(Blues VA) - Blues Piano Orgy torrent

Style: Acoustic & Electric Chicago Blues, Piano Blues
Recorded: 1947-1969
Released: 1972 / 1996
Label: Dmk
File: mp3 @ 320kbps
Size: 135.24 MB
Time: 60:46
Art: Front Cover

1. Blues Hurt My Tongue To Talk - Speckled Red - 4:12
2. Dresser Drawers - Roosevelt Sykes - 2:43
3. Concentration Blues - Roosevelt Sykes - 2:56
4. Kickin\' Motor Scooter - Roosevelt Sykes - 2:51
5. (New Year\'s) Resolution Blues - Roosevelt Sykes - 2:28
6. My Baby\'s Coming With A Marriage License - Sunnyland Slim - 3:13
7. Poor Boy - Sunnyland Slim - 4:04
8. Everytime I Get To Drinkin\'- Sunnyland Slim - 3:09
9. Depression Blues - Sunnyland Slim - 3:03
10. Stendahl Stomp - Montgomery, Little - 2:49
11. Tremblin\' Blues - Montgomery, Little - 3:05
12. No Special Rider Blues - Montgomery, Little - 2:38
13. Bass Key Boogie - Montgomery, Little - 2:57
14. Five O\'Clock Blues - Memphis Slim - 2:51
15. Nat Dee Special - Memphis Slim - 2:47
16. Lonesome Bedroom Blues - Curtis Jones - 5:10
17. Takin\' Off - Curtis Jones - 2:55
18. Tin Pan Alley - Curtis Jones - 3:06
19. Three-In-One Blues - Otis Spann - 2:25

Personnel:
Speckled Red - Rec. 9/2/56
Roosevelt Sykes - Rec. 5/17/63
with: on tr.2,3 with Homesick James - Guitar/Bass
on tr.5 with St. Louis Jimmy Oden - Vocal
Sunnyland Slim - Rec.5/17/63 with: Homesick James - Guitar/Bass
Little Brother Montgomery - Rec.1947
Memphis Slim - Rec.11/26/52 and 6/29/53
with: Matt Murphy - Guitar
Neil Green and Ernest Cotton - Tenor Sax
Curtis Mosley - Bass; Otho Allen - Drums
Curtis Jones - Rec.1/12,27/62
Otis Spann - Rec.12/30/69 with Fred Below - Drums

Thanks in part to the luridly alluring title and the enthusiastically informative liner notes by Bob Koester, this solid collection was many a young musician\'s introduction to the men who pioneered blues piano in the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt Sykes is the best represented artist here, and his leering vocals are hard to resist: After hearing the ribald metaphor of \'Dresser Drawers,\' you\'ll never view furniture quite the same way again. His \'Kickin\' Motor Scooter\' is truly a marvel of smiling euphemism, with the song devoted to boasts of how he\'s \'A dangerous motor scooter...A tricky motor scooter!\' Other artists, while not always as inventive lyrically, show a wide range of piano styles, from the bouncing syncopated jazz of \'Stendahl Stomp\' to the trickling upper registers and restrained bass coaxed by Curtis Jones from a battered old piano in \'Tin Pan Alley Blues #2.\' Not every track is unaccompanied piano, though. \'Every Time I Get to Drinking,\' a blues dirge to the bottle, revolves around the elastic pull of an upright bass. The closing instrumental, Otis Spann\'s \'Three-in-One Blues,\' features ominous bass chords wracked by a scattershot backing of drums. Despite being essentially a glorified soundcheck, and by far the least structured piece on the album, it\'s also the most primally satisfying.