If you assemble a bunch of above-average artists to pay tribute to a major artist, is the result an above-average tribute record? Not always, but in this case it is. Organized and executive-produced by Peter Case, this contains covers of the Mississippi bluesman's songs by more than a dozen medium-big and very-big names from the folk and rock worlds, including Beck, Taj Mahal, Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle (dueting with Justin Earle), Ben Harper, Peter Case & Dave Alvin (performing together), Geoff Muldaur, Gillian Welch, and John Hiatt. It's more a folk-rock-blues crossover album than a Delta blues one, which is fine: tribute albums shouldn't be re-creations of the originals, and whether or not it was the intention, it will expose some of John Hurt's songs to fans who identify themselves primarily as folk or rock listeners. And not many of these songs are very well-known, with the exception of "Candy Man" (done by Steve & Justin Earle) and "Stagolee" (sung by Beck). The arrangements are low-key and respectful, the best ones being Ben Harper's "Sliding Delta" (which is one of the bluesiest performances) and Victoria Williams' "Since I've Laid My Burden Down," which has very eccentric banjo sounds. (Richie Unterberger, Allmusic)
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1. Frankie & Albert - Chris Smither 2. Avalon, My Home Town - Bruce Cockburn 3. Angels Laid Him Away - Lucinda Williams 4. Here Am I, Oh Lord, Send Me - Youngblood / Hart 5. Candy Man - Steve Earle 6. Monday Morning Blues - Peter Case & Dave Alvin 7. Sliding Delta - Ben Harper 8. Chicken - Geoff Muldaur 9. Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor - Mark Selby 10. Stagolee - Beck 11. Since I've Laid My Burden Down - Victoria Williams 12. Pay Day - Bill Morrissey 13. My Creole Belle - Taj Mahal 14. Beulah Land - Gillian Welch 15. I'm Satisfied - John Hiatt
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"Avalon Blues" A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
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Raw Soul - Rare & Unreleased Funk From Norfolk, Virginia 1971 - 1973.rar
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OSCD 029 - Revilot Revue Vol.1.rar
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Thanks to Northern Madman, Dave & B1gdaddy
Rare Boston Soul [320KB].rar
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Thanks for the Rare Boston Soul ElTel!
BONUS 1 OF 6 @320
Pops Staples - Father Father '94
Ry Cooder, who produced two tracks on Pops's landmark '92 recording, "Peace to the Neighborhood," produces two more on "Father Father." Cooder's guitar and Jim Keltner's drums lock in with Pops's guitar and voice to negotiate the smallest shadings of tone and time on "Downward Road" and "Jesus Is Going to Make Up (My Dying Bed)"; the results are hypnotic. Pops's best-known daughter, Mavis (a.k.a. "Bubbles"), coproduced two of the album's best songs, the title tune and "Hope in a Hopeless World." Pops's thin, whispery, low moan conjures up a sense of dread on these two prophecies about a world falling apart, and Mavis joins her sisters Cleotha and Yvonne in full-throated, answering shouts. Elsewhere on the album Pops recounts his friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr., gives a nicely understated reading of Bob Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody," remakes Mack Rice's "Getting Too Big for Your Britches" from the Staple Singers' '74 album, "City in the Sky," and turns once again to his favorite pop gospel songwriter, Curtis Mayfield, for an exhilarating version of "People Get Ready." --Geoffrey Himes
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INFO
http://www.amazon.com/Father-Pops-Staples/dp/B000000W63
BONUS 2 OF 6 @320
Pops Staples - Peace To The Neighborhood '92
One of the best gospel recordings ever made, Pop Staples worked with the best in the business to give us a polished gem of a masterpiece. Some of the songs, such as This May Be The Last Time, have been on previous Staple Singers albums but here they get a contemporary treatment. Guest artists include Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, and Ry Cooder. Mavis, Yvonne and Cleotha Staples join him, with Mavis taking lead on Pray On My Child. Some may find the album sounds uneven with five different production teams, but I enjoyed the styles that each brought the recording. For example, Ry Cooder brings a pared-down rootsy sound to the production of the delta blues material that reminds us of where the music came from, on songs such as Down In Mississippi, and I Shall Not Be Moved. Willie Mitchell brings in Jackson & Love of the Memphis Horns for a more urban sound on America. Get it! (Blues Monthly)
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INFO
http://www.amazon.com/Peace-Neighborhood-Pops-Staples/dp/B000000WIM
BONUS 3 OF 6
T. REX - The T. Rex Wax Co. Singles A's and B's 1972-77
First, full disclosure is necessary as to what's missing. Ready? On this glorious 38-track, double-CD collection, there isn't one track from T. Rex's Electric Warrior. That's right, "Bang a Gong," "Mambo Sun," and "Jeepster" are all absent. Why? Simple: it appears Warner is recalcitrant to license that wondrous album to anyone in any form. It turns out that this is simply a small complaint because none of the tracks from Electric Warrior should be separated from its full corpus anyway -- it is an album in the purest and more literal sense of the world. Getting to what is here, listeners do get tracks from that beautiful slab The Slider as well as Tanx, Light of Love , Bolan's Zip Gun, Dandy in the Underworld, Futuristic Dragon, and a slew of 45s never issued on LP. If you are looking for "Sunken Rags," it's here; if you need "Mad Donna," it's also here. So are "Metal Guru," "Telegram Sam," "Solid Gold Easy Action," "Children of the Revolution," "Baby Strange," "20th Century Boy," "Satisfaction Pony," and "Born to Boogie." Right, it's packed with nary a dolt in the whole mess. While much of this -- in fact all of it -- has been compiled in other places, this one's remastered sound takes precedence over the rest of the lot. If you are enough of a Marc Bolan freak to want a T. Rex orgy once in a while and don't need all the studio LPs, but you're not a rabid completist, then pick this one up, add to it that remastered version of Electric Warrior, and you will have a listening -- or party -- experience of thoroughly unexpected results at your disposal. (Tom Jurek, Allmusic)
CD1
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CD2
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INFO
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BONUS 4 OF 6 @320
Tift Merritt - Bramble Rose '02
Imagine the Rolling Stones recording a country album in Muscle Shoals with Dusty Springfield singing lead. Now imagine a young artist from North Carolina whose ambition not only measures itself against such classic comparisons, but shows the promise to transcend them. Tift Merritt's major-label debut finds such promise fulfilled on "Sunday," the six-minute centerpiece in which the sweet sensuality of her upper register floats over an organ bedrock and vocal chorus that are pure Southern church. Even when other cuts sound like they could have been preserved in a '70s time capsule--the generic country-rock of "Diamond Shoes" and the very Stonesy "Neighborhood"--her vocals have a seductive intimacy that freshens the familiar. The lead guitar of producer Ethan Johns and the keyboards of Benmont Tench (on loan from Tom Petty's Heartbreakers) augment Merritt's band on arrangements that give the material plenty of room to breathe. As a writer, Merritt has some room to grow, but as a singer, she already sounds like one of the greats. --Don McLeese
In his short story Billy the Kid, Steve Earle spun the tale of a fresh-faced kid who arrived in Nashville with a handful of brilliant songs, cut a stone classic album, scored a record deal most musicians would give their eye teeth to get, and married the girl of his dreams, all in a few weeks before cruel fate caught up with him. While one can only hope the powers that be have a more generous final act planned for Tift Merritt, listening to her first solo album (she'd released an album with the Two Dollar Pistols), Bramble Rose, is a reminder that such things could possibly happen in the real world. If Bramble Rose is a bit short of perfect, it leaves no doubt that Merritt is already a talent of the first order. As a singer, she has a simply gorgeous vocal instrument (imagine the passion of Lucinda Williams and the real-world twang of Iris Dement fused with the silky beauty of Emmylou Harris), and her songs are nearly as impressive as her vocals. At 27, Merritt's lyrical perspective speaks of the often-unfortunate twists and turns of fate, but without bitterness or spite, and she can jump from the wistful sway of "Virginia, No One Can Warn You" to the R&B-influenced bite of "Neighborhood" and back to the classic weeper style of the title cut without missing a step or ever sounding less than committed or convincing. Merritt also has the good fortune of having a superb backing band who support her songs with grace and impeccable taste, and producer Ethan Johns gets this music on tape with a sound that's at once intimate and comfortably wide open. It's difficult to imagine that an artist whose previous recording experience amounted to one self-released 45 and a split EP could turn in an album so strong and well-crafted, but it's even harder to imagine that listeners are likely to hear many debut albums nearly as good as Bramble Rose in the final six months of 2002, and by all rights this should be the first offering in a long and successful career for Tift Merritt. (Mark Deming, Allmusic)
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INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/bramble-rose-mw0000222795
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BONUS 5 OF 6 @320
BR5-49
One of the most critically acclaimed alternative country bands of the '90s, BR5-49's sound, style, and even look were unabashedly retro. Dressing in old, budget-friendly clothes, the band played a mixture of classic '50s honky tonk, Western swing, boogie, Bakersfield country, rockabilly, and Gram Parsons-style country-rock. The group was founded by guitarists/vocalists Gary Bennett and Chuck Mead in early 1993, not long after they'd moved to Nashville from the Pacific Northwest and Kansas, respectively. Bennett led an informal band at Robert's Western Wear, a combination bar and clothing store on Lower Broadway in Nashville's old district, and Mead -- an alumnus of roots rockers the Homestead Grays -- worked at a nearby bar before joining up. They later added upright bassist Smilin' Jay McDowell, who'd previously been a guitarist in Hellbilly; drummer Shaw Wilson, a friend of Mead's from Kansas; and fiddle/steel guitar/mandolin/Dobro player Don Herron, an old cohort of Bennett's. The group took up residency at Robert's Western Wear, playing for tips three nights a week, and built a strong local following among both country and alternative rock fans, thanks to their eclectic repertoire and punkish, left-of-center attitude. They adopted the name BR5-49 from a phone number in a Junior Samples sketch on Hee Haw, and signed with Arista in 1995. (Steve Huey, Allmusic)
BR5-49 - More From Robert's '13
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BR5-49 - Greatest Misses '12
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BR5-49 - Greatest Misses Vol. 2 (2015)
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INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/br5-49-mn0000071958/biography
BONUS 6 OF 6
Redlands Palomino Company
Hailed by the Guardian as 'alt-country heroes' and by Americana-UK as 'Britain's finest country rockers', The Redlands Palomino Company return with their long-awaited new album 'Take Me Home'. As their acclaimed 2004 debut 'By The Time You Hear This...' showed, they're one of the few UK bands who can credibly and convincingly blend their Americana influences with a contemporary British edge. Over the past couple of years the band have acquired a devoted following, thanks in part to their regular live appearances, which balance alcohol-fuelled raucousness with moments of tear-jerking poignancy. (Americana-UK)
Although they sound like a typical Midwest Americana band, the oddly named Redlands Palomino Co. is actually from across the Atlantic in England. The quintet revolves around the husband and wife songwriting team of Alex and Hannah Elton-Wall, and was originally formed in London at the end of the 90s. Alex Elton-Wall (guitar/vocals) was joined in the line-up by his wife Hannah (vocals/guitar/fiddle), David Rothon (pedal steel guitar/harmonica), Jamie Langham (drums) and Rain (bass). They built up a strong following on the burgeoning UK roots scene with a vibrant live show and the limited release of a demo CD. The latter brought the band to the attention of the Laughing Outlaw label and their debut album was recorded over the summer of 2003. Released at the end of the following year, By The Time You Hear This … was a rousing collection of home grown country rock that confirmed the band’s early promise. (Allmusic)
Redlands Palomino Company - By The Time You Here This '04
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Redlands Palomino Company - Take Me Home '07
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Redlands Palomino Company - Broken Carelessly '14
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INFO
http://www.amazon.com/Take-Home-Redlands-Palomino-Co/dp/B000NJWTIE/ref=ntt_mus_dp_dpt_1
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Various Artists – Southern Prison Blues
Storyville ST 21008 (France 1976 ?)
1. Hogman Maxey - Duckin' And Dodgin' (3:36)
2. John Henry Jackson & A. C. Craig - My Baby Got To Go (3:22)
3. Otis Webster - Penitentiary Blues (2:21)
4. Guitar Welch - Lonesome Blues (3:28)
5. Jesse Butcher & Guitar Welch - They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone (2:56)
6. Hogman Maxey - Rock Me Mama (3:34)
7. Guitar Welch - Boll Weevil Blues (4:07)
8. Hogman Maxey - Hard Headed Woman (3:23)
9. Otis Webster - Standing In The Greyhound Bus Station (2:47)
10. John Henry Jackson & A. C. Craig - Tell Me Pretty Baby (2:21)
11. Otis Webster - Ball And Chain For Me (2:29)
12. Guitar Welch - Bad Luck Blues (4:10)
13. The Cool Cats - Goin' Home To My Old Used To Be (4:25)
Vinyl Rip - Artwork included (front, back, labels)
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Joe Hill Louis – King Of The One Man Bands – Key Postwar Cuts 1949-1954
JSP Records JSP4208 (United Kingdom 2008)
Disc A - 1949-1952
1. Don't Trust Your Best Friend (2:50)
2. Railroad Blues (2:44)
3. A' Jumpin' And A' Shufflin' (2:36)
4. Joe's Jump (2:54)
5. Gotta Let You Go (2:45)
6. Boogie In The Park (2:47)
7. Nappy Head Woman (2:29)
8. I Feel Like A Million (2:25)
9. Heartache Baby (2:58)
10. Train Ticket (2:45)
11. Come Back Baby (2:56)
12. Boogie In The Park (2:52)
13. Cold Chills (2:34)
14. Mistreat Me Woman (3:09)
15. Street Walkin' Woman (2:43)
16. Going Down Slow (2:39)
17. Blue In The Morning (2:33)
18. Highway 99 (2:33)
19. Gotta Go Baby (2:32)
20. Big Legged Woman (2:36)
21. Joe Hill Boogie (2:27)
22. Eyesight To The Blind (2:37)
23. Walkin' Talkin' Blues (2:41)
24. The Way You Treat Me (2:50)
25. Early In The Morning (2:37)
26. Peace Of Mind (2:45)
27. Cold Chills (3:27)
28. Gotta Go Baby (2:24)
Disc B - 1952-1954
1. Chocolate Blonde (2:51)
2. She Comes To See Me Sometime (2:41)
3. We All Gotta Go Sometime (2:37)
4. She May Be Yours (Sweetest Girl In Town) (2:55)
5. Keep Your Arms Around Me Mama (3:09)
6. Got Me A New Woman (3:00)
7. Sweetest Gal In Town (3:00)
8. I'm A Poor Boy (3:01)
9. Jack Pot (2:30)
10. I Love My Baby (2:39)
11. Western Union Man (3:09)
12. On The Floor (3:00)
13. She Got Me Walkin' (3:19)
14. Keep Away From My Baby (2:39)
15. Good Morning Little Angel (2:41)
16. Tiger Man (3:12)
17. Hydramatic Woman (2:32)
18. Ridin' Home (2:20)
19. Don't Do It Again (2:29)
20. She's Taking All My Money (2:43)
21. Jealous Man (2:31)
22. 4th And Beale (2:08)
23. Ruthie Mae (1:51)
24. Joe Hill Boogie (2:15)
25. Going Down To Louisiana (2:34)
26. Get Up Off It (2:33)
27. Sweetest Woman I Ever Seen (2:31)
28. Goin' Away Blues (3:01)
29. Just Plain Tired (2:49)
Artwork Included (fronts, backs, booklets, CDs)
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Gyro- I realized it's a lot to ask, but could you please repost the "Singing Bones" volumes that you put together? They look fantastic and the links are all gone.
@ Bill, Re Kent 025,Soul Agents, there is one track missing (8) from what I have Could you please let me have Young Holt Unlimited "Aint there something money can't buy". It appears I don't have any thing by them!
cheers,ELtel
Clash - thank you for all of the comments you have made for what seems forever. I will make a note of re-upping Singing Bones here.
Thanks for the BR-549, saw them a few times and they always put on a great show. I thought I would share another rare bit from them.
Here is a rare promo cd from Nashville's BR5-49. The band recorded this session with Chicago producer/engineer Steve Albini. The EP features tracks from their first two albums re-recorded. The session is full of energy and is a great listen.
Enjoy!
BR5-49 - Bonus Beats
1. Out Of Habit
2. Seven Nights To Rock
3. Little Ramona
4. Wild One
5. 18 Wheels and a Crowbar
6. Even If It's Wrong
http://www108.zippyshare.com/v/79jygnib/file.html (Corrected Link)
Thanks to ELtel and Gyro. Great bonus music today!
Thanks to Searnav for Joe Hill Louis. The business.
J in Liverpool
many many thanks for the music shared in the post ( a big thanks to Gyro for the pops staples and Br549 ( or br5-49)
Thanks Eltel for the Boston comp!
Thank you Gyro, I really appreciate the BR5-49 posts and I'm sure I'm not alone in doing so. What a band!
Ralph11
GYRO- Looking forward to it. Thank you!
Salvager - Thanks for more BR5-49. I think I own most of their albums.
Thanx for the Boston soul & Pops. greatly appreciated.
Tanx for Raw Soul and T. Rex (the source of my opening word that I've been using for a year or so here).
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