Shar BABY - My Life, Down Under 2009

Shar BABY - My Life, Down Under 2009

Blues

I am a blues singer and guitarist. I've been singing and playing for 43 years. My style of blues are more Traditional/Delta and roots blues. I have been on the same bill as Denise LaSalle, The Legendary Sam Lay, The Legendary Willie King, and many more. I will be in the Coin Blues Festival April 11, 2009 in Malaga, Spain. They call me Queen of the Jukes.
SharBaby.
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Let me say right at the start that this CD contains some of the best blues I've heard
this year, in fact some of the best blues that I've heard for a long time - the lady is
the real deal, and they don't make blues albums like this anymore.
Ok, so that's the cliches out of the way .
Shar-Baby, originally from Indiana and now living in Alabama is what the blues is all
about. She writes songs about her life, starting around the age of ten, just the way
blues singers have always done.
There's no pretentiousness here, just pure down-horne great blues from a lady and her
guitar.
The album starts with "Poolroom Blues" a song Shar-Baby wrote about her early years in
Indian where she lived opposite Hoover's Poolroom and would sit on a coal bin watching
the comings and goings. The lyrics are so vivid that you can close your eyes and see it.
It took me a long time to get past this track,
it's just so compelling.
"Master Dees" follows up, a chilling tale of slavery, so full of atmosphere that it makes
the hair stand up on the back of my neck - slow, moody, compulsive listening. Anyone who
likes the blues will absolutely love this - it's John Lee Hooker in drag!!!!
Track three, "Don't want you hanging around" ups the tempo a notch and brings in a little
understated harmonica, Little Walter style (there's a connection here, Shar-Baby's aunt
was Little Walter's girlfriend at one time). This is a plea from a woman who doesn't
want her man hanging around where he might get into temptation.
"Old Block House" tells the story of Shar-Baby's early life in the projects in South
Bend, Indiana - this is straight from the heart, telling of a hard childhood. The
alburnrniscalled "My Life" and that's just what it is - a diary of Shar-Baby's life, good
and bad.
I really don't want to say any more about this album - I want people to get a copy of it
and play it to death.
What I will say is that it's compelling listening, and some of the most authentic blues
that has been recorded in this decade.
Get a copy via www.myspace.com/sharbabysbluesparty
By (Mr Fatass) Terry Clear.
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01. Poolroom Blues 4.36
02. Masre Dees 4.30
03. Don´t Want You Hangin Around 4.00
04. Old Block House 4.01
05. The World Is On A Even Keel 5.14
06. Three Strikes, You´re Out 3.18
07. Own Mind Blues 4.40
08. Popcorn And Greenbeans 4.34
09. Broken Promises 4.03
10. Washington Street Shuffle 4.35
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Shar-Baby and Clarence Bluesman Davis - Just Junkin 2009

Shar-Baby and Clarence Bluesman Davis - Just Junkin 2009
With Blues Katz
Label: BMI
Recorded Live in Dallas studio,Sprinville,Alabama

Blues

I first got interested in music at the age of 6 years old, inspired by Hubert Sumlin, Howlin Wolf's guitarist. That Blues just stuck with me. My dad bought me my first electric guitar at the age 13 years old. I started to take lessons for the basics at age 11. My first electric guitar was a Harmony Rocket in the early 60's. My dad was a gospel singerin the 50's and was on the same bill as the Sam Cooke and Soul Stirrers and the Dixie Humming Birds. My Aunt Marie (Dad's Sister) gave me my name SharBaby at the age of 6 years old. I have performed in many Blues Festivals over the years. I have been on the same bill as the Late Great Willie King, the Great legendary Sam Lay, T-Model Ford, Honey Boy Edwards, Denise LaSalle, Kent Burnside, Steve Arvey, Don Tinsley, Deborah Coleman and many more. I have a new CD that is soon to be released. I will be performing in Malaga, Spain April 11, 2009.
By Share-Baby.
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Clarence Otis Davis was born on February, 17, 1945 in the backwoods of Laurel Cut, there in Eutaw, Green, County Alabama. His Father's name is Willie Davis and his Mother's name is Gertrude Davis. At about the age of 7 years old Clarence became interested in music. He had an Uncle named James Davis who lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama who had bought his son a guitar. His cousin lost interest in the guitar, so Clarence asked his uncle could he use his cousin's guitar. His uncle agreed to let Clarence use the guitar. While his Mother and Father worked in the cotton field, Clarence about the age of 8 or 9 years old use to listen to a blues station out of Carrollton, Alabama. The sound of those blues off of that radio just stuck in his mind. Clarence always wanted to play music. Clarence comes from a large family of 9 boys and 3 girls. Every evening after the field work, he would get his guitar and sit on the porch and play. His dad would get on him about playing on the porch because it was disturbing him after a long day in the cotton fields. He said it was too noisy. By the age of 12 years old he learned to play guitar by ear. He would play until his fingers got sore and he could not work in the cotton fields. That really upset his dad. There was a man by the name of Willie P.Richardson who taught Clarence how to tune his guitar and play When the Saints Come Marching in, one of his first songs learned on the guitar. Clarence's favorite style of playing was the Jimmy Reed style. So after Clarence learned the guitar, his first songs by Jimmy Reed were "Honky Tonk" and "Oh Baby You Don't Have To Go." After Clarence learned those 3 songs he showed his family how he could play. His whole family would sing "If I Could hear My Mother Pray Again", a gospel song. After he learned those 4 songs, he was on his way. Clarence and his family also lived on a plantation farm called Gosa Quarter. On his first CD he wrote a song about how hard it was on that Gosa farm. At the age of 15 years old, Clarence would play at fish fry parties, playing the blues by himself. His first band was Little Wit and the Upsetters. He moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama about the age of 18 OF 19 and played with Danny Green & the Red Lighters. He also played with the Soul Merchant Band. Clarence moved to Cleveland, Ohio in the 60's. He use to practice with the Ohio Players before they became famous with the song called "Fire". He also set in with a top band in Tuscaloosa, Alabama called The Dominos, TJ & The Diplomats whose manager at that time was Theodore Pools. Clarence started the Black Belt Roots Blues Festival. That Festival has been running for 33 years. Now Clarence and a Lady named Carol Zippert still run that blues Festival every year. Clarence has been on the same bill as T-Model Ford, Sam Lay, Bobby Rush, Willie King, Opened for Steve Perry, Honey Boy Edwards, Hubert Sumlin at the West Point Howlin Festival in Mississippi, Wilson Meadows, McKinley Mitchell, Kenny Neal, Lightening Malcolm & Cedric Burnside and many more. Clarence, Willie King, and Birmingham George played together in a night club called The Blue Room, owned by Birmingham George. He is on his 2nd CD. He writes and arrange his own songs.!
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Shar-Baby- Vocal,Guitar
Clarence Bluesman Davis- Vocal,Guitar
Jock Webb- Harmonica
Albert Billups- Drums
Dale Hicks- Sax
Nelson Brown- Backup Vocal
Kenny Webber- Bass Guitar
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01.Mercury Ford 3.40
02.Alabama 3.55
03.Blues All Over Me 6.05
04.Take It Easy Greazy 4.00
05.C.C.Rider 5.27
06.Blues Here To Stay 4.35
07.Pants Too Tight 3.06
08.A am Not After Your Man 3.36
09.5" Oclock Blues 3.04
10.Mr. Gib´s Juke House 3.42
11.Shakem On Down 3.45
12.Harmonica King 4.52
13.Shame On You 3.12
14.Before You Accuse Me 3.55
15.Chicago Blues 4.15
16.Fast Boogie 3.03
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