The Allman Brothers Band – Georgia Peach [4 CD, 1991]

 

Unofficial ABB bootleg release from Italy

VA - The Paramount Masters (4 CD, 2003)

 

Paramount Records didn't know it at the time, but they created one of the most valuable catalogs of early American blues and jazz music ever assembled. Formed by a furniture company called the Wisconsin Chair Company in the mid-teens to facilitate sales for their new phonograph cabinets, Paramount Records (along with its subsidiary labels Broadway, Famous, and Puritan) sent a young man named Art Satherley on the road in the South to explore and exploit the growing "race records" market beginning in 1917. Over the next 15 years, Satherley and the other Paramount Records' representatives recorded well over 100 sides featuring blues and jazz artists as well-known as Charley Patton, Ma Rainey, and Meade Lux Lewis, and an otherwise unknown as Side Wheel Sally Duffie, whose "Bunker Hill Blues" is a piano blues showcase for a high-register, vibrato-heavy vocal of uncertain pitch which sounds almost like a 1920s equivalent to Björk. These 100 sides are presented in chronological order, with as much information is as known about each recording. Sound quality varies widely, and of course is at times atrocious, but the historical import and entertainment value for students of early jazz and blues is immense.



CD A

1. Bobby Grant - Nappy Head Blues (2:45)
2. Lottie Beaman - Red River Blues (2:58)
3. Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues (3:15)
4. Bo Weevil Jackson - You Can't Keep No Brown (3:11)
5. Teddy Darby - Lawdy, Lawdy, Worried Blues (3:06)
6. Wesley Wallace - No.29 (3:14)
7. Blind Joe Reynolds - Outside Woman Blues (2:55)
8. William Moore - Old Country Rock (3:03)
9. James 'Boodle It' Wiggins - Keep A-Knockin' (3:09)
10. George 'Bullet' Williams - Touch Me Light, Mama (2:47)
11. Moanin' Bernice Edwards - Jack of All Trades (2:44)
12. Harum Scarums - Come on In (Ain't Nobody Here But Me) (2:45)
13. Sweet Papa Stovepipe - All Birds Look Like Chicken to Me (3:08)
14. Charlie 'Dad' Nelson - Cotton Field Blues (2:41)
15. Ma Rainey - Traveling Blues (2:55)
16. Charlie Spand - Soon This Morning Blues (2:59)
17. Papa Charlie Jackson - Gay Cattin' (2:54)
18. King Solomon Hill - Whoopee Blues (3:09)
19. Geechie Wiley - Eagles on a Half (3:00)
20. Washboard Walter - Wasn't It Sad About Lemon (3:01)
21. George Hannah - Freakish Man Blues (2:49)
22. Bumble Bee Slim - Rough, Rugged Road Blues (3:30)
23. Rube Lacy - Mississippi Jail House Groan (3:22)
24. Marshall Owens - Try Me, One More Time (3:11)
25. Mary Johnson - Barrel House Flat Blues (3:03)



CD B

1. Charley Patton - I Shall Not Be Moved (alt. take) (2:43)
2. Raymond Barrow - Walking Blues (3:07)
3. Blind Roosevelt Graves - Guitar Boogie (2:56)
4. Alice Moore - Black & Evil Blues (3:21)
5. Ben Curry - The New Dirty Dozen (3:08)
6. Freddie Spruell - Low-Down Mississippi Bottom Man (3:25)
7. Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues (2:58)
8. Henry Townsend - Jack of Diamonds Georgia Rub (3:18)
9. John Byrd - Billy Goat Blues (3:28)
10. Side Wheel Sally Duffie - Bunker Hill Blues (2:38)
11. Buddy Boy Hawkins - Number Three Blues (2:39)
12. Ed Bell - Mamlish Blues (2:36)
13. Henry Brown - Eastern Chimes Blues (3:28)
14. Charlie Spand - Fetch Your Water (2:30)
15. J.D. Short - Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake (2:49)
16. Alice Pearson - Water Bound Blues (2:55)
17. Lonnie Clark - Broke Down Engine (2:57)
18. Barrel House Welch - Dying Pickpocket Blues (2:50)
19. Edward Thompson - Seven Sister Blues (2:52)
20. John Byrd - Old Timbrook Blues (3:18)
21. Bob Robinson - The Preacher Must Get Some, Sometime (2:44)
22. Elvie Thomas - Motherless Child Blues (3:19)
23. Jack O'Diamonds - The Duck's Yas Yas (2:55)
24. Ben Curry - Boodle De Bum Bum (3:09)
25. James Wiggins - Gotta Shave 'em Dry (3:04)



CD C

1. Bo Weevil Jackson - Some Scream High Yellow (3:09)
2. Jabo Williams - Jab Blues (3:19)
3. Freddie Brown - Raised In the Alley Blues (3:18)
4. George 'Bullet' Williams - Frisco Leaving Birmingham (2:45)
5. Blind Joe Reynolds - Ninety-Nine Blues (2:39)
6. Roosevelt Sykes - Conjur Man Blues (3:08)
7. Sweet Papa Stovepipe - Mama's Angel Child (2:59)
8. Lottie Beaman - Honey Blues (2:52)
9. Bobby Grant - Lonesome Atlanta Blues (3:00)
10. Robert Peeples - Fat, Greasy Baby (3:12)
11. Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider Blues (2:54)
12. Blind Roosevelt Graves - New York Blues (3:17)
13. Henry Townsend - Doctor, Oh, Doctor (2:45)
14. Bogus Ben Covington - I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop (3:12)
15. Ruby Paul - Red Letter Blues (2:42)
16. Piano Kid Edwards - Piano Kid Special (2:44)
17. Famous Hokum Boys - Where Did You Stay, Last Nighr (2:57)
18. King Solomon Hill - The Gone Dead Train (3:18)
19. Wesley Wallace - Fanny Lee Blues (3:15)
20. Washboard Walter - Narrow Face Blues (3:16)
21. Geechie Wiley - Pick Poor Robin Clean (3:14)
22. George Hannah - The Boy In the Boat (2:40)
23. Marshall Owens - Texas Blues (3:19)
24. James 'Boodle It' Wiggins - Evil Woman Blues (3:10)
25. Roosevelt Sykes - Three, Six & Nine (2:57)


CD D

1. Freddie Spruell - Tom Cat Blues (3:07)
2. Jack O'Diamonds - Smiling Blues (3:02)
3. Papa Charlie Jackson - Mama, Don't You Think I Know (2:36)
4. Charlie Spand - Back to the Woods Blues (3:23)
5. Alice Moore - Prison Blues (3:18)
6. Henry Brown - Deep Morgan Blues (3:23)
7. Teddy Darby - My Laona Blues (2:42)
8. Bo Weevil Jackson - Pistol Blues (3:01)
9. Jabo Williams - Pratt City Blues (3:15)
10. J.D. Short - Telephone Arguin' Blues (3:13)
11. Elvie Thomas - Over to My House (3:29)
12. Ed Bell - Hambone Blues (2:47)
13. Lonnie Clark - Down In Tennessee (2:37)
14. Rube Lacy - Ham Hound Crave (2:54)
15. Roosevelt Sykes - Fire Detective Blues (3:05)
16. Edward Thompson - Up on the Hill Blues (3:01)
17. Mary Johnson - Key to the Mountain Blues (2:56)
18. King Solomon Hill - Down on My Bended Knee (2:56)
19. Charlie 'Dad' Nelson - Red River Blues (2:49)
20. Piano Kid Edwards - Give Us Another Jug (2:47)
21. Blind Joe Reynolds - Nehi Blues (3:14)
22. Ruby Paul - Last Farewell Blues (2:58)
23. Barrel House Welch - Larceny Woman Blues (2:52)
24. Robert Peeples - Wicked Devil's Blues (3:12)
25. William Moore - Raggin' the Blues (2:59)

Sonny Boy Williamson II. - The Chess Years [4 CD, 1991]

 

Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller) was one of the most important and enjoyable blues musician that immigrated to Chicago. He'd knocked around the South for up to four decades in cut-down rain boots playing two harps at a time, (one with his nose), and wrote and absorbed many of the songs that are on this box set. Sonny Boy II didn't much influence the electric blues being made in Chicago in the early 50's. His impact was on the bands of young men in England, bands that would change Rock& Roll forever. The Yardbirds, Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall and The Rolling Stones were some of the bands that were inspired by "The Goat".
The songs they listened to, and many more are in this box set that was produced by Charly. This box and many more, (Muddy, The Wolf, Little Walter, etc) were produced by Charly when the ownership of the tapes was a cloudy issue. The tapes were copied by an employee of Chess, and removed to Europe, where they were offered up for sale. Charly, probably not delving to the subject of ownership too deeply, got most, if not all, of them and turned out these fantastic box sets. Or so the story goes.
The music wasn't remastered and so the warm, slightly bassy sound that might have been heard coming out of a bar room's jukebox in the 50's on a Saturday night, is still there. Some of the info in the booklet that comes with the box is incorrect, dates and personnel both. So search the internet for the correct info, that's not the reason for this box set. It's the music and lyrics made by one of the most original musicians of the electric blues boom in 50's Chicago.
The process of creativity can be heard on the last disc, when Phil Chess stops the recording of one song in order to give some music advice to Sonny. That pissed Sonny off and he proceeded to cuss Chess out in florid language. For a moment those people come alive, and they're revealed as working and thinking, made real for a moment. Fly on the wall stuff.

Recordings from 1955 to 1964.

• Bass – Jack Myers (tracks: 3-11 to 3-17), Milton Rector (tracks: 3-7 to 3-10), Willie Dixon
• Drums – Al Duncan (tracks: 3-7 to 3-10), Fred Below, Odie Payne (tracks: 2-5, 2-6, 2-23, 2-24, 3-1, 3-2)
• Guitar – Buddy Guy (tracks: 3-11 to 3-17), Eddie King (3) (tracks: 2-15 to 2-18), Eugene Pierson (tracks: 2-1 to 2-4, 4-7, 4-10, 4-17), Jimmy Rogers (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5), Luther Tucker, Matt Murphy (tracks: 3-7 to 3-10), Muddy Waters (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5), Robert Lockwood Jr.
• Organ – Billy Emerson (tracks: 3-7 to 3-10)
• Piano – Lafayette Leake, Otis Spann
• Saxophone – Donald Hankins (tracks: 3-11 to 3-14, 3-18 to 3-22), Jarrett Gibson (tracks: 3-11 to 3-22)

DISC 1

1. Work With Me
2. Don't Start Me Talkin'
3. All My Love In Vain
4. Good Evening Everybody
5. You Killing Me (On My Feet)
6. Let Me Explain
7. I Know What Love Is All About
8. I Wonder Why
9. Your Imagination
10. Don't Lose Your Eye
11. Keep It To Yourself
12. Please Forgive
13. The Key (To Your Door)
14. Have You Ever Been in Love
15. Hurts Me So Much
16. Fattening Frogs For Snakes
17. I Don't Know
18. Like Wolf
19. This Is My Apartment
20. Cross My Heart
21. Born Blind
22. Ninety Nine
23. Dissatisfied
24. Unseen Eye

DISC 2

1. Your Funeral And My Trial
2. She Got Next To Me
3. Wake Up Baby
4. Keep Your Hand Out Of My Pocket
5. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
6. Unseeing Eye
7. The Goat
8. Cool Disposition
9. I Never Do Wrong
10. It's Sad To Be Alone
11. Open Road
12. Santa Claus
13. I Can't Do Without You
14. Checkin' Up On My Baby
15. Temperature 110
16. Peach Tree
17. Lonesome Cabin
18. Somebody Help Me
19. Down Child
20. Trust My Baby
21. This Old Life
22. Too Close Together
23. Too Young To Die
24. She's My Baby

DISC 3

1. Stop Right Now
2. The Hunt
3. Too Old To Think
4. That's All I Want
5. One Way Out
6. Nine Below Zero
7. Got To Move
8. Bye Bye Bird
9. Help Me
10. Bring It On Home
11. One Way Out
12. My Younger Days
13. Tryin' To Get Back On My Feet
14. Decoration Day
15. Stop Cryin'
16. (I Want You) Close To Me
17. One Way Out
18. I Can't Be Alone
19. Don't Make A Mistake
20. Understand My Life
21. Find Another Woman
22. My Name Is Sonny Boy

DISC 4

1. The Key (To Your Door)
2. Hurts Me So Much
3. Cool Disposition
4. Dissatisfied
5. Cross My Heart
6. "99"
7. She Got Next To Me
8. Fattening Frogs For Snakes
9. Nine Below Zero
10. Your Funeral And My Trial
11. Cool Disposition
12. The Goat
13. Ninety Nine
14. Cross My Heart
15. Hurts Me So Much
16. Nine Below Zero
17. Your Funeral And My Trial
18. Checkin' Up On My Baby
19. Little Village

Dire Straits discography & bootlegs

Dire Straits were a British rock band who emerged during the post-punk era of the late 1970s, active between 1977 and 1995.

 Comprising Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), his younger brother David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion), and managed by Ed Bicknell, Dire Straits played a more bluesy style, and while their sound was minimalistic and stripped down, they owed little to punk rock which was at the forefront at the time. If anything, the band was a direct outgrowth of the roots revivalism of pub rock, but where pub rock celebrated good times, Dire Straits were melancholy. Despite their oddly self-effacing approach to rock and roll, Dire Straits became one of the world's most commercially successful artists, and sold over 120 million albums worldwide.

VA - The Many Faces Of Led Zeppelin [3 CD, 2007] [FLAC]

 

A triple album that presents the three faces of the immortal band, Led Zeppelin. The first disc of The Many Faces presents Dread Zeppelin, a popular group of the 80's that covers Led Zeppelin's repertoire in its reggae pop style with sensational results. The second disc is dedicated to Great White, one of the fundamental bands of hair metal (the California movement that produced other groups such as Guns N' Roses, Poison and Motley Crue, among others), that pays homage with such respect to the English quartet that it can only be called adulation. The third disc presents a completely contemporary vision of the world of Led Zeppelin therefore it is dedicated entirely to remixes that are the work of artists as transcendent as Sigue Sigue Sputnick or the intense KMFDM.