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The Miracles – Love Crazy & The Miracles (2020) [Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Miracles - Love Crazy & The Miracles (2020) [Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Miracles – Love Crazy & The Miracles (2020) [Remastered, 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: 2.35 GB (ISO) + 1.58 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.27 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Vocalion | Austria | Cat#: CDSML 8569 | Genre: R&B
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Donna Summer – Encore (2020) {Limited Edition, Remastered, Box Set}

Donna Summer - Encore (2020) {Limited Edition, Remastered, Box Set}

Donna Summer – Encore (2020) {Limited Edition, Remastered, Box Set}
EAC Rip | 33xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 13.1 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Driven By The Music | EU | Cat#: DBTMCDBOX02 | Genre: Pop, Disco, R&B

A new comprehensive 33CD box set, Encore, brings together remastered versions all of Donna Summer‘s 17 studio albums and offer eight bonus discs of rarities and non-album material. Continue reading “Donna Summer – Encore (2020) {Limited Edition, Remastered, Box Set}”

Average White Band – AWB (1974) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Average White Band - AWB (1974) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Average White Band – AWB (1974) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 896 MB (Hi-Res) + 262 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | USA | Cat#: MFSL 1-245 | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Half-Speed mastered

After debuting with 1973’s excellent but neglected Show Your Hand (later reissued as Put It Where You Want It), the Average White Band switched from MCA to Atlantic and hit big with this self-titled gem. Upon first hearing gutsy, Tower of Power-influenced funk like “Person to Person” and the instrumental “Pick Up the Pieces” (a number one R&B hit), many soul fans were shocked to learn that not only were the bandmembers white — they were whites from Scotland. Continue reading “Average White Band – AWB (1974) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}”

VA – She’s So Fine: The Rise Of The Girl Groups (2013) [3CD-Set]

VA - She's So Fine: The Rise Of The Girl Groups (2013) [3CD-Set]

George Benson – Albums Collection [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

George Benson - Albums Collection [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

George Benson – Albums Collection [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 48kHz / 96kHz / 192kHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.82MHz
9x Discs
Total Size: 9.18 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Concord / Warner / Provogue | Genre: Jazz, R&B, Blues
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Sam Cooke – Albums Collection [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Sam Cooke - Albums Collection [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Sam Cooke – Albums Collection [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
13x Discs | Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz / 96kHz / 192kHz
Total Size: 13.6 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: ABKCO Records / RCA / Legacy | Genre: R&B
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Michael McDonald – If That’s What It Takes (1982) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Michael McDonald - If That's What It Takes (1982) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Michael McDonald – If That’s What It Takes (1982) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 842 MB (Hi-Res) + 229 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed in Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-149 | Genre: Pop, Soul
Half-Speed Mastered

As the lead singer of the Doobie Brothers from 1975-1980, Michael McDonald’s soulful voice and skilled writing gave the group classics like “Minute by Minute,” “Real Love,” and the perfect “What a Fool Believes.” After the group’s 1980 album One Step Closer displayed a tension that was almost audible, it was no surprise that a split was in the works. Continue reading “Michael McDonald – If That’s What It Takes (1982) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}”

Prince – 1999 (1982) [2019, Super Deluxe Edition, Remastered, 5CD + DVD]

Prince - 1999 (1982) [2019, Super Deluxe Edition, Remastered, 5CD + DVD]

The reissue of the 1999 album is more ambitious than the already very good Purple Rain set. As well as the remastered album, the 5CD+DVD super deluxe offers two further discs of previously unreleased ‘vault’ material (23 tracks in total), a CD of seven-inch versions and promo edits, a complete live audio performance from the 1999 tour and a DVD containing another complete, previously unreleased concert from the 1999 tour. Continue reading “Prince – 1999 (1982) [2019, Super Deluxe Edition, Remastered, 5CD + DVD]”

Chuck Berry – Rock And Roll Music: Any Old Way You Choose It (2014) [Box Set]

Chuck Berry - Rock And Roll Music: Any Old Way You Choose It (2014) [Box Set]

There have been countless Chuck Berry compilations but never one like Bear Family’s Rock and Roll Music: Any Old Way You Choose It, a mammoth 16-disc box containing his complete recorded works for Chess, Mercury, and Atco. Only the soundtrack to Taylor Hackford’s star-studded 1987 documentary Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll is missing and it isn’t missed much, not in the face of this abundance. Continue reading “Chuck Berry – Rock And Roll Music: Any Old Way You Choose It (2014) [Box Set]”

Chaka Khan – Original Album Series (2009) [5CD Box Set]

Chaka Khan - Original Album Series (2009) [5CD Box Set]

Part of Warner Bros. UK and Rhino’s Original Album Series collection, this budget-priced set of Yvette Marie Stevens (Chaka Khan) jams features five complete albums, including Chaka (1978), Naughty (1980), What Cha’ Gonna Do for Me (1981), Chaka Khan (1982), and I Feel for You (1984). Continue reading “Chaka Khan – Original Album Series (2009) [5CD Box Set]”

Lou Rawls – Greatest Hits (1992)

Lou Rawls - Greatest Hits (1992)

Various Artists – Chicago Hit Factory: The Vee Jay Story 1953-1966 (2013) {10CDs, Box set}

Various Artists - Chicago Hit Factory: The Vee Jay Story 1953-1966 (2013) {10CDs, Box set}

Various Artists – Chicago Hit Factory: The Vee Jay Story 1953-1966 (2013) {10CDs, Box set}
EAC Rip | 10xCD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Scans Included
Total Size: 3.61 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Charly Records | Germany | Cat#: Charly 915 MB | Genre: Jazz, R&B

Motown is the black-owned Great Lakes R&B label synonymous with the ’60s but before their reign was Chicago’s Vee-Jay Records, ruling the charts for nearly a decade prior to the rise of the Detroit imprint. The tale of Vee-Jay has been told before in a variety of compilations, but Charly’s 2014 box set Chicago Hit Factory: The Vee-Jay Story 1953-1966 is easily the most comprehensive chronicle, lasting ten discs and encompassing all of the chapters in the label’s wild history. Continue reading “Various Artists – Chicago Hit Factory: The Vee Jay Story 1953-1966 (2013) {10CDs, Box set}”

Etta James – The Definitive Collection (2006)

Etta James - The Definitive Collection (2006)

Whoa. There are many Etta James collections out there. The standard-bearers thus far have been the Chess Box and the Essential Etta James. This set attempts to do something else and goes deep into her catalog to dig out the gems from her years with Modern, Argo, Cadet, Chess, Warner Brothers, Island, and Private Music/BMG, and presents the full spectrum of her five-decade career. As such, there are many different kinds of songs Continue reading “Etta James – The Definitive Collection (2006)”

Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Vols 1 & 2 (2009) [Official Digital Release] [2019, Reissue]

Ray Charles - Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Vols 1 & 2 (2009) [Official Digital Release] [2019, Reissue]

Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Vols 1 & 2 (2009) [Official Digital Release] [2019, Reissue]
FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 422 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Concord Records | Genre: R&B

Ray Charles’s Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volumes 1 & 2 are major landmarks in American culture. Charles demonstrated that great songs with signature performances work in all genres. “I Can’t Stop Loving You” was a standard in country, soul and R&B, as he proved. Modern Sounds also brought America together during the Sixties’ civil rights movement. Charles became one of the first recording artists to have ownership and complete control of the masters. Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music has been listed among the greatest albums of all time, along with the Beatles, Dylan, Motown, Springsteen, Hendrix and the Beach Boys. Continue reading “Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Vols 1 & 2 (2009) [Official Digital Release] [2019, Reissue]”

Amy Winehouse – Frank (2003) [2008, Deluxe Edition]

Amy Winehouse - Frank (2003) [2008, Deluxe Edition]

If a series of unfortunate comparisons (like the ones to follow) cause listeners to equate British vocalist Amy Winehouse with Macy Gray, it’s only natural. Both come on like a hybrid of Billie Holiday and Lauryn Hill who’s had a tipple and then attempted one more late-night set at a supper club than they should have. Despite her boozy persona and loose-limbed delivery, though, Winehouse is an excellent vocalist possessing both Continue reading “Amy Winehouse – Frank (2003) [2008, Deluxe Edition]”