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Jay Sewall - All Blues

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 04 Feb 2010 18:07:00 | Comments : 4

Jay Sewall - All Blues
Blues | MP3 V2 VBR 188 kbps | 2009

“Quebec City, Jay Sewall launched the fifth album of his career : ALL BLUES. The date is particularly noteworthy, as 2009 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Miles Davis cult album KIND OF BLUE. To commemorate this anniversary, Jay Sewall has recorded a magnificent version off the piece All Blues on his new album. ALL BLUES is a unique album in Canada - it is the first blues album to showcase the harmonica as the lead voice. Seven of the hirteen pieces on Jay Sewall's fifth disc are his own compositions, and stylistically, it covers an impressive musical array: jazz-blues, soul, funk, gospel and even a New Orleans jug band tune!
ALL BLUES was produced by multi-instrumentalist Ken Whiteley, two-time Grammy nominee and winner of two Junos. On the album, we can hear Ken on guitars: national, lap steel, electric and acoustic, 12-string; on dobro, mandolin, banjo, and jug, as well as on piano and Hammond organ.		”
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Bobby Darin - Sings The Shadow Of Your Smile-In A Broadway Bag

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 04 Feb 2010 16:13:00 | Comments : 2

Bobby Darin - Sings The Shadow Of Your Smile-In A Broadway Bag
Vocal | MP3 320 kbps | 177 MB |1998

“In 1966, five very different songs were nominated for Academy Awards. On The Shadow of Your Smile, which was released in March of that year, Bobby Darin flexed his musical muscles and covered them all. The first five tracks on The Shadow of Your Smile are Oscar nominees and were arranged by Shorty Rogers. "The Shadow of Your Smile" is a tender love song from The Sandpiper, which starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The sensitive "I Will Wait for You" was in the French film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Two songs were in comedies of the day: "The Sweetheart Tree" from The Great Race and "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" from the Western satire Cat Ballou. And some have called "What's New Pussycat?," from the movie of the same name, the "wildest song ever nominated." Darin showcases his dynamic range on pop standards on the rest of the record.”
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The Shadows - At Abbey Road The Collectors Edition [Import]

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 03 Feb 2010 20:06:11 | Comments : 0

The Shadows - At Abbey Road The Collectors Edition [Import]
Instrumental | MP3 V2 VBR 184 kbps | 85 MB | 2003

“Released, as its title suggests, within EMI's rightfully applauded At Abbey Road series of archive exhumations, this collection can also be regarded as the first truly essential Shadows compilation since 1976's Rarities package, in that it's the first since then to truly offer up something we've not already experienced a myriad times, in a mountain of forms, before.”
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The Alvin Lee Band - Free Fall

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 03 Feb 2010 15:04:05 | Comments : 1

The Alvin Lee Band - Free Fall
Rock | MP3 |160 kbps | 34 MB | 2001

“FREE FALL is an 11-track, 1980 solo release by Ten Years After guitarist Alvin Lee that features a guest appearance by The Beatles George Harrison and includes the songs "I Don't Wanna Stop" and "No More Lonely Nights."
Reissue of 1980 solo disc by former Ten Years After guitarist.Features Former Beatle George Harrison On Slide Guitar, Organist Jon Lord Of Deep Purple.		”
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After All - After All

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 02 Feb 2010 05:17:26 | Comments : 0

After All - After All
Rock | MP3 VBR 182 kbps | 51 MB | 2000

“After All may have only been a band in the loosest sense of the term, but its only record is a quite wonderful — if ultimately difficult to categorize — one-shot relic of the transitional late-'60s. The four members of the combo were actually friends and acquaintances in different bands on the Tallahassee, FL, rock circuit before culling their skills together, along with lyrical assistance from young local poet and songwriter Linda Hargrove, when an opportunity to record an album in a Nashville studio presented itself. The resulting piece of work is the type of strangely compelling hybrid album that could only have come together in the musical gumbo of the post-psychedelic era. Drummer and primary vocalist Mark Ellerbee wrote most of the music, and his songs are basically freeform, open-ended tone poems that eschew typical verse-chorus and melodic considerations (although the odd melodic hook or harmony surfaces from time to time) for music that is much more amorphous and improvisational.”
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Michael Martin Murphey - Buckaroo Blue Grass

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 01 Feb 2010 20:05:37 | Comments : 1

Michael Martin Murphey - Buckaroo Blue Grass
Bluegrass | MP3 V2 VBR 201 kbps | 62 MB | 2009

“Michael Martin Murphey has always gone his own way. He has recorded pop, country, and rock records, but one of his first gigs was as lead singer for the Earl Scruggs Band. Over the years his songs have been bluegrass hits for artists including Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, the Seldom Scene, and the Country Gentlemen, and while this is his first official bluegrass outing, he's always included bluegrass pickers on his albums, even when he was making pop records. Since 1990 Murphey has been concentrating on cowboy music, and this album combines both genres to good effect.”
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Joanne Shaw Taylor - White Sugar

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 01 Feb 2010 19:35:06 | Comments : 2

Joanne Shaw Taylor - White Sugar
Blues | MP3 224 kbps | 83 MB | 2009

“She's already being called "the new face of the blues" by the press in her native Britain, but her debut album is the first opportunity most Americans will have to hear Joanne Shaw Taylor's sharp, fiery take on blues-based rock. Opening with the dark and sultry "Going Home," Taylor makes her intentions clear from the very beginning: her sound is raw, funky, and soulful, and she's as likely to reference Jimi Hendrix's R&B-inflected blues-rock as Stevie Ray Vaughan's rock-inflected blues. She's also unwilling to be hemmed in: notice the gorgeous guitar intro on "Just Another Word," and the way that the song goes well outside the lines of traditional blues structure without erasing them. Also notice the especially Hendrix-y "Kiss the Ground Goodbye," the lovely instrumental title track, and the stark, spare "Heavy Heart." The latter is the finest track on the program; it features a brilliant chord progression and a sly bluebeat outro that reveals a sense of humor that is otherwise pretty much hidden. The album ends on a very powerful note, with the slow-burning "Blackest Day." The challenge on this song is the solo, and she meets that challenge brilliantly, twice, and in two very different ways: once with gentle regret and then again with forsaken rage. A spectacular debut from a major talent.”
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The Iveys (Pre Badfinger) - Maybe Tomorrow

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 01 Feb 2010 19:34:13 | Comments : 0

The Iveys (Pre Badfinger) - Maybe Tomorrow
Rock | MP3 160 kbps | 53 MB | 1969

“The story is well-known: north Wales pop group, the Iveys, are discovered by the Beatles' aide-de-camp Mal Evans, who not only signs them to Apple Records but produces their first sessions. Their first single, the glorious Bee Gees-like ballad "Maybe Tomorrow," is released in November 1968, yet it unaccountably stiffs. Disheartened, Apple shelves the planned U.S./U.K. release of the Iveys' debut album, though it does eventually sneak out in Japan and Germany.”
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The Hudson River Rats - Get It While You Can

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 01 Feb 2010 18:36:15 | Comments : 2

The Hudson River Rats - Get It While You Can
Blues | MP3 V0 VBR 227 kbps | 82 MB | 1999

“Bernard Purdie is no stranger to gritty, down-home funk and soul, and his collaboration with the R&B outfit Hudson River Rats on GET IT WHILE YOU CAN contains plenty of both. Jams like "You'd Better Watch Yourself" traffic in classic blues, while "Astronaut Lover" sounds like Professor Longhair dressed up and ready for a night on the town. Stax/Volt-style horn charts, swirling Hammond organ, soulful, gritty vocals, and Purdie's in-the-pocket grooves make GET IT WHILE YOU CAN as satisfying as a rack of ribs. ”
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Patty Griffin - Downtown Church

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 01 Feb 2010 02:27:22 | Comments : 0

Patty Griffin - Downtown Church
Folk | MP3 V2 VBR 164 kbps | 55 MB | 2010

“I reviewed this on the UK site when I had just heard it streamed live. Now I have had the album for a few days and it is possibly even better than I had thought. An album built very much around gospel songs, it has enough of Patty's 'typical' sound not to put off those who do not take to gospel.There are wonderful backing singers on this album, from Emmylou Harris to Raul Malo to Regina McCrary, there are exquisite instrumental touches from a superb selection of players led by Buddy Miller (who persuaded Patty to record this album in the Downtown Presbyterian Church in Nashville, giving it an authentic feel) and above it all soars Patty's voice, the best in modern popular music. This is the only artist whose I can put on repeat time after time after time. Difficult to say why her and not others, but her voice, her story songs, her empathetic backing are all absolutely timeless. For real gospel inspiration, listen to Move Up or If I Had My Way, For rocking rockabilly try I Smell A Rat. For a different take on a jazzy classic, listen to Wade In The Water and for 'typical' Patty listen to the beautiful Coming Home To Me or Never Grow Old. And to round it off there is an outstanding version of the old spiritual We Shall All Be Reunited and a charming straight rendition of the classic hymn All Creatures Of Our God And King, with just John Deadrick on acoustic piano. This is the album of the year so far, and if I hear a better one all year, I shall be delighted but very surprised. Essential listening and an even more essential purchase. Brilliant beyond words.”
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Shawn Colvin - Cover Girl

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 01 Feb 2010 02:22:35 | Comments : 0

Shawn Colvin - Cover Girl
Folk/Rock | MP3 160 kbps | 53 MB | 1994

“When Shawn Colvin first turned up playing Greenwich Village folk clubs in the early 1980s, she used to perform a variety of cover songs, often taking rock recordings and re-imagining them for her girl-with-guitar format. When Colvin began recording in the late '80s, however, she concentrated on her own original material. Cover Girl brings her interpretive abilities back into focus. Songs like the Police's "Every Little Thing [He] Does Is Magic" and Talking Heads' "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" are the most radical reworkings here, but not the best, perhaps because they depend on their original productions. Colvin is more successful in choosing classic but not well-known songs already in the folk idiom — Greg Brown's "One Cool Remove," Willis Alan Ramsey's "Satin Sheets," and Rolly Solley's "Killing the Blues." A fan from the old Village days can only lament that she didn't choose to include her version of Dire Straits' "Romeo and Juliet."”
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Howlin' Wolf - The Rockin' Chair Album

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 01 Feb 2010 02:22:15 | Comments : 0

Howlin' Wolf - The Rockin' Chair Album
Blues | MP3 V2 VBR 203 kbps | 46 MB | 1962

“Howlin' Wolf's second album brings together some of the blues great's best singles from the late '50s and early '60s. Also available as a fine two-fer with his debut, Moanin' in the Moonlight, the so-called Rockin' Chair Album represents the cream of Wolf's Chicago blues work. Those tracks afforded classic status are many, including "Spoonful," "The Red Rooster," "Wang Dang Doodle," "Back Door Man," "Shake for Me," and "Who's Been Talking?" Also featuring the fine work of Chess house producer and bassist Willie Dixon and guitarist Hubert Sumlin, Rockin' Chair qualifies as one of pinnacles of early electric blues, and is an essential album for any quality blues collection. ”
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The Hollies - Epic Anthology From The Original Master Tapes

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 01 Feb 2010 02:22:03 | Comments : 3

The Hollies - Epic Anthology From The Original Master Tapes
Rock | MP3 160 kbps | 77 MB | 1990

“The Hollies' Epic Anthology offers the best of their late-'60s to mid-'70s output for the label, ranging from the soaring "Carrie Anne" to the swaggering "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" to "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and all points in between. The collection reaffirms the Hollies' gifts as synthesists; "Dear Eloise" distills the trippier, cheerier moments of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band into three minutes of bubblegum vaudeville pop; the group's "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" turns the raw romanticism of Springsteen's original into the kind of lushly harmonized soft rock that dominated the airwaves in the early '70s. The group's breezy '60s songs are still their most enduring, especially the brilliant "King Midas in Reverse" (which was used unforgettably in Steven Soderbergh's The Limey), but even less striking songs like "Jennifer Eccles" and "Everything Is Sunshine" have an endearing lightness and cheekiness that has aged well. While their '70s work isn't quite as strong, "The Air That I Breathe" is still an enduring single and "Long Dark Road" and "Indian Girl," at the very least, sound sincere. Epic Anthology isn't the perfect Hollies collection, as it's missing key singles from their time with Imperial, but it's still a good look at the second half of their career.”
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The Electric Prunes - Just Good Old Rock And Roll

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 31 Jan 2010 17:09:08 | Comments : 2

The Electric Prunes - Just Good Old Rock And Roll
Psychedelic Rock | MP3 256 kbps | 78 MB | 1969

“Just Good Old Rock and Roll by the Electric Prunes has an ominous "the new improved" before their name on the cover of this effort, and despite original producer Dave Hassinger's contributions, it fails to come anywhere near the greatness of "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night." A good tune like "So Many People to Tell" is offset by the difficult "Giant Sunhorse," which destroys any momentum created by the aforementioned best track on the disc, much like a double play in a tight baseball game. The boring riff goes nowhere and it is a disappointing way to lead off side two, when the first five songs show some bit of promise. If Stephen Stills fronting Country Joe & the Fish by way of the Grateful Dead with lackluster material is your cup of tea, side two descends into that dysfunctional morass, a band sliding sideways and not living up to the psychedelic power their first big hit boasted. If you ever wondered what you didn't like about Rare Earth, it might be that the drummer was doing the singing. Dick Whetstone has "drums and lead vocals" under his name and there you go. None of the original band members from the first two discs or the live album from 1967 are here. Dave Hassinger is like Maurice Starr trying to put together another New Kids on the Block with new faces. This is the Electric Prunes in name only, and if you place it next to "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night," this album gives Milli Vanilli credibility.”
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Spooky Tooth - Witness

Posted By : azorkamane | Date : 31 Jan 2010 09:49:21 | Comments : 3

Spooky Tooth - Witness
Rock | MP3 160 kbps | 40 MB | 1973

“This is one great album - every song is well written and the band is great with Mick Jones. I agree with the other reviewer - it would have been more popular if it was advertised more. Every song has a catch phrase and is never tiresome. Get this while you can--Spooky Tooth fans adhere my suggestion please”
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