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12 tracks | 48 minutes
Released Jun 2000
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:37 Crossroads lyrics BUY MP3 03:37 Crossroads lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:37 Crossroads
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:46 Careless Love lyrics BUY MP3 04:46 Careless Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:46 Careless Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:39 I'll Give You the Bus Money, Honey! lyrics BUY MP3 02:39 I'll Give You the Bus Money, Honey! lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:39 I'll Give You the Bus Money, Honey!
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:51 Without Your Love lyrics BUY MP3 02:51 Without Your Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:51 Without Your Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:10 'tain't Nobody's Business lyrics BUY MP3 05:10 'tain't Nobody's Business lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:10 'tain't Nobody's Business
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:22 Police Dog Blues lyrics BUY MP3 03:22 Police Dog Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:22 Police Dog Blues
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:27 Bleeding Hearted Blues lyrics BUY MP3 03:27 Bleeding Hearted Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:27 Bleeding Hearted Blues
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 Key to the Highway lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 Key to the Highway lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 Key to the Highway
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 08:05 Don't Look Back lyrics BUY MP3 08:05 Don't Look Back lyrics "GIFT MP3" 08:05 Don't Look Back
1920s Vintage Acoustic Blues, Stride, Ragtime & Jazz Pop - authentic fingerstyle guitar and honest vocals.
Bio / Background
Contemporary Delta Blues, Stride and Jazz Guitarist Bradley N. Litwin Can Sing. Litwin represents the arrival of music that marries peak finger-style guitar performance with a vocal style that engages from the first phrase, and dazzles as it shifts from dark to light, funny to tender, and smooth to rollicking. Taking on the rompin' stompin' finger-style guitar of Blind Blake, Robert Johnson and Mance Lipscomb, the smooth singing of the Mills Brothers and Nat King Cole, and the exhilaration of Bessie Smith, Litwin emerges with a sound all his own, and one that music lovers have been waiting a long time to hear. Treating roots music like an old friend, who just stopped by after decades past, he carries on with a front porch conversation, as though it were never interrupted.
Litwin paid his dues and developed his obvious chops while wandering through the self-absorbed scene that was 1960's contemporary folk music.
↓ more ↓A fascination with the blues awoke with his discovery of roots blues of the early Delta era. Confronted with its primordial power by venerable practitioners Paul Geremia, Sparky Rucker, Roy Bookbinder, John Jackson, and Chris Smither, who each spent time hanging out in Litwin's Vermont guitar-making workshop in the 70's, he developed a thirst for expression in the vintage blues idiom; and that, despite the picture of a hard life on the road, his mentors painted during their time together.
Today, Litwin plays both as a solo performer, and with a band of like-minded madmen as the Madman Jazz Quartet. Members include Jerry 'Scratchmo' Allender on trumpet, Lenny Belasco on drums, and Mike Vozzelli on tenor sax.
Litwin released the critically acclaimed "I'll Give You the Bus Money Honey!" in 1998. From radio to press this album made waves, receiving a host of reviews and accolades praising it's unique brand of vintage blues.
"If you close your eyes and imagine Victrola record scratch noise over Bradley's performance, you begin to think you've traveled back in time, because man, he sure does sound like the real thing."
- Buddy Osthaus
AND... it's a Multimedia Enhanced CD, rich with interactive 3D graphics and Animation, some totally bizarre movies, extracted directly from inside Bradley's head, and a challenge to set up and operate a virtual Victrola Talking Machine!
Appearances with the legendary folk DJ Gene Shay, performances at numerous festivals, and thousands of downloads later, Litwin introduces his sophomore release "You Rascal You" in 2002. Steeped in authentic tradition, this album takes the sound of the 1920's and 30's and once again brings it all back home. (Check out the album page, right here on CDBaby, by clicking the link over yonder, at the left side of the page).
"You might think pop music that's 70 years old has no relevance to today," quips the artist as he nails another vodka gimlet between sets, "to soothe my vocal chords." "I say today's pop music is basically the same as it ever was, and every bit as silly. Now excuse me while I go back out and sing Diddy Wa Diddy for my peeps."
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