It's The Blues Man! (Remastered 2026) Eddie Kirkland

• 1 Down On My Knees (Remastered 2026) 02:26
• 2 Don't Take My Heart (Remastered 2026) 02:29
• 3 Daddy, Please Don't Cry (Remastered 2026) 03:15
• 4 Have Mercy On Me (Remastered 2026) 03:06
• 5 Saturday Night Stomp (Remastered 2026) 02:29
• 6 I'm Gonna Forget You (Remastered 2026) 03:30
• 7 I Tried (Remastered 2026) 03:04
• 8 Man Of Stone (Remastered 2026) 02:01
• 9 I'm Goin' To Keep Loving You (Remastered 2026) 02:29
• 10 Train Done Gone (Remastered 2026) 02:33
• 11 Something's Gone Wrong In My Life (Remastered 2026) 02:56
• 12 Baby You Know It's True (Remastered 2026) 02:58
• Total Runtime 33:16

Info for It's The Blues Man! (Remastered 2026)

It’s the Blues Man! is guitarist, harmonica player, singer, and songwriter, Eddie Kirkland’s 1962 debut, on which he is backed by saxophonist King Curtis and his band. The powerhouse recording expertly showcases Kirkland’s raw vocal delivery and in-the-pocket guitar style.

Newly remastered from the original tapes, the album is available in hi-res.

Eddie Kirkland, guitar, vocals
George Stubbs, piano
Herman Foster, piano
Billy Butler, rhythm guitar
King Curtis, saxophone
Oliver Nelson, saxophone

Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder
Remastered by Phil De Lancie

Digitally remastered

Please Note: we do not offer the 192kHz version of this album, because our analysis clearly showed, that the 192kHz does not reach a frequency spectrum, that would justify to offer 192kHz. Hence we offer the 96kHz version.

Eddie Kirkland
one of the original Blues men still bringing himself and the Blues direct to the people. Kirkland, who was born in Jamaica, raised in Alabama from the time he was two till he went off with the Sugar Girls Medicine show at twelve. His teens brought him to Indiana, eventually settling in Detroit. There he polished his Blues to recording status. He toured and recorded with John Lee Hooker for seven and a half years. They made a solid team before parting in the 60's.

Kirkland moved to Georgia, where he was bandleader for Otis Redding. Continuous road tours had him working with Ruth Brown, Little Richard, Ben King, Little Johnnie Taylor and many more greats. In 1962, Kirkland recorded "It's the Blues Man" for Prestige, reissued by Fantasy as a Blues collector's item. Kirkland's hit the "Hawg" recorded by Stax/Volt label earned him national celebrity. The "Hawg" is now available on Atlantic records.

In the early 70's employment for Blues men was hard to come by, but faithful individuals such as Peter Lowry sought out Kirkland and is credited for bringing him back into the circuit. With Lowry and his Trix label, Kirkland recorded "Front and Center" and "The Devil and Other Blues Demons", now available from 32 Blues. At this time Kirkland spent twelve years in the Hudson Valley. There he reinvented his sound, giving his Blues that unrelenting dance beat that has named him the "Energy Man". It is during this time that Kirkland appeared at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival, and toured extensively, introducing the Blues to remote areas in Wyoming, Montana, Maine, Turkey, and Greece.

1980 brought a recording by JSP, "Pick up the Pieces", by which Fantastic Records issued the single by the same name. 1983 gave Kirkland a Pulsar recording, "Have Mercy", that has been reissued on Evidence. A meeting at Lincoln Plaza in Massachusetts with Randy Labbe began an association that would produce three albums and many touring dates. "All around the World", on which Hooker appears. "Some Like it Raw", a live performance, and "Where you get your Sugar?"

Kirkland's recording career is difficult to follow, many companies have recorded him and sold his recordings, but his records refuse to be shelved, waiting for the times to catch up to a sound that has never set still. A sound that is like himself, strong, ever creative, sincere, and always living the Blues, demanding to be heard.

Kirkland continues to tour, forty-two weeks of the year between the States and Europe, earning him the title "Gypsy of the Blues". Recently, he recorded his music for Telarc; "Lonely Street" in 1997 and JSP; "Movin On", in 1999. Still any success Eddie Kirkland has enjoyed he has created for himself. His relentless grit, talent, strength of writing, love of entertaining, and devotion to the Blues keeps this man providing a show that should not be missed by anyone!

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