Blues

VA - Crawling Up A Hill: A Journey Through The British Blues Boom 1966-71 (2020)

VA - Crawling Up A Hill: A Journey Through The British Blues Boom 1966-71 (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,23 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 531 Mb | 03:50:12
Blues Rock | Label: Grapefruit Records, Cherry Red Records

Crawling Up A Hill is a fascinating document of a genre that, though relatively short-lived, would have a seismic influence on the subsequent development of rock music.

Taj Mahal - Senor Blues (1997)  Music

Posted by Designol at April 21, 2024
Taj Mahal - Senor Blues (1997)

Taj Mahal - Señor Blues (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 345 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 119 Mb | Scans ~ 57 Mb
Label: Private Music | # 01005 82151 2 | Time: 00:51:43
Contemporary Blues, Rhythm & Blues, Jazz-Blues, Country-Blues

Señor Blues is one of Taj Mahal's best latter-day albums, a rollicking journey through classic blues styles performed with contemporary energy and flair. There's everything from country-blues to jazzy uptown blues on Señor Blues, and Taj hits all of areas in between, including R&B and soul. Stylistically, it's similar to most of his albums, but he's rarely been as effortlessly fun and infectious as he is here.

Julie London - About The Blues (1957) [Japanese Edition 2010]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 20, 2024
Julie London - About The Blues (1957) [Japanese Edition 2010]

Julie London - About The Blues (1957) [Japanese Edition 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 171 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 83 MB | Covers - 26 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: EMI Music Japan (TOCJ-9664)

Julie London wasn't really a jazz singer, but she possessed a definite jazz feeling and many of her finest albums (such as Julie Is Her Name and Julie…At Home) feature small-group jazz backings. About the Blues was aimed at the 1950s pop market, but it may just be her best orchestral session. Since downbeat torch songs were London's specialty, the album features an excellent selection of nocturnal but classy blues songs that play to her subtle strengths instead of against them. Likewise, Russ Garcia's clever arrangements bleed jazz touches and short solos over the solitary strings and big-band charts. Like June Christy, London usually included a couple of new songs in with a selection of standards, and her husband, Bobby Troup, wrote two excellent numbers for the album. One of them, the emotionally devastating "Meaning of the Blues," is the album's highlight, and was turned into a jazz standard after Miles Davis recorded it the same year for Miles Ahead.

Melvin Taylor - Blues On The Run (1982) Re-release 1994  Music

Posted by Designol at April 22, 2024
Melvin Taylor - Blues On The Run (1982) Re-release 1994

Melvin Taylor - Blues On The Run (1982) Re-release 1994
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 226 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 101 Mb | Scans ~ 29 Mb
Electric Blues, Chicago Blues | Label: Evidence | # ECD 26041-2 | Time: 00:43:50

Melvin Taylor may run a little long at times on his Blues on the Run, but that gives him the opportunity to dazzle with the full scope of his chops. He can play Chicago blues as gritty as anyone, but he can also rock hard and has enough sensitivity for jazz. Hearing him run through all these styles is a little dizzying, however, especially since he doesn't know when to let a little space into the music. Nevertheless, the record functions as an effective showcase for his talents.

Blues Company - Hot And Ready To Serve (2007)  Music

Posted by popsakov at June 13, 2020
Blues Company - Hot And Ready To Serve (2007)

Blues Company - Hot And Ready To Serve (2007)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 395 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 141 Mb
Full Scans ~ 288 Mb | 00:58:26 | RAR 5% Recovery
Modern Electric Blues | In-Akustik #INAK 9081 CD

This band is hot. Very, very hot. And those aren't just empty words. After all, the Blues Company from Osnabrück, Germany is neither a hodgepodge of rank beginners nor - to borrow business lingo - a group of new business starters. Rather, they are a team of artists who have made their mark, musicians with experience and know-how aplenty. The musicians at work here have long since ensured that the name of their “company” is a recognised “seal of approval”. In a nutshell, “Blues Company” stands for German's longest-running and most successful blues band. And with each new recording, with each concert, these pros underscore that their passionate love affair with the blues is burning brightly as ever.

V.A. - Essential Blues (1995)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 30, 2023
V.A. - Essential Blues (1995)

V.A. - Essential Blues (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 678 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 274 MB | Covers - 65 MB
Genre: Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: BMG/House Of Blues (70010 87000 2)

Essential Blues is an attempt to trace the evolution of the music from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago and other modern, urban cities. It does a fairly good job in providing a brief history, but the main strength of the collection simply comes from the music. Featuring cuts from Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Slim Harpo, Junior Parker, Elmore James, Albert Collins, and many, many others, it's a quick and effective way to sample a variety of different blues styles. For neophytes, Essential Blues does offer a splendid introduction to the genre.

VA - An Anthology Of 20th Century Blues (2023)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 12, 2023
VA - An Anthology Of 20th Century Blues (2023)

VA - An Anthology Of 20th Century Blues (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 4:47:11 | 630 / 582 Mb
Genre: Blues / Label: ACROBAT

The Acrobat catalogue contains a wealth of blues collections by artists from across the spectrum of the genre, and this fantastic-value 100-track 4-CD set comprises recordings selected from just about every artist represented in the catalogue, and offering a rich cross-section of the finest blues of the 20th century. Inevitably it draws on every strand of the blues and just about every regional variation, from country blues from the Delta, to electric blues from Chicago, post-war California blues, New Orleans blues, Piedmont blues, New York Blues and more.
Muddy Waters - 'The Real Folk Blues' (1966) + 'More Real Folk Blues' (1967) 2 LP in 1 CD, Remastered 2002

Muddy Waters - 'The Real Folk Blues' (1966) + 'More Real Folk Blues' (1967)
2 LP in 1 CD, Remastered 2002

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 289 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 159 Mb | Scans ~ 163 Mb
Chicago Blues, Folk Blues | Label: MCA/Chess | # 088 112 822-2 | Time: 01:09:31

Waters' The Real Folk Blues and More Real Folk Blues, combined here onto one CD, were not exactly random collections of tracks – the quality was too consistently high for them to just have been picked out of a hat. Still, it was a pretty arbitrary grouping of items that he recorded between 1947 and 1964. In fact, they hail from throughout his whole stint at Chess, virtually; at the time these albums were first issued, though, all of the material on More Real Folk Blues was from the late '40s and early '50s. They didn't exactly concentrate on his most well-known songs, but they didn't entirely neglect them either, including "Mannish Boy," "Walking Thru the Park," "The Same Thing," "Rollin' & Tumblin' Part One," "She's Alright," and "Honey Bee," amongst somewhat more obscure selections. So ultimately, this disc's usefulness depends on your fussiness as a collector – if it's the only Waters you ever pick up, you'll still have a good idea of his greatness, and if you don't mind getting some tracks you might already have on more avowedly best-of sets, you'll probably hear some stuff you don't already have in your collection.

Taj Mahal & The Hula Blues Band - Live from Kauai (2015)  Music

Posted by aasana at Jan. 8, 2019
Taj Mahal & The Hula Blues Band - Live from Kauai (2015)

Taj Mahal & The Hula Blues Band - Taj Mahal the the Hula Blues Band: Live from Kauai (2015)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+.log) | 1:53:50 | 766 MB
Blues | Label: Kuleana Music

February 6, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii: Under a 6000 sq. ft. pavilion, Taj Mahal assembled a score of musicians and members of his red-hot traveling band next to lapping waves of the Pacific. Some were friends from the Hula Blues Band, others, jazz legends who, like himself, are at the top of their game. Two sold-out concerts packed with ecstatic audiences who swayed, danced and rocked out with that sweet, powerful aloha spirit brought yet another wonder. The acoustics of the open tent pitched there next to the ocean, created an extraordinary sound quality. The recordings were terrific! Two CDs are necessary to share the harmony of those events.
John Brim - Detroit To Chicago: The Tough Blues Of John Brim 1950-1956 (2018)

John Brim - Detroit To Chicago: The Tough Blues Of John Brim 1950-1956 (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, m3u) & Artwork | 192 MB
Label: Jasmine Records / JASMCD 3118 | Tracks: 27 | Time: 78:25 min
Blues

Were it not for his exceptional songwriting talent, John Brim may well have ended up as just a postscript in the history of the blues and specifically the history of Chicago Blues. Here are 27 examples of his art and at the time of release this is the most complete collection of his singles ever released, in fact ten of these tracks remained unreleased for many years.