30-10-2021 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 2009-2019 # Tinsley Ellis, Boo Boo Davis, Chris Duarte Group, Albert Castiglia, Micke Bjorkloff & the Blue Strip, Tyrone Vaughan, Josh Knight, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Sari Schorr, Left Lane Cruiser, The Reverend Shawn Amos, The Cash Box Kings
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2009-2019
A hard-rocking, high-voltage blues guitarist most often compared to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tinsley Ellis is hardly one of the legions of imitators that comparison might imply.
Sunlight of Love (Tinsley Ellis) 4:14
Speak No Evil (Tinsley Ellis) 5:08
The Other Side (Tinsley Ellis) 4:14
from Speak No Evil 2009
Tinsley Ellis has worked hard since the early 1980s to establish himself on the contemporary blues scene. As a result, he has become one of the most consistent, and therefore quintessential, electric blues men. Ellis is a an excellent guitar player and a terrific showman. He's a good songwriter in that he stretches the blues form as far as it will go, and occasionally he crosses into solid hard rock territory... What seems to be at work on Speak No Evil is Ellis trying to push the blues form in a decidedly more rockist direction without losing its emotional feel. And he's done his job... Speak No Evil is an ambitious album from Ellis; he's continued to grow musically and aesthetically without losing an ounce of his own identity in the process...
James "Boo Boo" Davis is an American electric blues musician. Davis is one of the few remaining blues musicians who gained experience singing the blues in the Mississippi Delta, having sung to help pass the time while picking the cotton fields.
Undercover blues (J. Davis) 4:59
Turkey walk (J. Davis) 3:41
Train my baby is on (J. Davis) 4:15
from Undercover Blues 2010
During the Fall 2010 tour Boo Boo and the guys got a lot of idea’s and decided to record them on one of the off days. As usual all original songs and with Boo Boo you never know what will happen. .. For the recording they picked a funky (but full analog) studio in rural Switzerland; nothing beats the sound of warm tubes and real tape. All tracks were recorded in six hours / one take with all three guys in the same room. Raw, loud and simple, just like they sound live on stage. The mixing and mastering is done by miX&dorp; a music freak that Boo Boo met a few times during his recent tours. He happened to be in the area and was happy to help out.
...He enjoyed a spell with Bobby Mack before bursting onto the blues scene in 1994 with the release of Texas Sugar/Strat Magik, on which he was backed by John Jordan (bass) and Brannen Temple (drums). The album brought immediate acclaim for the band’s gritty, intense southern blues sound, with Duarte singled out for his technique... Indeed, in the 1995 Guitar World magazine Readers’ Poll, he was voted fourth best blues guitarist behind the much more established and esteemed company of Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and B.B. King.
Another Man (Chris Duarte) 5:10
Bottle Blues (Chris Duarte) 5:03
Hold Back the Tears (Monji Kadowaki / Toshihiro Sumitomo) 7:02
from Blues in the Afterburner 2011
...Duarte has made some exciting contributions to blues-rock -- specifically, blues-rock of the Texas variety, and that Lone Star spirit is alive and well on Blues in the Afterburner. Texas, of course, has been a leader in different areas of the blues. Lightnin' Hopkins, Texas Alexander, and Blind Lemon Jefferson are among the icons of pre-rock Texas blues, while the recordings of Vaughan and Johnny Winter are the essence of loud-and-proud Texas blues-rock... Duarte maintains some Jimi Hendrix influence (Hendrix was from Seattle, not Texas) along with his fondness for Vaughan and Winter, but then, Hendrix was also a major influence on Vaughan. And true to form, Duarte is as expressive with his vocals as he is with his electric guitar playing. Blues in the Afterburner is another memorable, inspired album from Duarte.
Blues guitarist Albert Castiglia was born in New York on August 12, 1969. Five years later his parents moved to Miami, where Castiglia began learning guitar. By the age of 12, he began playing local gigs and did so consistently throughout high school. Following completion of his college education, Castiglia worked as a social service investigator while playing gigs at night and on weekends around South Florida...
Living the Dream (Albert Castiglia) 3:52
Freddie's Boogie (Freddie King) 4:48 (Call
Parchman Farm (Mose Allison) 5.57
from Living the Dream 2012
Albert Castiglia earned his blues cred as a member of Junior Wells' band, but his resumé is irrelevant at this point in his career. His muscular vocal style, incendiary guitar work, and fine songwriting are all the signs of an artist who's in it for the love of music, a fact he wryly acknowledges on this album's title track. With John Ginty's big Hammond B-3 lending support to his chattering rhythm guitar work, Castiglia sings "The road to riches is playing guitar, that's why I'm living inside my car" before laying down another stinging guitar solo. ..
Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip has a well-established name in Finland, their native home base in Northern Europe. 2013 After six years await the band is now back with a new album “After The Flood”, their first International release...
House For The Blues 3:40
Water from Your Shoe 3:59
After the Flood 4:03
from After the Flood 2013
After several years of planning and talking about making an album in New Orleans, it finally came true. Already inspired and influenced by the sounds originating from New Orleans, Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip journeyed to the Crescent City to record their fifth, and most ambitious album yet: “After The Flood.” A milestone in the band’s career, “After The Flood” features 12 original songs is a contagious mix of groovy rockin’ guitar-oriented Blues with some “fonky” New Orleans rhythm and soul thrown in to add spice to the recipe. Recorded at the celebrated Piety Street Studio, by engineer Wesley Fontenot and produced by Mark Bingham, known for his work with Dr. John, John Mooney, various members of the illustrious Neville family, Tab Benoit, John Scofield, Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint etc...
Tyrone Vaughan grew up in the fast rising music scene in Austin Tx and was heavily influenced by many blues musicians. Muddy Waters gave him a harmonica at an early age and his Uncle Stevie Ray Vaughan would give him his first 2 guitars.
His influence came at an early age with the sound of Double Trouble blues. He remembers sitting on the floor rolling Hot Wheels around while the tape player filled the room with Pride & Joy (a popular blues shuffle). On his debut album, World N’ Trouble, singer/songwriter Josh Knight proves himself intensely committed to creating irreplaceable music that feeds the blues/rock community.
Thunderbird 2:42
World N' Trouble 3:52
Johnny Winter B. Goode 3:24
from Still Raisin' Cain: Tribute to Johnny Winter 2014
When Johnny Winter emerged on the national scene in 1969, the hope, particularly in the record business, was that he would become a superstar on the scale of Jimi Hendrix, another blues-based rock guitarist and singer who preceded him by a few years. That never quite happened, but Winter did survive the high expectations of his early admirers to become a mature, respected blues musician with a strong sense of tradition. He was born John Dawson Winter III on February 23, 1944, in Beaumont, Texas, where his brother Edgar Winter was born on December 28, 1946; both brothers were albinos. They turned to music early on, Johnny Winter learning to play the guitar, while Edgar Winter took up keyboards and saxophone. Before long they were playing professionally, and soon after that recording singles for small local record labels....
One of the most celebrated singer/songwriters of his generation, Steve Earle first won an audience as a country artist, though it didn't take long for him to demonstrate that designation was too narrow to embody all he had to say. Earle's songs and his approach to performing them run the gamut from country to bluegrass to rock to folk to blues, and his populist lyrical stance, literate yet down to earth, finds room for the personal and the political, writing about the stuff of everyday lives as well as the forces that shape and define their existence.
Baby Baby Baby (Baby) (Steve Earle) 3:37
You're the Best Lover That I Ever Had (Steve Earle) 4:07
King of the Blues (Steve Earle) 3:51
from Terraplane 2015
"Hell, everybody's sick of all my f---ing happy songs anyway," Steve Earle declares in the liner notes to his 2015 album Terraplane as he explains why he chose to cut a blues album. If you feel like you somehow missed Earle's Pollyanna period, you're not the only one, but if he was motivated to turn to the blues because of personal troubles -- he was going through his seventh divorce while he wrote and recorded these songs -- it sure sounds like he chose the right kind of musical therapy. Terraplane is the most relaxed and least fussed-over album Earle has made in quite some time, and frankly, he sounds like he's having a ball on these sessions; with rare exceptions, this isn't music that ponders the dark night of the soul, but semi-acoustic roadhouse boogie that rocks with a steady roll and gives Earle a chance to crow like a rooster as he ponders broken hearts, long lonesome highways... Maybe folks were tired of Earle's happy songs, but if you want to hear the man have a good time while kicking up a fuss in the studio, Terraplane is a ride well worth taking.
...Sari’s success comes after years trudging the rugged road of life of the hard-working Blues woman. From her humble beginnings, working the music scene in the legendary fierce South Bronx of New York and on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, to a performance at Carnegie Hall, the operatically trained tornado stood her ground as a phenomenal Blues-Rock singer who would not be denied...
Ain't Got No Money (Henning Gehrke / Sari Schorr) 5:13
Black Betty (Huddie Ledbetter) 4:50
Work No More (Walter Trout) 5:22
from A Force of Nature 2016
With a screeching guitar intro on the track “Ain’t Got no Money,” the album Force of Nature starts off like a hawk and gets better. A recent inductee into the New York Blues Hall of Fame, Sari Schorr cut her ravenous teeth in the blues scene touring with renowned blues artists such as Popa Chubby, and Joe Louis Walker. With a voice like an operatic volcano it’s easy to see why Sari Schorr has received the notoriety that she has... Playing with several guitar players throughout the album, including Walter Trout, Innes Sibun, Oli Brown, and other accompaniments as well, the bass playing of Nani Conde, and the Drums of Jose Mena, are consistent through out the album. A deeply personal album for Schorr, Force of Nature is a hailstorm of an album sure to go down in blues history.
Specializing in a raw hillbilly punk-blues style that roars like a tweaking modal chain saw, Left Lane Cruiser is a band led by slide guitarist Frederick "Joe" Evans IV. Their music has the swampy feel of North Mississippi hill country blues à la Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside, with a good dose of snarling garage punk tossed into the mix. While the band would sometimes expand into a trio, they record the bulk of their work as a two-piece, and the tough, funky roar of their music arrives fully formed on their 2006 debut Gettin' Down on It...
Claw Machine Wizard 3:16
Booga Chaka 3:43
Smoke Break 2:15
from Claw Machine Wizard 2017
2017's Claw Machine Wizard is Left Lane Cruiser's ninth album in ten years, and if you've been following their body of work, you should know what to expect before the first tune kicks in. Left Lane Cruiser are all about raw, dirty blues-rock, full of distorted guitars and pounding rhythms, and they aren't about to change their formula a decade into the game. But Claw Machine Wizard does sound just a bit less raunchy than their past few efforts, and contrary to expectations, that turns out to work in their favor. Don't worry, this album is still industrial-strength stomp-down blues-rock, but Jason Davis' engineering and mix add a bit more clarity to the group's attack, and the result boasts a bit less grime and a bit more groove, which helps these tunes shake long and hard...
Also known as the Reverend Shawn Amos, Shawn Amos is a singer, songwriter, and producer with a style that alternates blues, roots rock, country, and gospel... After establishing himself as a solo artist, he also became known as a multi-faceted label and marketing executive, among other enterprises, while continuing to release music...
Moved (Shawn Amos / Chris Roberts) 3:58
Hold Hands (Shawn Amos / Chris Roberts) 2:44
The Jean Genie (David Bowie) 4:16
from Breaks It Down 2018
The Reverend Shawn Amos designed his 2018 album, Breaks It Down, as a collection of "21st century freedom songs," a self-description that underscores that this is a modern-day protest record. Certainly, Breaks It Down teems with songs of pained passion and pleas for togetherness... By casting his musical net wide and writing specific songs, he succeeds with Breaks It Down, since both the tunes and the vibe make it clear he's aiming for empathy, not alienation.
Cash Box Kings keep the classic juke-joint jump of post-war electric blues alive in the 21st century, not just by reviving the over-saturated sound of Chess and Sun Records, but by writing new songs that address contemporary concerns. Bringing the blues into the 21st century was the intention of Joe Nosek, who formed the band while he was teaching at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2001. The band found its stride with the addition of Chicago blues singer Oscar Wilson in 2007, and from that point forward, the pair led Cash Box Kings through a series of lineup changes showcased on albums released by Blind Pig Records and Alligator Records...
Take Anything I Can (Joe Nosek / Oscar Wilson) 3:55
Poison in My Whiskey (Joe Nosek / Oscar Wilson) 4:43
Bluesman Next Door (Joe Nosek / Oscar Wilson) 4:43
from Hail to the Kings! 2019
It's hard not to see the title of Hail to the Kings! as the Cash Box Kings celebrating themselves, but this 2019 album -- the group's second for Alligator -- makes it plain that the quintet can occasionally plant their tongues firmly in cheek. Case in point: "Joe, You Ain't from Chicago," where the group's twin leaders vocalist Oscar Wilson and harmonicist Joe Nosek do their best Bo Diddley and Jerome Green routine, trading barbs all intended to show how Nosek is truly a native of Madison, Wisconsin, not the Windy City. It's funny and it's smart, revealing that all of the Cash Box Kings are not only in on the joke, but that their hearts belong to Chicago... The interplay is elastic and gritty, as is the sound of the record; maybe the surface is crystal clear, but the levels are still happily pushed into the red. All this means Hail to the Kings! is a rollicking good time, but what gives the album resonance is how the Cash Box Kings don't merely pay homage to the past, they bring tradition into the present...
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