Taj Mahal - Savoy (2023) [24-96]

Taj Mahal has released many kinds of albums in a six-decade career: folk, jump, country, blues of all stripes, sounds from Africa, the Caribbean, R&B, soul, collaborations with musicians from across the globe, and even children's records. Savoy moves in another direction still. Recorded in collaboration with producer, pianist, and longtime friend John Simon, this set offers blues-kissed reads of 14 tunes from the Great American Songbook. The album is titled as an homage to the iconic Harlem ballroom at 596 Lenox Ave. Mahal's parents met there in 1938 seeing Ella Fitzgerald front the Chick Webb Orchestra. Simon and Mahal discussed the project for decades, but August 2022 was when the planets aligned. They cut the set live with a core band and guests. Mahal's band includes guitarist Danny Caron, bassist Ruth Davies, Simon on piano, drummer Leon Joyce, Jr., and a vocal chorus with Carla Holbrook, Leesa Humphrey, and Charlotte McKinnon. Interestingly, Caron and Davies served in Charles Brown's band, and Joyce drummed with Ramsey Lewis for many years. 

Whitesnake - Still... Good to Be Bad (4 CD, 2023) [24-48]

Whitesnake returned in 2008 with Good To Be Bad, the band’s 10th studio album and its first in over a decade. Fans embraced the comeback, pushing the album into the Top 10 in the U.K. and flocking to shows on the band’s massive world tour. Today, album tracks like “Best Years” and “Summer Rain” have taken their place in the band’s live repertoire alongside global hits like “Here I Go Again” and “Still Of The Night.”

Whitesnake explores the group’s 2008 return with the upcoming legacy retrospective, STILL GOOD TO BE BAD. The collection is coming out on April 28, a few days after the original album’s 15th anniversary. The first collection is a 4-CD/Blu-ray with two new versions of the original album (one remastered and the other newly remixed), a selection of rare and unreleased studio and live recordings from the period, and videos all the music videos, interviews, and electrifying live performances from the Good To Be Bad world tour.

 

Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years (1975/2021) [SACD ISO]

Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon. Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits and won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976. Mastered by Shawn R. Britton at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA on the GAIN HD system.

 

Yes - High Vibration SACD Box (2013) [16 Discs Box Set] (Hi-RES & SACD ISO)

 

High Vibration is a limited edition 16 SACD box set, featuring the 13 albums released by English prog rock supergroup Yes, between 1968 and 1987, including live album "Yessongs". A unique 12-track bonus SACD features rare selections such "Owner of a Lonely Heart (Move Yourself Mix)" from 1991 and 1972's "Total Mass Retain (Single version)" is also included. Everything has been newly remastered in Japan by Isao Kikuchi, and comes with a 200-page book (mostly on japanese language). The audio quality of these 2013 remasters are far superior to previous releases and for the first time allow the listener to hear what producers were monitoring in studio.

• Yes (1969)
• Time and a Word (1970)
• The Yes Album (1971)
• Fragile (1971)
• Close to the Edge (1972)
• Yessongs (1973)
• Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973)
• Relayer (1974)
• Going for the One (1977)
• Tormato (1978)
• Drama (1980)
• 90125 (1983)
• Big Generator (1987)
• Bonus Disc (2013)

There are FLAC versions of all albums and original SACD ISO, be sure you can play SACD ISO on your equipment.

 

 

 

Little Steven ( Steven Van Zandt ) - Freedom – No Compromise (1987/2019 Deluxe) [24-96]

Freedom – No Compromise is the third solo studio album by Little Steven, released in May 1987 by EMI.

Following on the moderate success of Artists United Against Apartheid's "Sun City" in 1985, Steven Van Zandt's next record was a full-on dance-rock record, verging in places on world music. Bruce Springsteen and Rubén Blades join Van Zandt on lead vocals on "Native American" and "Bitter Fruit", respectively. Politics were even more at the forefront than before, centering on U.S. transgressions in Central America, South Africa, and against Native Americans. By this time, the old Disciples of Soul band had almost completely disappeared.

In 2019, the album was remastered for release as part of Van Zandt's career-spanning box set Rock N Roll Rebel: The Early Work. The digital deluxe edition of the album was released on November 29, 2019 containing five bonus tracks, along with the reissued Bitter Fruit bonus EP. 

 

Led Zeppelin - Cabala [8 CD, 1995]

Cabala is an eight compact disc and single VHS box set featuring soundboard and audience bootleg recordings of the English rock group Led Zeppelin, released by Italian label Osoz in 1995.


This is a box set that has recordings from before the formation of Led Zeppelin right through until the Knebworth Silver Clef performance in 1990. It comprises a selection of previously expensive releases into a single set. The soundboard quality is excellent and creates a retrospective of Led Zeppelin's unofficial and unreleased body of work. The packaging includes 8 compact discs in separate picture sleeves, a VHS video in PAL format, and a 120 page booklet detailing all bootlegs to date including a 'Top 50 Rarest Led Zeppelin and Related Records' list. The original 1995 release suffered from printing problems with the artwork, which included incorrect concert dates, venues, and track lengths. A corrected version of the art is available at ZeppelinArt.com. There is still considerable debate over whether Jimmy Page actually performed on the Lucifer Rising takes.

  

 

Kate Bush - Remastered Part I (7 CD ,2018) [FLAC]

The legendary and unimitable Kate Bush is releasing a compilation of some of her most iconic early work including her chart topping debut album 'The Kick Inside' which contains one of her biggest hits 'Wuthering Heights'. The Boxset also sees reissues of her hit albums 'Never Forever' , 'Lionheart' and also her 1982 album 'The Dreaming', which was produced entirely by Bush and is often characterized as her most uncommercial and experimental release.

1978 - The Kick Inside 

1978 - Lionheart 

1980 - Never For Ever 

1982 - The Dreaming 

1985 - Hounds Of Love 

1989 - The Sensual World

1993 - The Red Shoes 

Scorpions - Deadly Sting : The Mercury Years (2 CD, 1997 US) [FLAC]

Deadly Sting is a compilation album of hits and previously unreleased material by the German hard rock band Scorpions. The songs were culled from their catalog on the Mercury label.

Deadly Sting was released both as a single disc in 1995 and an expanded double-disc version in 1997. The single-disc album has 15 or 18 tracks depending on the country of release, which span from 1978 to 1988. The double-disc US release has 33 songs ranging from 1978 to 1995, including several previously unreleased studio tracks.

The original cover art gained controversy, as it depicted a naked woman being stung by a column of scorpions. An alternative cover with the woman airbrushed out was printed, which was used for the double-disc version of the album, subtitled The Mercury Years.

Jeff Beck - Original Album Classics 1980-2001 [5 CD, 2010/FLAC]

 

1980 There And Back

1985 Flash

1989 Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop

1999 Who Else!

2001 You Had It Coming

Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015) [24-96]

Hand. Cannot. Erase. is the fourth solo studio album by English musician Steven Wilson. The album was released on 27 February 2015 through Kscope.

According to Wilson, the album is written from a female perspective, and the concept and story are inspired by the case of Joyce Carol Vincent, where a woman living in a large city dies in her apartment and no one misses her for over two years, despite her having family and friends.

01. First Regret / 3 Years Older (12:20)

02. Hand Cannot Erase (4:14)

03. Perfect Life (4:44)

04. Routine (8:58)

05. Home Invasion / Regret #9 (11:30)

06. Transience (2:49)

07. Ancestral (13:30)

08. Happy Returns / Ascendant Here On (7:54)

Blind Faith - Blind Faith (1969/2010) [SACD ISO]

Blind Faith is the only studio album by the English supergroup Blind Faith, originally released in 1969 on Polydor Records in the United Kingdom and Europe and on ATCO Records in the United States. It topped the album charts in the UK, Canada and US, and was listed at No. 40 on the US Soul Albums chart. It has been certified platinum by the RIAA.

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The Rolling Stones - GRRR ! (3 CD, 2012) [24-88]

This greatest hits collection celebrates five decades of The Rolling Stones. This triple-album tells the fascinating ongoing story of the greatest Rock n’ Roll band in the world, from their high octane version of Chuck Berry's “Come On”, their first single issued in June 1963, the thrilling chart-toppers “The Last Time,” “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction,” “Get Off Of My Cloud,” “Jumping Jack Flash” and “Honky Tonk Women” and the perennial juke-box and concert favorites “Brown Sugar,” “Tumbling Dice,” “Miss You” and “Start Me Up,” all the way to the present day with the inclusion of “Gloom And Doom” and “One Last Shot”, two new studio recordings recently completed by the group in Paris, France. Features the best selections from Exile on Main St., Black and Blue, Emotional Rescue, Tattoo You, Let It Bleed, Beggars Banquet, Out Of Our Heads, Aftermath, and much, much more.

Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman (1968/2016) [24-192]

This LP, a certified double-platinum album, captures Campbell's appeal at his most mainstream, mixing midtempo country-pop, spiced by a smooth if unambitious cover of Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" and the prettiest version of Tim Hardin's "Reason to Believe" ever done. The latter two make the album hipper than Campbell himself seemed to most of us at the time. 

Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Complete Studio Albums (7 CD, 2014) [24-192]

Undeniably one of the greatest rock bands of all time, Creedence Clearwater Revival has sold over 50 million albums worldwide since their formation in the 1960s, with their songs on consistent rotation on Classic Rock radio. The Complete Studio Albums (7-LP Box Set) brings together the legendary band's entire studio output in one comprehensive collection, all on 180-gram vinyl. The collection features all of the band's instantly recognizable hits, including 'Proud Mary,' 'Bad Moon Rising,' 'Fortunate Son,' 'Who'll Stop the Rain,' 'Lookin' Out My Back Door,' 'Travelin' Band,' and 'Down on the Corner.'

 

The Doors - The Singles (2 CD, 2017) [24-96]

This historic release collects all 20 U.S. singles released by The Doors, and their corresponding B-sides, gathered together for the first time. The set includes the rare, original single versions of such classics as, “Love Me Two Times,” “Love Her Madly," “Riders On The Storm” and many more. As a bonus, the CD features four original mono radio versions of some of the band’s biggest hits which have never been made available anywhere after being sent to radio stations around their original release. All 44 tracks have been mastered from the original analog single masters by the band’s longtime engineer/mixer Bruce Botnick.

T. Rex - Unicorn (2 CD Deluxe edition, 2015) [FLAC]

Unicorn is the third studio album by English psychedelic folk band Tyrannosaurus Rex (later known as T. Rex). It was released on 16 May 1969 by record labels Regal Zonophone and Blue Thumb, and was the last Tyrannosaurus Rex album to feature Steve Peregrin Took.

Edgar Broughton Band - Original Album Series (5 CD, 2014) FLAC]

 

1969 - Wasa Wasa 

1970 - Sing Brother Sing 

1971 - Edgar Broughton Band 

1972 - In Side Out 

1973 - Oora 

Gov't Mule - Dark Side Of The Mule (3 CD Deluxe Edition, 2014) [FLAC]

Rock torchbearers Gov’t Mule are celebrating their 20th anniversary with an extensive tour and a series of dynamic live archival releases that highlight the group’s versatility and epic, fearless live performances. No two Gov’t Mule shows are alike, as the band draws on the more than 300 songs in their repertoire (and often a host of special guests) to create a unique experience each and every time. Their steadily expanding fan base knows that the Mule always has something special waiting for them. Expect the unexpected.

Dark Side of the Mule, was released on December 8, 2014, and features 90 minutes of Pink Floyd covers recorded during the band’s Halloween 2008 show at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston, MA.

 

Chris Wood - Evening Blue (4 CD, 2017) [FLAC]

  

Perhaps best known for co-founding Traffic with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason, Chris Wood was self taught on Saxophone and Flute although he was also an accomplished keyboards player and bass guitarist too. And a fine artist as well; from Stourbridge College of Art, Chris was accepted by the Royal Academy in 1965 where he ultimately faced the choice – music or art.

The 4 CDs included music drawn from Chris’s entire career with his solo recordings taking centre-stage. We also featured alternate takes and mixes as well as previously unheard compositions and never-before-heard home demos and other sketches.

Naturally, there was music from Traffic as well as recordings by Gordon Jackson, John Martyn, Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi, Bobby Whitlock, Airforce, Martha Velez, Nick Drake, Shawn Phillips and others.

Evening Blue also featured Chris’s previously unheard collaborative work with The Wailers’ keyboard player, Tyrone Downie as well as Rebop Kwaku Baah, Remi Kabaka, The Sky, Dr John & Jeanette Jacobs. Tracks from the only known-to-survive recordings by the short-lived Mason, Capaldi, Wood & Frog line-up were also included as was a brand new 2015 collaboration – Maps with Chris Wood.
 

Scorpions - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Collection (8 CD, 2015) [FLAC + 320]

 

1965 marks the starting point of one of the most successful rock bands of our time. Hailing from Hannover, Germany, the Scorpions embarked on a journey that would lead them around the globe and would establish them as one of the greatest rock bands of all time.

With the November 6th release of the 50th Anniversary Deluxe Editions, the Scorpions celebrate their impressive achievements and open their vaults to unleash hitherto unreleased songs, alternative versions of big hits, rough mixes and rare live concert footage.