Ronnie Earl and the All-Stars
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Source : AUD > unknown gen cassette > CD-R > EAC

Edit : Sound Forge (tracking, volume) > TLH (sbe aligned) Flac 8

Traders Den - August 6, 2024

Tracked & posted by kingrue upload #4061
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This is a Ronnie Earl with the Allstars show, mixing musicians who have played in
Roomful of Blues, Earl and The Broadcasters, and Sugar Ray and The Bluetones.

This recording is a bit of a mystery. This comes from a CD that I recieved in a trade years ago.
Unfortunately the CD was not labeled with any information other than Ronnie Earl.
I have no recollection of who or where I got it from.
It is a fairly good audience recording and the cool thing about it is there is some guest players on here.
BB King's previous organ player, Ron Levy. I know Ron lives in the Massachusetts area.
Usually when he is a guest performer, it’s normally in the area that he lives, so this is definitely from Massachusetts.
I would guess sometime in the early 80s.
There was an album titled 'Smoking' which was recorded in Boston, February and August 1982, released early 1983.
The album featured Kim Wilson and Sugar Ray Norcia as vocalists and harp players.
This live recording might be from The Bull Run Tavern in Shirley, Mass. possibly 1983.


Total Time = 39:48

Set list
01 I Smell Trouble (Don Robey song)
02 Let Me Love You Baby (Willie Dixon song)
03 Bad Boy (Eddie Taylor song)
04 Band Intros
05 Going Down Slow (St. Louis Jimmy Oden song).
06 Slow Blues Instrumental with guest Ron Levy on organ and David Maxwell on piano.

Band line-up
Ronnie Earl - guitar
Sugar Ray Norcia - vocals, harp
Michael 'Mudcat' Ward - bass
Rich Lataille - tenor & alto saxophone
Anthony Geraci - piano
John Rossi - drums (passed April 9, 2022 age 79)
guests:
Ron Levy - organ (BB King's organ player from 1969-1976)
David Maxwell - piano (passed February 13, 2015 age 71)


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