VA- Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon- The Ultimate Rude Blues Collection (2 CD,2003)

 

Rude, Rude Blues, Expletives, Innuendo And Just Plain !! Rude - When naughty Chuck Berry slipped 'My Ding A Ling' into the charts in 1972 he exposed a musical phenomenon that had a long, long history. People have been singing about sex since the dawn of popular music - and since the roots of rock are black one's, it’s no surprise the '40s onwards saw the blues community employing as many imaginative terms to describe 'the act' as there were ways of doing it! Rock 'n' Roll of course, is just one. This hugely popular double CD collection isn't so much X-rated as exhilarating, offering rib tickling rump shakers - each with their own nudge-nudge, wink wink meaning. The politically correct among us should check their pulse rate and stick to Abba. But if PC to you means the boys in blue or your home computer, you're old enough - and broad minded enough - to enjoy this feast of fleshy delights.


Disc 1

1 - Catfish Blues - Bobo Thomas
2 - I Want A Bowlegged Woman - Bull Moose Jackson
3 - Hard Lead Pencil - The Honeydripper
4 - Litle Red Dress (Drawers) - Jimmie Gordon
5 - Love Operation - Barrel House Annie
6 - Blue Bloomer Blues - Alex Moore
7 - Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon - Charlie Pickett
8 - Doodle Hole Blues - Charlie Lincoln
9 - One More Greasing - Georgia Pine Boy
10 - Kitchen Man - Bessie Smith
11 - You Got To Give Me Some Of It - Buddy Moss
12 - Dressed With The Drawers - Carl Rafferty
13 - Aint Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee - Clara Smith
14 - Lemon Man - Dan Pickett
15 - Bed Spring Poker - Mississippi Sheiks
16 - Show Me What Youve Got - Kansas City Kitty And Georgia Tom
17 - I Want My Hands On It - Big Bill Broonzy
18 - Im A Rattlesnakin Daddy - Blind Boy Fuller
19 - I Think You Need A Shot - Champion Jack Dupree
20 - Bumble Bee - Memphis Minnie
21 - The Best Jockey In Town - Lonnie Johnson
22 - Dont Like The Way You Do - Blind Squire Turner
23 - My Daddy Was A Jockey - John Lee Hooker
24 - Pig Meat Papa – Leadbelly

Disc 2

1 - Sweet Honey Hole - Blind Boy Fuller
2 - Banana In Your Fruitbasket - Bo Carter
3 - Mouses Ear Blues - Cliff Carlisle
4 - I Want Plenty Of Grease In My Frying Pan - Margaret Carter
5 - Let Me Play With Your Poodle - Lightnin Hopkins
6 - I Let My Daddy Do That - Hattie Hart
7 - She Want To Sell My Monkey - Tampa Red
8 - Im A Mighty Tight Woman - Sippie Wallace
9 - Phonograph Blues - Robert Johnson
10 - She Shook Her Gin - Barbecue Bobb
11 - How You Want It Done - Big Bill Broonzy
12 - Bed Springs Blues - Jimmie Gordon
13 - Fish House Blues - Kansas City Kitty And Georgia Tom
14 - I Want My Fanny Brown - Wynonie Harris
15 - Ive Got Ford Movements In My Hips - Cleo Gibson
16 - Mother Fuyer - Dirty Red
17 -Good Cabbage - Victoria Spivey
18 - It Aint The Meat - The Swallows
19 - My Babys Playground - Roosevelt Sykes
20 - Dirty Butter - Minnie Wallace
21 - Wipe It Off - Lonnie Johnson
22 - My Man O War - Lizzie Miles
23 - Shes Got Good Dry Goods - Little Buddy Doyle
24 - Dont Give My Land Away - James Stump Johnson
25 - Cigarette Blues - Bo Carter

Rush- A Farewell To Kings (40th Ann. Deluxe,3 CD, 2017/FLAC)

 

Expanded edition of the landmark Rush album A Farewell to Kings — the fifth studio album originally released in 1977, which introduced the radio hit “Closer To The Heart,” album tracks “A Farewell To Kings,” “Madrigal,” “Cinderella Man,” as well as enduring fan favorites with “Xanadu” and “Cygnus X-1.”


A Farewell to Kings—40th Anniversary is a three-CD Deluxe Edition, with the newly reasserted A Farewell to Kings album, the Hammersmith Odeon show, the four new cover songs, “Cygnus X-2 Eh” outtake, Hugh Syme’s song-specific artwork and Rob Bowman’s liner notes.

Muddy Waters - The Complete Aristocrat & Chess Singles As & Bs 1947-62 [4 CD, 2014]

 

Muddy Waters brought a Son House-like Delta country-blues style north with him from Mississippi to Chicago in 1943, intent on making a living from music. Switching from acoustic to electric guitar in order to be better heard in the Chicago clubs and bars, Waters gradually assembled one of the greatest ongoing bands in the history of blues, and in the process, Waters and his band assembled the very template for classic Chicago blues. Waters first cut a track for the Chess Brothers in 1947, who released it on their Aristocrat Records imprint, and for the next two decades or so, Waters turned out the basic iconic catalog of electric Chicago blues for various Chess imprints, and those singles, both A- and B-sides, are collected here in this four-disc, 98-track set. Waters was an astute bandleader, and musicians like Little Walter, Junior Wells, James Cotton, Willie Dixon, and Otis Spann all contributed heavily to these sides, which sit at the very heart of Chicago blues, and signal the very point where the blues became modern and urban.


CD 1
1. Gypsy Woman
2. Little Anna Mae
3. I Can't Be Satisfied
4. I Feel Like Going Home
5. Train Fare Home
6. Sittin' Here And Drinkin'
7. You're Gonna' Miss Me When I'm Dead And Gone
8. Mean Red Spider
9. Streamline Woman
10. Muddy Jumps One
11. Little Geneva
12. Canary Bird
13. Screaming And Crying
14. Where's My Woman Been
15. Rollin' And Tumblin' Part 1
16. Rollin' And Tumblin' Part 2
17. Rollin' Stone
18. Walkin' Blues
19. You're Gonna Need My Help
20. Sad Letter Blues
21. Louisiana Blues
22. Evans Shuffle
23. Long Distance Call
24. Too Young To Know
25. Appealing Blues

CD 2
1. Honey Bee
2. My Fault
3. Still A Fool
4. Early Morning Blues
5. She Moves Me
6. All Night Long
7. Country Boy
8. Please Have Mercy
9. Looking For My Baby
10. Standing Around Crying
11. Gone To Main Street
12. She's All Right
13. Sad Sad Day
14. Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man
15. Turn The Lamp Down Low
16. Mad Love
17. Blow Wind Blow
18. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
19. She's So Pretty
20. Just Make Love To Me
21. Oh Yeh!
22. I'm Ready
23. I Don't Know Why
24. Lovin' Man

CD 3
1. I'm A Natural Born Lover
2. I Want To Be Loved
3. My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble
4. Manish Boy
5. Young Fashioned Ways
6. Trouble No More
7. Sugar Sweet
8. Forty Days And Forty Nights
9. All Aboard
10. Don't Go No Farther
11. Diamonds At Your Feet
12. I Got To Find My Baby
13. Just To Be With You
14. Got My Mojo Working
15. Rock Me
16. Good News
17. Come Home Baby
18. I Live The Life I Love
19. Evil
20. I Won't Go On
21. She's Got It
22. Close To You
23. She's Nineteen Years Old
24. Mean Mistreater

CD 4
1. Walkin' Thru The Park
2. Clouds In My Heart
3. Ooh Wee
4. Take The Bitter With The Sweet
5. She's Into Somethin'
6. Recipe For Love
7. Tell Me Baby
8. I Feel So Good
9. When I Get To Thinking
10. I'm Your Doctor
11. Read Way Back
12. Love Affair
13. Look What You've Done
14. Tiger In Your Tank
15. Meanest Woman
16. Got My Mojo Working Part 1 Live
17. Woman Wanted
18. Messin' With The Man
19. Lonesome Room Blues
20. Going Home
21. Tough Times
22. Muddy Waters Twist
23. You Shook Me
24. You Need Love
25. Little Brown Bird

Guitar Slim Green with Johnny And Shuggie Otis ‎– Stone Down Blues [2015]

 

Guitar Slim Green wasn't a prolific bluesman by any means. He recorded several sides in the '40s, '50s, and '60s, including a pair of singles for Johnny Otis' Dig, but perhaps his best-known recording is 1970's Stone Down Blues, his only full-length record. That's entirely due to who supports him on the album, produced by Johnny Otis, who also played drums on the record and brought in his son Shuggie to play bass and the occasional guitar, forming something of a power trio with Guitar Slim. Certainly, father and son help push Green away from his comfortable wheelhouse -- a wheelhouse that's firmly indebted to T-Bone Walker, whose influence can be heard on Guitar Slim's fluid single-line leads -- and into slightly funkier territory. The Otis rhythm section is loose and gritty, something that's readily apparent on the jumping opener "Shake 'Em Up" and that swing pops up elsewhere, including the John Lee Hooker homage "Old Folks Blues." One of the attractive things about Stone Down Blues is how the Otises continue to goose Green along in sly ways, urging him to sing Johnny's protest tune "This War Ain't Right" and mixing up shuffles ("Make Love All Night") with slow 12-bar blues ("My Little Angel Child"), piano blues ("You Make Me Feel So Good"), and urbanized country blues ("Big Fine Thing"). Green's gravelly voice and mellow presence help tie this all together and the whole album feels something like a casual triumph: Johnny Otis is paying his old friend a favor and, in doing so, finds an unwitting intersection between the old and modern blues at the turn of the '60s.

1. Shake 'Em Up
2. Bumble Bee Blues
3. Make Love Al Night
4. My Little Angel Child
5. 5th Street Alley Blues
6. Old Folks Boogie
7. This War Ain't Right
8. You Make Me Feel So Good
9. Big Fine Thing
10. Play On Little Girl

Elton John - Diamonds (3 CD, Deluxe, 2017)

 

Elton John was one of the biggest pop star of the '70s, grabbing headlines and generating hits throughout the world. As it turned out, this was merely the first act in a remarkable career that kept him at the top of the charts for over 25 years. He charted a Top 40 hit single every year between 1970 and 1996, a sign that he knew how to both change with the times and mold the times to fit him. Initially marketed as a singer/songwriter, John soon revealed he could craft Beatlesque pop and pound out rockers with equal aplomb. He could dip into soul, disco, and country, as well as classic pop balladry and even progressive rock. His versatility, combined with his effortless melodic skills, dynamic charisma, and flamboyant stage shows, became his calling cards and many of his songs - including "Your Song," "Rocket Man," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," and "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" - became contemporary pop standards.

Elton John Diamonds Greatest Hits Collection 3CD limited edition box-set contains 34 tracks over two discs, plus 17 bonus tracks of personal favorites curated by Elton himself.