Rockin'XXL

Thursday, March 15, 2018

R.L. Burnside (USA)

Robert Lee Burnside, known as R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926 – September 1, 2005) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He played music for much of his life but received little recognition before the early 1990s. In the latter half of the decade, Burnside recorded and toured with Jon Spencer, garnering crossover appeal and introducing his music to a new fan base in the punk and garage rock Scene.

1984

Arion 60397, 11 tracks, 38:38 min.

1981

HMG 6501(1993), 13 tracks, 51:12 min.

1993

Fat Possum 741, 16 tracks, 59 min.

1994

Fat Possum 80307, 10 tracks, 40:55 min.

1996

Fat Possum 1026-2, 10 tracks, 41:36 min.

1997

M.C.Records 034, 11 tracks, 34:31 min.

1997

Fat Possum 301-2, 9 tracks, 39:32 min.

1998

Fat Possum 317-2, 12 tracks, 43:02 min.

1998

Swingmaster 2203, 15 tracks, 60:45 min.

1999

Genes Rec. 9917, 13 tracks, 44:43 min.

2001

Fat Possum 80341, 19 tracks, 56:16 min.

2010

Wolf 120.921, 20 tracks, 66:19 min.

2000

Fat Possum 332-2, 11 tracks, 4837 min.

2001

Fat Possum 343-2, 12 tracks, 52:57 min.

2001

Inside Sounds 513, 17 tracks, 57:53 min.

2001

M.C. Records 042, 18 tracks, 63:18 min.

2003

Fat Possum 362-2, 14 tracks, 37:17 min.

2003

High Tone 8152, 14 tracks, 45:13 min.

2004

Fat Possum 1013-2,

David Bowie (UK)

David Bowie, Born 8th January 1947 as David Robert Jones in Brixton/London UK. Died on 10.January 2016 in Manhatten/NYC.

1969

RCA LSAP 4813, 10 tracks, 46:11 min.

1970

EMI 791837, 13 tracks, 53:55 min.

1971

Ryco Disc 10133, 15 tr,(4 Bonus) 57:15 min

1971

Parlophone/GEM 1, 12 tracks, 41:22 min.

1972

RCA 84702, 11 tracks, 38:36 min.

1993

EMI 828099 2 CDs, 37 tracks, 151:18 min.

2016

Columbia 88875173862, 7 tracks, 41:17 min.

Big Joe & The Dynaflows (USA)

Joseph Maher (born 1964), known as Big Joe Maher, is an American electric blues drummer, singer and songwriter. He has worked with many blues musicians including Bob Margolin, Mark Wenner, Ann Rabson, Jimmy Witherspoon, Bull Moose Jackson, Nappy Brown, Otis Rush, Earl King, Duke Robillard, and Tom Principato. Maher had learned to play the drums by his early teenage years. After graduation Maher assembled a three piece blues/jazz ensemble, before touring as part of Tom Principato's backing band. He later put together a five piece band known as Big Joe & the Dynaflows, who specialised in dance-oriented jump blues. Big Joe & the Dynaflows debut album, Good Rockin' Daddy was released by Ichiban Records in 1990. His 1998 release, I'm Still Swingin', was given a Washington Area Music Award for Best Blues Recording. Maher has also performed with his own Big Three Trio and the Big Four Combo, which have included John Cocuzzi.
Maher later worked as the musical director in Alexandria, Virginia, in the Mick Fleetwood owned nightclub, Fleetwood's. Several occasions followed where Fleetwood booked Big Joe and the Dynaflows as his back-up band at the club. Maher has also worked extensively on other musician's recordings, including Bob Margolin's The Old School, Tom Principato's In Orbit (1991), Mark Wenner's Nothin' But, plus Ann Rabson's Music Makin' Mama (1997).
In 2005 and 2009, Maher was awarded the title of Male Blues Vocalist of the Year at the Washington Area Music Awards. In mid 2012, Maher jointly toured with Anson Funderburgh.

1989

Powerhouse 106, 11 tracks, 36:38 min.

1990

12 tracks, 43:20 min.

1991

Tramp 9915, 11 track, 42:57 min.

1998

Severn 004, 14 tracks, 48:58 min.

2000

Severn 009, 12 tracks, 43 min.

2000

Gutter 20004, 8 tracks, 23:49 min.

2010

Severn 051, 12 tracks, 40:42 min.

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Dieter Kropp & The Fabulous Barbecue Boys (D)

Dieter Kropp is from Detmold in Germany...

1996

Spareribs SPR01 / 6 tr./ 22:08 min.

1998

Spareribs SPR03/ 15 tr./ 60:09 min.

2000

Spareribs SPR04 / 13 tr./ 54:20 min.

2003

Spareribs SPR05/ 18 tr./ 58:18 min.

2005

Spareribs SPR07/ 14 tr./ 42:49 min.

2012

Spareribs SPR08/ 14 tr./ 41:22 min.

Toots & The Maytals (JAM)

Ska, Reggae, Dub from Jamaika.
Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, the frontman of the group, was born in May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica, in 1942, the youngest of seven children. He grew up singing gospel music in a church choir and moved to Kingston in the late 1950s. Hibbert met Henry "Raleigh" Gordon and Nathaniel "Jerry" Mathias in Kingston in 1962 and formed "The Maytals" as a vocal trio, a group whose early recordings were incorrectly attributed to "The Flames" and "The Vikings" in the UK by Island Records. The first instrumentalist members added to the group included Jackie Jackson, Hux Brown, Rad Bryan and Paul Douglas. The group changed its name from "the Maytals" to "Toots and the Maytals", with "Toots" referring to frontman Toots Hibbert, and "The Maytals" referring to the group’s instrumentalists and background vocalists

1997

Trojan 171/ 24 tr./ 78:14 min.

2004

V2 1027102/ 17 tr./ 61:28 min.

Roy Orbison (USA)

Singer-songwriter, born April 23, 1936, Vernon/Texas, died December 7, 1988 outside Nashville, Tennessee. One of the few American artists to score significant British success during the "beat boom" of 1963-5, he made a comeback with the Traveling Wilburys shortly before his death at the age of 52.

1989

Virgin 260145/ 16 tr./ 57:22 min

1989
Virgin 2576 / 10 tr./ 38:17 min.

1989
CBS 465139/ 24 tr./ 63:08 min.

with the Traveling Wilburys

Jeff Lynn, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison. The second Album was recorded in 1990 and dedicated to Roy Orbison (died 1988). The Drummer on both Albums was Jim Keltner.

1988

Wilbury Records 925796 /12 tr./ 42:38 min.

1990

Warner Bro. 765412 / 11 tr./ 36:16 min.

2007

Rhino 167868/ 25 tr./ 85:03 min.(2 CD+DVD)

Ivan "Boogaloo" Joe Jones (USA)

Ivan Joseph Jones (born November 1, 1940), known professionally as Joe Jones or Boogaloo Joe Jones, is an American jazz guitarist. Jones made his solo debut as Joe Jones on Prestige Records in 1967, but earned the name "Boogaloo Joe" following a 1969 record of that title. The nickname was meant to distinguish him from the other people with similar names in the music business, such as R&B singer Joe Jones, jazz drummers "Papa Jo" Jones and Philly Joe Jones, and the Joe Jones of the Fluxus movement. Later, he turned to billing himself as Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones.
Jones recorded several albums in a soul-jazz vein for Prestige between 1966 and 1978. In addition to leading his own group for recording purposes, Ivan Jones recorded with Richard "Groove" Holmes, Houston Person, Harold Mabern, Wild Bill Davis and, most notably, Willis Jackson, Rusty Bryant, Charles Earland, and Bernard "Pretty" Purdie are among the sidemen also featured on Jones' albums.
His sound and style clearly derived from the Blues, but it was a solid understanding of Rock that Jones brought to his style of jazz. He was influenced most by Tal Farlow and Billy Butler, but gravitated toward the rhythm and blues-styled jazz Butler was popularizing with organist Bill Doggett's combo. Jones' sound and style stayed remarkably consistent during his recording career. His twangy tone coupled catchy chordal Vamps with astonishing rapid-fire single-note playing. He could handle familiar pop covers ("Light My Fire", "Have You Never Been Mellow") and ballads. But he really excelled in the jazz-funk groove and proved himself a first-rate blues player. Jones has lived in South New Jersey most of his life and mostly worked in and around the Atlantic City area with chitlin circuit heroes like Wild Bill Davis, Willis Jackson and Charlie Ventura. Jones, who never won the notice of critics or great support from fans during his career, is finding new life on CD.

1968

Prestige 7617/ 6 tr./ 33:52 min.