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Steel is Real! A session of western swing, blues, rockabilly, and jazz featuring the pedal steel and lap steel guitar of Joel paterson.
Joel Paterson - Pedal steel, lap steel, guitar
Beau Sample - Upright bass
Alex Hall - Drums
Scott Ligon - Piano, Hammond organ
Original liner notes from "Steel is Real" by Beau Sample:
When Chicago’s music scene comes up in conversation, you are not likely to hear the words “steel guitar.” If Joel Paterson has his way that will all change soon. Paterson is the Windy City’s champion of the steel guitar.
When I moved to Chicago from Austin I thought my days of playing with steel guitarists were over. Luckily, I could not have been more wrong. Within days of my arrival I got the chance to sit down for an informal jam session with Joel Paterson and Alex Hall. What started as a laid-back afternoon turned into a real-deal project, and ultimately, the first session for our new record label. The three of us founded the Ventrella Recording Company to document our new-found empathy and dedication to American roots music.
Joel Paterson is one of the most lyrical players on the steel scene today. He is comfortable using space and dynamics in his improvisations, a true sign of maturity on any instrument. He can make his steel guitar sound like a ragtime piano, a punchy brass section, a blues guitar or even the most mellifluous of female vocalists. I feel any listener with an aural palate, refined or not, will be able to enjoy the variety of music Joel has served up for this record. You will hear him play western swing, jazz, blues, hawaiian, latin, and country – and even dish up some soul jazz organ grooves. He is a musician who knows no stylistic boundaries.
I feel very lucky to have been a part of this session. “Steel is Real” will be a welcome addition to the record collection of any connoisseur of Americana.
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1. JP's Shuffle
2. Indian Love Call
3. Steel Before Sunrise
4. Pedal Madness
5. La Rosita
6. Coconut Grove
7. La Cumparsita
8. Slidin' The Scales
9. Walkin' Ten Strings
10. The Alley
11. Boppin' Steel Guitar
12. Panhandle Rag
13. Nuages
14. What is The Thing (Called Love)
15. All Day long
16. 12th Street Rag
17. When You're Smiling
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The Joel Paterson Trio is a Chicago based group featuring Joel Paterson on guitar, vocals and pedal steel; Beau Sample on string bass and vocals; Alex Hall on drums and vocals. The Trio is dedicated to performing many styles of traditional American music, specializing in classic blues, hot jazz, western swing, rockabilly and everything in between. They perform at many great venues in Chicago, including The Green Mill, The Hideout, and Buddy Guy's Legends.
Joel "Fats" Paterson hails from Madison, WI and has lived in Chicago for years, performing with various bands including Jimmy Sutton's Four Charms, The Wabash Jug Band, The Western Elstons and Kelly Hogan's Wooden Leg. He currently fronts The Joel Paterson Trio and is a member of Devil in a Woodpile. Beau Sample is from San Antonio, Texas. He spent a few years on the Austin, TX music scene and has recently moved to Chicago to play with Joel and Alex. Alex Hall is from Chicago and is a very talented drummer and recording engineer.
Together they founded Ventrella Records in an effort to get rich quick or go broke slow, depending on how you look at it. The label reflects The Trio's lifelong commitment to play good music and to break even. Ventrella Records first two releases include "A Chicago Session," The Joel Paterson Trio backing up boogie woogie piano master Carl Sonny Leyland and "Steel is Real," the steel guitar sounds of The Joel Paterson Trio.
The Moonlight Cruisers are an LA-based roots rock band highly influenced by Rockabilly and traditional Mexican music, among many other types. Established in 2000, the Cruisers began playing the local Rockabilly scene at backyard parties and small bars. Fronted by crooner and teen heart-throb Tony Pelayo of Flaming Aces and Sires fame, guitarist Al "Whirly-fingers" Martinez, bassist Sergio "Fito" Arroyo, and Aaron "Redburns" Martinez, who compile the Sundown Trio of old, came together for a perfect fit.
Early on, the guys in the Moonlight Cruisers began experimenting with their Rockabilly crowd by doing something entirely unheard-of for a Rockabilly band; mix Cumbias and other traditional Mexican music into their set. Little did they know their love for Rockabilly and Mexican music would be shared by many. Dubbed by some unknown source as "Cumbia Cats", the Cruisers built a fan base of gals and guys who like to shake their buns and watch some high-energy Rockabilly and on-stage antics. Along the way to becoming a premier act in the Rockabilly circuit, the Moonlight Cruisers invented a new sound now labeled Cumbiabilly.
The Cruisers are the greatest new sensation of latino roots Rock and Roll since Los Lobos and with their long-awaited CD out now on El Toro, the Moonlight Cruisers are sure to be playing new places and making new fans muy pronto!
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1. Leave Me Alone
2. Hey There Baby
3. Cool It Now
4. Skeletor
5. Born Too Late
6. Baila
7. Never Forget
8. Gone
9. Last Night
10. Spanky Goes To Hollywood
11. Ice Cream Man
12. Fade Away
13. Loose
14. Chicharrones
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With this their second CD , Mr. Whiz keep exploring their unique brand of a style that this spanish trio have proudly named hillbilly swing. This term --already used in the late 1940s by western swing bandleader Curley Williams-- refers in this case to a one-of-a-kind blend of rockabilly, hillbilly, and western swing that has become Mr. Whiz's trademark. Their music is a perfect mixture of their varied influences -- the rockabilly side of Carl Perkins, the honky tonk style of Hank Williams, the colourful western swing of Bob Wills, the finger-pickin' of Merle Travis, and even the nonchalant, jazzy swing of Fats Waller are but a few examples.
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1. I Wanna Go
2. High Class Weddin'
3. Leave That Junk Alone
4. Dark Swamp
5. City Lights
6. Million Dollar Gang
7. Otro Corazón
8. When I Left El Paso
9. When Love Calls On You
10. I Wanna Be A Millionaire
11. All My Life Is Gones
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MISSISSIPPI QUEEN is the oldest, longest, truest-to-a-rockabilly-bone
drumless trio in Croatia. Founded in late 1989 by Karlo
Starcevic and some other hepcats those days, they soon started playing
around the Zagreb area - this is not a beer factory, but capitol city -
eventually forming that unique slappin sound provided by Jurica`s bass.
There were a whole lotta recording sessions, and whole bunch of recorded
songs put down since 1989, but the real thing came in 2006 with their first official
album for the Rhythm Bomb Records, "Did You Say Love?".
Now we're proud to present a brand new album for the Rhythm Bomb.The band is
sharper then ever with the new guitar picker Axel Praefcke,and these guys sure
deserve their place in a rockabilly heaven!
So let's join them with the "ROCKABILLY HEAVEN BOUND"!!!
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1. We're Gonna Bop
2. Rockabilly Heaven Bound
3. One More Time
4. Faced Against The Wall
5. 100 000 Miles
6. I Did The Time
7. Empty Room In My Heart
8. I'm Through
9. Face In The Crowd
10. Bop A Loo
11. Liquor
12. You're Gonna Miss Her
13. Alone With You
14. Rockin' Boppin Christmas
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If you like classic rock & roll The Nightmares will be one of your favorites bands! The Nitemares from Madrid, Spain, have got their own cool style.
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1. Teenage Vamp
2. Betty Joan
3. Calandraca Boogie
4. Spanish Love
5. Nightmares Shuffle
6. Lonesome Traveler
7. It's Not True
8. How Could I Know
9. Your Strange Kinda Lovin'
10. Let's Spend The Night Together
11. Here I Am Drunk Again
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