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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Great Western Themes (1993) [2005, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Great Western Themes (1993) [2005, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Great Western Themes (1993) [2005, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.14 GB (ISO) + 1.90 GB (FLAC Mch) + 695 MB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Centurion Music | Germany | Cat#: 222911-203 | Genre: Folk, World, & Country
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Bob Dylan & Joan Baez – Voices Of A Generation (2013)

Bob Dylan & Joan Baez - Voices Of A Generation (2013)

This compilation brings together the first albums of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. Released in 1960 and 1962 respectively and titled by their respective names, they were the first recorded statements by a pair of artists who were spokespeople for the folk and protest movement that had grown up in the late Fifties and was aligning itself with the US Civil Rights Campaign. Continue reading “Bob Dylan & Joan Baez – Voices Of A Generation (2013)”

VA – Milk Of The Tree: An Anthology Of Female Vocal Folk And Singer-Songwriters 1966-73 (2017) {3CD-Set}

VA - Milk Of The Tree: An Anthology Of Female Vocal Folk And Singer-Songwriters 1966-73 (2017) {3CD-Set}

VA – Milk Of The Tree: An Anthology Of Female Vocal Folk And Singer-Songwriters 1966-73 (2017) {3CD-Set}
EAC Rip | 3xCD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.30 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Grapefruit Records | UK | Cat#: CRSEGBOX039 | Genre: Folk, Country

Notwithstanding one or two isolated exceptions, it wasn’t until the mid-Sixties that independent female voices really began to be heard within the music industry. The feminist movement naturally coincided with the first signs of genuine musical emancipation. In North America, Joan Baez and Buffy Sainte-Marie emerged through the folk clubs, coffee-houses and college campuses to inspire a generation of wannabe female singers and musicians with their strong, independent mentality and social compassion, while the British scene’s combination of folk song revival and the Beatles-led pop explosion Continue reading “VA – Milk Of The Tree: An Anthology Of Female Vocal Folk And Singer-Songwriters 1966-73 (2017) {3CD-Set}”

Nancy Bryan – Neon Angel (2000) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Nancy Bryan - Neon Angel (2000) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The first non-blues artist on Analogue Productions, Los Angeles singer/songwriter Nancy Bryan offers in Neon Angel, her second APO release, social commentary with intense soul. Bryan’s honesty in her approach to song writing has created a stylization that defies category. Neon Angel is a unique and personal body of work. In it, her lyrics are visual and socially relevant, yet intimate, poetic and immediate. Her music ranges from the ethereal to a plaintive earthiness, and at times both expressions are grasped in the same moment. Continue reading “Nancy Bryan – Neon Angel (2000) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Blackmore’s Night – Discography

Blackmore's Night - Discography

Blackmore’s Night – Discography
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STUDIO ALBUMS | LIVE ALBUMS | COMPILATIONS ALBUMS

Legendary Deep Purple and Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (b. April 14, 1945, Weston-super-Mare, England) shifted his musical focus away from hard rock in the late ’90s and started concentrating on his love of Renaissance-era music. He formed Blackmore’s Night with his fiancée, vocalist/lyricist Candice Night (b. May 8, 1971, Hauppauge, Long Island, New York), and recruited other musicians from around the world to combine elements of world music, Renaissance, new age, folk, and rock & roll. Blackmore didn’t exactly retire his Fender Stratocaster, but he plays acoustic guitar almost exclusively in Blackmore’s Night. Continue reading “Blackmore’s Night – Discography”

Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker (2016) {Japanese Edition}

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (2016) {Japanese Edition}

Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker (2016) {Japanese Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 256 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Music | Japan | Cat#: SICP 5076 | Genre: Folk

You Want It Darker is the fourteenth and final studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released on 21 October 2016, by Columbia Records. The album focuses on death, God, and humor. It was released to critical acclaim. Continue reading “Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker (2016) {Japanese Edition}”

Leonard Cohen – The Essential Leonard Cohen (2002)

Leonard Cohen - The Essential Leonard Cohen (2002)

The tracks on this two-CD, 31-song anthology, spanning Cohen’s career from his 1967 debut album through 2002’s Ten New Songs, were chosen by Cohen himself. It could thus be regarded as an accurate mirror of how Cohen sees his own career path and catalog highlights. Continue reading “Leonard Cohen – The Essential Leonard Cohen (2002)”

Joni Mitchell – The Beginning Of Survival (2004) {Compilation}

Joni Mitchell – The Beginning Of Survival (2004) {Compilation}
EAC Rip | WavPack (.wv) Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 504 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Geffen | USA | Cat#: B0002836-02 | Genre: Folk, Folk Rock

The Beginning of Survival is a whopping 16-track collection from Joni Mitchell’s Geffen period, recorded between 1985-1998, and carefully chosen by the artist as “commentaries on the world in which we live.” One has to wonder about the title: if by saying this is “the beginning of survival,” Mitchell is referring to her own retirement strategy — she is no longer making new records. Continue reading “Joni Mitchell – The Beginning Of Survival (2004) {Compilation}”

Joan Baez – Diamonds & Rust (1975) {1995, MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust (1975) {1995, MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Joan Baez – Diamonds & Rust (1975) {1995, MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}
EAC Rip | APE Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 270 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc II | USA | Cat#: UDCD 646 | Genre: Folk

With the Vietnam War winding down, Joan Baez, who had devoted one side of her last album to her trip to Hanoi, delivered the kind of commercial album A&M Records must have wanted when it signed her three years earlier. But she did it on her own terms, putting together a session band of contemporary jazz veterans like Larry Carlton, Wilton Felder, and Joe Sample, and mixing a wise selection from the work of current singer-songwriters like Jackson Browne and John Prine with pop covers of Stevie Wonder and the Allman Brothers Band, and an unusually high complement of her own writing. Continue reading “Joan Baez – Diamonds & Rust (1975) {1995, MFSL, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}”

Various Artists – Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}

Various Artists - Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}

Various Artists – Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}
EAC Rip | 4xCD | WavPack (.wv) Image + Cue + Log | Scans Included
Total Size: 1.12 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL | Japan | Cat#: MFCD 4-816 | Genre: Blues Rock, Folk, Hard Rock

It’s almost impossible to regard the soundtrack albums for the Michael Wadleigh documentary Woodstock, simply as music, apart from the event that inspired them or what that event has come to represent. Music from the Original Soundtrack and More: Woodstock was originally released by Atlantic’s Cotillion imprint as a three-LP set in a gatefold sleeve. Continue reading “Various Artists – Woodstock (1970) {1986, MFSL, Remastered}”