Amogla Records - Discography/Buy CD's

Amogla Records
PO Box 23022
Sault Ste Marie, Ontario
P6A 6W6, Canada

The Howlin' & Honkin' Blues Label !

:: Discography/Buy CD's

Full Moon Lightnin', 2004

01. Full Moon Lightnin'
02. Lights Out
03. Mean Ol' Frisco
04. It Hurts Me Too
05. Crawlin' Kingsnake
06. Don't Answer The Door
07. Come Back Baby
08. The Red Rooster
09. You're So Sweet
10. Key To The Highway
11. You Don't Have To Go
12. Mean Blues (video)

"Full Moon Lightnin'" is a work of rare power and breathtaking beauty."

John Taylor, Blues On Stage

"A glorious recreation of all that is good about Mississippi juke joint blues. Probably my favorite new blues CD of 2004."

Byron Foulger, Blues & Rhythm Magazine (England)

"Floyd Lee sounds truly haunted by ghosts. A spellbinding ride!"

David Whiteis, Living Blues Magazine

    With the success of 70 year old NYC based bluesman Floyd Lee's two Amogla Records releases (his 2001 debut CD Mean Blues and 2003's Ain't Doin' Nothin' Wrong) questions started being asked... questions of Floyd's past... questions he wasn't ready to answer... some he didn't have the answers. Floyd decided it was time to go in search of his roots and to confront the demons that have haunted him his entire life. Who is Floyd Lee? You're about to find out...

    Recorded live (Oct. 20th, 2003) at 257 Delta Avenue, Clarksdale Mississippi, in the old WROX building in which DJ Early Wright ran his blues show in this location from 1948 to 1954. On air guests included Robert Night Hawk, Houston Stackhouse, Sonny Boy Williamson 1& 2, Robert Jr. Lockwood, BB King, Elvis Presley and Ike Turner. The building is now on the National Register of Historic Places and current plans are to turn it into a museum.

    Inspired from hearing a recording of the song Full Moon Lightnin' (included here) cut a few months earlier, film maker John Gardiner rounded up his crew and returned with Floyd to the deep South in search of his family and past. The recordings presented here are part of what was documented. Floyd had spent that afternoon reminiscing at the farm where he grew up in Lamar, Mississippi (near Holly Springs) and returned to Clarksdale that evening to head into the studio (Jimbo Mathus's recently opened recording studio was chosen as the backdrop). Boarded up since the mid-fifties everything was as it had been in its WROX days right down to the sound proof tiles on the walls. Floyd reaches back to his early years and pours out his soul on these 11 cuts, pulling all who listen back with him. He shows us something he has carried around inside since abruptly leaving his birthplace over 60 years ago. Floyd is joined by his long time sideman, guitarist Joel Poluck, bassman Brad Vickers and the legendary Sam Carr on drums. The result is a classic blues recording. Using only two microphones, there was no worrying about getting it down crystal clear. You'll hear the occasional distortion and background noise which only adds to its immediacy and will feel as though you're listening to a vintage radio broadcast from the golden era of blues. That's Full Moon Lightnin'!

Ain't Doin' Nothin' Wrong, 2003

01. Ridin' On Empty
02. In Trouble Again
03. Red Sun
04. Tell Me, Baby!
05. Crack Alley
06. Someday
07. Bad Little Girls
08. Am I Tough Enough?
09. Tie A String
10. My Weakness
11. Nowhere Is Where I Belong
12. Sometimes I Love You
13. Got Love Now Waitin'
14. Shake Your Moneymaker
15. Can't Stand To See You Go

"This one's as real as it gets. Sweaty and intense, informed by a brooding menace and infused with equal measures of despair and defiance, it's everything the blues is suppose to be. Nothing short of a masterpiece."

John Taylor, Blues On Stage

"Best Traditional Blues Album of 2003 Award."

Real Blues Magazine, (Canada)

Mean Blues, 2001

01. Down In Lamar
02. How Low Can You Go
03. Mean Blues
04. High Maintenance Woman
05. Devil At Your Doorstep
06. Third Degree Charm
07. See Saw Sally
08. Lose My Number
09. Hard Working Woman
10. Pea Patch Blues
11. When You Break A Young Girls' Heart
12. Come Home

...one of the year's very best debut discs.

Living Blues Magazine

From the opening track, Down In Lamar, you know Floyd Lee is preaching the blues from deep down in his soul with such conviction that could only be achieved after a lifetime of living the blues. Listen as he takes you back to a place where the blues was born, where Floyd himself was born almost seventy years back...Mississippi. Close your eyes and you're there. But hold on, the journey has just begun...So sit back and listen to Floyd Lee deliver the Mean Blues.


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Floyd Lee Collection:

Full Moon Lightnin', 2004

Ain't Doin' Nothin' Wrong, 2003

Mean Blues, 2001