Decoration Day

John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right To Suffer (1966) [Reissue 2010]

John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right To Suffer (1966) [Reissue 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 178 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 77 MB | Covers - 29 MB
Genre: Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Analogue Productions (CIPJ 9103 SA)

Given Hooker's unpredictable timing and piss-poor track record recording with bands, this 1965 one-off session for the jazz label Impulse! would be a recipe for disaster. But with Panama Francis on drums, Milt Hinton on bass, and Barry Galbraith on second guitar, the result is some of the best John Lee Hooker material with a band that you're likely to come across. The other musicians stay in the pocket, never overplaying or trying to get Hooker to make chord changes he has no intention of making. This record should be played for every artist who records with Hooker nowadays, as it's a textbook example of how exactly to back the old master. The most surreal moment occurs when William Wells blows some totally cool trombone on Hooker's version of Berry Gordy's "Money." If you run across this one in a pile of 500 other John Lee Hooker CDs, grab it; it's one of the good ones.

Zubin Mehta - Tribute to Zubin Mehta (2006)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Oct. 13, 2022
Zubin Mehta - Tribute to Zubin Mehta (2006)

Zubin Mehta - Tribute to Zubin Mehta (2006)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 2.2 Gb | 07:48:34
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca

Zubin Mehta's reputation is an (undeservedly) mixed one. Following an excellent term as director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mehta's career was marked by a rocky period with the New York Philharmonic in which he was caricatured by the NY press as a showman with little substance to his music making. A series of lackluster recordings with that group did not help. This wonderful collection goes a long way to demonstrating how incorrect this assessment is. The six CD set highlights some of Mehta's best music-making in performances captured in wonderful sound by Decca. Appropriately enough, most of the recordings are with Los Angeles, where Mehta made his reputation.

Howlin Wolf - Howlin Wolf - The Complete Collection (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 15, 2021
Howlin Wolf - Howlin Wolf - The Complete Collection (2021)

Howlin Wolf - Howlin Wolf - The Complete Collection (2021)
FLAC tracks | 2:56:06 | 687 Mb
Genre: Blues / Label: Recovery Recordings

Chester Burnett alias Howlin' Wolf (1910-1976) est l'une des figures les plus importantes du blues d'après-guerre. Surnommé ainsi en raison d'une voix profonde et puissante, l'imposant « shouter » (hurleur) commence à enregistrer, au moment même où le rock'n'roll prend forme, des morceaux de blues électrique qui vont influencer des dizaines de chanteurs et groupes des années soixante. Auteur de nombreux classiques parmi lesquels « (Sittin On) Top of the World », « Spoonful », « Little Red Rooster », « Smokestack Lightning », « Killing Floor » ou « Back Door Man », Howlin' Wolf fut l'un des rares bluesmen à connaître le succès de son vivant. Le rock, personnifié par The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Jim Morrison, Robert Plant ou Jack White, lui est fortement redevable.

Sonny Boy Williamson - The Best Of Sonny Boy Williamson (2000)  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 6, 2024
Sonny Boy Williamson - The Best Of Sonny Boy Williamson (2000)

Sonny Boy Williamson II - The Best Of Sonny Boy Williamson (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 265 MB | Covers - 22 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Spectrum Music (544 277 2)

Highly-regarded blues singer and harmonica player, an unpredictable character, and a major figure of Chicago blues.
Sonny Boy Williamson was, in many ways, the ultimate blues legend. By the time of his death in 1965, he had been around long enough to have played with Robert Johnson at the start of his career and Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Robbie Robertson at the end of it. In between, he drank a lot of whiskey, hoboed around the country, had a successful radio show for 15 years, toured Europe to great acclaim and simply wrote, played and sang some of the greatest blues ever etched into black phonograph records. His delivery was sly, evil and world-weary, while his harp-playing was full of short, rhythmic bursts one minute and powerful, impassioned blowing the next…
Seattle Symphony & Ludovic Morlot - Ives: New England Holidays & Orchestral Sets Nos. 1 & 2 (2017)

Seattle Symphony & Ludovic Morlot - Ives: New England Holidays & Orchestral Sets Nos. 1 & 2 (2017)
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:18:06 | 179 MB
Label: Seattle Symphony Media

Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra summon a magical set of distinctly American impressions. Morlot is a sorcerer with this kind of music, finding balance between the work’s myriad events: ominous strings cast dour moods, while woodwinds interject with unanswered questions.
Hugo Race, Michelangelo Russo - John Lee Hooker's World Today (2017)

Hugo Race, Michelangelo Russo - John Lee Hooker's World Today (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue, log) ~ 231.59 Mb | 47:40 | Cover
Blues Rock, Modern Blues, Psychedelic | Label: Gusstaff Records - GRAM1703/GRCD911

Hugo Race and Michelangelo Russo are no strangers to either Hooker or the blues. Hailed as a supreme influence on the music of their band Hugo Race & The True Spirit, Race and Russo’s reimagining of Hooker is simultaneously blues, electronica, avant-garde and ambient, a homage to one of the greats of rock and roll prehistory. Recorded in a single, continuous day and night live session at the Berlin studio of Einsturzende Neubauten engineer Boris Wilsdorf, this is an epic album of sonic sorcery suspended in time and place, looking back through twenty-first century eyes at John Lee Hooker’s delta blues legacy in a swirling mix of analogue grit and deep trance pulses on the 100th anniversary of Hooker’s birth.
Howlin' Wolf - The Complete Recordings 1951-1969 (1993) (7 CD Box Set)

Howlin' Wolf - The Complete Recordings 1951-1969 (1993) (7 CD Box Set)
MP3 320 kbps | 7 CDs, 07:39:10 min | 1,03 Gb | Scans ->6,6 mb
Genre: Blues / Label: Charly Records

These Charly, UK sets are not easy to find. Their sets are generally made with great care and pride. 151 Chess and Sun recordings- it is entitled "Complete" although it does not contain two very non-essential albums from the period (The Super Super Plus Band from 1967 and the 1968 Cadet album aka "Howlin' Wolf Didn't Like This Album"- and with good reason; both are quite disposable and unnecessary), plus a conversation; this is all from Sun and Chess, his very best stuff, the real essential recordings without a bad track in the lot.

Sunnyland Slim - Slim's Shout (1961) [Reissue 1993]  Music

Posted by gribovar at May 15, 2024
Sunnyland Slim - Slim's Shout (1961) [Reissue 1993]

Sunnyland Slim - Slim's Shout (1961) [Reissue 1993]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 275 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 97 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OBC/Prestige/Bluesville Records (00025218055826)

You wouldn't think that transporting one of Chicago's reigning piano patriarchs to Englewood Cliffs, NJ would produce such a fine album, but this 1960 set cooks from beginning to end. Sunnyland Slim's swinging New York rhythm section has no trouble following his bedrock piano, and the estimable King Curtis peels off diamond-hard tenor sax solos in the great Texas tradition that also mesh seamlessly. Slim runs through his standards - "The Devil Is a Busy Man," "Shake It," "It's You Baby" - in gorgeous stereo, and two unissued bonus cuts (including another of his best-known tunes, "Everytime I Get to Drinking") make the CD reissue of Slim's Shout even more appealing.
Snooky Pryor - Snooky Pryor and his Mississippi Wrecking Crew (2002)

Snooky Pryor - Snooky Pryor and his Mississippi Wrecking Crew (2002)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 369 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 141 MB | Covers - 17 MB
Genre: Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Electro-Fi Records (Electro-Fi 3373)

Blues harp legend Snooky Pryor and this all-star band gathered together to celebrate Snooky's 80th birthday and record this studio album of deep blues. Features blues blasters Pinetop Perkins, Mel Brown, Jeff Healey and Willie Smith.

Sonny Boy Williamson II - The Chess Years [4CD Box Set] (1991)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 18, 2021
Sonny Boy Williamson II - The Chess Years [4CD Box Set] (1991)

Sonny Boy Williamson II - The Chess Years [4CD Box Set] (1991)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 1,29 GB | Covers - 56 MB
Genre: Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Charly Records (CD REDBOX I)

Sonny Boy Williamson was, in many ways, the ultimate blues legend. By the time of his death in 1965, he had been around long enough to have played with Robert Johnson at the start of his career and Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Robbie Robertson at the end of it. In between, he drank a lot of whiskey, hobo'ed around the country, had a successful radio show for 15 years, toured Europe to great acclaim, and simply wrote, played, and sang some of the greatest blues ever etched into Black phonograph records. His delivery was sly, evil and world-weary, while his harp-playing was full of short, rhythmic bursts one minute and powerful, impassioned blowing the next. His songs were chock-full of mordant wit, with largely autobiographical lyrics that hold up to the scrutiny of the printed page. Though he took his name from another well-known harmonica player, no one really sounded like him.