RIPPIN FROG TOP TEN ALBUMS 2020 EDITION

2020 

TOP TEN ALBUMS

 

WELL WELL!!

Even Covid couldn't stop the flow 

of great music put out in this crazy year!

For what it is worth 

these rocked my world  this year!

#10

Microwave Dave & The Nukes   Gotta Get A Cadillac 

#9

Billy Boy Arnold    & The Groundhogs  Live At The Virgin Venue (2020)

#8

Larkin Poe   Self Made Man (2020)

#7

Juke Joint Highball   She Ain't Here A Tribute To R.L. Burnside (2020)

#6

Rustyends & Hillbilly Hoodoo - The Last Of The Boogiemen (2020)

#5

Blues Ghetto   Winter Live Session (2020) Italy

#4

The Mighty Mojo Prophets    Sounds From The Jungle Hut    2020

#3

John Lisi & Delta Funk   Retox (2020)

#2

Downchild   50th Anniversary Live at the Toronto Jazz Festival 

#1

Here it was folks  

 

 thnks for your support!

YEAR END DOUBLE DECKER Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown & Gate's Express 

LIVE  Tipitina's  New Orleans 

Sept. 27, 1996  

The one and only Gatemouth Brown here

Not many bootlegs of this unique player!

Played with Freddie King in the 60ies!

TRACKS

1 Gatemouth Brown intro > Bits and Pieces 6:45

2 River of Invitation 9:01

3 Unchained Melody intro 1:03

4 Unchained Melody 8:28

5 Honky Tonk 7:18

6 What a Shame 9:23

7 Take the A-Train 5:38

8 Big Mamou 4:04

9 Chicken Shift 5:58

10 The Drifter 14:07

11 Pressure Cooker 9:12

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 LIVE  Waterfront Blues Festival, 

Portland 

2002-07-07

TRACKS:

01. Instrumental

02. Strange Things Happen

03. Guitar In My Hand

04. Unchained Melody

05. Honey Boy

06. Sunrise Cajun Style 

07. What A Shame

08. Take The "A" Train

09. Front Burner

10. Unknown

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FLAC

FREE LIVE Isle Of Wight & Stockholm 1970

LIVE  

Isle Of Wight & Stockholm

1970

Two live sets from Free's prime are featured on this bootleg, 

one disc taken from their show at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 29, 1970, the other from a concert in Stockholm on December 12, 1970. The sound quality is good enough to make one wonder whether these were recorded with an eye for official release, and the performances are solid, drawing from an assortment of songs on their first four albums.

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OCT 14/24

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Twisted Sister - Santiago, Chile 2013

Welcome to the Twisted Sister party, seven years ago they rocked Chile on the 2013 edition of the Metal Fest festival.

Unfortunately an incomplete recording but we still get the nice radio dj's comments.

Happy Metal Christmas!

Sound Quality: 9.5

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:

01. Shoot ‘em Down (incomplete)

02. Stay Hungry

03. The Fire Still Burns

04. The Kids are Back

05. We’re Not Gonna Take It + Huevos Con Aceite

06. The Price

07. Burn In Hell

08. I Wanna Rock

09. It’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It) 

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SEASON GREETINGS TO ALL!

 

Merry Christmas and a Happier New Year 

to all our readers and families!

Be safe and smart in these unforgiving times !

Thanks for your support 

to our little corner of cyberspace!

From your friendly neighborhood's uploaders!

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Atlanta, Ga. February 12, 1999

 

The Tabernacle

Atlanta, Ga. - 

February 12, 1999

Pre-FM SBD

Featuring Bryan Lee

Great sound !! 

Young Gun Kenny rocks big time here.

TRACKS 

Disc 1:

Trouble Is ... 

Ledbetter Lights

Somehhow, Somewhere, Someway 

True Lies 

Deja Voodoo 

Aberdeen 

Everything is Broken 

Look On Yonder Wall 

Disc 2:

The Things I Used to Do 

Blue on Black
Slow Ride
Little Wing
Drum Solo / Intro
Voodoo Chile
Third Stone From the Sun

NOTE

This is 256 kbs rip 

The way she came and the way she goes!

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Fish & Chip - 1988-10-01 Chi Chi Club, San Francisco

Fish & Chip were John Cipollina on guitars and vocals, Barry Melton guitar and vocals, Peter Albin on bass and vocals and Spencer Dryden on drums.

This audience recording was shared with us by Vinegar Joe and was recorded at the Chi Chi Club, San Francisco.

- Set 1 -

Disc 1

1. crowd/tuning > intro "Welcome to the Chi Chi Club" > Keep On Truckin' > chat

2. ? Til' I'm Gone

3. ? > chat (no opening act, Zeke & the Mountaineers, The Washed-Up Jug Band)

4. A Miner's Life > chat (mining songs)

5. ? There Ain't No Flies On Me > chat 

6. Louie Louie > chat

7. ? Jesus Was A Jew > chat

8. I Can't Dance > chat > crowd

- Set 2 -

9. crowd/tuning > Got Love

10. Colorado Town > chat

Disc 2

1. Hesitation Blues > chat

2. chat (band intro) > Suzie Q > chat (money)

3. Walking Blues

4. Closer > chat (break)

5. crowd > San Francisco Bay Blues > chat (natives)

6. Hold On To The Good Times

7. Jesse James > tuning

8. instrumental

9. Mona (w Tequila tease)

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Big Bill Morganfield LIVE Boulder CO aka Blues & Greens July 23 2009

LIVE

Boulder CO

July 23  2009

AKA

Blues & Greens    

 

His daddy (aka Muddy Waters)  

gave him the Blues!

Not much infos came with it but it is primo sound and fantastic playing!

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Mitch Ryder & Band - Berlin, West Germany 1981

Rock from Detroit with Mitch Ryder and band on a short recording from a radio broadcast at Waldbühne, an outdoor venue in Berlin.

This is from one of Ryder's regular appearances in Germany, at the time the Western side of the country aka Federal Republic of Germany, where he has quite a dedicated following.

Sound Quality: 9+

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:

01. Rock & Roll 

02. It’s All Over Now

03. Red Scar Eyes

04. Subterranean Homesick Blues

05. band intro

06. Wicked Messenger

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Dr. Feelgood LIVE Detroit - 1976-03-10

LIVE   

Detroit 

1976-03-10

Great  quality audience recording for the era!

Opening set in support of Starcastle and Santana for what was their first 

and possibly only American tour (promoting their 2nd album, Malpractice)

Band Members:

Lee Brilleaux - vocals & harp

Wilko Johnson - guitar & occasional lead vocals

John B Sparks - bass

The Big Figure - drums

NEW

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AUG 9 2022

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Sammy Hagar - Checkerdome, St Louis 1982

Sammy Hagar even before the VH years, enjoyed a successful solo career and in 1982 he had in Standing Hampton an hit album that achieved platinum for sales in the U.S.
This concert at the Checkerdome in St Louis got four songs from Standing Hampton played by Sammy and band, Gary Pihl, Bill Church and David Lauser.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:

01 - This Planet's On Fire

02 - Plain Jane

03 - Baby's On Fire

04 - I'll Fall In Love Again

05 - Trans Am (Highway Wonderland)

06 - Inside Lookin' In

07 - Can't Get Loose

08 - Rock'n'Roll Weekend

09 - I've Done Everything For You

10 - Rock Candy

11 - Space Station No.5

12 - Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)

13 - There's Only One Way To Rock

14 - Turn Up The Music

15 - Red

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Roosevelt 'Booba' Barnes - Davenport; July 5th 1991

LIVE

Davenport;  

July 5 1991

 I never expected to see a boot of this great ,but next to unknown, player!

Booba had only one album and a few track of his are on Wolf records stuff 

Allmusic called Heartbroken man an instant classic!

Plus he was a feature in the documentary Deep Blues (awesome flick by the way)

along with RL Burnside Big Jack Johnson and a few more Delta Blues  players

BIG THANKS 

to Kansas Joe for this!

TRACKS

01  They Call It The Blues.mp3

02  Booba Barnes Intro Jam.mp3

03  My Baby Left Me.mp3

04  Thrill Is Gone.mp3

05  How Long.mp3

06  300 Pounds of Joy.mp3

07  Scratch My Back.mp3

08  How Many More Years.mp3

09   Have A Talk With You.mp3

10  The Best You Can.mp3

Track 9 and 10 titles are my not so educated guess!

feel free to let me know if they wrong!

NOTE

 this is at 128kbs 

It is what it is ! Sound is great anyway 

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Van Halen - Free In Dallas 1991

So this is Van Halen by the end of 1991 at the West End Market Place in Dallas.

This was a free concert given by the band as promised by Sammy Hagar at the Monsters Of Rock show in 1988 at the Dallas Cotton Bowl where he had a laryngitis and felt bad about the performance.

They set up the concert using as name 'Band', probably for crowd control reasons, then showed up to play live at 4 pm in downtown Dallas on December 4, 1991.

In the setlist is a nice version of A Apolitical Blues, being true that Van Halen have been doing versions, some very good, along their career.

 

Sound Quality: 9+

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

01 Poundcake

02 Judgement Day

03 There's Only One Way To Rock

04 Runaround

05 Why Can't This Be Love

06 Panama

07 A Political Blues

08 Finish What You Started

09 I Can't Drive 55

10 Best Of Both Worlds

11 Top Of The World

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Albert King LIVE Stockholm, October 1988

 LIVE  

Stockholm, SW

 October 1988

FM Broadcast

One of the 3 Kings of the Blues!

Excellent quality  !

The sky is crying

Ain't gonna fool with your woman

Stormy Monday

Kansas City

Mean to me

The very thought of you

Instrumental

I'll play the blues for you

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Rory Gallagher - Offenburg, Germany 1982

So, I missed a dose of Rory Gallagher and while digging the archives happily found this excellent show which wasn't yet shared here!

Sit back or dance around the house if you can and enjoy this musicianship. Rory, Gerry and Brendan play rock 'n' roll like no one does in these days. And let's not forget guest musicians Mark Feltham on harmonica and Dick Perry and Ray Beavis on saxophone.

A presentation at the SWF3 Festival in Offenburg, Germany on January 16, 1982.

Sound Quality: 9.5-

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:

Part 1
1. Shinkicker
2. Brute Force And Ignorance
3. Wayward Child
4. Nadine
5. What In The World
6. Tattoo'd Lady
7. Bad Penny
8. Double Vision

Part 2
1. Ride On Red Ride On
2. Moonchild
3. Philby
4. My Baby She Left Me
5. Shadow Play
6. Drinking Down The Bourbon

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