Grateful Dead – The Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/9/80 & 10/10/80 Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | Art scans at 300 dpi Grateful Dead Productions / Rhino Records – R1-585396 This is a gorgeous collection of acoustic music from The Grateful Dead. The Dead were doing “unplugged” sets before anybody called them that, but in…
El Gran Combo – Por El Libro 1972 EGC Records LPS 003 Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96 kHz | FLAC | Art scans at 300 dpi El Gran Combo is practically an institution in Puerto Rico, they have been around so long and had so many members over the years. The group has also served as…
The great Abbey Lincoln has been slated for some attention on this blog for years. At various points I have had one or another record from her early career lined up in the proverbial queue and yet they somehow missed the train. I’ve had a bit of melancholy and existential blues lately and her music…
The song “Ser ou não ser” may not be Shakespeare, but Reginaldo Rossi sure did sing some catchy tunes in his heyday. Rossi was the city of Recife’s contribution to the Jovem Guarda music style of Brazilian 60’s pop-rock in the era when electric guitars were considered too low-class and “foreign” by music critics. Although…
Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Virgo Red 1973 Polydor PD-6016 Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | Art scans at 300 dpi An underrated Roy Ayers Ubiquity album, Virgo Red has to overcome the fact that it leads off with its weakest track, a cover of the Hot Chocolate song “Brother Louie”, which became a #1 hit…
Arrow Hot Hot Hot 1982 Arrow Records ARROW-019 According to my well-placed sources, there was a time where you couldn’t go to a party in the Caribbean without somebody playing this record, or at least the title cut. Monserrat native and Pillies fan Arrow (Alphonsus Cassell) had been releasing calypso and soca albums since the…
