A1 	New York - St. Louis 	
A2 	Goin' Up - Goin' Down 	
A3 	Baby, You Done Wrecked My Life 	
A4 	Atlanta Boogie 	
A5 	Here Comes The Train 	
B1 	I'm Mad With You 	
B2 	Makin' Love To Music 	
B3 	Almost Gone 	
B4 	Banjo 	
B5 	Vietnam

Charlie Sayles - Primary Artist

Talent does not always get you recognition, as Charlie Sayles can tell you. A hugely talented harp player with a superb technique and a great voice, he incorporates the style of Chicago‘s early legends into his wide repertoire of Blues, Rock and Funk influenced material. Charlie has recorded only four albums in forty years of playing and spent most of his career blowing his harp on street corners.

Charlie Sayles was born in 1948 in Woburn MA, and a hard life got started. He grew up in a series of foster-homes and, like many of his generation, wound up in the Army posted to Vietnam. He began playing harp while he was a ‘grunt’ and when he got home, he played on street corners for tips. That has sustained him down the years, never seeming to have had a job, and speaks volumes for his abilities as an entertainer. Like the old-time ‘wandering songsters’, he journeyed to New York, St. Louis and Atlanta on his travels, developing a broad chording tone, with a bag-full of elegant, agile phrases and percussive tricks which served to hold his audience while playing alone. Charlie’s voice has a soulful quality and he has written a lot of his own material over the years. He recorded an excellent album, ‘Raw Harmonica Blues’ for the Dusty Roads label in 1976, and was picked up by The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, where he made several appearances with Pete Seeger. By the early 80s, Charlie was settled in Washington DC, where he formed a band, and he continued to make a living from gigging and busking, but his reputation remained extremely local.

Regular playing gave Charlie a warm, confident performing style, as he engages in witty banter with his audience between songs, and an unreleased recording of Charlie performing with his band in 1982 is well worth finding on You-Tube. Charlie’s recording career got going again in 1993 with the release of ‘Night Ain’t Right’ on the British JSP label, which contained many of Charlie’s own compositions. The follow-up, ‘I Got Something to Say’ had Washington club legend Bobby Parker guesting on guitar, but again sales were not huge outside his East-coast stomping grounds, and ‘Hip Guy’, released in 2000, didn’t fare any better. ---allaboutbluesmusic.com

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1-Night Ain't Right           play
2-Eli
3-Small Room
4-Down And Out
5-There's A Woman
6-Automobile
7-Kick Your Shoes Off
8-Lamp Post
9-Chromatic Blues             play
10-Bill Monroe
11-Headin' Downtown
12-South Of Border
13-People

Personnel: 
Charlie Sayles (vocals, harmonica); 
Robert Palinic (guitar); 
Larry Wise (harmonica); 
Kerry Sayles (bass guitar); 
Chip Oswald (drums).

Charlie Sayles' Night Ain't Right is an impressive comeback, finding the harpist in prime form. The key to the record's success is the way Sayles twists conventions around, finding tastes of flourishes funk and jazz within the genre's boundaries. His willingness to play with the music is the reason why Night Ain't Right is a modern-day Chicago blues record worth exploring. – Tom Owens

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1-Mississippi Saxophone
2-The Man
3-Hip Guy
4-Zydeco                     play
5-I Got Something To Say
6-Little Walter's Blues
7-Hey Joe
8-I Love My Baby
9-I Like What I Like
10-Two Timin' Woman
11-Funky Sound
12-Screecher
13-Well Now
14-I Got Something To Say
15-Hip Guy
16-Well Now
17-Mississippi Saxophone
18-I Love My Baby
19-Little Walter's Blues     play

Personnel: 
Charlie Sayles (vocals, harmonica); 
Deborah Coleman, Shawn Kellerman (guitar); 
Anthony Gonsalves (background vocals).

Charlie, an African American born in 1948, has been playing his blues for nearly 30 years. After returning from two years of service in the Vietnam War in 1971, he taught himself the harmonica, honed his music on the streets and in clubs, and worked his way across the country. By the mid-1970s, he recorded his first album and was playing for large music festivals followed by international tours. Charlie's recordings and performances have garnered very high critical claim. (Press reviews are available.) In 1997, he launched the Union Mission Band in Washington, DC. Following is a selected list of accomplishments.

"The Afro-American harmonica, or blues harp, gives us one of America's great traditional art forms. It can't be written down with music notation; you have to hear it to believe it. Charlie Sayles is one of our very best harp players." - Pete Seeger

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