2019 Digitally Remastered

Memphis Minnie - The First Lady of Blues (Digitally Remastered) (2019)

Memphis Minnie - The First Lady of Blues (Digitally Remastered) (2019)
Blues | FLAC (tracks) | Cover | 39:51 | 201 MB + 5% Recovery
Label: Nub Music | Tracks: 14 | Rls.date: 2019

Tracking down the ultimate woman blues guitar hero is problematic because woman blues singers seldom recorded as guitar players and woman guitar players (such as Rosetta Tharpe and Sister O.M. Terrell) were seldom recorded playing blues.
Cissy Houston - Cissy Houston (Bonus Track Version - Digitally Remastered) (2019)

Cissy Houston - Cissy Houston (Bonus Track Version - Digitally Remastered) (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 189 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 74 MB | 00:31:35
Soul, Funk, RnB | Label: Reel Music

Cissy Houston (born Emily Drinkard) has had a long and varied career as a background vocalist, session singer and solo artist but is probably best known for being the mother of the massively successful R&B star Whitney Houston, and the aunt of both Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick. During her time with The Sweet Inspirations Houston sang back-up vocals for Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Lou Rawls, The Drifters, Dusty Springfield, Van Morrison (Brown Eyed Girl), The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Elvis Presley (the 69 Vegas comeback) and her niece Dionne Warwick.

Carly Simon - Spy (1979) [1997, Digitally Remastered] {HDCD}  Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Sept. 22, 2023
Carly Simon - Spy (1979) [1997, Digitally Remastered] {HDCD}

Carly Simon - Spy (1979) [1997, Digitally Remastered] {HDCD}
Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 40:44 | 503,59 Mb
Label: Elektra Records (USA) | Cat.# 506-2 | Released: 1997-05-27 (1979-06-30)

"Spy" is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's 9th album, and 8th studio album, released in 1979. It is also her last album for Elektra Records. The title of the album is a tribute to Anaïs Nin, whose quote “I am an international spy in the house of love”, is written across the top on the inside jacket. Simon dedicated the album to producer Arif Mardin, in which she wrote in the liner notes, "Dedicated to Arif who is himself fantastic." Although "Spy" did not yield any major hit singles, "Vengeance" (which features actor Tim Curry on backing vocals) earned Simon a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female in early 1980, the first year to feature this new category. The song peaked at #48 on the Billboard Pop singles chart, and Simon later included it on her Anthology album in 2002. The album also features a track entitled "Never Been Gone", which has gone on to become a fan favorite, as well as one of Simon's personal favorite songs of her own. In 2009, she would release an album entitled after the track.
Olivia Newton-John - Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits - Volume 2 (1977) [1998, Digitally Remastered]

Olivia Newton-John - Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits - Volume 2 (1977) [1998, Digitally Remastered]
Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Country | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 50:13 | 447,82 Mb
Label: Festival Records Pty. Ltd. (Australia) | Cat.# D36449 (D21049) | Released: 1998-03-10 (1977)

"Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits" is the 1st greatest hits album by Olivia Newton-John released in 1977 in the United States. In some other regions, Newton-John released a 1974 compilation, "Greatest Hits - First Impressions". This album was therefore marketed instead as "Greatest Hits Vol. 2" and featured a different track listing. The album collected all of Newton-John's American Top 40 singles released between 1971 and 1977. "Changes" was the only track not released as a single, but it was one of Newton-John's first self-written songs that she recorded. The album was Newton-John's first Platinum certification peaking #13 Pop and #7 Country. It ended up being certified double Platinum in the US and Platinum in the UK and Canada, and also Gold in Hong Kong. The LP sold 133,660 and the cassette 27,150 copies in Japan.
Olivia Newton-John - Great Hits: First Impressions (1974) [1998, Digitally Remastered]

Olivia Newton-John - Great Hits: First Impressions (1974) [1998, Digitally Remastered]
Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Country | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 38:43 | 419,61 Mb
Label: Festival Records Pty Ltd. (AU) | Cat.# D35375 (D21048) | Released: 1998-10-05 (1974)

"Great Hits: First Impressions" is the 1st greatest hits album by Olivia Newton-John. It was released in 1974 by Festival Records/Interfusion. Compilation featuring 12 of her early '70s hits, including'If Not for You', 'Let Me Be There', 'I Honestly Love You' &'If You Love Me Let Me Know'.
Aretha Franklin - Sweet Bitter Love (1982) [1989, Digitally Remastered Reissue]

Aretha Franklin - Sweet Bitter Love (1982) [1989, Digitally Remastered Reissue]
R&B, Soul, Blues, Southern Soul | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 29:53 | 288,90 Mb
Label: Columbia (USA) | Cat.# CK 38042 | Released: 1989-08-24 (1982)

This anthology has a distinct purpose-to demonstrate that while at Columbia Records, Aretha Franklin did some exceptionally fine, even memorable, ballad singing. Aretha's early pop career has been consistently denigrated. The conventional line has it that while at Columbia, she was drowned in a sea of strings, her sensibility withered by a steady diet of Tin Pan Alley material more suitable for Nancy Wilson or Diahann Carroll. Lord knows there were many bloated, catastrophic recordings during those years. And even some of her most sensitive ballad readings were hindered by arrangements and orchestrations that were far from sympathetic-either too lush and overblown, or prosaicly simple. For these reasons, this album is more an anthology of great moments than of fully realized productions. But these tentative excursions by a former gospel singer into a strange new world possess a rare delicacy and fervor.
The Gap Band - Gap Band VI (1984) [2012, Remastered & Expanded Edition]

The Gap Band - Gap Band VI (1984) [2012, Remastered & Expanded Edition]
R&B, Soul/Funk, Quiet Storm | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 01:18:17 | 502,46 Mb
Label: Total Experience Records/BBR (UK) | Cat.# CDBBR 0056 | Released: 2012-10-29 (1984-12-06)

"Gap Band VI" is the eighth album (contrary to the title) by The Gap Band, released in 1984 on Total Experience Records. It was originally intended to be lead singer Charlie Wilson's first solo album, and the first Gap Band album released under Total Experience's new distribution deal with RCA Records. The album reached #1 on the Black Albums chart for 2 weeks in March 1985. In October 29, 2012 the remastered and expanded album including 5 bonus tracks was released by Big Break Records.

Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don't Send Me No Flowers (1968/2019)  Music

Posted by varrock at April 17, 2019
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don't Send Me No Flowers (1968/2019)

Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don't Send Me No Flowers (1968/2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 157 MB | Tracks: 5 | 28:21 min
Style: Blues, Jazz | Label: Reel Music

Of the many obscure projects Jimmy Page was associated with prior to Led Zeppelin, one of the most notable was a studio session he recorded live alongside noted keyboardist Brian Auger, and famed bluesman, Sonny Boy Williamson.
The session took place at IBC Studios on January 28, 1965.
Cissy Houston - Cissy Houston (Bonus Track Version - Digitally Remastered) (2019) [Official Digital Download]

Cissy Houston - Cissy Houston (Bonus Track Version - Digitally Remastered) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 31:35 minutes | 592 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Cissy Houston (born Emily Drinkard) has had a long and varied career as a background vocalist, session singer and solo artist but is probably best known for being the mother of the massively successful R&B star Whitney Houston, and the aunt of both Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick. During her time with The Sweet Inspirations Houston sang back-up vocals for Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Lou Rawls, The Drifters, Dusty Springfield, Van Morrison (Brown Eyed Girl), The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Elvis Presley (the 69 Vegas comeback) and her niece Dionne Warwick.
Olivia Newton-John - Making A Good Thing Better (1977) [1998, Digitally Remastered]

Olivia Newton-John - Making A Good Thing Better (1977) [1998, Digitally Remastered]
Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Country | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 42:27 | 538,19 Mb
Label: Warner Music Australia (AU) | Cat.# D36277 (D21040) | Released: 1998-10-05 (1977)

"Making a Good Thing Better" is an album by Olivia Newton-John, released in 1977. The album peaked at #34 on the US Pop chart and #13 on the Country chart. It was Newton-John's first album not to reach the Country Top 10. The album also ended Olivia's streak of six consecutive Gold albums from 1974's "Let Me Be There" through 1976's "Don't Stop Believin'". In the Netherlands, it became her fourth chart-topping album. The soul-sounding title track was the album single (with "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "Sad Songs") only reached #87 on the Pop chart and #20 on the Adult Contemporary chart. It was Newton-John's first single not to reach the AC Top 10 since 1972's "What Is Life".