Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends [3 CD, 1997]

 Old Friends is the second box set of Simon & Garfunkel songs, released in November 1997. The three-disc anthology collects most of the duo's best-known works, and also includes previously unreleased outtakes. Some of these outtakes subsequently appeared on both the reissues of Simon & Garfunkel's five studio albums as well as the later boxed set The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964-1970). 

VA - 100 Hot Rhythm & Blues Tunes from...The R&B Years: 1949 [4 CD, 2004]

 

At the end of that troubled decade, the 1940s, for many Americans rhythm and blues was providing a welcome release from the recent memory of WWII. Social life was back on the rails; men and women were dressing up, going out and having fun. To the rest of the world, America-s consumer economy seemed like a futuristic wonderworld only Flash Gordon would recognise. Some of the artists featured here would enjoy careers and reputations which are still current today. T-Bone Walker, Joe Turner, Ivory Joe Hunter, Pee Wee Crayton, Amos Milburn, Lucky Millinder, Jimmy Witherspoon, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan, Dinah Washington, Johnny Otis, Wynonie Harris, Ray Charles and Memphis Slim are all legendary R&B figures gracing this 101-track collection whose careers can be easily accessed on-line or in any good text book. But there are many others here who, though famous in their time, have faded into relative obscurity, so here we offer them the opportunity to take - in most cases - a posthumous bow. In many ways the R&B of 1949 could be called -Blues Before Sunrise-. That imminent dawn had already been voiced here with Wild Bill Moore-s Rock And Roll, long before Alan Freed claimed the phrase as his own. In the coming decade the exciting, creative yet racially insulated world of R&B would break through it-s borders into mainstream pop. Let-s give thanks that it did - we-re still enjoying the result.

Disc One:

01. Jimmy Liggins - Homecoming Blues
02. Paul Williams - Walkin' Around
03. Piney Brown - Mourning Blues
04. Jay McShann - Hot Biscuits
05. Cousin Joe - Beggin' Woman
06. Roy Brown - Rainy Weather Blues
07. Andrew Tibbs - I Feel Like Crying
08. Big Jay McNeely - Deacon's Hop
09. Joe Turner - I Don't Dig It
10. Joe Morris - Weasel Walk
11. Buddy & Ella Johnson - I Don't Care Who Knows
12. Paul Williams - The Hucklebuck
13. Wynonie Harris - I Feel That Old Age Coming On
14. Edgar Hayes - Fat Meat 'N' Greens
15. Jimmy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business Pt. 1
16. Jimmy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business Pt 2
17. Dee Williams - Bongo Blues
18. Julia Lee - I Didn't Like It The First Time
19. King Porter - King Porter Special
20. Earl Bostic - Blip Boogie
21. Roy Brown - Rockin' At Midnight
22. Saunders King - Empty Bedroom
23. Mabel Scott - Just Give Me A Man
24. T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Shuffle
25. June Richmond - 47th Street Jive
26. Hal Singer - Beef Stew

Disc Two:

01. Chicago Davis - I Feel So Good
02. Sonny Thompson - Blue Dreams
03. Don Johnson - State Street Boogie
04. Stick McGhee - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-o-Do
05. Lucky Millinder - D'natural Blues
06. Cecil Gant - I'm A Good Man But A Poor Man
07. Roy Milton - The Hucklebuck
08. Jimmy Preston - Hucklebuck Daddy
09. Amos Milburn - Hold Me Baby
10. The Orioles - Tell Me So
11. Charles Brown - Trouble Blues
12. Pete Lewis - Midnight In The Barrel House
13. King Perry - Sarah! Sarah!
14. Todd Rhodes - Pot Likker
15. Joe Turner - B&O Blues
16. T.J. Fowler - Red Hot Blues
17. City Jimmy - Saturday Night Kansas
18. Frank Culley - Cole Slaw
19. Five Scamps - Red Hot
20. Wild Bill Moore - Rock and Roll
21. Jimmy Witherspoon - Take Me Back Baby
22. Edgar Hayes - Sunday Mornin' Blues
23. Roy Milton - Junior Jump
24. Max Bailey - Delinquency Blues
25. Bob Call - Call's Jump

Disc Three:

01. Chris Powell - Hot Dog
02. Amos Milburn - In The Middle Of The Night
03. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan - Baby It's Cold Outside
04. Ravens - Ricky's Blues
05. Louis Jordan - Every Man To His Own Profession
06. Floyd Dixon - That'll Get It
07. Dinah Washington - Baby Get Lost
08. Louis Jordan - Beans And Corn Bread
09. Dinah Washington - Long John Blues
10. Little Willie Littlefield - It's Midnight (No Place To Go)
11. Dave Bartholomew - Mr. Fool
12. Russell Jacquet - Cross Bones
13. T-Bone Walker - Hypin' Woman Blues
14. Goree Carter - Hoy Hoy
15. Wynonie Harris - All She Wants To Do Is Rock
16. Freddie Mitchell - Doby's Boogie
17. Joe Lutcher - Mardi Gras
18. Amos Milburn - Roomin' House Boogie
19. Roy Brown - Please Don't Go
20. Great Gates - Late After Hours
21. Eddie Williams & Floyd Dixon - Broken Hearted
22. Buddy Banks & Baby Davis - Happy Home Blues
23. Amos Milburn - Empty Arms Blues
24. Walter Brown - Lying Woman Blues
25. Jimmy Preston - Rock the Joint

Disc Four:

01. Joe Thomas - Page Boy Shuffle
02. Roy Hawkins - Mistreatin' Baby
03. Jimmy Witherspoon - In The Evening
04. Sugar Chile Robinson - Numbers Boogie
05. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers & Billy Valentine - Walkin' Blues
06. Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry
07. Billy Wright - Blues For My Baby
08. Ivory Joe Hunter - Landlord Blues
09. Bull Moose jackson - Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me?
10. Ruth Brown - Rockin' Blues
11. Marion Abernathy - Ja-Hoosey Baby
12. Bumps Mayers - Memphis Hop
13. Larry Darnell - For You My Love
14. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - My Time Is Expensive
15. Memphis Slim - Nobody Loves Me
16. Roy Brown - Boogie At Midnight
17. Red Eddie Vinson - Somebody Done Stole My Cherry Red
18. Eddie Davis - Mountain Oysters
19. J.B. Summers - Drinkin' Beer
20. Ray Charles - How Long Blues
21. Charles Brown - Homesick Blues
22. Eddie Mack - Kind Loving Daddy
23. Johnny Otis - Thursday Night Blues
24. Pee Wee Crayton - Bounce Pee Wee
25. Jimmy Witherspoon - Big Fine Gal

Widespread Panic - Panic En La Playa 2020 [4 shows]

Widespread Panic

Panic En La Playa Nueve

Hard Rock Hotel And Resort

Riviera Maya, Mexico

2020/01/24-27

Jimmy Witherspoon - Hard Working Man 1945-1962 (4 CD, 2013)

 Jimmy Witherspoon (August 8, 1920 – September 18, 1997) was an American jump blues singer.

James Witherspoon was born in Gurdon, Arkansas. He first attracted attention singing with Teddy Weatherford's band in Calcutta, India, which made regular radio broadcasts over the U. S. Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II. Witherspoon made his first records with Jay McShann's band in 1945. In 1949, recording under his own name with the McShann band, he had his first hit, "Ain't Nobody's Business," a song which came to be regarded as his signature tune. In 1950 he had hits with two more songs closely identified with him: "No Rollin' Blues", "Big Fine Girl", as well as "Failing By Degrees" and "New Orleans Woman" recorded with the Gene Gilbeaux Orchestra which included Herman Washington and Don Hill on the Modern Records label. These were recorded from a live performance on May 10, 1949 at a "Just Jazz" concert Pasadena, CA sponsored by Gene Norman. Another classic Witherspoon composition is "Times Gettin' Tougher Than Tough".

Witherspoon's style of blues - that of the "blues shouter" - became unfashionable in the mid-1950s, but he returned to popularity with his 1959 album, Jimmy Witherspoon at the Monterey Jazz Festival, which featured Roy Eldridge, Woody Herman, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Earl Hines and Mel Lewis, among others. He later recorded with Gerry Mulligan, Leroy Vinnegar, Richard "Groove" Holmes and T-Bone Walker.


In 1961 he toured Europe with Buck Clayton and returned to the UK on many occasions, featuring on a mid-sixties live UK recording Spoon Sings and Swings (1966) with tenor sax player Dick Morrissey's quartet. In 1970, he appeared on Brother Jack McDuff's London Blue Note recording To Seek a New Home together with British jazz musicians, including Dick Morrissey, again, and Terry Smith. In the 1970s he also recorded the album Guilty! (later released on CD as Black & White Blues) with Eric Burdon and featuring Ike White & the San Quentin Prison Band. He then toured with a band of his own featuring Robben Ford and Russ Ferrante. A recording from this period, Spoonful, featured 'Spoon accompanied by Robben Ford, Joe Sample, Cornell Dupree, Thad Jones and Bernard Purdie. He continued performing and recording into the 1990s.

Other performers with whom Witherspoon recorded include Jimmy Rowles, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Vernon Alley, Mel Lewis, Teddy Edwards, Gerald Wiggins, John Clayton, Paul Humphrey, Pepper Adams, Kenny Burrell, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Jimmy Smith, Long John Baldry, Junior Mance, Ellington bassist Jimmy Woode, Kenny Clarke, Gerry Mulligan, Jim Mullen, Count Basie, Van Morrison, Dutch Swing College Band, Gene Gilbeaux and others.
Acting

In the 1995 film Georgia, Witherspoon portrayed a traveling, gun-collecting blues singer, Trucker, who has a relationship with the troubled character Sadie, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Death

Witherspoon died of throat cancer in Los Angeles, California on September 18, 1997.

CD1

01. Hard Working Man Blues [03:19]

02. Shipyard Woman Blues [03:00]

03. Ernestine [02:47]

04. Roll On, Katy [03:03]

05. Voodoo Woman Blues [02:35]

06. Have You Ever Loved A Woman [02:45]

07. Wandering Gal Blues [02:49]

08. Hey Mr. Landlord [02:43]

09. Cain River Blues [02:44]

10. How I Hate To See Xmas Come Around [02:57]

11. Third Floor Blues [02:53]

12. Money's Getting Cheaper [02:54]

13. Skid Row Blues [02:47]

14. Ain't Nobody's Business Part 1 [02:54]

15. Ain't Nobody's Business Part 2 [03:06]

16. Back Water Blues [03:06]

17. Six-Foot-Two Blues [02:38]

18. Money Eyes Woman [02:34]

19. How You Gonna Act [02:45]

20. Spoon Calls Hootie [02:42]

21. Destruction Blues [02:32]

22. Call My Baby [02:20]

23. The New Look [02:25]

24. Drunk, Broke And Hungry [02:30]

25. Funny Style Baby [02:23]

CD2

01. Cold Blooded Boogie [02:42]

02. Lush Head Woman [02:34]

03. Long About Dawn [02:47]

04. Thelma Lee Blues [02:39]

05. Pinochio Blues [02:39]

06. Your Red Wagon [02:43]

07. Feelin' So Bad [02:36]

08. Same Old Blues [02:38]

09. I Love You Just The Same [02:46]

10. Jump Children [02:45]

11. Take Me Back Baby [02:42]

12. When I Had My Money [03:02]

13. Doctor Blues [02:10]

14. Big Fine Girl [02:28]

15. Drinkin' Beer (Havin' A Ball) [02:11]

16. Better Love Next Time Part 1 [02:14]

17. Better Love Next Time Part 2 [02:26]

18. Hard Workin' Blues [03:07]

19. Failing By Degrees [03:09]

20. New Orleans Woman [02:24]

21. I'm Goin' Around In Circles [03:06]

22. Just A Country Boy [02:59]

23. There Ain't Nothin' Better [02:55]

24. Once There Lived A Fool [02:38]

25. I'm Just Wondering Part 1 [02:35]

26. I'm Just Wondering Part 2 [02:24]

CD3

01. I'm Just A Ladies Man [02:23]

02. You Can't Kiss A Dream Goodnight [02:25]

03. I Gotta Gal Lives Up On The Hill [02:16]

04. Fickle Woman [02:33]

05. I Done Found Out [03:03]

06. Real Ugly Woman [02:45]

07. Give My Heart Another Break [03:00]

08. Would My Baby Make A Change [02:33]

09. The Wind Is Blowin' [02:50]

10. Baby Baby [02:15]

11. Slow Your Speed [02:57]

12. Foolish Prayer [01:57]

13. Lucille [02:32]

14. Two Little Girls [02:31]

15. One Fine Gal [02:22]

16. Don't Tell Me Now [03:00]

17. Corn Whiskey [02:10]

18. Jay's Blues Part 1 [02:32]

19. Miss, Miss Mistreater [02:09]

20. Back Home [02:39]

21. The Last Mile [02:54]

22. It [02:22]

23. Back Door Blues [03:08]

24. Fast Women, Slow Gin [02:30]

25. 24 Sad Hours [02:37]

CD4

01. Just For You [02:22]

02. Sad Life [02:49]

03. Move Me Baby [02:30]

04. Highway To Happiness [02:34]

05. I Done Told You [02:35]

06. Oh Boy [02:19]

07. When The Lights Go Out [02:57]

08. How Long Blues [03:02]

09. When The Sun Goes Down [03:39]

10. See See Rider [04:01]

11. When I've Been Drinking [03:34]

12. All That's Good [02:59]

13. It Ain't What You're Thinkin' [03:22]

14. Wee Baby Blues [03:15]

15. Times Are Changing [02:55]

16. There's Good Rockin' Tonight [04:10]

17. Midnight Blues (Red Shirt) [05:15]

18. Sweet's Blues [05:14]

19. No Rollin' Blues [05:31]

20. The Masquerade Is Over [02:48]

21. Have Faith [02:16]

22. Warm Your Heart [02:22]

23. Lovey Dovey [02:15]

24. Confessin' The Blues [02:57]

Def Leppard- The CD Collection Volume 1 (7 CD, 2018)

 

This initial volume of the band’s complete recorded output comes in a limited-edition CD box set, each featuring Def Leppard’s first four studio albums — along with some choice bonus live and studio material — all spread across 7CDs. The Volume One collection contains all of Def Leppard’s iconic 1980s recordings – On Through The Night, High ‘N’ Dry, Pyromania and Hysteria - with reproductions of the original packaging. Furthermore, this collection includes a replica 3-inch CD of the band’s original independent EP, the self-titled The Def Leppard E.P. The Volume One collection also houses bonus material including Live At The LA Forum 1983, originally released as a bonus disc in the deluxe CD version of Pyromania. The box set also includes Rarities Volume 1 which has been specially compiled by Joe Elliott, containing rare B-sides and recordings from Def Leppard’s early years, all in a newly commissioned sleeve. Each album in the Volume One box set was mastered by longtime band producer/soundmaster Ronan McHugh and frontman/vocalist Joe Elliott at Joe’s Garage in Dublin, Ireland, and cut by Greg Moore.