Alanis Morissette discography [1991-2020] (FLAC)

Pitched halfway between glossy mainstream pop and angst-ridden alternative rock, Alanis Morissette's American debut Jagged Little Pill caught the zeitgeist of the mid-'90s, splitting the difference between Gen-X cynicism and self-help actualization. Spinning off a series of Top Ten singles, including "You Oughta Know," "Hand in My Pocket," and "Ironic," and winning the 1996 Grammy for Album of the Year, Jagged Little Pill became an international blockbuster so squarely tied to its time, it threatened to leave Morissette behind in the '90s. Instead, the album gave her a lasting career, one she cultivated through emotional candor and music she gently modulated as she matured. The Top 40 hits slowed after "Hands Clean," the single pulled from 2002's self-produced Under Rug Swept, but Morissette worked steadily, her albums reflecting an earned serenity while retaining the wit and insight that made her a cultural phenomenon in the '90s.

 

The Doors - No One Here Gets Out Alive (4 CD, 2001/FLAC)

 No One Here Gets Out Alive is a box set by the band The Doors, released in 2001.

The box set consists of four shows, one on each disc, of a syndicated radio show called Innerview. The show was a music interview series that was hosted by Los Angeles disc jockey Jim Ladd.

The box set consists of music by the Doors and interviews of the surviving members of the band. Various topics are discussed, even the possibility of singer Jim Morrison being alive and well in Africa. Guitarist Robbie Kreiger answers the question regarding Morrison being alive after the tape recorder has been switched off, effectively furthering the Morrison myth. 

Tedeschi Trucks Band discography [2011-2019] (FLAC)

 

The Tedeschi Trucks Band, formerly known as the Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band is a blues rock group based in Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 2010, the band is led by husband-and-wife musicians Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, and primarily features members from their solo groups. Their debut album, Revelator, won a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album.

2011 - Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator

2012 - Tedeschi Trucks Band - Everybody's Talkin'

2013 - Tedeschi Trucks Band - Made Up Mind

2016 - Tedeschi Trucks Band - Let Me Get By

2019 - Tedeschi Trucks Band - Signs

Supergrass - The Strange Ones 1994-2008 (13CD, 2020/FLAC)

 

Supergrass‘ career-spanning box set The Strange Ones 1994-2008 contains all six albums on vinyl picture disc and on CD, along with four further CDs of live material, a two-CD set of remixes, B-sides and rarities and a final CD of unreleased demos, outtakes and ‘oddities’.

That’s a 19-disc set made up of 13 CDs and six vinyl records; in fact, make that 14 discs since a seven-inch single with ‘Caught By The Fuzz’ / ‘Richard III’ 2020 remixes. 

CD1 - Rarities, Remixes & B-Sides Disc 1 (00:59:16)

CD2 - Rarities, Remixes & B-Sides Disc 2 (01:17:22)

CD3 - Live Disc 1 (01:05:20)

CD4 - Live Disc 2 (01:19:33)

CD5 - Live Disc 3 (01:19:48)

CD6 - Live Disc 4 (01:15:06)

CD7 - Roots & Vines (Demos, Out-Takes and Oddities) (01:00:18)

CD8 - I Should Coco (00:40:16)

CD9 - In It for the Money (00:43:02)

CD10 - Supergrass (00:45:31)

CD11 - Life On Other Planets (00:40:37)

CD12 - Road to Rouen (00:35:18)

CD13 - Diamond Hoo Ha (00:41:10)

John Hiatt, Jerry Douglas - Leftover Feelings (2021/FLAC)

 In the midst of a global pandemic, John Hiatt walked into Historic RCA Studio B and opened up a lifetime full of leftover feelings. A half-century ago, Hiatt lived in a ratty, USD15-a-week room on Nashville's 16th Avenue, less than a mile away from the RCA and Columbia studios that were the heartbeat of what had come to be known as "Music Row." In the ensuing 50 years, he went from a scuffling young buck to a celebrated grand master of song. With Leftover Feelings, Hiatt teamed up with multi-grammy winning artist and producer, Jerry Douglas and his band, The Jerry Douglas Band. There's no drummer, yet these grooves are deep and true. And while the up-tempo songs are, as ever, filled with delightful internal rhyme and sly aggression, the Jerry Douglas Band's empathetic musicianship nudges Hiatt to performances that are startlingly vulnerable.

1. Long Black Electric Cadillac (3:25)
2. Mississippi Phone Booth (3:06)
3. The Music Is Hot (3:46)
4. All The Lilacs In Ohio (3:29)
5. I'm In Asheville (3:27)
6. Light Of The Burning Sun (4:38)
7. Little Goodnight (4:43)
8. Buddy Boy (3:27)
9. Changes In My Mind (3:34)
10. Keen Rambler (3:25)
11. Sweet Dream (4:29) 

Grateful Dead - Unsurpassed Vol.1 - 8 [1994/FLAC + 320]

 

Outtakes, demos, rehearsal from Dead Man label series

 

Grateful Dead - The Grateful Dead Movie + The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack (5 CD/FLAC + DVDRIP video, 2005)

The Grateful Dead Movie, released in 1977 and directed by Jerry Garcia, is a film that captures live performances from rock band the Grateful Dead during an October 1974 five-night run at Winterland in San Francisco. These concerts marked the beginning of a hiatus, with the October 20, 1974, show billed as "The Last One". The band would return to touring in 1976. The film features the "Wall of Sound" concert sound system that the Dead used for all of 1974. The movie also portrays the burgeoning Deadhead scene. Two albums have been released in conjunction with the film and the concert run: Steal Your Face and The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack.  

    Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals

    Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals

    Phil Lesh – bass

    Bill Kreutzmann – drums

    Keith Godchaux – acoustic piano and electric piano

    Donna Godchaux – vocals

Additional musicians

    Ned Lagin – electric piano and synthesizers

    Mickey Hart – drums

 

Ten Years After discography [1967-2014]

 

Ten Years After are a British blues-rock quartet consisting of Alvin Lee (born December 19, 1944, died March 6, 2013), guitar and vocals; Chick Churchill (born January 2, 1949), keyboards; Leo Lyons (born November 30, 1944) bass; and Ric Lee (born October 20, 1945), drums. 

The group was formed in 1967 and signed to Decca in England. Their first album was not a success, but their second, the live Undead (1968) containing "I'm Going Home," a six-minute blues workout by the fleet-fingered Alvin, hit the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Stonedhenge (1969) hit the U.K. Top Ten in early 1969. Ten Years After's U.S. breakthrough came as a result of their appearance at Woodstock, at which they played a nine-minute version of "I'm Going Home." Their next album, Ssssh, reached the U.S. Top 20, and Cricklewood Green, containing the hit single "Love Like a Man," reached number four. Watt completed the group's Decca contract, after which they signed with Columbia and moved in a more mainstream pop direction, typified by the gold-selling 1971 album A Space in Time and its Top 40 single "I'd Love to Change the World." Subsequent efforts in that direction were less successful, however, and Ten Years After split up after the release of Positive Vibrations in 1974. 

They reunited in 1988 for concerts in Europe and recorded their first new album in 15 years, About Time, in 1989 before disbanding once again. In 2001, Ric Lee was preparing the back catalog for re-release when he discovered the Live at the Fillmore East 1970 tapes. He approached Alvin about getting back together to promote the lost album, but Alvin Lee declined. The rest of the band was up for it, though, and together with guitarist Joe Gooch, Ten Years After started touring again. In addition to touring the world, this new incarnation recorded its first new material in about a decade and a half and released Now in 2004 and added the live double CD set Roadworks in 2005. Alvin Lee died on March 6, 2013 at the age of 68 due to complications from a routine surgery.

In January 2014, it was announced that both Gooch and Lyons had left Ten Years After. Two months later, veteran bass player Colin Hodgkinson and singer/guitarist Marcus Bonfanti were announced as their replacements

Ian A. Anderson - Please Re-adjust Your Time 1967-1972 (4 CD, 2021)[FLAC]

 

Four CD box set documenting all of Ian A. Anderson's seminal early albums - including lots of rare material. Curated and supported by the artist, Please Re-Adjust Your Time captures an exciting time in British roots music. From gutsy acoustic blues to ground-breaking acid folk, the music sounds as vital today as it did half a century ago. Ian A Anderson is an English folk musician who was a luminary of the late 1960s country blues scene before becoming one of the pioneers of psychedelic/acid folk and founding the now collectable "alternative folk label" Village Thing in the early 1970s. First issued in 1969, 'Stereo Death Breakdown' was credited to Ian Anderson's Country Blues Band, a moniker which hinted at the music therein. Eleven bonus tracks are drawn from Saydisc EPs and Saydisc Matchbox albums. The self-produced Royal York Crescent (1970) album was Ian's first on his new Village Thing label. Here it's joined by three extra recordings from 1969, live at Farnham Folk And Blues Festival and from sessions at Chapel Studios, London. Recorded at Rockfield Studios, A Vulture Is Not A Bird You Can Trust (1971) is now swelled with a quartet of additional sides, again from a studio tenure in Chapel Studios back in 1969. The fourth and final disc is devoted to Ian's final Village Thing album, Singer Sleeps On As Blaze Rages (1972) which is joined by four extra songs, including three previously unreleased the Hot Vultures' demos recorded at Village Thing, Bristol, 1973.

Faces- You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything 1970-1975 (5 CD, 2015/FLAC + 320)

 

You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything 1970-1975 is a five-CD box set that collects newly remastered versions of the Faces’ four studio albums, complete with previously unreleased bonus tracks.

The set includes The First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is as Good as a Wink…to a Blind Horse (1971), and Ooh La La (1973), and the unreleased bonus tracks include outtakes, BBC sessions, live performances and rehearsals.

 

Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood - Live from Madison Square Garden [2 CD + DVDRIP, 2009/FLAC]

 

Live from Madison Square Garden is a 2 CD/ DVD live album by Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood which was released on May 19, 2009 by Duck / Reprise Records. The album is made up of recordings from Clapton and Winwood's performances at Madison Square Garden in February 2008.

The duo performed songs from their time in the band Blind Faith as well as selections from Traffic, Derek and the Dominos, Clapton's & Winwood's solo careers and some rock & blues covers. Their band consisted of Willie Weeks on bass, Ian Thomas on drums and Chris Stainton on keyboards.

 

VA - Roots & Blues [20 CD, 2014/FLAC]

 

 The 20-CD Bear Family Collection The Roots And Blues Collection takes you into the heart of Americana, back to the time when this groundbreaking recordings were made. "

Title of the individual albums:

Roots N 'Blues: The Retrospective Vol. 1
Roots N 'Blues: The Retrospective Vol 2.
Roots N 'Blues: The Retrospective Vol. 3
Roots N 'Blues: The Retrospective Vol 4.
Legends Of The Blues Vol. 1
Legends Of The Blues Vol. 2
Great Blues Guitarists: String Dazzlers
The Slide Guitar: Bottles, Knives & Steel
The Slide Guitar: Bottles, Knives & Steel Vol 2.
Lonnie Johnson: Steppin 'On The Blues
Good Time Blues: Harmonica, Kazoo, Washboards & Cow Bells
News & The Blues: Telling It Like It Is
Booze And The Blues
Messed Up In Love ... And Other Tales Of Woe
Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollipops
Cajun Vol 1: Abbeville Breakdown 1929-1939.
Cajun Dance Party: Fais Do-Do
White Country Blues 1926 - 1938: A Lighter Shade Of Blue Vol 1.
White Country Blues 1926 - 1938: A Lighter Shade Of Blue Vol 1.

 

 

VA - NOW presents The 70's (5 CD, 2021/FLAC)

 

Disc: 1 (1970-1971)

01. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

02. Bread - Make It with You

03. Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds

04. Deep Purple - Black Night

05. Free - All Right Now

06. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown

07. Jackson 5 - I Want You Back

08. Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)

09. Elton John - Your Song

10. Rod Stewart - Maggie May

11. Slade - Coz I Luv You

12. The Who - Baba O'Riley

13. Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary

14. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

15. Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting

Disc: 2 (1972-1973)

01. Don McLean - American Pie (Pt. 1)

02. Sly & The Family Stone - Family Affair

03. Bill Withers - Lean on Me

04. Harry Nilsson - Without You

05. Roxy Music - Virginia Plain

06. T. Rex - Metal Guru

07. Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes

08. Lou Reed - Perfect Day

09. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly with His Song

10. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - If You Don't Know Me by Now

11. Kiki Dee - Amoureuse

12. Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

13. Wizzard - See My Baby Jive

14. Billy Joel - Piano Man

15. Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Disc: 3 (1974-1975)

01. Queen - Killer Queen

02. Paul McCartney, Wings - Band On The Run

03. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

04. Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive

05. Mud - Tiger Feet

06. Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us

07. Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything

08. The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again

09. John Lennon - Imagine

10. 10cc - I'm Not In Love

11. Barry Manilow - Mandy

12. Bay City Rollers - Bye Bye Baby

13. David Essex - Hold Me Close

14. Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me)

15. The Stylistics - Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)

16. Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You

Disc: 4 (1976-1977)

01. ABBA - Dancing Queen

02. The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh What a Night!)

03. Chicago - If You Leave Me Now

04. Joan Armatrading - Love And Affection

05. Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing

06. Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town

07. John Miles - Music

08. Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop

09. Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

10. Status Quo - Rockin' All over the World

11. Donna Summer - I Feel Love

12. Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

13. David Soul - Don't give up on us

14. Commodores - Easy

Disc: 5 (1978-1979)

01. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

02. Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking

03. Chic - Le Freak

04. Boney M. - Rivers of Babylon

05. The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

06. The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap

07. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden

08. The Clash - London Calling

09. The Police - Message In A Bottle

10. Pretenders - Kid

11. Blondie - Heart Of Glass

12. Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions - Boogie Wonderland

13. Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric?

14. The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

Blackfield discography [2004-2016] (FLAC)

 Blackfield is a collaborative music project by the English musician and founder of Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, and Israeli rock singer Aviv Geffen. Together, six albums have been released under the moniker. The first two records, Blackfield and Blackfield II, saw Geffen and Wilson working together as equal partners, while the third and fourth, Welcome to my DNA and Blackfield IV, saw Geffen take on a leading role, writing all but one track across both albums and providing a significantly increased share of lead vocals. Despite initially announcing his intention to leave the project in 2014, Wilson instead worked again as an equal partner on a fifth album, Blackfield V, which was released on 10 February 2017. 

2004 - Blackfield 

2007 - Blackfield II 

2007 - Live In New York City 

2011 - Welcome to my DNA 

2013 - Blackfield IV 

2016 - Blackfield V 

plus

2013 - Blackfield IV (DVD audio)

Janis Joplin - Blow All My Blues Away 1962-1970 [10 CD, 2012/FLAC+320]

 

This set of archival recordings lets us witness the formation of arguably the most powerful and expressive voice in rock history. From the earliest known performances in the small bars of Texas to the first sessions with Big Brother to her mesmerizing live shows, Janis never left behind her raw roots. She drew upon them to impel emotional performances as if by exposing her pain she gained power over her past and transformed it into a gift. In these newly sourced pearls, we can hear as never before the birth and fast burning flame of Janis Joplin.

 

Carmine Appice - Guitar Zeus (25th Anniversary Box Set) (2021) [FLAC]

 As drummer for Vanilla Fudge, Carmine Appice set the grooves for the groundbreaking band's 1967 psychedelic debut. Post-Fudge, Bogert and Appice formed Cactus (seen as an influence on King's X and Van Halen). Post-Cactus, the rhythm section found Grammy-winning Guitar Hero Jeff Beck to form the first supergroup: Beck, Bogert & Appice (BBA). One of the premier showmen in rock, Appice became known worldwide for his astonishing live performances, in addition to becoming a highly sought-after session drummer, recording with countless artists throughout his career.

In '76, he joined the Rod Stewart Band, touring, recording and writing two of Stewart's biggest hits, "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" and "Young Turks". He would go on to form King Kobra, tour with Ozzy Osbourne and Blue Murder with John Sykes (Whitesnake) and Tony Franklin (The Firm).

Guitar Zeus 25th Anniversary Box Set is a massive collection of 4 LPs, 3 CDs and a full-color booklet with never-before-seen photos and interviews conducted by Martin Popoff. 35 tracks in all featuring Slash, Brian May, Ted Nugent, Yngwie Malmsteem, Neal Schon, Richie Sambora, Zakk Wylde and many, many more. With never-released tracks featuring Tommy Thayer of KISS and Derek Sherinian (ex Dream Theater). This is the ultimate collection for any guitar enthusiast; there is nowhere else you can find this many guitar greats on one release!

Grateful Dead - Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings [11 CD, 2005/FLAC + 320]

 

Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings is a limited edition box set (10,000 copies), released in November 2005, featuring four complete concerts by the Grateful Dead on 10 CDs. These concerts, performed on four consecutive nights from February 27 through March 2, 1969, were the basis for Live/Dead (rock's first 16-track live album). Thus, unlike Dick's Picks, Road Trips, Dave's Picks, and certain other of the band's archival series of live album releases, which are simply two-track stereo recordings made from the soundboard during the concert, the shows in the box set were all recorded on a 16-track multitrack recorder and were mixed down to stereo just prior to the box set's 2005 release.

Released separately was Fillmore West 1969, a three-disc distillation that included highlights of the four nights that did not appear on Live/Dead (with the exception of "Feedback" and the full-length version of "And We Bid You Good Night", which had appeared in truncated form on Live/Dead).

A bonus disc released with the set includes selections from two additional Fillmore West shows; June 8, 1969 and February 7, 1970. It also includes a blistering 30-minute version of "Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)" that was recorded on June 14, 1968 during the band's debut run of shows at Bill Graham's newly opened Fillmore East in New York, which had the Grateful Dead headlining over the Jeff Beck Group. Many of the band's recordings from 1968 have been lost and what remains is often incorrectly labeled.

 

 

VA - The Many Faces Of Queen (3 CD, 2018) [FLAC]

 

Few bands embodied the pure excess of the '70s like Queen. Embracing the exaggerated pomp of progressive rock and heavy metal, as well as vaudevillian music hall, the British quartet delved deeply into camp and bombast, creating a huge, mock-operatic sound with layered guitars and overdubbed vocals. Queen's music was a bizarre yet highly accessible fusion of the macho and the fey. For years, their albums boasted the motto "no synthesizers were used on this record," signaling their allegiance with the legions of post-Led Zeppelin hard rock bands. 

 In The Many Faces of Queen we will delve into the inner world of the legendary British foursome including their early recordings, collaborations and their fantastic repertoire. With remastered sound and fantastic artwork, The Many Faces Of Queen is an essential addition to your rock music collection. Disc One features early recordings by members of Queen including tracks by Smile, Larry Lurex (AKA Freddie Mercury), Eddie Howell featuring Brian May & Freddie Mercury and more. Disc Two features the songs of Queen as interpreted by rockers like Lemmy, Yngwie Malmsteen, Bob Kulick, Robin McAuley and many others. Disc Three includes symphonic interpretations of Queen classics like "Under Pressure," Love Of My Life," "We Are The Champions," and, of course, "Bohemian Rhapsody."

The Artwoods - Steady Gettin' It. The Complete Recordings 1964-67 (3 CD, 2014/FLAC)

 

The Artwoods (also sometimes known by Decca Records as the Art Woods) were an English rock band who formed in 1963 and were professionally active between 1964 and 1967. They were a popular live attraction, rivalling groups such as the Animals, although, despite releasing a clutch of singles and an album, their record sales never reflected this popularity.

Singer Arthur Wood, from whom the band took their name, was the eldest brother of Ronnie Wood (who later found fame with the Faces and Rolling Stones). Art Wood had been a vocalist with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated for a short period during 1962, simultaneously fronting his own group, the Art Wood Combo. When keyboardist Jon Lord and guitarist Derek Griffiths from Red Bludd's Bluesicians joined the Art Wood Combo, the Artwoods were formed. With Keef Hartley, formerly with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, joining on drums and Malcolm Pool from the Roadrunners joining as bassist, in December 1964 the band turned professional, securing a residency at London's 100 Club and signing a recording contract with Decca Records. Colin Martin joined from the band the Ingoes, who changed their name to the Blossom Toes. Colin went on to work at Radio 2 where he produced the like of Terry Wogan, Ken Bruce and Gloria Hunniford and was later appointed as Head of Music at the station.

The intended debut single, a cover of Muddy Waters' "Hoochie Coochie Man", was shelved in favour of a rendition of an old Lead Belly song, "Sweet Mary". Although it didn't reach the charts, it got sufficient airplay to bring the band a lot of live work, including an appearance on the first live edition of Ready Steady Go!. Their second record, "Oh My Love", was another blues cover. Like its predecessor (and subsequent releases), it failed to chart. Their only chart single was "I Take What I Want", which reached No 28 on 8 May 1966.

The Artwoods were dropped by Decca at the end of 1966, and they signed a one-record deal with Parlophone, but their release "What Shall I Do" also had no success. Later in 1967, a final "one-off" single appeared on the Fontana label, with the band billing itself as St. Valentine's Day Massacre; but by the time of its release the Artwoods had effectively ceased to exist.

The Artwoods' early records today stand up well against the work of more successful groups such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds or the Birds (who included Art's younger brother Ronnie). But at the time they came out, despite appearances on programs like Ready, Steady, Go! their singles never seemed to connect with the record-buying public. The group broke up in mid-1967. Art Wood joined his brother Ted in the graphics-art business and continued to perform music on a semi-professional basis. He also played with the Downliners Sect. Keef Hartley went on to play with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Jon Lord became a founder member of Deep Purple.

Gary Numan discography [1978-2019](FLAC)

Gary Anthony James Webb, better known professionally as Gary Numan (born 8 March 1958), is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Born in Hammersmith, London, he first entered the music industry as the lead singer of the new wave band Tubeway Army. After releasing two albums with the band, Numan released his debut solo album The Pleasure Principle in 1979. Most widely known for his chart-topping hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars", Numan achieved his peak of mainstream popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but maintains a loyal cult following.

Numan, whose signature sound consists of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals, is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music.

The Kinks - Picture Book [6 CD, 2008/FLAC+320]

 

Picture Book is a six-disc box set of material by The Kinks. It was released in December 2008 and compiles previously unreleased demos and outtakes together with selections from the group's four decade-long career. The track listing for the collection, the first box set release for the band, is mostly in chronological order. The box set also comes with a 60-page booklet featuring a biography of the band, a timeline, and photos.

 

Lightnin' Hopkins - Houston & Shreveport Sessions '63 To '69 (1969/FLAC)

 Texas bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins career was both long and fruitful. He performed live for six decades and recorded for over 30 years amassing a catalogue that was larger than almost any of his contemporaries. Not only was he prolific but he was also a great raconteur and a very good live performer with an ‘act’ honed to perfection at pre-war dances and parties. His guitar playing was unconventional, some have even called it ragged, but it is not as a guitarist that he will be remembered. Somehow the way he set his songs seemed totally apposite and it gave everything he did an authenticity that few others were ever able to match.

Steve Miller Band - Welcome to the Vault (3 CD + DVD 9, 2019/FLAC)

Steve Miller opens his vault to share unreleased recordings, alternate versions of classic songs, live performances and more with four disc deluxe set called Welcome to the Vault.

This career-spanning 3CD+DVD Steve Miller Band collection contains 52 audio tracks of which 38 are previously unreleased, while the DVD features 22 performances, including rare footage from the Monterey Pop Festival 1967, Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert 1973, ABC In Concert 1974, Pine Knob Michigan-1982, Steve and Les Paul at Fat Tuesdays-1990 and Austin City Limits 2011.

Welcome to the Vault comes presented as a 70- page hardcover book which, as well as housing the audio/video content, features Steve’s personal photos with a 7,000 word essay by David Fricke.

 

The Beatles - The Lost Album [8 CD, 2017]

 'The Lost Album' was born from the idea of gathering for the first time all the Beatles unreleased compositions, performed by themselves, as well as cover versions that were not included in any official album.

Many of these tracks come from demos, home recordings, rehearsals, etc, so the original quality is low. In this album we try to improve the audio quality as much as possible, recovering audio drops, fixing technical problems, recording failures and so on.

 
Software tools have been used to clean, remaster and enhance the tracks, without ever losing the fidelity of their originals. Short and unfinished songs were sewn into each other, with soft transitions, resulting in a more consistent track.
The overdubs and collages used were extracted from original Beatles material.

Compiled by Bruno Ribeiro & The Producers