Little Victor's new album fund
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Little Victor's Juke Joint was on it's way to releasing a new album on Swingin' Records, when tragically the label owner Mark "Torch" Tortorici lost his life in a fatal car accident on October 31st 2014. This project was Mark's brainchild. He wanted his friend Little Victor to have a new album just as good as the successful ones with Louisiana Red that Victor produced and played on a little while back. Mark flew Victor to Los Angeles and helped him to come up with a killer new line up of the band and a great record. Victor's latest release (sans Red) Boogie All Night was already a few years old, so he accepted. He only asked for artistic freedom and total control of every phase of the project. Last time Little Victor recorded an album in Hollywood -for cult label Wild Records- he couldn't say a word about anything after the recording sessions. He wanted to be more involved with the record, this time.
Mark (a well-respected performer on his own) wanted to put Swingin' records, originally founded in the 1950's by Los Angeles disc jockey Hunter Hancock (the Alan Freed of the West Coast) back on the map. After releasing a few new albums on the label (incuding his own band, the Hollywood Combo ) and all the great classic recordings by sax legend Big JayMcNeely -who had a few hits on Swingin' back in the day, Mark spent more than a year working on this album.
Now we are in need of funds to finish this project. Any little amount donated will help pay for the final mixes that were just completed, editing, mastering, artwork and pressing of the CD as well as promotion and eventually a little video clip - if we can raise enough money. You don't have to live in the States to be able to make a donation.
The new incarnation of Little Victor's Juke Joint features harmonica kingpin Kim Wilson of the Fabulouous Thunderbirds (Muddy Waters, Bonnie Raitt, Cadillac Records etc.) piano supremo Carl Sonny Leyland (Chuck Berry, James Cotton, Louisiana Red, Lowell Fulsom and many more), guitar ace Nathan James (James Harman, Pinetop Perkins, Billy Boy Arnold etc.) Brent Harding (Social Distortion, Big Joe Louis, Deke Dickerson etc.) on upright and electric bass and the young multi-talented Big Jon Atkinson on drums, and guitar, along with some other excellent musicians like Steve Lucky and John Palmer.
This new album was recorded at Landsberg Studios in North Hollywood by Jeff Moxley of Grandmaster Recordings and sounds great. It's probably some of Little Victor's best work to this day.
Victor won many prestigiuous awards and prizes around the World, with his "Little Victor's Juke Joint." These include: Grand Prix du Disque (the equivalent of a Grammy Award ) by the prestigiuos Académie Charles Cros in France, considered by many like a Nobel Prize for records. The German Record Critics' Award ( the German equivalent of the Grand Prix du Disque), earned two Blues Music Awards nominations (the Grammies of the blues ) in the US and rare reviews on major magazines as Rolling Stone, Down Beat , Esquire and many more, for his work with the legendary Louisiana Red . Victor's albums "Back to The Black Bayou " and "Memphis Mojo " (both released on RUF Records) are already regarded as "classic" records.
Dear friends and music lovers, we need all the help we can get to finish this album and put it out. Every little bit counts. Lot of money has been spent and It would be a shame to let this sit on a shelf. We cannot finish it and put it out without your love and support.
You can make a donation just to help this project or make a donation that will bring something to you. You could donate as little as $5!
If you contribute $25 or more, we can send you a link to download MP3s of the album.
If you contribute $50 or more, we can send you a link for the MP3s and we can send you a CD (anywhere in the world), when the record is released.
For your contribution of $100 or more, we can send you a link to download MP3s of the album, with outtakes, alternate mixes, and Kim Wilson's isolated harp tracks and a CD (anywhere in the world) when the record is released.
HERE'S A FEW AUDIO CLIPS FROM YOU TUBE WITH SOME OF THE SONGS FROM THE NEW ALBUM:
Mark (a well-respected performer on his own) wanted to put Swingin' records, originally founded in the 1950's by Los Angeles disc jockey Hunter Hancock (the Alan Freed of the West Coast) back on the map. After releasing a few new albums on the label (incuding his own band, the Hollywood Combo ) and all the great classic recordings by sax legend Big JayMcNeely -who had a few hits on Swingin' back in the day, Mark spent more than a year working on this album.
Now we are in need of funds to finish this project. Any little amount donated will help pay for the final mixes that were just completed, editing, mastering, artwork and pressing of the CD as well as promotion and eventually a little video clip - if we can raise enough money. You don't have to live in the States to be able to make a donation.
The new incarnation of Little Victor's Juke Joint features harmonica kingpin Kim Wilson of the Fabulouous Thunderbirds (Muddy Waters, Bonnie Raitt, Cadillac Records etc.) piano supremo Carl Sonny Leyland (Chuck Berry, James Cotton, Louisiana Red, Lowell Fulsom and many more), guitar ace Nathan James (James Harman, Pinetop Perkins, Billy Boy Arnold etc.) Brent Harding (Social Distortion, Big Joe Louis, Deke Dickerson etc.) on upright and electric bass and the young multi-talented Big Jon Atkinson on drums, and guitar, along with some other excellent musicians like Steve Lucky and John Palmer.
This new album was recorded at Landsberg Studios in North Hollywood by Jeff Moxley of Grandmaster Recordings and sounds great. It's probably some of Little Victor's best work to this day.
Victor won many prestigiuous awards and prizes around the World, with his "Little Victor's Juke Joint." These include: Grand Prix du Disque (the equivalent of a Grammy Award ) by the prestigiuos Académie Charles Cros in France, considered by many like a Nobel Prize for records. The German Record Critics' Award ( the German equivalent of the Grand Prix du Disque), earned two Blues Music Awards nominations (the Grammies of the blues ) in the US and rare reviews on major magazines as Rolling Stone, Down Beat , Esquire and many more, for his work with the legendary Louisiana Red . Victor's albums "Back to The Black Bayou " and "Memphis Mojo " (both released on RUF Records) are already regarded as "classic" records.
Dear friends and music lovers, we need all the help we can get to finish this album and put it out. Every little bit counts. Lot of money has been spent and It would be a shame to let this sit on a shelf. We cannot finish it and put it out without your love and support.
You can make a donation just to help this project or make a donation that will bring something to you. You could donate as little as $5!
If you contribute $25 or more, we can send you a link to download MP3s of the album.
If you contribute $50 or more, we can send you a link for the MP3s and we can send you a CD (anywhere in the world), when the record is released.
For your contribution of $100 or more, we can send you a link to download MP3s of the album, with outtakes, alternate mixes, and Kim Wilson's isolated harp tracks and a CD (anywhere in the world) when the record is released.
HERE'S A FEW AUDIO CLIPS FROM YOU TUBE WITH SOME OF THE SONGS FROM THE NEW ALBUM:
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