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Slow Dancer – In A Mood (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:27 minutes | 408 MB | Genre: Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATO (UK)
Simon Okely, the Australian man behind the wide-ranging guitar-pop project Slow Dancer, has often mentioned his childhood enthusiasm for Wilson Pickett, the 1960s soul singer best known for his restless energy and sparkling smile. His latest album is a collection of crooning seduction, pop songwriting, and lush production. The breezy spirit of Laurel Canyon hovers around the album in a powerful way.
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Neil Young – This Note’s for You (1998/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:17 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise
The 16th studio album from Neil Young, This Note’s For You was released in 1988 and was originally credited to Young & The Bluenotes. The overall theme of the album relates to the commercialism of rock and roll. The video for the title track was basically a parody of corporate rock and advertising which featured a Michael Jackson look-alike whose hair catches fire. The video was nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best Concept Video” in 1989.
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Alice Howe – Circumstance (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:09 minutes | 473 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Americana, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Know Howe Music
On Circumstance, her second and latest album, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Alice Howe displays her vocal prowess and introspective writing in abundance, mining both her heart and her musical tastes for a deep, personal journey across an Americana soundscape dotted with blues, folk, country, soul and rock. Produced by her creative partner, iconic bassist Freebo (Bonnie Raitt) and recorded at legendary FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where Etta James and Wilson Pickett once shook the walls, the record channels their spirits with 11 stirring tracks that pull no punches diving into the vagaries of the heart and her own personal journey.
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Magnus Lindgren – Stockholm Underground (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:00 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Flutist Magnus Lindgren leads a venerable group of musicians on Stockholm Underground, an homage to Herbie Mann’s 1969 release Memphis Underground. Featuring leading artists from the Stockholm jazz scene such as guitarist Henrik Janson, bassist Lars Danielsson and drummer Per Lindvall, this is a sweet, funky tribute that puts a Scandinavian spin on a collection of soul and rock classics. The special guests are Eric Bibb, Till Brönner and Ida Sand.
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Lucky Peterson – July 28th 2014 (Live in Marciac) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:35 minutes | 897 MB | Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz Village
Lucky Peterson live in full effect at last summer’s Marciac festival in France, featuring Joe Satriani as special guest on the final track. Born in Buffalo close to New York, Lucky Peterson – a singer, guitarist and organist – is one of the most authentic agents of blues music; he s familiar with its oral tradition and history and can also play and sing it like no other. Mixing his own compositions and inspired covers (of tracks by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Wilson Pickett and even Johnny Nash), he has decided to treat our eyes and ears to a live recording on which he blends blues music and an unstoppable sense of groove. With these fourteen tracks, forged in the embers of a fire burning with soul and rhythm n blues but giving off a few gospel and rock n roll sparks (witness the final track by Chuck Berry alongside Joe Satriani!), Lucky Peterson has put blues, the oldest form of black American music, back in the limelight.
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Little Richard – The Explosive Little Richard (1967/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 27:11 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk, Oldies
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy
In 1966 Little Richard signed to OKeh Records who teamed him up with Larry Williams in an attempt to reposition Little Richard as a mainstream soul proposition. The first single, Poor Dog, featuring Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, and its follow up, The Commandments Of Love, lived up to their hopes, updating his musical sound and putting him back in the R&B Top 50. A third US single, I Don’t Want To Discuss It, later covered by Delaney And Bonnie and Rod Stewart, was less successful as Little Richard was touring in the UK when it came out.
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Leadfoot Rivet – With A Lotta Help From My Friends (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:32:44 minutes | 1,82 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dixiefrog
It took a longtime for Leadfoot to become the artist he is today. Others like Rimbaud or Bob Dylan seem to bloom and get their full maturity all of a sudden and either shortly after stop to create or perpetuate the same form for ever.
Certain artists need much more time to reach their full potential feeding themselves with multiple experiences along the way, overcoming mental blocks and traumas to progress and enrich their art form.
Leadfoot Rivet is such !.
Hans Theessink and Terry Evans – Visions (2008/2016)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 44:27 minutes | 1,75 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:27 minutes | 830 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: highresaudio | Front Cover
Genre: Blues | © Blue Groove
The combination of the sheer artistry of one of Europe’s finest purveyors of American roots music with the deep soul bluesy soulfulness of Terry Evans is a match made in blues heaven. Visions will delight even the most discerning hi-fi fan with a fantastic sonic experience. Guests: Richard Thompson, Bo Diddley. Nominated for the Blues Music Awards 2009.
„One of the year’s best acoustic outings.“ (Blues Revue)
„Highly recommended and well worth hunting down.“ (Living Blues)
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Harari – Rufaro Happiness (1976/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:31 minutes | 362 MB | Genre: Psychedelic, Funk, Afrobeat
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Matsuli Music
The Beaters – Harari was released in 1975. After changing their name, Harari went into the studio late in 1976 to record their follow-up, Rufaro / Happiness. In 1976 they were voted South Africa’s top instrumental group and were in high demand at concert venues across the country.
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Gary Myrick – Forever (Adventures in 12 String) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 31:09 minutes | 366 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sound of Vinyl Records
Gary Myrick is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
Born in Dallas, Texas, Gary Myrick played guitar and sang in Dallas and neighboring Fort Worth starting as a teenager. Eventually, he built a significant enough reputation to be asked to join Austin, Texas band Krackerjack, replacing Stevie Ray Vaughan who had left to begin his solo career.
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Foy Vance – From Muscle Shoals (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:21 minutes | 399 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock, Soul, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gingerbread Man Records
The son of a traveling church minister, Northern Irish singer/songwriter Foy Vance spent the first five years of his life in the deep south, and he explores those roots on From Muscle Shoals. The first installment of a two-part dive into roots music, which also includes the Americana-leaning To Memphis, the ten-track set was recorded at the iconic FAME Studios in Alabama and features a seasoned crew of session players including original “Swampers” Spooner Oldham (keys) and David Hood (bass). Comprised of ten cuts, two of which (“Be with Me” and “Make It Rain”) are punched-up versions of earlier works, Vance’s 24-grit vocals and bluesy swagger go a long way in selling the material, as does the stellar musicianship of all involved, but in attempting to emulate a classic soul album, From Muscle Shoals — a very on-the-nose name — feels more like a facsimile. A workmanlike pastiche of well-oiled grooves, melodies, and lyrics that sound like they were run through a Stax Records song generator, Vance and company do their best to inject the proceedings with some zeal, but the shadows of Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, and Percy Sledge loom too large. Like Van Morrison, soul and R&B have always been at the forefront of Vance’s particular brand of Irish-American folk, but From Muscle Shoals leans too hard in one direction and ultimately fails to distinguish itself from its source material. ~ James Christopher Monger
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Duane Allman – An Anthology (1972/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:31:21 minutes | 2,03 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Island Def Jam
An Anthology is a compilation of songs from guitarist Duane Allman. This double LP consists of a selection of 19 songs Allman contributed to and performed on, such as Aretha Franklin’s, “The Weight,” Derek & The Dominos’ “Layla” and the B.B. King Medley of “Sweet Little Angel/It’s My Own.”
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Dee Dee, Barry & The Movements – Soul Hour (1968/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 34:57 minutes | 667 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
This obscure album is a hidden gem. Dee Dee McNeil began her career singing jazz with such greats as Hampton Hawes and Frank Butler, and then veered towards R&B and soul, writing hit songs for Motown. The Afro-American singer/songwriter’s pieces have been recorded by the likes of Diana Ross & the Supremes, Gladys Knight & the Pips, and Nancy Wilson. Singer Barry Window’s father was South African, and those roots serve him well: he is the perfect counterweight to Dee Dee’s resonant voice. Saxophonist Barney Wilen is something of a jazz legend in France, having played with Miles Davis on the sound track for Louis Malle’s iconic Ascenseur pour l’échafaud. Wilen recorded two highly regarded MPS albums under his own name: Dear Prof. Leary and Auto Jazz. With its funky renditions of such classics as New Orleans R&B legend Allen Toussant’s Get Out of My Life Woman, Wilson Pickett’s Midnight Hour, and Ray Charles’ It’s Alright heated by incendiary instrumental solos and fervent vocals, the album sweats soul.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – The Complete Studio Albums (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 04:04:47 minutes | 8,90 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Records
All of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s studio albums, now in hi-res and together in the complete set. Available separately also.
At a time when rock was evolving away from the forces that had made the music possible in the first place, Creedence Clearwater Revival brought things back to their roots with their concise synthesis of rockabilly, swamp pop, R&B, and country. Though the music of CCR was very much a group effort in their tight, punchy arrangements, their vision was very much singer, songwriter, guitarist, and leader John Fogerty’s. Fogerty’s classic compositions for Creedence both evoked enduring images of Americana and reflected burning social issues of the day. The band’s genius was their ability to accomplish this with the economic, primal power of a classic rockabilly ensemble.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – The Complete Studio Albums (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:04:47 minutes | 5,48 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Records
All of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s studio albums, now in hi-res and together in the complete set. Available separately also.
At a time when rock was evolving away from the forces that had made the music possible in the first place, Creedence Clearwater Revival brought things back to their roots with their concise synthesis of rockabilly, swamp pop, R&B, and country. Though the music of CCR was very much a group effort in their tight, punchy arrangements, their vision was very much singer, songwriter, guitarist, and leader John Fogerty’s. Fogerty’s classic compositions for Creedence both evoked enduring images of Americana and reflected burning social issues of the day. The band’s genius was their ability to accomplish this with the economic, primal power of a classic rockabilly ensemble.
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