Willie Dixon - The Chess Box [2 CD, 1988] [24-48]

Willie Dixon was a great bassist and songwriter but only an average singer. Fortunately, Chess has chosen to represent Dixon's career through others' classic recordings of his songs. With recordings by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Bo Diddley, and others, the Willie Dixon CHESS BOX is not only a great tribute to Dixon but also a great overview of Chicago blues history.

DISC 1:

1. My Babe - (with Little Walter)
2. Violent Love - (previously unreleased, with The Big Three)
3. Third Degree - (with Eddie Boyd)
4. Seventh Son - (with Willie Mabon)
5. Crazy For My Baby - (previously unreleased)
6. Pain In My Heart - (previously unreleased)
7. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - (with Muddy Waters)
8. Evil - (with Howlin' Wolf)
9. Mellow Down Easy - (with Little Walter)
10. When The Lights Go Out - (with Jimmy Weatherspoon)
11. Young Fashioned Ways - (previously unreleased, with Muddy Waters)
12. Pretty Thing - (with Bo Diddley)
13. I'm Ready - (with Muddy Waters)
14. Do Me Right - (with Lowell Fulson)
15. I Just Want To Make Love To You - (with Muddy Waters)
16. Tollin' Bells - (with Lowell Fulson)
17. 29 Ways - (previously unreleased)
18. Walkin' The Blues

DISC 2:

1. Spoonful - (with Howlin' Wolf)
2. You Know My Love - (with Otis Rush)
3. You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover - (with Bo Diddley)
4. I Ain't Superstitious - (with Howlin' Wolf)
5. You Need Love - (previously unreleased, with Muddy Waters)
6. Little Red Rooster - (with Howlin' Wolf)
7. Back Door Man - (with Howlin' Wolf)
8. Dead Presidents - (previously unreleased, with Little Walter)
9. Hidden Charms - (with Howlin' Wolf)
10. You Shook Me - (with Muddy Waters)
11. Bring It On Home - (with Sonny Boy Williamson)
12. 300 Pounds Of Joy - (with Howlin' Wolf)
13. Weak Brain, Narrow Mind - (previously unreleased)
14. Wang Dang Doodle - (with Koko Taylor)
15. Same Thing, The - (with Muddy Waters)
16. Built For Comfort - (with Howlin' Wolf)
17. I Can't Quit You Baby - (with Little Milton)
18. Insane Asylum - (with Koko Taylor)

Lightnin' Hopkins - The Acoustic Years 1959-1960 (4 CD, 2013/FLAC)

 Although he had cut sides with the Aladdin, Modern, RPM, Gold Star, Jax, Mercury, and Decca labels in the 1940s and early '50s, Lightnin' Hopkins was back in his home base of Houston, Texas by 1959, all but forgotten. There he was rediscovered by folklorist Mack McCormick, who shifted Hopkins' image to that of an acoustic folk-blues performer, essentially igniting the flame for the rest of Hopkins' career. This four-disc set collects the acoustic sides the bluesman cut in his new incarnation (really just the same old Lightnin' with a slightly different marketing plan) in 1959 and 1960.

 

 

Rory Gallagher - Check Shirt Wizard - Live In '77 (2 CD, 2020) [FLAC + 24-96]

 This barnstorming 20-song, previously unreleased set is culled from four shows (London, Brighton, Sheffield and Newcastle) which were part of a 1977 tour across the UK in support of Rory’s then latest album ‘Calling Card’. Featuring fantastic live versions of tracks from that album as well as from 1975’s ‘Against The Grain’ and other live favourites, has been mixed from the original multitrack tapes from the official Rory Gallagher archive and mastered for this release at Abbey Road Studios.

Livin' Blues – The First Five + Bonus CD (6 CD , 2019) [FLAC]

First 5 albums by famous Dutch blues band Livin' Blues with bonus disc 

Contains the albums:

• Hell's Session
• Wang Dang Doodle
• Bamboozle
• Rocking At The Tweed Mill
• Ram Jam Josey

plus

Non Album Singles (A&B Sides) & Single Versions 1968-1974

Lonnie Brooks 1975-1997 [FLAC]

Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker Jr., December 18, 1933 – April 1, 2017 was an American blues singer and guitarist.

Over the course of his career, guitarist/vocalist Lonnie Brooks came a long way. From his early days backing zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier to his years as a hit-producing Gulf Coast R&B artist to his emergence as an innovative Chicago bluesman, Lonnie created an instantly recognizable, signature sound and style. Combining rock ‘n’ roll, Memphis soul, Cajun boogie, country twang and hard Chicago blues, Brooks defied simple classification. His massive voice and blistering guitar playing made every song he performed his own. And as anyone who ever saw him in concert can attest, his live performances were legendary for kick-starting a party and spreading a rollicking good time.

1975 Lonnie Brooks - Sweet Home Chicago (1992 US Evidence ECD 26001-2)

1975 Lonnie Brooks - Sweet Home Chicago (2002 Limited Edition LDR 3197)

1979 Lonnie Brooks - Bayou Lightning (2000 ALCD 4714)

1986 Lonnie Brooks - Wound Up Tight (ALCD 4751)

1988 Lonnie Brooks - Live From Chicago - Bayou Lightning Strikes (1988 ALCD 4759)

1993 Lonnie Brooks - Let's Talk It Over (Delmark DD-660)

1995 Lonnie Brooks - Reconsider Baby (UK Orbis BLU NC 040)

1996 Lonnie Brooks - Roadhouse Rules (Alligator ALCD 4843)

1997 Lonnie Brooks - Deluxe Edition (ALCD 5602)

The Marcus King Band - Soul Insight (2015/2021) [24-96]

Marcus King – Guitar, Lead Vocals

Alex Abercrombie – Organ, Keyboards, Backing Vocals

Anthony House – Bass

Jack Ryan – Drums

01. Always 04:12

02. Boone 05:30

03. Fraudulent Waffle 05:21

04. Honey 04:19

05. Dave's Apparition 02:17

06. Everything 04:48

07. No Decency 04:42

08. Dyin' 05:49

09. Booty Stank 04:24

10. Opie 05:09

11. Keep Moving 05:00

12. I Won't Be Here 04:37 

Jimi Hendrix - The Electric Lady Studio Recordings 1970 [125 songs/FLAC]

 Electric Lady Studios is a recording studio in Greenwich Village, New York City. It was commissioned by rock musician Jimi Hendrix in 1968 and designed by architect John Storyk and audio engineer Eddie Kramer by 1970 Hendrix spent only ten weeks recording in Electric Lady before his death that year, but it quickly became a famed studio used by many top-selling recording artists from the 1970s onwards, including Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, and David Bowie.

VA - The Alan Lomax Field Recordings Vol. 1 - 17 [Document Rec./FLAC]

 Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in preserving folk music traditions in both countries, and helped start both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs. 

Vol. 1 - Virginia 1936-1941 (1997)

Vol. 2 - North & South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas 1926-1943 (1997)

Vol. 3 - Mississippi 1936-1942 (1997)

Vol. 4 - Mississippi & Alabama 1934-1942 (1997)

Vol. 5 - Louisiana, Texas, Bahamas 1933-1940 (1997)

Vol. 6 - Texas 1933-1958 (1997)

Vol. 7 - Florida 1935-1936 (1998)

Vol. 8 - Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi 1934-1947 (1998)

Vol. 9 - Georgia, South & North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky 1924-1939 (1998)

Vols. 10 & 11 - 1933-1941 (2CD) (1998)

Vol. 12 - Virginia & South Carolina 1936-1940 (1998)

Vol. 13 - Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Delaware 1933-1943 (1998)

Vol. 14 - Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky 1934-c.1950 (1999)

Vol. 15 - 'Rock Me, Shake Me' - Mississippi 1941-1942 (2002)

Vol. 16 - 'Boll Weevil Here, Boll Weevil Everywhere' - 1934-1940 (2004)

Vol. 17 - Son House - Library of Congress Recordings 1941-1942 (2012)

Joe Cocker - The Long Voyage Home [4 CD, 1995/FLAC]

 John Robert "Joe" Cocker OBE (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English singer known for his gritty voice, spasmodic body movement in performance, and distinctive versions of popular songs of varying genres.

Cocker's recording of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" reached number one in the UK in 1968. He performed the song live at Woodstock in 1969 and performed the same year at the Isle of Wight Festival, and at the Party at the Palace concert in 2002 for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. His version also became the theme song for the TV series The Wonder Years. His 1974 cover of "You Are So Beautiful" reached number five in the US. Cocker was the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his US number one "Up Where We Belong", a duet with Jennifer Warnes. 

 

Oscar Benton Blues Band - Bensonhurst Blues : The Best of Oscar Benton Blues Band (2 CD, 2008/FLAC)

Oscar Benton (born Ferdinand van Eis; 3 February 1949 – 8 November 2020) was a Dutch vocalist. He was also the founder of the Oscar Benton Blues Band in 1967. The band rose to fame in 1968 by being a runner up in the Jazz Festival, Loosdrecht, the Netherlands. 

 

 

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - In My Own Dream (1968/2015) [24-192]

The Butterfield Blues Band has been critically acclaimed as one the greatest electric blues bands ever! Lead by singer & harmonica player Paul Butterfield, their albums have stood the test of time as classics of the 60's & early 70's. 

In My Own Dream, was their fourth album, originally released in 1968 on Elektra Records. It features guitar legend Elvin Bishop (singing on 'Drunk Again'), and saxophonist David Sanborn. This album rose to number 79 on the Billboard charts.

The Guess Who - 1965-1975 (11 CD / FLAC)

The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, they also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "American Woman", "These Eyes" and "Share the Land". 

Several former members of The Guess Who, notably Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman (of Bachman–Turner Overdrive), have also found considerable success outside the band.

The band was inducted into The Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1987.

1965 - Shakin' All Over  

1965 - Hey Ho (What You Do to Me)

1966 - It's Time 

1968 - Wheatfield Soul 

1971 - So Long Bannatyne 

1972 - Rockin' 

1973 - #10 

1973 - Artificial Paradise 

1974 - Road Food 

1975 - Flavours 

1975 - Power In The Music 

Magic Slim & The Teardrops - Zoo Bar Collection Vol.1 - 5 [5 CD, 1994/1998] (FLAC)

 

Magic Slim & the Teardrops proudly uphold the tradition of what a Chicago blues band should sound like. Their emphasis on ensemble playing and a humongous repertoire that allegedly ranges upwards of a few hundred songs give the towering guitarist's live performances an endearing off-the-cuff quality: you never know what obscurity he'll pull out of his oversized hat next. Born Morris Holt on August 7, 1937, the Mississippi native was forced to give up playing the piano when he lost his little finger in a cotton gin mishap. Boyhood pal Magic Sam bestowed his magical moniker on the budding guitarist (and times change as Slim's no longer slim). Holt first came to Chicago in 1955, but found that breaking into the competitive local blues circuit was a tough proposition. Although he managed to secure a steady gig for a while with Robert Perkins' band (Mr. Pitiful & the Teardrops), Slim wasn't good enough to progress into the upper ranks of Chicago bluesdom.

  

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2015)

 

This 3 CD collection features a triumvirate of live Stevie Ray shows, all taken from FM Broadcasts, performed throughout the period when his star was shining brightest. The first of these, on DISC ONE of this set, is the early show played at the Spectrum in Montreal, Canada, on August 17th 1984, a few months following the release of his second album, Couldn t Stand The Weather, and thus featuring a number of cuts from that record, but mixing it up too with earlier songs and covers. It should be noted this is a completely different show to that now featured on the Deluxe Edition of Couldn t Stand the Weather, which is the late set, albeit performed on the same day The second show.

Jimi Hendrix - The Complete PPX Studio Recordings - Vol. 1-6 - (1999/FLAC)

 

In 1997, SPV Records in Germany released six volumes titled The Authentic PPX Studio Recordings. Now, here in 1999, Nippon Crown of Japan is offering that same set a 6CD box set as Jimi Hendrix: The Complete PPX Recordings (CRCL-4729-34).

During two studio sessions in 1965 and 1967, plus a live set at George's Club in Hackensack, New Jersey, Jimi Hendrix recorded tracks with Curtis Knight. Under contract to, and under the direction of producer Ed Chalpin, these studio sessions at PPX Studios in New York became infamous. Not only for being one of the earliest known studio sessions featuring Hendrix as a lead performer, but for the legal embattlement the sessions created.

John Lee Hooker - Blues Is The Healer [10 CD, 2009 / FLAC]

 

Blues Is the Healer is a ten-CD box set of 149 songs from the early years of blues legend John Lee Hooker's repertory, released in 2005 by the German label Membran. According to one reviewer, "the first 8 discs are early solo Hooker with the occasional backing guitar or piano. Disc 9 sounds like Veejay recordings and the 10th is a live concert".






 

 

Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session (1983/ Hi-Res FLAC)

 In Session is a blues album by Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded live for television on December 6, 1983, at CHCH-TV studios in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, when Vaughan was 29 and King was 60. It was released as an album on August 17, 1999 and re-released with a supplemental video recording on DVD on September 28, 2010. It has also been released on CD and SACD.

It was the first of two collaborations captured for television, the second being as invited guests on a show led by B.B. King in 1987. It was recorded for one of a series of live television sessions recording the performances of various artists. The show was called In Session. The album includes a few short segments of the banter by King and Vaughan between songs.

Initially, King was not going to do the show as he did not know who Vaughan was. He did not realize that Vaughan was actually 'little Stevie', the 'skinny kid' that he let sit in when King played in Texas. King talks about this on one of the conversation tracks. When he realized who Vaughan was, he agreed to play.

John Lee Hooker - Early Recordings: Detroit and Beyond Vol. 1 & 2 (4 LP, 2018) [24-96]

Third Man is ecstatic to present the first re-issue of John Lee Hooker's seminal and rare Detroit and Beyond recordings on vinyl since their initial release in 1973. These tracks have been heralded by many fans as his best overall collection of recordings as well as his some of his earliest, apart from the 6 recorded by Bernie in 1961. Split between two double-LP volumes and remastered using original master recordings from Detroit's legendary United Sound Systems (not even 2 miles from Third Man Detroit!), these collections are a must for blues and music lovers.

 

Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - The Complete Epic Recordings Collection (12 CD, 2014) [FLAC + 320]

To celebrate what would have been the 60th birthday of Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954-1990), Epic Records/Legacy Recordings had issued Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: The Complete Epic Recordings Collection, collecting the trailblazing blues guitarist s most scintillating studio and live works.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: The Complete Epic Recordings Collection includes the group s original four studio albums, five electrifying live releases (including the commercial debut of A Legend In The Making Live At The El Mocambo, a rare Canadian radio promo album) and a double-disc set of killer studio outtakes from throughout Stevie Ray Vaughan s incredible career, including recordings from previous reissues, box sets and posthumous compilations.

                                                                    

Steve Miller Band - The Early Albums (1968-71) [6 CD/FLAC]

 

Originally called the Steve Miller Blues Band, the group first made its mark as a psychedelic blues rock band in San Francisco. They went through a fallow period commercially in the early seventies before coming back with the hit album The Joker and the song of the same name in late 1973, followed by the band's two most successful studio albums in 1976 and 1977, Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams. In 1978.

Children Of The Future is where it all started for Steve Miller. Originally released in 1968, this debut, chock full of unpredictable acid blues, is very different from the mainstream rock sounds of the '70s that brought Miller fame and fortune. Although few of these songs are ever featured on the radio or performed at Miller's concerts, Children Of The Future remains one of Miller's more interesting and challenging releases.