2023 Mfsl

Patricia Barber - Companion (1999) {MFSL UDSACD 2023}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Dec. 7, 2019
Patricia Barber - Companion (1999) {MFSL UDSACD 2023}

Patricia Barber - Companion (1999) {MFSL UDSACD 2023}
EAC 0.99pb4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 313MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 120MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz

Companion was recorded in a special three-night series of shows in July, 1999 at Chicago's famed Green Mill jazz club — an unusually short amount of time to produce a live album. To mine as much material as possible from those nights the performances were run more like recording sessions than live shows, with the crowd reverently hushed. Patricia Barber is in her element and the only thing that seems to have suffered for the recording circumstances is the album's length — at seven songs and 40 minutes, it walks the line between standard EP and full-length size. One surmises that it might have been longer had there been more album-quality material from the performances. Recalling the energy that was present on her critically worshipped Cafe Blue album, there is an ease and creativity on Companion which makes her fans' devotion understandable.
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - 5 Studio Albums (1983-1991) [MFSL, 2011] (Re-up)

Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - 5 Studio Albums (1983-1991) [MFSL, 2011]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 1,23 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 464 MB | Covers - 1,05 GB
Genre: Blues Rock, Electric Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble formed the most impressive blues act of the 1980s, which made Vaughan's death in a helicopter crash at the start of the '90s all the more tragic. He grew up in Dallas, the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan (cofounder of the Fabulous Thunderbirds). Stevie began playing in clubs at 12, and by 17 had dropped out of high school and moved to Austin. There followed years of struggling until April 23, 1982, when Vaughan and his group, Double Trouble, played a private audition for the Rolling Stones in New York. The gig led to an invitation to appear at the Montreux Jazz Festival, at which Vaughan was seen by David Bowie, who hired him to play guitar on his Let's Dance album, and Jackson Browne, who offered the free use of his recording studio. Vaughan took up that offer after being signed by legendary talent scout John Hammond to Epic, recording his debut album, Texas Flood, in the fall of 1982…

Eagles - The Long Run (Hybrid SACD CD Layer) (1979/2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 15, 2025
Eagles - The Long Run (Hybrid SACD CD Layer) (1979/2023)

Eagles - The Long Run (Hybrid SACD CD Layer) (1979/2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 288 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 Mb | Covers included | 00:42:47
Classic Rock, Country Rock, Pop Rock | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Sourced from the Original Analog Master Tapes for Audiophile Sonics. Originally intended as a clever poke at the era's trends that critics maintained were making the band irrelevant, the title of and music on The Long Run continue to prove the Eagles got the last laugh. Created in the wake of the group's demanding tour for the blockbuster Hotel California, the 1979 record ultimately became the final record the Eagles would create for nearly three decades. Stacked with first-rate material and three mammoth singles, the seven-times-platinum effort ensured the Eagles never drifted far from the public's consciousness.

The Band - 6 Albums (1968-1975) [MFSL, 2009-2012]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 9, 2023
The Band - 6 Albums (1968-1975) [MFSL, 2009-2012]

The Band - 6 Albums (1968-1975) [MFSL, 2009-2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC, WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 1,8 GB | Covers - 721 MB
Genre: Classic Rock, Roots Rock, Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

For roughly half a decade, from 1968 through 1975, the Band was one of the most popular and influential rock groups in the world, their music embraced by critics (and, to a somewhat lesser degree, the public) as seriously as the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Their albums were analyzed and reviewed as intensely as any records by their one-time employer and sometime mentor Bob Dylan. Although the Band retired from touring after The Last Waltz and disbanded several years later, their legacy thrived for decades, perpetuated by the bandmates' respective solo careers as well as the enduring strength of the Band's catalog…

Eagles - The Long Run (Hybrid SACD CD Layer) (1979/2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 15, 2025
Eagles - The Long Run (Hybrid SACD CD Layer) (1979/2023)

Eagles - The Long Run (Hybrid SACD CD Layer) (1979/2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 288 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 Mb | Covers included | 00:42:47
Classic Rock, Country Rock, Pop Rock | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Sourced from the Original Analog Master Tapes for Audiophile Sonics. Originally intended as a clever poke at the era's trends that critics maintained were making the band irrelevant, the title of and music on The Long Run continue to prove the Eagles got the last laugh. Created in the wake of the group's demanding tour for the blockbuster Hotel California, the 1979 record ultimately became the final record the Eagles would create for nearly three decades. Stacked with first-rate material and three mammoth singles, the seven-times-platinum effort ensured the Eagles never drifted far from the public's consciousness.

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (Remastered) (1978/2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 15, 2023
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (Remastered) (1978/2023)

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (Remastered) (1978/2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 189 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 73 MB
32:00 | Pop Rock | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab / Asylum Records

Excitable Boy established Warren Zevon as rock's gonzo figurehead – or, as Jackson Browne aptly called him, "the first and foremost proponent of song noir." A supreme collision of over-caffeinated energy, acerbic wit, dark humor, irreverent reporting, bittersweet romance, swept-under-the-rug truth, and illicit desire sent up with booze, pills, and therapist confessions, the breakthrough album zeroes in on frightening aspects of American culture with an incisiveness that's even sharper today than upon the effort's release in 1978. And the music has never sounded so excitable.

Gram Parsons - 2 Studio Albums (1973-1974) [MFSL, 2012]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 15, 2023
Gram Parsons - 2 Studio Albums (1973-1974) [MFSL, 2012]

Gram Parsons - 2 Studio Albums (1973-1974) [MFSL, 2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 426 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 177 MB | Covers - 64 MB
Genre: Country Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Gram Parsons - GP (1973). GP is American singer-songwriter Gram Parsons' debut solo album. Working with a crack band of L.A. and Nashville's finest (including James Burton on guitar, Ronnie Tutt on drums, Byron Berline on fiddle, and Glen D. Hardin on piano), he drew from them a sound that merged breezy confidence with deeply felt Southern soul, and he in turn pulled off some of his most subtle and finely detailed vocal performances; "She" and "A Song for You," in particular, are masterful examples of passion finding balance with understatement. Parsons also discovered that rare artist with whom he can be said to have genuinely collaborated (rather than played beside), Emmylou Harris; Gram and Harris' spot-on harmonies and exchanged verses on "We'll Sweep out the Ashes in the Morning" and "That's All It Took" are achingly beautiful and instantly established her as one country music's most gifted vocalists…
Jimmy Buffett - 2 Studio Albums (1973-1978) [MFSL, 1997-1999] (Re-up)

Jimmy Buffett - 2 Studio Albums (1973-1978) [MFSL, 1997-1999]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 421 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 167 MB | Covers - 317 MB
Genre: Country Rock, Pop Rock, Classic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

A White Sport Coat And A Pink Crustacean (1973). While it still lies much closer to Nashville than Key West (like in the boisterous slide guitar solo that lights up "The Great Filling Station Holdup"), Jimmy Buffett's A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean does begin to delineate the blowsy, good-timin' Key West persona that would lead him to summer tour stardom and the adoration of millions of drinking buddies everywhere. "Why Don't We Get Drunk," "Railroad Lady," and "Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit" rightly became crowd pleasers. But Buffett reveals himself a storyteller with the touching sigh of "He Went to Paris," where a slide guitar appears again to lend a subtle gleam to the arrangement, or in the gorgeous, sweetly sad tale of a passed-away poet's unlikely posthumous success…

John Mellencamp - Scarecrow (1985) [MFSL, 1994]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 6, 2023
John Mellencamp - Scarecrow (1985) [MFSL, 1994]

John Mellencamp - Scarecrow (1985) [MFSL, 1994]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 293 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 108 MB | Covers - 83 MB
Genre: Heartland Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (UDCD 604)

Uh-Huh found John Mellencamp coming into his own, but he perfected his heartland rock with Scarecrow. A loose concept album about lost innocence and the crumbling of small-town America, Scarecrow says as much with its tough rock and gentle folk-rock as it does with its lyrics, which remain a weak point for Mellencamp. Nevertheless, his writing has never been more powerful: "Rain on the Scarecrow" and "Small Town" capture the hopes and fears of Middle America, while "Lonely Ol' Night" and "Rumbleseat" effortlessly convey the desperate loneliness of being stuck in a dead-end life. Those four songs form the core of the album, and while the rest of the album isn't quite as strong, that's only a relative term, since it's filled with lean hooks and powerful, economical playing that make Scarecrow one of the definitive blue-collar rock albums of the mid-'80s.

Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus (1970) [MFSL, 1988]  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 12, 2023
Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus (1970) [MFSL, 1988]

Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus (1970) [MFSL, 1988]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 214 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 92 MB | Covers - 39 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Proto-Prog | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFCD 800)

Although Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus has the reputation of being Spirit's most far-out album, it actually contains the most disciplined songwriting and playing of the original lineup, cutting back on some of the drifting and offering some of their more melodic tunes. The lilting "Nature's Way" was the most endearing FM standard on the album, which also included some of Spirit's best songs in "Animal Zoo" and "Mr. Skin."
Spirit was a highly regarded rock band that achieved modest commercial success, charting 11 albums in the U.S. between 1968 and 1977. Founded in Los Angeles in 1967 by musicians who had a mixture of rock, pop, folk, blues, classical, and jazz backgrounds, and who ranged in age from 16 to 44, the group had an eclectic musical style in keeping with the early days of progressive rock…