Willie Dixon - 30 most slow Blues [2017]

 

Willie Dixon has been called “the poet laureate of the blues” and “the father of modern Chicago Blues.” He was indisputably the pre-eminent blues songwriter of his era, credited with writing more than 500 songs by the end of his life. Moreover, Dixon is a towering figure in the history and creation of Chicago Blues on other fronts. While on staff at Chess Records, Dixon produced, arranged, and played bass on sessions for Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Litter Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and others. In no small way, he served as a crucial link between the blues and rock ‘n roll.


01. 29 Ways
02. After Five Long Years
03. Back Door Man
04. Help Me
05. Blues You Can't Loose
06. Crazy For My Baby
07. Dustin' Off The Bass
08. Flamin' Mamie
09. Got To Love You Baby
10. Grave Digger Blues
11. Big 3 Stomp
12. Hey Hey Pretty Mama
13. Hoo Doo Doctor
14. I Ain't Superstitious
15. I Can't Quit You Baby
16. I Don't Trust Nobody
17. I Just Want To Make Love To You
18. I Think I Got The Blues
19. I'm Crazy For My Baby
20. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
21. It Don't Make Sense
22. It Don't Make Sense, You Can't Make Peace
23. It's Easy To Love
24. Reno Blues
25. Shakin' The Shack
26. The Little Red Rooster
27. Walking The Blues
28. Wang Dang Doodle
29. What Happened To My Blues
30. Wigglin' Worm

Charles Ford Band - Charles Ford Band [1972]

 

In 1971, Patrick and Robben Ford decided it was time to leave Charlie Musselwhite's band and start up their own unit. They called on long time friend Stan Poplin to join them on bass and the youngest Ford brother Mark to play harp. This was a four piece blues band that was to have a lasting impact on the modern blues scene and proved to be only the beginning of four solid and successful careers. The band was named the Charles Ford Band after the father of the three brothers, a man who had always been supportive of their musical ambitions.

What is especially impressive about this band is that the oldest Patrick, was only 20, with Robben and Stan being just 18, and Mark a mere 15 years of age. Also notable is the fact that they came from a small lumber town in northern California called Ukiah, where blues music was not something that one heard a lot of. The only blues they knew was that played by the English bands like the Rolling Stones and the Animals. As children the Ford boys had been sung songs from the country and blues tradition by their father and their mother, but it was the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band LP, which arrived at the local music store by mistake, that changed their lives and ignited their passion for the blues idiom. With the purchase of that record they began searching out all the information on the blues idiom they could find, constantly buying new recordings of artists like BB King, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, and more. They also began making the 2 hour drive to San Francisco to attend concerts at the Fillmore to see the blues artists like BB King, James Cotton, Buddy Guy, and others who were booked there.

Because the band did not come from one of the major blues centers their musical influences had been very different and they did not mind using those other influences in their approach to the idiom. During the course of gig you could expect them to be playing anything, from Muddy Waters to Martha and the Vandellas to John Coltrane, but at the root of it all was their affinity for the music of the blues masters.

Though the band was only together for about a year, during that time they received four serious offers from record companies and began to create quite a stir on the West Coast. Just when the band broke up they had been given an offer to record a Lp for Chess Records to be called Muddy Waters presents the Charles Ford Band. Muddy had been so impressed by the band when they had opened for him in San Francisco that he went back to Chicago and told them to make the deal. Sadly, it came too late.

However, months later, Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records called Patrick and offered to record the band saying that something should be left behind for history. This led to the Arhoolie title "The Charles Ford Band" released in 1972. It is considered a modern blues classic and still sells to this day.

• Robben Ford - Guitar, Vocals, Piano
• Mark Ford - Harmonica
• Patrick Ford - Drums
• Stanley Poplin – Bass

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• Michael Osborn - Rhythm Guitar (3)

01. Blue And Lonesome (Walter Jacobs) - 8:23
02. Gibson Creek Shuffle (Robben Ford) - 3:43
03. My Time After Awhile (Geddins, Badger) - 3:40
04. Rest My Mind On Jesus (Robben Ford) - 1:30
05. Reconsider Baby (Lowell Fulson) - 5:23
06. Black Night (Jesse Mae Robinson) - 8:29
07. Wild Woman (Albert King) - 4:08
08. I Know What You're Putting Down (Jordan, Allen) - 4:03
09. Live The Life I Love - 5:53
10.Tell Him I Was Flyin' - 3:27
11.The Promise (John Coltrane) - 9:31

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults Vol.1-4 [30 CD, 2001-2006]

 

The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults is a four-volume "official bootleg" release by Emerson, Lake & Palmer on Castle Records containing live recordings. Each of the four volumes comprised four shows and contained seven or eight CDs. 

VA - The Blues Box Storyville Vol 1 - 7 [7 CD, 2009]

 

This unique CD collection contains memorable performances by some of the most celebrated blues artists of the post-war years, including some whose careers stretched back to the music's formative decades. Here you will find something of the rich variety of The Blues, not just songs of dispossession but upbeat numbers too, extolling the raucous good times to be had in the juke joints of th South and - when many musicians drifted north looking for work - in the clubs and bars of Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis. The Blues would prove timeless and its influence still underpins rock music today.





Vol. 1


01- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Tomorrow NightLonnie Johnson & Otis Spann
02- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Clementine Blues
03- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- See See Rider
04- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Raining On The Cold, Cold Ground
05- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Jelly, Jelly
06- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Too Late To Cry Baby
07- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Call Me Darling
08- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Why Did You Go
09- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Swinning With Lonnie
10- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Please Help Me
11- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- My Baby Is Gone
12- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- You Don't Know What Love Is
13- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Don't Cry Baby
14- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Good Morning Mr. Blues
15- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Riverside Blues
16- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Jelly Roll Baker
17- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Trouble In Mind
18- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Woried Life Blues
19- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- T.B. Blues
20- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Spann's Boogie
21- Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann- Goin' Down Slow

Vol. 2

01- Speckled Red- The Dirty Dozen
02- Speckled Red- I Had My Fun
03- Speckled Red- Caldonia
04- Speckled Red- Oh! Red
05- Speckled Red- St.Louis Stomp
06- Speckled Red- Milk Cow Blues
07- Speckled Red- Dad´s Piece
08- Speckled Red- You´ve Got The Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo
09- Speckled Red- Red´s Own Blues
10- Speckled Red- Uncle Sam´s Blues
11- Speckled Red- It Feels So Good
12- Speckled Red- How Long Blues
13- Speckled Red- Tain´t Nobody´s Biznezz
14- Sunnyland Slim- Prison Bound Blues
15- Sunnyland Slim- It Feels So Good
16- Sunnyland Slim- Miss Ida B.
17- Sunnyland Slim- I Done You Wrong
18- Sunnyland Slim- Brown Skin Mama
19- Sunnyland Slim- Goin´Down Slow
20- Sunnyland Slim- Sunnyland´s Boogie
21- Sunnyland Slim- One Room Country Shack

Vol. 3

01- Roosevelt Sykes- Big Ben
02- Roosevelt Sykes- Boot That Thing
03- Roosevelt Sykes- Springfield Blues
04- Roosevelt Sykes- Henry Ford Blues
05- Roosevelt Sykes- I'm A Dangerous Man
06- Roosevelt Sykes- True Thing
07- Roosevelt Sykes- Whole Lot Of Children
08- Roosevelt Sykes- The Last Laugh
09- Roosevelt Sykes- 44 Blues
10- Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery- Women Be Wise
11- Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery- Trouble Everywhere I Roam
12- Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery- Special Delivery Blues
13- Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery- Murder Gonna Be My Crime
14- Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery- Shorty George Blues
15- Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery- I'm A Might Tight Woman
16- Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery- Bedroom Blues
17- Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery- Up The Country Blues
18- Sippie Wallace & Little Brother Montgomery- You Don't Know My Mind
19- Little Brother Montgomery- I Must Get Mine In Front
20- Little Brother Montgomery- Willie Anderson's Blues
21- Little Brother Montgomery- Jim Jam Blues
22- Little Brother Montgomery- Hesitatin' Blules
23- Little Brother Montgomery- Mama, You Don't Mean Me No Good

Vol. 4

01- Big Joe Williams- Shake Them Down
02- Big Joe Williams- Saturday Night Jump
03- Big Joe Williams- Jinx Blues
04- Big Joe Williams- Pick A Pickle
05- Big Joe Williams- Ramblin' And Wanderin' Blues
06- Big Joe Williams- Old Saw Mill Blues
07- Big Joe Williams- Don't The Apples Look Mellow
08- Big Joe Williams- El Paso Blues
09- Big Joe Williams- Juanita Blues
10- Big Joe Williams- Vitamin A Blues
11- Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon- Drop Down Mama
12- Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon- I'd Been Well Warned
13- Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon- Stop That Thing
14- Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon- Diving Duck Bl
15- Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon- Vernita Blues
16- Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon- Bottle Up And Go
17- Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon- Mountain Cat Blues
18- Robert Pete Williams- Doctor Blues
19- Robert Pete Williams (Big Joe Williams kazoo)- Got On His Mind
20- Robert Pete Williams- Meet Him Over In Paradise
21- Robert Pete Williams (Big Joe Williams kazoo)- Goodbye Baby
22- Robert Pete Williams- It's Gotta Be Jelly 'Cause Jam Don't Shake Thataway
23- Robert Pete Williams (Big Joe Williams kazoo)- She Walked Around With Her Mouth Poked
24- Robert Pete Williams (Big Joe Williams kazoo)- Greyhound Blues

Vol. 5

01- Big Bill Broonzy- Glory Of Love
02- Big Bill Broonzy- Careless Love
03- Big Bill Broonzy- I Get The Blues When It Rains
04- Big Bill Broonzy- My Name Is Lee Conley Broonzy
05- Big Bill Broonzy- Take This Hammer
06- Big Bill Broonzy- See See Rider
07- Big Bill Broonzy- Diggin' My Potatoes
08- Big Bill Broonzy- Midnight Special
09- Big Bill Broonzy- Keep Yours Hand Off Her
10- Big Bill Broonzy- I Got A Girl
11- Big Bill Broonzy- You Better Mind
12- Big Bill Broonzy- I Love You So Much
13- Big Bill Broonzy- Sixteen Tons
14- Big Bill Broonzy- Black Brown And White
15- Big Bill Broonzy- Goodnigth Irene
16- John Henry Barbee- Dust My Broom
17- John Henry Barbee- I Heard My Baby
18- John Henry Barbee- I Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton
19- John Henry Barbee- Miss Nelly Grey
20- John Henry Barbee- Tell Me Baby
21- John Henry Barbee- Jump Blues

Vol. 6

01- Memphis Slim- El Capitan
02- Memphis Slim- This IS A Good Time To Write A Song
03- Memphis Slim- I'm So Alone
04- Memphis Slim- True Love
05- Memphis Slim- Two Of A Kind
06- Memphis Slim- Big City Girl
07- Memphis Slim- The Question
08- Memphis Slim- Misery
09- Memphis Slim- Fattening Frogs For Snakes
10- Memphis Slim- Born With The Blues
11- Memphis Slim- Whizzle Wham
12- Champion Jack Dupree- How Long Blues
13- Champion Jack Dupree- Blues Before Sunrise
14- Champion Jack Dupree- In The Evening
15- Champion Jack Dupree- Tomorow Night
16- Champion Jack Dupree- In The Dark
17- Champion Jack Dupree- Fine And Mellow
18- Champion Jack Dupree- Drinkin' Wine Spoodie-Odie
19- Eddie Boyd- Third Degree
20- Eddie Boyd- Five Long Years
21- Eddie Boyd- A Reel Good Feeling
22- Jay McShann- Kansas City Blues
23- Jay McShann- How Long Blues
24- Jay McShann- Cherry Red

Vol. 7

01- Sonny Boy Williamson- I Can't Understand
02- Sonny Boy Williamson- Movin' Down The River
03- Sonny Boy Williamson- The Story Of Sonny Boy Williamson
04- Sonny Boy Williamson- Rebecca Blues
05- Sonny Boy Williamson- I Wonder If I Have A Friend
06- Sonny Boy Williamson- Same Girl
07- Sonny Boy Williamson- Girl Friends
08- Sonny Boy Williamson- Tipppin' Through Customs
09- Sonny Boy Williamson- Little Girl
10- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- You Can't Get Away
11- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- I'm Crazy About Your Pie
12- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- The Sweetest Girl I Know
13- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Easy Rider
14- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Rock Island Line
15- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Find My Way Home
16- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Midnight Special
17- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- The Chariot Is Coming
18- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Howdy Blues

19- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- In The Evening 

The Doobie Brothers - The Warner Bros. Years 1971-1983 [10 CD, 2015]

 

The Doobie Brothers recorded some of the band's most iconic music during their dozen years with Warner Bros. Records, scoring major hits with timeless tunes like 'Long Train Runnin',' 'Black Water,' and 'Takin' It To The Streets.' With 46 million albums sold during their outstanding career, The Doobie Brothers have nothing left to prove, but this summer the group is still 'Rockin' Down the Highway' as they tour North America.

Rhino salutes the group with a new 10-CD boxed set that features some of the band's greatest albums. The set includes more than 110 songs from 10 albums: The Doobie Brothers (1971), Toulouse Street (1972), The Captain And Me (1973), What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits (1974), Stampede (1975), Takin' It To The Streets (1976) Livin' On The Fault Line (1977), Minute By Minute (1978), One Step Closer (1980), and Farwell Tour (1983).