Cactus/The New Cactus Band discography [1970-1973/FLAC]

 

Cactus is an American hard rock supergroup, formed in 1970.

Cactus was initially conceived as early as late 1969 by the Vanilla Fudge rhythm section of bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice with guitarist Jeff Beck and singer Rod Stewart (also from the already dissolved Jeff Beck Group). However, Beck had an automobile accident and was out of the music scene for over a year and Stewart joined Ronnie Wood in Faces.

Early 1970 Appice and Bogert brought in blues guitarist Jim McCarty from Mitch Ryder's Detroit Wheels and The Buddy Miles Express, and singer Rusty Day (born Russell Edward Davidson) from Amboy Dukes.
This line-up managed three albums (Cactus, One Way...Or Another and Restrictions) before intraband troubles led to McCarty quitting at the end of 1971. Shortly afterwards Day was fired from the group. The fourth and last Cactus album ('Ot 'N' Sweaty) featured original rhythm section Bogert and Appice joined by Werner Fritzschings on guitar, Duane Hitchings on keyboards and Peter French (ex-Leaf Hound and Atomic Rooster) on vocals.

Duane Eddy - 6 Classics Albums + Bonus (4 CD, 2012/FLAC)

 

Guitarist with a distinctive "twangy" sound (his own description). Born in Corning, New York, on April 28, 1938, he was one of the foremost instrumental performers of the late 1950s and early 1960s with a string of hits on both sides of the Atlantic. 

• Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel - 1958
• Especially For You - 1959
• The "Twangs" The "Thang" - 1959
• Duane Eddy Plays Songs Of Our Heritage - 1960
• $1,000,000 Worth Of Twang - 1960
• Girls! Girls! Girls! - 1961

VA - Classic Rock Audiophile Collection 2 (2019/FLAC)

 

01 - Joe Walsh  -  Rocky Mountain Way

02 - Bachman Turner Overdrive  -  Roll On Down The Highway

03 - Dr John  -  Right Place, Wrong Time

04 - Electric Light Orchestra  -  Evil Woman

05 - Patti Smith Group  -  Because The Night

06 - Redbone  -  Come And Get Your Love

07 - Rush  -  Tom Sawyer

08 - Deep Purple  -  Smoke On The Water

09 - Gary Wright  -  Love Is Alive

10 - Eagles  -  Hotel California

11 - Led Zeppelin  -  Stairway To Heaven

12 - Aerosmith  -  Dream On

13 - The Guess Who  -  Undun

14 - Fleetwood Mac  -  Don't Stop

15 -  J Geils Band  -  Cruisin' For A Love

16 - Night Ranger  -  Don't Tell Me You Love Me

17 - Warren Zevon  -  Werewolves Of London

18 - The Kinks  -  (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman

19 - The Hollies  -  Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)

20 - Ted Nugent  -  Cat Scratch Fever

21 - The Doors  -  Love Her Madly

22 - ACDC  -  Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round To Be A Millionaire)

23 - Lynyrd Skynyrd  -  That Smell

24 - ZZ Top  -  Cheap Sunglasses

25 - The Rolling Stones  -  It's Only Rock 'N' Roll

Lou Reed - Original Album Classics vol.1 (5 CD, 2008/FLAC)

 

1972 - Lou Reed 

1972 - Transformer 

1973 - Berlin 

1974 - Sally Can't Dance 

1976 - Coney Island Baby 

Sunnyland Slim and his Pals - The Classic Sides 1947-1953 [4 CD, 2006/FLAC]

 

JSP, one of the U.K.'s most active historical reissue labels, presents an outstanding postwar Chicago blues anthology packed with essential recordings made between 1947 and 1955 by Sunnyland Slim & His Pals. Out of the 104 tracks (not 97 as stated on the front of the packaging), 60 are "by" Sunnyland Slim; the other 44 were released under the names of Johnny Shines, Robert Lockwood, Floyd Jones, Leroy Foster, J.B. Lenoir, Jimmy Rogers, and St. Louis Jimmy. Sunnyland sat in on each of these dates; the enclosed discography denies his presence on the Johnny Shines date, although his piano is clearly audible. Born Albert Luandrew (or Loeandrew) in Vance, MS, on September 5, 1906, he sang with Little Brother Montgomery in 1923 and accompanied Ma Rainey on the piano in Portageville, MO, at a time when he only knew how to play in three keys. Luandrew's stage name was derived from a blues he wrote about the Sunnyland, an express locomotive that ran between St. Louis and Memphis. Sunnyland Slim first played Chicago in 1939 and settled there in 1942, making his initial appearance on records with Jump Jackson in September 1946; JSP did not include material from that session and has provided only three of the seven titles cut by Sunnyland Slim and Muddy Waters between 1947 and 1949. What you do get is a core sample of classic sides that Sunnyland cut for 15 different record labels during the Truman and Eisenhower eras. (Note that Johnny Shines actually references both presidents in the words to "Living in the White House.") These pungent performances involved some of Chicago's toughest bluesmen; the roster includes, in addition to the names already mentioned: guitarists Big Bill Broonzy and Lefty Bates; pianist Blind John Davis; legendary Windy City bassists Ransom Knowling and Big Crawford; harmonica ace Snooky Pryor; trumpeter Billy Howell; and saxophonists Alex Atkins, J.T. Brown, Oliver Alcorn, Ernest Cotton, and Red Holloway. Sunnyland Slim outlived almost every single one of his contemporaries. He was well loved and widely respected throughout the Great Lakes Afro-American community as a generous individual who helped others to survive during his long and productive career as one of Chicago's fundamental bluesmen.