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New Release!!
Steve Gardner's Third CD
JERICHO
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Jericho- real stories, real music, right now. |
“Jericho…the trumpets sounded…and the walls came tumbling down….”
(Joshua 6:20)
Recorded August ,2007, Nashville, TN
As a small boy growing up in Mississippi I often heard the Bible story of how music tumbled
the walls of Jericho. Later on I heard the recordings of some of the best wall tumblers ever,
Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly. Their music has been a guiding light in my life-especially as I
have Rambled With The Blues from Mississippi to Tokyo along the tangled path, past the Big
Delta Crossing to the walls of Jericho
曲目 |
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Been On The Job Too Long |
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4 O’Clock |
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Come On In |
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8. |
Froggy Went A-Courtin’ |
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Now You’re Gone |
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9. |
Last Fair Deal Gone Down |
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Rollin’ And Tumblin’ |
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10. |
Windstorm Blues |
| 5. |
Mama’s Sewing Machine |
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11. |
Jericho |
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Broke Down Engine |
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I recorded Jericho in Nashville, TN., the cradle of American roots music, with my good friends,
the Jake Leg Stompers, forces of nature in their own right. They are a string band who always
play their hearts out but never stay on the job too long!
So like the song goes, “It’s hard to hear freedom ring, 9-11 changed everything, be careful who
you hate and whoyou fear….” And let music, tumble your walls down.
Brandon Armstrong, Bill Steber, Steve Gardner, and Ron Bombardi
Steve Gardner: Vocals, Harp and National Style O Guitar
Bill Steber: Banjo-Uke, National Tri-cone guitar, Washburn Mandolin, and backing vocals
Ron Bombardi: Fiddle, National Mandolin, Spoons, Bones, and backing vocals
Brandon Armstrong: Tuba, Acoustic Bass, Washboard, Spoons, and backing vocals
Jason Howard: Acoustic guitar, percussion
Pat Casey Daley: backing vocals
JERICHO recorded August 7th and 8th, 2007
Big H Productions, Nashville, TN.
Produced Steve Gardner
Mixing and Mastering Jason Howard
Cover Art Bob Gray
Photography Pat Casey Daley
Art Direction James Patterson
Como Location Art Sharon McConnell
All songs and arrangements by Steve Gardner for BLUES CAT RECORDS (C) 2007
Special thanks to the folks back home, WWOZ community radio New Orleans, and all of our
loved ones, family and friends from around the world who continue to come out, sing out, and
lend us support.
e-mail Steve bluzzz2u@yahoo.com
www.jakelegstompers.com
07082007jsmg all rights reserved
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Steve Gardner's Second CD
Big Delta Crossing
On Sale 2000yen |
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Blues that tell simple stories of life and love. A
collection of songs filtered though harps and beat out
on National guitars that shake hands with tradition
while sitting comfortably on the front porch of the
present...the blues from Mississippi to Tokyo. |
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1. | I Got Love If You Want It | | Steve Gardner | |
2. | Anybody Seen My Gal | | Steve Gardner | |
3. | Hey,Good Lookn' | | Hank Williams/arr.Steve Gardner | |
4. | Bottle It up And Go | | Traditional/arr.Steve Gardner | |
5. | Tokyo 2 Step (Bear Foot) | | Steve Gardner | |
6. | Some Day Baby | | Traditional/arr.Steve Gardner | |
7. | Hard Time Killing Floor | | N.Skip James/arr.Steve Gardner | |
8. | 44/20 | | Steve Gardner | |
9. | Shake It-And Break It | | Charley Patton/arr.Steve Gardner | |
10. | Blackjack David | | Traditional/arr.Steve Gardner | |
11. | Dry Southern Blues | | Lemon Jefferson/arr.Steve Gardner | |
12. | Little Queen Of Spades | | Robert Johnson/arr.Steve Gardner | |
13. | Swing Low | | Traditional/arr.Steve Gardner |
Steve Gardner with The Bottleneck Blues Band（Photo）：
Featuring: Macoto Takahashi, Hisa Nakase, Yu Ojima,Shinjiro Mori
(c)2005 blues cat records/ last hero productions
BDC122005smg
BIG DELTA CROSSING, is my second CD. It is a simple collection of songs about life, love and adventure tempered with hard times, tall tales and simple truths filtered through the wiser eyes of experience. Big Delta Crossing is the blues running forward and looking backward as we wander into this new century. The blues remind me that we never really leave our troubles behind no matter how far we roam from home and that life is for living not wishing and waiting. An old man I met once on my travels took the time to tell me that he thought that, "life was like the best bottle of whiskey you would ever get...so drink it all and try not to waste a drop!"
Steve Gardner, Tokyo 2006.
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Steve Gardner's First CD
Rambling With The Blues
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Rambling with the blues is Steve Gardner's first CD
released in July, 2002.
"Everybody gets the blues sometime...They make you
laugh and cry: they turn you all upside-down."
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1. | Black Snakes Crackin' | | Steve Gardner | |
2. | So Brock Blues | | Steve Gardner | |
3. | Creation Blues | | Steve Gardner | |
4. | John Henry | | Traditional/arr. Steve Gardner | |
5. | Do Lord | | Traditional/arr. Steve Gardner | |
6. | Summit Road | | Steve Gardner | |
7. | Savannah Strut | | Macoto Takahashi/Steve Gardner | |
8. | Victoria Crossing | | Steve Gardner/Macoto Takahashi | |
9. | New Road Blues | | Steve Gardner/with respects to Tommy Johonson | |
10. | Fix-it Man Blues | | Steve Gardner/with respects to Sam Chatmon | |
11. | Your Funeral and My Trial | | Rice Miller/arr.Steve Gardner | |
12. | Santa Claus is Comin' Y'all | | Steve Gardner/with respects to HuddieLedbetter | |
13. | The Fiddler and the C | | Steve Gardner |
STEVE GARDNER-vocal, national®al guitar, harmonica,banjo
MACOTO TAKAHASHI-dobro&acostic guitar/BILL BENFIELD-mandolin
JIM EDIGER-fiddle,accordion/DAVID STEENKIN-harmonica
TERUO MATSUMOTO-snare drum/YUTAKA MAKI-double bass
SHINJIRO MORI-national guitar/HISA NAKASE-bass
Rambling With The Blues is the sound of a guitars and harmonicas echoing the low groans once sung across fields or flung out of church windows, off back porches or tossed about at fish fry's and in hot front rooms. The Blues...stomped out and shouted...beat on drums or played on cane fifes...stories that make us all laugh and cry...music that touches our very soul.
This CD, Rambling With The Blues, was made with deep respect for the music and those who played and walked before me. Those who were generous enough to share their music, their lives, their blues with me...they gave me the chance to grow in spirit, to grow in the music and the responsibility to pass on to others the blues...the spirit of the blues.
Rambling with the blues. Mississippi on my mind.
Steve Gardner Tokyo 2002
copyright STEVE GARDNER/BLUES CAT RECORDS 2002
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Jessie Mae Hemphill and Friends CD/DVD
"Dare You To Do It Again"
See web site- http://www.jmhemphill.org for full details
and please check out Steve's story about Jessie Mae Hemphill
in the Ink Spots section of this web site. |
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