VA - Roll and Tumble Blues: a History of Slide Guitar [3 CD, 2004]

 

This is the most comprehensive showcase of Slide Guitar playing ever assembled, tracing the genre's recorded origins and developments over the course of more than 70 years. It highlights the work of both famous and obscure musicians, who'd all mastered the technique of playing simultaneous rhythm and lead with the use of a bottleneck, a steel ferrule or even the haft of a knife. Some of the more readily known blues names were proficient in this style including Charley Patton, Leadbelly, Robert Johnston and Elmore James. Heading into the rock era the likes of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Peter Green. Each these Cd's readily confirm and reinforce the skill, the dexterity and the astonishing variety of sounds that these musicians contrive to produce from the humble guitar.

Metallica - And Justice For All (8 CD Remastered 2018)

 

Written after the death of bassist Cliff Burton, Metallica’s infamously abrasive masterpiece gets its 30th-anniversary treatment at a time when its sociopolitical rumblings are painfully relevant.

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Justice has been remastered and re-released in a variety of formats. Three decades later, Justice arguably stands as the only Metallica album that’s as beloved as it is controversial. (The rest tend to skew one way or the other.) After the death of original bassist Cliff Burton in a 1986 bus accident, the band hired Jason Newsted as his replacement. They toured with him, recorded a covers EP with him, gave him moments in the spotlight on stage, and... absolutely buried him in the mix of Justice, his first-full length with Metallica. The result is the most abrasive-sounding album to sell over eight million copies ever. It’s as if, instead of adding canned crowd noises or fake room tone, Metallica preloaded it with tinnitus.

Dave Matthews Band studio discography [FLAC]

 Dave Matthews Band, sometimes shortened to DMB, is a U.S. rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed.

Piano Red a.k.a. Dr. Feelgood - The Doctor In! (4 CD, 1993/FLAC)

 The ultra-rare Chess and Jax sessions, and the highly prized '60s OKeh sides that include the original versions of Doctor Feelgood and Mister Moonlight. 127 tracks, recorded between 1950 and 1966 as Piano Red and as Dr. Feelgood for RCA, Groove, Checker, Jax, Okeh and Columbia.

Cream – Goodbye Tour (Live 1968) [4 CD, 2020/FLAC]

The Cream album Goodbye, `Goodbye Tour - Live 1968' now available in a special, expanded edition and the first authorized release of these four historic complete 1968 concerts. Each concert features previously unreleased tracks and the Royal Albert Hall show hasn't featured on CD until now. This historic collection features 36 tracks, 29 of which have not been released until now.