JIMMY JOHNSON - NORTH
Country Preacher
[4:46]6.6 Mb
Can't Go No Further
[6:27]9.4 Mb
Track to Run
[2:56]4.5 Mb
Walking on Thin Ice
[4:54]6.6 Mb
Talking Bout Chicago
[4:49]6.9 Mb
A Woman Ain't Supposed to Be
[4:36]6.8 Mb
I Can't Survive
[3:51]5.1 Mb
Sang A Song in Heaven
[3:01]4.6 Mb
Dead or Alive
[4:40]6.9 Mb
Jimmy Johnson "North" Album Review
Ain't your daddy's blues
This is not your typical blues album. It's funky, souly, and most importantly, it's bluesy. Jimmy's sound is much more refined, in the sense that there's texture and layers in the music, if you know what I mean (I hope). The guys playing have the talent to take the music into uncharted territory, and at first you may not think you're listening to the blues. But once you hear Jimmy, and the things he's singing, you'll know it's the blues.
LAVELLE WHITE - IT HAVEN'T BEEN EASY
Ive Never Found A Man to Love
[3:47]6 Mb
Lay Down Beside Me
[4:33]6.4 Mb
Don't Let My Baby Ride
[4:03]6.1 Mb
Wootie Boogie
[2:55]4.8 Mb
A Little Bit of this A Little Bit of that
[4:26]6.8 Mb
Mississippi (My Home)
[5:08]7.9 Mb
Automatic Love
[3:47]5.9 Mb
Black Widow Spider
[3:56]6.2 Mb
Oh What A Feeling
[3:17]4.9 Mb
It Haven't Been Easy
[4:50]7 Mb
Can't Take it (I Don't Give A Damn)
[3:58]6.2 Mb
Those Lonely Lonely Nights
[2:28]3.8 Mb
Lavelle White "It Haven't Been Easy" Album Review
A unique voice and a pet project
Recording Lavelle White is obviously a pet project for Clifford Antone, who co-produces this album. It's a follow up to her now deleted "Miss Lavelle" album for the same label.It has to be said at the outset that you either like her voice - or you don't! I do. With a basic band of Riley Osborn on keyboards,Larry Fulcher on bass and George Rain on drums, plus Clarence Holliman and Derek O'Brien on guitars every track has something extra added to its mix, usually from the Antone's "house band" (Kaz Kazanoff on saxes for example). The album has more of Ms White's own compositions than the last album.Favourites for me are the title track and "Automatic Love". However the two real standouts are O.V.Wright's "Don't let my baby ride" and a thunderous version of Eddie Floyd's "I've never found a man to love" If you're looking for a soulful alternative to what you normally listen to,this could be it. It'd be well worth the wait!
TAJ MAHAL - BLUES WITH A FEELING
Senor Blues
[6:44]11.6 Mb
Don't Call us
[4:17]7.6 Mb
Love Her with Feeling Youve Got to featuring Eric Clapton
[3:45]5.9 Mb
Lovin in My Babys Eyes
[2:38]4.4 Mb
Betty and Dupree
[6:00]10.2 Mb
Here in the Dark
[3:07]4.9 Mb
Thats How Strong My Love is
[3:08]5 Mb
Lonely Avenue
[3:25]5.6 Mb
Mockingbird featuring Etta James
[3:57]6.6 Mb
Mailbox Blues
[3:31]5.8 Mb
Think
[2:34]4.3 Mb
Sitting on top of the World
[3:30]5.4 Mb
Mind Your Own Business
[2:40]4.4 Mb
Cakewalk into Town
[2:59]5.1 Mb
Blues with A Feeling
[3:52]6.8 Mb
Take A Giant Step
[4:37]7.9 Mb
The New Hula Blues
[4:44]8.1 Mb
The Hustle is on
[2:38]4.4 Mb
Let the Winds Blow
[3:07]4.9 Mb
Blue Light Boogie
[4:03]6.8 Mb
Taj Mahal "Blues with A Feeling" Album Review
Excellent....with a catch
Everything about this album is very high quality. Pleasing song choices, a top rate artist, phenomenal sound quality, and the twenty tracks. However, I must rate it at 4 stars because it claims to be "The Very Best of Taj Mahal". This is, better stated, the very best of Taj Mahal throughout the 1990s. Everyone who appreciates fine blues music will easily appreciate this fine sampling of his later works.
Despite this not being a sampling of all his works throughout his musical career, this album is a fine selection to own. Many of these tracks highlight Mahal the eclectic, a genius who in later years combined strong elements of jazz, Zydeco, Calypso, reggae and tribal music fusion with his blues.
Take the first track, "Senor Blues". This song begins with a bossa nova kind of feeling, with Mahal singing the song with a Latin inflection. Track two, "Don't Call Us", has almost a pop feeling to it, with elements of gospel music somewhere within. Tracks three and four have a much more down-home blues feeling to them. Track five, Betty and Dupree, has strong country blues qualities. The mixture is unique throughout on this album, showing a side of Taj Mahal fans who had not steadfastly followed him throughout his career might not easily recognize. Often I have played these tracks for friends who do not believe me when I tell them it is Taj Mahal.
Excellent album for your collection!
BARRENCE WHITFIELD AND THE SAVAGES - OW OW OW
Rockin the Mule
[2:47]4.4 Mb
Madhouse
[3:40]5.9 Mb
Apology Line
[3:36]5.3 Mb
I Don't Dig Your Noise
[2:28]3.4 Mb
Living Proof
[5:57]9.4 Mb
Stop Twistin My Arm
[2:53]4.6 Mb
Girl from Outer Space
[4:45]8 Mb
Runnin and Hidin
[4:13]6.6 Mb
The Blues is A Thief
[5:29]7.9 Mb
Ain't She Wild
[2:07]3 Mb
Chillin
[4:33]6.8 Mb
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages "Ow Ow Ow" Album Review
Best CD nobody owns
Remember Jolt Cola? This is it right here. The best live performance ever recorded with the worst sound engineering. The engineers must have been buying beers at the time. Lizzie Leaps In = Quincy Jones tribute - thanks Barrence. Saw him open for George Thorogood - spilled orange soda on himself for effect. Pure energy, pure blues. Love it, live it. Saw him at Brandeis - had 10 audience members at first, 225 by the end of the set.
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