T'agrada El Blues?

Boníssimes novetats de dos bluesmans nord-americans tan reconeguts com indiscutibles. Escoltem el CD "Blues of desesperation", de Joe Bonamassa, l'estupend i esplendorós guitarrista, compositor i cantant de New Hartford (Nova York), i també "The beautiful lowdown", el més nou del cantant i harmoniquista Curtis Salgado, d'Everett (Washington). 01 "This train" – Joe Bonamassa (CD "Blues of desperation") 02 "Mountain climbing" – Joe Bonamassa 03 "Distant lonesome train" – Joe Bonamassa 04 "Blues of desperation" – Joe Bonamassa 05 "What I've known for a very long time" - Joe Bonamassa 06 "Low down dirty shame" – Curtis Salgado (CD "The beautiful lowdown") 07 "I know a good thing" – Curtis Salgado 08 "Walk a mile in my blues" – Curtis Salgado 09 "I'm not made that way" – Curtis Salgado 10 "Ring telephone ring" - Curtis Salgado 11 Quico Pi de la Serra en directe: "Breeze blues"

"Damn right, I've got the blues", un boníssim disc del sempitern i poderós bluesman de Louisiana Buddy Guy. Escoltem també "Promised land or bust", el darrer treball del duet de Wichita (Kansas) Moreland & Arbuckle, que interpreten una interesantíssima barreja d'estil de blues delta i blues evolucionat. 01 "Damn right, I've got the blues" – Buddy Guy (CD "Damn right I've got the Blues") 02 "Mustang Sally" – Buddy Guy 03 "Early in the morning" – Buddy Guy 04 "Too broke to spend the night" – Buddy Guy 05 "Let me love you baby" -- Buddy Guy 06 "Mean and evil" – Moreland & Arbuckle (CD "Promised land or bust") 07 "I'm a king bee" – Moreland & Arbuckle 08 "Long way home" – Moreland & Arbuckle 09 "Woman down in Arkansas" – Moreland & Arbuckle 10 "Long did I hide it" -- Moreland & Arbuckle 11 Quico Pi de la Serra en directe: "Easy blues"

Dos últims i molt bons discos, per a la vostra satisfacció. "I'll find a way", dels històrics i reconeguts mundialment Blind Boys Of Alabama, i "Memphis grease", el més nou del punyent compositor, cantant i harmonicista nascut a Idaho, John Nemeth. 01 "God put a rainbow in the cloud"– Blind boys of Alabama (CD "I'll find a way") 02 "I am not waiting anymore" – Blind boys of Alabama 03 "I shall not be moved" – Blind boys of Alabama 04 "I've been searching" – Blind boys of Alabama 05 "Jubilee" - Blind boys of Alabama 06 "Three times a fool" – John Nemeth (CD "Memphis Grease") 07 "Elbows on the wheel" – John Nemeth 08 "Keep the love a comin'" – John Nemeth 09 "Bad luck is my name" – John Nemeth 10 "I can't help myself"- John Nemeth 11 Quico Pi de la Serra en directe: "Swing bisk blues"

Dos discos de blues. Per començar, "Billy Boy Arnold sings Big Bill Broonzy", el CD acabat de sortir al carrer de l'excel·lent bluesman de Chicago que interpreta el mestre Big Bill Broonzy. Escoltem també "Roy Milton & his solid senders", del gran cantant i bateria de blues nascut a Wynnewood (Oklahoma). 01 "Goin' back to Arkansas" – Billy Boy Arnold (CD "Sings Big Bill Broonzy") 02 "Sweet Miss Bea" – Billy Boy Arnold 03 "Looking up at down" – Billy Boy Arnold 04 "Rider, rider" – Billy Boy Arnold 05 "I want you by my side" - Billy Boy Arnold 06 "Milton's boogie" – Roy Milton (CD "Roy Milton & his solid senders") 07 "Big fat mama" – Roy Milton 08 "Information blues" – Roy Milton 09 "Bartender's boogie" – Roy Milton 10 "The numbers blues" – Roy Milton 11 "T-town twist" - Roy Milton 12 Quico Pi de la Serra en directe:"Quag blues"

"Imarhan", un CD per entendre les beceroles del blues i el seu llarg viatge. "Blues assouf", nostàlgic del desert, amb Imarhan, la boníssima banda nascuda a la població de Tamanrasset, al cor del Sàhara algerià. Escoltem també "God don't never change: The songs of Blind Willie Johnson", el disc de tribut amb magnífiques versions del gran i reverenciat bluesman texà. 01 "Imarhan" – Imarhan (CD "Imarhan") 02 "Tahabort" – Imarhan 03 "Assossamagh" – Imarhan 04 "Arodj N-Inzdjam" – Imarhan CD "God don't never change: The songs of Blind Willie Johnson" 05 "John The Revelator" - Tom Waits 06 "It's nobody's fault but mine" - Lucinda Williams 07 "Jesus is coming soon" - Cowboy Junkies 08 "Mother's children have a hard time" - The Blind Boys Of Alabama 09 Quico Pi de la Serra en directe: "Hokum blues"

"T'agrada el blues?" aporta el seu punt d'honor a la dona en presentar les novetats discogràfiques de dues nord-americanes reconegudes internacionalment per la seva qualitat i originalitat. Sentim "Dig in deep", el més nou de la intèrpret i també exquisida guitarrista "slight" californiana Bonnie Raitt i vibrem amb el blues vivaç de la blueswoman de Detroit Janiva Magness. 01 "Shakin' shakin' shakes" – Bonnie Raitt (CD "Dig in deep") 02 "The comin' round is going through" – Bonnie Raitt 03 "Unintended consequence of love" – Bonnie Raitt 04 "What you're doin' to me" – Bonnie Raitt 05 "Gypsy in me" - Bonnie Raitt 06 "I need a man" – Janiva Magness (CD "Original") 07 "With love" – Janiva Magness 08 "Badass" - Janiva Magness 09 Quico Pi de la Serra en directe: "Clopin clopant rag"

Myriam Swanson i Amadeu Casas presenten el seu disc de blues clàssics "Early blues moods" i interpreten en directe amb Quico Pi de la Serra "When death comes creeping in your room", un dels temes d'aquest excel·lent treball discogràfic.

Dues novetats discogràfiques de blues tan recomanables com preconitzadores: "Hey Joe opus red meat", el darrer disc del gran i respectat bluesman de Chicago Otis Taylor i "Black Pearl. A Jimmy McGriff tribute. All about McGriff", el més nou del multinstrumentista cantant i compositor català de Sant Just Desvern Víctor Puertas, en record i honor de Jimmy McGriff, gran organista nord-americà de Filadèlfia. 01 "Hey Joe" – Otis Taylor (CD "Hey Joe opus red meat") 02 "The heart is a muscle (used to play the blues)" – Otis Taylor 03 "Peggy Lee" – Otis Taylor 04 "Cold at midnight" – Otis Taylor 05 "Sunday morning" - Otis Taylor 06 "Spinning wheel" - Víctor Puertas (CD "Black Pearl. A Jimmy McGriff tribute. All about McGriff") 07 "Dig on it" - Víctor Puertas 08 "All about my girl" - Víctor Puertas 09 "Fat cakes" - Víctor Puertas 10 "Healin' feeling" - Víctor Puertas 11 Quico Pi de la Serra en directe: "Blues a betzef"

"My road", el recentment aparegut disc de Bob Margolin, el boníssim "bluesman" de Brookline, Massachusetts, i "Songs for Elvis", un interesantíssim recopilatori dels blues que el gran Elvis Presley va interpretar, cantats pels "bluesmen" originals. 01 "I shall prevail" - Bob Margolin (CD "My road") 02 "Low life blues" - Bob Margolin 03 "Bye bye baby" - Bob Margolin 04 "Heaven Mississippi" - Bob Margolin 05 "Young and old blues" - Bob Margolin Johnnie Lee Wills & His Boys/ Little Junior Parker / Roy Brown / Big Mama Northon / Arthur Cudrup / Sister Rosetta Tharpe (CD "Songs for Elvis") 06 "Milk cow blues" 07 "Mystery train" 08 "Good rockin' tonight" 09 "Hound dog" 10 "That's all right mama" 11 "Up above my head, I hear music in the air" 12 "Down by the riverside" 13 Quico Pi de la Serra en directe: "Blues sincopat"

"One chord blues", el darrer disc del potent bluesman mississipiá de Drew Boo Boo Davis i cinc peces del recopilatori commemoratiu dels 40 anys d'Alligator Records interpretades per artistes tant equipotencials com definitius: Buckwheat Zydeco, Eric Lindell, Mavis Staples, James Cotton i Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater. Quico Pi de la Serra toca en directe "Blues rock". 01 "Walk on tall" - Boo Boo Davis (CD "One chord blues") 02 "The snake" - Boo Boo Davis 03 "I'm so tired" - Boo Boo Davis 04 "Ice storm" - Boo Boo Davis 05 "Can man" - Boo Boo Davis (CD "Alligator Records 40th Anniversary Collection") 06 "When the levee breaks" - Buckwheat Zydeco 07 "It's a drag" - Eric Lindell 08 "Step into the light" - Mavis Staples 09 "With the quickness" - James Cotton 10 "A good leavin' alone" - Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater 11 Quico Pi de la Serra en directe: "Blues rock"