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Juho Kinaret - vocals / Kim Wikman - guitar / Niko Riippa - guitar / Robban Hagnäs - bass / Mikael Axelqvist - drums
Wentus Blues Band has achieved a status as the most successful roots
music group in Finland and this CD; FAMILY ALBUM is the documentary of this.
On this CD you can hear them play together with friends KIM
WILSON, CAREY BELL, LOUISIANA RED, OMAR DYKES, SVEN ZETTERBERG, EDDIE KIRKLAND, GARY PRIMICH, EERO RAITTINEN ... The cd has achieved great
reviews in the press; The blues album of the year - Helsingin Sanomat
Produced by Niko Riippa & Wentus Blues Band
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1. Stop Breaking Down (with Kim Wilson)
2. I'm Leaving You (with Carey Bell)
3. Five Long Years (with Carey Bell)
4. Axim (with Louisiana Red)
5. Hurry Sunshine (with Louisiana Red)
6. Bessie Mae (with Omar Dykes)
7. Born On The Bayou (with Omar Dykes)
8. Those Days Are Gone (with Sven Zetterberg)
9. Heartaches & Hangovers (with Sven Zetterberg)
10. I Don't Need A Holiday (with Eddie Kirkland)
11. Meet Me On The Sugarhill (with Eddie Kirkland)
12. Travelin' Mood (with Gary Primich)
13. Real Gone Lover (with Gary Primich)
14. Best Of Me (with Eero Raittinen) 15.I Don't Care (with Eero Raittinen)
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Juho Kinaret - vocals / Kim Wikman - guitar / Niko Riippa - guitar / Robban Hagnäs - bass / Mikael Axelqvist - drums/ Pekka Gröhn - piano, hammond
The latest studio album released in March 28th 2007 from this fantastic Finnish band, one of our favourites here at Rootscd.com
We think Agriculture is their best album to date. Wentus have recently been touring with The Fabulous Thunderbirds around Europe and are building a big army of fans wherever they go.
Essential!
Produced by Niko Riippa & Wentus Blues Band
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1. Down the line
2. Moonshine
3. Take it away
4. Biscuit Roller
5. Times gettin hard
6. Passenger blues (Devil is turning up the heat)
7. Explorer boogie
8. Country love
9. Brand new mojo hand
10. Here in the night
11. Love bug
12 My kind of people
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The 20th Anniversary of the Wentus Blues Band from Finland was celebrated in Helsinki at the Alexander Theatre, originally built by Russian Czar Alexander II. The show, sweetened by various special guests, surely satisfied the Blues needs of performers and audience alike. The whole atmosphere was reminiscent of Martin Scorsese's "The Last Waltz" - a film that studied the giant concert given by The Band and superstar guests in San Francisco in 1976.
The show featured an impressive line-up of rock and blues legends, such as Eddie Kirkland, Louisiana Red and Lazy Lester, ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, Kim Wilson from the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Omar Dykes from Omar & The Howlers, Barrence Whitfield - a real rocker in the savage style of Little Richard, Sven Zetterberg and Clas Yngström from Sweden and the great Eric Bibb. All of the above-mentioned guests have a long history with the Wentus Blues Band.
Family Meeting was filmed by the director Heikki Kossi, who gathered the best of filmmakers in Finland: Pro´s that has worked with legendary filmmakers like Aki Kaurismäki and Klaus Härö.
The Film tells a unique story about people behind music and it is about the family meeting of these musicians, where cotton and potato fields, joy, tolerance, and above all the immortal, shared moments within the Blues are intertwined. It's a delicious mash-up of backstage life and passionate stage performances.
Family Meeting is an excellent musicdocumentary that will have its Cinema release in Scandinavia this year.
It was a once in a life-time happening, a definite milestone, a stop on the road. Down the road we had met a lot of people who´s work we always had been admiring. We have always felt a strong relationship to these people. Like they have always been there, as a part of us, like a family. The 20 years of keeping a band together needed a celebration; a gathering, a Family meeting..
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Disc One
1. Intro Scoremusic: Going to the show
2. Moonshine - Wentus Blues Band
3. You gonna make me cry - Wentus Blues Band
4. Since I been loving you - Wentus Blues Band feat. Sven Zetterberg
5. I Got to go - Wentus Blues Band feat. Sven Zetterberg & Kim Wilson
6. Passenger Blues - Wentus Blues Band feat. Kim Wilson
7. Pick up the pieces- Wentus Blues Band feat. Sven Zetterberg
8. Lonesome fugitive - Lazy Lester backstage
9. Angel Blues - Wentus Blues Band feat. Omar Dykes
10. Stop twisting my arm - Wentus Blues Band feat. Barrence Whitfield
11. CYHMK - Wentus Blues Band feat. Mick Taylor
Disc Two
1. Intro Scoremusic: Eddie arrives
2. I heard the angels singing - Wentus Blues Band feat. Eric Bibb
3. Down the line - Wentus Blues Band
4. Looking for Trouble - Wentus Blues Band feat. Kim Wilson
5. Hold that note - Wentus Blues Band feat. Clas Yngström
6. Annie Lee - Wentus Blues Band feat. Barrence Whitfield & Eddie Kirkland
7. Blind Willie McTell - Wentus Blues Band feat. Mick Taylor
8. Backroom Delta - Louisiana Red & Niko Riippa backstage
9. Ride on Red - Wentus Blues Band feat. Louisiana Red
10. Raining in my heart - Wentus Blues Band feat. Lazy Lester
11. Biscuit Roller - Wentus Blues Band feat. Clas Yngström & Barrence Whitfield
12. Outro Scoremusic: Great final
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When the legendary Chicago bluesman PHIL GUY ( Brother of Buddy Guy ) came to Finland to tour with WENTUS BLUES BAND, one of the shows in Helsinki was recorded.
You might wonder how a blueslegend like PHIL GUY from Chicago and a bunch of Finns calling themselves the WENTUS BLUES BAND got together, and when you ask them they really don't know how either. One thing is definitely for sure, that the first shows they did together really gave them the hunger for some more, and at this point they play together every time Phil comes over to Europe. Produced by: Wentus Blues Band
Mixed by: Clas Yngström
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1. Help Me
2. Oh, Darling
3. Texas Flood
4. Killing Floor
5. Don´t Even Know My Name
6. Good Time Charlie
7. Five Long Years
8. Can´t Stand It ( When You Touch Me )
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Vince Lee - vocals / guitars
Martin Vowles - guitars / backing vocals
Al Wallis - bass / backing vocals
Kevin Crowe - drums / backing vocals
English blues sensations The Wildcards have produced an album of startling originality, entertaining lyrics and amazingly-accomplished tunes. An undeniably-cool blend of jump jive, blues, jazz and rockabilly with great guitar tones and killer beats.
The band have recently been wowing audiences across Europe suppoting the legendary Fabulous Thunderbirds.
Features a deluxe 12-page booklet, over 40 photographs and detailed track information!
"Musical mayhem worthy of Screaming Jay Hawkins or Louis Jordan. Yes, it’s that good!” Blues Matters!, UK.
"An Essential CD" Back To The Roots, Belgium.
"CD of the year contenter"
Blues Matters! , UK
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1. Hang Me Out To Dry
2. Fool's Advice
3. Hell
4 . St James Infirmary
5. Lucky, Rich & Happy
6. Run Joe
7. Hellsinki Caravan (no sample track)
8. Drunk
9. Hoodoo Preacher
10. Raising Hell
11. The Future Of The Blues (no sample track)
12. Hard Luck Tale
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Vince Lee - vocals / guitars
Martin Vowles - guitars / backing vocals
Al Wallis - bass / backing vocals
Kevin Crowe - drums / backing vocals
The classic 2004 debut album from English blues sensations The Wildcards. “…simply the best and most exciting blues release of the year”
“…this deserves to achieve big things for the band” “…true jump and blues sounds played with great guitar tones, killer beats, capital-letter Attitude and tons of talent”
“…the CD marks the arrival of the Wildcards as the best new prospect in years. Vince Lee is a world-class singer and guitarist, with a band to match”
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1. Look What You Done To Me
2. Hapy Hour
3. A Little Mixed Up
4 . Can't Keep From Doing Wrong
5. How Do You Feel
6. Change Your Way Of Loving
7. Caravan
8. I'm In A Lowdown Groove
9. Deep Six Boogie
10. Terra Mae
11. I'm On Fire!
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'John Lee Hooker meets The Doors'... Keep that in mind and you'll know what kind of places 'Losing My Cool' will take you to. With their first full album, released on Naked Productions, Belgian band Voodoo Boogie presents twelve songs, all with traditional blues roots, but at the same time very much influenced by psychedelica, (garage) rock and world music. After several preproductions with top producers such as Jan Ieven (ex El Fish, ex The Rhythm Junks) and Marc T (TEE, The Electric Kings), Voodoo Boogie decided they were ready to produce their first full CD. Voodoo Boogie is not a traditional blues band. They prefer to describe their music as 'psychedelic boogiematic roots'. With that kind of stuff, no wonder they quickly developed into a band with an excellent live reputation, both in and around Belgium. Each time this exciting band performs, they create an ambience that will haunt you until long after the gig. The eight originals and four original interpretations of old blues songs on 'Losing My Cool' will do exactly the same thing, only off stage this time. Voodoo Boogie was born in 2004. Founding members Jan Jaspers and Gert Servaes previously played with blues bands like High Five Jive, Dizzy Dimples and Big Mama's Kitchen, and also backed up American artists, such as Louisiana Red and Keith Dunn. Bass player Rob Vanspauwen and drummer Gert Servaes are Voodoo Boogie's groove machine, or the perfect engin for a hypnotising trip with Wouter Haest on piano, hammond and rhodes, and Jan Jaspers on vocals and guitars.
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1. Who Will Be Next
2. Losing My Cool
3. The Voodoo Boogie
4. Cocaine Jill
5. Bottle Of Love
6. I Gave You Love
7. Going Down South
8. Walking The Boogie
9. Party Man
10. Dance With Me
11. The Whale Has Swallowed Me
12. Boogiematic
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Mitch Woods has been the torchbearer of a great American blues musical heritage, not for two years but two decades. Taking his inspiration from the great jump n' boogie outfits of the late 40s and early 50s, he breathes fresh life into the music that gave birth to rock n' roll.
Woods first album, Steady Date (Blind Pig Records) got hot reviews in 1984 and led to appearances at two San Francisco Blues Festivals, openings for the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Blasters, The Neville Brothers, and James Brown. By 1987, Woods was doing a six-country Europe tour highlighted by a rousing performance at the Belgium Rhythm and Blues Festival.
Seven years later on his album Solid Gold Cadillac (Blind Pig Records), Woods and his band were joined by Ronnie Earl, Charlie Musselwhite and the Roomful of Blues Horns. Woods himself was starting to become a guest star, appearing on that year's new releases by John Lee Hooker and John Hammond, and the boogie pianist headlined both the Amsterdam Blues Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival.
In 2007 Mitch was nominated for Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year Award at the Blues Awards in Memphis. Presented by the Blues Foundation this is one of the highest achievements a blues musician can earn.
It was during on of his European tours that Mitch Woods stoped by Barcelona city to team up with Spanish Jump Blues aces The Lazy Jumpers and record the 12 tracks of Jukebox Drive for El Toro Records.
Mitch Woods and The Lazy Jumpers sound on this new album as the jumpin' n' jivin', shoutin' n' honkin', pumpin' n' poundin' bands of the late 40' s and early 50' s; Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, Joe and Jimmy Liggins, Amos Milburn, Roy Milton... Adding a healthy dose of New Orleans rhythm and blues, piledrivin' piano, and some of his own contemporary playful lyrics.
Mitch will continue to tour worldwide with both his Rocket 88's and Big Easy Boogie and The Lazy Jumpers. In 2008 he will be appearing at some of the world's most prestigious music festivals, including Jazz A Vienne - France, San Javier International Jazz Festival - Spain, International Boogie Woogie Festival - Lugano, Switzerland, Lionel Hampton Jazz Club at Le Meridien - Paris, Edmonton Blues Festival - Canada, The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise - Caribbean , Taiwan Blues Bash - Taiwan, and many, many more....
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1. Jukebox Drive
2. Drunk
3. Boppin' The Boogie
4. Blue Light Boogie
5. Saturday Night Boogie Woogie Man
6. Blues Hangover
7. Boogie Woogie Bar-B-Q
8. Tipitina
9. Boom Boom
10. Parchman Farm
11. Swell Lookin' Babe
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