MY NEW BLOG

Dear friends

I've started a new blog because here i reached the limit of pics i can upload. Plus the blog started to be very heavy.
So, here ask ONLY for re-ups. Put requests for NEW cd's on the new blog plz!
The new blog is a bit different but the music remains great, hehe.
Also, there you can find some of your requests.

The address is

http://bandit592.blogspot.com/

ABOUT THE BLOG

Dear folks

I've decided to keep the blog public for now. PLEASE notice some things.

1. I won't accept any request from ''guests''.
2. Ask for 2-3 cd's maximum every time.
3. Put the requests ONLY below, or on the shout box.
4. I don't care if another blog is better than mine. Blues is not a competition between blogs.

5. Please be kind. I'm doing this thing because i love the blues plus i love to put some smiles on your face. Its not my job. I don't have on the blog any ''donation'' button or a pop-up ad. Respect this effort and from time to time leave a simple ''thanx''.

YOUR REQUESTS HERE

This post will be a place for requests, comments etc. After filling, the request will be erased to save space. For the re-ups check within the next 2-3 days. Thank you very much.

Wrinkle Neck Mules - 2009 - Let The Lead Fly [128]

This is the long awaited fourth full-length album by the Wrinkle Neck Mules, their second on Atlanta record label Lower 40 Records. The Mules - who have developed a cult-like niche in pockets around the globe - have self produced, engineered and recorded this effort. Let the Lead Fly takes to highlighting banjos, mandolins, mountain harmony and pedal steel guitar. This is certainly nothing new for the band who admits to being a rock band with country bones and bluegrass skin. This Frankenstein is evident from the get-go with a fiddle and banjo sing-along title track, the high school lament Howard Johnson and the twisted classic country of Waters All Run Dry.
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Rhett Tyler & Early Warning - 1996 - Get Tough [VBR]

Hardrocking and forceful bluesrock by a New Jersey guitar hero who clearly deserves an international audience. As a power trio working on the Eastcoast club scene, Rhett Tyler and his band are a vital force and having a great time on this debut release. The album features a set of original material presented with a high energy attitude.
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Jimmy Wolf - 1999 - Raw Blues [256]

Jimmy Wolf is a Delta style electric baritone guitarist who plays a real down-and-dirty kind of blues, "a punk loud" and raunchy blues. A two-time nominee for "Best Blues Artist" at the Native American Music Awards, 1999-2000, he has shared the stage with some of the world's best blues and R&B artists, including Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Koko Taylor, Albert King, Millie Jackson, and Little Johnny Taylor.
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Bronco Bob - 1990 - Gunfighters Don't Charge By The Bullet [320]

Originally created for a Clint Eastwood movie; the movie did not happen however this sound track lives on. Gunfighters is a mood changer. these songs are varied from biker instrumentals to a concert pianist classic.
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Bronco Bob - 2007 - Kiss My Blues [320]

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Roy Buchanan - 1974 - Rescue Me [320]

That the title cut is a cover of the Fontella Bass tune gives you a clue as to the soulful direction of this 1974 album, and the Tower of Power horns make sure you get Roy's groovin' drift! Also includes Country Preacher; I'm a Ram; You're Killing My Love, and more from "the guitarists' guitarist!"
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Eddie Hinton - 1999 - Hard Luck Guy [VBR]

UK reissue of sadly overlooked masterpiece from the late guitarist/vocalist, widely regarded as perhaps the premier white Southern soul artist. Hinton was an integral part of the Muscle Shoals sound of the late sixties & early seventies working alongside the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section in addition to writing songs for Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield & Percy Sledge. 13 tracks including a cover of Otis Redding's 'Sad Song'. Guests include Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn, Johnny Sandlin & Donnie Fritts.
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The Radio Kings - 1994 - It Ain't Easy [256]

"It Ain't Easy" is just the first album from the Radio Kings, but the Boston quartet already knows something the majority of blues-revival bands have never learned: The key to the blues is not the flamboyant gesture but the solid groove. Guitarist Michael Dinallo isn't interested in showing how many notes he can play or how far he can bend his strings; instead he concentrates on locking his sharply defined chords into the brisk syncopation created by bassist Dave Clarke and drummer Frosty Padgett. And Brian Templeton is smart enough to fit his vocals and harmonica solos into the rhythmic contours set by his bandmates. The results sound very much like the Fabulous Thunderbirds, the best fulltime blues band of the '80s. In fact, Templeton's baritone drawl sounds uncannily like Kim Wilson's. This similarity is a tribute to the Radio Kings' good taste as well as to their skills, but it also suggests they haven't yet transcended their influences to forge a personality of their own.
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Chris Whitley & The Bastard Club - 2006 - Reiter In [VBR]

The raw intensity and category-defying daring of this posthumous release reminds us how great was the loss when Chris Whitley died in November 2005. Reiter In is about as live an album as one can record in the studio and as close as the mercurial Whitley would come to the essence of punk rock. Since his virtuosic guitar remains much on display, the results seem to find a common bond between Jimmy Page and Johnny Thunders. In fact, Whitney thunders like Led Zeppelin in a muscular rendition of Willie Dixon's "Bring It on Home," a trance-inducing cover of the Flaming Lips' "Mountain Side," and the original "I Go Evil." Other covers range from the album-opening stomp of the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" to the throb of the Passions' "I'm in Love with a German Film Star" and Gary Numan's "Are Friends Electric?" Yet the quieter intimacy of the almost wordless "Inn" and two poems, "Cut the Cards" and the German/English "Reiter In"--both of which evoke the specter of mortality--is equally powerful and revelatory. A fitting epitaph, and a transcendent power surge.
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Chris Whitley - 2001 - Rocket House [320]

Rocket House is the seventh album by singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris Whitley. It is his sixth studio album. It was produced by Tony Mangurian and recorded primarily at Soho Music Studios in New York City. It was mixed by Tony Mangurian and Danny Madorsky at Greene St. Recording.
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Levon Helm - 1982 - Levon Helm [256]

His last solo album before the Band reformed without Robertson and turned into a small-time oldies act, confusingly lacking a title like his 1978 record because (presumably) it was his only Capitol release. Another pile of Muscle Shoals musicians here like Beckett, Hawkins, Hood, Johnson, and even Pete Carr and Bonnie Bramlett.
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Amazing Rhythm Aces - 2004 - Nothin' But The Blues [320]

A mainstream country-rock band similar in execution (if not commercial success) to the Eagles, the Amazing Rhythm Aces were formed in Memphis in 1974 by bassist Jeff Davis and drummer Butch McDade, who had earlier recorded and toured with the great singer/songwriter Jesse Winchester. After striking out on their own, Davis and McDade enlisted vocalist/guitarist Russell Smith, keyboardist Billy Earheart, Dobro player Barry Burton, and pianist James Hooker to develop a sound composed of equal parts pop, country, and blue-eyed soul. This 2003 release from this Grammy winning band features 14 brand new songs by founder & lead singer Russell Smith and includes guest appearances by Jimmy Hall & Gary Nicholson. This could be the rockin'est Aces album ever!
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Chris Whitley - 2000 - Perfect Day [256]

Chris Whitley's album, Perfect Day, was released in 2000. For this project, he enlisted drummer Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood to accompany him on this set of cover songs, which consisted of poetic rock songs and blues tunes, some of which are very obscure.
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Bronco Bob - 2007 - Fat And Muddy [320]

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Maggie Bell & Midnight Flyer - 2007 - Live Montreux July 1981 [320]

This album originally saw the light of day back in 1981 and was the only release by the band. But who were they? Well the line-up included vocalist Maggie Bell (ex-Stone the Crows), original Whitesnake drummer Dave Dowle and future Rick Wakeman guitarist Antony Glynne, plus Bad Company’s Mick Ralphs produced the album. All this and the band were taken under the wing of Led Zep manager Peter Grant. It’s an album of well-played and crafted blues rock with a touch of soul, mainly due to the wonderfully earthy tones of Maggie Bell. Guests are Taj Mahal and Albert Collins. There are plenty of rockers like ‘Hey Boy’ and ‘French Kisses’, but Bell comes alive on the slower, soul tinged tracks like ‘In My Eyes’. Sadly the band never made a second album as they were overseen by Led Zep manager Peter Grant, who withdrew from the music world after the death of the late, great John Bonham and this effectively saw the end of this band as well. Certainly one for Maggie Bell fans and those who enjoy classic blues rock.
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Bronco Bob - 2006 - Hot Buttered Blues [VBR] (EP)

Bronco Bob "live" recording of Hot Buttered Blues is loaded with soulful Rhythm and Blues .... exciting and moving....
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Various Artists - Blues Train Songs 37-40

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PeeWee Bluesgang - 1980 - Live Im Jovel [320]

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Bronco Bob - 2005 - Trade Offs [320]

If you enjoy the sound of a terrific horn section and terrific backup singers and terrific lead guitar,bass,organ, drums,and harmonica...then you really enjoy Trade Offs by Bronco Bob. His voice is ruff and gruff and very soulful.. deep groove and real.
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Lance Keltner - 1999 - Empty V [320]

Lance Keltner began playing guitar at age 10. By the age of 12 he was Rocking the bar scene in Oklahoma and Texas to packed houses fronting his own band.At age 19 Keltner moved to Austin Texas where he quickly became an important part of the then burgeoning rock scene. Keltner had grown up on the blues, but was now transmitting those blues riffs he had learned as a young boy through several 100 watt Marshall Stacks, opening shows for everyone from Joe Satriani, to Eric Johnson, and the Allman Brothers. Keltner signed with Provogue records in 1999 and released "Empty V" a collection of blues rock influenced gems produced by legend Andy Johns.
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Grady - 2007 - A Cup Of Cold Poison [VBR]

2007 release of the second album from the Austin based trio of Billy Maddox, Gordie Johnson and Big Ben Richardson. "A Cup of Cold Poison" was recorded at Willie Nelson's Perdenales Studio and features cameo appearances by Nelson and former Rank and File guitarist Alejandro Escovedo! Grady includes two cover songs on this album from two local brother bands: "Chili Cold Blood" by the Austin band of the same name and "You're Whats Happening" from the Barfield Blues Band. Five of the songs were co-written with P. Ballantyne.
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Luther Dickinson & The Sons Of Mudboy - 2009 - Onward & Upward [320]

Just three days after the death of his father, Memphis music legend Jim Dickinson, Luther Dickinson opened the doors to the family's Zebra Ranch studio in Independence, Mississippi and recorded Onward and Upward, an album of gospel songs and hymns over the course of a few hours. Luther, one third of the North Mississippi All-Stars and now a member of The Black Crowes, was joined by an ad hoc group dubbed The Sons of Mudboy (an homage to his late father's influential rock band Mudboy and the Neutrons) who were all close to Dickinson the elder and wished to address his loss in a musical way. The Sons of Mudboy include two veterans of the original Mudboy: Sid Selvidge (guitar, vocals) and Jimmy Crosthwait (washboard, vocals). Also on the session were Jimbo Mathus (guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals) formerly of the Squirrel Nut Zippers and of the South Memphis String Band, Steve Selvidge (guitar, dobro, vocals) and Paul Taylor (washtub bass) as well as vocalist Shannon McNally.
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Various Artists - Blues Train Songs 32-36

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John Mayer - 2009 - Battle Studies [320]

2009 studio album from the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter. Since the release of his hit album, Room For Squares, in 2001, Mayer has progressed from a sensitive acoustic-based performer into a full-fledged paparazzi-baiting superstar with acclaimed musical detours into Jazz, Blues and Folk. Battle Studies is yet another milestone for Mayer, containing some of his best work to date.
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The Resentments - 2007 - On My Way To See You [VBR]

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The Resentments - 2005 - Switcheroo [192]

The Resentments started out as a jam session among five fixtures on the roots rock and alternative country scene, but evolved into a real band. A regular member of Kris Kristofferson's band in the 1970s, Stephen Bruton was alt-country when it was called outlaw country and he was still called Turner Stephen Bruton. He worked with Rita Coolidge, Willie Nelson, T-Bone Burnett, and Billy Joe Shaver before starting his solo recording career and releasing four albums of his own in the 1990s. In 2002, he formed the Resentments with guitarists/singers Jon Dee Graham and Jud Newcomb, who have almost equally impressive resumes.
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Rory Gallagher - 1974 - Irish Tour (Video) (New Links)

The film that Rory's fans have long been asking for. Irish Tour 1974 captures Rory Gallagher - the man, his music and the magical connection with his live audience to perfection. Directed by the seminal music feature filmmaker Tony Palmer, this film has only ever been seen previously during its original theatrical release back in 1974, and is featured here in its entirety. Includes the following live tracks: 'Walk on Hot Coals', 'Tattoo'd Lady', 'Who's That Coming', 'A Million Miles Away', 'Going to My Home Town', 'Cradle Rock', 'As the Crow Flies', 'Hands Up', and 'Bullfrog Blues'. JUST AWESOME!!
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Johnny Shines - 1974 - Recorded Live 1974 [320]

Recorded live at Webster College, St Louis, April 5, 1974.
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Grady - 2009 - Good As Dead [320]

Fronted by Gordie “Grady” Johnson, his unique and powerful guitar stylings blow the cobwebs off that bottle of tequila sitting on the back shelf. Big Ben grinds out the bottom end at the lowest frequencies seen this side of The Rio Grande. And 98 pound Nina “The Queena” Singh hammers out the beat like a 500 pound jackhammer.
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Bronco Bob - 2002 - The Birds, The Bees, The Blues [320]

Big band sound full horn section featuring the famous Uptown Horns.
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Bronco Bob - 2000 - Everything's Chicken But The Gravy [320]

Hot rockin' blues...mouth watering hot gravy blues.
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Johnny Shines - 1969 - Johnny Shines With Big Walter Horton [256]

Something just comes together splendidly on these sessions that elevates this album well above the level of even some of the great Chicago sides of artists such as Muddy Waters. It might not exude the timeless gold dust of such records, but at the same time has a raw energy and breathless courage that goes well beyond anything the Chess label got on tape in its studios. The sound is also richly thick and loaded with midrange overtones. This album collects tracks from two different recording sessions a few years apart. Luther Allison is present for only one of the sessions, but the harmonica genius Big Walter Horton is on both dates, flooding the bandstand with chordal cascades and even bringing a frightening edge to some cuts with distorted vocalese. This is not only a great blues record, it is a great party blues record.
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Johnny Childs - 2000 - The Truth [VBR]

The Truth has thirteen songs, seven of which are Johnny Childs originals including Come Back Easy, She Moves Me and Blue Over You. The other songs include Johnny's version of old time favorites by John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson and Willie Dixon. The CD features Johnny on guitar and vocals, Steve F'dore on keyboards, Rick Reed on bass and Paul Fasulo on drums among other players.
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Various Artists - Blues Train Songs 28-31

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Laith Al-Saadi - 2006 - Long Time Coming [VBR]

A dazzling, much anticipated debut album from this Singer/Guitarist. Long Time Coming masterfully fuses Rock, Blues, R&B, and Jazz to form a unique style of its own while holding true to its roots. A must have for Blues guitar and Telecaster aficionados.
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Jon Cleary - 2007 - Do Not Disturb [VBR]

Jon says ''People ask me when the next record's coming and I tell 'em "whenever I'm in the same place long enough to make one! Hurricane winds blew a lot of local New Orleans musicians out on the road and since Katrina I've been lucky enough to have a steady road gig. So these are the Hotel Room Ruffs, nothing more than sketches really, thrown down in hotel rooms, dressing rooms, on stage between soundchecks and on the back of the tour bus. A snack between meals for those hungry fans. If this ain't funky it's just gonna have to do til the next real record comes along''.
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Jon Cleary - 1999 - Moonburn [VBR]

The American debut from highly respected sideman and bandleader Jon Cleary is a welcome treat. Though the pianist hails from the United Kingdom, he's spent considerable time in New Orleans, and it shows; Moonburn is packed full of Big Easy blues with a healthy seasoning of jazz and soul. There's enough smoke in Cleary's vocals to mark him as a veteran, as if his impressive list of side projects (he's recorded with Johnny Adams, Taj Mahal, Maria Muldaur, Junior Wells, and B.B. King, among others) weren't enough, and his piano playing has that quality of easy smoothness that takes years to achieve. Whether he's rocking out with "Unnecessarily Mercenary" or the wildly uptempo "Gettin' Crazy Up in Here" or slowing things down with "Heavy Under Pressure" or "Port Street Blues," Cleary is firmly in control.
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Bryan Lee - 2009 - My Lady Don't Love My Lady [192] (Re-Up)

One of Justin Time's best selling artists, blues guitarist Bryan Lee presents a brand new explosive release with such top guest talent as Buddy Guy and Kenny Wayne Shepherd, with the entire proceedings overseen by longtime producer and fellow guitarist Duke Robillard.
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Bernard Allison Group - 2010 - The Otherside [320]

"The Otherside" will be released worldwide on 29th January 2010. The album contains 13 songs, which demonstrates once again the huge bandwidth of Bernard Allison: This album has it all! The new album is a thoroughly enjoyable album in itself, which should inspire not only the inveterate fans!
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Johnny Shines - 1991 - Johnny Shines [VBR]

No less than a founding father of modern blues, James 'Johnny" Shines was a valued singer/slide guitarist whose creative impulses, technical command, and expressive candor were at an extraordinarily high level in the decade or so following his mid-1960s "rediscovery." This 1970 session includes several inspired solo performances that hark back to his prewar Delta and Memphis country blues years, another elevated period in his venerable career. Of the five songs made with a tipsy West Coast ensemble, "My Love Can't Hide" drops your jaw for the ardency of his heartsick vocalization.
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Steve Lukather - 1989 - Lukather [192]

In 1989 Steve Lukather stepped outside the confines of Toto to release his debut solo album. And in this solo effort Lukather received a little help from his friends... Eddie Van Halen (co-writing and playing bass on the album's opener Twist the Knife), Richard Marx (contributing background vocals on a couple of tracks), Steve Stevens (contributing a scorching guitar solo on the epic Fall Into Velvet), Jan Hammer (contributing a synthesized "guitar" solo on Fall Into Velvet), and even Toto bandmates David Paich and Jeff Porcaro contributed their talents to this freshman effort.
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Still Nameless - 2007 - Live [128]

The first live recording from the fine Italian band.
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Reidar Larsen & Roy Rogers - 2006 - Crossing [VBR]

Reidar Larsen is an Norwegian bluespianist and vocalist. He was born in Oslo 12th March 1955, but moved to Stavanger in 1960, and has lived there ever since. His partial to blues started when he heard the American bluespianist, Otis Spann, playing. In 2006 slide guitarist Roy Rogers and Reidar Larsen recorded and released The Crossing in Norway.
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Mike Henderson & The Bluebloods - 1998 - Thicker Than Water [192]

Armed with technique to spare but never exhibitionistic, guitarist Mike Henderson leads his Bluebloods through a mix of originals and covers on their second album. "Tears Like a River" is a spellbinding performance where Henderson displays great sensitivity to, and natural fluency with, the musical exclamations of drummer John Gardner, string bassist Glenn Worf, and pianist John Jarvis. Playing the harmonica, another instrument he controls with ease, Henderson brings a similar kind of knife-edge tension to "All My Money's Gone" and "Slow Your Motor Down," two more outstanding Henderson-Worf compositions. It's only a matter of time, however long getting the word out on Thicker Than Water and undertaking a coast-to-coast tour takes, before blues America realizes Mike Henderson & the Bluebloods are one of the sharpest bands anywhere.
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Bronco Bob - 2008 - Giddy Up [128]

Bronco Bob is a roadhouse kind of guy. Hot groovin' blues playin' inside and playin' outside. Loud bass guitar thumpin' starts his engines...a 1957 Chevy convertible. In 2008, the Cattleman's and Ranchers Association of South America hosted a gala affair. Music provided by Bronco Bob and the Hot Buttered Blues Band. 15 songs including a Spanish intro. This CD will provide you with all the hot grooves and soul moving music for your body, mind and spirit. Very heavy groove. Great R&B.
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Big Joe Turner & Axel Zwingenberger - 1978 - Let's Boogie Woogie All Night Long [320]

German blues/boogie-woogie pianist Axel Zwingenberger was born in Hamburg on May 7, 1955. Originally, Zwingenberger studied classical piano (for 11 solid years), before discovering such authentic blues artists as Albert Ammons, Meade "Lux" Lewis, and Pete Johnson, who served as an immediate influence on the pianist.By 1975, Zwingenberger received his first recording contract, issuing such solo recordings as Boogie Woogie Breakdown, Power House Boogie, and Boogie Woogie Live, as well as lending his talents to recordings by such artists as Lionel Hampton, Jay McShann, Big Joe Turner, Lloyd Glenn, Joe Newman, Sippie Wallace, Mama Yancey, Champion Jack Dupree, Sammy Price, Ray Bryant, Charlie Watts, Vince Weber, and the Mojo Blues Band, among others.
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John Mayall - 2000 - Time Capsule [128]

"Time Capsule" contains historic 1957-62 live tapes-no longer available, with Powerhouse and Blues Syndicate. A NICE GIFT FROM MUTZNUTZ!! TYYY!!
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John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - 1995 - Spinning Coin [320]

Somehow the grandfather of British blues still had the fire in his belly to record a strong album almost 40 years after he began his storied career. Buddy Whittington acquits himself well as the latest in a long line of hotshot guitarists for this multi-instrumentalist, who still does his best work on harmonica. He still admires long-dead bluesman J.B. Lenoir, including "Voodoo Music" here. A lot of credit for this strong outing goes to R.S. Field, lyricist and sometime producer for Webb Wilder. "Long Story Short" would pass for a Wilder tune were it not for Mayall's distinctive voice.
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Various Artists - Blues Train Songs 24-27

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John Mayall - 1993 - Wake Up Call [320]

Fuelled by Coco Montoya's searing but economical string-slashing, drummer Joe Yuele, and bassist Rick Cortes, John Mayall has managed to keep a stable core of Bluesbreakers together in recent years. Mayall rarely does the same album twice, and Wake Up Call finds him returning to a basic, physical sound after 1990's more progressive/highly produced A Sense of Place. The harp whiz has rarely flirted with the pop charts over the decades, a track record that will likely handicap the title track - a potential hit featuring guest vocalist Mavis Staples and some take-charge riffing from former mate Mick Taylor. For pure guitar joy though, Montoya turns the trick all on his own with barnburners "Loaded Dice" and "Nature's Disappearing."
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