Johnny Seaton with Danny Gatton - Uptown + Reaction

Two fantastic obscure albums from a rockabilly revivalist Johnny Seaton with the great Danny Gatton on guitar. Unfortunately, I could not find the covers.

Johnny Seaton with Danny Gatton - Reaction (1985)
192kbps, 42.5mb on sharebee
1. Reaction
2. The Wheels Start Turnin
3. Rough'n'Tough
4. Crazier Than Me
5. I Ain't Gittin Rid Of You
6. Rockin Man
7. I Wouldn't Do The Same Thing To You
8. Big City Baby
9. 59 Phantom
10. Stop Lovin All The World

Johnny Seaton with Danny Gatton - Uptown (1983)
192kbps, 36.4mb on sharebee
1. Uptown
2. I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down
3. Come On Little Mama *
4. Don't Play With Me
5. I'm Feelin Sorry
6. Get With It
7. All Messed Up With Raw Deal
8. Right Now
9. Blue Monday
10. You Can Bet Your Bottom Dollar
11. Willin And Ready *
(Gatton does not play on Come On Little Mama and Willin and Ready)

I added a tag rockabilly

Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie + Swinging On The Strings

An easy way to describe this would be to string a bunch of labels together - instrumental-country-jazz-rockabilly-blues-bop-blah-blah... The uniqueness of these recordings is that they exist outside of the style divisions. In fact, this music was created before the modern styles drifted apart; and by people who simply did not know that country cannot be jazz because "that's not done". Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant were two white hillbilly kids, and so they grew up with the sounds of bluegrass and country-and-western; they also were very talented, curious musicians, and their ears were open to the cutting edge of instrumental music in America, and in the late 40s - early 50s it was bebop. Finally, both played new, recently invented, futuristic instruments: Speedy West was a steel guitar player, and Jimmy Bryant was one of the first solidbody guitarists in the world, and the first one to get Fender Telecaster when it went into production. There is no self-conscious "breaking the rules" kind of feeling, as there were no rules. They were unconstrained by the tradition because there was none: they simply had to invent everything themselves from the ground up. Nothing like this have ever been recorded before, and soon after they walked out of the studio for the last time, the gates between different styles shut down for keeps.
The "starting-from-a-clean-slate" approach sometimes produces interesting results even in the hands of people completely devoid of talent - just look at the Shaggs or the Stooges - but West and Bryant were accomplished studio musicians, true musical geniuses, and these two collections might be some of the most far-out, unique stuff you might hear.

AMG says: Fans of country and jazz guitar will discover two new idols after delving into this 16-track collection [Stratosphere Boogie], which features the best of the genre-shattering sessions recorded by this legendary duo. Between Bryant's jazzy, lightning-fast leads and West's brash, groundbreaking pedal steel work, the two recorded some of the most astounding instrumental country music of all time. Whether it's the hilarious "Sleepwalker's Lullaby" or top-fuel classics like "Old Joe Clark" and "Arkansas Traveler," the pair's 1950s records were among the most experimental music being made anywhere in America. It doesn't hurt to add that they were extremely influential, and one spends nearly as much time laughing along with these songs as they do trying to figure out how the hell anyone ever got this good.


Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie
256kbps, 67mb on depositfiles
1. Stratosphere Boogie
2. Blue Bonnet Rag
3. Cotton Pickin'
4. Old Joe Clark
5. Sleepwalker's Lullaby
6. Arkansas Traveler
7. The Night Rider
8. Low Man On A Totem Pole
9. Speedin' West
10. Comin' On
11. Bryant's Bounce
12. Midnight Ramble
13. Pickin' Peppers
14. Shuffleboard Rag
15. Bustin' Thru
16. Flippin' The Lid


Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Swinging On The Strings
256kbps, 94mb on depositfiles
1. Frettin' Fingers
2. Lover
3. Two Of A Kind
4. Yodeling Guitar
5. West Of Samoa
6. Opus 1
7. Truck Driver's Ride
8. T-Bone Rag
9. Skiddle-Dee-Boo
10. China Boy
11. Railroadin'
12. Jammin' With Jimmy
13. Deep Water
14. This Ain't The Blues
15. The Rollin' Sky
16. Whistle Stop
17. Hillcrest (Opus 3)
18. Pushin' The Blues
19. Swingin' On The Strings
20. Caffeine Patrol

Rockabilly!!!

REUP 11/11/14 Two in one archive: 125mb on zippyshare or uloz.to


Whistle Bait! 25 Rockabilly Rave-Ups
1. Whistle Bait - Larry Collins
2. You're Humbuggin' Me - Lefty Frizzell
3. Snatch It And Grab It - Freddie Hart
4. Rawhide - Link Wray & The Wraymen
5. Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor - Johnny Horton
6. Wild Wild Young Men - Rose Maddox
7. Bop-A-Lena - Ronnie Self
8. Ugly And Slouchy - Maddox Brothers
9. Everybody's Rockin' - Werly Fairburn
10. Jive After Five - Carl Perkins
11. Bo Bo Ska Diddle Daddle - Wayne Walker
12. Ah. Poor Little Baby - Billy 'Crash' Craddock
13. Hoy Hoy - The Collins Kids
14. Dig Boy Dig - Freddie Hart
15. Guitar Rock And Roll - Joe Maphis
16. I Got A Hole In My Pocket - 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
17. Big Fool - Ronnie Self
18. All Over Again - Johnny Cash
19. Romp Stompin' Boogie - Jaycee Hill
20. Baboon Boogie - Jimmy Murphy
21. Good Rockin' Baby - Sid King & The Five Strings
22. Rocky Road Blues - Ronnie Self
23. Pink Pedal Pushers - Carl Perkins
24. I'm Coming Home - Johnny Horton
25. Mean Mama Blues - Marty Robbins


Ain't I'm A Dog! 25 More Rockabilly Rave-Ups
1. Ain't I'm A Dog - Ronnie Self
2. Hurricane - Joe Maphis And Larry Collins
3. Where The Rio De Rosa Flows - Carl Perkins
4. Party - The Collins Kids
5. Tennessee Toddy - Marty Robbins
6. Everybody's Rockin' But Me - Bobby Lord
7. The Woman I Need (Honky Tonk Mind) - Johnny Horton
8. I'm Jealous - Werly Fairburn
9. New Studio Blues - Link Wray
10. You're So Right For Me - Ronnie Self
11. Sag, Drag And Fall - Sid King & The Five Strings
12. Goin' Down That Road - Ersel Hickey
13. It's A Great Big Day - Derrell Felts
14. Who's Been Here? - Commonwealth Jones
15. Lover's Rock - Johnny Horton
16. Sugar Diet - Charlie Adams
17. Hop, Skip And Jump - The Collins Kids
18. Pointed Toe Shoes - Carl Perkins
19. Do Do Do - Commonwealth Jones
20. Flip Out - Billy Brown
21. Purr, Kitty Purr - Sid King & The Five Strings
22. Go Away Hounddog - Cliff Johnson
23. Hey Little Dreamboat - Rose Maddox
24. Goin' Back To The City - Onie Wheeler
25. Did We Have A Party - Billy Brown

Loud, Fast and Out of Control - The Wild Sounds of 50s Rock

A great box set from Rhino, this compilation sets out to prove that 50's rock was dangerous and full of attitude. The message is in the title, in the cover art that shows a cartoonish greaser roughing up a square, in the liner notes illustrated with the pulpy 50s paperbacks about gangs, loose women, and reefer. And of course the message is in the music, a great set of manic, greasy, frothy-mouthed tunes - rock-n-roll, R&B, jump blues, and rockabilly.


Loud, Fast and Out of Control - The Wild Sounds of 50s Rock
Two independent archives on 4shared
First
Second

Track list is in the comments.

Songs The Cramps Taught Us Vol. 1 and 2

The Cramps' spiritual leader and guitarist Poison Ivy is also well known as a collector and connosieur of rare rockabilly and garage-rock singles. These two CDs collect the 50's and 60's obscurities covered, touted, or quoted by The Cramps.





Songs The Cramps Taught Us: Vol. 1 (104 mb, 192 kbps) and Vol. 2 (99 mb, mostly 192 kbps) on megaupload.

There is also a third volume that I don't have, I will appreciate any leads on that. Marcel in the comments pointed me to the Wild Wild Party blog that has the third volume - along with a ton of other great stuff!
The track list is in the comments.

P.S. A lot of the same material is covered on the Born Bad series.

Robert Gordon With Link Wray + Fresh Fish Special

Another entry in the Link Wray retrospective. Two albums recorded by Link with the rockabilly revivalist Robert Gordon in the late 70s. These records are near perfect on many levels. In the aftermath of the punk explosion, the world finally caught up with Link's noisy, minimalistic guitar sensibilities that seemed so far out in the 50s. Link is finally able to play what he wants for the sympathetic, appreciative audience - and, what's more important, with the sympathetic, appreciative band members. The songs are drawn from the early rock and rockabilly gold reserve; the execution perfectly balances respect for the material and a modernized sound - mostly thanks to Link's guitar.
This disc combines two original albums on one CD with bonus tracks.
Great stuff, get it now!





Robert Gordon With Link Wray + Fresh Fish Special
256 kbps, 102 mb
mediafire or depositfiles
1. Red Hot
2. I Sure Miss You
3. Summertime Blues
4. Boppin' The Blues
5. Sweet Surrender
6. Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll
7. The Fool
8. It's In The Bottle
9. Woman (You're My Woman)
10. Is This The Way?
11. The Way I Walk
12. Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache
13. If This Is Wrong
14. Five Days, Five Days
15. Fire (with Bruce Springsteen)
16. I Want To Be Free
17. Twenty Flight Rock
18. Sea Cruise
19. Lonesome Train
20. Blue Eyes
21. Rock Billy Boogie
22. Black Slacks
23. Love My Baby
24. All By Myself
25. Nervous
26. Sweet Love On My Mind
27. Drivin' Wheel
28. Someday Someway
29. Fire (Live)

Link Wray - The Original Rumble

Another Best Of, it only overlaps with the previous one by about one-third. Although Rhino's collections are impeccable, Link's legacy is too extensive to cover on one disc. So - you know you need it!
More fuzz, more rumble, more guitar ugliness!


Link Wray - The Original Rumble Plus 22 Other Storming Guitar Instrumentals
192 kbps, 72 mb
REUP: mediafire
1. Rumble
2. The Swag
3. Batman (Theme)
4. Ace Of Spades
5. Jack The Ripper
6. I'm Branded
7. Fat Back
8. Run Chicken Run
9. Turnpike USA
10. Deuces Wild
11. Mustang
12. Blueberry Hill
13. Run Boy Run
14. The Sweeper
15. Hound Dog
16. That'll Be The Day
17. The Fuzz
18. Rawhide
19. Draggin'
20. Aces Wild
21. Bull Dawg
22. The Rumble Man
23. Copenhagen

Rumble! The Best of Link Wray

I wanted to play something that didn't sound like Chet Atkins - Link Wray

Link Wray - the other guitar hero of the 50's. Where Chet Atkins stood for dedication, professionalism, musicianship, Link was raw power, the grit, the attitude. There isn't much I can say about him besides recycling the old cliches - Rumble is the only instrumental banned from radio play for being "suggestive of delinquency" and it's also the most memorable tune from Pulp Fiction that somehow did not get onto the soundtrack album; Link's guitar sounds that way because he punched holes in the amp speaker; his singing sounds that way because he's only got one lung; Link is an "inventor of the power chord" and godfather of the 60s noise-mongerers like Pete Townshend...

Link is the first person to show that noise can be music and vice versa, and a reminder to us all that there is no wrong or right way to do things: if the only way to get that sound is to string your guitar with a barbed wire and strum it with a tin can top, then that's what you got to do - even though Chet Atkins wouldn't approve.


Rumble! The Best of Link Wray
REUP: 220VBR, 82 mb
depositfiles
1. Rumble
2. The Swag
3. Raw-Hide
4. Dixie-Doodle
5. Ramble
6. Ain't That Lovin' You Babe
7. Jack the Ripper
8. The Black Widow
9. Big City After Dark
10. Run Chicken Run
11. The Shadow Knows
12. Deuces Wild
13. Hang On
14. Ace of Spades
15. I'm Branded
16. Batman Theme
17. Hidden Charms
18. Climbing a High Wall
19. Switchblade
20. Jack the Ripper [live]

Lonnie Mack - Memphis Wham! (expanded)

I was reading a "best 60's instrumentals" list one time, with all the usual contenders - Booker T and the MGs, the Ventures, Link Wray, stuff like Telstar, Tequila and Misirlou, and all the rest. There was one name I didn't recognise, though - Lonnie Mack. I found an album that had both of his signature instrumentals, one called Memphis and another named Wham!, and, yes, they both very much deserved a place on the best-of list. What really blew me away, though, was his singing. The intense vocal over the burning guitar solos and the soul-y brass section support sounded so much like my favorite West Side bluesman - Otis Rush - that I was shocked to find out that Mr. Mack is neither black nor a Chicagoan.

Lonnie Mack is the stocky guy with a pompadour and a Flying V on the picture below. He wears his influences on his sleeve: the pompie and his love of instrumentals are reminiscent of Freddie King, and the Flying V is just like the other King, Albert, plays.
Lonnie's career is similar to that of the guitar legends like James Burton, Roy Buchanan, Jimmy Bryant, and Danny Gatton: the effortless virtuosity made him a legend in the musicians' circles, but his distaste for the music business kept him away from the public eye. Blues fans may know him as the biggest influence on SRV; Lonnie Mack's comeback concert brought together a score of other fans like Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Ry Cooder (who joined Lonnie onstage) and Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Paul Simon, Eddie Van Halen, who were in the audience.

I meant to start this entry with the famous quote from Hunter S. Thompson but then found it on Lonnie Mack's website (bottom of this page).

This record includes the original LP from 1964 and some non-album tracks.

Lonnie Mack - Memphis Wham! (expanded)
REUP: depositfiles
87 mb

1. Memphis
2. Where There's A Will There's A Way
3. Wham!
4. I'll Keep You Happy
5. The Bounce
6. Baby What's Wrong
7. Down And Out
8. Satisfied
9. Susie Q
10. Why
11. Down In The Dumps
12. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu
13. Gee Baby
14. Chicken Pickin'
15. Oh, I Apologize
16. Say Something Nice To Me
17. From Me To You
18. Turn On Your Love Light
19. The Freeze
20. Farther On Up The Road
21. Cry, Cry, Cry
22. Save Your Money
23. Tension (Part 1)
24. Tension (Part 2)