Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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4380254 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin' Man | 06:50 Tools | |
4380255 | Play | Love Is in Town | 05:20 Tools | |
4380256 | Play | Be My Lover | 04:07 Tools | |
4380260 | Play | Chocolate and Chili | 00:00 Tools | |
4380257 | Play | Ride Rich Rhythm | 00:00 Tools | |
4380258 | Play | Wonderful | 05:32 Tools | |
4380262 | Play | State Side Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
4380274 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin' Man (Smoove Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380267 | Play | Listen To The Beat | 00:00 Tools | |
4380264 | Play | Talk With Your Hands | 00:00 Tools | |
4380263 | Play | Moaning | 04:02 Tools | |
4380266 | Play | Across the Stars | 00:00 Tools | |
4380269 | Play | Freedom Song | 00:00 Tools | |
4380271 | Play | He doesn't know | 00:00 Tools | |
4380259 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin’ Man - Smoove Remix | 00:00 Tools | |
4380272 | Play | Rockabye Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4380261 | Play | Stone Mad | 00:00 Tools | |
4380278 | Play | Be My Lover (Acoustic Bossa Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380270 | Play | Be My Lover - Acoustic Bossa Remix | 00:00 Tools | |
4380265 | Play | Feel Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4380268 | Play | All the Time in the World | 00:00 Tools | |
4380294 | Play | Wonderful (JoJo Effect Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380273 | Play | El Ritmo | 00:00 Tools | |
4380293 | Play | A Cool Cat In Town | 00:00 Tools | |
4380291 | Play | Chocolate & Chili | 00:00 Tools | |
4380281 | Play | Where Is It Written | 00:00 Tools | |
4380279 | Play | Mambo Jambo | 00:00 Tools | |
4380277 | Play | This Maybe Game | 00:00 Tools | |
4380275 | Play | Don't Take My Love Away | 00:00 Tools | |
4380285 | Play | Straight to Memphis | 00:00 Tools | |
4380282 | Play | I'll Be With You | 00:00 Tools | |
4380295 | Play | Let Love Lead the Way | 00:00 Tools | |
4380276 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin’ Man (Smoove Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380296 | Play | Kiss Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4380286 | Play | Dancing All Night | 00:00 Tools | |
48961701 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin' Man - Club des Belugas Remix | 00:00 Tools | |
4380289 | Play | Ninety Nine 'n a Half | 00:00 Tools | |
4380287 | Play | La Diva | 00:00 Tools | |
4380284 | Play | And You Know How | 00:00 Tools | |
4380288 | Play | U Don't Love Me (I Don't Care) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380308 | Play | Be My Lover - Original | 00:00 Tools | |
4380290 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin' Man - Smoove Remix | 00:00 Tools | |
4380299 | Play | Wonderful - JoJo Effect Remix | 00:00 Tools | |
4380306 | Play | Be my Lover (acoustic bossa mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380298 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin´ Man | 00:00 Tools | |
4380335 | Play | Be My Lover | 04:07 Tools | |
4380283 | Play | Pa-Pade Swing | 00:00 Tools | |
4380301 | Play | Pa-Pade Swing - Koko Chanel Club Mix | 00:00 Tools | |
4380307 | Play | He Doesn´t Know | 00:00 Tools | |
4380292 | Play | Be my Lover (Original) - Original | 00:00 Tools | |
4380297 | Play | Pa-Pade Swing (Koko Chanel Club Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380302 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin' Man - Album Mix | 00:00 Tools | |
48961703 | Play | See You Later Alligator | 00:00 Tools | |
48961702 | Play | Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You | 00:00 Tools | |
4380313 | Play | Skip To The Bip (Funky) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380317 | Play | Wildcats Gotta Move | 00:00 Tools | |
4380303 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin’ Man | 00:00 Tools | |
48961706 | Play | Trouble | 00:00 Tools | |
4380325 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin´ Man (Smoove Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380344 | Play | Rich Rich Rythm | 00:00 Tools | |
48961704 | Play | Have a Conversation with Your Man | 00:00 Tools | |
48961705 | Play | Deed I Do | 00:00 Tools | |
4380371 | Play | It Don't Mean a Thing | 00:00 Tools | |
48961731 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin' Man (Club des Belugas Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380311 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin' Man - Mix | 00:00 Tools | |
4380460 | Play | Mood Indigo | 00:00 Tools | |
4380300 | Play | Some Like It Hot (feat. Club des Belugas) | 00:00 Tools | |
48961700 | Play | 01_kiss me | 00:00 Tools | |
48961709 | Play | Make Love to Me | 00:00 Tools | |
48961708 | Play | Exactly Like You | 00:00 Tools | |
48961707 | Play | Blue Skies | 00:00 Tools | |
48961710 | Play | Bye Bye Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
4380319 | Play | Separation Serenade | 00:00 Tools | |
4380309 | Play | A Cool Cat in Town (feat. Tape Five) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380400 | Play | Hard swing traveling man | 00:00 Tools | |
48961711 | Play | Jambalaya | 00:00 Tools | |
4380372 | Play | Some Like It Hot | 00:00 Tools | |
4380304 | Play | Straight to Memphis (feat. Club des Belugas) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380399 | Play | Dibidy Dop | 00:00 Tools | |
4380315 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin' Man (Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
48961713 | Play | What a Friend We Have in Jesus | 00:00 Tools | |
48961714 | Play | It's Been a Long Long Time | 00:00 Tools | |
4380333 | Play | Far Far Away | 00:00 Tools | |
4380337 | Play | Hand Swing Travellin' Man | 00:00 Tools | |
4380354 | Play | Mary Anne (Just Plain Mary Anne) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380314 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin' Man (Nu Jazz) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380425 | Play | Heya | 00:00 Tools | |
4380412 | Play | Skip to the Bip | 00:00 Tools | |
4380396 | Play | Moaning [jz2] | 00:00 Tools | |
4380320 | Play | Woderful (Jojo EffectMix) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380377 | Play | Wonderful ( Featuring Jojo Effect ) | 00:00 Tools | |
48961712 | Play | Be my Lover (Original) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380338 | Play | Club Des Belugas - It Don't Mean A Thiing | 00:00 Tools | |
4380328 | Play | Don’t Take My Love Away | 00:00 Tools | |
4380331 | Play | He Doesnt Know | 00:00 Tools | |
4380374 | Play | I’ll be with you | 00:00 Tools | |
4380323 | Play | Five O'Clock Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
4380353 | Play | Tunica Country Breakdown | 00:00 Tools | |
4380345 | Play | Brick House in Memphis | 00:00 Tools | |
4380417 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin`Man | 00:00 Tools | |
4380340 | Play | Brown Sugar Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
4380322 | Play | Trying to Get to You | 00:00 Tools | |
4380373 | Play | Let's Play Rough | 00:00 Tools | |
4380439 | Play | No! I Ain't Gonna Let You Go (With The Johnny Nocturne Band) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380334 | Play | Ai Se Eu Te Pego - Marcus | 00:00 Tools | |
48961717 | Play | Be My Lover (acoustic bossa rmx) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380456 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin Man (Album Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
48961716 | Play | Ninety Nine ‘n a Half | 00:00 Tools | |
4380332 | Play | My Babe | 00:00 Tools | |
4380368 | Play | Chains | 00:00 Tools | |
4380379 | Play | Crying Time | 00:00 Tools | |
4380327 | Play | Zydeco Gumbo | 00:00 Tools | |
4380357 | Play | To Nem Ai - Daniela | 00:00 Tools | |
48961721 | Play | Wild Is My Love | 00:00 Tools | |
48961715 | Play | Skip To The Bip Funky Mix | 00:00 Tools | |
4380381 | Play | He Doesn’t Know | 00:00 Tools | |
4380370 | Play | Velha Infancia - Banda Bahia | 00:00 Tools | |
4380380 | Play | Saia e Bicicletinha - Banda Kacamba | 00:00 Tools | |
48961719 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin Man [Lo-Fi 2009] | 00:00 Tools | |
48961720 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin Man | 00:00 Tools | |
4380378 | Play | Backbreaker | 00:00 Tools | |
48961718 | Play | Hard Swing Travellinґ Man (Smoove Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380356 | Play | Rivers of Babylon | 00:00 Tools | |
4380355 | Play | Wonderful [Jojo Effect Remix] | 00:00 Tools | |
4380339 | Play | Amor Perfeito - Axe Bahia | 00:00 Tools | |
76830424 | Play | Wonderful, Chocolate & Chili, 2008 | 00:00 Tools | |
4380364 | Play | Be My Lover [Acoustic Bossa RMX] | 00:00 Tools | |
48961724 | Play | Hard Swing Travelin' Man | 00:00 Tools | |
48961722 | Play | Club Des Belugas - Dibidy Bop | 00:00 Tools | |
4380349 | Play | Chora, Me Liga - Marcus | 00:00 Tools | |
4380359 | Play | So Dessa Vez - Bahia Pagode Tropical | 00:00 Tools | |
48961723 | Play | 10_skip_to_the_bip_funky_mix | 00:00 Tools | |
4380347 | Play | Tee Ni Nee Ni Nu | 00:00 Tools | |
4380376 | Play | Festa - Marcia B. | 00:00 Tools | |
4380336 | Play | Tesouro Do Pirata - Balanco Da Danca | 00:00 Tools | |
4380343 | Play | Nao Olhe Assim - Daniel | 00:00 Tools | |
4380342 | Play | Chorando Se Foi - Bahia Tropical | 00:00 Tools | |
4380431 | Play | Be My Lover | Absolut Radio | 00:00 Tools | |
4380445 | Play | Coracao Radiante - Bahia Pagode Tropical | 00:00 Tools | |
4380385 | Play | Far Far Away (Album Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
48961726 | Play | King Ping | 00:00 Tools | |
48961725 | Play | 04_wildcats_gotta_move | 00:00 Tools | |
48961730 | Play | Chocolate And Chill | 00:00 Tools | |
4380329 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin` Man | 00:00 Tools | |
4380352 | Play | Ragatanga (Asereje) [Remix] - Axe Bahia | 00:00 Tools | |
4380365 | Play | O Grande Amor Da Minha Vida (Convite De Casamento) - Banda Mar Azul | 00:00 Tools | |
4380438 | Play | Dat Thang | 00:00 Tools | |
48961728 | Play | Be my Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4380358 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin' Man - Brenda Boykin | 00:00 Tools | |
86948933 | Play | HARD SWING TRAVELLIN MAN (CLUB DES BELUGAS REMIX) | 00:00 Tools | |
4380452 | Play | Be My Lover [Acoustic Bossa Remix] | 00:00 Tools | |
48961727 | Play | LOVE IS IN TOWN - VIDEO 2008 (CLUB DE BELUGAS-BEBO BEST & Super Lounge Orchestra) | 00:00 Tools | |
48961729 | Play | Spur 7 | 00:00 Tools | |
4380346 | Play | "Wonderful" | 00:00 Tools | |
4380387 | Play | Hard Swing Travellin´ Man (Smo | 00:00 Tools | |
89039589 | Play | Love Is Im Town | 00:00 Tools | |
48961732 | Play | Love Is In Town 2008 | 00:00 Tools |
Brenda calls it "Bourbon and Cornbread," the musical mixture of jazzy sweetness and down-home sass that marks her as "the most authentic and most inventive female jump blues vocal stylist of her generation," according to blues historian Lee Hildebrand. Brenda Boykin has earned a sterling reputation in the San Francisco Bay Area as a masterful interpreter of jazz and blues material gleaned from big bands, old blues hands, and honky tonk heroes. Boykin has firmly established herself as an unsurpassed vocal talent whose elixir of bourbon and cornbread - sounds from silk to sandpaper - delight both new listeners and purists who compare her to the giants of the past. A native of Oakland, California, Boykin's first musical experience came through the youth choir of the North Oakland Missionary Baptist Church, one of the many houses of the lord where raucous, heart-felt sounds of the faithful still ring out on the wide streets of the East Bay flatlands. The church strains can still be found in her rich, husky contralto, effortless power and controlled vocal passion. After studying the clarinet in high school Boykin entered the University of California at Berkeley - and though studying psychology and social welfare - gravitated toward the jazz bands working on and near campus. Boykin worked Bay Area jazz and blues hot spots that helped her expand her musical horizons. With the encouragement of family friend and guitarist Sonny Lane, Boykin began to dig in with the blues people at Oaklands's legendary Eli's Mile High Club. The famous North Oakland night spot has been for many years the heartbeat of East Bay blues life, with giant figures including Percy Mayfield, Lowell Fulson and Jimmy McCracklin gracing the small stage alongside lesser-known stalwarts including guitarist and arranger Johnny Heartsman, Sonny Lane and Mississippi Johnny Waters. Under tutelage of Lane, Waters and drummer Francis Clay - an influential force in the great Muddy Waters bands of the late '50's and early '60's - Boykin absorbed the laid back, call-and-response magic of the late night urban blues. "Boykin does delightfully unfamiliar things with familiar tunes," said the East Bay Express in 1988, "using her rhythmic authority and arranger's sensibility to create exciting new version" of tunes from Basie, B.B., Buck Owens and everybody in between. She often cites Sarah Vaughn as a major influence, but Brenda Joyce Boykin is certainly not a devotee to any one stylist or genre. She says that the incomparable blue balladeer Bobby "Blue" Bland, whose string of hits dates back to the early '50s, has had an enormous impact to her vocal approach. She also gives a nod to Brenda lee and Elvis Presley, LaVern Baker and even the "divorcee music" of Nancy Wilson and Dakota Staton. Boykin has won rave reviews for her repeat performances at the venerable Monterey Jazz Festival, the more boisterous Monterey Bay Blues Festival, the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival in Davenport, Iowa, the DuMaurier Jazz Festival in Vancouver, and the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy. For many years she has performed duets with her "musical soul mate" Eric Swinderman, a sensitive guitarist who accompanies Boykin on material ranging from New Orleans rhythms to jazz standards. Boykin has performed countless times with Home Cookin', a small combo with a changing roster that has included guitarists Anthony Paule and Steve Freund, pianists Steve Lucky and Caroline Dahl, bassist Tim Wagar and drummer Tyler Eng. For the past three years Boykin has also taught singing workshops at the Rhythmic Concepts Jazz Camp, alongside a roster of the San Francisco Bay Area's most celebrated and dedicated jazz musicians. Boykin has mastered all of the crafts of a complete vocalist, she has a rich voice, a masterful grasp of musical dynamics, and a natural, unforced empathy with her listeners. "Part of showmanship is to turn to the guitar player and bass player and exchange some energy, look him in the eye and say 'Yeah, Baby,'" Boykin told Blues Revue in 1995. "I'm like the party master. The way a hostess gets at a house party. I'm walking around making sure the energy is up in every part of the room." In 1997 Brenda received a BAMMIE nomination for Best Vocalist of The Year. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.