DEEP BLUES: March 2010

31 March 2010

BLACK DiAMOND HEAViES - ALiVE AS FUCK!

There are few things more enthralling in the natural world than seeing the Black Diamond Heavies live. Everything you have heard about the band's live vibe are true and you will be knocked out by the power of the robot-hive-mind interplay of Reverend Doctor James Leg (Government name: John Wesley Meyers) on keyboards and Mr. Van Campbell on the tubs and skins. They are tight as fuck.

I'm a drummer. I don't give a damn about drummers. I almost never hear a drummer that doesn't disappoint in some way. I have neverever been disappointed by Mr. Campbell. His taste and style is always fresh, smart, muscular, nimble, Swazyesque and HARD driving while supplying backup and brakes to keyist Leg. The right Rev.James Leg is a traveling man from Port Arthur Tejas where his daddy was a preacher or something. His voice,Waitsian and salacious. His countenance part-Dionysian barker, part-1987 Metarie Louisiana afternoon Swaggert. His hands work the black and whites like a punk rock Barry White. He's got a hot wet spirit in him and it's got to come out. It's a sonic revival. Black Diamond Heavies conjure healing power. Step in to it. Ain't it good to ya! Like the godforsaken overdue redemption of the long haunted spirit of rock, soul, and blues.

BDH @ ALiVE RECORDS
BDH @ MySpace

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Rather than aiding and abetting you in stealing a couple tracks from a band as hard working as the Black Diamond Heavies I thought i'd hook you up with a couple live tracks from a recent show that do not appear on their new live disc. Rock 'em loud and Thank Chris "Wisconsin" Johnson for the bonus tracks!

Black Diamond Heavies - Oh Sinnerman MP3
Black Diamond Heavies - Guess You Gone And Fucked It All Up MP3

WATCH!

29 March 2010

JUNiOR KiMBROUGH via The Grassy Knoll

"My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song." -Junior Kimbrough

The Grassy Knoll were invited Fat Possum Records boss Matthew Johnson to remix the late great Junior Kimbrough. Here are the results:

Hi. Sorry but it seems that The Grassy Knoll griped to blogger about these tracks being up. Blogger in turn took the page down the DMCA rules. Too bad for them I guess that I took the tracks down a couple months ago. After the tracks had been up for one day. They wasted so many peoples time. All they had to do was shoot me an email. Eh. Humans. What ever.

Junior Kimbrough / The Grassy Knoll- Done Got Old- ~~MP3~~

Junior Kimbrough / The Grassy Knoll- Lonesome Road- ~~MP3~~

Junior Kimbrough - from the album Most Things Haven't Worked Out - Burn In Hell -~~MP3~~

PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR FAVOURiTE ARTiSTS and RECORD LABELS.
CLiCK THE LiNKS and THROW SOME CREDiT AT 'EM!

photo stolen from Dan Ball

18 March 2010

T-MODEL FORD Is Coming To Kick Your Asses!

Photo of T-Model Ford shot at The Deep Blues Festival by Peter Lee

If I see your woman, she better have

a stamp on her. 'Cus if she ain't got

no stamp on her or she come 'round me

looking sad or mistreated man...well,

if she flag my train, I gonna let her ride.

- T-Model Ford

Eighty-eight year old T-Model Ford is back with The Ladies Man, his second acoustic album following last year's Jack Daniels Time. Recorded live in the blazing summer heat of '08 in Wichita, Kansas the album was assembled by T-Model's band GravelRoad and studio owner "Planet Paul" Carter. Mr. Carter offered to record T-Model for free. This is a raw live recording with no sweetening outside of a little mixing. Everyone involved worked for free so that T-Model could have a product that was all his. T-Model Ford is backed on this recording by two of Kansas' favorite sons of the dirty blues Moreland and Arbuckle on guitar and harmonica respectively along with GravelRoad's Stefan Zillioux on guitar and Marty Reinsel on percussion along with Starr Harris on percussion and acting as Mr. Ford's muse in residence. Assisted by T-Model's dear friend Jack Daniels they let it all hang in. The T-Model Ford classics are here like Chicken-Head Man and Two-Trains along with a couple spoken-word stories from the boss of the blues himself, and some stuff you may not have heard from The Tale Dragger before.

"Hey! See what you get baby if you don't clown.

But if you clown you won't get a doggone thing!".

-T-Model Ford

This is no music for the precious and wanky-fedora-headed-claptonite-bloozers who whine about sht being out of tune and wring their hands over a guitar being japanese-made. This is primal jankety-ass rattlin' and buzzin' raw music. Sounds like they used some boxes and tubs for drums. It ain't right. But the blues ain't right. Never has been. Never will be. Thank gawd. It's flawed. This album got did as it ought to be done. By feel and vibe. And that's why I love it. And why I dig T-Model Ford and all the cats that backed him up on this album. They did it up right. Like an apple on a tree.

T-Model Ford w/GravelRoad @ MySpace

BUY T-Model Ford- The Ladies Man MP3s @ Amazon / @ iTUNES /
BUY the CD from AMAZON!
BUY it on LTD Edition ORANGE freakin' ViNYL direct from Alive Records!

I could post a couple tracks off the album but do YOU wanna tell T-Model
that yr ass was too cheap to buy his songs? Not me buddy.
You ever seen his hands up close? Frkn Brickbats.
The lads from GravelRoad hookedme up with some live tracks from this springs tour to give you.
Here ya go:

T-Model Ford w/GravelRoad - Live in Santa Cruz Spring Tour 2010- I Love My Baby MP3
T-Model Ford w/GravelRoad - Live in Santa Cruz Spring Tour 2010- Cut You Loose MP3
T-Model Ford w/GravelRoad - Live in Seattle @ The Comet Tavern Spring Tour 2010- I'm A Man MP3
T-Model Ford - Live on KVRX - Chickenhead Man - MP3