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Moby Grape - 20 Granite Creek (1971) Reissue 1990

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Moby Grape - 20 Granite Creek (1971) Reissue 1990

Moby Grape - 20 Granite Creek (1971) Reissue 1990
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 190 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 77 Mb | Scans included | 00:32:58
Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Country-Rock | Label: Linea (Line) | # LECD 9.00886 O

The story of Moby Grape has been told and re-told countless times, with its tales of excess, mismanagement, and record company screwups. By the end of the '60s the Grape was all but finished – or so everyone thought. After an aborted attempt at a Peter Lewis solo album, producer David Rubinson was able to help engineer this re-formation of all five original members, along with extra member Gordon Stevens on various stringed instruments. Written and recorded at the Grape's communal house in the Santa Cruz mountains, the results of the experiment rendered 20 Granite Creek, an album that is rightfully the successor to the first album (1967's Moby Grape). One of the most shining examples is Peter Lewis' funky and fast "Goin' Down to Texas," which clearly illustrates the power Moby Grape had in this, one of the original three-guitar lineups. Skip Spence, who was one of the more interesting writers in the band, contributes one song, the delicate and gorgeous oriental-sounding "Chinese Song." The whole record is quite similar in feel to the Doors' L.A. Woman, another truly great, homemade comeback album.

Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin - Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy (2014)

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Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin - Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy (2014)

Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin - Common Ground (2014)
Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 284 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 117 Mb
Label: YEP ROC | # YEP-2384 | Time: 00:42:44 | Scans included
Roots Rock, Americana, Acoustic Blues, Country Rock, Rock & Roll

Blasters founders Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin have had a famously combative relationship over the years, but as Dave once said, "We argue sometimes, but we never argue about Big Bill Broonzy." So it's fitting that their love of Big Bill brings them together in the recording studio for their first album together since the Blasters' Hard Line in 1985. Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play & Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy features the Alvin Brothers performing a dozen songs from the Broonzy songbook, and while listening to this is a potent reminder of how good Broonzy's songs still sound in the 21st century, it also demonstrates the complementary talents of Dave and Phil Alvin.

Willie Nelson - The Essential Willie Nelson (2003) 2CD

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Willie Nelson - The Essential Willie Nelson (2003) 2CD

Willie Nelson - The Essential Willie Nelson (2003) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 835 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 338 Mb | Scans included
Label: Columbia, Legacy | # 512117 2 | Time: 02:22:36
Country, Country Pop, Country-Rock

This double-disc set is cross-licensed to include key tracks from 40 years of recording! Includes Night Life; Hello Walls; Me and Paul; Bloody Mary Morning; Funny How Time Slips Away; Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain; On the Road Again; If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time; Georgia on My Mind; My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys; Always on My Mind; Pancho and Lefty; Highwayman, and more. 41 tracks!

Delaney & Bonnie And Friends - Motel Shot (1971) Japanese Reissue 1998

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Delaney & Bonnie And Friends - Motel Shot (1971) Japanese Reissue 1998

Delaney & Bonnie And Friends - Motel Shot (1971) Japanese Reissue 1998
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 282 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 105 Mb | included
Label: ATCO Records | # AMCY-2765 | Time: 00:45:53
Blues-Rock, Country-Rock, Roots Rock, Gospel, Soul, Blues, Folk-Rock

Motel Shot is a studio album by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, released in 1971. The album, their third for Atco/Atlantic (catalog no. SD 33–358) and fifth overall, is a mostly acoustic set. The album's title refers to the impromptu, sometimes late-night, jam sessions pursued by touring musicians when on the road. The album reached #65 on the Billboard album chart, and includes Delaney and Bonnie's biggest chart single, "Never Ending Song of Love", which peaked at #13. "Never Ending Song of Love" would immediately become a popular tune to cover, with hit versions being recorded by The New Seekers and Dickey Lee at the same time as Delaney & Bonnie's version (each becoming a hit in different markets) and the Osmond Brothers having a minor hit with it a decade later. Guest musicians on the album include Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Duane Allman, Dave Mason, John Hartford, Clarence White, Gram Parsons and Bobby Whitlock.

Mark Knopfler - Golden Demos & Hamburg 2001 (2002) [Unofficial Release]

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Mark Knopfler - Golden Demos & Hamburg 2001 (2002) [Unofficial Release]

Mark Knopfler - Golden Demos & Hamburg 2001 (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 497 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 188 Mb | Scans included
Folk-Rock, Country-Rock, Celtic | Label: Free Music | # MK15638 | Time: 01:17:23

This is a totally unique recording featuring very rare studio demos! Taken from the soundboard during the Golden Heart sessions sometime 1994/95. Includes five very good unreleased songs. Song number 10 is very very nice, but not written by Mark Knopfler unfortunately. The sound quality is good. Also featured on this official bootleg are 5 songs from the Hamburg 2001 radio broadcast, also in very good sound quality.

Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind (1976)

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Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind (1976)

Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind (1976)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 242 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 128 Mb | Scans included
Pop/Rock, Country-Rock | Label: Asylum | # 7559-60610-2 | Time: 00:41:50

Hasten Down the Wind is the Grammy Award-winning seventh studio album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. Released in 1976, it became her third straight million-selling album. Ronstadt was the first female artist in history to accomplish this feat. The album earned her a Grammy Award for 'Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female' in 1977, her second of 13 Grammys. It represented a slight departure from 1974's Heart Like a Wheel and 1975's Prisoner in Disguise in that she chose to showcase new songwriters over the traditional country rock sound she had been producing up to that point. A more serious and poignant album than its predecessors, it won critical acclaim. The album showcased songs from artists such as Warren Zevon ("Hasten Down the Wind") and Karla Bonoff ("Someone to Lay Down Beside Me"), both of whom would soon be making a name for themselves in the singer-songwriter world.

Ry Cooder - Boomer's Story (1972) [MFSL Remastered 2017]

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Ry Cooder - Boomer's Story (1972) [MFSL Remastered 2017]

Ry Cooder - Boomer's Story (1972) [MFSL Remastered 2017]
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 208 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 105 Mb | Scans included
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | # UDSACD 2154 | Time: 00:39:09
Roots Rock, Slide Guitar Blues, Country-Rock

Ry Cooder's development as a peerless musician capable of grasping virtually any style began with his time spent with Taj Mahal and Captain Beefheart, but for all intents and purposes reaches epic proportions on Boomer's Story. With two ambitious albeit uneven studio albums behind him, the California native plunged into roles that still define him today – that of sonic archeologist and cultural historian, shaping his 1972 Reprise effort with enlightened selections carved into the bedrock of America's folk, blues, and soul landscapes. Inspired, virtuosic, and poignant, Boomer's Story endures as a ravishing portrait of inspired translation and inventive craftsmanship that after years of neglect finally boasts sonics deserving of the performances.

Joe Ely - Satisfied At Last (2011)

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Joe Ely - Satisfied At Last (2011)

Joe Ely - Satisfied At Last (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 244 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 90 Mb
Label: Rack'Em Records | # RER CD 005 | Time: 00:39:25
Americana, Country-Rock, Outlaw Country, Progressive Country

When you have spent more than 40 years writing and recording songs that underscore a sense of turbulence, where violent winds, thunderstorms and tornadoes figure rominently and beckoning, distant horizons are ever present, it takes courage to name an album, Satisfied At Last. Known for a life full of wanderlust and constant motion, getting lost and rediscovering himself on the world's lonesome highways and dusty back roads, Ely's latest release from his independent record label, Rack'Em Records, suggests that he is seeing things in a new lightbut one listen to the album that embodies his genre busting unique mix of traditional Tex-Mex rhythms, outlaw country, Texas blues and good old-fashioned American rock and roll, people will see that he isnt about to slow down any time soon.

Alabama - Southern Drawl (2015) Deluxe Edition

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Alabama - Southern Drawl (2015) Deluxe Edition

Alabama - Southern Drawl (2015) Deluxe Edition
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 418 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 136 Mb | Scans ~ 71 Mb
Label: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store/BMG | # 538162122 | Time: 00:59:31
Country, Country Rock, Country Pop

Southern Drawl is the twenty-third studio album by American country music group Alabama, and their first new studio album of original materials since When It All Goes South in 2001. The album was released on September 18, 2015, with lead single "Wasn't Through Lovin' You Yet" released the same month. The track "One on One" previously appeared on lead singer Randy Owen's 2008 album of the same name. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic criticized some tracks, including the title track, "Hillbilly Wins the Lotto Money", "I Wanna Be There", and "American Farmer" as "trying too hard", but added that "Such down-the-middle numbers overshadow much subtler and nicer moments scattered throughout the record, moments that usually arrive in the soft, sweet ballads that give the group plenty of opportunity to showcase its gentle, interwoven harmonies. These slow tunes more than the over-pumped rockers feel the truest to old Alabama."

Moby Grape - Moby Grape '84 (aka 'Silver Wheels' or 'Heart Album') (1984)

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Moby Grape - Moby Grape '84 (aka 'Silver Wheels' or 'Heart Album') (1984)

Moby Grape - Moby Grape '84 (aka 'Silver Wheels' or 'Heart Album') (1984)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 259 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 103 Mb | Scans included
Country Rock, Folk Rock | Label: San Francisco Sound | # SFS04830 DA | 00:44:17

Moby Grape '84 is a 1984 album released by Moby Grape on the San Francisco Sound label. It is also known as "Silver Wheels" album, after the introductory song on the album, and as the "Heart Album", as referenced to the album cover. The album is notable in that it is produced by the band's former manager Matthew Katz, who also owned the San Francisco Sound label. Paradoxically, since the early 1970s, Moby Grape had been in litigation with Katz over ownership of the band name and related royalties; at the time of recording the album, matters had not been resolved.

The Byrds - The Essential Byrds (2003) 2CDs

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The Byrds - The Essential Byrds (2003) 2CDs

The Byrds - The Essential Byrds (2003) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 795 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 296 Mb | Scans ~ 58 Mb
Label: Columbia/Legacy | # 5122492000 | Time: 02:07:41
Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk-Rock, Country-Rock

While the all-killer no-filler single-disc The Byrds' Greatest Hits remains the best distillation of their classic songs, The Essential Byrds is a smartly assembled double dose, including all 14 of the 1965-1967 tracks on Greatest Hits, but expanding its reach into their entire Columbia output, going as far as the early '70s. Inevitably, that means that disc two – which goes, roughly, from mid-1967 to 1971 – isn't as good as the first half, and that the last four tracks in particular are by far the least impressive, tagged on mostly so that the release spans the Byrds' entire Columbia catalog. That's a small reservation considering that the two-fer adds many first-rate songs not on Greatest Hits, from non-hit singles like "Lady Friend" and "Goin' Back" to standout album cuts like "Renaissance Fair," "Natural Harmony," "Jesus Is Just Alright," and "Chestnut Mare." There are no surprises here; even the songs that eluded inclusion on albums for many years, like the early B-side "She Don't Care About Time" and "Lady Friend," have been commonly available in the CD era. And it's true that this misses some other fine album tracks that could have stood with pride alongside those selected, like "I Knew I'd Want You," "John Riley," and "Dolphin's Smile." Within the confines of the two-CD format, though, it's a very well-chosen career overview.

Calexico - Albums & EPs Collection 1997-2018 (15CD)

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Calexico - Albums & EPs Collection 1997-2018 (15CD)

Calexico - Albums & EPs Collection 1997-2018 (15CD)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 3.7 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 1.5 Gb | Time: 09:34:12
Americana, Indie Rock, Alternative Country, Folk Rock, Tex-Mex | Complete Scans

15 CD collection includes: Spoke (1997); The Black Light (1998); Hot Rail (2000); Even My Sure Things Fall Through (2001) EP; Feast Of Wire (2003); Convict Pool (2004) EP; Black Heart (2004) Maxi Single; In the Reins (with Iron And Wine) (2005) EP; Garden Ruin (2006); Carried To Dust (2008); Algiers (2012); Edge of the Sun (2015); The Thread That Keeps Us (2018).

Tony Joe White - Lake Placid Blues (1995)

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Tony Joe White - Lake Placid Blues (1995)

Tony Joe White - Lake Placid Blues (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 406 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 149 Mb | Scans ~ 87 Mb
Label: Remark Records | # 527 530-2 | Time: 01:05:02
Singer/Songwriter, Blues, Swamp Blues, Country Rock

Tony Joe White's albums from the 1990's are all more stripped down and blues-oriented than his more well-known material from his "Polk Salad Annie"/"Rainy Night In Georgia" heyday. But although blues has been his main idiom for the past decade or so, "Lake Placid Blues" is mainly distinguished by two of the finest rockers of White's career, the title track and "The Beach Life". This set also includes "Let The Healing Begin", which had been covered to fine effect by Joe Cocker, but I like Cocker's version much better. Other highlights include "Louisiana Rain", "Down Again", and "The Guitar Don't Lie". Another fine set by a woefully underappreciated talent.

John Fogerty - Premonition (1998) Reissue 2004

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John Fogerty - Premonition (1998) Reissue 2004

John Fogerty - Premonition (1998) [Reissue 2004]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 506 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 173 Mb | Scans included
Label: Geffen Records | # 0602498634943 | Time: 01:08:31
Heartland Rock, Swamp Rock, Roots Rock, Rock & Roll

Upon its release in the spring of 1997, John Fogerty's long-awaited comeback album Blue Moon Swamp was lavished with praise – it didn't become the crossover hit that Centerfield was, but it earned great reviews and a solid cult audience. Furthermore, his tour – his first ever to feature classic Creedence material – was, if anything, even better received than Blue Moon Swamp, so it made some sense that he quickly released Premonition, his first solo live album, in 1998. Premonition is frighteningly good – Fogerty doesn't sound like a veteran rocker, he sounds nearly as powerful as he did on old Creedence live shows. He also sounds more mature, bringing increased depth to his older songs as he energizes recent material, from "The Old Man Down the Road" to "Swamp River Days." Premonition is essentially the province of dedicated Fogerty fans – there's only one new song, and the differences in the live performances are things only the hardcore will spot – but they'll be delighted with the quality of the music.

The Bernie Leadon & Michael Georgiades Band - Natural Progressions (1977) Japanese Reissue 2013

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The Bernie Leadon & Michael Georgiades Band - Natural Progressions (1977) Japanese Reissue 2013

The Bernie Leadon & Michael Georgiades Band - Natural Progressions (1977) Japanese Reissue 2013
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 317 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 147 Mb | Scans included
Soft Rock, Country Rock | Label: Asylum/Warner | # WPCR-15248 | Time: 00:44:30

Bernie Leadon was one of the original members of The Eagles. Natural Progressions is his only solo album (and featuring Michael Georgiades). Originally released in 1977 on Asylum Records, it rose to # 91 on the Billboard charts.