Carly Simon - The Studio Album Collection 1971-1983 (11 CD, 2014/FLAC)

Carly Simon was one of the most popular of the confessional singer/songwriters who emerged in the early '70s. The youngest daughter in an upper-class New York family (her father, Richard Simon, co-founded the Simon & Schuster publishing company), Simon got her start in music as part of a duo with her sister Lucy (who later wrote the music for the Broadway show The Secret Garden). The Simon Sisters had a chart single with "Winkin' Blinkin' and Nod" in April 1964. But Simon's solo debut did not come until the release of her self-titled first album in February 1971. It contained her first solo hit, "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," an anti-marriage song co-written with Jacob Brackman that reached the Top Ten...

CD1 - Carly Simon (February 1971)

CD2 - Anticipation (November 1971)

CD3 - No Secrets (1972)

CD4 - Hotcakes (1974)

CD5 - Playing Possum (1975)

CD6 - Another Passenger (1976)

CD7 - Boys in the Trees (1978)

CD8 - Spy (1979)

CD9 - Come Upstairs (1980)

CD10 - Torch (1981)

CD11 - Hello Big Man (1983)

Eric Clapton - God's Extracurricular Activities (4 CD, 2011/FLAC)

04 June 2011
Wintershall Estate
Bramley, Surrey
United Kingdom

24 June 2011
Stadio di Cava De' Tirreni
Cava De' Tirreni
Italy

The Beatles - Mythology Vol. 1- 3 [1963-1969] [11 CD/FLAC]

 

Apart from The Complete BBC sessions, this is the one bootleg that all British Beatle fans should own. In addition to an excellent selection of studio outtakes, it includes every known British concert recording between 1963 and 1965, as well as key interviews and spoken performances such as Juke Box Jury. This captures, what the British experience of Beatlemania felt like at the time. Even the later, admittedly more tedious, interviews, remind us of how it was towards the end. In short, a necessary and highly enjoyable part of any serious Beatles fan's collection, whether you happened to be there or not.

 

Canned Heat discography [1967-2015] (FLAC)

 

Canned Heat is an American blues/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1965.

The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat". After appearances at Monterey and Woodstock, at the end of the 1960s the band acquired worldwide fame with a lineup consisting of Bob Hite, vocals, Alan Wilson, guitar, harmonica and vocals, Henry Vestine (or Harvey Mandel) on lead guitar, Larry Taylor on bass, and Adolfo de la Parra on drums.

Sonny Boy Williamson II - Nine Below Zero 1951-1962 (4 CD, 2017) [FLAC]

 Alex or Aleck Miller (originally Ford, possibly December 5, 1912 – May 24, 1965), known later in his career as Sonny Boy Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. He was an early and influential blues harp stylist who recorded successfully in the 1950s and 1960s. Miller used various names, including Rice Miller and Little Boy Blue, before calling himself Sonny Boy Williamson, which was also the name of a popular Chicago blues singer and harmonica player. To distinguish the two, Miller has been referred to as Sonny Boy Williamson II.

He first recorded with Elmore James on "Dust My Broom". Some of his popular songs include "Don't Start Me Talkin'", "Help Me", "Checkin' Up on My Baby", and "Bring It On Home". He toured Europe with the American Folk Blues Festival and recorded with English rock musicians, including the Yardbirds, the Animals. "Help Me" became a blues standard, and many blues and rock artists have recorded his songs.