Paul Simon - Paul Simon - The Complete Albums Collection [15 CD, 2013]

 

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, celebrates American artist Paul Simon, whose birthday is October 13, with the release of the monumental career-spanning 15-disc Paul Simon - The Complete Albums Collection.

Paul Simon - The Complete Albums Collection brings together, in a deluxe library box with magnetic closure, the 12 studio albums and two full-length live concert recordings which comprise the official canon of an extraordinary writer and tunesmith whose voice and music inform six decades of popular culture.

Included on Paul Simon - The Complete Albums Collection are the artist's seminal and groundbreaking solo recordings from the 1960s (The Paul Simon Songbook), the 1970s (Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin', Still Crazy After All These Years), the 1980s (One-Trick Pony, Hearts and Bones, Graceland), the 1990s (The Rhythm of the Saints, Paul Simon's Concert In The Park - August 15, 1991, Songs from The Capeman), the 2000s (You're The One, Surprise) and the 2010s (So Beautiful or So What).

Lou Reed - Dust to Dust (Live 1992) [2021]

 

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer, songwriter and poet. He was the guitarist, singer and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades. The Velvet Underground was not a commercial success during its existence, but became regarded as one of the most influential bands in the history of underground and alternative rock music. Reed's distinctive deadpan voice, poetic and transgressive lyrics, and experimental guitar playing were trademarks throughout his long career. 

VA - Goodbye, Babylon [6 CD, 2004]

 

Goodbye Babylon is a 6 CD gospel reissue collection. 5 CDs contain 135 songs from 1902-1960 and the 6th disc is comprised of 25 sermons recorded between 1926-1941. Also included is a 200 page book complete with Bible verses, lyric transcriptions, and notes for each recording, plus over 200 illustrations.

Art direction and design by World of an Archie, the Grammy winning team behind "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton," and other fine works such as "Dock Boggs Country Blues," and "Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume IV." - Sound restoration and mastering by Airshow Mastering, the team that restored the "Anthology of American Folk Music" (Smithsonian Folkways, 1997), and won a Grammy for their work on "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton".

Reverently packed in raw cotton and housed in a deluxe 8" x 11" x 2.5" cedar box. Notes and essays by musicologists and scholars, including several Grammy winners. - Contributors include Lynn Abbott, David Evans, Ray Funk, Anthony Heilbut, Kip Lornell, Luigi Monge, Paul Oliver, Opal Louis Nations, Bruce Nemerov, Guido van Rijn, Ken Romanowski, Tony Russell, Doug Seroff, Dick Spottswood, Warren Steel, David Tibet, Gayle Dean Wardlow, and Charles Wolfe.

Grateful Dead- Summer 76- The Complete Broadcasts [12 CD, 2017]

  

5 Show, 12CD Limited Edition/1000 only. The ’76 sound in all its glory, bridging the gap between the early post-hiatus shows and the tightly spun symphonies of ’77. Five shows across twelve cd s remastered from the original broadcasts.
 
The Grateful Dead managed to make one shrewd and long-lasting move in 1976. Everyone knew that the Dead had a loyal audience, but truthfully, even the Dead didn’t know how that would translate into ticket sales. How big a place could they really play, and how many cities would it be profitable to tour through? The band bypassed all that. In the booming rock market of 1976, playing a 12,000-capacity basketball arena and only selling 9,000 tickets would have been seen as a failure of sorts, and the Dead couldn’t afford that in their comeback attempt.

Charlie Sayles - The Raw Blues Of Charlie Sayles [1976]

 

 

Talent does not always get you recognition, as Charlie Sayles can tell you. A hugely talented harp player with a superb technique and a great voice, he incorporates the style of Chicago‘s early legends into his wide repertoire of Blues, Rock and Funk influenced material. Charlie has recorded only four albums in forty years of playing and spent most of his career blowing his harp on street corners.

Charlie Sayles was born in 1948 in Woburn MA, and a hard life got started. He grew up in a series of foster-homes and, like many of his generation, wound up in the Army posted to Vietnam. He began playing harp while he was a ‘grunt’ and when he got home, he played on street corners for tips. That has sustained him down the years, never seeming to have had a job, and speaks volumes for his abilities as an entertainer. Like the old-time ‘wandering songsters’, he journeyed to New York, St. Louis and Atlanta on his travels, developing a broad chording tone, with a bag-full of elegant, agile phrases and percussive tricks which served to hold his audience while playing alone. Charlie’s voice has a soulful quality and he has written a lot of his own material over the years. He recorded an excellent album, ‘Raw Harmonica Blues’ for the Dusty Roads label in 1976, and was picked up by The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, where he made several appearances with Pete Seeger. By the early 80s, Charlie was settled in Washington DC, where he formed a band, and he continued to make a living from gigging and busking, but his reputation remained extremely local.

Regular playing gave Charlie a warm, confident performing style, as he engages in witty banter with his audience between songs, and an unreleased recording of Charlie performing with his band in 1982 is well worth finding on You-Tube. Charlie’s recording career got going again in 1993 with the release of ‘Night Ain’t Right’ on the British JSP label, which contained many of Charlie’s own compositions. The follow-up, ‘I Got Something to Say’ had Washington club legend Bobby Parker guesting on guitar, but again sales were not huge outside his East-coast stomping grounds, and ‘Hip Guy’, released in 2000, didn’t fare any better.

1.  New York - St. Louis
2.  Goin' Up - Goin' Down
3.  Baby, You Done Wrecked My Life
4.  Atlanta Boogie
5.  Here Comes The Train
6.  I'm Mad With You
7.  Makin' Love To Music
8.  Almost Gone
9.  Banjo
10.  Vietnam