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Henry Townsend - Mule (Remastered Expanded Edition) (1980/2018)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 27, 2020
Henry Townsend - Mule (Remastered Expanded Edition) (1980/2018)

Henry Townsend - Mule (Remastered Expanded Edition) (1980/2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 500 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 225 Mb | Covers included | 01:16:55
Blues | Label: Omnivore Recordings

Legendary St. Louis country bluesman’s 1980 album remastered from original tapes with 8 previously unissued tracks.

Otis Spann - The Blues Never Die! (1965) {1990, Remastered}  Music

Posted by popsakov at Aug. 9, 2021
Otis Spann - The Blues Never Die! (1965) {1990, Remastered}

Otis Spann - The Blues Never Die! (1965) {1990, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 209 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 96 Mb
Full Scans | 00:34:48 | RAR 5% Recovery
Chicago Blues, Electric Blues | Original Blues Classics #OBCCD-530-2 / Prestige #P-7391/PR-7391

Boasting fellow Chicago blues dynamo James Cotton on both harmonica and lead vocals, The Blues Never Die! is one of Otis Spann's most inspired albums. When this session was recorded for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary in 1964, Spann was still best known for playing acoustic piano in Muddy Waters' band. But The Blues Never Die! (which Fantasy reissued on CD in 1990 on its Original Blues Classics imprint) shows that he was as great a leader as he was a sideman. From Willie Dixon's "I'm Ready" (a Chess gem Spann had played numerous times with Waters) and Elmore James' "Dust My Broom" to Cotton's spirited "Feelin' Good" and Spann's dark-humored "Must Have Been the Devil," Spann and Cotton enjoy a very strong rapport on this consistently rewarding date.
VA - That Driving Beat: UK Freakbeat Rarities (Remastered Limited Edition) (2008)

VA - That Driving Beat: UK Freakbeat Rarities (Remastered Limited Edition) (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 858 MB
5:58:15 | Rock, Blues, Pop, Beat, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Psychic Circle

Devoted to the hybrid of '60s mod, British Invasion, and psychedelia known as "freakbeat," the series That Driving Beat ran to five volumes in the first decade of the 21st century. This five-CD box set brings them all together, presenting around 150 rarities from the 1963-1967 era, most of them British (a few items from Continental Europe are also thrown in). Pinpointing who this should be recommended to is tough, because any passionate collector of freakbeat is already going to have some to a lot (but almost certainly not all) of it. At the same time, it's likely too much for the novice, for whom single-volume comps with a higher percentage of killer cuts make far better initiations. But make no mistake: this certainly is good value if you like the style and don't have the majority of the contents, and not just for the sheer quantity of the material. Odd tracks like the Poets' "That's the Way It's Got to Be" and Him & the Others' "She's Got Eyes That Tell Lies" aside, there aren't that many absolute undisputed monsters of the genre here, most of it's at least decent, and good percentage of it is quite good.