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Elton John - Never Too Late The Deeper Cuts (2024) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Dec. 14, 2024

One of the greatest stars of the rock & roll era, Elton John exploded like a supernova in the early 1970s and sustained a career that kept him at the top of the charts for the next five decades. He had a Billboard Top 40 hit single every year between 1970 and 1996, a sign that he knew how to both change with the times and mold the times to fit him. John's earliest records were part of the moody, introspective post-'60s singer/songwriter movement, but once he had a hit with "Your Song," the pianist revealed he could also craft Beatles-like pop and pound out rockers with equal aplomb. As "Rocket Man," "Crocodile Rock," "Daniel," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," and "Bennie and the Jets" – songs John wrote with his lifelong collaborator Bernie Taupin – climbed into the Top Ten on either side of the Atlantic, John was inescapable during the first half of the '70s. His versatility, combined with his effortless melodic skills, and flamboyant stage shows, became his calling cards, sustaining him through shifts in fame and fortune. Eventually, John reached outside of pop music, writing songs for Disney's The Lion King and collaborating with Tim Rice on Aida, yet he never abandoned the form: during the 2010s and 2020s, he balanced fashionable collaborations with emerging stars with albums that hearkened back to his moody records of the early '70s. In 2024, he joined the elite group of EGOT winners after earning an Emmy Award for his concert special Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium.

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Charlie Rich - Lonely Weekends: The Sun Years 1958-1962 [3CD box] (1998) Music

Posted by perfecta at May 25, 2012

Charlie Rich - Lonely Weekends: The Sun Years 1958-1962 [3CD box] (1998)
3x EAC-FLAC(Tracks) with CUEs & LOGs - 940 MB | Covers & some scans of Booklet | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 487 MB
Rock & Roll / Rockabilly / Country / Pop | Total Time - 217:06 minutes | Label: Bear Family Records # BCD 16152 CI

I don't mean to take anything away from Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee, but I don't think I ever recorded anybody who was better as a singer, writer or player than Charlie Rich.
– Sam Phillips, Sun Records

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Earl Bostic - The Earl Bostic Story (4CD Box Set, 2006) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at May 6, 2018

Earl Bostic - The Earl Bostic Story (4CD Box Set, 2006)
Jazz, Rhythm & Blues | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 684 Mb
Label: Proper Box UK

A 106 track survey of alto sax player Bostic, a technical master of his instrument who cut his teeth with many jazz bands during the 1930s. He was to become a hugely influential player who had many hits during his '50s heyday with a jump blues and R&B style. His bands became important training grounds for up-and-coming jazzmen like John Coltrane, Blue Mitchell, Stanley Turrentine and Benny Golson although he achieved his early reputation with jumping R&B tunes and his biggest hits in the '50s with more sophisticated material.

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Ray Charles - The Atlantic Hits (2019) Music

Posted by Pisulik at Feb. 14, 2019

Ray Charles - The Atlantic Hits (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 801 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 387 MB | 02:42:26
Soul, Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Vocal Jazz | Label: Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group

Ray Charles was the musician most responsible for developing soul music. Singers like Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson also did a great deal to pioneer the form, but Charles did even more to devise a new form of black pop by merging '50s R&B with gospel-powered vocals, adding plenty of flavor from contemporary jazz, blues, and (in the '60s) country. Then there was his singing; his style was among the most emotional and easily identifiable of any 20th century performer, up there with the likes of Elvis and Billie Holiday. He was also a superb keyboard player, arranger, and bandleader. The brilliance of his 1950s and '60s work, however, can't obscure the fact that he made few classic tracks after the mid-'60s, though he recorded often and performed until the year before his death.

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Ray Charles - The Ray Charles Story, Vol. 1-4 (1962-1964/2012) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at April 10, 2024

Ray Charles - The Ray Charles Story, Vol. 1-4 (1962-1964/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 173:21 minutes | 4,6 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 173:21 minutes | 2,41 GB
Studio Mono Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover(s)

Ray Charles Robinson was a top vocal star, songwriter, leading jazz piano player and composer. He was sometimes referred to as 'The Genius' and was also nicknamed 'The High Priest of Soul'. This four volumes compilation features some of his best songs from his early Atlantic years.

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Little Walter - Blues With A Feelin' [Chess Collectibles Vol. 3] (1997) Music

Posted by thingska at Sept. 17, 2010

Blues with a Feeling is a two-CD, 40-track compilation which makes the perfect audio bookend to The Essential Little Walter (or the single disc The Best of Little Walter for those on a budget) by systematically combing the Chess vaults and rounding up the best stuff. No bottom-of-the-barrel scrapings here; this compilation effectively renders all '70s Euro vinyl bootlegs null and void, both from a sound and selection standpoint. While not as exhaustive as the European nine-CD retrospective (in and out of print as of this writing), there are still things on this compilation that are left off the box set on Charly.

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Kim Wilson - Tigerman (1993) Music

Posted by Designol at June 10, 2022

The solo debut from the singing/harmonica playing leader of Austin blues band The Fabulous Thunderbirds, this disc features an all-star cast that includes a number of ex-T-Birds like Duke Robillard, Preston Hubbard, Fran Christina, Gene Taylor and Rusty Zinn. Many of the songs here are covers by T-Bone Walker and Bobby "Blue" Bland.

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Tower Of Power - Original Album Series (2013) [5CD Box Set] Music

Posted by v3122 at March 15, 2021

Tower Of Power - Original Album Series (2013)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
5CD | Rhino, 8122796831 | ~ 1296 or 544 Mb | Scans(png) -> 282 Mb
R&B / Funk / Soul

2013 five CD box set containing a quintet of albums packaged in cardboard mini LP sleeves and housed in a slipcase. Tower of Power has remained a significant Californian funk/soul/R&B horn band since its formation in 1968…

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Tower Of Power - Original Album Series (2013) Music

Posted by v3122 at Oct. 2, 2014

Tower Of Power - Original Album Series (2013)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
5CD | Rhino, 8122796831 | ~ 1296 or 1295 or 544 Mb | Scans(png) -> 282 Mb
R&B / Funk / Soul

2013 five CD box set containing a quintet of albums packaged in cardboard mini LP sleeves and housed in a slipcase. Tower of Power has remained a significant Californian funk/soul/R&B horn band since its formation in 1968…

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Little Walter - Blues With A Feelin' [Recorded 1952-1966] (1997) Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 7, 2025

Blues with a Feeling is a two-CD, 40-track compilation which makes the perfect audio bookend to The Essential Little Walter (or the single disc The Best of Little Walter for those on a budget) by systematically combing the Chess vaults and rounding up the best stuff. No bottom-of-the-barrel scrapings here; this compilation effectively renders all '70s Euro vinyl bootlegs null and void, both from a sound and selection standpoint. While not as exhaustive as the European nine-CD retrospective (in and out of print as of this writing), there are still things on this compilation that are left off the box set on Charly. The rarities (including the low down "Tonight with a Fool," possibly the rarest Walter Checker single of all and one whose title never shows up in the lyrics) are all noteworthy by their inclusion…

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