Eddie Boyd - The Sonet Blues Story (1974) [Reissue 2005]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 300 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 108 MB | Covers - 9 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal Music (0602498692561)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 300 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 108 MB | Covers - 9 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal Music (0602498692561)
Like several of the black jazz and blues players of his generation, pianist Eddie Boyd, tired of the racism in America and the general treatment afforded musicians, moved permanently to Europe in the mid-'60s, where labels like Sweden's Sonet Records were more than happy to record him. The session presented here took place in Stockholm in 1974, and features Boyd on piano and vocals performing original blues numbers backed by young Swedish players (and one American, Ed Thigpen, on drums), and while things don't have the powerful edge of a classic Chicago Chess Records session, it's close, and there is a charmingly loose and fluid feel working here, one that is perfect for the kind of easy, almost elegant blues that was Boyd's stock in trade…