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Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys - Elmore James For President (2021)

2021-03-17T09:43:07Z

Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys - Elmore James For President (2021)


1		Elmore James For President	2:31
2		Red Guitar	3:19
3		See You In The Evening	4:11
4		Child Wolf	3:19
5		If You Think I've Lost You	3:28
6		Wildman Call	3:09
7		Last Dance In Memphis	3:55
8		Baby Don't Worry	1:39
9		Rampant	2:33
10		Like Marie Laveau	2:51
11		One More Time	3:40
12		Bottle Won't Save You	3:17
13		Little Freddie Is King	3:04

Baritone Guitar – John Fohl
Drums – Jim Goodall
Guitar – Smoke
Percussion – Lisa Cee
Saxophone [Sax] – Tom Eisenhood
Vocals, Blues Harp – Johnny Mastro

Powerful, heavy & bluesy! People say it’s the toughest sounding band around. The band with the original, reckless sound hails from New Orleans, LA. Johnny leads the ensemble and has racked up 13 records, countless festival appearances, over 35 European tours in 15 countries, a feature in a 2013 film as well as recording for the BBC in London, German National Radio in Bremen, and Belgian National Radio in Brussels.

Elmore James (1918-1963) was an American musician that had popularity, deep soul and an energy that makes his music sound fresh today. JMMB’s 13 song new recording keeps that American spirit alive. Powerful, heavy & bluesy!

JMMBs music is a blend of new and old at the same time. Roots run deep as Johnny spent 16 years (and Smoke 6 years) at the blues’ shrine “Babe’s & Ricky’s Inn” under the tutelage of Laura Mae “Mama” Gross. She taught them the only color that mattered was blue and encouraged them to develop their own, loose sound. The results are apparent at every show and every recording “Mama’s Boys” make. ---bluesmagazine.nl

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Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys - Take Me To Your Maker (2007)

2017-02-13T15:28:31Z

Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys - Take Me To Your Maker (2007)


01. Angel Rollon (2:47)
02. Down in NO (3:44)
03. CFB (2:29)
04. Take Your Time (3:05)
05. 8Ball (4:24)
06. Wonder Boogie (3:01)
07. Ghetto Woman (3:07)
08. Shade Your Woman (3:07)
09. Demon's Blues (3:49)
10. What Have I Done Wrong (2:44)
11. Bottlegone Boogie (1:27)
12. Throwdown (2:55)
13. Changes Coming Down (3:01)
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14. Lonesome Whistle (4:15)
15. One Day(6:24)

Bass – Glenn Nishida (tracks: 3), Jeff Henry
Drums – Jimmy Goodall
Guitar, Slide Guitar – Dave Melton
Rhythm Guitar – Kirk Fletcher (tracks: 3)
Vocals, Harmonica, Keyboards – Johnny Maestro

Taking it to the next level.On “Take Me To Your Maker” the past winners of LA Music Awards ‘Best Blues Band’ do what they do best: gritty, hard-edged, uncompromising songs that borrow from the past but add a sizeable dose of 21st century steroids.

For this new cut, Johnny Mastro has penned 12 of the fourteen tracks. The album's smart production nonetheless retains the band’s trademark live, shooting-from-the hip sound, characterized by Mastro’s voice and exemplary harmonica, with the guitarist squeezing every last drop of distortion from his old Fender amp.

The driving and relentlessly foot-tapping grooves that emanate from most of this album are countered by the bare (vocals/harp/upright bass) of Mastro’s “Demon’s Blues” and a charming version of the Jimmie Davis/Hank Williams song ‘Lonesome Whistle’ offered here as bonus track.

The Mama’s Boys played Germany, Holland, Belgium and France in 2006 where they gained ‘stars of the show’ rating at several festivals. They make their first visit to the UK in April ‘07 for seven dates including the Burnley National Blues Festival and 100 Club.

In their home state of California the band consistently plays over 200 dates a year, ranging from the small club in LA where the band was born, to major festivals. ---cdbaby.com

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Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys - Beautiful Chaos (2011)

2017-01-28T09:57:51Z

Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys - Beautiful Chaos (2011)


01. Spider (3:40)
02. Wineheaded (2:48)
03. Love Train #2 (3:48)
04. The Dirge (4:17)
05. Fresh Squeezed CoolAid (3:18)
06. Kings & Queens (2:53)
07. Shades of Grey (5:24)
08. Bone Dry (2:47)
09. Howling (3:34)
10. KGB Boogie (2:29)
11. Night (4:02)

Johnny Mastro - Harp, Vocals
Kirk Fletcher – Guitar
Smokehouse – Guitars
Mike Hightower – Bass
Jim Goodall – Drums

The album has totally convinced me. Rough, hard and dirty backstreet Blues that no one else can play like the Mamas Boys. Get a unique taste and listen to my favorite starter of this album : The Dirge. A real blast of a extremely rude gutbuster with Smokehouse tickling wonderful notes out of his 6 string, some real crooked notes! Johnny blowing his complete lung contents into the harp. The rhythm mashinery of Jimbo and Mike supplys a solid ground. You need Beatiful Chaos because without music life would be a mistake. Visit the shows and see Johnny crawling on his knees to massacre his harp, Smokehouse torture his six strings to highest levels, Mike and Jimmy supply the rolling thunder of a solid ground. ---MuddyLives, cdbaby.com

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Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys - Never Trust The Living (2016)

2017-01-25T17:26:14Z

Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys - Never Trust The Living (2016)


01. Snake Doctor (2:18)
02. Whiskey (3:41)
03. Judgement Day (6:37)
04. Monkey Man (3:21)
05. Don't Believe (2:50)
06. House of the Rising Sun (3:39)
07. Walking (3:22)
08. Never Trust the Living (3:11)
09. Bucksnort Annie (2:39)
10. Sad Night Owl (3:29)
11. Indrid Cold (3:30)

Johnny Mastro (vocals, harp)
Smokehouse (guitar)
Dean Zucchero (bass)
Rob Lee (drums)

They hole up on Frenchman, mainly at the Apple Barrel, with occasional forays into Mid City’s heart of darkness. They hail from New York’s East Village, and they interned at Los Angeles’ famed Babe’s and Ricky’s Inn. So what city does this power trio with a +1 sound like? Chicago.

Specifically, Mastro and his boys sound like Chicago blues, authentic enough to turn a Freddie King standard into a Little Walter-style harp instrumental and yet delivered with the kind of volume, grit, and wonderful irreverence that finds them wandering into the backyards of alt-blues legends like Black Keys or the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. They play it straighter than any postpunk blues rockers ever could, though, allowing just enough stylistic room for everything to breathe. It’s jukey but totally unselfconscious about it, the kind of music that makes you feel somebody in the bar is maybe already getting laid.

Mastro’s harp is the centerpiece of authenticity on their debut’s nine solid originals; if his vocals didn’t ditch that cartoony blackface white rockers mistake for credibility and go with his inner Jack White nerd, and Smokehouse Brown’s guitar wasn’t afraid to take some nearly pure-noise turns on tracks like “Judgement Day,” you might be left with some pretty standard (albeit fiery) blues shuffles (“Walking” keeps threatening to become “Sweet Home Chicago” in the choruses).

But then there’s that rough and ready yet somewhat out-of-place rockabilly raveup “Bucksnort Annie” and an instrumental cover of “House of the Rising Sun” that bets you’ll ID it on the Animals’ famous chord arrangement alone. (They’re right.) And speaking of “Judgement Day,” its stomp proves so hard, its Canned Heat psych so hazy, that it flies right off the dirt road and into the swamp. Sweating hard where lesser bands merely strain, “Don’t Trust the Living” is fascinatingly uncategorizable for a blues-rock release, cutting the line between the Chicago juke and the hipster club finer than it’s been cut in years. ---Robert Fontenot, offbeat.com

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