Jolly Joker presents: April 2021

Carly Simon - Original Album Series 1971-1975 (5 CD, 2011/FLAC]

Carly Simon (1971)
Anticipation (1971)
No Secrets (1972)
Hotcakes (1974)
Playing Possum (1975)

Legends Of Country Blues: The Complete Prewar Recordings of Skip James, Son House, Bukka White, Tommy Johnson, Ishman Bracey

Artist development at Motown was comprehensive. Equal parts finishing school and academy of popular arts, the company provided its acts with elaborate choreography under the tutelage of Cholly Atkins. Young women raised in public housing projects, like the Supremes, were schooled in the social graces, and chaperones accompanied the package-tour bus cavalcades that brought Motown to other parts of the United States during the company’s early years.

Neil Diamond 50 - 50th Anniversary Collection is a retrospective of 50 Neil Diamond songs recorded between 1966 and 2014. It was released in March 2017.

Diamond selected the songs for Neil Diamond 50. Its tracks range from the 1966 album The Feel Of Neil Diamond to 2014's Melody Road. A three disc set, with liner notes by David Fricke, it includes songs which Rolling Stone described as "staples in the American pop songbook."

A 50th Anniversary World Tour coincided with the release of the box. It began April 7, 2017 in Fresno, California.

The latest CD from former Grinderswitch frontman, Dru Lombar, and his hot rocking band, Dr. Hector & the Groove Injectors arrived in 1998. With lots of good ol' rock & roll soul, a massive dose of rhythm & blues, and some infectious guitar playing, Cure for the Common Groove hits the spot better than an Alka Seltzer after a huge Mexican dinner. This is a disc that begs, no, demands to be heard time and time again. Set the repeat button on the disc changer, sit back and groove. That's what the doctor orders. It'll heal your afflictions, for sure. Celebrating ten years of red-hot recording, the CD includes tracks from previous Dr. Hector offerings such as "14 Carat Fool," co-written by Lombar and King Snake label chief and producer, Bob Greenlee, or "Pickin' the Blues," an Elmore James favorite that showcases Lombar at his guitar pickin' best. Cure rocks its way through the opening cut, an original electric blues number called "Risky Business," and gets downright funky with a saxophone-laced rendition of the J.D. Loudermilk composition "Bad News." "Safe in Your Arms Again" is a stone-cold blues throw-down that will have everyone closing their eyes and swaying from side to side like a Ray Charles wannabe while pretending to play some blues air guitar. R&B takes over with "I Wonder Where I'm Going to Sleep Tonight," and then carries on with the theme, with an almost Motown-sounding "Can't Take No for an Answer." One of the best tracks on the record is the energized "Two Strong People," a cut with all the heart and soul of an Ike & Tina Turner romp. "Emergency" closes out the 18-song set with Lombar tossing in some Duane Allman-influenced slide guitar over yet another excellent beat and lyric. Dru Lombar has one of the finest voices in Southern music, and his guitar playing is always right on the money. Cure for the Common Groove is just what the doctor ordered. You'll be out of that bed and up dancing again in no time.

2 CD compilation from Absolute Label

Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton is the musical equivalent of a limited-edition, fine-press book, and it's easily one of the most beautiful collections of recorded music ever assembled. Exquisitely designed, this 78-album-inspired, seven-CD package contains a wealth of information and music, featuring not only the Delta blues pioneer's complete recorded works, but the music of peripheral players (including Son House, Howlin' Wolf, and Henry "Son" Sims), a disc of fascinating audio interviews with Patton associates, and hours of reading material on the enigmatic songster.

At the 45th Grammy Awards the set won three awards for Best Historical Album, Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, and Best Album Notes.

Singer and guitarist Warren Haynes has served in some of the most devoted, generation-spanning live acts of all time The Allman Brothers Band, The Dead and Gov’t Mule. As a solo artist, Haynes has done pretty well for himself, too. After the release of only his second solo studio album, Man in Motion, Haynes performed an epic live set in Austin, Texas full of old hits, new tracks, covers and special guest appearances.

The blazing 2.5-hour show features several cuts from Haynes’ GRAMMY-nominated solo release ‘Man In Motion’ as well as Hendrix’s “Spanish Castle Magic,” Steely Dan’s “Pretzel Logic,” Sam Cooke’s classic “A Change Is Gonna Come” & Warren’s live staple “Soul Shine” and more. Guests include the Groove Line horns and 2012 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Ian McLagan of The Faces.

The Warren Haynes Band features a hand-picked band including R&B kingpins Ron Johnson on bass, Terence Higgins on drums, Nigel Hall on keyboards, Ron Holloway on saxophone and Alecia Chakour on vocals.

Broke, Black & Blue - An Anthology of Blues Classics and Rarities [4 CD, 1999/FLAC]

Broke, Black & Blue delivers multiple surprises within its 100 songs of prewar blues. Arranged chronologically by Joop Visser, the set admirably covers the first 22 years of recorded blues, 1924 to 1946, from vaudeville and Delta to boogie-woogie and jump blues. It's a swell gift for anyone wanting to learn more about the history of blues. But old-timers will be pleased, too, as special attention has been paid to culling rare and idiosyncratic tracks by the well-known and the obscure. The first three discs present single tracks by artists as diverse as the Memphis Jug Band, De Ford Bailey, Tommy Johnson, Son House, Skip James, Peetie Wheatstraw, Lonnie Johnson, and Bukka White, alongside unknowns such as Isaiah "The Mississippi Moaner" Nelson, Barbecue Bob and Laughing Charley, Ed Andrews, Chicken Wilson, and Bumble Bee Slim. On the fourth disc, this convention is jettisoned to luxuriate in a series of very rare sides of lovely, oddly subdued boogie-woogie and jump blues by Jimmie Gordon, Johnny Temple, and Lee Brown.

Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965–1968 is the fifth box set in Rhino Records' Nuggets series, released September 22, 2009. The set's four discs each focus on a different aspect of the underground rock music scene in and around Los Angeles at the end of the 1960s. The first disc, "On the Strip", features bands that rose out of the Sunset Strip scene; disc two, "Beyond the City", focuses on bands from the surrounding areas outside the city's borders; disc three, "The Studio Scene" covers bands' attempts to exploit the Los Angeles sound for a commercial audience; while disc four presents the movement away from psychedelic and garage rock towards the country rock sound which became popular in the city late in the decade. The boxed set was compiled and curated by Los Angeles native, Andrew Sandoval. On December 1, 2010 this project was nominated for a Grammy Award in the best Historical album category.

CCR’s first six albums were reissued individually with bonus tracks, and this tidy case brings them all together with the addition of their seventh, 1972’s Mardi Gras, in facsimiles of the original vinyl release sleeves. Taken as a whole, the music offers a chronological account of consolidation, rather than any radical creative progression.

John Fogerty’s winning formula of uncomplicated riffs and melodies punctuated by rousing choruses briefly made Creedence the biggest-selling band in the world and, while each album has its merits, there are weak spots which should advise buyers that this is a box aimed squarely at completists.

Mardi Gras, as yet not reissued separately, is clearly the poorest relation, coming a full two years after its predecessor. Kid brother Tom Fogerty had left, while bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford contribute lead vocals and songwriting for the first time – often to less than spectacular effect. Only the crunchy Sweet Hitch-Hiker and the mournful Someday Never Comes (both from JF’s pen) live up to previous glories, and the break-up followed soon after.

Scrapper Blackwell - Complete Recorded Works Vol.1 & 2 (1928-1958) [2 CD, 1994]

Scrapper Blackwell will always be best remembered for playing the guitar on a lengthy set of duets released under the name of pianist/singer Leroy Carr. His own solo recordings from the same era did not make him famous but they are certainly worthy. This set of CD's have all of Blackwell's dates as a leader from the era. Blackwell is showcased on unaccompanied solos, playing on one song apiece with singer Bertha "Chippie" Hill, Leroy Carr (though this time Blackwell is the vocalist and leader), Robinson's Knights of Rest (a trio also including clarinetist Arnett Nelson), and singer Teddy Moss, plus four songs backing the vocals of Black Bottom McPhail. Highlights include "Penal Farm Blues," "Mr. Scrapper's Blues," the two-part "Trouble Blues," "Be-Da-Da-Bum," "Hard Time Blues," and "Mix That Thing." Excellent music that shows just how underrated Scrapper Blackwell continues to be.

Spafford

2021-04-20-21

Tempe, AZ

2021-04-20 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater

Set 1

The Postman, Parody, Plans [ 1 ], Ain't That Wrong, You Don't Know How It Feels

Set 2

When It Falls > Comfortable > Virtual Bean Dip > The Other One > Electric Taco Stand, Break My Stride

Encore

Galisteo Way > Virtual Bean Dip

[ 1 ]: With Workout Mike Jam

2021-04-21 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater

Set 1

In The Eyes Of Thieves, Dreams, Night After Night, Soul To Squeeze, It's A Bunch, Levilan Shores

Set 2

Fünkenseven, Slip And Squander, Leave The Light On, The Man, Dig Down, Salamander Song

Encore

America, Hollywood > The Reprise

Classic Jazz : Encyclopedia of Jazz [100 CD, 2008] CD 51-60

CD 51: Earl Hines

CD 52: Duke Ellington (1928)

CD 53: Duke Ellington (1929)

CD 54: Duke Ellington (1930)

CD 55: Charlie Johnson

CD 56: Duke Ellington (1931-32)

CD 57: Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang (1926-28)

CD 58: Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang (1928-31)

CD 59: Eddie Lang

CD 60: Eddie Lang, Lonnie Johnson

The ultimate version of one of the greatest British rock records of the 80s.

Despite the heady heights of success scaled by The Cult during the arena rock years from 1987 until their break-up in 1995, their second album Love is by far their best. Originally released in 1985, there simply isn’t a bad song on here, and evergreen rock anthems such as Rain and the iconic She Sells Sanctuary are probably their best known and best loved tracks.

Love could arguably be called a transitional album. The band’s first effort, 1984’s Dreamtime, was rooted in the emerging post-punk and goth-rock underground scene. Love represented a quantum leap forward, but their sound had yet to be distilled into the pure hard rock of 1987’s Electric. Ian Astbury’s soaring vocals remained much the same, but Love introduced some Led Zeppelin-sized ambition and sonic scope.

Lizzie Miles was the stage name taken by Elizabeth Mary Landreaux (31 March 1895 – 17 March 1963), an African American blues singer.

Miles was born in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, in a dark skinned Francophone Creole ("Creole of Color") family. She traveled widely with minstrel and circus shows in the 1910s, and made her first phonograph recordings in New York of blues songs in 1922 – although Miles did not like to be referred to as a 'blues singer', since she sang a wide repertory of music.

In the mid 1920s she spent time performing in Paris before returning to the United States. She suffered a serious illness and retired from the music industry in the 1930s. In the 1940s she returned to New Orleans, where Joe Mares encouraged her to sing again—which she did, but always from in front of, or beside the stage, since she said she had vowed in a prayer not to go on stage again if she recovered from her illness. Miles was based in San Francisco, California in the early 1950s, then again returned to New Orleans where she recorded with several Dixieland and traditional jazz bands and made regular radio broadcasts, often performing with Bob Scobey or George Lewis.

In 1958 Miles appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival. In 1959 she quit singing, except for gospel music. She died in New Orleans, from a heart attack, in March 1963.

The Layla Sessions: 20th Anniversary Edition (or The Layla Sessions) released September 1990 is an anniversary remix of the 1970 Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album by Derek and the Dominos. The album contains the original album, remixed to improve audio quality, and, in the 3-CD edition, two extra discs of unused alternate and incomplete masters of the original songs and studio jamming. The box set was designed by Mitchell Kanner.

Milk Of The Tree is the 3CD box set (60 tracks) focusing on the music made in the late ’60s and early ’70s in both Britain and North America by either female solo artists or acts with featured female vocalists. Along the way, we encounter San Franciscan psychedelia, LA folk rock, Swinging London pop-folk, electric folk, progressive folk and even folk club folk as well as (of course) a plethora of singer- songwriters (including various ladies of the Canyon) from the movement’s golden age.

The Chess Story (1947-1975)

For almost 30 years some of the best black music appeared on the Chess label . This sumptuous box set captures the full range of the Chess catalogue: from the raw Chicago blues sound of Muddy Waters (an astonishing 31 tracks), Howling Wolf and John Lee Hooker; through the more playful RnB of the likes of Chuck Berry (19 tracks) and Bo Diddley (15 tracks); to the soulful sound of artists like Fontella Bass, Etta James and Little Milton.

This new edition uses the 2012 remaster of the 1970 album and includes the 1974 quad mix of Paranoid. Bizarrely, the quad mix isn’t on a DVD (or blu-ray) but on CD. Since CDs cannot deliver audio in a surround sound format, this rare quad mix is ‘folded down’ to stereo. It will still sound different to the master version, but the whole point of quad mixes was to deliver a surround sound experience via four channels – something this CD won’t do. Truly perverse. The other two CDs contain two concerts from 1970, from Montreux (recorded shortly before the album was issued) and Brussels (recorded during the band’s television performance for public broadcaster RTBF). The latter has been widely bootlegged, but for this set, the entire show has been sourced directly from the RTBF master tapes for optimum quality.

Bill Wymans Rhythm Kings- The Kings Of Rhythm Vol.1 [4 CD, 2016/FLAC]

This box contains the first four releases from Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, the good-time ten-piece band that Bill Wyman put together after leaving the Rolling Stones in 1992. The band has a core rhythm section, but features a revolving combination of all-star guest front men and women. These four albums feature the talents of Gary Brooker, Georgie Fame, Albert Lee, Paul Carrack, Andy Fairweather Low, Chris Rea, Mike Sanchez, Beverley Skeete, Mick Taylor, Nicky Hopkins, Eric Clapton and Peter Frampton.

CDs 2 and 4 are recordings from the band’s live shows originally given a limited release as the ‘Bootleg Kings’, and unavailable for many years.

Although Jimmy McCracklin had already been recording for a few years, his association with Modern marked his first reasonably long tenure with an established label. This 25-track disc covers his first stay with the company, covering a half dozen singles, three songs that first showed up on the 1981 Ace album And His Blues Blasters, and ten demos, outtakes, and alternate takes that were previously unissued. It's solid small-combo West Coast jump blues, sometimes embellished by the tenor saxophone of Maxwell Davis.

Founded as an outlet for the "out" musical philosophy of Col. Bruce Hampton, the Aquarium Rescue Unit's ever-rotating lineup became a fixture on the early jam band scene, eventually spawning members of the Allman Brothers Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, Leftover Salmon, and Frogwings. While never commercially successful, the band's hilariously fun fusion of bluegrass, rock, Latin, jazz, and impeccable chops became a template for much future work in the genre.

VA- A History Of The Blues Part 1 & 2 [4 CD, 2010]

Very nice 2 x 2 CD compilation from Rhino Records

A History Of The Blues Part 1

Disc 1

01. Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues
02. Muddy Waters - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
03. John Lee Hooker - Good Morning, Lil' School Girl
04. Bo Diddley - I'm A Man
05. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
06. Little Walter - My Babe
07. Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied
08. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Midnight Special
09. Memphis Slim - Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues
10. Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone
11. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues
12. Big Bill Broonzy - Get Back
13. Lowell Fulson - Tollin Bells
14. Muddy Waters - Forty Days And Forty Nights
15. B.B.King - City of New Orleans
16. Memphis Slim - Youth To You
17. Howlin' Wolf - Louise
18. Sonny Terry - My Baby Done Gone
19. Little Walter - Juke
20. Big Bill Broonzy - John Henry
21. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
22. Howlin' Wolf - Poor Boy
23. Muddy Waters - I'm Ready
24. Memphis Slim - Don't You Tell Nobody
25. Muddy Waters - I Just Want To Make Love With You
26. Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago

Disc 2

01. John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
02. Muddy Waters - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
03. Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee
04. Albert King - Kanzas City
05. B.B.King - Someday Baby
06. Otis Rush - So Many Roads, So Many Trains
07. Muddy Waters - Good Morning, Little School Girl
08. Elmore James - Dust My Broom
09. Sonny Boy Williamson' - Don't Start Me To Talkin'
10. Muddy Waters - Big Leg Woman
11. Memphis Slim - Not So Stuck On Me
12. B.B.King - Watch Yourself
13. Champion Jack Dupree - When Things Go Wrong
14. Albert King - Crosscut Saw
15. Buddy Guy - Night Flight
16. Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful
17. Muddy Waters - My Captain
18. Memphis Slim - I Feel Like Ballin' The Jack
19. Champion Jack Dupree - Caldonia
20. Aretha Franklin - (You Make me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
21. Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle
22. Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally
23. Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind
24. Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
25. Wilson Pickett - Sunny

A History Of The Blues Part 2

Disc 1

01. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
02. John Lee Hooker - Sittin' In My Dark Room
03. Jimi Hendrix - Red House
04. B.B.King - You're Still My Woman
05. Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign
06. Aretha Franklin - The Thrill Is Gone (From Yesterday's Kiss)
07. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Bring It On Home To Me
08. B.B.King - Chains and Things
09. Champion Jack Dupree - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
10. Sunnyland Slim - Bessie Mae
11. Pinetop Perkins - Sweet Black Angel
12. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - The Battle Is Over
13. B.B.King - Hummingbird
14. Aretha Franklin - Son Of Preacher Man
15. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - People Get Ready
16. Sunniland Slim - I Had It Hard
17. Champion Jack Dupree - Rolling And Thumbling
18. Pinetop Perkins - Pinetop Boogie Woogie

Disc 2

01. John Lee Hooker - Chill Out (Things Gonna Change) feat. Carlos Santana
02. Magic Slim - Crazy Woman
03. B.B.King - Let The Good Times Roll
04. Gary Moore - Pretty Woman (feat. Albert King)
05. Cassandra Wilson - Vietnam Blues
06. Keb' Mo' - Am I Wrong
07. John Lee Hooker - Bottle Up And Go
08. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Troble - The Sky Is Crying
09. The Jeff Haley Band - Stop Breakin' Down
10. Luther Allison - Cherry Red Wine
11. Gary Moore - Since I Met You Baby (feat. B.B.King)
12. Robben Ford - Up The Line
13. Buddy Guy - Are You Losing Your Mind
14. Johnny Winter - Dallas
15. Albert Collins - Frosty
16. Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King - I Saw it Coming
17. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - All Your Love
18. The Jeff Beck Group - Ain't Superstitious
19. Stephen Stills - Sweet Home Chicago

The Allman Brothers Band - Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 5-1-73 (2005.FLAC)

Nassau Coliseum: Uniondale, NY: 5/1/73 is a two-CD live album by the Allman Brothers Band. It was recorded at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on May 1, 1973. The fourth archival concert release from the Allman Brothers Band Recording Company, it features the 1972 to 1976 lineup of the band – Gregg Allman (organ, guitar, vocals), Dickey Betts (guitar, vocals), Chuck Leavell (piano), Lamar Williams (bass), Jaimoe (drums), and Butch Trucks (drums). It was released in 2005.

This 52 disc Ultimate Collection features music from the Delta to the Big Cities. This special first edition also includes a historic puck harmonica. How blue can you get? You will find your favorites here and discover some hidden gems, as the 'ABC of the Blues' brings together the best of the best.

It presents some of the most influential Blues musicians - some of the most influential musicians, period. Their styles may range as far and wide as their attitudes, their concepts, yes, even their stories and legends. The oldest member of the distinct congregation were born in the late 19th century. Some of the young'uns still record and perform to this day. The music may lift you up or get you down. But one thing is for sure:

The Blues will live on!

Paul Melvyn Carrack (born 22 April 1951) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who has recorded as both a solo artist and as a member of several popular bands. The BBC described him as "The Man with the Golden Voice", adding: "Carrack is a journeyman of British rock, soul and pop whose career has unfolded slowly and steadily until he has become something of a national treasure." William Pinfold of Record Collector, acknowledging Carrack's cult status, remarked: "If vocal talent equalled financial success, Paul Carrack would be a bigger name than legends such as Phil Collins or Elton John."

Carrack arose to prominence in the mid-1970s as the frontman and principal songwriter of Ace, and gained further recognition for his work as a solo artist and for his tenures as a member of Roxy Music, Squeeze and Roger Waters' backing group, The Bleeding Heart Band, intermittently handling lead vocals on Squeeze and Waters recordings. From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, he enjoyed considerable success as the co-frontman (with Paul Young) and a songwriter for Mike + The Mechanics; following Young's death in 2000, Carrack served as the band's sole lead vocalist until his departure in 2004. He maintains an active solo career to the present day.

B.B. King & Eric Clapton - Riding with the King (Deluxe Edition) (2020.FLAC)

Riding with the King is a blues album by Eric Clapton and B.B. King that was released in 2000. It was their first collaborative album and won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.

The potential for a collaboration between B.B. King and Eric Clapton is enormous, of course, and the real questions concern how it is organized and executed. This first recorded pairing between the 74-year-old King and the 55-year-old Clapton was put together in the most obvious way: Clapton arranged the session using many of his regular musicians, picked the songs, and co-produced with his partner Simon Climie. That ought to mean that King would be a virtual guest star rather than earning a co-billing, but because of Clapton's respect for his elder, it nearly works the other way around. The set list includes lots of King specialties -- "Ten Long Years," "Three O'Clock Blues," "Days of Old," "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer" -- as well as standards like "Hold on I'm Coming" and "Come Rain or Come Shine," with some specially written and appropriate recent material thrown in, so King has reason to be comfortable without being complacent. The real danger is that Clapton will defer too much; though he can be inspired by a competing guitarist such as Duane Allman, he has sometimes tended to lean too heavily on accompanists such as Albert Lee and Mark Knopfler when working with them in concert. That danger is partially realized; as its title indicates, Riding With the King is more about King than it is about Clapton. But the two players turn out to have sufficiently complementary, if distinct, styles so that Clapton's supportive role fills out and surrounds King's stinging single-string playing. (It's also worth noting that there are usually another two or three guitarists on each track.) The result is an effective, if never really stunning, work.

B.B. King – guitar, co-lead vocals
Eric Clapton – guitar, co-lead vocals (tracks 1, 3–9, 11, 12)
Doyle Bramhall II – guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9–12), background vocals (tracks 4, 7)
Andy Fairweather Low – guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9–12)
Jimmie Vaughan – guitar (track 6)
Joe Sample – acoustic piano (1, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11), Wurlitzer piano (tracks 1, 2, 11)
Tim Carmon – organ (tracks 1–7, 9–12)
Paul Waller – programming
Nathan East – bass
Steve Gadd – drums
Arif Mardin – string arrangements
Susannah Melvoin – background vocals (tracks 1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12)
Wendy Melvoin – background vocals (tracks 1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12)

01. Riding with the King (04:23)

02. Ten Long Years (04:41)

03. Key to the Highway (03:40)

04. Marry You (04:59)

05. Three O'Clock Blues (08:37)

06. Help the Poor (05:06)

07. I Wanna Be (04:46)

08. Worried Life Blues (04:26)

09. Days of Old (03:00)

10. When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (07:10)

11. Hold on I'm Coming (06:20)

12. Come Rain or Come Shine (04:12)

13. Rollin' and Tumblin' (04:32)

14. Let Me Love You (05:07)

VA - The Old Grey Whistle Test - 40th Anniversary Album [3 CD, 2011/FLAC]

This anniversary release is a three CD collection featuring classic rock acts from the Old Grey Whistle Test era including the likes of Elton John, Eric Clapton, The Who, Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin, as well as a number of American new wave artists such as Blondie, The Ramones and Talking Heads. The bonus tracks were recorded live on the Old Grey Whistle Test and cover the shows entire 16 years and as such have a more diverse feel with artists from Alice Cooper and John Lennon to Magazine and Simple Minds. The album is packaged in a deluxe reverse board digipak.

The Old Grey Whistle Test (usually abbreviated to Whistle Test or OGWT) is an influential BBC2 television music show that ran from 1971 to 1987. It took over the BBC2 late night slot from "Disco Two", which had been running since January 1970, while continuing to feature non-chart music. It was devised by BBC producer Rowan Ayers. According to presenter Bob Harris, the programme derived its name from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years before. When they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the old greys—doormen in grey suits. The songs they could remember and whistle, having heard it just once or twice, had passed the old grey whistle test.

Kaipa - The Decca Years 1975-1978 [5 CD, 2005/FLAC]

In their early years, Kaipa was one of Sweden's best Symphonic Prog bands. Roine Stolt from The Flower Kings was a member of Kaipa. Their albums contain mostly instrumental music, drawing its influences from classic progressive Rock bands (Camel, Yes, Genesis), Classical music (Bach), and also Swedish Folk music. The Decca Years is a compilation of the three first albums from Kaipa, released under the Decca label during the years of 1975 to 1978. It also includes a demo which was previously unreleased, and a previously unreleased live set.

100% Handmade Music chronicles the eclectic new acoustic music genre, a blend of bluegrass, jazz, folk, blues, country, and whatever other traditional forms the musicians cross paths with, all tied together by virtuosic musicianship.

After its epic Next Stop Is Vietnam collection, Germany's Bear Family Records and producer Hugo A. Keesing quickly came up with their next collection of war music.

Battleground Korea: Songs And Sounds Of America's Forgotten War with its four CDs offering a genre-spanning gathering of 121 tracks about or inspired by the war, ranging from the likes of blues and R&B stalwarts John Lee Hooker, Fats Domino. Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Lightnin' Hopkins to country artists such as Ernest Tubb, Gene Autry, Merle Travis and Jimmie Osborne, whose 1953 song 'The Korean Story,' which Keesing calls 'a three-minute summary of the war,' is below.

This band’s eponymous 1969 release, so different from 1968’s White Light/White Heat, is the sound of a band finding clarity through subtraction. Gone was John Cale, and with him the grinding viola and most of the avant-garde leanings he brought to the forefront. Gone were — according to guitarist Sterling Morrison — all the effects pedals that allowed for the distortion and feedback so prevalent on White Light/White Heat, stolen at the New York airport as the band flew to Los Angeles to record. Gone was the Verve label, with the band moving up to parent company MGM’s main label. Gone was New York itself, and all but the last tenuous threads of its connection to Andy Warhol and The Factory. The result is the barest Velvet Underground record, stripped down to its skin.

The Velvet Underground – 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition is much more than just the single album, though it does contain three distinct mixes of the record itself. First is the “Val Valentin Mix”, which is the one referenced for the above description. Valentin was the engineer for the recordings, and his mix was the one released overseas and eventually on compact disc. Second is what became known as “The Closet Mix”, which was done by Lou Reed himself and was used for the initial vinyl release in the United States. Its nickname comes from Sterling Morrison, who said, ”I thought it sounded like it was recorded in a closet. I guess he [Lou] felt the real essence of the tracks was the lyrics.” Besides the band being pushed far to the back, a different vocal take of “Some Kinda Love” was used on “the Closet Mix”. That track also has a single guitar track instead of the two on the Valentin mix. Preference between the two versions is left to the individual; there is no definitive version, though it’s easy to see why some people side with Lou’s mix. It makes an intimate album all the more personal. However, the Valentin mix gives the band greater prominence as a whole, and the contribution of the other members is not to be underplayed. Both are worth having at hand, depending on the listener’s mood.

Dub Side of the Mule, 3 hours of music including a 45-minute set of reggae songs with special guest Toots Hibbert, leader of Toots & The Maytals. Recorded on New Year’s Eve 2006 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, the newly mixed and mastered live album is available in a deluxe version (3 CD’s of the entire performance and 1-DVD of the special 45-minute reggae set), along with a standard version (1 CD featuring the reggae set) and a Double Vinyl Version as well.

Released on the heels of his New York Times Best Selling memoir, 'Do You Feel Like I Do?', the rock 'n' roll legend and Grammy winning artist Peter Frampton turns his focus back to music with the studio album 'Frampton Forgets the Words'. With his 1954 Les Paul Phenix, Frampton brings virtuosic guitar playing to 10 instrumental tributes to some of his favourite songs, including 'Isn't It a Pity' by George Harrison, 'Reckoner' by Radiohead, 'Loving the Alien' by David Bowie, and more.

Bardo Pond are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991, and who are currently signed to London-based label Fire Records. The current members are Michael Gibbons (guitar), John Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger (flute and vocals), Clint Takeda (bass guitar) and Jason Kourkonis (drums). Bardo Pond's drug-inspired music is often classified as space rock, acid rock, post-rock, shoegazing, noise or psychedelic rock. Many Bardo Pond album titles have been derived from the names of esoteric psychedelic substances. Their sound has been likened to Pink Floyd, Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine amongst others.

In October 2000, Bardo Pond self-released the first volume in a highly limited series of CD-R jam sessions. The tracks in the Volume series are more improvisational and experimental than the band's studio work.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) is one of the most popular and successful english progressive rock bands in history. The main characteristics that made the trio so popular were their technical skills and their showmanship. It wasn't very usual -back then- to see such technically proficient musicians like keith Emerson (keyboards) or Carl Palmer (drums) to develop such a highly-visual concert experience; which in fact made an often quite complex music genre, instantly appealing to a broad audience.

The Many Faces of Emeron, Lake & Palmer is a key release that shows uknown aspects of their successful career.

4 CD compilation from Sony Music brings 68 greatest American artists of all genres.

Rarely has the primal excitement of the electric blues guitar been so voraciously and expertly illustrated on one compilation than on Screaming And Crying, renowned British blues buff Neil Slaven s monumental homage to the music which shaped both his life and a whole generation. Over three discs and 75 tracks, the set straddles the spectrum of the electrified blues which fuelled the British R&B boom of the 1960s and beyond, mixing much-feted names such as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley with more deliciously obscure outings by the likes of Doctor Ross and Guitar Shorty. Slaven s liner notes outline the story behind the roughshod classics which bust out of the set, whether screaming with the joy of musical release, or crying in a pool of despair, both amplified through jacked-up guitar strings. Selections are explained using a thread which shows how the trail-blazing T-Bone Walker (represented by tracks which avoid overlap with Fantastic Voyage s much-lauded T-Bone collection You re My Best Poker Hand, FVTD099) influenced the likes of Pee Wee Crayton, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Johnny Copeland and Johnny Guitar Watson, whose aptly-named Space Guitar was obviously a big influence on Hendrix (as were many of the names on show). Noted guitar abusers are present and incorrect, including over-loading Pat Hare in James Cotton s band, Johnny Otis Pete Guitar Lewis distorting through Midnight In The Barrel House , while the mighty John Lee Hooker and Elmore James display their inimitable axe attacks on several outings. The fearsome triumvirate of Kings - B.B., Albert and Freddie - get three tracks apiece, as do Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, whose lesser-known Mad Lad is a lesson in controlled virtuosity. Other guitarists very much plugged in through the fifties to the sixties include Buddy Guy, Little Milton, Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Tiny Grimes, Earl Hooker, Hop Wilson, Magic Sam, Lowell Fulson, Jimmy Reed s Eddie Taylor, Mickey Baker, Guitar Slim, Goree Carter and Ike Turner (showing how underrated his savage guitar style was). Neil Slaven has constructed a veritable dizzbuster of a collection, exuding the kind of glow and continuity which can only come from knowledge and passion. As he says in his notes, Some of these recordings have become cornerstones of a long life and not one of them has diminished with the ensuing years. That s something for you to look forward to.

CD1
01. You Upset Me Baby (B.B. King)
02. Midnight In The Barrel House (Johnny Otis feat. Pete Guitar Lewis)
03. First Time I Met The Blues (Buddy Guy)
04. Cotton Crop Blues (James Cotton feat. Pat Hare)
05. Lookin For My Baby (Little Milton)
06. Rock Me (Muddy Waters)
07. The Stumble (Freddy King)
08. All Your Love (I Miss Loving) (Otis Rush)
09. Chicken-Hearted Woman (Clarence Samuels feat. Johnny Copeland)
10. The Story Of My Life (Guitar Slim)
11. Atomic Energy (Clarence Gatemouth Brown)
12. Pretty Thing (Bo Diddley)
13. You ve Taken My Woman (John Lee Hooker)
14. Coming Home (Elmore James)
15. Three Hours Past Midnight (Johnny Guitar Watson)
16. Bye Bye Johnny (Chuck Berry)
17. Tiny s Boogie (Tiny Grimes)
18. Travelin Blues (T-Bone Walker)
19. I Walked All Night Long (Albert King)
20. Louisiana Hop (Pete Guitar Lewis)
21. Screaming And Crying (Morris Pejoe)
22. Blues In D Natural (Earl Hooker)
23. My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone (Hop Wilson)
24. All Your Love (Magic Sam)
25. Don t Knock At My Door (Eddie Taylor)

CD2
01. Let Me Love You Baby (Buddy Guy)
02. Reconsider Baby (Lowell Fulson)
03. She s Dynamite (B.B. King)
04. Texas Hop (Pee Wee Crayton)
05. If You Love Me Baby (Little Milton)
06. The Boogie Disease (Doctor Ross)
07. Cool Lovin Mama (Rudy Green)
08. Ho...Ho (Ike Turner)
09. Ain t That Lovin You Baby (Jimmy Reed feat. Eddie Taylor)
10. Blues Is A Woman (T-Bone Walker)
11. Nursery Rhyme (Bo Diddley)
12. I ve Made Nights By Myself (Albert King)
13. Strollin With Nolen (Jimmy Nolen)
14. A Letter To My Girl Friend (Guitar Slim)
15. Spinnin Rock Boogie (Mickey Baker)
16. Jumpin In The Heart Of Town (Lafayette Thomas)
17. I Can t Hold Out (Elmore James)
18. Mad Lad (Chuck Berry)
19. Have You Ever Loved A Woman (Freddy King)
20. Double Trouble (Otis Rush)
21. Dirty Work At The Crossroads (Clarence Gatemouth Brown)
22. Bull Corn Blues (Goree Carter)
23. Wobbling Baby (John Lee Hooker)
24. Irma Lee (Guitar Shorty)
25. Space Guitar (Johnny Guitar Watson)

CD2
01. Gotta Boogie (John Lee Hooker)
02. Through With Women (T-Bone Walker)
03. Blue Guitar (Earl Hooker)
04. You ve Got To Love Her With A Feeling (Freddy King)
05. Blow Wind Blow (Muddy Waters)
06. Rockin The Blues Away (Tiny Grimes)
07. The Sun Is Shining (Elmore James)
08. Honey, Where You Going (Jimmy Reed feat. Eddie Taylor)
09. Sam s Drag (Lafayette Thomas)
10. I Found Me A New Love (Little Milton)
11. When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer (B.B. King)
12. After Hours (Jimmy Nolen)
13. I m A Stranger (Hop Wilson)
14. Look Whatcha Done (Magic Sam)
15. Mumblin Guitar (Bo Diddley)
16. Chuck With The Boys (Lowell Fulson)
17. Ooh-Ee Baby (Albert King)
18. The Big Push (Cal Green)
19. Hoy-Hoy (Goree Carter)
20. So Many Roads, So Many Trains (Otis Rush)
21. A Frosty Night (Pee Wee Crayton)
22. Please Tell Me (Larry Dale feat. Mickey Baker)
23. You Don t Treat Me Right (Guitar Shorty)
24. You ll Always Have A Home (Eddie Taylor)
25. Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry)

VA - ABC of the Blues [52 CD, 2010] Vol. 31-40

31-01 Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues
31-02 Big Maceo - County Jail Blues
31-03 Big Maceo - Can't You Read
31-04 Big Maceo - Tuff Luck Blues
31-05 Big Maceo - It's All Up to You
31-06 Big Maceo - Poor Kelly Blues
31-07 Big Maceo - My Last Go Round
31-08 Big Maceo - I Got the Blues
31-09 Big Maceo - Ramblin' Mind Blues
31-10 Big Maceo - Why Should I Hang Around
31-11 Blind Willie McTell - Georgia Rag
31-12 Blind Willie McTell - Rough Alley Blues
31-13 Blind Willie McTell - Low Rider's Blues
31-14 Blind Willie McTell - Painful Blues
31-15 Blind Willie McTell - Experience Blues
31-16 Blind Willie McTell - Low Down Blues
31-17 Blind Willie McTell - Lonesome Day Blues
31-18 Blind Willie McTell - Mama, Let Me Scoop for You
31-19 Blind Willie McTell - Rollin' Mama Blues
31-20 Blind Willie McTell - Searching the Desert for the Blues

32-01 Memphis Slim - Really Got the Blues
32-02 Memphis Slim - Mother Earth
32-03 Memphis Slim - I Guess I'm a Fool
32-04 Memphis Slim - Havin' Fun
32-05 Memphis Slim - Marack
32-06 Memphis Slim - Tia Juana
32-07 Memphis Slim - Reverend Bounce
32-08 Memphis Slim - I'm Crying
32-09 Memphis Slim - Blues for My Baby
32-10 Memphis Slim - Slim's Blues
32-11 Tommy McClennan - Baby, Don't You Want to Go
32-12 Tommy McClennan - You Can't Mistreat Me
32-13 Tommy McClennan - Shake 'em On Down
32-14 Tommy McClennan - Bottle It Up and Go
32-15 Tommy McClennan - Brown Skin Girl
32-16 Tommy McClennan - I'm Going Don't You Know
32-17 Tommy McClennan - My Baby's Gone
32-18 Tommy McClennan - Whiskey Headed Woman
32-19 Tommy McClennan - It's Hard to Be Lonesome
32-20 Tommy McClennan - Highway 51

33-01 Mississippi Fred McDowell - I'm Going Down to the River
33-02 Mississippi Fred McDowell - When the Train Comes Along
33-03 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'em On Down
33-04 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Worried Mind
33-05 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
33-06 Mississippi Fred McDowell - What's the Matter Now?
33-07 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
33-08 Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Done Told Everybody
33-09 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
33-10 Mississippi Fred McDowell - 61 Highway
33-11 Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man Blues
33-12 Mississippi John Hurt - Blessed Be the Name
33-13 Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business
33-14 Mississippi John Hurt - Louis Collins
33-15 Mississippi John Hurt - Praying on the Old Camp Ground
33-16 Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues
33-17 Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
33-18 Mississippi John Hurt - Ain't No Telling
33-19 Mississippi John Hurt - Blue Harvest Blues
33-20 Mississippi John Hurt - Got the Blues

34-01 Robert Nighthawk - Crying Won't Help You
34-02 Robert Nighthawk - Seventy-Four
34-03 Robert Nighthawk - Nighthawk Boogie
34-04 Robert Nighthawk - Kansas City
34-05 Robert Nighthawk - Bricks in My Pillow
34-06 Robert Nighthawk - Maggie Campbell
34-07 Robert Nighthawk - Feel So Bad
34-08 Robert Nighthawk - You Missed a Good Man
34-09 Robert Nighthawk - The Moon Is Rising
34-10 Robert Nighthawk - Take It Easy, Baby
34-11 Johnny Otis - Good Ole Blues
34-12 Johnny Otis - Mean Ole Gal
34-13 Johnny Otis - Hangover Blues
34-14 Johnny Otis - Thursday Night Blues
34-15 Johnny Otis - I Gotta Guy
34-16 Johnny Otis - Get Together Blues
34-17 Johnny Otis - Double Crossing Blues
34-18 Johnny Otis - Head Hunter
34-19 Johnny Otis - Going to See My Baby
34-20 Johnny Otis - New Orleans Shuffle

35-01 Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere Pt. 1
35-02 Charley Patton - Hang It on the Wall
35-03 Charley Patton - Prayer of Death Pt. 1
35-04 Charley Patton - Sic em Dogs On
35-05 Charley Patton - Watch and Pray
35-06 Charley Patton - Snatch and Grab It
35-07 Charley Patton - M and O Blues
35-08 Charley Patton - Dark Road Blues
35-09 Charley Patton - Country Farm Blues
35-10 Charley Patton - Forty Four
35-11 Snooky Pryor - Snooky and Moody's Boogie
35-12 Snooky Pryor - Telephone Blues
35-13 Snooky Pryor - Boogy Fool
35-14 Snooky Pryor - Stop the Train, Conductor
35-15 Snooky Pryor - Walking Boogie
35-16 Snooky Pryor - Uncle Sam, Don't Take My Man
35-17 Snooky Pryor - Rough Treatment
35-18 Snooky Pryor - Stockyard Blues
35-19 Snooky Pryor - Keep What You Got
35-20 Snooky Pryor - Let Me Ride Your Mule

36-01 Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras
36-02 Professor Longhair - In the Night
36-03 Professor Longhair - Hey Little Girl
36-04 Professor Longhair - Walk Your Blues Away
36-05 Professor Longhair - Willie Mae
36-06 Professor Longhair - Professor Longhair Blues
36-07 Professor Longhair - Misery
36-08 Professor Longhair - Looka, No Hair
36-09 Professor Longhair - Cuttin' Out
36-10 Professor Longhair - Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand
36-11 Junior Parker - Feelin' Good
36-12 Junior Parker - Mystery Train
36-13 Junior Parker - Sittin' at the Bar
36-14 Junior Parker - Sittin' at the Window
36-15 Junior Parker - Sittin', Drinkin' and Thinkin'
36-16 Junior Parker - Dirty Friend Blues
36-17 Junior Parker - Backtracking
36-18 Junior Parker - I Wanna Ramble
36-19 Junior Parker - There Better Be No Feet
36-20 Junior Parker - Fussin' and Fightin' Blues

37-01 Jimmy Reed - Baby What You Want Me to Do
37-02 Jimmy Reed - Found Love
37-03 Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man
37-04 Jimmy Reed - Hush Hush
37-05 Jimmy Reed - I'm Nervous
37-06 Jimmy Reed - Going by the River Pt. 1
37-07 Jimmy Reed - I Ain't Got You
37-08 Jimmy Reed - Come Love
37-09 Jimmy Reed - Meet Me
37-10 Jimmy Reed - I Was So Wrong
37-11 Otis Rush - Checking on My Baby
37-12 Otis Rush - Love That Woman
37-13 Otis Rush - My Baby Is a Good'un
37-14 Otis Rush - All Your Love
37-15 Otis Rush - If You Were Mine
37-16 Otis Rush - Violent Love
37-17 Otis Rush - My Love Will Never Die
37-18 Otis Rush - Three Times a Fool
37-19 Otis Rush - Keep On Loving Me Baby
37-20 Otis Rush - It Takes Time

38-01 Jimmy Rushing - Good Morning Blues
38-02 Jimmy Rushing - See See Rider
38-03 Jimmy Rushing - Take Me Back, Baby
38-04 Jimmy Rushing - Sent for You Yesterday
38-05 Jimmy Rushing - Roll'em Pete
38-06 Jimmy Rushing - My Friend Mr. Blues
38-07 Jimmy Rushing - Every Day
38-08 Jimmy Rushing - Sometimes I Think I Do
38-09 Jimmy Rushing - Take Me with You, Baby
38-10 Jimmy Rushing - Evenin'
38-11 Tampa Red - You Missed a Good Man
38-12 Tampa Red - She Want to Sell My Monkey
38-13 Tampa Red - She's Love Crazy
38-14 Tampa Red - Hard Road Blues
38-15 Tampa Red - Let Me Play with Your Poodle
38-16 Tampa Red - Crying Won't Help You
38-17 Tampa Red - Sweet Little Angel
38-18 Tampa Red - But I Forgive You
38-19 Tampa Red - So Much Trouble
38-20 Tampa Red - Big Stars Falling Blues

39-01 Bessie Smith - Down Hearted Blues
39-02 Bessie Smith - Gulf Coast Blues
39-03 Bessie Smith - Oh Daddy Blues
39-04 Bessie Smith - Baby Won't You Please Come Home
39-05 Bessie Smith - Aggravation Papa
39-06 Bessie Smith - Beale Street Mama
39-07 Bessie Smith - Keeps On A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time)
39-08 Bessie Smith - Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
39-09 Bessie Smith - Mama's Got the Blues
39-10 Bessie Smith - Outside of That
39-11 Bessie Smith - Lady Luck Blues
39-12 Bessie Smith - Yodling Blues
39-13 Bessie Smith - Bleeding Hearted Blues
39-14 Bessie Smith - Midnight Blues
39-15 Bessie Smith - If You Don't, I Know Who Will
39-16 Bessie Smith - Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
39-17 Bessie Smith - Jaul House Blues
39-18 Bessie Smith - Sam Jones Blues
39-19 Bessie Smith - Cemetery Blues
39-20 Bessie Smith - Graveyard Dream Blues

40-01 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
40-02 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Little Chickee Wah Wah
40-03 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Hush Your Mouth
40-04 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Don't You Know Yockomo
40-05 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Havin' a Good Time
40-06 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Beatnik Blues
40-07 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Well I'll Be John Brown
40-08 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Everybody's Wailin'
40-09 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Mean Mean Mean
40-10 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Little Liza Jane
40-11 Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues
40-12 Frankie Lee Sims - Long Gone
40-13 Frankie Lee Sims - Jelly Roll Baker
40-14 Frankie Lee Sims - I Done Talked and I Done Talked
40-15 Frankie Lee Sims - Cryin' Won't Help You
40-16 Frankie Lee Sims - Don't Take It Out on Me
40-17 Frankie Lee Sims - Raggedy and Dirty
40-18 Frankie Lee Sims - Frankie's Blues
40-19 Frankie Lee Sims - Married Woman
40-20 Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues Pt. 2

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (Deluxe , 3 CD, 2014/FLAC]

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is the second studio album by English rock band Oasis. Released on 2 October 1995 by Creation Records, it was produced by Owen Morris and the group's guitarist and main songwriter Noel Gallagher. The structure and arrangement style of the album were a significant departure from the group's previous album Definitely Maybe (1994). Gallagher's compositions were more focused in balladry and placed more emphasis on "huge" choruses, with the string arrangements and more varied instrumentation contrasting with the rawness of the group's debut album. Morning Glory was the group's first album with drummer Alan White, who replaced Tony McCarroll (though McCarroll still appeared on the album, drumming on the track "Some Might Say").

As part of a promotional campaign entitled Chasing the Sun, the album was re-released on 29 September 2014. The 3-disc deluxe edition includes remastered versions of the album and its associated b-sides from the four UK singles. Bonus content includes 5 demo tracks, and live choices taken from the band's iconic gigs at Earls Court, Knebworth Park and Maine Road.

Eric Clapton- Slowhand [35th Anniversary Super Deluxe, 3 CD, 2012/FLAC]

Eric Clapton‘s 1977 album Slowhand is being released as a super deluxe edition box set to celebrate its 35th anniversary.

The album includes of two of Clapton’s best known songs Wonderful Tonight, and the cover of J.J. Cale’s Cocaine.

The Super Deluxe box set includes three previously unreleased session outtakes (four in total) and two CDs are devoted to presenting the complete 14-track performance of the Hammersmith Odeon concert on 27 April 1977.

The record has been remastered from the original Olympic Studios 1/4″ flat analog master tapes and the session tracks and live performances are newly mixed from the original two-inch analogue tapes. This all sounds very promising from a sound perspective.

Disc 1 – Slowhand Remastered and Expanded

Cocaine
Wonderful Tonight
Lay Down Sally
Next Time You See Her
We’re All the Way
The Core
May You Never
Mean Old Frisco
Peaches and Diesel
Looking at the Rain (Bonus track)
Alberta (Bonus track)
Greyhound Bus (Bonus track)
Stars, Strays and Ashtrays (Bonus track)

Disc 2 – Slowhand Hi-Res Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound Audio DVD [not included]

Cocaine
Wonderful Tonight
Lay Down Sally
Next Time You See Her
We’re All the Way
The Core
May You Never
Mean Old Frisco
Peaches and Diesel

Disc 3 – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon April 27, 1977 (Part 1)

Hello Old Friend
Sign Language
Alberta
Tell the Truth
Knockin’ on Heavens Door
Steady Rolling Man
Can’t Find My Way Home
Further On Up the Road
Stormy Monday

Disc 4 – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon April 27, 1977 (Part 2)

Badge
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
I Shot the Sheriff
Layla
Key to the Highway