Ayub Ogada is a musician from Kenya. A singer, he also performs on the traditional east African stringed instrument, the nyatiti. Of the Luo people, he was born in Mombasa.
Tracklisting:
1. Obiero
2. Dala
3. Wa Winjigo Ero
4. Thum Nyatiti
5. Kronkrohinko
6. Chiro
7. 10%
8. Ondiek
9. Kothbiro
10. En Mana Kuoyo
John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt (July 3, 1893 or March 8, 1892 — November 2, 1966) was an American county blues singer and guitarist
Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine. Singing in a loud whisper, to a melodious finger-picked accompaniment, he began to play local dances and parties while working as a sharecropper. He first recorded for Okeh Records in 1928, but these were commercial failures, and Hurt drifted out of the recording scene, where he continued his work as a farmer. After a man discovered a copy of one of his recordings, "Avalon Blues", which gave the location of his hometown, there became increased interest in his whereabouts. Tom Hoskins, a blues enthusiast, would be the first to locate Hurt in 1963. He convinced Hurt to relocate to Washington, D.C.., where he was recorded by the Library of Congress in 1964. This rediscovery helped further the American folk music revival, which had led to the rediscovery of many other bluesmen of Hurt's era. Hurt entered the same university and coffeehouse concert circus as his contemporaries, as well as other Delta blues musicians brought out of retirement. As well as playing concerts, he recorded several studio albums for Vangaurd records.
He died in Grenada, Mississippi. Material recorded by Hurt has been re-released by many record labels over the years (see discography); and his influence has extended over many generations of guitarists.
1. Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home
2. Boys You're Welcome
3. Joe Turner's Blues
4. First Shot Missed Him
5. Farther Along
6. Funky Butt
7. Spider Spider
8. Waiting For You
9. Shortnin' Bread
10. Trouble I've Had It All My Days
11. Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me
12. Good Morning Carrie
13. Nobody Cares For Me
14. All Night Long
15. Hey Honey Right Away
16. You've Got To Die
17. Goodnight Irene
Michael Hurley is an American singer/guitarist, reportedly born December 20, 1941. He also plays the fiddle.
Hurley’s debut album, First Songs, was recorded for Folkways Records in 1965 on the same reel-to-reel machine that taped Leadbelly’s Last Sessions. He was “discovered” by blues and jazz historian Frederick Ramsey III, and subsequently championed by boyhood friend Jesse Colin Young, who released his 2nd & 3rd albums on The Youngbloods’ Warner Bros. imprint, Raccoon. In the late 70’s, Hurley made three albums for Rounder, all of which have since been reissued on CD.
Hurley has done much of the artwork for his own albums, and the two oft-featured cartoon werewolves, Jocko and Boone, have been something of a theme across Hurley's musical career, even appearing in their own comics. Both were based on real dogs that Hurley owned.
Tracklisting:
1. Werewolf
2. Grand Canyon Line
3. English Nobleman
4. Be Kind To Me
5. Troubled Water
6. Red Ravager's Reel
7. Sweedeedee
8. Open Up
9. Jocko's Lament
10. Light Green Fellow
11. Get The Best Of Me
12. Bisciut Roller
13. When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano
14. Penguins
In the early days of the Wailing Souls, the first name that the group came up with in the late 60's was The Renegades. This group consisted of Winston 'Pipe' Matthes on lead vocals, Lloyd 'Bread' McDonald and George 'Buddy' Haye. This line-up recorded backing vocals for an Ernest Ranglin abum before breaking up in 1968.
Pipe and Bread teamed up with two other singers after that, Oswald Downes and Norman Davis, and recorded the single "Gold Digger" for producer Lloyd 'Matador' Daley. From there they went on to work with Coxsone Dodd's famous Studio One label: Soul & Power is a compilation released in the 80s of some of the great Wailing Souls material from this period of their career.
Tracklisting:
1. Trouble Maker 2. You Should Have Known 3. Don't Fight 4. Hot Road 5. Run My People 6. Soul & Power 7. I've Got A Burning Fire 8. Rock But Don't Fall 9. Everybody Talking 10. All Alone 11. Stick Together
The 1970s school boy musical band from St. Gregory’s College, Obalende, Ikoyi, Lagos. Nigeria’s most outstanding school boy band of all time! Largely influenced by the guitar solos of Carlos Santan, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Francis Rossi and the criss-cross rhythms of Osibisa. At home they were influenced by the music of ‘BLO’ (Berkley Jones, Laolu Akins and Mike Odumosu), ‘Monomono’ (led by Joni Haastrup), The Funkees, and Ofo the Black Company.
(source: http://www.last.fm/music/Ofege)
Tracklisting
1. Nobody Fails
2. Whizzy Ilabo
3. Gbe Mi Lo
4. Try and Love
5. It's Not Easy
6. Ofege
7. You Say No
8. Lead Me On
