kudzurunner
1966 posts
Oct 22, 2010
7:00 PM
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MEMPHIS GROOVES is now for sale to the general public. Enjoy, everybody.
FOR MP3S: http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/111026199-memphis-grooves-mp3-zip
FOR WAV FILES: http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/111026200-memphis-grooves-wav-zip
Last Edited by on Oct 22, 2010 7:05 PM
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sunnybh
1 post
Oct 22, 2010
7:20 PM
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Congratulations Brandon! Good Job!
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Oxharp
362 posts
Oct 23, 2010
5:27 AM
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Just down loaded it. Great price for us rip off British well done Brandon.
You can tell the SOD influence in your playing and I can hear some of Adam's. Its all good and congratulations its great and thanks for your advice a while ago I am still working on everything as usual.
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Oxharp
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Heart2Harp
162 posts
Oct 23, 2010
8:20 AM
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Koodos Brandon! Look forward to dowloading it.
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Heart2Harp
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RyanMortos
852 posts
Oct 23, 2010
10:35 AM
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Thanks for making this available Adam. I really enjoyed listening to Brandon at SPAH at very much look forward to listening to this CD.
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~Ryan
"I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window." - Stephen Wright
Pennsylvania - H.A.R.P. (Harmonica Association 'Round Philly)
Contact:
My youtube account
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kudzurunner
1968 posts
Oct 23, 2010
2:25 PM
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Here are the harp keys Brandon is using on the album. He uses quite a variety.
Blues Ball: Low Eb
Whammer Jammer: A
Hellhound: Low Eb
Billie Jean: E
Harpbox: Bb natural minor
People Take My Soul: Bb Natural Minor
Grandma’s Hands: Low F#
Bye Bye Bird: Low C
Soul Thing: C Chromatic
Squat That Rabbit: Low C
Hit The Road Jack: Db
Superstition: Ab
Nine Below Zero: Low C
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Buddha
2604 posts
Oct 23, 2010
2:36 PM
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it's good
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"I am a great believer in understanding, not copying."
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OzarkRich
276 posts
Oct 23, 2010
3:12 PM
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Great stuff Brandon!
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Buddha
2605 posts
Oct 23, 2010
3:48 PM
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I've listened to the whole thing.
I think this is one of the few albums everybody should have in their collection. Brandon is doing something nobody else is doing though others are sure to follow.
I'm honored and humbled to have had a hand in Brandon's direction and to have had him as a student.
Brandon, you should send a physical copy to Joe Filisko. He would be proud to have it in his collection.
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"I am a great believer in understanding, not copying."
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Greg Heumann
817 posts
Oct 23, 2010
4:19 PM
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Yeah, what Buddha said. Ok well he isn't a student, really - but we've talked a lot. And he's a customer. Does that count?
Way to go Brandon!
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/Greg
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Ant138
610 posts
Oct 24, 2010
5:40 AM
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I'll be buying it as soon as i get a new computer in a few weeks. Mine has finally died after 8 yrs of use. I'm having to borrow a laptop from my wife's university job at the moment.
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N.O.D.
311 posts
Oct 24, 2010
6:28 AM
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I heard the Promo Can i get hard copy,I'm Old School
My Problem with Albums i download on my PC is thats it they stay there i don't burn them to CD:(
We got a $5000+ Bose sound system we just don't put anything in it other than Production CD's you just can't get the quality of a Studio Produced Album,
From Downloading from the net and burning to a generic CD well thats MOP,
So I'm up for a Hands on Copy of this album:)
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Cheers:)
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Stickman
495 posts
Oct 24, 2010
6:32 AM
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CD's? Your living in the stone age Nasty. Get an I-pod and plug it into your stereo system.
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ZackPomerleau
1221 posts
Oct 24, 2010
9:02 AM
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NOD, they come in WAV files too which are MUCH better than mp3s as they have not bee all reduced in size, etc...of course, FLAC still rules with sound quality.
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The7thDave
189 posts
Oct 24, 2010
9:22 AM
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Listening now. This is great!
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kudzurunner
1970 posts
Oct 24, 2010
9:47 AM
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I'm glad everybody is enjoying the album. Brandon and I worked very hard on it.
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Stickman
497 posts
Oct 24, 2010
9:54 AM
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is it/will it be available on i-tunes?
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kudzurunner
1972 posts
Oct 24, 2010
11:39 AM
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We have no immediate plans to do that, but it's certainly possible that we'll do it at some point in the future. It's worth noting that iTunes, Amazon mp3s, and other traditional distribution methods require an up-front payment for mechanical licenses, assuming that you've got some covers (aka "controlled compositions") rather than having an album that is 100% originals. I.e., it costs money to put your stuff on iTunes.
Last Edited by on Oct 24, 2010 11:40 AM
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nacoran
3059 posts
Oct 24, 2010
11:56 AM
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I gave a listen to the demo. It sounds awesome. I'll pick it up in a few days when I have a little cash available.
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jodanchudan
103 posts
Oct 24, 2010
4:39 PM
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Great album Brandon! Been listening to it pretty much constantly since I got it yesterday.
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isaacullah
1205 posts
Oct 24, 2010
8:45 PM
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I just bought it and listened to it all the way through. It is DEFINITELY a solid piece of work, and is VERY much in the vein of where I would like to see Blues harmonica going. Brandon has done a really good job here of marrying the FX, beatboxing, and harp playing. It is certainly an album worth spending your money on.
I do have one question, however, for Brandon/Adam. What was the rationale for including quite so much Son of Dave content (three songs)? This is NOT a criticism, but more of a curiosity. Brandon certainly put his spin on the SOD tracks, and the three SOD covers are great, but I'm just not sure that they really absolutely needed to be on there. Was it to make sure you gave SOD an appropriately-sized nod as an influence of yours? If so, many of the other tracks definitely give SOD a nod (a big nod in some of them), but they are also DEFINITELY 100% Brandon Bailey. So, I guess I'm saying is that I could really see this album working without those SOD covers, and I would like to know why you chose to put them on there?
Cheers,
Isaac
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superchucker77
292 posts
Oct 24, 2010
9:26 PM
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@issacullah
The Son Of Dave covers for me were not solely added as basis for consideration and appreciation for his music , but rather were to serve as refference of my extension to his style.
As far as nods, Hellhound was the most obvious, in that my changes were subtle yet noticeable enough that one can tell that it was very much so a release of my own energy into the song. It is the song that shows that I have a mastery of the style of my influence.
People Take My Soul was very much so an extension of the original. A reworking so to speak.
I played it on a minor tuned harp, which gave it a rather different flavor from the original version.
A distinct extension of inventiveness from the original.
Squat That Rabbit is actually not a Son of Dave invention, but rather, a song that he himself has covered from the Taj Mahal songbook.
I considered it a very cool funk blues tune that gave the album an interesting twist of energy.
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Brandon O. Bailey
Official Website of Superchucker
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isaacullah
1206 posts
Oct 24, 2010
10:31 PM
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Thanks for the quick answer Brandon! I understand your intentions much more clearly now! I definitely agree with your characterizations of each of the three tracks in question, and see now why you chose to include those three in particular.
Also, I'd like to o on record as saying that I REALLY like your arrangement of People Take My Soul. I think it takes that song to a whole new height.
I'll be playing this album on my MP3 player on my way to school every morning!
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Blues13
67 posts
Oct 25, 2010
7:58 AM
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Hi Brandon. I bought your album and I'm listening to it and I must have said damn he's good or damn thats good about a hundred times. As I'm writing the last song just finished playing. The album's great and I think that Soul Thing will become my favorite. I wish you all the success you deserve.
Martin
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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BAG
23 posts
Oct 29, 2010
7:08 PM
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Finally picked it up. Concur with Buddha. This is a MUST HAVE. Great stuff Brandon. Missed SPAH, but caught one evening concert and texted my wife that "damn, now I'll need a loop pedal too" when ya got up there. Amazing harp and combo platter stuff. Great vocals too.
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kudzurunner
1984 posts
Oct 30, 2010
12:50 AM
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@isaac: I like Brandon's response. As Brandon knows, I was very attentive, from the beginning, to the dangers of drawing too much energy from the Son of Dave songbook. Perhaps because I had just laid down my own first solo album, I was hyper-conscious of the need for a first album to be a personal statement, a declaration of individuality. We spoke frankly about this. Literary critic Harold Bloom speaks in his seminal work, THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE, about a series of what he calls "revisionary ratios" that govern the relationship of the ephebe--the young poet--to the elder (master) poet. One of these ratios is essentially this: you absorb the influence and spit it back with such force and such an original spin that, after you've done that, you make your master sound as though HE were imitating you, rather than vice versa.
I think that Brandon's versions of Son of Dave's songs are so strong that an objective listener might actually start to wonder who was the original and who was the cover. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a strong young poet. I think, in other words, that Brandon earned his right to put those three songs on the album. I did my best to make this case in the liner notes.
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