Olivia Block
132 Ranks
(Room40, 2018)
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320 kbps | 95 MB | LINKS
Tracks:
01. Back Playing Honky Tonks Again
02. Don’t Be Fooled
03. Footlights
04. She Might Make It Through the Night
05. How Far to Jordan
06. Let Time Slow Down to a Crawl
07. Wouldn’t That Be Something
08. Yesterdays & Used to Be’s
09. You’re on the Road to My Heart
10. Living in Hell with You
11. Until We Love Again
12. The Other Side of Me
320 kbps | 126 MB | LINKS
Comprised of 13 tracks, Youngblood’s debut album is the culmination of two years of extensively seeing the world, resulting in a record that involves travel and nature, but also the grounding aspects of the people Youngblood has encountered along the way. Whether it’s what Youngblood humbly puts down as “musical ADHD” or sheer talent – Cheyenne is the work of a musical polymath. Where most musicians are relatively happy with picking up a guitar and sailing away on a few chords, Youngblood can be found darting from one instrument to the next. Cheyenne features no less than 30 different instruments – a harp, a bass clarinet, a tabla, and more – all of which are played by Youngblood on a record featuring no guests.
FLAC | 781 MB | LINKS
The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions was not a high point in the careers of either Howlin’ Wolf or the guest superstars Eric Clapton, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Stevie Winwood, and Ringo Starr, though it’s not as bad as some blues purists make it out to be. Still, one has to wonder whether a deluxe edition two-CD set, padding out the original with an entire disc of previously unreleased alternate takes/alternate mixes (and three tracks from the same sessions that eventually showed up on the 1974 compilation London Revisited, which also included material by Muddy Waters), was really justified. The material existed, however, and fewer and fewer leftovers from the Chess catalog were available at the beginning of the 21st century. So here it is, bolstered by lengthy and entertaining liner notes spotlighting memories from producer Norman Dayron. The original album, presented here in its original mix, was adequate but flawed, for it seemed like the players, whether because they were in awe of and/or uncomfortable with Howlin’ Wolf, went through the numbers tentatively, with an ill-at-ease looseness. A more serious flaw was that the program consisted entirely of remakes of classic Wolf tunes (some admittedly obscure) that couldn’t help but suffer in comparison with the earlier originals. The alternate versions really aren’t all that different from the ones selected for the album, and some, in fact, are just alternate mixes. There are, however, some occasional notable differences, like “What a Woman!” with an organ overdub,”Poor Boy” with different lyrics, “The Red Rooster” with an alternate piano, a rawer “Who’s Been Talking” with lots of studio chat, an inferior “Do the Do” that does go on more than twice as long as the album rendition, and a “rehearsal take” (the only such item here) of “Worried About My Baby” that’s far sparser than the one ultimately chosen.
Track List CD1:
01. Rockin’ Daddy [3:47]
02. I Ain’t Superstitious [3:32]
03. Sittin’ on Top of the World [3:53]
04. Worried About My Baby [2:58]
05. What a Woman! [3:04]
06. Poor Boy [3:06]
07. Built for Comfort [2:11]
08. Who’s Been Talking? [3:04]
09. The Red Rooster (false start and dialog) [1:59]
10. The Red Rooster [3:58]
11. Do the Do [2:22]
12. Highway 49 [2:48]
13. Wang Dang Doodle [4:33]
14. Goin’ Down Slow [5:56]
15. Killing Floor [5:17]
16. I Want to Have a Word With You [4:06]
Track List CD2:
01. Worried About My Baby (rehearsal take) [4:33]
02. The Red Rooster (alternate mix with alternate piano) [4:04]
03. What a Woman! (a/k/a Commit a Crime) (alternate take) [5:12]
04. Who’s Been Talking (alternate take with false start & dialog) [5:52]
05. Worried About My Baby (alternate take) [3:45]
06. I Ain’t Superstitious (alternate take) [4:12]
07. Highway 49 (alternate take) [3:41]
08. Do the Do (extended alternate take) [5:46]
09. Poor Boy (alternate lyrics/mix) [4:29]
10. I Ain’t Superstitious (alternate mix) [3:55]
11. What a Woman! (a/k/a Commit a Crime) (alternate mix with organ overdub) [3:12]
12. Rockin’ Daddy (alternate mix) [3:58]
320 kbps | 80 MB | LINKS
Hill Country crooner, Garrett Ford, is no stranger to being the underdog when goes the start of the gun. After years of playing on barstools, writing and re-writing songs, fronting his own band, and saving up his money, upcoming Texas singer/songwriter, Garret Ford is here with his debut 10-track album, “Woke up in Waco”. With Ford’s charged vocals met with the haunting sound of a “closing-time” steel guitar in “Repaint These Walls, to the hot summer cries of Cody Braun’s fiddle in “Paul Harvey”, or to the open road sound of “Been to California”, Adam Odor with yellow DOG studios and Cedar Creek Recording have once again, produced an unapologetically strong album that can stand on its own two.
