VA - The Many Faces Of Bob Dylan (3 CD, 2016/FLAC)

 

 

Before the world knew Bob Dylan, songs were inevitably about a boy-girl relationship or about dancing. Due to his folk background, Bob Dylan songs had a poetic and existential lyric content which after him was incorporated into rock culture. That's how we can find among Dylan fans legendary artists such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jack White and even Guns N'Roses, who achieved great success with their own version of Knockin' On Heaven's Door. In the Many Faces of Bob Dylan we present: in the first two CDs, 28 new versions by the artist, a real treasure that now is available to his fans. In addition, CD 3 is dedicated to the Greenwich Village scene that gave birth to his career, with artists like Joan Baez and Dave Van Ronk. The Many Faces Of Bob Dylan is an essential album both for his countless fans and for anyone interested in the evolution of popular music for the last 50 years.

VA - A Time To Remember 1930-1990 [60 CD Collection] years 1930-1939

 

Look back to music history with Capitol Records box - today : 30's

Lucille Hegamin - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order (1920-1932) Vols. 1 - 4

 

Lucille Nelson Hegamin (November 29, 1894 – March 1, 1970) was an American singer and entertainer, and a pioneer African American blues recording artist.

Hegamin was born as Lucille Nelson in Macon, Georgia. From an early age she sang in local church choirs. By the age of 15 she was touring the US South with the Leonard Harper Minstrel Stock Company. In 1914 she settled in Chicago, Illinois, where, often billed as "The Georgia Peach", she worked with Tony Jackson and Jelly Roll Morton before marrying pianist Bill Hegamin. She later told a biographer: "I was a cabaret artist in those days, and never had to play theatres, and I sang everything from blues to popular songs, in a jazz style. I think I can say without bragging that I made the "St. Louis Blues" popular in Chicago; this was one of my feature numbers." Lucille Hegamin's stylistic influences included Annette Hanshaw and Ruth Etting.

Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane Loves You [3 CD, 1992/FLAC]

  

Jefferson Airplane Loves You is a three-CD boxed set of recordings by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane with extensive liner notes by Jeff Tamarkin, author of the Jefferson Airplane biography Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane.

Many of the tracks are previously unreleased live recordings or studio rehearsals, but several are lifted from prior Jefferson Airplane albums. A song by The Great Society, Grace Slick's original band, appears on the first CD.

A quadraphonic version of the "Volunteers" album was released, and a few of the songs are from this release, but have been remixed into conventional stereo. Because of the remix, any psychedelic movements of instruments from front-to-back or side-to-side behind the listener that were present in the quadraphonic version are lost.

The songs are arranged in chronological order beginning with a pre-Airplane solo by Marty Balin and ending with a 1972 live recording of the rarely heard "You Wear Your Dresses Too Short".

10cc - Before, During, After: The Story Of 10cc (4 CD, 2017/FLAC]

 A special four-disc box set, curated with input from the band to detail each and every chapter of their musical story. It Is the first complete, career-encompassing collection of the work of 10cc – Eric Stewart, Lol Crème, Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman, together and apart. 

The collection starts with ‘During // The Best of 10cc 1972 – 1978’, which captures the band at their commercial peak with some of their biggest hits including ‘I’m Not In Love’ and ‘The Things We Do For Love’, ‘After // The Post 10cc Years’ is a collection of the very best tracks that came following the band’s split, hand-picked by members of the band. It includes music from Godley and Creme, Graham Gouldman’s Wax, Paul McCartney (with whom Eric Stewart co-wrote) and from Lol Creme’s period in The Art Of Noise. The following chapter takes us on a journey to late 60s Stockport, before 10cc’s rise to musical stardom, when the four writers and performers worked their musical magic away from the spotlight. ‘Before // The Early Years’ compiles more pre-recordings showcasing the early vision of each individual band member. A compelling and eclectic listen, it includes Manchester’s very own the Mindbenders ‘A Groovy Kind Of Love’ (featuring Eric Stewart), the psychedelic Sheffield sound of Rameses’ ‘Life Child’.