a sad and lovely tune with an indelible chorus. Chuck Glaser's production throughout is low-key traditional (largely acoustic) country with a few folk and even fewer rock influences; Billy Swan, Norman Blake, and John Hartford are among the guests. This is by far Friedman's best album and a classic of '70s outlaw country. (Stewart Mason, Allmusic)
http://www78.zippyshare.com/v/QAG0LqSA/file.html
INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/sold-american-mw0000203858
BONUS 3 OF 6
Kinky Friedman - Kinky Friedman '74 @320
Willie Nelson, an inspired choice, was originally supposed to produce Kinky Friedman's second album, but after some unproductive sessions in Nashville, ABC-Dunhill pulled the plug and sent Friedman into a Los Angeles session with Steve Barri, a Dunhill staff producer whose history ran more toward the Grassroots, the Mamas and the Papas, and Tommy Roe. As Friedman writes in the liner notes of the 20th anniversary reissue on Varese Sarabande, he knew the album was in trouble when he looked up to the control room from the studio and saw Barri disinterestedly painting his fingernails during a vocal take. Obviously, Barri and Friedman were not meant to work together, and frankly, this album suffers as a consequence. Friedman's witty country songs too often end up, in Barri's hands, sounding like Three Dog Night. If one can ignore the poorly chosen and terribly dated production style, Friedman's songs this time out nearly equal those on his far superior debut, 1973's Sold American. Besides the usual satiric jibes, like "Before All Hell Breaks Loose" and "Somethin's Wrong With the Beaver," Friedman essays some gentler character sketches, like "Rapid City, South Dakota" and "Autograph." Friedman also honors his buddy and occasional bandmate Billy Swan by resurrecting Swan's "Lover Please," an early rock & roll hit for Clyde McPhatter. The album's two most famous tracks, though, are "Wild Man From Borneo," a sly tune inspired by Friedman's days in the Peace Corps in that country, and the anthemic "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore," a shaggy-dog story about a barroom encounter with a drunken racist. It's a shame about the production, but otherwise this is a classic of '70s outlaw country. (Stewart Mason, Allmusic)
http://www78.zippyshare.com/v/hAdMDroT/file.html
INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/kinky-friedman-mw0000113748
Thanks for featuring A Whole Lot Of Soul. Like I had said, it took me awhile to find and get the album, but it was sure worth the wait. It's a stunning record made by a brilliant artist.
Thanks again clash for the quality shares that you offer here. We have similar tastes.
Thanks for Kinky.
-Xtm
Gyro, big thanks for the Harry Smith folk anthology; and super big thanks for your careful tagging! I always appreciate getting to just unzip, import & play right away without having to tie up loose ends or search down unlabeled trax - especially on comps, where wild or missing tags can bury some songs deeeeep in one's library. It also keeps the whole thing easy and enjoyable when the sharing gets heavy and I have to just dump zippys into a desktop folder and later import dozens of albums at once when time permits. Your attention to detail proves you're a pro, thank you-thank you.
LoFi Larry - Thanks for noticing the tagging. I often have to take music and spend a lot of time tagging it to the way I like it. Then it only takes one minute to send it to zippyshare since I have super fast UL here. I like to share what I've tagged, especially if it took me a lot of time. I'm happy you notice.
There are a lot of music I DL, yet out off for a long time importing because I know that tagging it will be so time consuming. If it were a perfect world, I wouldn't need to tag anything. Some dream of world peace, my dreams are of perfect tagging.
Thanks for the ZZ Hill.
Nice to see he is remembered.
Thanks to RYP and Clash and everything said about the Anthology of American Folk Music is true. This is the real deal, super primal stuff!
These links might fade away soon:
Verlaines
Coorporate Moronic
http://www13.zippyshare.com/v/8UoeYZuB/file.html
Readty To Fly
http://www13.zippyshare.com/v/8UoeYZuB/file.html
Sandy Coast
A's And B's
Disc 1 http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/hZ4j6wMi/file.html
Disc 2 http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/Tl8rj3Fj/file.html
Able Tasmans
A Cuppa Tea And Lie Down
http://www62.zippyshare.com/v/MwpO0FmZ/file.html
Mark Lanegan
Imitations
http://www46.zippyshare.com/v/WtVEVC8e/file.html
Screaming Trees
os Angeles KLXU 18-10-1987
http://www81.zippyshare.com/v/0TyW1Gpy/file.html
Boiled In Lead
http://www81.zippyshare.com/v/ur0vPga2/file.html
The Bats
Volume 1
Disc 1
http://www61.zippyshare.com/v/fRSxc1jS/file.html
Disc 2
http://www61.zippyshare.com/v/cIAD4ExT/file.html
Disc 3
http://www61.zippyshare.com/v/fAJkKlso/file.html
David Olney
Predicting The Past
Disc 1
Disc 2 http://www36.zippyshare.com/v/jlKDGQTj/file.html
Contender
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/V3QvjM9w/file.html
One Tough Town
http://www36.zippyshare.com/v/mBZRPh58/file.html
Cuby & The Blizards
Desolation
http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/ZoTmUOpy/file.html
King Of the World
http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/4fg9C3N2/file.html
The See See
http://www20.zippyshare.com/v/pKuSN1JC/file.html
http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/4fg9C3N2/file.html
Love For Lreon A Benefit To Save The Barn
Disc 1 http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/Wl0patcA/file.html
Disc 2 http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/taO8qzb2/file.html
The Resentments
http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/F0VKMInZ/file.html
Gurf Morlix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurf_Morlix
Toad Of Titicaca
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/NbHZABTq/file.html
Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/1jtWzg54/file.html
Cut N Shoot
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/Ni9nP7SB/file.html
Roots On River Festival 06-10-2006
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/JWLdU3Tg/file.html
Last Exit To Happyland
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/t9W9iD5N/file.html
Fishin' In The Muddy
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/8jkHyXPH/file.html
Finds The Present Tense
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/6dWHRP3Q/file.html
Diamonds To Dust
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/RSai7OPY/file.html
Eatin' At Me
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/hZ7PFftL/file.html
Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream
http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/1jtWzg54/file.html
Sorry for iPhone typos:
There is a lot of music I DL, yet I put off importing it for a long time because I know that tagging it will be so time consuming.
THANK YOU for the ZZ Hill!
@Gyro
Thanks for the Kinky Friedman. Also looking for the following KF albums...
1974 - Old Testaments & New Revelations
1976 - Lasso From El Paso
1983 - Pearls In The Snow - The Songs Of Kinky Friedman
Or any others.
Thanks.
A great post indeed, thank you very much. I hope you won't mind me taking this opportunity to notify you and your visitors of the existance of our own blog, online since the end of may. It's called "Blue Dragon", and the address is http://jellyrollbaker.blogspot.com/
Please pay us a visit, leave a comment if you like it. Thank you for your own blog, it is a great one!
ZZ rules!
Tanx for ZZ, C&B & Screaming Trees!
P.S. Also big tanx for your great tagging. I always know it will be done right when it is a G-66 post!
Re: David Olney - Predicting The Past (2 cd set): cd1 link missing. Would loved to get that 1st cd.
Gyro1966, thanks for the Olney (& of course all the other fine music you post). I once sorta knew Dave when he lived in Chapel Hill circa 69-71. His girlfriend started & owned the famous Cat's Cradle music club there.
awesome excellence, twz is go-to place for my mainline fix. Music is my drug.
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