Peter Gabriel - Hit (2 CD, 2003 UK edition) [FLAC-HD]

Hit, also known as Peter Gabriel: The Definitive Two CD Collection, is a 2003 compilation album of songs by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. Disc one is labelled Hit and disc two Miss, reflecting the first disc which comprises Gabriel's best known chart singles and the second featuring his more obscure material.

The two-disc set is different in the UK and US because of the second disc. The second disc in the US spans fourteen songs by Gabriel, whilst the UK second disc features fifteen songs. Only some of these appeared on the US version. The UK version collects at least one track from every studio album by Gabriel, including soundtracks, except for Birdy, which is the only album not represented by a track. 

- Peter Gabriel / vocals, flute, recorder, Bosendorfer piano, keyboards
- Kate Bush & Sinead O'Connor / vocals
- Richard Evans / acoustic guitar
- Robert Fripp /electric & classical guitar, banjo
- David Rhodes / guitar, 12-string guitar
- Peter Green / electric guitar
- Steve Hunter / pedal steel guitar
- Daniel Lanois / guitar
- Tim Green / tenor saxophone
- Dick Morrisey / saxophone
- Wayne Jackson / trumpet
- Jozef Chirowski & Brian Eno / keyboards
- Larry Fast / synthesizer, programming
- Tony Levin / bass
- Dominic Greesmith & Jerry Marotta / drums
- Ged Lynch, Will White, Stephen Hague & Phil Collins / percussion
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan / background vocals

  

Bill Withers - The Complete Sussex and Columbia Albums (9 CD, 2012/FLAC)

 

Bill Withers: The Complete Sussex and Columbia Albums celebrates the timeless artistry of an American master. The set includes the nine albums that Bill released between 1971 through 1985. The albums have been reproduced in their original jackets and have been newly mastered from the original analog tapes by Grammy Award-winning engineer Mark Wilder. Bill Withers is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the recipient of ASCAP's 2006 Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award. His warm, rich and truthful voice speaks to real people, and real life, and he will tell you that it's more important to be real than to be rich.

He was 30 years old when he came out of the U.S. Navy in 1971. He made a living installing toilets in commercial jetliners, and then he decided to give music a try. His first two albums Just as I Am and Still Bill - featured "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Lean on Me." The two singles sold more than a million copies each, and by the time he played Carnegie Hall in 1973, Bill Withers was acknowledged as a great American troubadour. Four decades later, his music still resonates with originality and universality.

1971 - Just As I Am (00:35:37)

1972 - Still Bill (00:36:15)

1973 - Live At Carnegie Hall (01:17:09)

1974 - +'Justments (00:37:57)

1975 - Making Music (00:43:51)

1976 - Naked & Warm (00:41:03)

1977 - Menagerie (00:38:27)

1978 - 'Bout Love (00:39:03)

1985 - Watching You Watching Me (00:45:12)

 

 

Bon Jovi– Transmission Impossible [3 CD, 2015]

 More than 30 years into a quite staggering music career, Bon Jovi remain one of the most popular, successful and downright entertaining rock groups in history. And with an army of fans who would all but die for their heroes, this extraordinary act don t look to be cashing-in anytime soon. 

This superb set captures Jovi in concert and in interview and features across its 3 discs, one CD featuring a full live FM Broadcast from 1984, one CD featuring a mixed bag of live TV appearances from across the group s career, and one CD featuring broadcast interviews with Jon and the lads again recorded at different junctures during their long and ongoing time in the business. 

The Cars - Heartbeat City (1984 Expanded 2018) [24-192]

This 2018 release features the Cars's original album – remastered in 2016 – expanded with rare and unreleased bonus tracks. Illustrated booklets accompany the music and contain liner notes written by renowned rock journalist David Fricke, who details the history of each album with new interviews by band members Ric Ocasek. The album, which peaked at #3 on the charts, went on to sell four million copies, making it the band’s fifth consecutive platinum album. An amazing success, the album launched five tracks that reached the Top 40, including the Top Ten hits “Drive” and “You Might Think.” Videos for the songs received heavy airplay on MTV, including “Hello Again,” which was directed by Andy Warhol, and “You Might Think,” which won the inaugural MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year in 1984. Among the seven bonus tracks included on HEARTBEAT CITY: EXPANDED EDITION are unreleased versions of “Why Can’t I Have You” and “I Refuse,” as well as the demo for “Drive.” 

 

Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session (1983/ Hi-Res FLAC)

 In Session is a blues album by Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded live for television on December 6, 1983, at CHCH-TV studios in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, when Vaughan was 29 and King was 60. It was released as an album on August 17, 1999 and re-released with a supplemental video recording on DVD on September 28, 2010. It has also been released on CD and SACD.

It was the first of two collaborations captured for television, the second being as invited guests on a show led by B.B. King in 1987. It was recorded for one of a series of live television sessions recording the performances of various artists. The show was called In Session. The album includes a few short segments of the banter by King and Vaughan between songs.

Initially, King was not going to do the show as he did not know who Vaughan was. He did not realize that Vaughan was actually 'little Stevie', the 'skinny kid' that he let sit in when King played in Texas. King talks about this on one of the conversation tracks. When he realized who Vaughan was, he agreed to play.