Title Of Album: Ooh La La
Year Of Release: 1973 (2010)
Label (Catalog#): Warner Bros. Records (WPCR 13842)
Country : UK
Genre: pop rock
Quality : FLAC (*image + .cue,log,scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 30:38
Full Size: 236,0 MB
Marquis Hill
Modern Flows Vol.2
(Black Unlimited Music Group, 2018)
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Kendel Carson and songwriter/producer Chip Taylor recorded two successful albums, Rearview Mirror Tears (featuring the hit I Like Trucks) and Alright Dynamite in the late 00s. Soon after, Taylor was working on a screenplay about a 70s country singer who, rather than sign a major label deal, gave away cassettes of her songs. Out of this project, Taylor and Carson recorded songs that would have been the score to the possible movie. Kendel, as the fictional Suzanna Hamilton, sang the songs that, in the story, were would-have-been 70s
country hits but instead only known by the few who received bootleg tapes from Hamilton.
The Lost Tapes of Suzanna Hamilton sessions were recorded in New York at Dubway Studios and feature John Platania (Van Morrison, guitar), Greg Leisz (pedal steel), Tony Mercadante (bass), Tony Leone (drums) as well as Kendel (fiddle & vocals) and Chip (guitar & vocals).
Later, inspired by the Suzanna Hamilton story, Taylor and Carson developed several more songs and entered a small studio in Calgary, Canada called The Station. Assisted by Canadian music guru Neil MacGonigill and engineered by Craig Newnes, the Calgary Sessions feature backing musicians Russ Broom (guitar), Mike Lent (bass), Spencer Chayne (drums).
Now finally, these two albums are available for the first time. Anyone who is a Kendel fan will definitely want to hear these recordings. And anyone who is not a Kendel fan will soon be one. These recordings are amazingly inspired. Kendel is magic!
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With some 26 albums under his belt, legendary songwriter and roots rocker Joe Ely brings it all back around with the release of Full Circle – The Lubbock Tapes (Rack ‘Em Records release date: August 17).
Recorded in 1974 and in 1978, the sessions represent two critical periods in Ely’s storied career and illustrates not only the evolution of the famed Joe Ely Band but also why he has long been considered one of the most important artists hailing from Texas.
The first batch of sessions (1974) set the table for The Joe Ely Band’s debut on MCA Records three years later. Following Ely’s 1972 work with iconic trio The Flatlanders (Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock), Ely wanted to move from solo gigs on the coffeehouse circuit to playing in larger venues.
He needed a band.
He enlisted Lloyd Maines (from the biggest country dance band in the region, The Maines Brothers Band) and added bassist Greg Wright and drummer Steve Keeton. It wasn’t long before The Joe Ely Band was packing clubs whenever they played.
The second batch of recordings of The Lubbock Tapes: Full Circle are demos recorded in studio sessions in Lubbock, Texas in 1978 in preparation for Ely’s third MCA album, Down on the Drag. By that point, the band was complete with the addition of guitarist Jesse Taylor and accordionist Ponty Bone.
Two recording sessions, four years apart, make it clear how Ely’s music was changing. “You can hear it going from a real honky-tonk sound to a harder edge,” Ely explains. Between Maines and Taylor a distinct sound emerged that mixed high-energy, blues-inflected rock-and-roll with varying degrees of twanged-up country, fitting in perfectly with the progressive country sound emerging out of Austin, only a little bit farther out on both the country and rock extremes.
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New Freedom Blues, was recorded at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC, produced by Foghorn Stringband’s Caleb Klauder. The guys feel like it captures their many diverse influences, including traditional bluegrass, roots pop, and hard edged honky tonk.
New Freedom Blues also finds Town Mountain with a drummer in the studio, playing on the majority of the tracks. They’ve brought Miles Miller in to do the honors, and the album also includes a duet between rising alt-country artist Tyler Childers and Town Mountain banjoist Jesse Langlais on a song they wrote together.
Historic Panart Records sessions have been remastered and collected in a new five volume set. The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions were recorded at various locations around Havana from 1956 to 1964 for the historic Cuban label Panart Records. The five volume collection includes the definitive must-haves among Cuban jazz aficionados, Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature “Descargas” by Cachao Y Su Ritmo Caliente. If there was ever a Holy Grail of classic Cuban music, this collection would be inside.
Havana during this time span was a hotbed of musical activity and innovation. The demand for entertainment was constant in the nightclubs, concert venues and the bigger entertainment spots like the legendary Tropicana Cabaret…
…that featured large orchestras and floor shows that included elaborate dance revues. When those musicians were done entertaining the audiences, they gathered at jam sessions, or descargas, to entertain themselves. That’s where these recordings were made.
Album’s co-producer Judy Cantor-Navas explains that while these sessions were principally friendly gatherings to relax, the hindsight of history shows them to be incubation chambers for the combination of Afro-Cuban music and jazz. You can hear musicians working on a riff at the beginning of these recordings then quickly assigning parts to instruments which laid rhythmic melodic foundations for improvisations that were just as cutting edge as those heard in New York during the same time period. In fact, New York and Havana were always connected by a free flow of travel between the two cities. These recordings also serve as historical record because the U.S. shut down relations with the Cuban government in 1964, the date of the last sessions on these recording.
But of course, the politicians couldn’t stop the jamming, as we explained in this episode of Alt.Latino and the give and take continue to this day. That’s why these recordings are so important: They are a ground zero of a creative alliance that shaped music on both sides of the Florida Straights and are heard here for the first time in a glorious, digitally remastered sharpness that sounds.
CD1:
1. Julio Gutiérrez – Introduction
2. Julio Gutiérrez – Theme On Pefidia
3. Julio Gutiérrez – Theme On Mambo
4. Julio Gutiérrez – Cimarron
5. Julio Gutiérrez – Theme On Cha Cha Cha
6. Julio Gutiérrez – Opus For Dancing
7. Julio Gutiérrez – Theme For Conga
CD2:
1. Julio Gutiérrez – Jam Session (Descarga Caliente)
2. Julio Gutiérrez – Rumba Theme
3. Julio Gutiérrez – Listen To The Rhythm Of The ChaChaCha
4. Julio Gutiérrez – Bata Rhythm
CD3:
1. Niño Rivera – Montuno – Swing
2. Niño Rivera – Monuno – Guajiro
3. Niño Rivera – Cha Cha Cha Montuno
4. Niño Rivera – Guanguanco – Comparsa
CD4:
1. Cachao – Trombon Criollo
2. Cachao – Controversia De Metales
3. Cachao – Estudio En Trompeta
4. Cachao – Guajeo De Saxos
5. Cachao – Oye Mi Tres Montuno
6. Cachao – Malanga Amarilla
7. Cachao – Cogele El Golpe
8. Cachao – Pamparana
9. Cachao – Descarga Cuban
10. Cachao – Goza Mi Trompeta
11. Cachao – A Gozar Timbero
12. Cachao – Sorpresa De Flauta
CD5:
1. Jose Fajardo – Juaniquita
2. José Fajardo – Pa’ Coco Solo
3. José Fajardo – Busco Una Chinita
4. José Fajardo – Guajirando
5 .José Fajardo – Goza El Montuno
6. José Fajardo – Vamos A Gozar
7. José Fajardo – La Flaunta De Jose
8. José Fajardo – La Charanga
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This double disc CD has Modern Pop and Country Pop songs.
CD1
1. She Never Wanted You Until You Were My Baby (3:28)
2. Is That Your Girl (3:09)
3. Dreams, Schemes And Money (3:12)
4. She Was Living My Life (4:44)
5. Three Flights Up (3:18)
6. See My Love, Feel My Love (3:48)
7. Girl’s On A Mission (3:07)
8. Flying Angel (3:20)
9. I Always Loved You (3:59)
CD2
1. It’s Our Home (3:35)
2. She Was Living My Life (Country) (4:41)
3. Our Place In Time (4:25)
4. No More Whiskey In My Soda (3:53)
5. Let’s Ride (3:40)
6. Ain’t That Love (Female) (3:44)
7. Paper In The Wind (3:45)
8. Ain’t That Love (Male) (4:06)
9. Thank You For Sending Me A Man (3:22)