Artist: Eric Clapton
Album:Me And Mr Johnson
Label:EMI Warner
Year: , release 2004
Format, bitrate: 320 kb/s
Size: 123 mb

Ten years after his first all-blues album, From the Cradle, Eric Clapton released Me and Mr. Johnson, an album-length tribute to his hero, the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. Not that this is the first time Clapton has paid tribute to Johnson. Throughout his career, Clapton has not only drawn on Johnson for inspiration, but he has covered his songs at pivotal moments: "Ramblin' on My Mind" on his classic album with John Mayall, Bluesbreakers; "Four Until Late" on the first Cream album; and, most memorably, the rampaging cover of "Crossroads" on Wheels of Fire that became his anthem and arguably his defining moment. Considering this long history, perhaps a full-length tribute was inevitable, yet Me and Mr. Johnson still is welcome, in part because it's been a long time since this guitarist has sounded so comfortable and relaxed, as if he was having fun making music. With the possible exception of the spotty yet charming B.B. King duet album Riding With the King, this is simply the most enjoyable record he's made since From the Cradle, and in some respects it's a better blues album than that since it never sounds as doggedly serious as that guitar-heavy affair. Given the somber, sometimes chilling lyrics Johnson wrote -- Clapton admits that "At first [his music] scared me in its intensity," an accurate summary of the haunting nature of those 29 sides the bluesman cut in the '30s -- it's a little ironic that this tribute winds up being fun, not somber, but the light touch makes for a better album. That lightness comes from the deep love Clapton holds for this music, since the enthusiasm and enjoyment he and his band -- all the old regulars like Andy Fairweather-Low plus Billy Preston on keyboards -- give the performance results in the album's light, infectious feel. While that does result in versions of "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day" and "Hell Hound on My Trail" that sound anything but haunted, they do sound nicely next to the up-tempo rave-ups of "They're Red Hot," "Last Fair Deal Gone Down," and "Stop Breaking Down Blues" since all of them sound like Clapton is having a hell of a good time. Some might take issue with this, and others may find the album too slickly produced -- admittedly, blues albums should never boast a credit for Pro Tools, as this does -- but this is a heartfelt tribute that's among Clapton's most purely enjoyable albums. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

     Artist: VA (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
     Album: The Blues Brothers
     Label: Atlantic / Wea
     Year: 1980
     Format, Mp3 @ 256 kb + 320 Kb/s
     Size: 71.35 Mb

Artist:Eric Clapton
Album: Sessions For Robert J
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Year: , release 2004
Format, bitrate: 320 kbps
Size: 65 m.


It appears that Eric Clapton had more Robert Johnson in his blood than he thought -- or perhaps it was planned this way. This DVD/CD set (and really, it's not the other way around despite the packaging), showcases Clapton mining the Robert Johnson vein ever more deeply in no less than four different settings. The DVD features 19 acoustic and electric performances recorded in rehearsal spaces in Dallas and in England, as well as in the 508 Park Ave. in Dallas, a studio Johnson himself recorded in, in 1937. There is one more segment, a recorded solo acoustic in a hotel room in California. The band that joins Clapton in the rehearsal studios is comprised of guitar master Doyle Bramhall, organist Billy Preston, Steve Gadd on drums, pianist Chris Stainton and Nathan East on bass. The electric performances, particularly "Milkcow's Calf 's Blues," "Stop Breakin' Down Blues," and especially "I Wish I Had Possession Over Judgment Day," have some real life and stomp in them. Of the acoustic tracks, "Terraplane Blues" works best. The DVD also contains a selection of behind-the-scenes footage that will be of interest only to those fans who need to see everything. The CD contains 11 cuts culled from the DVD and the sequencing is in some ways preferable. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

     Artist: Walter Trout
     Album: Livin' Every Day.
     Label: Ruf .
     Year: , release. June 8, 1999.
     Format, bitrate:320 k/s.
     Size: 158 m.

     Release Notes

     "Living Every Day" is Walter Trout's (whom the BBC elected as the world 6th best guitar player) worldwide debut album on RUF RECORDS. His worldwide label-change to RUF was the consequence of the success of his last album, wich was his first release on RUF and his first official US-release: Walter Trout took his native country by storm. The L.A. Times comments: "Trout continues to set standarts". Walter Trout: "It was a great motivation to work on a new album that will be released and promoted worldwide. Especially the reactions that we had on our recent American tour was a dream-come-true. I think I wrote some of my strongest (and most personal) songs to date". Beside his superior guitar work - Walter's trademark - "Livin' Every Day" stands out against Walter's previous albums with the very personal lyrics (all printed in the booklet).

     Artist:Walter Trout .
     Album: Relentless
     Label:Ruf Records.
     Year: release 2003
     Genre:blues-rock
     Format, bitrate: MP3;320 k/s.
     Size: 168 mb



Blues-rock guitarist Walter Trout, who has worked with the likes of John Lee Hooker, Joe Tex, and Canned Heat, shows off his fiery licks in this concert video shot during a club date in Amsterdam. Walter Trout and the Free Radicals: Relentless -- The Concert includes the songs "Work No More," "Jericho Road," "Collingswood," "The Life I Choose," "Talk to Ya," and many more. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

     Artist:Walter Trout
     Album:Face The Music
     Label: Mascot
     Year: , release 2000
     Genre: Live
     Format, bitrate: 320 k/s.
     Size: 127 m.

FACE THE MUSIC (LIVE ON TOUR) features nine live tracks of energetic blues rock from Walter Trout And The Free Radicals.

German edition of live set from blues rocker formerly in Canned Heat and The Bluesbreakers. Recorded during his '99 ... Full Descriptionworld tour and featuring two previously unreleased tracks. 2000release. Standard jewelcase.

     Artist:Johnny Winter.
     Album:Still Alive and Well.
     Label:Sony.
     Year: , release 1973.
     Format, bitrate: 320.
     Size: 117 m.

     You might mistake this for a live record, but this is actually a 1973 studio release by the Texas blues guitar master. Winter's first release after a brief retirement/drying-out period, STILL ALIVE AND WELL, from the title on down, has the feeling ... Full Descriptionof a major comeback, although Winter really hadn't been gone for very long. Looking hale and hearty on the cover--or as hale and hearty as a rail-thin albino can look, anyway--Winter sounds equally fit on the songs themselves. Produced by his longtime collaborator Rick Derringer, who also leads the tight and flashy band with his rhythm and second lead playing, the album is possibly the most pop-oriented release of Winter's tenure at Columbia. The band, which features Todd Rundgren on synthesizers and Mellotron (on a Johnny Winter album???) and Rundgren's associate Mark "Moogy" Klingman on piano, is probably mostly responsible for this, but Winter's amiable versions of the Stones' "Silver Train" and "Let It Bleed," along with Dan Hartman's "Can't You Feel It," are among his most radio-friendly work. This reissue also features uncompleted outtakes of Little Richard's "Lucille" and Dylan's "From a Buick 6," missing Winter's never-recorded lead solos.

Artist:Johnny Winter
Album: John Dawson Winter III
Label:Blue Sky
Year: , release 1974
Format, bitrate: 320
Size: 94,4 м,

Johnny Winter, his brother Edgar and Rick Derringer form an American rock triumvirate that knows little competition. John Dawson Winter III further refines the oldest's progression from an overanxious white bluesman with a restrained voice into a tasteful and raunch rocker.

Winter the guitarist is a constant powerhouse who leaves few spaces in his frequent solos. Delivering cluster after cluster of rapidly picked notes or soaring chords, he has developed a discernible, if not virtuoso, style to replace the awkward pastiches of Chuck Berry and B.B. King that flawed his early work. Interestingly, Winter opts for less use of distortion than do most guitarists of this ilk.

He composes smartly. Knowing that even the simplest change can revitalize an otherwise staid 12-bar blues, Winter inserts a time-tested ascending chord sequence into the ninth and tenth bars of "Pick Up on My Mojo." Yet he can also succeed with a haunting, gently sung "Stranger," a pop piece reminiscent of Edgar.

But it's never a one-man show. Randy Jo Hobbs's bass combines treble tones with the mandatory bottom sound, and muscular drum rolls from Richard Hughes propel the meatier tracks which dominate the album. Wisely, Winter continues to borrow from other writers: Derringer, John Lennon and Allen Toussaint are all well represented. Shelly Yackus's crisp production shows the proper measure of control.

John Dawson Winter III is not without flaws -- his vocal on "Sweet Papa John," a blues patterned after the earliest Muddy Waters sides, returns to the thin huskiness he has mostly mastered, and the horns on two cuts would have been best omitted. Still, Winter displays an unmistakable maturity that few rock artists achieve. ~ Charley Waters, Rolling Stone, 1/30/75.

     Artist:Johnny Winter
     Album:Johnny Winter
     Label:Sony
     Year: 1969
     Format, bitrate: MP3,320 kb/sec
     Size: 102 m.


There is no question that for pure blues guitar talent, Johnny Winter needs to be mentioned when looking at blues musicians. Johnny has spent his life mastering a number of varied blues styles and that what makes him such a treat to listen to. In general, though, when you think of Johnny's style you think of undiminished scorchin' fury and passion. Using an unwound G string and lighter guage strings helps Johnny do the bending that is his trademark. You here the influence of T-Bone Walker in his songs by the way the feel of his songs change by starting in one meter and changing to another. With Johnny it is hard to say where the blues stops and rock 'n' roll begins. He always has played both of them. While this seems to bother some blues purists, as Muddy said "The Blues had a baby and they named it Rock 'N' Roll".

     Artist: Kid Rock
     Album: Devil Without A Cause
     Label: Atlantic Records
     Year: 1998
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Size: 164 MB

     Американский рэп-рок-музыкант Кид Рок (настоящее имя Роберт Джеймс Ритчи) родился в маленьком городке Ромео в пригороде Детройта, штат Мичиган, США, 17 января 1971 года. И хотя его имя очень часто связывают с рэп-сценой Детройта, Ритчи рос преимущественно в белом районе Ромео, лишь иногда выбираясь в Детройт на рэп-концерты и конкурсы молодых ди-джеев. Среди его музыкальных пристрастий была как рок-музыка (Боб Сигер), так и хип-хоп и электронная музыка. После того как он стал свидетелем битвы ди-джеев Дейва Ди и Эй Джей Скретча, Ритчи решает попробовать свои силы в ди-джействе, пустив в ход мамин патефон. Мальчик прикладывает все силы, чтобы стать рэппером и ди-джеем, что приводит к подпольным вечеринкам и криминальным забавам в близлежащих черных районах или в соседнем городке. Именно в это время он и начинает называть себя Кид Роком. Вскоре его демо-записи попадают на глаза, вернее на слух, представителям компании Boogie Down Productions, и Ритчи подписывает контракт с их новым лейблом Jive Records на сумму в 100 тысяч долларов.

Artist: WALTER TROUT
Album: Hardcore
Labels: 2000's Blues Rock
Year: 2007
Format, bitrate: 320
Size: 137 mb

People ask me if they should call my music blues or rock, I tell them they can call it Fred if they must have a label. That remark, along with the exclamation that the blues shouldnt be a museum... the music ought to constantly expand and be alive, have been expressed again and again by Walter Trout during his 35+ year career. Born in 1951 and raised in a music-loving home in Ocean City, New Jersey, Walter Trout felt the calling to music at a young age. His first instrument was trumpet, playing in the school band. A chance meeting with the mighty Duke Ellington catapulted Trouts pursuit of a music career  what Walter terms a turning point in his life  when the Walters mother orchestrated a meeting with jazz legends Ellington, Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges and Paul Gonsalves for the youngsters tenth birthday. The seed was planted. In the mid-1960s Trouts instrument of choice switched to electric guitar after hearing an album which was to change his whole appreciation of music. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band featuring Mike Bloomfield cemented Walters musical ambitions towards the blues genre and the electric guitar. In those vinyl grooves, Walter heard the guitar speaking to his soul, expressing what words could not. Walter Trout promised himself to learn this musical language and dedicate his life to the guitar. For hours, days, weeks, months he was locked in his bedroom practicing until his fingers bled - the obsession unfortunately turning the A-student into a high school dropout. As a shy teenager growing up in a turbulent household, his singular solace became his rapidly developing ability to express his feelings playing the guitar and his vision of becoming a professional musician. 1 Gotta Leave This Town 2 Tellin Stories 3 Finally Gotten Over You 4 Give Me Back My Wig 5 The Reason I'm Gone 6 Not Fade Away 7 Channeling Neil Young 8 Sittin On Top Of The World 9 Tribute To Muddy Waters ~ Amazon.com

     Artists: Sarah, Hannah, Leah Peasall and others
     Album: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
     Year: , release 2000
     Label: Mercury
     Format, bitrate: 320
     Size: 138 mb

     Я хочу представить вам свой самый любимый саунтрек к музыкальному фильму.
     Лучшие работы кантри и блюза на мой взгляд,

     This soundtrack is a powerful tribute not only to the time-honored but commercially ignored genres of bluegrass and mountain music

     Artist: Ry Cooder
     Album: Crossroads
     Label: Warner Brothers
     Release 1986
     Format, bitrate: 320 kbit/s
     Size: 95 mb

     Artist: Walter Trout
     Album: Prisoner of a dream
     Year of release: 1991
     Label: Provogue
     Format, bitrate: 320 kbit/s
     Size: 126 mb

     After two decades as a side man for the likes of John Mayall and John Lee Hooker, Walter Trout finally signed a recording contract of his own. His early albums, including this one, were distributed only in Europe and not in his native America. This album approaches perfection as an exposition of magnificent electric blues.

     Artist: Roy Buchanan
     Album: Loading Zone
     Label: Sony BMG
     Release: 1977
     Format, bitrate: 320 kbps
     Size: 98,3 mb
     Total time: 40:35

     Loading Zone, Buchanan's second solo album for Atlantic, is produced by Stanley Clarke, a built-in guarantee for jazz-rock legitimacy. More importantly, Clarke's rep as the killer bass player of the decade has had a positive, prodding effect on Buchanan's playing. He shifts into overdrive on the first track, a fiery and propulsive Clarke composition entitled "The Heat of the Battle," and never looks back for the whole album. He has always been the master of the Fender Telecaster squeal, but on some of these tracks his frenzied excursions into overtones, harmonics and tight clusters of notes played largely in the upper register of the instrument move beyond traditional lead-guitar histrionics. One gets an acute physical sense of Buchanan literally shredding his way through the blues-rock clichйs to get to a higher, abstract plane. Sometimes he tries too hard—even the majestic exchange with Steve Cropper on the supersonic remake of "Green Onions" threatens to run on too long. But, like Beck, he is trying to take lead guitar into another dimension and his sparkling work on tunes like "Judy," "Hidden" and the tongue-in-cheek "Adventures of Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby" (featuring Clarke on "country-sprung" bass) augurs well for his continuing development.

     Artist: Steve Johnson
     Album: Blues From The Roadhouse
     Label: Dixiefrog
     Year: release 2003
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 k.
     Size: 118 mb

     Born in Glasgow in 1956 Steve Johnston grew up in Dumfries and studied at art school. Upon leaving, Steve Johnston became an apprentice electrician for a brief period, as he was uncertain of where his artistic path led. In 1973, he undertook a course at Carlisle College , where, during the second year, he opted for a change in medium, preferring photography to painting. Steve Johnston found black & white formats extremely inspiring and exciting to work with, seeing himself as an artist utilising a camera rather than paint.
     Steve Johnston moved to London after college where he contributrf freelance work for teen magazines, which led to him working for Vogue in 1977. Steve's work was included in the 'Pink Punk Book' published in 1978. In 1991, Steve Johnston began painting again stating 'it was then that something clicked and I have not looked back since...painting is my life'.
     Steve Johnston states that he is not concerned with how someone is standing or what they are doing but instead with portraying an essence or emotion.

     Artists: B.B.King & Eric Clapton
     Album: Riding With The King
     Year: 2000
     Label: Reprise
     Format, bitrate: 320 kbit/s
     Size: 170 mb

     The potential for a collaboration between B.B. King and Eric Clapton is enormous, of course, and the real questions concern how it is organized and executed. Riding With the King is more about King than it is about Clapton. But the two players turn out to have sufficiently complementary, if distinct, styles so that Clapton's supportive role fills out and surrounds King's stinging single-string playing. The result is an effective, if never really stunning, work.

     Artist: Candye Kane
     Album: The Toughest Girl Alive
     Year of release: 2000
     Label: Rounder
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Size: 104 mb




     Candye Kane is a big-voiced blues singer with a twist. Though they are mostly credited as originals, the tunes are familiar from other blues, R&B, and jump blues compositions. The differences lie in Kane's lyrics and in her enthusiasm in singing them.
     The backing band, which occasionally features Dave Alvin and Marcia Ball, is excellent, but the distinctive element in the mix is Kane's lusty persona.

     Artist: Candye Kane
     Album: Swango
     Label: Sire / London/Rhino
     Release Date: 1998
     Format/Bitrate: Mp3/320 kbit/s
     Size: 105 MB

     Artist: Candye Kane
     Album: White Trash Girl
     Release Date: 2005
     Label: Ruf (Idn)
     Format/Bitrate: Mp3/320 kbit/s
     Size: 102 MB