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Sarah Vaughan - The Mercury Recordings 1954-1960 (2014) {3CD Set, Not Now Music NOT3CD144}

Sarah Vaughan - The Mercury Recordings 1954-1960 (2014) {3CD Set, Not Now Music NOT3CD144}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 1.17 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 533 Mb | Artwork | 5% repair rar
© 1954-60, 2014 Mercury / Not Now Music | NOT3CD144
Jazz / Vocal Jazz / Standards / Traditional Pop

Legend has it that, on a Wednesday night in 1942, the 18-year-old Sarah Vaughan went to the Apollo Theatre in Harlem to compete in an amateur talent contest for the chance to win $10 and a week-long engagement. Although the events leading up to this are uncertain, there is no doubt that Vaughan sang ‘Body And Soul’ and won. Vaughan was contracted by the Apollo in spring 1943 to open for Ella Fitzgerald.

Lonestar - From There to Here: Greatest Hits (2003)  Music

Posted by Rtax at July 6, 2022
Lonestar - From There to Here: Greatest Hits (2003)

Lonestar - From There to Here: Greatest Hits (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 441 MB
1:04:52 | Country Rock | Label: BNA Records

From There To Here: Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits compilation released by American country music group Lonestar. In addition to chronicling the greatest hits from their first four studio albums, the album includes three newly recorded tracks "My Front Porch Looking In", "Walking in Memphis" (a cover of the 1991 Marc Cohn song) and "I Pray", as well as a second recording of their 2001 single "I'm Already There". "My Front Porch Looking In" and "Walking in Memphis" were both released as singles.

David Ramirez - Were Not Going Anywhere (2017)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at Sept. 9, 2017
David Ramirez - Were Not Going Anywhere (2017)

David Ramirez - Were Not Going Anywhere (2017)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 220 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 90 MB | 00:39:23
Folk, Acoustic | Label:

David Ramirez wears his Mexican-American heritage proudly on his defiantly-titled, Thirty Tigers debut We’re Not Going Anywhere. “Being half white and half Mexican has made this current political climate especially interesting,” he says. “So many cultures in this country are being viewed as un-American, and it breaks my heart. My family has raised children here, created successful businesses here, and are proud to be a part of this country. Most of what I’ve seen as of late is misplaced fear. I wanted to write about that fear and how, instead of benefiting us, it sends us spiraling out control.” Refusing to be a target of someone else’s paranoia and prejudice, Ramirez mixes philosophy and provocation throughout this fine collection of songs.

Ed Reed - I'm a Shy Guy (2013)  Music

Posted by mark70 at Oct. 2, 2013
Ed Reed - I'm a Shy Guy (2013)

Ed Reed - I'm a Shy Guy (2013)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 49:38 min | 114 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | Label: Blue Shorts Records

San Francisco vocalist Ed Reed is a bona fide contemporary of West Coast jazz luminaries: Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray and Hampton Hawes. Unlike that august group, Reed remains to tell his story, and by proxy, theirs' in the bargain. Like this same group, drugs (and in the case of Gray, murder) suspended Reeds musical career. Unlike Pepper and Morgan, who staged much heralded late-career comebacks, Reed did not first record until 2007 at age 78. Neither "late bloomer" nor "rising star" adequately describe Reed any more than "senior" or "elderly" do.

Chris Montez - Call Me - The A&M Years (2006)  Music

Posted by firepower at Nov. 22, 2011
Chris Montez - Call Me - The A&M Years (2006)

Chris Montez - Call Me - The A&M Years (2006)
EAC, FLAC tracks, CUE+LOG | Artwork | 410 MB
Rock | 5% recovery record | Source: Internet - Polydor CD

Chris Montez started out in the early '60s as a Ritchie Valens-influenced, fairly gritty rock & roller. But upon signing with A&M in the mid-'60s, he changed to a much smoother style that crossed easy listening pop, bossa nova, and the lightest of pop/rock touches. This 22-track compilation focuses on his 1966-1968 recordings for the label, which did bring him a fair amount of pop success, a far cry though they were from the days of his raucous 1962 smash "Let's Dance."

Vanisha Gould - She's Not Shiny, She’s Not Smooth (2024)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Nov. 8, 2024
Vanisha Gould - She's Not Shiny, She’s Not Smooth (2024)

Vanisha Gould - She's Not Shiny, She’s Not Smooth (2024)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 298 MB | Cover | 48:32 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 112 MB
Jazz, Vocal | Label: Cellar Live

She’s Not Shiny, She’s Not Smooth, an homage to the beauty that abides within and around the flaws in everyone’s perfect plans. Vanisha Gould embracing of imperfection was not something that initially came naturally, but was a realization and perspective that came with experience. “All of these little things we do, that I do, to make sure everything goes smoothly - you can bet your bottom dollar that something will go wrong,” Vanisha expresses. “That perfect outfit I finally chose? I’ll sweat through it within ten minutes on the stage. That perfect makeup? It’s gone by the time I get off the subway to the gig.” Amidst the ever-present torrent of potential hangups that encompass daily life for a performer, Vanisha embodied the choice that every individual has to make: either be crippled by the entropy of one’s circumstances, or use the cracks in the wall as a new canvas for something remarkable. “This album was created when I realized I can’t be perfect,” she says. “And you know what? Dammit, I like that. What a relief to embrace that idea.”

Herman Rarebell - I'm Back (2007)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Dec. 27, 2021
Herman Rarebell - I'm Back (2007)

Herman Rarebell - I'm Back (2007)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Mausoleum Records, 251093 | ~ 362 or 116 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 139 Mb
Hard Rock

The most known drummer of Hard lock legends SCORPIONS is back in town. Herman Rarebell, the man behind the German band's kit during their most 'classic' period, releases his newest solo album and - while listening to the CD for the x-th time - he seems rather in good mood to deliver some plain hard rockin' 'n' rollin' tunes that will surely not 'drive' some either crazy or bored…
Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914-48) - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1-5 (1991)

Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914-48) - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1-5 (1991)
Blues | 5cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
Document DOCD-5055-59 | rec: 1937-47 | 1170Mb

Vol. 1: A comprehensive collection of the highly influential blues pioneer's 25 earliest works, recorded in 1937 and 1938. (Note: This is the Sonny Boy Williamson who was murdered in 1948, not the one who toured England with the Yardbirds in 1963).
Several of these songs, of course, have become blues standards, particularly "Good Morning School Girl," which has been covered countless times (the Yardbirds, Ten Years After, and others), and there's a surprising variety here; "Got the Bottle Up and Gone," for example, has an obvious jug band feel to it that's thoroughly at odds with the haunted sound of "Decoration Blues," or the proto-swamp "Up the Country Blues" (a song that clearly influenced Slim Harpo).

Micah - I'm Only One Man (1971)  Music

Posted by v3122 at July 19, 2013
Micah - I'm Only One Man (1971)

Micah - I'm Only One Man (1971)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & iPod M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2013 | Shadoks Music 150 | ~ 196 or 196 or 75 Mb | Scans Included
Rock / Rrogressive Rock / Heavy Prog

"Micah" is a very little-known American progressive rock band from early 70s. Their music is a great blend of American hard/psychedelic rock style (like "Ford Theatre") and art/symphonic rock of such British formations like "Cressida", early "Deep Purple", "Beggar's Opera" or "Rare Bird"…
Spanky Wilson & The Quantic Soul Orchestra - I'm Thankful (2006)

Spanky Wilson & The Quantic Soul Orchestra - I'm Thankful (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 218 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 85 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Deep Funk, Soul | Label: Tru Thoughts | # TRUCD109 | Time: 00:35:55

It was much to soul singer Spanky Wilson's surprise – she didn't realize she had had such an impact – when British multi-instrumentalist/producer Will Holland contacted her in her Los Angeles home in 2004, professing his love of her music and wondering if she'd collaborate with him. Still, she agreed to go the studio, and together they did two songs, "Don't Joke with a Hungry Man" and "When You're Through," for Holland's solo project, Quantic, on the album Mishaps Happening. That collaboration worked out so well that they decided to make an entire record together, this time with Holland's full band, the Quantic Soul Orchestra. Wilson's lovely voice is the centerpiece of I'm Thankful, and it does show a bit of its age, but only in the best of ways, deepening it and giving it an added measure of credibility and authenticity while still preserving its expressiveness and strength.