Steve Cropper has said in numerous interviews that his main influence as a guitarist was Lowman Pauling, chief songwriter, arranger, and axeman of North Carolina's 5 Royales, a '50s-era group that wedded doo wop, jump blues, gospel, and jazz in an R&B style that scored them numerous hits throughout the 1950s. The 5 Royales also featured lead vocalist Johnny Tanner (and occasionally younger brother Eugene) supported by backing singers Otto Jeffries, Jimmy Moore, and Obadiah Carter. Cropper was approached by producer Jon Tiven (who he'd previously worked with on the first of his two collaborations with Felix Cavaliere) about collaborating on a tribute album to the 5 Royales, and jumped at the chance. Dedicated: A Salute to the 5 Royales, which represents the latest chapter in a late-career resurgence for Cropper, one of the most influential soul guitarists in history, combines the talents of a red hot studio band -- Cropper, bassist David Hood, keyboardist Spooner Oldham, percussionist Steve Ferrone, drummer Steve Jordan, and Neal Sugarman and Tiven on horns. In addition, Cropper and Tiven enlisted a stellar group of vocalists to perform 5 Royales standards: Lucinda Williams, Sharon Jones, Bettye LaVette, Delbert McClinton, Willie Jones, B.B. King, Shemekia Copeland, Buddy Miller, Dan Penn, Brian May, Steve Winwood, John Popper, and Dylan LeBlanc, fronting a great cast of backing singers. Despite the historic material and arrangements, Dedicated is a decidedly contemporary recording in production, saving it from the dubious fate of numerous other tribute albums that seek to re-create the actual vibe of original recordings. It begins with an excellent rendition of "Thirty Second Lover" featuring Winwood, but, fine as it is, it's a teaser for what's to come. LaVette and Willie Jones tear up "Don't Be Ashamed." On "Dedicated to the One I Love," Williams literally sends shivers up and down the spine as she uses her gauzy, slow, emotive voice to wrench every ounce of emotion from the verses -- with Penn adding another dimension to them on the bridge. Speaking of Penn, an excellent but reluctant lead singer, his reading of "Someone Made You for Me" is one of the most unexpectedly endearing performances on the set. McClinton's "Right Around the Corner" puts these rhythm & blues in the heart of honky tonk country. The back-to-back readings of "Messin' Up" by Jones and "Say It" by LaVette come close to stealing the show -- but Williams still holds on with the title track and her searingly naked "When I Get Like This" as the closer. Cropper also takes a couple of economical but stinging instrumental breaks on "Help Me Somebody" and "Think" that reveal the depth of Pauling's genius as well as his own. Given what a mixed bag tribute albums usually are, Dedicated is not only a surprise for its consistency, but a shining example of what they can -- and should -- be. (Thom Jurek, Allmusic)
trax:
1. Thirty Second Lover - Steve Winwood 2. Don't Be Ashamed - Willie Jones 3. Baby Don't Do It - B.B. King 4. Dedicated To The One I Love - Lucinda Williams 5. My Sugar Sugar - John Popper 6. Right Around The Corner - Delbert McClinton 7. Help Me Somebody - Steve Cropper 8. I Do - Brian May 9. Messin Up - Sharon Jones 10. Say It - Bettye Lavette 11. The Slummer The Slum - Buddy Miller 12. Someone Made You For Me - Dan Penn 13. Think - Steve Cropper 14. Come On And Save Me - Sharon Jones 15. When I Get Like This - Lucinda Williams
...Many Thanks to clash for the Steve Cropper share! served by Gyro1966...
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Steve Cropper "Dedicated" - A Salute To The 5 Royales
...Many Thanks to clash for the Steve Cropper share! served by Gyro1966...
gitit! no pw
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Thanks a lot!
Dedicated is a very nice salute to The "5" Royales. If you want to hear what all the hollerin' was about, listen to their music. Here's the excellent box set that gets most of their music @ 320 with cover. It's well worth the time to give this a listen.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/soul-swagger-the-complete-5-royales-1951-1967-mw0002612585
The ‘5’ Royales - Soul & Swagger: The Complete “5” Royales 1951-1967
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Disc 5: http://www20.zippyshare.com/v/HcMZK5qE/file.html
Great compilation! Thx
Urge Overkill
Terrific alt rock band from Chicago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urge_Overkill
Saturation
http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/dho9UXth/file.html
Stull (EP)
http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/FKGVYmWq/file.html
Supersonic Storybook
http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/5zDhMO2m/file.html
Larry Barrett
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Beyond The Mississippi
http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/1Q6tyFl0/file.html
David Raitt & Jimmy Thackery
http://www.amazon.com/Thats-It-Raitt/dp/B00004SR1S
That's It!
http://www119.zippyshare.com/v/LcgrQHSt/file.html
Steve626 - I bought this Five Royales box set when it was first released in a mad hurry to own it. It is still in shrink wrap, like 50% of what I buy.
@ Steve626, I'm going to enjoy that a lot I know it, Thanks
BONUS 1 OF 6 @320 (Pt. 1)
Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music (Numero Group 2016)
Twang reigned, the shitkickers kicked shit, and the vaguely western-sounding guitar records piled up. Country-rock became "the dominant American rock style of the 1970s", as Peter Doggett's comprehensive 'Are You Ready For The Country' put it much later. 'Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music' picks up and dusts off golden ingots from the dollar-bin detritus of that domination, to reconstruct events as seen from the genre's real Wild West - America's one-off private press label substructure. (No Depression)
As progenitor and contemptuous poster boy for the music that came to be Cosmic American, Gram Parsons found himself mired in a recording career spent mostly in scouting the perimeters of chart success. “He hated country-rock,” Parsons collaborator Emmylou Harris would later reflect. “He thought that bands like the Eagles were pretty much missing the point.”
BONUS 1 OF 6 @320 (Pt. 2)
Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music (Numero Group 2016)
Parsons had been orbiting the idea of Cosmic American Music for some time. In ‘68, he’d parted ways with the Byrds and was looking to take air with a new project. “It’s basically a Southern soul group playing country and gospel-oriented music with a steel guitar” he told Melody Maker, on the subject of The Flying Burrito Brothers. So it was that when A&M’s Burrito Brothers debut The Gilded Palace of Sin made it to shelves in February of 1969, early adherents to the Cosmic American gospel were already echoing its message from areas flanking Gram Parsons’ Southern California hills and canyons. There was F.J. McMahon in coastal Santa Barbara, Mistress Mary further inland in Hacienda Heights, and Plain Jane of Albuquerque, New Mexico, each responding by committing their own private readings to tape before for day one of the 1970s. Parsons himself might’ve disdained them, had he even been aware of such minor ripples, shimmering at the edges of his desert oasis. But these were true believers all the same, given over fully to his roots music concept, each filling vinyl grooves with non-rock instrumentation like fiddle, banjo, and pedal steel guitar, the last undoubtedly Cosmic American Music’s most distinguishing stringed signifier.
Only too predictably, big labels did the grunt work of confining and defining the movement, as ABC, United Artists, RCA, and more played catch-up with Asylum’s raptor rock juggernaut, via backwoods crossover also-rans with names like Gladstone, American Flyer, and Silverado. Twang reigned, the shitkickers kicked shit, and the vaguely western-sounding guitar records piled up. Country-rock became “the dominant American rock style of the 1970s,” as Peter Doggett’s comprehensive Are You Ready for the Country put it much later. Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music picks up and dusts off golden ingots from the dollar-bin detritus of that domination, to reconstruct events as seen from the genre’s real Wild West—America’s one-off private press label substructure.
I [have] some sort of ‘rep’ for starting what has turned out to be pretty much of a ‘country-rock’ plastic dry-fuck.” — Gram Parsons, 1972 (Numero)
01. Jimmy Carter & Dallas County Green - Travelin'
02. Mistress Mary - And I Didn't Want You
03. Plain Jane - You Can't Make It Alone
04. Dan Pavlides - Lily Of The Valley
05. Angel Oak - I Saw Her Cry
06. Kathy Heidiman - Sleep A Million Years
07. Deerfield - Me Lovin' You
08. Arrogance - To See Her Smile
09. Jeff Cowell - Not Down This Low
10. Kenny Knight - Baby's Back
11. The Black Canyon Gang - Lonesome City
12. Allan Wachs - Mountain Roads
13. Mike & Pam Martin - Lonely Entertainer
14. Bill Madison - Buffalo Skinners
15. White Cloud - All Cried Out
16. Ethel-Ann Powell - Gentle One
17. Sandy Harless - I Knew Her Well
18. F.J. McMahon - The Spirit Of The Golden Juice
19. Doug Firebaugh - Alabama Railroad Town
http://www20.zippyshare.com/v/gtylVltz/file.html
INFO
http://www.numerogroup.com/products/wayfaring-strangers-cosmic-american-music
http://www.amazon.com/Wayfaring-Strangers-Cosmic-American-Music/dp/B01AMWKGCM
BONUS 2 OF 6 @320
Freakwater - Scheherazade (2016)
IWhen Freakwater made their first recordings in the late '80s, they set a template that would serve them well for the next 27 years: a darkly austere country sound rooted in the sisterly harmonies of Catherine Irwin and Janet Beveridge Bean. Making good use of a minimal backing band—often just their own guitars and an upright bass, with flourishes of pedal steel and electric guitar—they updated the downcast vocals of the Carter Family and wrote songs set in some alternate-reality American past. It seemed like there was a ghost or a corpse on every album. Freakwater had a simple, yet powerful palette to match the Appalachian gothic tone, and that combination has kept the band alive and relevant even as many of their alt-country peers have fallen by the wayside. Their best albums—especially 1995’s Old Paint—sound less like products of a particular scene and more like the sepia-toned recordings of eccentric artists dislocated from history.
Even when they’ve put a full decade between albums, Bean and Irwin have never strayed far from their recognizable sound or their bleak subject matter. But on Scheherazade, their eighth album overall and their first since 2005, they overhaul it dramatically: For the first time since they recorded demos in the Bean's parents’ basement, they ventured out of Chicago and recorded in Louisville, the city with which the band has long been identified. They also recruited a slew of Northern Kentucky musicians, including Sarah Balliet from Murder by Death, Morgan Geer form Drunken Prayer, and Evan Patterson of Young Widows. Noted Louisville resident Will Oldham doesn’t show up, disproving my theory that he is required by law to play on every local release. On the other hand, Warren Ellis of the Dirty Three and the Bad Seeds does play violin and flute.
It’s the largest cast and crew they’ve assembled under the Freakwater banner, and as a result, Scheherazade sounds fuller and looser, a bit rougher around the edges, with more rock in the arrangements. It’s their most cinematic album yet, with the music functioning almost as a soundtrack to Irwin and Bean’s short, violent songs. On the very first song, "What the People Want," somebody throws a baby down a well, accompanied by tense swirls of strings. On "Down Will Come Baby," they rewrite the old, twisted lullaby "Rock-a-bye Baby," and the band navigates a series of key changes that lends a vertiginous effect, as though the cradle is in freefall.
The presence of so many imperiled infants on Scheherazade is oddly reassuring, a nice reminder that this is a Freakwater album after all. The tight harmonies that marked their previous efforts here come slightly unraveled; they sing against each other as often as with each other. These are some of their most visceral performances, as rough-hewn on quiet numbers like "Ghost Song" as one heavier numbers like "Take Me With You," which features roof-raising hollers by Bean. There’s something invigorating about hearing two alt-country veterans take apart their tried-and-true sound and reassemble it slightly askew, and Scheherazade is not only their most modern-sounding record; it might be their best since Old Paint. (Pitchfork)
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/5XqZeXLV/file.html
INFO
https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/scheherazade
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21484-scheherazade/
BONUS 3 OF 6 @320 (Pt. 1)
Magic Sam Blues Band - Black Magic '68 (Deluxe Edition 2015)
Recorded on October 23 and November 6, 1968 Black Magic was released only days before Magic Sam's untimely passing on December 1, 1969. He was only 32! The album went on to win a W.C. Handy Award in the classic blues album category. This digipak deluxe edition contains more than an hour of west side Chicago blues at it's finest, re-mastered from the original analog tapes. The 16-page booklet contains never before seen photos at the recording session, additional color photos from the Ann Arbor Music Festival, the original liner note from the LP and a new notes by producer Bob Koester. (Blues World)
Black Magic is a marvelously atmospheric and easy record to listen to - with Sam's resonant and flexible vocals a perfect match for his clean virtuoso guitar playing. Moving on from the scorching Chicago blues captured so unforgettably on West Side Soul - here the accent is on a smooth sound with a potential wider appeal. Hit songs like I Just Want a Little Bit, You Belong to Me and Easy Baby stand at the borderline between blues and soul.
It's All Your Fault, I Have the Same Old Blues throwbacks to more traditional electric blues territory. The version of Freddie King's San-Ho-Zay illustrates the live and mutual sharing and learning that occurred in the hotbed of the blues talent. No doubt if Sam had survived he would have taken his place alongside the likes of Jimi Hendrix. As things stand lets just be grateful for this belated issue. --Keith Fitton, Rock-N-Reel
Magic Sam was the most talented and dynamic bluesman to emerge from Chicago's West-side scene, a veritable genius who was on the verge of becoming an international star when he died of a heart attack at the age of 32. The inspirational leader of a gang of 'young turks' who were modernizing the sound of the blues during the 1950's and 1960's, Sam Maghett was a mesmerizing vocalist and guitarist who played with so much fire and tenacity that his audiences usually watched him in stunned silence. Certainly he was the most exciting live performer - as documented by his performances at the Ann Arbor Jazz & Blues Festival where he blew away every other blues act with a display of guitar skills that have only been approached since and touched upon by Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Vaughan studied Magic Sam incessantly until he learned Sam's technique of playing lead and rhythm simultaneously, a feat that is brilliantly showcased on Sam's Live (At Ann Arbor) where Sam's trio sounded like a 5-piece thanks to his magic hands. Once Vaughan fans hear Magic Sam they'll recognize where their hero copped a lot of his style. Sam was an artist incapable of making bad music. His buddies Eddie Shaw on sax, Mighty Joe Young on rhythm guitar, Mac Thompson on bass and Odie Payne on drums (augmented by Lafayette Leake on piano) do a fine job giving him solid backup. Delmark has 4 other Magic Sam CDs available: Live At Ann Arbor, West Side Soul (my favorite), Legacy and Give Me Time... all are mandatory purchases, but start with Black Magic. Historically it's the most significant. --Andy Grigg, Westcoast Blues Review
BONUS 3 OF 6 @320
Magic Sam Blues Band - Black Magic '68 (Deluxe Edition 2015)
Like legends ranging from Eric Dolphy and Booker Little to Otis Redding and Minnie Ripperton, Magic Sam died too young. The Chicago blues singer/guitarist's final studio recording, Black Magic was recorded only a year before he died at the age of 32. Sam had acquired a small but loyal following, and Black Magic's excellence indicates that had he lived, he'd have become as celebrated as Buddy Guy. The passionate testifyin' of What Have I Done Wrong, It's All Your Fault and Stop! You're Hurting Me demonstrates that Sam not only sang and felt blues; he lived them. --Alex Henderson, L.A. Jazz Scene
I Just Want a Little Bit
What Have I Done Wrong
Easy, Baby
You Belong to Me
It's All Your Fault
Same Old Blues
You Don't Love Me, Baby
San-Ho-Zay
Stop! You're Hurting Me
Keep on Loving Me Baby
What Have I Done Wrong (Alternate)
I Just Want a Little Bit (Alternate)
Everythings Gonna Be All Right
Keep on Doin' What You're Doin'
Blues for Odie Payne
Same Old Blues (Alternate)
What Have I done Wrong (Alternate)
Keep on Loving Me Baby
http://www20.zippyshare.com/v/hks2OQEH/file.html
INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/black-magic-deluxe-edition-mr0004469130
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Magic-Sam/dp/B015DAA9TS
BONUS 4 OF 6 @320
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression (2016)
The new songs are from “Post Pop Depression” (Loma Vista), an album Mr. Pop and Mr. Homme wrote and recorded together with utmost secrecy and full independence, which is scheduled to be released in March. Its music shows both songwriters’ clear fingerprints: the pithy, hard-nosed clarity of Mr. Pop’s lyrics and the unflinching tone of his voice; and the crispness, angularity and deft convolutions of Mr. Homme’s chords and melodies. (The group will be making its debut on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Thursday night.)
In some ways, “Post Pop Depression” also picks up where “Lust for Life” left off. “Where those records pointed, it stopped,” Mr. Homme said. “But without copying it,” he continued, “that direction actually goes for miles. And when you keep going for miles you can’t see these two records any more.”
http://www20.zippyshare.com/v/PHqFPdj8/file.html
INFO
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/arts/music/iggy-pop-josh-homme-post-pop-depression.html?_r=0
BONUS 5 OF 6 @160 MONO = 320
Paul Evans - The Fabulous Teens And Beyond (ACE CD 551)
The Fabulous Teens...And Beyond is a definitive Paul Evans anthology, offering 25 tracks of his 1959-1961 recordings in addition to a few country songs he recorded in the late '70s (two of which were chart hits). His Top 20 pop hits "Midnight Special," "Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat," and "Happy-Go-Lucky-Me" (more recently featured in the film Pecker) are here, as well as the minor hit "The Brigade of Broken Hearts." The remaining tracks include covers of popular songs such as "Tutti Frutti," "Slippin' and Slidin'," "I'm Walkin'," and "The Fool," as well as a few ridiculous novelty pieces like "Show Folk" and "Fish in the Ocean" (on which Evans manages to sound exactly like Marvin Rainwater). An interesting treat is a songwriting demo recording of "Roses Are Red (My Love)," the famous song which Evans co-wrote. (Greg Adams, Allmusic)
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Midnite Special
2
Hushabye Little Guitar
3
I'm In Love Again
4
Hambone Rock
5
Over The Mountain, Across The Sea
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Tutti Frutti
7
Butterfly
8
Slippin' And Slidin'
9
Honey Love
10
I'm Walkin'
11
Since I Met You Baby
12
60 Minute Man
13
The Fool
14
Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat
15
Worshipping An Idol
16
Happy Go Lucky Me
17
Fish In The Ocean (Bubbly Bum Bum)
18
The Brigade Of Broken Hearts
19
Blind Boy
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Twins
21
After The Hurricane
22
Just Because I Love You
23
Show Folk
24
Why
25
Roses Are Red (My Love)
26
Disneyland Daddy
27
Willie's Sung With Everyone (But Me)
28
Hello, This Is Joannie (The Telephone Answering Machine Song)
http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/RfXIsVJS/file.html
INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-fabulous-teens-beyond-mw0000083917
http://acerecords.co.uk/the-fabulous-teens-and-beyond
BONUS 6 OF 6 @320
The Chevelles - Sun Bleached (2000)
The Chevelles are a power pop band from Perth, Western Australia.
The Chevelles recorded seven new tracks in May 1999 — their first full studio session since Rollerball Candy some four years earlier. Three of the seven songs (including a version of Air Supply's "Lost in Love") were completed to demo level and then shopped by Spinning Top to various labels throughout Australia, Europe and the U.S. San Francisco label Zip Records started negotiations for a U.S. EP and album release and advanced funds for more recordings.
Sun Bleached, a five-track EP, was released on Zip in October 2000. Zip Records' strong promotional network pushed the EP to over 300 college radio stations. Spinning Top also negotiated a deal with Zip which saw the Chevelles and other Spinning Top bands be released under the Zip Records banner in Australia through MGM Distribution. (Record Runner)
I bought this to hear this Australian band's take on Air Supply's "Lost in Love" - this is a GREAT CD-EP (only five tracks) but if you like guitar power pop and other Aussie bands, this is for you, and a real strong good release in this genre. (Power Pop Down Under)
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Stardust
2
Time And Time Again
3
Bloodlust
4
Sonic
5
Lost In Love
http://www55.zippyshare.com/v/DLNhEKeQ/file.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sun-Bleached-Chevelles/dp/B00004YR7K
RYP,clash and Gyro, thank you for sharing, "Dedicated"...great and unique.
Hey guys- As much as I'd like to, I can't take credit for the Steve Cropper share. Very cool collection though and thank you to RYP, GYRO and to whoever else is responsible. :)
Gyro1966 -- Thanks very much for the excellent Wayfaring Strangers.
thanks for Steve Cropper ded to 5 royales, the Five Royale comp and to Psyclist for The Urge Overkill
luis
@Gyro on another site i see that you request some stuff about freakwater.
here a link to listen ( sadly on youtube) their first album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ajz2uRG7BQ
Thank you for Magic Sam!
Great shares today! Thanks especially for the Steve Cropper and 5 Royales. Can't get enough of 5 Royales!
@psyclist I have exit the dragon, strange, i, rock & roll submarine by Urge Over-Kill. If you don't have and want these, i could try to post.
@ gyro a link to download Freakwater first Album ( maybe you see it also on exystence Cbox) "sed Melius Abundare quem Deficere"
with help by Eric
freakwater 1989 1st album
http://www91.zippyshare.com/v/P3jaYGjD/file.html
5 royals box-thanx much
I think I posted some Freakwater some time ago, will check otherwise I can post:
Dancing Under Water
Feels Like The Third Time
End Time
Freakwater
Thinkin; Of You
June 6 1984
Old Paint
Springtime
Just let me know if anyone wants them
Hey Psyclist - I would be more than happy for some Freakwater. Thanks!
Psyclist - I posted 7 Freakwater albums today on the Stomachmouths main post at 320. If I missed any, please add.
I couldn't see much point to 'Dedicated', I downloaded a load of The Five Royales a few years ago and 'Dedicated' just doesn't stand up to the originals.
I bought Dedicated when it came out too.
I too am anonymous.
Tanx for Dedicated, 5 Royales & Magic Sam!
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