30 Years Of Stony Plain

Various Artists
Stony Plain Records
General | Jul 2006

Reviews

Don Farrell
Reviewed 2006-10-02
Canadian record company 2 CD compilation featuring some of their singers/songwriters Blues, r&b, swing and jazz artists
DISC # 1 singers, songwriters & more
***1: 4:14 Western Swing R&B Great fem vocal & Horn section
2: 3:17 laid back blues, male vocal
***3: 3:28 GREAT male singer songwriter about Global Warming
4: 3: 31 male singer songwriter spoken word Love song
***5: 3:25 Charlie Christian/Tal Farlow style jazz guitars
6: 5:04 cover of Bing Crosby's "Sam's Song" with mandolin
7: 2:47acoustic guitar, talking blues
**8: 3:13 piano, & three female vocalists ( Nelson, Muldaur & Strehli)
**9: 4:13 Western swing jazz guitar
10: 2:44 folk/country/bluegrass vocal romp, nice song.
***11: 4: 00 Celtic band about a Pub crawl ( great drinking song)
12: 4:09 alternative rock/bluegrass/folk fast tempo
**13: 3:50 Canadian history song mid tempo rock/bluegrass/country /folk
14: 4:44 a rocking Emmylou Harris
15: 4:39 slow country, male vocal
***16: 4:57 sad song from Steve Earle, guitar & vocal
17: 4:55 female vocal with guitar, slow
***18: 3:49 the Holmes Brothers with great fem chorus doing Dylan's "Man of Peace"
19: 3:54 male vocal, acoustic guitar, slow gentle gospel

DISC # 2 Blues r&b, swing, jazz & more
1: 3: 25 Blues romp
**2: 2:57 swinging blues about the good times in Memphis
3: 5:58 just a piano, Maria Muldaur & Taj Mahal
4: 3:45 two versions of Good Morning Blues, male vocal & harmonica , blues walk.
**5: 3:49 great guitar work,harmonica, male vocal, low down blues
**6: 3:50 fast foot stomping drum, guitar & male vocal about Kansas City
**7: 2:28 great verion of Kansas City
***8: 4:42 Hammond B3 and sax & a great Jimmy Witherspoon vocal
***9: 3:21 fast jump boogie blues
****10: 7:00 two GREAT guitarists, + Jimmy Mc Griff on the B3
***11: 3:16 low down blues walk, nice guitar work, raspy male vocal
***12: 3:01 fast foot stomping vocal, piano & sax
13: 8:20 funky blues groove, great lyrics
14: 2:36 jumping foot stomping blues " Big Bag o' Blues"
15: 3:54 fem vocal/wail & slide guitarist, slow
16: 4:09 1940's rocking swing, raunchy sax, cool guitar
17: 8:22 cool "Sweet Georgia Brown" cover lots of instrument solos D Farrell 09/2006

Recent airplay

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Woman Stealer
Morning GloryOct 11, 2006

Charting

2006-10-01 — 2006-12-03
Week EndingAirplays
Nov 12 1
Oct 15 1

Track listing

1. Switchin In The Kitchen
2. Tomorrow's Yesterday
3. The Truth Comes Out
4. This Is My Sky
5. Benny's Bugle
6. Sam's Song
7. Play That Guitar Rag
8. I Want A Tall Skinny Papa
9. I Hear You Talkin' To Me
10. The Boys Of Rhythm
11. The Crawl
12. Just The Other Day
13. Louis Riel
14. Born To Run
15. The Face Of Love
16. Goodbye
17. Look At Miss Ohio
18. Man Of Peace
19. Put On Your Robes Son
20. Alimony Blues
21. Memphis Tennessee
22. Ain't What You Used To Have
23. Good Morning Blues
24. My Buddy Buddy Friends
25. Kansas City Blues
26. Kansas City
27. Low Down Dirty Shame
28. When I Say Jump
29. Don't Take Everybody For Your Friend
30. She's Got The Stuff
31. Ain't Gonna Do It
32. Woman Stealer
33. Big Bag O' Blues
34. Down So Low
35. Extra Axle
36. Sweet Georgia Brown