CD Releases!!!
- Brought to you by our man-in-Tucson, Big Jim:
This amazing value (Two dollars per disc!!!!) is a treasure trove of common & obscure blues-r&b- rock & roll releases by some of the biggest names in roots music. Housed in a cube lift off lid box which holds 25 mini lp sleeves of releases from the COLUMBIA / SONY/ VOGUE family of labels.........some of these have never been released as a cd before and some have been out of print for a while.......This is a quality FRENCH IMPORT with a booklet in both english & french.........Some of the highlights for me include HUBERT SUMLIN & HIS FRIENDS....a French VOGUE release from 1971 with JOE CARTER- BILLY BOY ARNOLD & FRED BELOW and a never before reissued RCA album by PERCY MAYFIELD called PERCY MAYFIELD SINGS as well as the hard to find JOHNNY OTIS SHOW LIVE AT MONTEREY 1971 and PETER GREEN/ OTIS SPANN release called BIGGEST THING SINCE COLOSSUS.
And from Adam Gussow comes this new release:
All the music I've loved comes together in Southbound; the mix ranges from urban and country blues through a pair of contemporary smooth-jazz instrumentals by trumpeters Chris Botti and Rick Braun that I've roughed up. With Jerry Jemmott’s help, I turn trumpeter Hugh Masekela’s 1968 pop-jazz perennial, “Grazing in the Grass” into a foot-drum-driven disco groove with some bump-in-the-trunk. There’s also a funky wailing remake of the “Sanford and Son” theme (with Mississippi jazz man Bill Perry, Jr. on keyboards) and an overblow workout on “Alley Cat,” an early 1960s lounge hit by Danish pianist Bent Fabric.
Southbound is anchored by a couple of original compositions. “Home to Mississippi” evokes the life of a traveling musician with a rockabilly vibe and some juke-joint harp. “Old McDonald in Mississippi” is—well, let’s just call it a double-entendre, adults-only meditation on "frolicking rural farmlife" in the Deep South.
For the holiday season, Southbound is available ONLY as a zip file download (big fat WAVs or mp3s) from Modern Blues Harmonica by way of Tradebit. Complete ready-to-print liner notes included! The harp keys are listed, to facilitate jamming along. 11 tracks, 42 minutes, $10. Click either link below and you'll be taken to a page at Tradebit where you can listen to a nine-song preview reel:
Southbound mp3s
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