VA - La Boite Noire : Les Racines de Nova 1971-1980 [10 CD/FLAC]

Radio Nova (or simply Nova) is a radio station broadcast from Paris, created in 1981 by Jean-François Bizot. Its playlist is characterized by non-mainstream or underground artists of various music genres, such as electro, new wave, reggae, jazz, hip hop and world music. 

 

VA - The Best Of American Folk & Blues (3 CD, 2016/FLAC)

   

 

Disc 1

01. I Get Evil (Albert King) (2:30)

02. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Bob Dylan) (2:36)

03. Hide Away (Freddie King) (2:39)

04. Hold That Train (B.B. King) (3:18)

05. Crying at the Station (Brownie McGhee) (4:03)

06. Train Done Gone (Eddie 'Blues Man' Kirkland) (2:32)

07. Casey Jones (Pete Seeger) (2:13)

08. Too Close Blues (Lightnin' Slim) (1:59)

09. Stormy Monday (Jimmy Witherspoon) (3:43)

10. Where Have All the Flowers Gone (The Kingston Trio) (3:05)

11. Stewball (Memphis Slim) (4:17)

12. Highway Blues (Lightnin' Hopkins) (2:40)

13. Roll On, Buddy (Paul Clayton) (2:41)

14. Love Me Baby (Shakey Jake) (3:06)

15. Jack Went a Sailing (Lori Holland) (1:58)

16. Just Make Love to Me (Muddy Waters) (2:48)

17. Johnny Runkins (Pat Foster) (1:36)

18. Rainin' in My Heart (Slim Harpo) (2:31)

19. I'm Crazy 'Bout You Baby (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee) (3:24)

20. Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker) (2:33)

Disc 2

01. The Hammer Song (B.B. King) (2:12)

02. Dimples (John Lee Hooker) (2:10)

03. I Wanna See My Baby (T-Bone Walker) (3:19)

04. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Dave Van Ronk) (1:53)

05. Mean Ole Frisco (B.B. King) (2:28)

06. Man of Stone (Eddie 'Blues Man' Kirkland) (1:57)

07. Little Old Log Cabin in the Woods (Pegram and Parham) (3:05)

08. I've Made Nights by Myself (Albert King) (2:39)

09. Patrol Blues (Lazy Lester) (2:34)

10. Love Henry (Peggy Seeger) (6:25)

11. I'm a Mojo Man (Lonesome Sundown) (2:24)

12. A Worried Man (The Kingston Trio) (2:52)

13. I Love You Baby (Smokey Hogg) (2:19)

14. Wreck of the Old '97 (Woody Guthrie) (2:14)

15. Bye Bye Baby (Memphis Slim & T-Bone Walker) (2:38)

16. late Last Night (Slim Harpo) (2:39)

17. Heads Up (Freddy King) (2:32)

18. Peg and Awl (Doc Watson) (2:13)

19. I'm a Rollin' Stone (Lightnin' Slim) (2:27)

20. Hoochie Coochie (Muddy Waters) (2:50)

Disc 3

01. When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer (B.B. King) (2:47)

02. Mean Old Frisco (Brownie McGhee) (2:16)

03. In the Pines (Dave Van Ronk) (3:03)

04. We're Gonna Rock (Memphis Slim) (3:00)

05. I Wonder Why (Lightnin' Hopkins) (2:30)

06. Tom Dooley (The Kingston Trio) (3:05)

07. Mind Your Own Business (Lightnin' Slim) (2:18)

08. Down on My Knees (Eddie 'Blues Man' Kirkland) (2:21)

09. The Yellow Rose of Texas (Pegram and Parham) (2:05)

10. Don't Start Cryin' Now (Slim Harpo) (2:12)

11. I'll Never Be Free (Jimmy Witherspoon) (3:21)

12. Jackhammer Blues (Woody Guthrie) (2:38)

13. Can't Keep from Cryin' (Earl Gaines) (2:30)

14. Strawberry Roan (Pat Foster) (4:01)

15. Swooshy (Freddy King) (2:20)

16. I'm in Love (T-Bone Walker) (3:56)

17. Shake a Leg (Smokey Hogg) (2:58)

18. Goodbye, Little Bonnie, Goodbye (Paul Clayton) (1:40)

19. Goin Down Slow (Sonny Terry) (3:16)

20. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream (Pete Seeger) (2:29)

The Felice Brothers discography [2006-2021]

 Hailing from the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York, the Felice Brothers blend folk, Americana, and revivalist roots rock into a uniquely earthy sound. The Felice Brothers clearly value inspiration over technique, though their evocative, '60s-influenced sound reveals they're capable instruments with solid vocal harmonies. The group made the most of their scruffy, back-to-the-land approach on 2008's The Felice Brothers and 2009's Yonder Is the Clock, but with 2011's Celebration, Florida, they experimented with more ambitious and impressionistic arrangements, and they gained strength as songwriters on 2019's Undress and 2021's From Dreams to Dust.

 

 

Level 42 - The Complete Polydor Years 1980-1984 (10 CD, 2021/FLAC)

 

The Complete Polydor Years 1980-1984  is a ten-CD Level 42 box set that brings together the first five albums alongside an extraordinary amount of bonus material.

This new package features the albums Level 42 (1981), The Early Tapes (1982), The Pursuit of Accidents (1982), Standing in the Light (1983) and True Colours (1984). But that’s only half the story because five further CDs offer a wealth of seven-inch remixes (some new to CD), B-sides, 12-inch mixes and bonus tracks including early performances at the Regal Theatre in Hitchin (in Hertfordshire, England).

The set has been compiled in conjunction with Level 42 and band experts Paul Wallace, Paul Waller and Simon Carson. Tony Dixon at Masterpeice Masters has handled the remastering process.

 

 

Rod Stewart - Reason To Believe -The Complete Mercury Studio Recordings [3 CD, 2002/FLAC]

 

Anyone who thinks Rod Stewart is a disco/AOR singer should listen to this. The music on this boxset is raw and honest rock with a country-rock/folkrock feel.  The remastering is very well done and this really is the complete Rod Stewart Mercury Anthology which covers the periode 1969-1974.