Jimi Hendrix - Live in Scandinavia - Vol 2 [6 CD , 2007] (FLAC)

The 1969 tour finds Jimi and the Experience heading out on what would be the original Experience’s final tour. The second series of recordings, drawn from 1970, found the band (often billed as the Experience but featuring Jimi, Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox) fresh from the previous day’s massive Isle Of Wight concert performing the first of these concerts in Stockholm. Jimi Hendrix however would be dead in just over two weeks after commencing this brief Scandinavian tour which followed as series of concerts in Germany that had ended in disarray.

Vol 2: Scandinavia had proved to be an extremely positive and fertile market for the music of Jimi Hendrix. This boxed set contains recordings from two specific tours and although there is only twelve months between the two sets of concerts captured here much had happened to Jimi between the two tours.

 

 

Jimi Hendrix - Live in Scandinavia - Vol 1 [6 CD , 2007] (FLAC)

The 1969 tour finds Jimi and the Experience heading out on what would be the original Experience’s final tour. The second series of recordings, drawn from 1970, found the band (often billed as the Experience but featuring Jimi, Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox) fresh from the previous day’s massive Isle Of Wight concert performing the first of these concerts in Stockholm. Jimi Hendrix however would be dead in just over two weeks after commencing this brief Scandinavian tour which followed as series of concerts in Germany that had ended in disarray.



Vol 1 - 7 complete 1967/68 performances from Sweden and Denmark - presented together for the first time officially licensed from the estate of Hendrix’s former manager, Michael Jeffery. Individually numbered, only 2000 copies world-wide.

 

 

VA - Ladies Sing The Boss (2022) [FLAC]

As one of rock's most prolific songwriters, Bruce Springsteen has covered a lot of bases, building a catalogue of albums that has seen him deliver stadium rockin' anthems and then switch horses mid-stream and riding solo with noir, character-based long players. In the mid-70s, Bruce's songs started to look at where he fitted in (or not). Much of the public's perception of Bruce is wrapped up in his male persona, singing songs about girls and cars, a hyper masculine image. So, how do women relate to this? Part of the inspiration for this compilation came from seeing the all-female Bruce tribute act the She Street Band at the Clapham Grand in 2019 and experiencing how these songs, which I had known all my life, took on another perspective when seen through the filter of a female protagonist. Includes tracks by the Patty Smith Group, Darlene Love, Deana Carter, Cowboy Junkies, Hem, and others.

 

01 Because The Night - Patti Smith

02 Dancing In The Dark - Lucy Dacus

03 Night Closing In - Darlene Love

04 Devils And Dust - Jessie Kennedy

05 State Trooper - Deana Carter

06 Ghost Of Tom Joad - Solas

07 Waiting On A Sunny Day - Piney Gir

08 I'm On Fire - Soccer Mommy

09 Highway 29 - Moa Holmsten

10 Thunder Road - Cowboy Junkies

11 Streets Of Philadelphia - Bettye LaVette

12 Valentine's Day - Hem

13 Factory - Lucinda Williams

14 Johnny 99 - Shovels & Rope

15 Cover Me - Thea Gilmore

16 Secret Garden - Kerry Hart

17 Fire - Anna Calvi

18 Nebraska - Aoife O'Donovan

19 My Father's House - Emmylou Harris

Phish - Chicago '94 [6 CD, 2012]

6-CD box set, showcasing two complete shows recorded live on June 18, 1994 and November 25, 1994 at UIC Pavilion in Chicago, IL.

By 1994, Phish was well established as an international touring act and already well known to a growing group of hardcore fans. Amidst a tour packed with highlights - it was this summer that convinced the band to start multi-tracking their live shows - this show was recorded for posterity on 2-track DAT. Lightning rarely strikes twice in the same place but Chicago '94 is an example of just that.
Paul Languedoc's stereo soundboard mixes re-mastered by Fred Kevorkian carry the intensity and intricacy of these special shows to listeners' ears eighteen years later. Chicago '94 contains nearly six hours of music performed at both shows for a total of 43 songs, including material from the UIC soundchecks.

 

 

The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed (50th anniversary, 2 x SACD with booklet, 2019) [FLAC]

The Rolling Stones' groundbreaking multi-platinum selling album Let It Bleed was released in late 1969, charting at #1 in the UK and #3 in the US. The Rolling Stones, at this point already a critically and commercially dominant force, composed and recorded their eighth long player (tenth for the U.S.) amidst both geopolitical and personal turmoil. The second of four Rolling Stones albums made with producer Jimmy Miller (Traffic, Blind Faith), Let It Bleed perfectly captures the ominous spirit of the times with "Gimme Shelter", the opening track. The 2019 remaster has been engineered by eleven-time Grammy®-winning mastering engineer Bob Ludwig.