Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Lightnin' hopkins - the sonet blues story Jimmy smith - cool blues

Part: 1 : Lightnin' hopkins - the sonet blues story
diva href="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/big_show.php?/avaxhome/2f/14/000c142f.jpeg"img src="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/2f/14/000c142f_medium.jpeg"/a/div br divbLightnin' Hopkins - The Sonet Blues Story/b br FLAC (image+cue+log+covers) | 273 Mb | RS br iReleased: 2005 (Recorded: 1974) | Label: Universal Music (986 925-8) | Genre: Blues | Releaser: garet jax/i/div br br tabletrtd“/tdtdLightnin' Hopkins recorded so often and for so many labels that it's easy to get lost in it all, and there is virtually no such thing as the perfect Hopkins album. He did his thing each time out, whether acoustic or electric, solo or with a band, half improvising his lyrics over a small assortment of different blues shuffles, shifting chords and gears seemingly at whim (which made him frequently difficult to accompany, even for the sharpest session player). His tough, Texas take on the country blues, though, and his penchant for off the wall themes and lyrics, made Hopkins an utterly unique b! luesman, and if he seems to be pulling the same rabbit out of the same hat time and time again, he somehow managed to make it seem like a new trick each time. This extremely loose set was recorded in Houston in 1974 and was originally released as part of Samuel Charters' Legacy of the Blues series that same year. It features Hopkins playing an acoustic guitar with an electric pick up backed by a valiant three-piece band that consisted of Ira James on harmonica, Larry "Bones" McCall on drums, and Rusty Myers and Ozell Roberts splitting time on bass. These guys try to make sense of Hopkins' personalized sense of rhythm as best they can, and together with Hopkins' skewed, half improvised lyrics, they manage to make a few things work here, including the conversational "The Hearse Backed Up to the Door," the metaphor-filled "I Been Burning Bad Gasoline," and the brisk instrumental, "Doin' My Boogie," one of two bonus tracks included in this reissue. Most of these songs, though, ! feel like the kinds of things a band plays before actually rec! ording a take, when little things like tempo and rhythm are still being worked on, and the end result seems even more ragged and random than the typical ragged and random Lightnin' Hopkins session.- iSteve Leggett (AMG)/i/tdtd”/td/tr/table
Part: 2 : Jimmy smith - cool blues
diva href="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/big_show.php?/avaxhome/e4/18/000c18e4.jpeg"img src="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/e4/18/000c18e4_medium.jpeg"/a/div br divbJimmy Smith - Cool Blues/b br Smooth Jazz | Easy CD-DA | APE, CUE, No LOG | 1 CD | Covers, 300dpi | 419 MB br iOriginal Release: 1958 | Audio CD: Jan 29, 2002/i/div br tabletrtd“/tdtdAnyone coming to "Cool Blues" from the direction of "Dot Com Blues" might not recognise the artist as the same one that appears on this album. Fear not! It's also true that anybody who bought this album the first time round in 1980 might not recognise it either - the 24 bit remastering here has also righting some pitch errors that were audible on the vinyl version./tdtd”/td/tr/table

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