Weepin' Willie - At Last, On Time (1999)

                                                                   Weepin' Willie
 William Lorenzo Robinson (July 6, 1926 – December 30, 2007), known as "Weepin' Willie Robinson" was an American blues singer who began his career in the 1950s in Boston Area Clubs/Lounges, and performed with, among others, Mighty Sam McClain, Susan Tedeschi, Steven Tyler and Bonnie Raitt. Willie and Mighty Sam McClain did a number of shows in the Boston Area in the early 1990s and became good friends.
His only studio record "At last, On Time" was made thanks to the efforts of his fellow blues-man Mighty Sam McClain, in 1999, when Willie was 73 years old.

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Tracklist:

Weepin' Willie Robinson - Vocals 
Mighty Sam McClain - Vocals 
Susan Tedeshi - Vocals, Guitar 
Jimmy D. Lane - (Lead Guitar on "Can't Go Wrong Woman")
George PapaGeorge - Keyboards 
Chuck Langford - Tenor Sax 
Tim Ingles - Bass 
Jim Arnold - Drums 
Kevin Belz - Guitar 

Tracklist:

01. Love Call 03:02
02. Fever 03:43
03. Can't Go Wrong Woman 05:02
04. Big Mary's House 03:18
05. They Call Me Weepin' Willie 07:28
06. Glory Train 03:01
07. At Last, On Time 03:15
08. Dirty Old Man 04:44
09. Weepin' Willie Boogie 03:09
10. Love Me If You Want To 03:22
11. Let The Good Times Roll 03:46

Paul Coombs - Feeling Better (2001)

                                                                        Paul Coombs
 Many people who have been in and around the Hamilton Music scene for any length of time will have at least heard the name Paul Coombs.  For almost 40 years, he has been playing, performing, and recording all around the GHA.  In 2001 he released a CD of blues tracks, “Feeling Better” to some acclaim but has focussed more on playing with others in recent years. 

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Tracklist:

01. Feeling Better 03:55
02. Have a Drink 03:38
03. Ain't Gonna Quit You 04:41
04. I Wanna Make You Mine 04:03
05. Leave You Be 05:05
06. Work Sucks 03:26
07. Crazy About You 03:40
08. Can't Change You 05:20
09. Boom Boom 03:51
10. Shake Your Money Maker 03:04
11. Blues in G Minor 06:08
12. Nobody but You 03:51

Nono Söderberg - Hot Wires (1997)

                                                                   Nono Söderberg
 Fully instrumental solo guitar album by this Finnish guitar hero who plays Jazz, Rock and Blues.

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Tracklist:

01. Sweet Georgia Brown 02:56
02. Dirty Dozen Blues 02:55
03. Silver Boots 03:52
04. Säkkijärvi Stomp 02:26
05. That Lucky Old Sun 04:18
06. Bye Bye Blues 01:45
07. Samois sur Seine 03:08
08. The Third Man 02:50
09. Moonglow 03:51
10. Rocking Chair 02:16
11. Blues for Roy 05:34
12. Oldtimer 04:17
13. Tricky Thirds 03:39

Daniel Blanc - Uniquement Blues (2014)

                                                                        Daniel Blanc
 Daniel Blanc has been a French blues guitarist and vocalist in Arles, Camargue for over thirty years. He formed several groups, the most famous being DBT.
He now performs under his own name.

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Credits:

Francis Mateo - Bass   
Yves Gilloteau - Drums   
Daniel Blanc - Guitar, Vocals

Tracklist:

01. Rêve De Gosse 05:46
02. Le Blues Du Cuisinier 05:07
03. Le Blues Sans Un Flouze 04:50
04. Chante Français 04:14
05. Terre Natale 05:09
06. Blues En Fa 03:19
07. Le Blues De La Métropole 03:33
08. Monnaie Courante 04:32
09. Légion D'Honneur 03:38
10. Le Blues D'un Soir 04:57
11. Camargue Blues 04:32

CDs I'm looking for. Part II

 Hello everyone, I'm looking for these CDs to post on my blog. If anyone has one of these CDs to make available, I would be very grateful. A big hug to everyone.

CDs I'm looking for.

Adam Andrews Blues Band - Adam Andrews Blues Band (2014)

Al Smyth - It´s Al in Your Head (2004)

Andrew Diehl & The Nightmen - Chill (2011)

Big Ray & The Motor City Kings - Into My Blues (2014)

Blue Highway - Fire and Gasoline (1995)

Blues Power - At The Saloon (2011)

British Yankees Blues Band - Legendary Knights (2001)

Chicago Jack & The Outfit - Is Back!

Cory Brammer - Not Yet! (1999)

The Detonators - Sneakin` Around (1996)

Doc Brown`s Blues Band - Prescriptons For The Blues (2006)

Ellery & The Cream of The Crop Band - I'll Be Anything You Want Me To Be (2007)

Errol Stubbs - The Girls Are Hot (2014)

Gianfranco Segatto - Blistering the Blues (2014)

Guitar Charlie - "Down At The Crossroads"

Guitar Mark Evangelos - Lazy Man's Blues (2019)

Joe Horn - Borrowed Time (2004)

Jr. De Ville - Just a Blues Cat (2003)

Robert Heft - The Days That Used To Be (2021)

                                                                       Robert Heft
 Sometimes you have albums where not all of the songs are convincing, so you are left with a "nice album" feeling. And that's quite a shame if most of the songs are convincing.

I'm talking about the new fourth album from Robert Heft, a singer-guitarist who was born in Washington, D.C., and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.

Most of the songs on his album are in the rhythm & blues corner in a style that could appeal to fans of Delbert McClinton, for example.

Take, for example, the opener of the album All My Wrongs Are Turning Out Right. A soulful song with wonderful bluesy slide guitar playing and powerful soulful horns.

This is followed by the lazily pumping shuffle Another Bend In The Road with Robert on a fire-breathing hard guitar and with a nice soulful swinging organ. If It Wasn't For The Whiskey is a slightly funky shuffle with a sparkling swinging piano and howling pedal steel.

Secrets In The Dark is the award track of the album. A dazzling rocker with a fierce rhythm & blues sound.

Robert also scores well in the “ballads” sector. For example, The Days That Used To Be is a warm and intimate soul blues song and the closing track We'll See You Again Sometime has a vague Pink Floyd (Us & Them) atmosphere.

Unfortunately, there are two lesser songs on the album. Fruit Salad is an instrumental easy listening samba song, which sounds very soft and falls outside the rest of the album.
This is followed by the lightweight pop of If I Go in which you can hear nice piercing bluesy guitar playing.

So I am not yet completely convinced by this album, but I am convinced of the qualities of Robert Heft in his rhythm & blues songs. Peter Marinus

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Tracklist:

01. All My Wrongs Are Turning out Right 03:08
02. Another Bend in the Road 04:28
03. Fruit Salad 06:10
04. If I Go 04:26
05. If It Wasn't for the Whiskey 04:03
06. Live Free 04:01
07. Secrets in the Dark 03:23
08. The Days That Used to Be 05:26
09. We'll See You Again Sometime 07:07

French Blues All Stars - New Flesh (2023)

                                                              French Blues All Stars
 The French Blues All Stars is “Chicago blues” in the tradition of B.B. King, Albert King and Freddy King.

Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, who perhaps came to France more often, can also be cited as sources of inspiration for this orchestra.

It’s brash, electrified blues. It’s the blues that doesn’t give up, the angry blues, the blues which through its energy inspired Rock…but that’s another story!

Youssef Remadna

This charismatic singer, harmonica player and sometimes guitarist, will perhaps, if he is confident, go so far as to transform himself into a very funny storyteller.

Stan Noubard Pacha and Anthony Stelmaszack

They are two great guitarists, very recognized in jazz, but they have a pronounced taste for blues! Quite different, Stan is more direct, Anthony is more talkative, more ornamented. Their questions and answers promise intense moments.

Simon “Shuffle” Boyer

The drummer and leader of the group is also a jazzman recognized by his peers but his taste for the blues goes so far as to organize, every year in September, a blues festival at Mont Dore: Volcanic Blues Festival. His nickname “Shuffle” obviously comes from this typical blues rhythm. For this concert Fred Below should be his No. 1 source of inspiration.

Benoît Ribière and Christophe Garreau

Share this know-how from Chicago.

Sensitive ears, rest assured, these musicians who for the most part have one foot in jazz and one foot in blues, never fall prey to excessive sound systems.

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Tracklist:

01. New Flesh 03:43 
02. Kiddeo 03:16 
03. Hush Your Mouth 02:23 
04. Go Lonnie Go 02:20 
05. Going To A Party 03:16 
06. Wrong As I Could Be 03:07 
07. The Bottle Of Chablis Is Empty 05:33 
08. Bad Bad Whiskey 03:10 
09. I'll Be Waiting 03:59 
10. Strolling With Nicole 02:24 
11. Going Crazy 03:24 
12. Lollipop Mama 03:34 
13. Feel Like Going Home 03:17 

Jeff Cook - Blues With An Attitude (2010)

                                                                       Jeff Cook
 'Blues With an Attitude' is a collection of songs from the heart and soul of Jeff Cook. They are the result of love and lost love and the pain and anger that resulted from these experiences. Some of these stories have a little humor in them as well. Not all of these stories are true to life but the emotions are.

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Tracklist:

01. Bring Me Down Again 02:44
02. Through The Darkness 03:39
03. Every Man In Town 02:57
04. Something's Got To Change 03:36
05. Little Senorita 03:11
06. Don't Judge Me 06:04
07. Be So Bad 03:16
08. I Want To Fight 02:53
09. A Minor Blues 02:31
10. The Fear Inside 03:31
11. Bunch Of Crooks 02:01
12. Desperate Times 03:45

Ticket West - Cab Driving Man (2021)

                                                                     Ticket West
 When we were teenagers, we started our first band. Now, after a few decades of doing our own stuff we are back together again, doing the thing we love the most. In doing so, we are grateful being surrounded and supported by such great musicians, a few of which appear on this record. Thank you Kees, Roel, Arjen, Michel, Gerrit and Ernst for your inspiration and great contributions to this record.

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Pascal Wilhelm - Guitars, Vocals 
Walter Wilhelm - Bass, Backing Vocals  
Kees Van Herk - Drums
Roel Spanjers - Piano  
Arjen Veldman - Vocals   
Harp Mitch - Vocals, Harmonica 
Gerrit Ekkelenkamp - Harmonica

Tracklist:

01. My Kind of Woman 02:49
02. Hoodoo Party 02:47
03. Don't Have to Worry 02:44
04. I Don't Want no Woman 03:31
05. Boogie Blues 03:45
06. Mess Around 03:52
07. Second Hand Love 03:22
08. Low Down Dog 03:16
09. Bad Boy 02:23
10. Cab Driving Man 04:17
11. Whole Lotta' Love 02:17

Doc Dynamite - Modern Day Bluesman (2023)

                                                                     Doc Dynamite
 Doc Dynamite is an electric blues guitarist.

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Tracklist:

01. I Can’t Take No More 05:20 
02. Strip T’s 04:50 
03. Nothin’ but the Blues 04:57 
04. Fancy Dancer 05:54 
05. Change Your Mind 04:21 
06. Another Place, Another Time 05:29 
07. Waitin’ on Your Love 04:15 
08. To Be in Love 05:41 
09. Straight Shuffle 05:23 
10. After the Rain 05:20 

Marcos Cabrera - Funky Feeling (2021)

                                                                Marcos Cabrera
 Marcos is a Venezuelan harmonica player who learned to play this wonderful instrument through YouTube video tutorials from Adam Gussow and Jason Ricci. Then started a spiritual journey with no limits playing Blues, Funk and Jazz music with the harmonica.

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Tracklist:

01. Funky Feeling 04:44
02. Jamming (Jazz Version) 04:28
03. Quise Amarte 05:16
04. Caminando por la Calle 03:48
05. Before Waking Up 02:57
06. Babilonia 04:05
07. Rock and Tramp 03:34
08. Quise Amarte - Acoustic Version 04:34

Foghat - Sonic Mojo (2023)

                                                                          Foghat
 2023 release. Foghat continues to appeal to fans of all ages because their music is timeless. They are still touring relentlessly and playing with an energy that perpetuates youthful exuberance, no matter how old they may be. On Sonic Mojo, founding member, drummer Roger Earl is joined by guitarist, engineer and co-producer Bryan Bassett (Wild Cherry, Molly Hatchet), bassist Rodney O' Quinn (Pat Travers Band), and on lead vocals and guitar, Scott Holt (Buddy Guy). Three songs on Sonic Mojo have special meaning for Roger Earl, as they were co-written by Kim Simmonds, the man who gave Roger his first break back in 1967 as a member of Savoy Brown. Sadly, shortly after writing these songs, Kim passed away.

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Credits:

Bryan Bassett - Lead Guitar, Slide Guitar, Backing Vocals
Rodney O'Quinn - Bass, Backing Vocals
Scott Holt - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
Roger Earl - Drums

Tracklist:

01. She's a Little Bit of Everything 02:58 
02. I Don't Appreciate You 02:55 
03. Mean Woman Blues 03:32 
04. Drivin' On 03:33 
05. Let Me Love You Baby 03:36 
06. How Many More Years 03:55 
07. Song for the Life 04:05 
08. Wish I'd Been There 04:05 
09. Time Slips Away 03:15 
10. Black Days & Blue Nights 04:41 
11. She's Dynamite 03:22 
12. Promised Land 03:14