Folk Rock | Lossless Music Archives

Al Stewart – Past, Present & Future (1973) [2024, 50th Anniversary Edition, New Mix, Remastered, Blu-ray Audio + Hi-Res]

Al Stewart - Past, Present & Future (1973) [2024, 50th Anniversary Edition, New Mix, Remastered, Blu-ray Audio + Hi-Res]

Stephen W Tayler has gone back to the multi-track tapes and created brand new 96/24 5.1 and new stereo mixes. These both feature on the included blu-ray, alongside a new 2024 remaster.
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Live at Fillmore East, 1969 (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Live at Fillmore East, 1969 (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Live at Fillmore East, 1969 (2024)
[CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 3.47 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Rhino | Genre: Folk Rock

After famously playing their second show at Woodstock in August 1969, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young spent the rest of the year touring and writing songs for what would become CSNY’s 1970 debut,Déjà Vu.Live at Fillmore East, 1969is a newly discovered multi-track recording of the band’s September 20, 1969, concert at the historic Fillmore East in New York City captures an early moment from that first tour. Continue reading “Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Live at Fillmore East, 1969 (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Blackmore’s Night – Fires at Midnight (2001) [2024, New Mix, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Blackmore's Night - Fires at Midnight (2001) [2024, New Mix, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Blackmore’s Night – Fires at Midnight (2001) [2024, New Mix, CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 48kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 1.62 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Earmusic | Genre: Folk Rock

The 25th Anniversary Edition of “Fires At Midnight” has been fully remixed from the original multi-track masters. The album will be released as a Vinyl LP for the very first time and includes all bonus-tracks from the previous editions as well as two brand new versions with new vocal parts recorded by Candice Night in 2024 (‘Written In The Stars’ and the album’s title track). Continue reading “Blackmore’s Night – Fires at Midnight (2001) [2024, New Mix, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Joni Mitchell – The Asylum Albums 1972-1975 (2022) [Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Joni Mitchell - The Asylum Albums 1972-1975 (2022) [Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Joni Mitchell – The Asylum Albums 1972-1975 (2022) [Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
4 x Discs | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 8.73 GB
Label: Rhino | Genre: Pop Rock, Folk Rock

Joni Mitchell Archives Series Continues With New Boxed Set Featuring Remastered Versions Of For The Roses, Court And Spark, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, And The Double Live Album, Miles Of Aisles.
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Joni Mitchell – The Asylum Albums 1976-1980 (2024) [Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Joni Mitchell - The Asylum Albums 1976-1980 (2024) [Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Joni Mitchell – The Asylum Albums 1976-1980 (2024)
[Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
5 x Discs | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 9.35 GB
Label: Rhino | Genre: Pop Rock, Folk Rock

“The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) The new collection showcases Mitchell at her most daring across Hejira (1976), Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (1977), Mingus (1979), and the live album Shadows and Light (1980). Renowned audio engineer Bernie Grundman remastered all four releases included in this boxed set from the original flat analog master tapes. Continue reading “Joni Mitchell – The Asylum Albums 1976-1980 (2024) [Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Grateful Dead – From the Mars Hotel (1974) [2024, 50th Anniversary, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Grateful Dead - From the Mars Hotel (1974) [2024, 50th Anniversary, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Grateful Dead – From the Mars Hotel (1974) [2024, 50th Anniversary, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
3 x Discs | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 9.46 GB
Label: Rhino | Genre: Country Rock, Folk Rock

Rhino’s seventh installment of 50th Anniversary Studio Releases for Grateful Dead. FROM THE MARS HOTEL is the 7th album and 2nd released on Dead’s own label, Grateful Dead Records. The Deluxe Edition will feature the same remastered and Plangentized audio from the 50th Remaster PLUS the previously unreleased live performance from the University of Nevada-Reno on May 12, 1974. Continue reading “Grateful Dead – From the Mars Hotel (1974) [2024, 50th Anniversary, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) [Japanese Edition]

Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) [Japanese Edition]

With the creation of her Lana Del Rey persona, singer/songwriter Lizzy Grant stitched together the iconography of a fading American dream with soaring but melancholic pop songwriting, becoming an icon unto herself in the process. Her distinctive approach blurred sadness and longing just as it did past and present, drawing on the influence of classic American pop Continue reading “Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) [Japanese Edition]”

Don McLean – American Boys (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Don McLean - American Boys (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Don McLean – American Boys (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 965 MB
Label: BFD | Genre: Folk Rock

This is essentially what Don McLean has done, with the release of his latest album, American Boys, which was produced in Nashville by Michael Severs. Containing 13 songs, the album is almost as varied as it is long. Continue reading “Don McLean – American Boys (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Steeleye Span – Live At The Bottom Line 1974 (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Steeleye Span - Live At The Bottom Line 1974 (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Steeleye Span – Live At The Bottom Line 1974 (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 1.42 GB
Label: Omnivore Recordings | Genre: Folk Rock

Previously unissued performance from the iconic British folk-rock band recorded live at New York’s legendary Bottom Line, recorded on the Now We Are Six tour, introduces one of their best-known songs, “Thomas The Rhymer” – a track that has become a staple in their live set since its release on Now We Are Six Fairport Convention co-founder and bassist Ashley Hutchings and legendary singer, Sandy Denny parted ways with the group after their classic Liege And Leaf album. Continue reading “Steeleye Span – Live At The Bottom Line 1974 (2024) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief (1969) [2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief (1969) [2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief (1969)
[2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.08 GB (DSF) + 828 MB (FLAC) + 1.70 GB (ISO)
Label: Universal | Japan | Cat#: UIGY-9050 | Genre: Folk Rock

In the decades since its original release, more than one writer has declared Fairport Convention’s Liege & Lief the definitive British folk-rock album, a distinction it holds at least in part because it grants equal importance to all three parts of that formula. Continue reading “Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief (1969) [2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Pentangle – The Pentangle (1968) [2011, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Pentangle - The Pentangle (1968) [2011, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Pentangle – The Pentangle (1968) [2011, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 848 MB (DSF) + 668 MB (FLAC) + 1.37 GB (ISO)
Label: Universal Music | Japan | Cat#: UIGY-9507 | Genre: British Folk-Rock

There’s something exciting about the first album of a band that goes on to greatness, and The Pentangle, by the group of the same name, is no different. Here, the listener witnesses the first studio work of a band struggling to get their essence down on vinyl. Of course Bert Jansch and John Renbourn’s reputations as guitarists preceded the band, but the addition of bassist Danny Thompson and drummer Terry Cox gave the band an acoustic rhythm section like no other folk-rock group. Continue reading “Pentangle – The Pentangle (1968) [2011, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Sarah McLachlan – Touch (1988) [2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Sarah McLachlan - Touch (1988) [2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Sarah McLachlan – Touch (1988)
[2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Image + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 476 MB (CD-Layer) + 1.21 GB (DSF) + 922 MB (FLAC) + 1.93 GB (ISO)
Label: Audio Fidelity | US | Cat#: AFZ 141 | Genre: Folk Rock
Update: CD-Layer & DSF Tracks have been added

A largely forgotten album in the wake of Sarah McLachlan’s mainstream success, Touch was the first album anyone heard from the singer. Only 19 at the time, McLachlan had years to go before she would become the seductive songstress of Fumbling Towards Ecstacy or the sensitive balladeer of Surfacing. Continue reading “Sarah McLachlan – Touch (1988) [2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Neil Young – Before and After (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Neil Young - Before and After (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Neil Young – Before and After (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 1.08 GB
Label: Reprise | Genre: Folk Rock

On his new album, BEFORE AND AFTER, Young has approached a totally eclectic collection of mostly obscure songs like a painter with a new palette. Picking from a vast array of his originals, Young chooses favorites from his playbook like a trip into his music history and performs them mostly alone, taking a solo acoustic journey to a new place. Continue reading “Neil Young – Before and After (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Bob Dylan – The Complete Budokan 1978 (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Bob Dylan - The Complete Budokan 1978 (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Bob Dylan – The Complete Budokan 1978 (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
4x Discs | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 7.37 GB
Label: Columbia | Genre: Folk Rock

A deluxe box set celebrating Bob Dylan’s 1978 world concert tour and the 45th anniversary of the artist’s first concert appearances in Japan, The Complete Budokan 1978 includes two complete shows from Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan Hall (February 28 and March 1, 1978) featuring 58 tracks, 36 of which are previously unreleased. The audio is newly remixed from the original 24-channel analog tapes. Continue reading “Bob Dylan – The Complete Budokan 1978 (2023) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park N.J. (1973) [2023, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park N.J. (1973) [2023, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park N.J. (1973)
[2023, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 928 MB (DSF) + 793 MB (FLAC) + 1.58 GB (ISO)
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2264 | Genre: Pop Rock, Folk Rock

Sourced from the original analog master tapes and housed in mini-LP gatefold sleeve packaging, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD plays with a clarity, directness, and emotionalism that practically whisks you into the New York office in which Springsteen – accompanied by then-manager Mike Appel – played a few originals for legendary Columbia Records executive John Hammond and earned a record deal. Continue reading “Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park N.J. (1973) [2023, MFSL Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”