Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Straight To You Live (2020) [FLAC-HD + DVD9]

25 years after their first studio release, the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band puts its own stamp on a year of unprecedented events by releasing their first-ever concert video Straight To You Live. Unable to complete a full tour in support of 2019’s chart-topping album The Traveler, Shepherd and company share an outstanding two-hour set from Leverkusen, Germany, reminding listeners that the crew remains one of the premier acts in blues rock.

 

01. Woman Like You (4:20)

02. Mr. Soul (3:55)

03. Long Time Running (4:06)

04. I Want You (7:42)

05. Diamonds & Gold (6:27)

06. Talk To Me Baby (5:37)

07. Heat Of The Sun (10:51)

08. Down For Love (4:29)

09. Shame, Shame, Shame (8:43)

10. Turn To Stone (6:16)

11. Blue On Black (5:00)

12. King Bee (4:25)

13. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (11:35)

DIO - Holy Diver (2022 Joe Barresi Remix) [24/96]

Holy Diver is the debut studio album by the American heavy metal band Dio, released in 1983. Vocalist Ronnie James Dio had just finished his first tenure in Black Sabbath, whose drummer, Vinny Appice, he took with him to put together his own band. The roster was completed by his former bandmate from Rainbow, Jimmy Bain, on bass and by the young guitarist Vivian Campbell, coming from the new wave of British heavy metal band Sweet Savage. The album was acclaimed by the music press and is the band's most successful effort. 

Ronnie James Dio - vocals, keyboards

Vivian Campbell - guitars

Jimmy Bain - bass

Vinnie Appice - drums

01. Stand Up and Shout (3:19)

02. Holy Diver (6:11)

03. Gypsy (3:53)

04. Caught in the Middle (4:51)

05. Don't Talk to Strangers (4:55)

06. Straight Through the Heart (4:47)

07. Invisible (6:15)

08. Rainbow in the Dark (4:32)

09. Shame on the Night (5:42)

Peter Gabriel discography [1977-2012] (FLAC)

 

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, musician and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. More recently he has focused on producing and promoting world music and pioneering digital distribution methods for music. He has also been involved in various humanitarian efforts. In 2007 Gabriel was honoured as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his “influence on generations of music makers.” Gabriel was also awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2009 and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.

(1977) Peter Gabriel (36-147-2)

(1978) Peter Gabriel (19181-2)

(1980) Peter Gabriel (2035-2)

(1980) Peter Gabriel (XCDSCD 4019) - Ein Deutsches Album

(1982) Peter Gabriel (PGCD 4) [PolyGram]

(1982) Peter Gabriel (XPGCD 4) - Deutsches Album

(1982) Security (2011-2)

(1983) Plays Live (4012-2)

(1985) Birdy (CAS CD 1167) [Nimbus]

(1986) So (9 24088-2)

(1989) Passion (RWCD1)

(1990) Shaking the Tree - Sixteen Golden Greats (PGTVD 6)

(1992) Us (PGCD 7)

(1994) Secret World Live (PGCD 8)

(2000) OVO The Millennium Show (RWPG01-02)

(2002) Long Walk Home (PGCD 10)

(2002) Up (PGCD 11)

(2010) Scratch My Back (PGCD 12)

(2011) New Blood (PGCD 13)

(2012) Live Blood (EDGCD474)

Singles :

(1986) Sledgehammer (CDT 4)

(1987) Big Time (GAIL3 12)

(1987) Biko (CDPGS 612)

(1989) Solsbury Hill (CDF 33)

(1992) Digging in the Dirt (PGSD 7)

(1992) Steam (GEFDM 21820)

(1993) Blood of Eden (PGSDG 9)

(1993) Kiss That Frog (PGSDF 10)

(1994) Lovetown (660480 2)

(1994) SW Live EP (PGSDF 11)

(2002) More Than This (PGSCD 14)

(2002)The Barry Williams Show (PGSCD 13)

(2003) Burn You Up, Burn You Down (GABRIEL003)

(2003) Growing Up (PGSCD 15)

Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (1982/2019) [SACD FLAC-HD]

Love over Gold is the fourth studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 24 September 1982 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

Vocals, Guitar, Producer – Mark Knopfler

Bass – John Illsley

Drums – Pick Withers

Guitar – Hal Lindes

Keyboards – Alan Clark

01.Telegraph Road 14:33

02.Private Investigations 06:54

03.Industrial Disease 05:55

04.Love Over Gold 06:21

05.It Never Rains 08:09

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".






 

 

Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson (1987) [24-192]

Robbie Robertson is the solo debut album by Canadian rock musician Robbie Robertson, released in 1987. Though Robertson has been a professional musician since the late 1950s, notably a founder of and primary songwriter for The Band, this was his first proper solo album. 

•     Robbie Robertson – vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards
•     Bill Dillon – guitars on tracks 1, 2, and 5–9; backing vocal on track 2
•     Tony Levin – Chapman Stick on tracks 5 & 7; bass on tracks 6 & 8
•     Manu Katché – drums on tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8; percussion on tracks 1, 7, and 8
•     Daniel Lanois – percussion on tracks 2, 3, 4, and 8; backing vocal on tracks 2, 3, and 4; Omnichord on track 5; guitar on tracks 5 and 8

Additional personnel

•     Eluriel "Tinker" Barfield – bass on tracks 1 and 5
•     Garth Hudson – keyboards on tracks 1 and 5
•     Peter Gabriel – keyboards on tracks 1 and 3; vocals on track 1; drum program on track 3; vocal cameo on track 9
•     Martin Page – drum programming on track 1
•     Larry Klein – bass on track 2
•     Abraham Laboriel – bass on track 3
•     Terry Bozzio – drums on tracks 3 and 5
•     Bono – vocals, bass on track 4; backing vocal and guitar on track 9
•     The Edge – guitar on tracks 4 and 9
•     Adam Clayton – bass on tracks 4 and 9
•     Larry Mullen, Jr. – drums on tracks 4 and 9
•     Hans Christian – bass guitar on track 5
•     BoDeans (Sam Llanas, Kurt Neumann) – backing vocals on tracks 2 and 5
•     Maria McKee – backing vocal on track 5
•     Sammy BoDean (Sam Llanas) – backing vocal on track 6
•     Cary Butler – backing vocal on track 8
•     Rick Danko – backing vocal on track 8
•     Ivan Neville – backing vocal on track 9
•     Gil Evans Horn Section – horns on track 9

Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Memoriam (3 CD live 1983-1984 / FLAC)

Unofficial live recordings

Disc 1: Recorded live at Ripley's Music Hall, Philadelphia, PA./USA, October 20, 1983.
Discs 2 & 3: Recorded live in Montreal, Canada, August 17, 1984.

Complete King Biscuit Flower Hour material, superb sound.

Peter Gabriel - Hit (2 CD, 2003 UK edition) [FLAC-HD]

Hit, also known as Peter Gabriel: The Definitive Two CD Collection, is a 2003 compilation album of songs by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. Disc one is labelled Hit and disc two Miss, reflecting the first disc which comprises Gabriel's best known chart singles and the second featuring his more obscure material.

The two-disc set is different in the UK and US because of the second disc. The second disc in the US spans fourteen songs by Gabriel, whilst the UK second disc features fifteen songs. Only some of these appeared on the US version. The UK version collects at least one track from every studio album by Gabriel, including soundtracks, except for Birdy, which is the only album not represented by a track. 

- Peter Gabriel / vocals, flute, recorder, Bosendorfer piano, keyboards
- Kate Bush & Sinead O'Connor / vocals
- Richard Evans / acoustic guitar
- Robert Fripp /electric & classical guitar, banjo
- David Rhodes / guitar, 12-string guitar
- Peter Green / electric guitar
- Steve Hunter / pedal steel guitar
- Daniel Lanois / guitar
- Tim Green / tenor saxophone
- Dick Morrisey / saxophone
- Wayne Jackson / trumpet
- Jozef Chirowski & Brian Eno / keyboards
- Larry Fast / synthesizer, programming
- Tony Levin / bass
- Dominic Greesmith & Jerry Marotta / drums
- Ged Lynch, Will White, Stephen Hague & Phil Collins / percussion
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan / background vocals

  

Bill Withers - The Complete Sussex and Columbia Albums (9 CD, 2012/FLAC)

 

Bill Withers: The Complete Sussex and Columbia Albums celebrates the timeless artistry of an American master. The set includes the nine albums that Bill released between 1971 through 1985. The albums have been reproduced in their original jackets and have been newly mastered from the original analog tapes by Grammy Award-winning engineer Mark Wilder. Bill Withers is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the recipient of ASCAP's 2006 Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award. His warm, rich and truthful voice speaks to real people, and real life, and he will tell you that it's more important to be real than to be rich.

He was 30 years old when he came out of the U.S. Navy in 1971. He made a living installing toilets in commercial jetliners, and then he decided to give music a try. His first two albums Just as I Am and Still Bill - featured "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Lean on Me." The two singles sold more than a million copies each, and by the time he played Carnegie Hall in 1973, Bill Withers was acknowledged as a great American troubadour. Four decades later, his music still resonates with originality and universality.

1971 - Just As I Am (00:35:37)

1972 - Still Bill (00:36:15)

1973 - Live At Carnegie Hall (01:17:09)

1974 - +'Justments (00:37:57)

1975 - Making Music (00:43:51)

1976 - Naked & Warm (00:41:03)

1977 - Menagerie (00:38:27)

1978 - 'Bout Love (00:39:03)

1985 - Watching You Watching Me (00:45:12)

 

 

Bon Jovi– Transmission Impossible [3 CD, 2015]

 More than 30 years into a quite staggering music career, Bon Jovi remain one of the most popular, successful and downright entertaining rock groups in history. And with an army of fans who would all but die for their heroes, this extraordinary act don t look to be cashing-in anytime soon. 

This superb set captures Jovi in concert and in interview and features across its 3 discs, one CD featuring a full live FM Broadcast from 1984, one CD featuring a mixed bag of live TV appearances from across the group s career, and one CD featuring broadcast interviews with Jon and the lads again recorded at different junctures during their long and ongoing time in the business. 

The Cars - Heartbeat City (1984 Expanded 2018) [24-192]

This 2018 release features the Cars's original album – remastered in 2016 – expanded with rare and unreleased bonus tracks. Illustrated booklets accompany the music and contain liner notes written by renowned rock journalist David Fricke, who details the history of each album with new interviews by band members Ric Ocasek. The album, which peaked at #3 on the charts, went on to sell four million copies, making it the band’s fifth consecutive platinum album. An amazing success, the album launched five tracks that reached the Top 40, including the Top Ten hits “Drive” and “You Might Think.” Videos for the songs received heavy airplay on MTV, including “Hello Again,” which was directed by Andy Warhol, and “You Might Think,” which won the inaugural MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year in 1984. Among the seven bonus tracks included on HEARTBEAT CITY: EXPANDED EDITION are unreleased versions of “Why Can’t I Have You” and “I Refuse,” as well as the demo for “Drive.” 

 

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.

Pink Floyd – The Darker Side Of Rising Sun – Japan 1972 (12 CD / FLAC)

One of the really great releases from Godfather and a must have Pink Floyd box with  fantastic recordings. 

CD1 & CD2: Taiikukan, Tokyo, Japan, March 6, 1972

CD3 & CD4: Taiikukan, Tokyo, Japan, March 7, 1972

CD5 & CD6: Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, March 8, 1972

CD7 & CD8: Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, March 9, 1972

CD9 & CD10: Furitsu Taiikukan Hall, Kyoto, Japan, March 10, 1972

CD11 & CD12: Nakanoshima Sports Center, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, March 13, 1972

 

John Lennon - The John Lennon Signature Box (11 CD, 2015) [24-96 + 320]

 

The John Lennon Signature Box is an 11-disc boxed set of remastered John Lennon albums and new collections, released on CD and digital format, as part of the "Gimme Some Truth" collection. The albums released in the boxed set are digital remasters of the original recordings and mixes, done by John's widow Yoko Ono and the same team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios who worked on the 2009 remasters by The Beatles, in London and Avatar Studios, New York. The set also includes home demos and non-album singles.

Rolling Stones - GRRR Live! (2 CD, 2023/FLAC-HD)

The Rolling Stones celebrated their golden anniversary in 2012 & 2013 by embarking on the 50 & Counting Tour, a 30-show itinerary for North America and Europe. On December 15, 2012, the band took the stage at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center for the final of 4 shows in the New York area. Featuring guest spots from The Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr, Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, and Mick Taylor, the concert proved to be one of the most memorable shows in the band’s history.

 

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.

 

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2020) [FLAC]

Formed in London in 1967 by guitarist Peter Green, drummer Mick Fleetwood and guitarist Jeremy Spencer, with bassist John McVie completing the line-up for their self-titled debut album, Fleetwood Mac began as a very different beast to the one they would become by the mid-1970s. Danny Kirwan joined as third guitarist in 1968 and keyboardist Christine Perfect, who contributed as a session musician from the second album, married John McVie and joined in 1970. Primarily a British blues band initially, they scored a UK number one with 'Albatross', and had lesser hits with the singles 'Oh Well' and 'Black Magic Woman', the latter successfully covered by Santana. All three guitarists left in succession during the early 1970s, changing the sound of the group quite dramatically.

 This triple disc set celebrates the early days of Fleetwood Mac, focussing as it does on the group's live recordings and radio sessions. Featuring, on disc one, their superb San Francisco gig at the Carousel Ballroom in 1968 in its entirety (previously only released in part), disc two contains Fleetwood Mac's complete BBC Radio Sessions from 1968 recorded for shows such as Top Gear and Saturday Club. The set is completed on disc there with their legendary concert performed in New Orleans at The Warehouse venue, in January 1970.

 

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.

                                                                    

Leslie West - Legacy- A Tribute to Leslie West (2022) (24/96)

When Leslie West passed away in December of 2020, he left behind a towering legacy of epic recordings that few rock guitarists can match. But there was more to West than great songs (although, to be sure, he created a ton of them); there was his brilliant, idiosyncratic sound, a gargantuan earth-mover that razed arenas and stadiums across the globe. More than just paralyzing tone, though, he also had a touch nobody could beat. It helped to make West one of the most significant, influential and irreplaceable guitarists of the rock era.

 

1. Blood of the Sun (feat. Zakk Wylde)

2. Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) (feat. Joe Lynn Turner & Marty Friedman)

3. Theme for an Imaginary Western (feat. Dee Snider, Eddie Ojeda, Rudy Sarzo, Mike Portnoy)

4. For Yasgur's Farm (feat. Joe Lynn Turner & Martin Barre)

5. Why Dontcha (feat. Steve Morse & Ronnie Romero)

6. Sittin' On a Rainbow (feat. Elliot Easton & Ronnie Romero)

7. Never in My Life (feat. Dee Snider & George Lynch)

8. The Doctor (feat. Robby Krieger & Ronnie Romero)

9. Silver Paper (feat. Charlie Starr)

10. Money (Whatcha Gonna Do)/By the River - medley (feat. Bachman & Bachman)

11. Long Red (feat. Yngwie Malmsteen & Teddy Rondinelli)

12. Mississippi Queen (feat. Slash & Marc LaBelle)

Gram Parsons - A Song For You [7 CD, 2017] (FLAC + 320)

 

American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist Gram Parsons is best known for his work with the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers. He also popularized what he called “Cosmic American Music”, a hybrid of country, rhythm and blues, soul, folk, and rock. He recorded as a solo artist and with the International Submarine Band, the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers. His relatively short career was described by AllMusic as “enormously influential” for country and rock, “blending the two genres to the point that they became indistinguishable from each other.” His health deteriorated due to several years of drug abuse and he died in 1973 at the age of 26. The official cause of death was an overdose of morphine and alcohol.