Van Halen - Transmission Impossible (5 CD Deluxe, 2018/FLAC)

 Among the most popular and successful rock bands of the past 40 years, Van Halen remain an inspiration to young groups, performers and musicians with ambitions to take things a little further than your average act. Initially featuring one of modern music s finest front men paired with a guitarist of legend, Halen were always a buzz-word for excess, excitement and energy. 

 

  

Woody Guthrie - The Asch Recordings Vol.1-4 [1999]

  

Poland-born, Brooklyn-reared producer and folk enthusiast Moses Asch maintained a suitably slack but ultimately productive relationship with Woody Guthrie. The notoriously unbound folksinger was free to stop by the New York studio unannounced and Asch would record whatever was running through the folksinger's fertile mind at the time. From the vast body of work the twosome came up with comes this cornerstone four-disc collection. All four CDs included in The Asch Recordings have been released individually--This Land is Your Land (something of a best-of set), Muleskinner Blues (a collection of the singer's old favorites), Hard Travelin' (a topical compilation), and Buffalo Skinners (Western-themed songs)

 

 

The Legendary Blues Band discography [1981-1993/FLAC]

 

The Legendary Blues Band includes Calvin Jones (b.1926, Greenwood, Mississippi; bass, violin); Willie Smith (b.1935, Helena, Arkansas; drum); various others on vocals, guitar, harmonica, and piano. When the Muddy Waters band quit the master en masse in 1980, most of the sidemen stuck together and formed their own group. The Legendary Blues Band, as they were named, included Pinetop Perkins, Jerry Portnoy, Willie Smith, and Calvin Jones throughout its early years. Short-term member Louis Myers, another Muddy Waters alumnus, appeared as guitarist on the band's first album (Rounder, 1981). The band has since changed personnel with some regularity, and while its lineup has become progressively less "legendary" in name and/or historic associations, its music has remained solid and true to the mainstream Chicago style. In a later configuration, they even made the Billboard Black Music charts. Recent albums have featured guitarist Billy Flynn and harmonicist Madison Slim. The rhythm section of Jones and Smith has anchored the unit throughout the changes, never failing to deliver the Chicago blues with aplomb. 

1981 - Life Of Ease (1998 Limited Edition)

1983 - Red Hot N' Blue (1994)

1990 - Keepin' The Blues Alive 

1992 - Prime Time Blues 

1993 - Money Talks 

 

Joan Baez - The Complete A&M Recordings [1972-1976] (4 CD, 2003/FLAC)

 

All six albums Joan Baez recorded for A&M during the '70s with non-LP singles-a long-overdue look at a key phase in her career! This box has every note from this fertile period, including the albums Come from the Shadows, Gracias La Vida (Here's to Life), Diamonds and Rust , the live album From Every Stage and the never-before-on-CD Where Are You Now My Son? and Gulf Winds releases.

 

 

The Isley Brothers - Original Album Classics (5 CD, 2008/FLAC)

 

CD1 The Brothers Isley 

CD2 Get Into Something 

CD3 Givin' It Back 

CD4 Brother, Brother, Brother 

CD5 3 + 3