John Lee Hooker - Blues Is The Healer [10 CD, 2009 / FLAC]

 

Blues Is the Healer is a ten-CD box set of 149 songs from the early years of blues legend John Lee Hooker's repertory, released in 2005 by the German label Membran. According to one reviewer, "the first 8 discs are early solo Hooker with the occasional backing guitar or piano. Disc 9 sounds like Veejay recordings and the 10th is a live concert".






 

 

Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson (1987) [24-192]

Robbie Robertson is the solo debut album by Canadian rock musician Robbie Robertson, released in 1987. Though Robertson has been a professional musician since the late 1950s, notably a founder of and primary songwriter for The Band, this was his first proper solo album. 

•     Robbie Robertson – vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards
•     Bill Dillon – guitars on tracks 1, 2, and 5–9; backing vocal on track 2
•     Tony Levin – Chapman Stick on tracks 5 & 7; bass on tracks 6 & 8
•     Manu Katché – drums on tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8; percussion on tracks 1, 7, and 8
•     Daniel Lanois – percussion on tracks 2, 3, 4, and 8; backing vocal on tracks 2, 3, and 4; Omnichord on track 5; guitar on tracks 5 and 8

Additional personnel

•     Eluriel "Tinker" Barfield – bass on tracks 1 and 5
•     Garth Hudson – keyboards on tracks 1 and 5
•     Peter Gabriel – keyboards on tracks 1 and 3; vocals on track 1; drum program on track 3; vocal cameo on track 9
•     Martin Page – drum programming on track 1
•     Larry Klein – bass on track 2
•     Abraham Laboriel – bass on track 3
•     Terry Bozzio – drums on tracks 3 and 5
•     Bono – vocals, bass on track 4; backing vocal and guitar on track 9
•     The Edge – guitar on tracks 4 and 9
•     Adam Clayton – bass on tracks 4 and 9
•     Larry Mullen, Jr. – drums on tracks 4 and 9
•     Hans Christian – bass guitar on track 5
•     BoDeans (Sam Llanas, Kurt Neumann) – backing vocals on tracks 2 and 5
•     Maria McKee – backing vocal on track 5
•     Sammy BoDean (Sam Llanas) – backing vocal on track 6
•     Cary Butler – backing vocal on track 8
•     Rick Danko – backing vocal on track 8
•     Ivan Neville – backing vocal on track 9
•     Gil Evans Horn Section – horns on track 9

Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Memoriam (3 CD live 1983-1984 / FLAC)

Unofficial live recordings

Disc 1: Recorded live at Ripley's Music Hall, Philadelphia, PA./USA, October 20, 1983.
Discs 2 & 3: Recorded live in Montreal, Canada, August 17, 1984.

Complete King Biscuit Flower Hour material, superb sound.

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)