Kindred Spirit – December 2020

Kindred Spirit – December 2020  Magazines

Posted by Pulitzer at Dec. 17, 2020
Kindred Spirit – December 2020

Kindred Spirit – December 2020
English | 53 pages | PDF | 33.4 MB

Meade Lux Lewis - 1927-1939 (1993)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 27, 2020
Meade Lux Lewis - 1927-1939 (1993)

Meade Lux Lewis - 1927-1939 (1993)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 137 MB | Covers (4 MB) included
Genre: Piano Blues, Boogie-Woogie | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Classics Records (CLASSICS 722)

Do you realize that all these Meade Lux Lewis records almost didn't happen? After making his one three-minute side for the Paramount label in December of 1927, Lewis went back to driving a cab in Chicago. And his record didn't sell. So that could have been the end of the story. But in November of 1935 John Hammond looked him up and begged him to get back on the scene. And so began a remarkable career. This chronological survey of Meade's earliest work is delightful. Each successive version of the "Honky Tonk Train Blues" is sharper, more polished. There's always something bubbling away under the surface of the Meade. Everything he played came out slightly wicked. This man played a lot of piano in bars. Nobody could play like this who hadn't come up in an environment like Chicago during the 1920s…