Billy Preston That's The Way God Planned It (1969) [reissue 1991]

Billy Preston - That's The Way God Planned It (1969) Reissue 1991  Music

Posted by Designol at April 14, 2023
Billy Preston - That's The Way God Planned It (1969) Reissue 1991

Billy Preston - That's The Way God Planned It (1969) Reissue 1991
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 360 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 160 Mb | Scans included
Soul, Funk, Pop-Soul | Label: Apple/EMI | # CDP 7975802/CD SAPCOR 9 | 00:51:37

Billy Preston’s debut album for Apple Records was his vocal album debut too. Before this Billy was renowned merely as a wizard instrumentalist. Here, his impassioned vocals help create one of the best soul records of the 1960s. Produced by George Harrison, That’s The Way… expands Billy’s palette of gospel and R&B to embrace rock elements brought in by A-list players Keith Richards, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton.
That's The Way God Planned It - Billy Preston, Joyful Noise Movie (Piano-Vocal-Guitar)

That's The Way God Planned It - Billy Preston, Joyful Noise Movie (Piano-Vocal-Guitar)
English | 12 pages | PDF | 5.6 MB

That's The Way God Planned It - Billy Preston  Sheet music

Posted by Gelsomino at June 8, 2023
That's The Way God Planned It - Billy Preston

That's The Way God Planned It - Billy Preston
English | 5 pages | PDF | 4.3 MB
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Jools & Brian (1969) [Reissue 1991] (Repost)

Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Jools & Brian (1969) [Reissue 1991]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 195 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 82 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: One Way Records (CDL 57578)

The debut album from the formation of Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, this record introduced to America a group that had been making some noise in England for some time already. The album is a bit fragmented, containing a few Julie Driscoll solo tracks, as well as some Auger/Trinity efforts without Driscoll. One of the most amazing moments opens the record: Driscoll's solo hit (in Europe), "I Know You Love Me Not." A swirling, churning string arrangement - not unlike a psychedelic Phil Spector - is the ground work for Driscoll's steely vocals. She come across as a combination of Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox with a passionate performance. It's truly one of the great lost British records of the era, and alone is worth the price of the record…
Billy Preston - 20th Century Masters: The Best Of Billy Preston (2002)

Billy Preston - 20th Century Masters: The Best Of Billy Preston (2002)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 302 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 101 MB | 39:28
Genre: R'n'B, Soul, Funk | Label: A&M Records

After kicking around on various labels for half a dozen years and developing a reputation as a stellar sideman, Billy Preston finally broke through to mass success as a recording artist with the instrumental "Outa-Space" on A&M Records in 1972, and he had a string of other hits over the next several years, including the chart-toppers "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing From Nothing." This discount-priced best-of features all of his Top 20 pop and R&B hits, including the 1979 duet with Syreeta, "With You I'm Born Again," a Top Five hit on the Motown subsidiary Tamla that now resides in the Universal vaults along with the A&M catalog.

The Lou Gramm Band - The Lou Gramm Band (2009)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Dec. 16, 2020
The Lou Gramm Band - The Lou Gramm Band (2009)

The Lou Gramm Band - The Lou Gramm Band (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 340 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 104 Mb
Full Scans ~ 67 Mb | 00:43:10 | RAR 5% Recovery
Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Christian Rock | Frontiers Records / Irond Ltd. #Irond CD 09-DD755

On paper, it's unlikely that one of rock's greatest singers ever, who fronted one of the biggest mainstream bands of the 1970s and 1980s, would take a detour into the world of Christian rock. But that's just what Lou Gramm did in 2009 with his new group and its self-titled album, The Lou Gramm Band. It's his first "solo" effort since 1989's Long Hard Look. The album rocks convincingly, and the lyrics vividly reflect his born-again Christian faith. It's a miracle that the ex-Foreigner vocalist lived to reach this point. After surviving surgery to remove a benign brain tumor in 1997, he struggled to regain his health and his voice. He left Foreigner for the second time in 2002 and eased back into performing with his own band, which now includes two of his brothers, bass guitarist Richard Gramm and drummer Ben Gramm, as well as guitarist Don Mancuso and keyboardist Andy Knoll.

Billy Preston - 8 Albums 1971-1977 (2008) [Japan SHM-CD]  Music

Posted by JET 1 at Sept. 5, 2021
Billy Preston - 8 Albums 1971-1977 (2008) [Japan SHM-CD]

Billy Preston - 8 Albums 1971-1977 (2008) [Japan SHM-CD]
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 2.32 GB | Scans
Genre: Funk, Soul | Label: Universal Japan | Catalog Number: UICY-93455-62

It's advantageous to get an early start on your chosen career, but Billy Preston took the concept to extremes. By age ten he was playing keyboards with gospel diva Mahalia Jackson, and two years later, in 1958, he was featured in Hollywood's film bio of W.C. Handy, St. Louis Blues, as young Handy himself. Preston was a prodigy on organ and piano, recording during the early '60s for Vee-Jay and touring with Little Richard. He was a loose-limbed regular on the mid-'60s ABC TV series Shindig, proving his talent as both a vocalist and pianist, and he built an enviable reputation as a session musician, even backing the Beatles on their Let It Be album. That impressive Beatles connection led to Preston's big break as a solo artist with his own Apple album, but it was his early-'70s soul smashes "Outa-Space" and the high-flying vocal "Will It Go Round in Circles" for A&M that put Preston on the permanent musical map. Sporting a humongous Afro and an omnipresent gap-toothed grin, Preston showed that his enduring gospel roots were never far removed from his joyous approach. He continued to perform and record throughout the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, until he fell into a coma caused by pericarditis late in 2005; sadly, he never regained consciousness and passed away on June 6, 2006.

Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' Hopkins (1969) [Reissue 1991]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 19, 2023
Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' Hopkins (1969) [Reissue 1991]

Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' Hopkins (1969) [Reissue 1991]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 213 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 89 MB | Covers - 6 MB
Genre: Blues, Texas Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Tempo (DBCD 52)

This exciting album was recorded on October 4 & 5th, 1965 in Los Angeles. Much of its success must be attributed to a sensitive and imaginative producer, David Hubert. The morning of the 25th found Lightnin' in an excellent mood; as a matter of fact, a number of the bands required only one "take" at the session, most unusual under any conditions. Years ago, Lightnin' recorded with rhythm sections, but never any like the one on this album. Jimmy Bond on bass, and Earl Palmer on drums, laid down a quiet, but bluesy beat that "turned Lightnin' on". Lightnin' himself plays and sings with the vitality of any young artist today. Anyone who digs the blues will be emotionally moved by this album.

The Sahib Shihab Quintet - Seeds (1969) [Reissue 2008]  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 4, 2024
The Sahib Shihab Quintet - Seeds (1969) [Reissue 2008]

The Sahib Shihab Quintet - Seeds (1969) [Reissue 2008]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 210 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 84 MB | Covers - 4 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop, Afro-Cuban Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rearward (RW 122CD)

Some friends think that Shihab the man owes the balance of his soul to his beautiful Danish wife. They may be right; for Eros is the very essence of what Shihab plays.Yet Eros is a god with many a face. A tale of tender mournings Shihab’s flute is telling in Mauve - a piece that translates its title into delicately changing colors of sound. In Uma Fita de Tres Cores he has his instrument wooing with the proud self-reliance of Latin grandezza. Calmly, softly, almost blandishly Shihab blows the solo flute in the Jimmy Woode composition My Kinda World. Serene and somewhat playful his own title Another Samba comes along - a most uncommon composition by the way: lasting for sixty bars as if growing independent out of itself, with solos that appear to be additional spinnings rather than improvised choruses; and yet; a perfect, self sustaining melody no element of which is superfluous…
George "Wild Child" Butler - Keep On Doing What You're Doing (1969) [Reissue 1991]

George "Wild Child" Butler - Keep On Doing What You're Doing (1969) [Reissue 1991]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 241 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 98 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Black Magic Records (CD 9015)

From all accounts, George Butler was indeed a "wild child." But he found time between the youthful shenanigans that inspired his mom to bestow his descriptive nickname to learn some harp basics at age 12.
George remained active throughout the 60's and from 1966 he performed mainly in Houston and New Orleans. He worked extensively with the late Cousin Joe Pleasant and Roosevelt Sykes in New Orleans and the great Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins in Houston. George appears as a sideman on a number of sides with Lightnin' Hopkins, the best known of which being the album on the Jewel label entitled "Talking Some Sense". He was next signed to a contract by the Mercury label; in fact George observes, "The record companies always wanted me to sign an exclusive contract, and their people always met me with a paper their hand." George did an album for the Mercury label entitled "Keep On Doing What You're Doing"…