"MOHAWK VALLEY BLUES, Vol.I" is a compilation recording by member bands of the Mohawk Valley Blues Society. The disc contains fifteen excellent recordings by a dozen different bands, and features more than forty different musicians. The recording demonstrates the level of quality of our member artists, and the great work they do. Buy one now, and support our society!

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  1. Good Times Coming - Blueprints
  2. Twice Too Much -Tom Townsley and The Backsliders
  3. Count The Tears - John Hutson
  4. Show Me Mercy - Conrad Story Blues Band
  5. Key To The Highway - Midnite Mike and The Big Notes
  6. It Was a Dream - The Lomeo Brothers
  7. Stranded - Jimmy Wolf
  8. Good Luck, Bad Luck - Bernie Clark and The Rhythm Sharks
  9. Sleepin' With The Reaper - Al Nathan and Bluestreak
  10. Smoky Cafe - Mick Mercury and The Meteors
  11. I Don't Want to Be Your Dog - John Savage
  12. Cry On, Brother (tribute to Clarence Gatemouth Brown) - Conrad Story Blues Band
  13. Square Little Mama - Tom Townsley and The Backsliders
  14. Pouring Water on a Drowning Man - Bernie Clark and The Rhythm Sharks
  15. The End - Don Paul Way

"Mohawk Valley Blues: Volume One" Reviews

Blues Revue Magazine
Sept. 2006

A compilation CD comes to us on "Mohawk Valley Blues: Volume One," issued by the Mohawk Valley Blues Society.  Listeners will find a few standards – Jimmy Wolf turns in a version of “Stranded,” Bernie Clarke covers “Pouring Water on a Drowning Man,” and Midnite Mike does Big Bill Broonzy’s “Key to the Highway” – but the originals are at least as interesting.  Don Paul Way’s  “The End” rides George Deveny’s lazy, lilting Dobro; the Conrad Story Blues Band turns in a pair of evocative slow numbers; Al Nathan offers cautionary “Sleepin’ with the Reaper;" and Tom Townsley & The Backsliders submit a pair of wry, harmonica eccentric tunes: the jumping “Square Little Mama" and the Chicago shuffle “Twice Too Much.”  Townsley also penned the discs most impressive track, “Count the Tears,” a swampy ballad brought understatedly yet passionately to life by Morris Tarbell’s Guitar Slim-inspired guitar, Townsley’s tremolo harp and John Hutson’s incredible vocal.

The Post-Standard
Sunday, August 13, 2006 
Mark Bialczak - Music Critic

Syracuse is known for its intense interest in the blues. The scene to the east is growing, too.

The Mohawk Valley Blues Society has put together a compilation album of area artists. Some bands the society's judges picked from entries submitted include outfits familiar to Syracuse fans: Blueprints, Tom Townsley and the Backsliders and Bernie Clark and the Rhythm Sharks in particular. "Good Times Coming," "Twice Too Much" and "Good Luck, Bad Luck" from the above stand out.

Avid blues fans also can thrill in the discovery of artists that haven't strayed too far this way.

"Show Me Mercy" by the Conrad Story Blues Band is tense and hot; "Key to the Highway" by Midnite Mike and the Big Notes rings with great vocals; "Just a Dream of Mine" by The Lomeo Brothers combines hot voice and harmonica; "Sleepin' With the Reaper" by Al Nathan and Bluestreak will remind you of Van Morrison's "Moondance."

Congratulations on a really cool CD.

"Mohawk Valley Blues, Vol. I" was produced by Rob Bishton and George Deveny, and made possible through a NYS grant allocated by the CNY Community Arts Council. The Mohawk Valley Blues Society is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

 
 
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