Johnny Ray Daniels - Whatever You Need - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

'I Got What You Need' is the statement from a troubadour coming into town to inform and entertain the people. Bearing songs of soul searching, of spiritual uplift, of tunes to groove to. Equipped with a powerful voice and stinging guitar the troubadour lays down his marker and backs up the statement. Two Times UK Blues Award winner Mississippi Macdonald has it all to play that troubadour as he presents his third album on APM Records. The gravelly Gospel tones on If I Could Only Hear My Mother Pray Again, and the imploring emotion on Your Dreams have MacDonald stretching out vocally. The former song in turn also showcasing another tour de force from regular backing vocalist Lucy Randall. Two self-penned instrumentals pay tribute; 3.35am, to one of MacDonald's prime influences Freddie King, and Soul City One to the in-house studio sound of Stax / MacDonald continues to be an excellent interpreter of southern soul and two more songs from the stable of Memphis studio and publishing house Ecko in Hard Luck and Trouble and the title track prove this. So too the band's take on the R&B classic We're Gonna Make It which in MacDonald's hands really swings. Sinking is an epic ballad in which to lose yourself completely. The album is rich in variety, vibe and soulful energy. It's MacDonald's Blues and a whole lot more. MacDonald is a guest artist with the 'Take Me To The River All Stars', performing on stage at Red Rooster, filmed in session with Eric Gales and Jools Holland, and is filmed again at Royal Studios in Memphis on October 1st. MacDonald and band will perform at the UK Blues Challenge on October 8th, MacDonald is special guest of Visit Mississippi in Liverpool on October 18th when they unveil the first ever Blues Trail marker outside The Cavern. MacDonald will perform with Clarksdale veteran Super Chikan. International PR agent Blind Raccoon has been engaged to promote

Mystic Chiefs, the third album by Southern California blues shouter Johnny Ray Jones, is a hard-hitting 11-track collection that pays homage to generations of the region's best blues and roots bands including Canned Heat, the James Harman Band, the Blasters, the Red Devils, and the Blue Shadows and introduces a powerhouse new band featuring some of the genre's most skilled and exciting players. Jones brings four decades of experience in SoCal's clubs to the table; along the way he has sung beside such titans as Big Joe Turner, Lee Allen, Sam InchBluzmanInch Taylor, Phillip Walker, John Fogerty and Coco Montoya; he has shared stages with John Mayall, Leon Russell, Jeff Healy, Janiva Magness, Walter Trout, the Knitters, and the Blasters. Jones' two previous albums for the Moondogg tag, Feet Back in the Door (2017) and Way Down South (2021), were storming collections featuring Jones' potent vocal interpretations of blues, soul, R&B, and swamp rock classics. Mystic Chiefs, which features Jones' titular new group, is a crackling set of tough blues numbers originated by such masters as Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf, Slim Harpo, and Joe Hill Louis. Five of the songs are drawn from the live repertoire of the Red Devils, the burnin 90s Los Angeles blues unit fronted by harmonica ace Lester Butler; Jones sat in with the group during the era when they recorded King King, the ripping live album produced by Rick Rubin at the storied L.A. neighborhood joint and backed Mick Jagger on a legendary unreleased studio album. Mystic Chiefs was produced by Jones and recorded and mixed by Johnny Lee Schell at his Ultratone Studios in Studio City, CA. Schell, who continues as a rhythm guitarist in the Mystic Chiefs, has recorded with Bonnie Raitt (including on her multi-platinum 1989 album Nick of Time, which received the Grammy Award as Album of the Year), Buddy Guy, Otis

Digitally remastered edition of this 1996 album from the late blues guitarist. Blessed Blues was the the (very) long-awaited follow-up to his 1970 debut album Ton Ton Macoute. In 1996, Capricorn Records founder Phil Walden persuaded Jenkins to record this InchcomebackInch album. Backed by a stellar cast of musicians including Chuck Leavell on keyboards (now playing with The Rolling Stones) and The Muscle Shoals percussionist Mickey Buckins. Jenkins was born in Macon Georgia 1939 and was first heard on the radio by Phil Walden in 1959 and began booking his band The Pinetoppers which included the late great Otis Redding on vocals. Album Tracks 1. Don't Start Me Talking 2. It Aunt Nothin 3. But the Blues 4. Statesboro Blues 5. The Truth Is 6. Gonna Stand 7. You Cant Lose What You Aint Never Had 8. Dont Feel Like Talking 9. Rock Bottom Blues 10. Till the Blues Come Home 11. Mean Mistreatin Womanthe Pinetopper Theme 12. I Think, Im Drowning on Dry Land 13. Miss Thing