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Bruce Hornsby and The Range - The Way It Is (1986)

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Bruce Hornsby and The Range - The Way It Is (1986)

Bruce Hornsby and The Range - The Way It Is (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 284 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 112 Mb | Scans included
Rock, Soft Rock, Heartland Rock | Label: RCA | # PCD1-8058 | Time: 00:43:24

The Way It Is is Bruce Hornsby and the Range's debut album, released in 1986. Led by its hit title track, the album went on to achieve multi-platinum status and helped the group to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

VA - Looking Into You: A Tribute To Jackson Browne (2014) 2CDs

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VA - Looking Into You: A Tribute To Jackson Browne (2014) 2CDs

VA - Looking Into You: A Tribute To Jackson Browne (2014) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 670 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 262 Mb | Scans ~ 142 Mb | 01:54:47
Singer/Songwriter, Folk Rock, Soft Rock, Folk | Label: Music Road | # MRR CD 018

'Looking into You', the first ever tribute album honoring Jackson Browne, features 23 hits and deep album cuts alike from the songwriter's catalogue. So many respected musicians wanted in - from Ben Harper, Don Henley with Blind Pilot and Lyle Lovett to Keb' Mo', Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa, and Lucinda Williams - that it had to be a double-disc set to fit them all on. The mix of old friends and younger admirers, up-and-comers and fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famers alike offer their own interpretations of Browne's songs, from his first album - 1972's 'Jackson Browne' - to 1996's politically-slanted 'Looking East.' As befits a Texas-based label, Music Road's 'Looking Into You' also features a healthy Lone Star contingent, including Eliza Gilkyson, Bob Schneider, J.D. Souther, Kevin Welch, Shawn Colvin, and Jimmy LaFave.

Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) Audio Fidelity Remastered 2016

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Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) Audio Fidelity Remastered 2016

Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) [Remastered 2016]
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 276 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 127 Mb | Scans included | 00:46:49
Singer/Songwriter, AM Pop, Soft Rock | Label: Audio Fidelity | # AFZ5 237
Mastered By Stephen Marsh & Steve Hoffman

Nyro peaked early, and Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, just her second album, remains her best. It's not only because it contains the original versions of no less than three songs that were big hits for other artists: "Sweet Blindness" (covered by the 5th Dimension), "Stoned Soul Picnic" (also covered by the 5th Dimension), and "Eli's Comin'" (done by Three Dog Night). It's not even just because those three songs are so outstanding. It's because the album as a whole is so outstanding, with its invigorating blend of blue-eyed soul, New York pop, and early confessional singer/songwriting. Nyro sang of love, inscrutably enigmatic romantic daredevils, getting drunk, lonely women, and sensual desire with an infectious joie de vivre. The arrangements superbly complemented the material with lively brass, wailing counterpoint backup vocals, and Nyro's own ebullient piano.

VA - Now That's What I Call Yacht Rock (2019)

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VA - Now That's What I Call Yacht Rock (2019)

VA - Now That's What I Call Yacht Rock (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 01:08:05 | 447 Mb
Yacht Rock, Soft Rock | Label: Sony Music, Now Music

The NOW That's What I Call Music folks have come up with the perfect soundtrack to listen to while you're out cruising on your boat this summer: a collection of Yacht Rock classics.

Jackson Browne - The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne (1997)

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Jackson Browne - The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne (1997)

Jackson Browne - The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 471 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 177 Mb | Scans ~ 97 Mb
Label: Elektra | # 7559621522 | Time: 01:16:40
Singer/Songwriter, Rock, Soft Rock

Theoretically, assembling a Jackson Browne greatest-hits collection would be easy, but The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne proves that isn't necessarily the case. Boasting 13 tracks, plus two new songs, The Next Voice You Hear contains some of Browne's biggest hits – "Doctor My Eyes," "Running on Empty," "Somebody's Baby," "Tender Is the Night" – but it leaves just as many off, including "Rock Me on the Water," "Here Come Those Tears Again," "Stay," "Boulevard," "Lawyers in Love," and "For America." Of course, singles only told half the story with Browne, and many of his greatest songs were only available as album tracks. Therefore, it makes sense that album cuts like "These Days," "Late for Sky," and "The Pretender" are present, but there are still a number of equally good, if not better, cuts that are left off. As a result, The Next Voice You Hear is merely adequate for casual Browne fans, but it's nowhere near definitive.

10cc - Two Classic Albums: '10cc' (1973) & 'Sheet Music' (1974) 2LP on 1CD, Remastered By Steve Hoffman, 1990

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10cc - Two Classic Albums: '10cc' (1973) & 'Sheet Music' (1974) 2LP on 1CD, Remastered By Steve Hoffman, 1990

10cc - Two Classic Albums: '10cc' (1973) & 'Sheet Music' (1974)
2LP on 1CD, Remastered By Steve Hoffman, 1990

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 457 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 181 Mb | Scans included
Label: DCC Compact Classics | # DZS-053 | Time: 01:16:51
Classic Rock, Soft Rock, Art Rock

10cc's first two albums, recorded under the sponsorship of entrepreneur and one-time pop star Jonathan King, are combined on one disc for this CD reissue. 1973's 10cc shows that from the start, the group had an uncommon command of recording studio technique; the performances are polished, the harmonies superb, and the production flawless and often witty (all the more remarkable from a new band producing themselves, albeit one comprised of music-biz vets). However, the group was still getting up to speed in terms of their songwriting at this point, and while the craft is fine, there isn't a lot of inspiration on hand. Except for the sardonic "Rubber Bullets" and sarcastically sprightly "The Dean and I," the '50s-inspired parodies on side one don't wear well, and most of side two is clever but not terribly distinguished. 1974's Sheet Music was where 10cc truly hit their stride; the album is full of effective barbed humor buffered by the superbly polished production, which leans toward pretension without quite falling into the pool.

Joe Cocker - Sheffield Steel (1982) [MFSL, 1995]

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Joe Cocker - Sheffield Steel (1982) [MFSL, 1995]

Joe Cocker - Sheffield Steel (1982) [MFSL, 1995]
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 214 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 90 MB | Covers - 72 MB
Genre: Blues Rock, Soft Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (UDCD 631)

After his one-album stint at Asylum Records with Luxury You Can Afford in 1978, Joe Cocker was without a record label until 1981, when he signed to Island Records. Island head Chris Blackwell took him to the Compass Point studios in the Bahamas, where he recorded a 12" single, "Sweet Little Woman"/"Look What You've Done," released in May 1981, then continued working on a full-length album. When that album, Sheffield Steel, appeared a year later, listeners could be forgiven for imagining, during the instrumental portions, that they were hearing not a Joe Cocker disc, but rather a Robert Palmer record. The instrumentalists were the Compass Point All-Stars, led by drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare, and including keyboard player Wally Badarou and guitarist Barry Reynolds, and they maintained a steady tropical groove on most tracks that strongly recalled their work on Palmer's series of albums…

Paul Simon - The Paul Simon Anthology (1993) 2CDs

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Paul Simon - The Paul Simon Anthology (1993) 2CDs

Paul Simon - The Paul Simon Anthology (1993) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 865 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 340 Mb | Scans ~ 21 Mb | 02:28:27
Singer/Songwriter, Folk, Soft Rock, Folk Rock | Label: Warner | # 9362 45408-2

The international release The Paul Simon Anthology was a two-CD abridged version of the three-CD box set Paul Simon 1964-1993. For this version, the first two discs of the box set were condensed into a single CD, while the third disc, left untouched, was now the second disc. This accentuated one of the weaknesses of the box set, weighting the selections even more heavily toward Simon's later work. Here, his recordings originally released between 1965 and 1983 (including six Simon and Garfunkel tracks) made up the first disc, and the second disc covered only the period 1986-1993, and really 1986-90, since the only recordings released after 1990 were "Thelma," an outtake from the 1990 album The Rhythm of the Saints and three performances from the 1991 live album Paul Simon's Concert in the Park. While the abridgment seemed to have been made with an eye on the British charts, for the most part eliminating only songs that had not been hits in the U.K. (the exceptions being "America" and "Take Me to the Mardi Gras"), the album still didn't function as a full-fledged greatest hits album, lacking such British chart singles as "Homeward Bound" and "I Am a Rock" (neither of which were on Paul Simon 1964-1993, either).

Laura Nyro - Season of Lights: Laura Nyro in Concert - Complete Version (1977) Japanese Expanded Remastered Reissue 2008

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Laura Nyro - Season of Lights: Laura Nyro in Concert - Complete Version (1977) Japanese Expanded Remastered Reissue 2008

Laura Nyro - Season of Lights: Laura Nyro in Concert - Complete Version (1977)
Japanese Expanded Remastered Reissue 2008
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 445 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 177 Mb | Scans ~ 61 Mb | 01:17:35
Singer/Songwriter, Soft Rock, AM Pop, R&B | Label: Sony Records Int'l | # SICP 1957

Season of Lights is the first live album by New York singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. Columbia Records issued the album in the summer of 1977, taking the songs from various locations on Nyro's 1976 tour in support of her most recent studio album, Smile.

Linda Ronstadt - Get Closer (1982)

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Linda Ronstadt - Get Closer (1982)

Linda Ronstadt - Get Closer (1982)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 211 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 92 Mb
Label: Asylum | # 9 60185-2 | Time: 00:36:43 | Scans included
Genre: Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary

Get Closer is the eleventh studio album by singer, songwriter and producer Linda Ronstadt, released in 1982. Get Closer found Ronstadt returning to the genres that had resulted in her commercial and critical success throughout the 1970s, and working again with British musician and producer Peter Asher. Ronstadt was nominated in early 1983 for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance Female and Best Rock Vocal Performance Female for the album and the song "Get Closer", losing to Melissa Manchester and Pat Benatar respectively. The album did, however, win the Grammy for Best Album Package, an art director's award. The trophy went to well known designers Ron Larson and Kosh.

Michael McDonald - The Very Best of Michael McDonald (2001)

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Michael McDonald - The Very Best of Michael McDonald (2001)

Michael McDonald - The Very Best of Michael McDonald (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 479 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 179 Mb | Scans included | 01:11:22
Blue-Eyed Soul, Soft Rock, Pop/Rock | Label: Warner Bros/Rhino | # R276649

The deep, soulful voice of the Doobie Brothers, and one of the most popular songwriters and solo artists of the rock era.

Daryl Hall - Can't Stop Dreaming (1996) Re-Release 2003

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Daryl Hall - Can't Stop Dreaming (1996) Re-Release 2003

Daryl Hall - Can't Stop Dreaming (1996) Re-Release 2003
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 384 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 149 Mb | Scans included
Blue-Eyed Soul, Pop, Soft Rock | Label: Liquid 8/CNR | # 22 99957-2 | Time: 00:52:06

Can't Stop Dreaming is a 1996 solo album by Daryl Hall. It was originally released in Japan and as a Limited Collector's Edition in 1996 with 12 tracks. It was finally released in the USA on June 10, 2003, but it was missing one of its original tracks ("Something About You"). All versions of the album contain a remake of the Hall & Oates classic song "She's Gone".

Kris Kristofferson - Albums Collection 1970-2012 (16CD)

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Kris Kristofferson - Albums Collection 1970-2012 (16CD)

Kris Kristofferson - Albums Collection 1970-2012 (16CD)
FLAC | Tracks/Image (Cue&Log) ~ 3.97 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 1.65 Gb | Scans included
Singer/Songwriter, Country, Alternative Country, Country-Rock, Soft Rock | Time: 11:39:02

Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American country music singer, songwriter, musician, and film actor. He is known for such hits as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Kristofferson is the sole writer of most of his songs, and he has collaborated with various other figures of the Nashville scene such as Shel Silverstein. In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in forming the country music supergroup "The Highwaymen". In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Collection includes: Kristofferson (1970); Me & Bobby McGee (1971); The Silver Tongued Devil And I (1971); Border Lord (1972); Jesus Was A Capricorn (1972); Breakaway (1974) with Rita Coolidge; A Star Is Born (1976) with Barbra Streisand; Natural Act (1978) with Rita Coolidge; A Moment of Forever (1995); The Austin Sessions (1999); The Essential Kris Kristofferson (2004) 2CD; This Old Road (2006); Closer To The Bone (2009); Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72 (2010); Feeling Mortal (2012).

Steely Dan - Albums Collection 1972-1980 (7CD) Japanese SHM-CD, Remastered 2008

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Steely Dan - Albums Collection 1972-1980 (7CD) Japanese SHM-CD, Remastered 2008

Steely Dan - Albums Collection 1972-1980 (7CD) [Japanese SHM-CD, Remastered 2008]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.77 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 711 Mb | Scans included | 04:31:05
Classic Rock, Soft Rock, Jazz Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul | Label: Geffen/Universal | UICY 93515-93521

Collection includes: Can't Buy A Thrill (1972); Countdown To Ecstasy (1973); Pretzel Logic (1974); Katy Lied (1975); The Royal Scam (1976); Aja (1977); Gaucho (1980).

Christopher Cross - Albums Collection 1979-2011 (11CD)

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Christopher Cross - Albums Collection 1979-2011 (11CD)

Christopher Cross - Albums Collection 1979-2011 (11CD)
EAC | FLAC | Image/Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 3.6 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 1.4 Gb
Genre: Pop/Rock, Soft Rock | Time: 09:39:54 | Scans included

Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter. His debut album earned him five Grammys. He is perhaps best known for his US Top Ten hit songs, "Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind", and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)", the last of which he recorded for the film Arthur starring Dudley Moore. "Sailing" earned three Grammy Awards in 1981, while "Arthur's Theme" won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1981 (with co-composers Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen).