John Lennon - The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes [22 CD, 1996]

 

The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes is a 22-CD bootleg box set, released by Walrus Records in December 1996. The main goal of this set was to condense everything from the existing Lost Lennon Tapes bootleg series, which had only been released on vinyl, onto CDs.

Everything on this collection had been aired on the radio series The Lost Lennon Tapes, which was broadcast in 1988. The original vinyl version of this material was also released in 1988 by Bag Records. The newer release took each of the original albums and spread them between 22 discs, with two to three of the original records on each two-disc set.

Jimmy Buffett - Boats Beaches Bars Ballads (Best Of Jimmy Buffett 1973 - 1992) [4 CD, 1992]

 

Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads is a four-compact disc (or cassette) compilation box set of Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band's greatest hits, rarities, and previously unreleased songs. Released in 1992, the collection reached quadruple platinum.

Boats is the boat and sailing-themed disc. "Love and Luck" was previously unreleased on a Buffett album. "Take It Back," written for the US America's Cup yachting team, was previously available only as a single release. "Love and Luck" would later appear on the live album, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. 

Beaches is the beach and ocean-themed disc. Of the 18 beach songs, notable songs are "Margaritaville," also known as the Buffett national anthem, and "Cheeseburger in Paradise". "Money Back Guarantee" was previously unreleased on a Buffett album. "Christmas in the Caribbean" was previously released on the 1985 country music Christmas compilation album Tennessee Christmas. 

Bars is the drinking and party songs-themed disc. Beginning with "Fins", the album also includes "Why Don't We Get Drunk (And Screw)?" and "Pencil Thin Mustache." "Elvis Imitators," an attempt at an Elvis Presley rockabilly song, written by Steve Goodman and Mike Smith, and "Domino College" were both previously unreleased on a Buffett album. "Fins" and "Cuban Crime of Passion" were co-written with novelist Tom Corcoran. 

Ballads is the ballads and love song-themed disc. The most notable songs are "Come Monday" and "He Went to Paris". This collection includes a remix of "I Heard I Was in Town", not the version that appears on Somewhere over China. "Middle of the Night" was previously unreleased on a Buffett album. "Everlasting Moon", was a live recording from Buffett's 1990 live album, Feeding Frenzy. 

Bessie Jones & the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Get In Union recordings by Alan Lomax 1959 - 1966 [2 CD, 2020]

 Bessie Jones was one of the most popular performers on the 1960s and '70s folk circuit, appearing usually at the helm of the Georgia Sea Island Singers at colleges, festivals, the Poor People's March on Washington, and Jimmy Carter's inauguration. GET IN UNION is a collection of her classic recordings with the Singers, combined with previously unavailable solo and small-group performances captured by Alan Lomax between 1959 and 1966. This digital-only release by the Alan Lomax Archive is an expanded version of the two-CD set issued by Tompkins Square in 2013, featuring nine previously unreleased tracks.

Alan Lomax first visited the Georgia Sea Island of St. Simons in June of 1935 with folklorist Mary Elizabeth Barnicle and author Zora Neale Hurston. There they met the remarkable Spiritual Singers Society of Coastal Georgia, as the group was then called, and recorded several hours of their songs and dances for the Library of Congress. Returning 25 years later, Lomax found that the Singers were still active, and had been enriched by the addition of Bessie Jones, a South Georgia native with a massive collection of songs going back to the slavery era.

CD 1 

01. Sheep Sheep Don't You Know the Road

02. You Better Mind

03. Plumb The Line

04. O Day (Yonder Come Day)

05. Moses Don't Get Lost

06. Blow Gabriel

07. Got To Lie Down (How Shall I Rise)

08. Sometimes

09. Shoo Turkey

10. Adam In The Garden

11. Daniel in the Lion's Den

12. Little David, Play on Your Harp

13. You Got to Reap Just What You Sow/Just a Little Talk with Jesus

14. O Mary Don't You Weep

15. Throw Me Overboard

16. Going to Chattanooga

17. See Aunt Dinah

18. John Henry

19. Sink 'Em Low

20. Diamond Joe

21. Live Humble

22. Get in Union

23. Elephant Fair

24. Uncle Ned

25. That Suits Me

CD 2 

01. No Hiding Place Down Here

02. O Death

03. Dead and Gone

04. Prayer

05. Sign of the Judgement

06. This Train Is a Clean Train

07. Turkle Dove

08. Beulah Land

09. Let Me Fly

10. Walk Daniel

11. I'm Gonna Lay Down My Life for My Lord

12. Way Down Yonder in the Brickyard

13. Bob Young's Song and Whoop

14. Read 'Em, John

15. Before This Time Another Year

16. Once There Was No Sun

17. There Was an Old Lady from Brewster

18. Little Johnny Brown

19. Prodigal Son

20. Take Me to the Water

21. Drinking That Wine

22. Once There Was No Sun [II]

23. One Morning Soon

24. Buzzard Lope

25. One of These Days [I]

26. One of These Days [II]

Black Sabbath - The Rules of Hell [5 CD, 2008]

Deluxe 5-CD slipcase boxed set collects Black Sabbath's complete Dio-fronted catalog: Heaven And Hell, Mob Rules, Live Evil (2 CDs), and Dehumanizer. Each title was recently remastered for the first time ever and features extensive liner notes including new band interviews. Heaven And Hell (1980) is regarded as one of Sabbath's all-time best with its anthem tracks 'Neon Knights', 'Die Young' and the epic title track. Mob Rule's ('81) was the first Sabbath LP to feature Appice on drums (replacing Bill Ward), delivering high octane classics like 'Falling Off The Edge Of The World', 'Turn Up The Night' and 'The Sign Of The Southern Cross'. Live Evil, the group's 1982 double-live set, is an in-concert masterpiece and a testament to the raw power of Sabbath's Dio, Iommi, Butler, and Appice lineup on fourteen epic tracks. Dehumanizer ('92).

VA - The Many Faces of Pink Floyd [3 CD, 2013] [FLAC]

  

The Many Faces Of Pink Floyd is a wonderful, truly stunning album... a 3CD labour of love, the likes of which are rarely seen on the market.

CD 1 contains Dark Side Of The Moon (in full) as interpreted by luminaries of the world rock scene (members of King Crimson, Yes, The Doors, Toto and Asia, among others).

CD 2 features ten key tracks of The Wall, two from Wish You Were Here and two psychedelic era classic quartets by musicians such as Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Ian Anderson and British Psychic TV freaks, among many others.

CD 3 meanwhile, is even more spectacular, as it presents material from all the great musicians who participated in the group's record: saxophonist Dick Parry (Money, Us And Them), singer Clare Torry (The Great Gig In The Sky) guitarist Snowy White (the tours of Animals and Roger Waters solo), producer Norman Smith (The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn) and keyboardist Peter Wood (the tour of The Wall) and there are even songs from the obscure bluesmen who inspired Syd Barrett to christen the band: Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. With beautifully mastered sound and spectacular cover art, The Many Faces Of Pink Floyd is a unique album, and one that every fan of the group will enjoy, learn from and marvel over.