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Keith Richards – Talk Is Cheap (1988/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 29, 2023 · Comments off

Legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards solo release. If you like the Stones, check out Talk Is Cheap and you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

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Keith Richards – Main Offender (1992/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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“Main Offender” is the second studio album by Keith Richards, released in 1992 between the Rolling Stones’ Steel Wheels and Voodoo Lounge projects.

Richards teamed with Talk Is Cheap collaborator Steve Jordan and added Waddy Wachtel to the mix both in composing and producing Main Offender. Sessions with Richards’ group of musician friends known as “The X-Pensive Winos” took place in California and New York City from March to September 1992, with touring in Europe’s autumn and early 1993 in North America.

When Richards reunited with Mick Jagger (who recorded Wandering Spirit while Richards was making Main Offender) in mid-1993 to start work on Voodoo Lounge, Jagger complimented him on Main Offender,[citation needed] and used the single “Wicked as It Seems” as inspiration for The Rolling Stones’ next single, “Love Is Strong”.

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Keith Richards – Live at the Hollywood Palladium (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 29, 2023 · Comments off

Newly remastered 13 track live album in Mediabook packaging, recorded Live on the Talk is Cheap Tour at the Hollywood Palladium on December 15th, 1988.

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Kate Todd – Anywhere With You (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 26, 2023 · Comments off

The title track and debut single for Kate Todd’s latest album, Anywhere With You, is more than just an ode to the ideal romantic relationship. It’s passionately hopeful tone could also be said to be emblematic of the way Kate herself has plunged headlong into pursuing her musical dreams. “It’s about having such a deep connection to someone; having such faith in them that you would follow them anywhere; the same goes for your passions and desires to follow dreams. It requires this kind of faith,” said the multi-talented, Toronto-based country music sensation.

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Kate Bush – Director’s Cut (2011/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 26, 2023 · Comments off

Director’s Cut is the ninth studio album by English singer and songwriter Kate Bush that she released in May 2011. On Directors Cut Kate revisits a selection of tracks from her albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes.
Kate has re-recorded some elements whilst keeping the best musical performances of each song – making it something of a director’s cut but in sound, not vision.

All the lead vocals and drums on DIRECTORS CUT are new performances, some of the tracks featuring guests including Steve Gadd, Danny Thompson and, on backing vocals, Mica Paris. Three songs have been completely re-recorded, one of which is “This Womans Work.”

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Kasabian – Empire (2006) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 26, 2023 · Comments off

Empire is the second album by British rock band Kasabian, released in August 2006. The album went on to No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart upon its release and was preceded by the release of new single “Empire” on 24 July 2006. According to Tom Meighan in an interview on the album with the NME in early 2006, “Empire” is a word used by the band to describe something that is good. As of 3 May 2017 the album has sold over 800,000 copies in the band’s home country of the UK.

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The Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 25, 2023 · Comments off

In celebration of the culmination of their 2021-22 reunion tour, The Black Crowes are pleased to present The Black Crowes: Shake Your Money Maker Live, an ode to the band reuniting and following an epic two-year anniversary tour with over 100 dates worldwide. The forthcoming album includes the best performances from the tour of each track off the original album and all their hits LIVE. Available everywhere digitally, on CD and vinyl, the record will include two bonus tracks of The Black Crowes covering “It’s Only Rock n’ Roll (But I Like It)” by The Rolling Stones and “Rock and Roll” by the Velvet Underground. The Black Crowes: Shake Your Money Maker Live is set for release on March 17 with a special live video of the fan-favorite hit and the first song in their anniversary tour set, “Twice As Hard,” available March 6.

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The Answer – Sundowners (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 25, 2023 · Comments off

British rock legends The Answer are back after a seven-year absence with their seventh full studio album “Sundowners”. Produced by British rock producer Dan Weller (Enter Shikari / Bury Tomorrow), the new album is an extraordinary record that will certainly be one of the rock albums of 2023. With more than 300,000 albums of their catalog sold and tours with AC/DC and the Rolling Stones, the comeback of The Answer is eagerly awaited by the fans. The album was recorded in April 2023 at Middlefarm Studios in Devon, UK.

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Bruce Springsteen – 1999-07-18 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Bruce Springsteen - 1999-07-18 Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

With the first Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concerts in six years now fewer than 50 days away, a return to where their rebirth began feels fitting. East Rutherford, NJ 7/18/99 was only the band’s second US date on the Reunion tour. It followed a 36-show European leg that saw them playing beloved outtakes (finally released on Tracks), exploring the depths of their own catalog, and rounding into form ahead of an audacious 15-night stand at Continental Airlines Arena to kick off the American run.
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Keith Richards – Crosseyed Heart (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Three albums in 71 years spent on this earth would suggest a work-rate that is not particularly infernal. However, Keith Richards does not only work for himself, but as a principal songwriter for a little known band called The Rolling Stones… Emerging from the shadows on the 18th September, Crosseyed Heart is the third studio offering from the human riff, whose last solo venture dates from as far back as 1992’s Main Offender. With nothing to prove, and perhaps nothing to gain, Richards allows himself to have fantastic fun on a disc that reaches nearly an hour. It has no frills, and is all the more endearing for it. Surrounded by three long-time collaborators, namely Waddy Wachtel (guitar), Ivan Neville (keyboards), and the album’s co-composer Steve Jordan (drums), Richards brilliantly slaloms between rock, blues, country and reggae, wielding his eternally potent image as a rakish, ethereal tramp. The production on Crosseyed Heart merits a mention, sticking firmly to the guitarist’s blueprint, and thereby bringing a touch of authenticity to the disc. But it is, finally, in the ballads and slower songs that Keith Richards works wonders here (the acoustic opening to the bluesy track ‘Crosseyed Heart’ reminded Qobuz of Robert Johnson; as did ‘Robbed Blind’ and ‘Suspicious’). It is a delight to see this living God of Rock leave his status in the changing room, and play and sing in a simple, direct way. We wish to alert your attention, finally, to two further tracks, a cover of ‘Goodnight Irene’ by Leadbelly, and the track ‘Illusion’, which features guest vocals from Norah Jones.
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JW-Jones – Sonic Departures (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 23, 2023 · Comments off

Fresh off the heels of winning ”Best Guitarist” at the 2020 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Jones was stoked for a huge year before COVID-19 hit and halted his tour schedule. ”I knew I had to do something productive to stay positive, so I turned isolation into inspiration!”

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Julie Andrews – Don’t Go In The Lion’s Cage Tonight! (Remastered) (1962/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 22, 2023 · Comments off

At the commercial height of her career in the 1960s, Julie Andrews could claim to be the primary performer associated with the longest-running musical in Broadway history, the highest-grossing Hollywood film ever made, and the biggest-selling album of all time.

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Jimmy Reed – Now Appearing (1960/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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There’s simply no sound in the blues as easily digestible, accessible, instantly recognizable, and as easy to play and sing as the music of Jimmy Reed. His best-known songs – “Baby, What You Want Me to Do,” “Bright Lights, Big City,” “Honest I Do,” “You Don’t Have to Go,” “Going to New York,” “Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby,” and “Big Boss Man” – have become such an integral part of the standard blues repertoire, it’s almost as if they have existed forever. Because his style was simple and easily imitated, his songs were accessible to just about everyone from high-school garage bands having a go at it, to Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Lou Rawls, Hank Williams, Jr., and the Rolling Stones, making him – in the long run – perhaps the most influential bluesman of all. His bottom-string boogie rhythm guitar patterns (all furnished by boyhood friend and longtime musical partner Eddie Taylor), simple two-string turnarounds, country-ish harmonica solos (all played in a neck-rack attachment hung around his neck), and mush-mouthed vocals were probably the first exposure most white folks had to the blues. And his music – lazy, loping, and insistent and constantly built and reconstructed single after single on the same sturdy frame – was a formula that proved to be enormously successful and influential, both with middle-aged blacks and young white audiences for a good dozen years. Jimmy Reed records hit the R&B charts with amazing frequency and crossed over onto the pop charts on many occasions, a rare feat for an unreconstructed bluesman. This is all the more amazing simply because Reed’s music was nothing special on the surface; he possessed absolutely no technical expertise on either of his chosen instruments and his vocals certainly lacked the fierce declamatory intensity of a Howlin’ Wolf or a Muddy Waters. But it was exactly that lack of in-your-face musical confrontation that made Jimmy Reed a welcome addition to everybody’s record collection back in the ’50s and ’60s. And for those aspiring musicians who wanted to give the blues a try, either vocally or instrumentally (no matter what skin color you were born with), perhaps Billy Vera said it best in his liner notes to a Reed greatest-hits anthology: “Yes, anybody with a range of more than six notes could sing Jimmy’s tunes and play them the first day Mom and Dad brought home that first guitar from Sears & Roebuck. I guess Jimmy could be termed the ’50s punk bluesman.”
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Jimmy Page, The Black Crowes – Live at the Greek (2000) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Jimmy Page, The Black Crowes - Live at the Greek (2000) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

The Black Crowes were dogged with comparisons to the Rolling Stones and the Faces throughout the first decade of their career, so it came as a mild surprise that they teamed with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page in late 1999 for a couple of concerts. Zeppelin had a mystique and majesty about them that the Crowes never attempted to emulate. They were an earthy, bluesy rock band and while they found a number of different ways to rework their influences, they never tried the stately grandeur that was Zeppelin’s second nature. So, some observers were curious to see how these two approaches worked. Well, it worked very, very well indeed. It shouldn’t have come as a surprise that it was a good, comfortable fit since Page always demonstrated a true love of blues and early rock & roll, even on Led Zep’s heaviest moments. What may be a surprise, at least to listeners that always dismissed the Black Crowes as revivalist hacks, is how supple and muscular the band sounds on Live at the Greek and how powerful vocalist Chris Robinson is. The double-disc album, released originally only through the internet but then through retail on TVT, essentially replicates an entire concert from Page and the Crowes, one of the first before they set out on a full-length American tour in the summer of 2000. They stick to Led Zeppelin classics and old blues and R&B standards like “Woke up This Morning,” “Sloppy Drunk,” “Mellow Down Easy,” and “Shake Your Money Maker,” plus the Yardbirds’ “Shape of Things to Come” and Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well.” No Crowes songs are here due to contractual reasons – the band left American/Columbia in 1999, and they were not allowed to recut any song they released on the label in the years immediately following their departure; but in a way, that only strengthens the album. By pounding out hard-driving blues-rock and classic Zeppelin tunes, the band is able to stretch out and reveal just what a capable, versatile band they are. The true sign of their abilities is that Page sounds looser and happier here than he has in years; he sounds like he’s truly enjoying himself, a quality that is debatable on the Page & Plant records, no matter what their virtues are. Live at the Greek isn’t a landmark release, and only hardcore Page, Black Crowes, and Zeppelin fans are likely to want this, no matter how vibrant and lucent these faithful interpretations are. But for those fans, they’ll be quite pleased with how good, how strong Live at the Greek is. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (50th Anniversary) (2023 Remaster) (1973/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 15, 2023 · Comments off

The Dark Side of the Moon was a benchmark record. It turned the musical world on its ear with a hitherto unheard combination of sounds, and changed things considerably for Pink Floyd. For this project, the band resurrected older and unfinished numbers, some of which came from the multitude of soundtracks the bandmembers had previously worked on. The film Zabriskie Point, a study of American materialism from a foreigner’s perspective, provided “Us and Them” (originally titled “The Violence Sequence”). Waters rewrote “Breathe” after its appearance on his and avant-garde composer Ron Geesin’s score for The Body, a surreal medical documentary. Floyd and their longtime engineer, Alan Parsons, used a multitude of sound effects, from stereophonically projected footsteps and planes flying overhead (“On the Run”) to a roomful of ringing clocks (“Time”). Further adding to the record’s mystique, barely audible spoken passages were sprinkled throughout; a result of hours of interviews of random Abbey Road occupants about their views on insanity, violence, and death. Floyd must have struck a nerve: The Dark Side of the Moon remained on Billboard’s albums chart for an astounding 14 years. It made Pink Floyd a household name, elevating them to the level of the Rolling Stones and the Who in the rock pantheon.

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