Rolling Stones - Fully Finished Studio Outtakes - Volumes 1-3 (3 CD, 2021)

 A new collection of mostly unreleased studio outtakes.

"Special Limited Edition for The Rolling Stones Fan Club"

VA- Charly Blues Masterworks [50 CD collection] Vol. 41-50

 

Charly Records is a British record label which specialises in reissued material. This is fantastic collection of 50 reissued blues albums.

41     Fenton Robinson (Mellow Fellow)

42     Eddie Boyd (Third Degree)

43     Bo Diddley (Signifying Blues)

44     Willie Mabom (The Seventh Son)

45     John Lee Hooker (Shake It Baby)

46     Howlin' Wolf (London ReVisited)

47     J.B. Lenoir (Mama Watch Your Daughter)

48     Lowell Fulson (Reconsider Baby)

49     Big Bill Broonzy (The Southern Blues)

50     Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup (Mean Ol' Frisco)

VA - Definitive Chicago Blues (3 CD, 2012/FLAC)

 

75 Classic cuts of Chicago Blues with all tracks digitally remastered for optimum listening. 

Joy of Cooking - The Complete Joy Of Cooking (1970-1972) (2 CD, 2006/FLAC)

 

Joy Of Cooking were formed in Berkeley (San Francisco Bay Area) during the hippie era (1967). Their fusion sound, incorporating folk, rock, jazz, gospel and blues, had little in common with acid-rock: it heralded a new era of "creativity" and of stylistic re-evalutation.

One of the first bands led by female musicians, and one of the earliest to deal with feminist issues within popular music, the Joy Of Cooking were led by pianist Toni Brown (who had graduated in creative writing) and guitarist Terry Garthwaite (a folk-singer and an aspiring sociologist). The three-unit rhythm section, on the other hand, was entirely male. Hampered by the fact of not being the typical rock band, the Joy Of Cooking gathered a lot of critical attention but never enjoyed any commercial success.

John Lennon - Between The Lines - Complete Home Recordings 1975-1980 (9 CD, 2008)

 

Probably one of the best examples of a fan-collected set is John Lennon: Between the Lines: Complete Home Recordings 1975-1980. The collection brings together all of Lennon's available demos from the period, using all relevant books, bootlegs, official releases, and even 'Lost Lennon Tapes' tape logs to uncover not only what was recorded, but in what order. It is a painstaking effort, and all of the recordings have been transcribed. The set reveals that Lennon did not stop writing in 1975, but rather worked slowly, tossed aside many compositions, and worked on several others that eventually formed the basis for Double Fantasy and the posthumous Milk and Honey.

This set includes all surfaced Lennon home recordings from the 1975-80 period. All of the audio has been carefully remastered and speed corrected from the best available sources, and the tracks have been presented in the order of recording (as far as could be ascertained) -- something which hasn't been attempted previously. For several of the demos, the actual taping order and context of the various versions is revealed for the first time.