B.B. King - Complete Recordings 1949-1962 [6 CD, 2015]

 

B.B. King, known as The King of the Blues, and indeed one of the Three Kings of Blues Guitar (along with namesakes Albert and Freddie) was amongst the finest guitarists and vocalists to ever grace the genre. He has featured in Rolling Stone's 100 and Gibson's 50 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, reaching 6 and 17 respectively. Following his first Billboard Rhythm and Blues chart number one 'Three O'Clock Blues' in February 1952, King's career went from strength to strength, helped in no small part by the impressive number of hits he released during the rest of the decade and his extensive touring, which in 1956 reached a record-breaking 342 shows in a single year. In 1962 he recorded Live at the Regal, which is widely considered one of history's greatest blues albums, and one selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. He received exposure to a rock audience after touring with the Rolling Stones in 1969, and was awarded a Grammy for his 1970 recording of 'The Thrill Is Gone'. King was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Official Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame in 2014. B.B. King remained active throughout the rest of his life, recording regularly and often still playing in excess of 300 gigs a year. In 1997 he performed at the Vatican's fifth annual Christmas concert, presenting Lucille to Pope John Paul II. In 2000, he recorded Riding with the King with Eric Clapton, which would go on to receive the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. King embarked on a farewell tour with Gary Moore in 2006, only to continue working for another decade, famously performing a duet with President Obama at the White House in 2012. Although B.B. had suffered from diabetes for over 20 years, it was only recently that his health began to fail, which forced him to cancel a number of shows in 2014. On 14th May 2015, he sadly passed away at the age of 89.


Disc 1:

1. Got The Blues
2. Take A Swing With Me
3. Miss Martha King
4. When Your Baby Packs Up And Goes
5. My Baby's Gone
6. Walkin' And Cryin'
7. The Other Night Blues
8. B.B.Boogie
9. Mistreated Woman
10. I Am
11. B.B.Blues
12. Shake It Up And Go
13. Hard Working Woman
14. She Don't Move Me No More
15. She's Dynamite
16. Fine Looking Woman
17. Pray For You
18. She Is A Mean Woman
19. Someday Somewhere
20. It's My Own Fault
21. Story From My Heart And Soul
22. Neighbourhood Affair
23. Highway Bound
24. Can't We Talk It Over
25. Worry Worry Worry
26. Don't Have To Cry
27. You Didn't Want Me
28. Gotta Find My Baby
29. Bye Bye Baby
30. Please Hurry Home

Disc 2:

1. Please Help Me
2. Why Did You Leave Me
3. Praying To The Lord
4. Boogie Rock
5. Everything I Do Is Wrong
6. Sixteen Sons
7. Jump With You Baby
8. Lonely And Blue
9. Talking The Blues
10. You Know I Love You
11. Please Love Me
12. You Upset Me Baby
13. Bad Luck
14. Ten Long Years
15. Sweet Little Angel
16. Three O'Cock Blues
17. Blind Love
18. Crying Won't Help You
19. Woke Up This Morning
20. Everyday I Have The Blues
21. On My Word Of Honour
22. I'm Cracking Up Over You
23. Dark Is The Night (Part 1)
24. Let's Do The Boogie
25. Did You Ever Love A Woman
26. How Do I Love You
27. You Can't Fool My Heart
28. My Heart Belongs To You
29. I Wonder

Disc 3:

1. The Key To My Kingdon
2. You Don't Know
3. Early In The Morning
4. The Ain't The Way To Do It
5. I Want To Get Married
6. When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer
7. Troubles, Troubles, Troubles
8. Don't You Want A Man Like Me
9. I Need You So Bad
10. Why Does Everything Happen To Me'
11. Boogie Woogie Woman
12. Ruby Lee
13. You Know I Go For You
14. What Can I Do'
15. You've Been An Angel
16. Please Accept My Love
17. Mean Old Frisco
18. Don't Look Now, But I've Got The Blues
19. Past Day
20. Tomorrow Is Another Day
21. Fool
22. I Love You So
23. We Can't Make It
24. Treat Me Right
25. The Woman I Love
26. Time To Say Goodbye
27. Sweet Thing
28. I've Got Papers On You Baby
29. Sugar Mama
30. A Lonely Lover's Plea

Disc 4:

1. Come By Here
2. Just Sing The Blues
3. Someday Baby
4. Whole Lotta' Love
5. Be Careful With A Fool
6. (I'm Gonna) Quit My Baby
7. Days Of Old
8. Sweet Sixteen
9. Sneaking Around
10. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
11. Things Are Not The Same
12. Fishin' After Men
13. Servant's Prayer
14. Precious Lord
15. Old Time Religion
16. Sweet Chariot
17. Army Of The Lord
18. Save A Seat For Me
19. Jesus Gave Me Water
20. I Never Heard A Man
21. I'm Willing To Run All The Way
22. I'm Working On The Building
23. I Was Blind
24. I Had A Woman
25. I've Got Right To Love My Baby
26. What Way To Go
27. Long Nights (The Feeling They Call The Blues)

Disc 5:

1. Feel Like A Million
2. I'll Survive
3. Good Man Gone Bad
4. You're On The Top
5. If I Lost You
6. Partin' Time
7. I'm King
8. Mr Pawn Broker
9. Cat Fish Blues (Fishin' After Me)
10. Please Set The Date
11. Walking Dr Bill (O D)
12. Hold That Train
13. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
14. My Own Fault, Darling
15. Understand
16. Bad Case Of Love
17. Get Out Of Here
18. Baby, Look At You
19. You're Breaking My Heart
20. My Reward
21. Don't Cry Anymore
22. Blues For Me (1961)
23. Just Like A Woman
24. Shut Your Mouth
25. Bad Luck Soul
26. Peace Of Mind

Disc 6:

1. Someday
2. I'm Gonna Sit Till You Give In
3. Tomorrow Night
4. You're Gonna Miss Me
5. Got 'em Bad
6. Troubles Don't Last
7. Your Letter
8. I Can't Explain
9. I Can't Explain
10. The Wrong Road
11. I Need You Baby
12. So Many Days
13. Down Hearted
14. Strange Things
15. Easy Listening Blues
16. Blues For Me (1962)
17. Night Long
18. Confessin'
19. Don't Touch
20. Slow Walk aka Slow Burn
21. Walking'
22. Hully Gully Twist
23. Shoutin' The Blues
24. Rambler
25. My Sometime Baby
26. Down Now

Fleetwood Mac - Live (3 CD Deluxe Edition, 2021) [FLAC]

 

When Fleetwood Mac released its first live album in December 1980, it captured the legendary band’s most iconic line-up on stage demonstrating the full scope of their collective, creative powers.
Recorded mostly during the world tour for Tusk, Fleetwood Mac Live delivered a double-album’s worth of exhilarating performances that included massive hits like “Dreams” and “Go Your Own Way,” “Rhiannon,” and “Don’t Stop.”

On April 9th, we’re giving the band’s live debut a much-deserved encore with a deluxe edition collection that features a remastered version of the original release on HighResAudio.

VA- Dust on The Nettles - British Underground Folk Scene 1967-72 [4 CD, 2015]

  

With 63 tracks and a total running time of just under four hours, Dust On The Nettles examines the metamorphosis that British folk underwent during the late 1960s, when the influence of psychedelia and the counterculture saw the idiom being twisted into all kinds of new and exotic shapes, as the finger-in-the-ear folk clubs of yore were inexorably drawn into a brave new world of Arts Labs, free festivals and the nascent college/university circuit. Our anthology incorporates the various overlapping strands of the underground folk scene: the acid folk experimenters, the folklorists and trad song updaters, the more metaphysical element of the burgeoning singer/songwriter genre, the newly-electric folk rockers, the elemental paganism exemplified by Comus and The Wicker Man, even the early 1970s Jesus music movement that spawned the likes of the sitar-wielding Parchment. Balancing the familiar with the obscure, we feature acknowledged brand leaders like Fairport Convention, The Incredible String Band, Pentangle and Steeleye Span alongside acts who made music purely for the local communities that nurtured them: Shide & Acorn on the Isle of Wight, Folkal Point in Bristol, Music Box in Coventry, Chrissie Quayle in Cornwall. We incorporate a large number of recordings that weren't issued at the time, sample impossibly rare albums by the likes of Oberon, Dry Heart and Benjamin Delaney Lion, and feature key recordings from a number of bands who underpinned the thriving live scene of the era. Housed in a clambox featuring a lavishly illustrated and annotated 36-page booklet, the painstakingly-assembled Dust On The Nettles is surely the most comprehensive and wide-ranging anthology to appear thus far of the UK underground hippie folk movement of the late 1960s/early 1970s.

Bukka White - Sparkasse In Concert (1975)

Mississippi has been the birthplace of many world famous musicians. Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, was born in Tupelo. B.B. King, the King of Blues, was born in Clarksdale. Another great Mississippi musician, although perhaps less famous, happens to be the first cousin of B.B. King. This early blues musician, Bukka White, may not have sold as many records, but his music endures to this day.

Recorded live in the Auditorium of the OPD (Oberpostdirektion), Bremen, Germany, March 11, 1975.

A1 Black Rat 5:44

A2 Way Out In The West 5:16

A3 Mama Don't Allow 5:22

A4 Stuttgart, Arkansas 5:45

A5 Don't Fuzz Blues 2:39

B1 Big Boat Up The River 7:47

B2 New Orleans Streamline 3:53

B3 Everyday I Have The Blues 4:40

B4 Aberdeen Blues 2:38

B5 Midnight Blues 4:15

B6 Poor Boy 2:03 

Peter Frampton - Playing With Fire: Two Classic Broadcasts from the 1970's [2020, FLAC]

 

Live broadcasts from 1979 and 1972. When Peter Frampton finally made his breakthrough as a solo act, it was with a live album. While his earlier records had been well-regarded critically, the praise had failed to translate to record sales, but the release of Frampton Comes Alive! in 1976 finally changed all that. A new studio album, I m In You, the following year consolidated the success, rising to number 2 on the US billboard chart and featuring a constellation of the biggest stars in rock Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder and Richie Hayward all of whom had lined up to be a part of the project. In 1978, however, the wheels came off literally. Frampton was almost killed in a serious car accident while in The Bahamas. He escaped the wreck, but with numerous broken bones, muscle damage and concussion. After slowly nursing himself back to health, Frampton made his comeback in 1979 with the album Where I Should Be and a hit single in I Can t Stand It No More. He sought to confirm his comeback with a summer tour that included a July 2nd show at the Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas and a July 4th show at the Sam Houston Coliseum, in Houston, selections of which would be broadcast on the ABC Radio Network s Supergroups In Concert series. The broadcast, presented here in full on Playing With Fire, showcases Frampton at his best as a live act, a stellar performance in which he runs through the best of Frampton Comes Alive!, with selections from Where I Should Be and I m In You also included in the set list. Also included in this collection is the earliest live recording of Camel, Frampton s early-70s group project, broadcast by the BBC on the 11th of September 1972. The band perform several numbers from both Wind of Change and Frampton s Camel in an essential document of the formative years in Frampton s solo career.