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Hootie & the Blowfish never were cut out to be superstars. They were meant to be the best band at the local bar. They were ordinary guys, and they played ordinary music, the kind that could be heard in any college town on the East Coast or Midwest during the early '90s when the local bar wasn't having grunge night. It was the ordinariness of the music on their 1994 debut, Cracked Rear View, that connected with millions of American listeners – they sounded like everybody's favorite local band. Once they were superstars, their bubble burst fairly quickly as the 1996 follow-up sold considerably fewer than the debut, and by the end of the decade, they had settled into a reliable routine of turning out modest records and touring steadily, without many people outside of their core fans noticing. Their popularity might have declined, but as the 2004 Atlantic/Rhino compilation The Best of Hootie & the Blowfish (1993 Thru 2003) illustrates, their music changed very little over the course of the decade, nor did the quality of their music decline.

Released in 1992, Hollywood Town Hall wasn't a hit, but it received enough rave reviews to considerably raise the Jayhawks' profile, and it certainly heightened expectations for their next album. On 1995's Tomorrow the Green Grass, the Jayhawks found themselves in the tricky situation of trying to match the quality of Hollywood Town Hall without simply repeating themselves, and they came remarkably close to achieving that daunting task.

Happy Days - The Oldies Gold Collection Vol.1 - Vol.13 (2022)
MP3 320 Kbps | Run Time: 02:15:22:40 | 8.50 GB
Genre: Pop/Rock/R&B/Soul/Jazz | Label: In Vinyl We Trust

Gold sets from the Oldies collection.
The greatest hits of the 50's, 60's and 70's!

Candi Staton - Evidence: The Complete Fame Records Masters (2011) {2CD Set, Kent Soul CDKEN2-353 rec 1969-1973}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 844 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 343 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 95 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1969-73, 2011 Fame / Kent Soul / Ace Records | CDKEN2 353
Rhythm & Blues / Soul / Southern Soul / Modern Soul / Deep Soul

Candi Staton is the finest female singer ever to grace a Southern Soul recording, her achingly vulnerable vocals perfect for the lyrics of the best country/soul songs. Luckily for us, during her tenure at Rick Hall’s Fame label she got the best songs, mostly from the pen of George Jackson, perhaps the top Southern Soul songwriter of his generation. George spent every waking minute of his day writing songs and probably came up with a few while he dreamt too. As Candi herself said, “That was his thing.”

This While My Guitar Gently Weeps: 32 Guitar Ballads album was released in 2001 and featured titles like Love Over Gold, Purple Rain and After Midnight from Dire Straits, Prince and Eric Clapton.