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Too Slim And The Taildraggers - Shiver (2011)  Music

Posted by popsakov at June 8, 2020
Too Slim And The Taildraggers - Shiver (2011)

Too Slim And The Taildraggers - Shiver (2011)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 447 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 165 Mb
Full Scans | 00:54:01 | RAR 5% Recovery
Electric Blues / Southern Rock / Swamp Rock / Blues Rock
Underworld Records #UND0018

Shiver is the 10th studio album from this group from Seattle who celebrate their 25th year of touring worldwide. Their last two releases, Free Your Mind and The Fortune Teller charted on the Billboard Top Blues Chart a total of 17 times reaching as high as #5 and #9 respectively. Shiver features some amazing guest performances by BMA award winner Curtis Salgado, Duffy Bishop and the Texas Horns. The band has sold approximately 100,000 albums since their debut release in 1988. Too Slim and the Taildraggers have won over 30 Northwest Music Awards.

The Robert Cray Band - Strong Persuader (1986)  Music

Posted by Designol at Jan. 28, 2024
The Robert Cray Band - Strong Persuader (1986)

The Robert Cray Band - Strong Persuader (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 279 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 115 Mb | Scans included
Modern Electric Blues, Soul-Blues | Label: Mercury | # 830 568-2 M-1 | 00:39:24

The set that made Cray a pop star, despite its enduring blues base. Cray's smoldering stance on "Smoking Gun" and "Right Next Door" rendered him the first sex symbol to emerge from the blues field in decades, but it was his innovative expansion of the genre itself that makes this album a genuine 1980s classic. "Nothing but a Woman" boasts an irresistible groove pushed by the Memphis Horns and some metaphorically inspired lyrics, while "I Wonder" and "Guess I Showed Her" sizzle with sensuality.

The Knickerbocker All-Stars - Texas Rhody Blues (2016)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Aug. 8, 2020
The Knickerbocker All-Stars - Texas Rhody Blues (2016)

The Knickerbocker All-Stars - Texas Rhody Blues (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 352 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 117 Mb
Full Scans ~ 64 Mb | 00:48:25 | RAR 5% Recovery
Electric Blues, Texas Blues, Rhythm & Blues | JP Cadilac Records #JPS1003

Texas Rhody Blues, featuring Jimmie Vaughan and Duke Robillard, is the third Knickerbocker All-Stars CD release. The project was supported by the Knickerbocker Music Center, a non-profit organization formed in partnership with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School. The Knickerbocker Music Center will have an exciting performance venue and an exceptional center for music education. This CD has its roots in The Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals of the late 1950s and early ‘60s which turned many white soul searchers on to blues, rhythm and blues, and jump blues. In 1963, Blues at Newport was recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival, which featured many of the greatest folk and delta blues musicians.

Willie Willis & The Wildcatters - Down Home In Dallas (1996)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Nov. 13, 2022
Willie Willis & The Wildcatters - Down Home In Dallas (1996)

Willie Willis and The Wildcatters - Down Home In Dallas (1996)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 240 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 90 MB | Covers - 9 MB
Genre: Blues, Texas Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Trix Records (TRIX 3326)

For this set, Willie Willis has reprised seven of the songs that appeared on 'Blues Food For The Soul' (1989), in many cases expanding on the originals, and with the addition of keyboards and more use of the piano, giving the songs a fuller sound that complements his voice, which has gained a rawer edge over the last few years, to perfection. His hit single 'It's All Over Baby', is slowed down in tempo, and with it's rolling piano and swirling organ, attains a far jazzier feel than the original, a formula that's also used on 'I've Been A Fool' where a slow-er tempo and the use of that rolling Texas piano at the expense of the horns used on the original, gives the number an altogether tougher feel. 'You Used Me Baby', with it's insistent bass and riffing horns, and the jazzier 'I Love This Woman', conjure up visions of ZuZu Bollin and T-Bone Walker respectively…
Doug Sahm (Sir Doug, Sir Douglas Quintet) - CD Сollection (1973-2000)

Doug Sahm (Sir Doug, Sir Douglas Quintet) - CD Сollection (1973-200)
EAC, XLD | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
7CD | Label: Various | ~ 2070 or 849 Mb | Scans
Blues-Rock / Country

Guitarist, composer, arranger, and songwriter Doug Sahm was a knowledgeable music historian and veteran performer equally comfortable in a range of styles, including Texas blues, country, rock & roll, Western swing, and Cajun. Born November 6, 1941, in San Antonio, TX, he began his performing career at age nine when he was featured on a San Antonio area radio station, playing steel guitar…

VA - Boogie Uproar: Gems From The Peacock Vaults (2014) 2CDs  Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 1, 2023
VA - Boogie Uproar: Gems From The Peacock Vaults (2014) 2CDs

VA - Boogie Uproar: Gems From The Peacock Vaults (2014) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 493 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 313 Mb | Scans ~ 25 Mb
Texas Blues, Rhythm & Blues | Label: One Day Music | # DAY2CD241 | Time: 02:16:39

The formation of Peacock Records in late 1949 dates back to an event nearly three years earlier when a young guitarist called Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown saw his chance to grab the spotlight - and took it with both hands! 'Gate' had never been backward in coming forward. When legendary bluesman T-Bone Walker fell ill in mid-performance, he leapt up, picked up the guitar left on the stage and started playing his own 'Gatemouth Boogie'. 15 minutes later a star was born. The owner of the club, Don Robey, ensured the young upstart put his autograph on a management contact. Robey would eventually found Peacock Records to release his music, and that's where the label's history starts.

The Doors - Behind Closed Doors - The Rarities (2013)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Nov. 16, 2021
The Doors - Behind Closed Doors - The Rarities (2013)

The Doors - Behind Closed Doors - The Rarities (2013)
FLAC (tracks) - 1.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 675 MB
4:35:34 | Rock, Classic Rock | Label: Rhino

The Doors mark the moment when the American rock underground of the 1960s came crashing into the mainstream.
The group's massive influence on the course of rock music may been overshadowed by decades of lionization of their late lead singer Jim Morrison, whose early death wound up being a pivotal part of their legacy.

Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid (2001)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 1, 2022
Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid (2001)

Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid (2001)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 439 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 292 MB | Covers - 35 MB
Genre: Ambient, Modern Classical | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Kranky (KRANK 050)

Having always made records that exist at the margins of descriptive language, this project by Austin, Texas' most spaced-out duo, Stars of the Lid, is their most ambitious to date, featuring 11 tracks parceled over two CDs (or three LPs), four of which are multi-part suites. Taking a step further down the road they embarked upon with Avec Laudanum, the duo have expanded the pure space and black hole vistas they offered on Music for Nitrous Oxide and The Ballasted Orchestra to embrace small melodic fragments that seemingly endlessly repeat through minimally varying textures. The effect can either be soothing ("Requiem for Dying Mothers"), hypnotic ("Broken Harbors"), or unsettling ("Austin Texas Mental Hospital"). The trademark analogue guitar/tape cut ups are ever present; what would normally be considered the sound of a guitar is nowhere in aural earshot…

Sherman Robertson - Going Back Home (1998)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 8, 2022
Sherman Robertson - Going Back Home (1998)

Sherman Robertson - Going Back Home (1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 388 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 145 MB | Covers - 17 MB
Genre: Blues, Texas Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: AudioQuest Music (AQ-CD1050)

Looking for Robertson represented on a studio CD that matches the intensity of his live performances? Producer Joe Harley has done it. Harley lets Robertson rip loose, mixing his zydeco roots with his growing years breathing Texas fire. Joining him on the cattle drive are Little Feat's Richie Hayward and Bill Payne, Bob Glaub (John Fogerty), and fellow Texan Joe Sublett of the Texacali horns.

Mark May & The Agitators - Telephone Road Houston, TX (1997)  Music

Posted by popsakov at April 6, 2020
Mark May & The Agitators - Telephone Road Houston, TX (1997)

Mark May & The Agitators - Telephone Road Houston, TX (1997)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 452 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 165 Mb
Scans Included | 01:03:08 | RAR 5% Recovery
Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues, Blues Rock | Icehouse Records #ICD 9422-2

Blues-rock with a distinct Texas edge is Mark May's thing. His playing recalls various Texas legends like Johnny Winter and Albert Collins, while always skirting the rock speed-demon side of the musical equation. This outing finds him surrounded by his regular rhythm section of Dan Cooper on bass, Travis Doyle on organ and Greg Grubbs on drums. May shares guitar soloing duties throughout the album with Alan Haynes ("Don't Give Up"), Billy Wells ("Mercury Blues") and Larry McCray (an impassioned Albert Collins duel on their mentor's "The Lights Are On, But Nobody's Home"), producing fireworks with every trill and bent note. Also noteworthy are several tracks featuring the Memphis Horns, who shine brightly on "Icehouse Special" and the soul ballad "Took Me By Surprise." When May keeps his playing roped in and restrained, the musical results are well worth a second listen.