R. L. BURNSIDE - Rollin' & Tumblin'

CD 120.921

R.L. Burnside – Rollin’ & Tumblin’ – The King Of Hill Country Blues

!!!new!!!

Release date is June 30th.

Sorry, but there will be a delay in the release of R. L. Burnside. But you know: Haste makes waste!

R.L. Burnside is the father of the Mississippi Hill Country Blues. He is one of the most outstanding personalities of Country Blues of the second generation together with James ‘Son’ Thomas. He already recorded a LP in the 60s, but was first nation wide known as he recorded for the label Fat Possum. Even in the TV series “Drake & Josh” (a Walt Disney serial) you can see a poster of his CD “Come On In”. Until one’s dying day in 2004 he regulary recorded CD’s. R.L. Burnside has six sons which are all in the music business. One can call him rightly a giant of Country Blues. Legendary are his sessions at Juke Joint of his friend Junior Kimbrough.
On this CD you will listen to recordings of the years 1975, 1981 and 1982, which has been recorded live at his front porch with both electric and accoustic guitar. It includes 19 of his legendary songs and an interview!

DANA GILLESPIE & JOACHIM PALDEN - Big Boy

CD 120.951

Dana Gillespie & Joachim Palden – Big Boy

!!!new design!!!

Big Boy is already a classic and now it is reproduced in a complete new design, but with familiar good sound!

Release date is May 17.

COOKIE MCGEE - One Way Ticket

CD 120.632

Cookie McGee feat. Lucky Peterson – One Way Ticket

!!!new!!!

Cookie McGee is the new queen of Texas Blues.

Release date is April 15.

This CD is a live recording, recorded at a blues club in Forth Worth, Texas in 2009. 15 years after her first release with JSP Records, this is her first live CD. She plays some songs of her own (e.g. One Way Ticket) and some Texas Blues traditionals. Special guest on this CD is the unique Lucky Peterson. You will enjoy some great moderns Texas Blues of today.

ELMORE JAMES JR. & THE BROOMDUSTER - Baby Please Set A Date

CD 120.822

Elmore James Jr. & the Broomdusters – Baby Please Set A Date

!!!new!!!

The new CD of the Living Blues Awards winner Elmore James Jr. for Best Album of 2008.

Release date is December 1.

Elmore James Jr. is really the son of the blues legend Elmore James who played “Dust My Broom” with Sonny Boy Williamson in the 50’s. He got the slide guitar lessons from his father but at first he was not really interested in this style. In his 40’s he got interested to play the great music of his father because he got the feeling that he is responisble to play the traditional blues style. He played with many different bands in the last 10 years and on youtube.com you could listen to his great voice! Today he has a six piece band and plays most of his fathers songs. The sound of the band is really great because with ex Willie Kent’s Gent and Teardrop Jake Dawson on guitar and Ed Williams on sax (he played in Vance Kelly’s band) the music is not just traditional but also got a modern touch! So on this CD you can listen to the very best traditional Chicago blues band today, Elmore James Jr. and The Broomdusters! ENJOY!

AL COOK - Pioneer And Legend

CD 120.976

Al Cook – Pioneer And Legend

!!!new!!!

45 years on stage!!!

Release date is November 7.

SMILIN' BOBBY & HIDDEN CHARMS - Big Legged Woman

CD 120.821

Smilin’ Bobby & Hidden Charms – Big Legged Woman

!!!new!!!

His first CD ever!!!

Release date is 1st October.

Smilin’ Bobby always played in small clubs or in corner taverns way out in the suburbs. He is for many blues lovers the favorite unknown bluesman in Chicago. His guitar style is a cross between Magic Slim’s stinging leads and Magic Sam’s cool little rhythm fills while his great singing doesn’t really sound like anyone else.

In 1958 Smilin’ Bobby started to play music in clubs and playing at Maxwell Street Sunday mornings beginning around 1961 or 62. He became a close friend to Magic Sam and used to hang around at his house. Smilin’ Bobby got his nickname around 62 or 63 because he was always grinning so much. He was influenced by Jimmy Reed and Willie Mabon, also Little Milton, Albert Collins and Albert King. His guitar style is not Delta Blues it is much more modern, somewhere in between R’n‘B and Chicago Blues.

He is now 69 years old and his son Carlos Showers is another great guitar player who played in Willie Kent’s band the Gents.

Nobody knows why Smilin’ Bobby has no CD out until now – but it doesn’t matter. On his Wolf CD you will listen to the best hidden Chicago Blues talent since Vance Kelly.

Smilin’ Bobby is very young with his 69 years!

MAGIC SLIM & THE TEARDROPS - Rough Dried Woman

CD 120.820

Magic Slim & The Teardrops – Rough Dried Woman

!!!new!!!

“Rough Dried Woman” is the best CD of the WC Handy Blues Award Winners Magic Slim & The Teardrops, the best blues band on the planet. This CD includes three never recorded songs.

Release date is 3rd August.

Magic Slim: vocals, guitar
Nick Holt: bass
John Primer: guitar, vocals
Jerry Porter: drums
Nathan Applewhite: drums
Michael Scott: drums
Earl Howell: drums

EDDIE TAYLOR JR., HARMONICA HINDS AND TRÉ - From The Country To The City

CD 120.819

Eddie Taylor Jr., Harmonica Hinds and Tré – From The Country To The City

!!!new!!!

From The Country To The City is a compilation of pure from the heart blues.

Release date is 24th March.

This is the VERY BEST UNPLUGGED CHICAGO BLUES CD EVER! Wolf producer Hannes Folterbauer got the idea to put three great Chicago Blues artists together in a studio to recreate a sound like the one of Muddy Waters together with Buddy Boy and Willie Dixon 50 years ago. (all played acoustic instruments)

Harmonic Hinds was a part of the young generation of Chicago Blues that Living Blues founder Jim O´Neal brought to Europe 30 years ago. He is a great harmonica player and singer! Besides Sugar Blue and Billy Branch he is the main figure of Chicago Harmonic Blues today.

TRE is the son of the SOUTHSIDE LEGEND L.V. Banks and, even though he is still young, he produced many CDs of his own for JSP and WOLF. He is not just a great singer and guitar player, but also a fantastic song writer. On this CD he wrote the title song as well as the great Church Bells Blues.

The last member of this unplugged Blues Trio is the son of Chicago Blues legend Eddie Taylor, Eddie Taylor Junior. He plays on his father´s old red gibson guitar just the real blues, NOTHING ELSE. He already had three WOLF CDs released on his own. This helped him to get gigs at the Chicago Blues Festival and on many different festivals in EUROPE – especially in France. Eddie Taylor jr. can both play the down home blues style of his father and sing his own songs with some modern guitar playing.

LISTEN TO THIS CD and you will know that the Blues will never die!
MUDDY WATERS will be happy to have these young folks in Chicago!

MEMPHIS SLIM - Nobody Loves Me (Everyday I Have The Blues)

BC – 008

Memphis Slim – Nobody Loves Me (Everyday I Have The Blues)

!!!NEW!!!

VANCE KELLY - Blue Bird

CD 120.818

Vance Kelly – Blue Bird

!!!new!!!

This CD includes brand new studio and live recordings by the living blues award winner.

EDDIE TAYLOR JR. - I Got To Make This Money, Baby

CD 120.817

Eddie Taylor Jr. – I Got To Make This Money, Baby

!!!new!!!

EDDIE C. CAMPBELL - Mind Trouble

CD 120.816

Eddie C. Campbell – Mind Trouble

AL COOK - The Barrelhouse Man

CD 120.975

Al Cook – The Barrelhouse Man

featuring:
Karin Daym, Rev. Frank TT, Charly Lloyd, Harry Hudson, Peter Strutzenberger

ROBERT PETE WILIAMS - Louise

CD 120.912

Robert Pete Williams – Louise

Live at the University of Miami – Florida, 1974

BIG JOE WILLIAMS - Shake Your Boogie

CD 120.916

Big Joe Williams – Shake Your Boogie

Big Joe Williams is one of the legends in both of the prewar and postwar country blues. The prewar recordings you’ll find on the CD WB003 – “Baby Please Don’t Go” and one of the best postwar LIVE-recordings on the CD 120.916 “Shake your Boogie”.

Big Joe was born on Oct. 16, 1903 in Crawford, Mississippi and developed a style of his own with his nine string guitar. He had a similar style like Tommy McClennan (WBCD-001) and Robert Petwoy (WBCD 005) (both also available on WOLF Records).

He toured in Europe and played at every important blues Festival in the U.S.. These recordings are live recordings – recorded in Jackson, MISSISSIPPI, Nov 22, 74.

Big Joe Williams is a MASTER OF MISSISSIPPI COUNTRY BLUES!!!!!!

CARLOS JOHNSON & LEFTY DIZZ - The Healer

CD 120.814

Carlos Johnson & Lefty Dizz – The Healer

This is the story of this recordings that Wolf is now presenting. When we started producing shows there was always the intention to hire Magic Slim. We had already done shows with James Cotton and Hubert Sumlin in December 1992 and Jimmy Rogers and …
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DANA GILLESPIE - These Blue Nights

CD 120.974

Dana Gillespie – These Blue Nights

“I believe the blues should be sung by an older person because it’s about emotions and experience. I couldn’t do justice to it when I was younger because my voice didn’t have the edge it needed to convey the emotion, nor did I have the first hand experience to sing about blue themes convincingly.”

But after 40 years in music and over 50 albums Dana Gillespie is well qualified to sing the blues. A career that combined radio, theatre, film and sport (she was once British junior water-skiing champion) with music, Dana has been in the public eye since recording her first album at the age of 15. Her music has evolved from folk in the 60s through 70s Bowie-esque glam-rock to the raunchy in-your-face blues she performs today.
You may also want to visit www.dana-gillespie.com

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EDDIE TAYLOR JR. - Mind Game

CD 120.813

Eddie Taylor Jr. – Mind Game

Eddie Taylor Jr., formerly known as Edward Taylor, is the son of the legendary Eddie Taylor.
Eddie Jr was initially more interested in Hip Hop, but one day he was infected with the blues spirit of his father. Today he is one of the leaders of Chicago Blues.

His sophisticated playing allows him to bring back some old favourites and add his own new tunes which are a too tricky for the average blues bar band.

After his former Wolf Records releases
“Tribute To Eddie Taylor” (120.890) and
“Worried About My Baby” (120.811),
now comes his brandnew masterpiece!

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VIVIAN VANCE KELLY - Hit Me Up

CD 120.812

Vivian Vance Kelly – Hit Me Up

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MAGIC SLIM & THE TEARDROPS - Highway Is My Home

CD 120.305

Magic Slim & The Teardrops – Highway Is My Home

“Highway is my home” is the last CD of the legendary
ZOO BAR COLLECTION.

“Zoo Bar” is a blues club in Lincoln, Nebraska, where Magic Slim and his band perform several times a year.

The atmosphere this CD is creating is just amazing – 100 % original Chicago Blues!!!

MAGIC SLIM & THE TEARDROPS - Live On The Road

CD 120.864

Magic Slim & The Teardrops – Live On The Road

Wolf Records gained the WC Handy Blues Award for this CD in the late eighties. It features all great live songs from the best Chicago Blues band on the planet.

Band members besides the legendary Magic Slim are John Primer, Nick Holt and Earl Howell.

ERIC TRAUNER - Up Slide Down

CD 120.958

Eric Trauner – Up Slide Down

Erik Trauner’s “Up Slide Down” was out of production for a long time. Now it´s available again!

Erik Trauner is the founder of the “Mojo Bluesband”, one of Europe´s leading traditional bluesbands for 30 years.

He can be considered as one of a handful of acoustic bottleneck guitar masters performing today – a mastery acquired by years of dedication, effort and by on the premises observation of authentic artists.

EDDIE TAYLOR - Bad Boy

CD 120.711

Eddie Taylor – Bad Boy

Eddie Taylor is the incarnation of a Chicago Blues artist, he is a godsend right from Blues Heaven.

He created the sound of Jimmy Reed and is responsible for the legendary blues songs “Big Town Playboy” and “Bad Boy”.

On this CD, he performs with his Original Westside Blues Band, including J.B. Moore, Willie Kent and Larry & Tim Taylor.

MAGIC SLIM - Tin Pan Alley

CD 120.809

Magic Slim – Tin Pan Alley

Release Date: March 1st 2006

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BLUES GUITAR KILLERS

CD 120.104

Blues Guitar Killers

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FRANK EDWARDS - Georgia Country Blues

CD 120.913

Frank Edwards – Georgia Country Blues

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VANCE KELLY - Nobody Has The Power

CD 120.815

Vance Kelly – Nobody Has The Power

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EDDIE “Vaan” SHAW - Give Me Time

CD 120.894

Eddie “Vaan” Shaw – Give Me Time

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AL COOK - The Birmingham Jam

CD 120.973

Al Cook – The Birmingham Jam

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THE BEST OF WEST & SOUTH SIDE BLUES SINGERS – Vol. 2

CD 120.807

The Best Of West & South Side Blues Singers – Vol. 2

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COUNTRY BLUES WOMEN - Vol. I

WSE 117

Country Blues Women – Vol. I

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NATE TURNER - Hard Times

CD 120.810

Nate Turner – Hard Times

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EDDIE TAYLOR Jr. - Worried About My Baby

CD 120.811

Eddie Taylor Jr. – Worried About My Baby

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VANCE KELLY - Live at Lee´s Unleaded

CD 120.806

Vance Kelly – Live at Lee´s Unleaded

Release Date: 03/31/2003

This is the first Live-CD by Vance Kelly ever, recorded at one of the most famous blues clubs at the southside,
LEES UNLEADED! He has his own band at this gig – THE BACKSTREET BLUES BAND. Also a special guest appears at this historic concert – VIVIAN KELLY, Vance’s daughter. You can listen to 70 minutes of great blues, soul music-tunes and R&B songs. At last listen to great sound & song-examples of his CD: ENJOY!!

Vance Kelly CDs on WOLF RECORDS:
CD 120.887 Call Me – Living Blues Awards Winner
CD 120.886 Joyriding in the Subway
CD 120.891 Hands Off
CD 120.801 What Three Old Ladies Can Do

!! Vance Kelly – Living Blues Awards & Chicago Music Awards – Winner !!

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JOHN PRIMER - Blue Steel

CD 120.808

John Primer – Blue Steel

John Primer CDs on WOLF RECORDS:
CD 120.306: Zoo bar Collection Vol. 5 (live!)
CD 120.885: Cold Blooded Blues Man
CD 120.899: It´s A Blues Life
CD 120.852: Poor Man Blues
CD 120.875: Blues Behind Closed Doors

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BIG BILL BROONZY - Big Bill Blues

BC – 006

Big Bill Broonzy – Big Bill Blues

Big Bill Broonzy CDs on WOLF RECORDS:
BoB 2: Big Bill Broonzy

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Best of Blues Vol.5

    

Best of Blues Vol.6

    

Best of Blues Vol.7

    

Best of Blues Vol.8

    

Summary of Wolf releases 2003 / 2004 / 2005

120.104 CD Blues Guitar Killers Featuring Great Guitar Licks By Michael Coleman, Vance Kelly a.m.o.

120.272 CD Chicago Blues Live Vol. 2: Feat. Magic Slim, John Primer

120.806 CD Vance Kelly Live at Lee’s Unleaded

120.807 CD Best of West & South Side Blues Singers Vol. 2

120.808 CD John Primer Blue Steel A Tribute to Elmore James

120.809 CD Magic Slim Tin Pan Alley

120.810 CD Nate Turner Mojo Mama

120.811 CD Edward Taylor Worried About My Baby

120.815 CD Vance Kelly Nobody Has The Power

120.895 CD Vaan Shaw The Very Best of Vaan Shaw

120.913 CD Frank Edwards Georgia Blues

120.916 CD Big Joe Williams Shake Your Boogie

120.920 CD Herman Alexander & Ce Dell Davis Giants of Country Blues Vol. 5

120.973 CD Al Cook The Birmingham Jam

120.999 CD Wolf Records 20th Anniversary Collection

BC 005 Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup The Very Best Songs of The Father of Rock and Roll

BC 006 Big Bill Broonzy The Very Best of Big Bill Broonzy

WSE 117 The Best of Country Blues Women

WSE 118 Country Gospel Guitar Classics