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David Bowie – Let’s Dance (2018 Remastered Version) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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David Bowie – Let’s Dance (2018 Remastered Version) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:46 minutes | 884 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK

“Let’s Dance” was the fifteenth studio album by David Bowie, originally released in 1983, with co-production by Chic’s Nile Rodgers.

The title track of the album became one of Bowie’s biggest hit singles, reaching No. 1 in the UK, US and various other countries. Further singles included “Modern Love” and “China Girl,” the latter of which was a new version of a song which Bowie had co-written with Iggy Pop for the Pop’s 197 album, ‘The Idiot.’

The success of the album surprised Bowie, who felt he had to continue to pander to the new pop audience he acquired with the album. This led to Bowie releasing two further solo albums in 1984 and 1987 that, despite their relative commercial success, did not sell as well as Let’s Dance, were poorly received by critics at the time and subsequently dismissed by Bowie himself as his “Phil Collins years.”

“David Bowie returned to recording after a four-year break with this relatively clean-cut 1983 album. Although offering another definite new direction for Bowie, with Nile Rodgers of Chic helping to produce a stylish post-disco dance sound, Let’s Dance is a mixed bag. Much of the album’s success was due to its three danceable hit singles–”China Girl,” a sensuous Bowie/Iggy Pop collaboration, the distinctive “Modern Love,” and the funky title track. However, much of the rest of the album is bland and vapid, marking the start of serious decline in Bowie’s songwriting skills. A cover of Metro’s “Criminal World” and “Cat People” are the only other strong tracks here.” (James Swift)

Tracklist:
1. Modern Love (2018 Remastered Version)
2. China Girl (2018 Remastered Version)
3. Let’s Dance (2018 Remastered Version)
4. Without You (2018 Remastered Version)
5. Ricochet (2018 Remastered Version)
6. Criminal World (2018 Remastered Version)
7. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (2018 Remastered Version)
8. Shake It (2018 Remastered Version)

Personnel:
David Bowie, vocals
Nile Rodgers, guitar
Stevie Ray Vaughan, lead guitar
Carmine Rojas, bass
Bernard Edwards, bass on “Without You”
Omar Hakim, drums
Tony Thompson, drums
Sammy Figueroa, percussion
Robert Sabino, keyboards, piano
Stan Harrison, tenor saxophone; flute
Robert Aaron, tenor saxophone
Steve Elson, baritone saxophone; flute
Mac Gollehon, trumpet
Frank Simms, backing vocals
George Simms, backing vocals
David Spinner, backing vocals

Recorded December 1982 at Power Station, Manhattan, New York City
Produced by David Bowie, Nile Rodgers

Digitally remastered

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David Bowie – Never Let Me Down (2018 Remaster) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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David Bowie – Never Let Me Down (2018 Remaster) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:55 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK

Newly remastered of the 1987 album. The seeds of this new reimagining of the albums were first sown in 2008 when David asked Mario McNulty to remix the track ‘Time Will Crawl’ and record new drums by longtime Bowie drummer, Sterling Campbell along with strings. The track was issued on the iSelect compilation to much acclaim, and in the notes, for that record, David remarked ‘Oh, to redo the rest of that album’.

Fast-forward to early 2018 McNulty entered Electric Lady Studios in New York with Sterling, Tim Lefebvre on bass, who was in the ★ (“Blackstar”) band and Reeves Gabrels and David Torn on guitars. All of the musicians had a history with David, so were a perfect fit for what now sound like brand new songs. Nico Muhly, whom Mario first met when they were both interns working for Philip Glass in 2001, has handled the string arrangements.

Enter “Never Let Me Down”, his 17th studio album. Released in 1987, it was a record that achieved decent commercial success but generally poor critical reviews — with no one a tougher critic of the album than Bowie himself.

You can’t blame him for his well-documented disappointment.

It was the record directly after 1984’s Tonight (“Blue Jean”), which in turn followed a mind-boggling string of unforgettable records, rapid fire landmarks in musical adventure: Let’s Dance (1983), Scary Monsters (1980), Lodger (1979), Heroes (1977), Low (1977), Station to Station (1976), Young Americans (1975), Diamond Dogs (1974), Alladin Sane (1973), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Hunky Dory (1971), The Man Who Sold the World (1970), David Bowie/Space Oddity (1969), and his self-titled debut from 1967.

No one, not even David Bowie, could keep firing on all cylinders nonstop. Although he initially professed to be pleased with the 11 cuts of Never Let Me Down, which he co-produced with David Richards (Queen, Iggy Pop), Bowie soon changed his tune. By the early 1990’s he was public with his misgivings, ruing the “good songs that I mistreated… I wasn’t quite sure what I was supposed to be doing.”

A re-listen gives clues to his thinking. There are indeed Bowie gems on Never Let Me Down, like his soulfully bold opener “Day-In Day-Out,” and the title track where Bowie sings a gorgeous vocal line as heartbreaking, vulnerable and intimate as it is artistic. But often the record is too-big bombastic, replete with synthed-out drum and string replications stereotypical of “‘80’s production” where weird simulations and in-your-face gated reverbs dominate.

Such indulgences were collateral damage of synthesizer experimentation, an essential stage before people could eventually calm down and start hiring real players again. Sometimes it worked wonderfully – plenty of ‘80’s hits have endured for decades with just such characteristics. But it was a mismatch for Bowie and what he really had in mind for Never Let Me Down. Listening to the original you can hear how rarely the vocals and instrumental arrangements click, and how often they clash as on “Zeroes” where he seems practically shouting to be heard over the raucous guitars and rhythms.

Tracklist:
01. Day-In Day-Out (2018)
02. Time Will Crawl (2018)
03. Beat Of Your Drum (2018)
04. Never Let Me Down (2018)
05. Zeroes (2018)
06. Glass Spider (2018)
07. Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (2018)
08. New York’s In Love (2018)
09. 87 And Cry (2018)
10. Bang Bang (2018)

Personnel:
David Bowie, lead and background vocals; guitar; keyboards; Mellotron; Moog synthesizer; harmonica; tambourine
Carlos Alomar, guitar; guitar synthesizer; tambourine; backing vocals
Erdal Kızılçay, keyboards; drums; bass guitar; trumpet; violins; backing vocals
Peter Frampton, lead guitar, sitar
Philippe Saisse, piano
Carmine Rojas, bass
Stan Harrison, alto saxophone
Steve Elson, baritone saxophone
Lenny Pickett, tenor saxophone
Earl Gardner, flugelhorn
Laurie Frink, trumpet
Errol “Crusher” Bennett, percussion
Sid McGinnis, lead guitar on “Day-In Day-Out”, “Time Will Crawl” and “Bang Bang”
Mickey Rourke, mid-song rap on “Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)”
Robin Clark, backing vocals
Lani Groves, backing vocals
Diva Gray, backing vocals
Gordon Grody, backing vocals

Digitally remastered

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David Bowie – Serious Moonlight (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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David Bowie – Serious Moonlight (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:31:58 minutes | 1,92 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK

Previously unreleased live album recorded in Montreal in 1983. Originally mixed at the time by Bob Clearmountain, the double album captures Bowie on what at that time was his most successful tour.

Originally mixed at the time by Bob Clearmountain, the double album captures Bowie on what at that time was his most successful tour. Includes hit tracks such as “Heroes,” “Life On Mars?” “Rebel Rebel,” “Space Oddity,” and “Fame.”

The Serious Moonlight Tour was launched in May 1983 in support of David Bowie’s album Let’s Dance (1983). The tour opened at the Vorst Forest Nationaal, Brussels, on 18 May 1983 and ended in the Hong Kong Coliseum on 8 December 1983; 15 countries visited, 96 performances,[1] and over 2.6M tickets sold.[2] The tour garnered mostly favorable reviews from the press.

It was, at the time, his longest, largest and most successful concert tour to date, although it has since been surpassed in length, attendance and gross revenue by subsequent Bowie tours. The tour, designed to support Bowie’s latest album Let’s Dance, was initially designed to be a smaller tour, playing to the likes of sub-10,000-seat indoor venues around the world, similar to previous Bowie tours. However, the success of Let’s Dance caused unexpectedly high demand for tickets: there were 250,000 requests for 44,000 tickets at one show, for example, and as a result the tour was changed to instead play in a variety of larger outdoor and festival-style venues. The largest crowd for a single show during the tour was 80,000 in Auckland, New Zealand, while the largest crowd for a festival date was 300,000 at the US 83 Festival in California. The tour sold out at every venue it played.

Tracklist:
01. Look Back In Anger (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
02. “Heroes” (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
03. What In The World (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
04. Golden Years (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
05. Fashion (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
06. Let’s Dance (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
07. Breaking Glass (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
08. Life On Mars? (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
09. Sorrow (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
10. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
11. China Girl (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
12. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
13. Rebel Rebel (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
14. White Light / White Heat (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
15. Station To Station (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
16. Cracked Actor (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
17. Ashes To Ashes (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
18. Space Oddity / Band Introduction (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
19. Young Americans (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
20. Fame (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)
21. Modern Love (Live ’83, 2018 Remastered Version)

Personnel:
David Bowie, vocals, guitar, saxophone
Earl Slick, guitar
Carlos Alomar, guitar, backing vocals, music director
Carmine Rojas, bass
Tony Thompson, drums, percussion
Dave Lebolt, keyboards, synthesizers
Steve Elson, saxophones
Stan Harrison, saxophones, woodwinds
Lenny Pickett, saxophones, woodwinds
George Simms, backing vocals
Frank Simms, backing vocals

Digitally remastered

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David Bowie – The Next Day (Deluxe Edition) (2013) [HDTracks 24bit/48kHz]

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David Bowie – The Next Day (Deluxe Edition) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 60:16 minutes | 1,27 GB
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Scanned Booklet

The Next Day is the highly anticipated album by rock legend, David Bowie. The influential musician surprised fans with a haunting video for a new song entitled “Where Are We Now?” and buzz soon began. Produced by long-time collaborator Tony Visconti, The Next Day is Bowie’s first album in ten years. This rich artistic statement has already received praise from The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Rolling Stone,Billboard, and many others. Bowie’s impressive track record includes album sales exceeding 130 million and countless sold-out shows. His vocals and bold songwriting are as strong as ever.

Tracklist:

1 The Next Day 3:26
2 Dirty Boys 2:58
3 The Stars (Are Out Tonight) 3:57
4 Love Is Lost 3:57
5 Where Are We Now? 4:09
6 Valentine’s Day 3:02
7 If You Can See Me 3:12
8 I’d Rather Be High 3:44
9 Boss Of Me 4:09
10 Dancing Out In Space 3:21
11 How Does The Grass Grow? 4:34
12 (You Will) Set The World On Fire 3:32
13 You Feel So Lonely You Could Die 4:37
14 Heat 4:25
15 So She 2:31
16 Plan 2:02
17 I’ll Take You There 2:40

Produced by: Tony Visconti
Engineered by: Mario McNulty

Musicians:
Zachary Alford – drums
Sterling Campbell – drums, tambourine
Gail Ann Dorsey – bass, vocals
Steve Elson – clarinet
Henry Hey – piano
Gerry Leonard – keyboard, vocals
Tony Levin – bass
Earl Slick – guitar

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David Bowie – Blackstar (2016) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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David Bowie – Blackstar (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:17 minutes | 908 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Label: Columbia

Blackstar (stylised as ★ ) is the twenty-sixth studio album by David Bowie. It was released on 8 January 2016, the date of Bowie’s 69th birthday, and features seven songs. The title track was released as a single on 20 November 2015 and was used as the opening music for the television series The Last Panthers. “Lazarus” was released on 17 December 2015 as a digital download and received its world premiere on BBC Radio 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq the same day.

Tracklist:
1 Blackstar 09:58
2 ‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore 04:53
3 Lazarus 06:22
4 Sue (Or In a Season of Crime) 04:40
5 Girl Loves Me 04:52
6 Dollar Days 04:45
7 I Can’t Give Everything Away 05:47

Personnel:
David Bowie – vocals, acoustic guitar, mixing, production, string arrangements
Donny McCaslin – flute, saxophone, woodwinds
Ben Monder – guitar
Jason Lindner – piano, organ, keyboards
Tim Lefebvre – bass
Mark Guiliana – drums, percussion
James Murphy – percussion

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David Bowie – Cracked Actor: Live Los Angeles ’74 (2017) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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David Bowie – Cracked Actor. Live Los Angeles ’74 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:37:03 minutes | 2,04 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | © Parlophone UK

Finally officially released 20-track live performance from Los Angeles in September 1974, including two songs tracks not on the “David Live” album. Recorded in-between the “Diamond Dogs” and “Philly Dogs” tours.

Driven by an entirely deeper dynamic than most pop artists, David Bowie inhabited a very special world of extraordinary sounds and endless vision. Unwilling to stay on the treadmill of rock legend and avoiding the descent into ever demeaning and decreasing circles of cliché, Bowie wrote and performed what he wanted, when he wanted. His absence from the endless list of “important events” has just fuelled interest. Constant speculation about what the guy was up to has even led some to wonder if this is his greatest reinvention ever.

Tracklist:
01 – Introduction
02 – 1984
03 – Rebel Rebel
04 – Moonage Daydream
05 – Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)
06 – Changes
07 – Suffragette City
08 – Aladdin Sane
09 – All The Young Dudes
10 – Cracked Actor
11 – Rock ‘N’ Roll With Me
12 – Knock On Wood
13 – It’s Gonna Be Me
14 – Space Oddity
15 – Diamond Dogs
16 – Big Brother
17 – Time
18 – The Jean Genie
19 – Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide
20 – John, I’m Only Dancing (Again)

Produced by David Bowie.
Recorded live at Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles on September 5, 1974.
Mixed by Tony Visconti at Human Studios, NYC in October/November 2016.
Mastered at Air Mastering, London.

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David Bowie – Heroes (1977/2017) [Mora FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

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David Bowie – Heroes (1977/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:39 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: mora.jp | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK

“Heroes” is the twelfth studio album by English musician David Bowie and the second installment of his “Berlin Trilogy”. Recorded with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti, “Heroes” continued the ambient experiments and featured the contributions of guitarist Robert Fripp.

Repeating the formula of Low’s half-vocal/half-instrumental structure, Heroes develops and strengthens the sonic innovations David Bowie and Brian Eno explored on their first collaboration. The vocal songs are fuller, boasting harder rhythms and deeper layers of sound. Much of the harder-edged sound of Heroes is due to Robert Fripp’s guitar, which provides a muscular foundation for the electronics, especially on the relatively conventional rock songs. Similarly, the instrumentals on Heroes are more detailed, this time showing a more explicit debt to German synth pop and European experimental rock. Essentially, the difference between Low and Heroes lies in the details, but the record is equally challenging and groundbreaking.

Tracklist:
01 – Beauty and the Beast
02 – Joe the Lion
03 – “Heroes”
04 – Sons of the Silent Age
05 – Blackout
06 – V-2 Schneider
07 – Sense of Doubt
08 – Moss Garden
09 – Neukoln
10 – The Secret Life of Arabia

Produced by David Bowie Tony Visconti. Engineered by Colin Thurston.
Recorded in July–August 1977 at Hansa Studio by the Wall, West Berlin, Germany.
Remastered in 2017.

Musicians:
David Bowie – vocals, keyboards, guitars, saxophone, koto, tambourine, backing vocals
Brian Eno – synthesisers, keyboards
Robert Fripp – lead guitar
Carlos Alomar – rhythm guitar
George Murray – bass guitar
Dennis Davis – drums, percussion
Tony Visconti – percussion, backing vocals
Antonia Maass – backing vocals

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Dead & Company – American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX 12/1/17 (Live) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Dead & Company – American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX 12/1/17 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:56:33 minutes | 1,89 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

For such a large and populous state, Texas was never one of the more frequent destinations on the Grateful Dead’s tour itinerary. The band only played 28 shows there during its 30 years of touring, with most of those appearances happening in the 1970s and none later than 1988. To compound the deprivation, as of 2017 various bands featuring Dead alumni had only made it to the state a handful of times in the ensuing two-plus decades. So, it’s not surprising that the roar you hear from the crowd as Dead & Company hits the stage for its Texas debut is as unrestrained and loud as it is. It’s the sound of Lone Star Dead Heads who have been waiting for something for a very long time. And the music that follows that rapturous reception is the sound of patience and anticipation richly rewarded. After setting the table with such popular items from the Dead songbook book as “Shakedown Street” and “Brown-Eyed Women,” the band pays homage to their host city with “Deep Elem Blues,” a song dating back to the 1930s about a neighborhood that looms large in the history of Dallas’ African American community, with Bob Weir, John Mayer and Oteil Burbridge taking turns on lead vocal. A couple of songs later there’s a nod to another part of Texas with Marty Robbins’ classic cowboy ballad “El Paso,” followed by a run of Grateful Dead originals to close out the first set: the sweet Garcia-Hunter tune “They Love Each Other,” with spirited ensemble playing appended to the coda, and then a funky mashup of “The Music Never Stopped” and “Easy Answers.” The second set is a feast of Dead favorites, starting with a “Here Comes Sunshine” that opens up to some high-energy jamming, and segues beautifully into “Scarlet Begonias” and “Fire On The Mountain,” which in turn seamlessly morphs into a hard-swinging “Eyes Of The World” that features spectacular guitar and keyboard trade-offs by John Mayer and Jeff Chimenti. Ethereal Drums and Space sequences carry us gently into the Beatles’ “Dear Prudence” then Garcia and Hunter’s “The Wheel” (with a reggae-flavored tag) and, to close the set, a wild “Casey Jones.” In an appropriate return to the Old West, the band encores with Bob Dylan’s gunfighter’s lament, “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.”

Tracklist:
01. Shakedown Street (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 14:17
02. Brown-Eyed Women (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 08:11
03. Deep Elem Blues (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 09:19
04. Friend of the Devil (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 07:35
05. El Paso (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 06:17
06. They Love Each Other (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 10:46
07. The Music Never Stopped (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 06:59
08. Easy Answers (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 09:39
09. The Music Never Stopped (2nd Version) [Live at American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX 12/1/17 02:35
10. Here Comes Sunshine (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 11:16
11. Scarlet Begonias (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 13:10
12. Fire on the Mountain (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 08:37
13. Eyes of the World (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 16:57
14. Drums (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 10:27
15. Space (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 04:51
16. Dear Prudence (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 10:29
17. The Wheel (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 09:47
18. Casey Jones (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 08:33
19. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 06:48

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Dead & Company – Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2-27-18 (Live) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Dead & Company – Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2-27-18 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:06:37 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

We ask you — what better place to finish off one long thrill ride of a tour than the amusement park capital of the world? Well, that’s where Dead & Company wound things up (albeit a couple of months later than originally planned) when they played Orlando on February 27th, 2018, having cut a mighty swath through various parts of the USA (plus a nice little detour to Mexico).

You could tell this show was going to be a finale to reckon with when the band opened with one of the songs that gets a crowd fired up as well as anything in the Grateful Dead book ever has, “St. Stephen,” then followed it up with a tune about a ride most definitely not to be found at any of the local theme parks — Bob Weir and John Barlow’s “Hell In A Bucket.” From there on out, it was a show full of twists and turns to rival any of those supersized roller coasters that jut into the sky not far from the Amway Center, with a head-spinning mixture of blues, rock, ballads and, as always, plenty of satisfying collective improvisation. Highlights include a version of “The Wheel” that incorporates a bit of Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al,” a particularly fine rendition of “Althea” and a pairing of two of the works that earned 1977 reputation as one of the Grateful Dead’s peak years, “Estimated Prophet” and “Terrapin Station.” Appropriately performances of “Casey Jones” and “U.S. Blues” bring the evening, and the tour, to a fitting close.

Tracklist:
01. St. Stephen (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 15:03
02. Hell in a Bucket (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 09:48
03. Next Time You See Me (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 05:50
04. Ramble on Rose (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 09:51
05. Row Jimmy (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 10:53
06. Loose Lucy (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 09:35
07. Brown-Eyed Women (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 08:49
08. The Wheel (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 11:30
09. You Can Call Me Al (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 03:23
10. China Cat Sunflower (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 08:29
11. I Know You Rider (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 13:08
12. Althea (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 14:04
13. Estimated Prophet (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 13:28
14. Terrapin Station (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 14:32
15. Drums (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 10:10
16. Space (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 02:48
17. Wharf Rat (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 11:23
18. Casey Jones (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 07:42
19. U.S. Blues (Live at Amway Center, Orlando, FL 2/27/18) 06:11

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Dead & Company – BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL 2/26/18 (Live) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Dead & Company – BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL 2/26/18 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:12:11 minutes | 2,06 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

“One way or another, this darkness got to give…”
The penultimate performance of Dead and Company’s Fall 2018/Winter 2019 tour proved to be an unforgettable experience for band and audience alike, for reasons above and beyond the fine music played that evening. When the last three shows of the tour had to be postponed from December to February, no one could have anticipated that fate would place the band’s visit to Sunrise, Florida in such close proximity to a horrific event that had devastated the area and the nation: the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School – located just a few miles from the concert venue – that took the lives of 17 students and faculty members on February 14th, less than two weeks before the rescheduled concert. It was quickly and unanimously decided by Dead & Company and its management that the February 26th appearance at BB&T Center could not be just another tour date, but a gesture of solidarity and healing for all those affected by the shootings. In that spirit, an invitation was issued to Marjory Stoneman Douglas students, teachers and families to attend the show as guests of honor, and several dozen — including some who had been directly in the line of fire during the assault — took the band up on the offer. The band members met with members of the school community before the show, and again in a memorable gathering during intermission, at which the students spoke of their resolve to turn tragedy into positive change, by launching a movement to address the American epidemic of gun violence and, in collaboration with the voter registration and voting rights advocacy group HeadCount, to encourage participation in democracy by young people.

The concert itself was a profound reminder of the power of music to console, to inspire, to bring light to dark times. The band members paid visual homage by donning T-Shirts bearing the #MSDStrong hashtag, denoting the strength and resiliency of the students and the community, and the well-chosen setlist contained some songs that could be interpreted as referring directly to the evening’s context, while others were perfectly suited to convey that sense of uplift and joy that has always been at the heart of the music of the Grateful Dead and those who carry it on. The line “Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart / When I can hear it beat out loud,” from the show-opening Shakedown Street, seldom rung so true, and Bob Weir brought an especially fierce intensity to his
delivery of “Throwing Stones” on this night; songs such as “Bird Song,” “Help On The Way” and “Eyes Of The World” spoke beautifully to the moment in their own way; and the moment during the encore when the band and crowd joined as one voice in declaring “We will get by, we will survive” provided the perfect final statement.

Tracklist:
01. Shakedown Street (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 13:49
02. Cassidy (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 11:51
03. Comes a Time (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 09:30
04. They Love Each Other (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 15:50
05. Bird Song (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 11:09
06. New Speedway Boogie (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 11:27
07. Bird Song (2nd Version) [Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18 01:13
08. Deal (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 12:26
09. The Weight (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 10:05
10. Help on the Way (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 05:02
11. Slipknot! (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 07:33
12. Eyes of the World (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 17:05
13. Dark Star (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 16:39
14. Drums (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 08:38
15. Space (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL,2/26/18) 06:49
16. Days Between (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 12:14
17. Throwing Stones (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 13:36
18. Touch of Grey (Live at BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, 2/26/18) 07:15

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Dead & Company – Capital One Arena, Washington DC 11/21/17 (Live) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Dead & Company – Capital One Arena, Washington DC 11/21/17 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:46:20 minutes | 1,82 GB | Genre: Rock
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“You know it’s gonna get stranger…” It’s hard to imagine things getting a whole lot stranger than they are these days in Washington, DC, where we are told (as George Orwell himself might have warned we would be) to accept the existence of such things as “alternative facts.” Clearly, our Nation’s Capital has been in need of a happier sort of alternative reality, and Dead & Company were just the guys for the job for at least this one November night, delivering one of the strongest shows of the 2017 Fall tour.

Bob Weir and John Barlow’s ode to oddness, “Feel Like A Stranger,” made for an apt opener, in both its subject matter and infectious groove, and set the table for an evening that at moments included some oblique and not-so-oblique references to the strange machinations of state just outside the venue’s walls, but also provided a much-needed respite from all that. First-half highlights include a couple of other Weir/Barlow favorites, “Black-Throated Wind” and “Cassidy,” as well as some of the signature works in the Jerry Garcia-Robert Hunter songbook, such as “Bertha,” “Ship Of Fools” and a red-hot “Deal” to close out the set. The second set is delivered as a single, seamless statement, one piece flowing uninterrupted into another: the always-welcome “Help On The Way>Slipknot>Franklin’s Tower” medley, the poignant “Looks Like Rain” and the monumental “Terrapin Station” transport us into the otherworldly Drums and Space segments (with the former incorporating a most appropriate sample, courtesy of Mickey Hart, of the great 20th century avant-garde singer Cathy Berberian singing a line from a piece by John Cage: “the best form of government is no government at all”). A beautiful rendition of Garcia and Hunter’s “Days Between” segues into an especially emphatic “Throwing Stones” (with Bobby bringing an added degree of site-specific ferocity to the line “You can buy a WHOLE DAMN GOVERNMENT today!”). The encore of “Touch Of Grey” provides just the right helping of uplift to end the evening.

Tracklist:
1. Feel Like A Stranger
2. Bertha
3. Black Throated Wind
4. Tennessee Jed
5. Ship Of Fools
6. Cassidy
7. Deal
8. Help On The Way
9. Slipknot!
10. Franklin’s Tower
11. Looks Like Rain
12. Terrapin Station
13. Drums
14. Space
15. Days Between
16. Throwing Stones
17. Touch Of Grey

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Dead & Company – Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/2/17 (Live) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Dead & Company – Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/2/17 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:55:41 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Rock
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“T for Texas / Yes, and it’s T for Timbuktu” – When Dead & Company took to the stage at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, TX on December 2, 2017, no one thought that the band was about to play its final show of the year. After all, there were three more dates on the tour itinerary, in New Orleans and Florida. It wasn’t until a few days after the Austin show that unforeseen circumstances would force those scheduled gigs to be postponed until the following February. But if the tour finale was an inadvertent one, no one could have asked for or planned a better capstone to a great musical year, as the band delivered a performance that more than a few informed listeners have called the best of the Fall tour, the best of 2017, or perhaps even the single best show Dead & Company had yet played, period. The audio evidence makes a compelling case for any and all of those claims.

Austin is renowned as one of the great live music towns in the world, with a dizzying number of venues, from honky-tonks to concert halls to arenas, that regularly play host to both homegrown talent and visiting musical royalty, with a special emphasis on those specializing in a wide variety of American roots music – country, blues, R&B and much more. In other words, many of the genres that inspired the Grateful Dead in the creation of their own borderless musical universe. Those crucial influences are especially evident in the first set of Dead & Company’s show in the Texas capital, from the opening “Jack Straw” through the magnificent “Sugaree” that closes the first half. In between, some of the highlights include “New Minglewood Blues” (a Noah Lewis tune dating back to the 1920s that was in the repertoire of one of the earliest groupings of future Grateful Dead members, Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions) and a direct nod to Texas tradition with “Next Time You See Me,” a blues classic by the great Junior Parker, recorded in the Houston studios of Duke Records, a label owned by infamous music mogul Don Robey. Returning from the break, the band shifts gears completely, from the deeply rooted to the completely untethered, with a wild ride of a second set that achieves liftoff immediately with the ever-popular “China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider” coupling, then sets its course to the great unknown with “Dark Star,” “The Other One” and way-out-there Drums and Space segments before gently reentering the Earth’s atmosphere for a set-closing sequence of “Uncle John’s Band,” “St. Stephen” and “Morning Dew.” A full-on encore of “One More Saturday Night” brings it all back home to the rock ‘n’ roll roots.

Tracklist:
01. Jack Straw (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 13:27
02. Cold Rain and Snow (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 08:46
03. New Minglewood Blues (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 09:41
04. Next Time You See Me (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 05:49
05. Ramble On Rose (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 08:33
06. If I Had the World to Give (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 06:32
07. Sugaree (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 14:09
08. China Cat Sunflower (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 10:19
09. I Know You Rider (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 10:18
10. Dark Star (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 16:35
11. The Other One (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 09:42
12. Drums (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 11:43
13. Space (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 05:14
14. Uncle John’s Band (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 15:41
15. St. Stephen (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 10:42
16. Morning Dew (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 12:46
17. One More Saturday Night (Live At Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX 12/02/2017) 05:44

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Dead & Company – Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, MI 11/24/17 (Live) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Dead & Company – Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, MI 11/24/17 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:34:31 minutes | 1,65 GB | Genre: Rock
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“Can’t forget the Motor City!” …so Detroit’s own Martha Reeves and the Vandellas advised us in one of the greatest tunes ever committed to vinyl: their 1964 smash “Dancing In The Street” (co-written by another Motown superstar, Marvin Gaye). The Grateful Dead took Martha’s advice to heart, adopting the song as a vehicle for extended jamming (and, of course, dancing) as early as 1966, then reviving it in the late 70s in a revamped arrangement referred to by some as “Disco Dead” (but which also left room for some very un-disco improvisational tangents). Happily, Dead & Company also didn’t forget the aforementioned Motor City when scheduling their 2017 Fall tour, opening their evening there with that timeless native-born hit and going on to deliver a show that did full justice to Detroit’s hallowed place in America’s musical heritage.

In addition to that “Dancing In The Street” opener, first-set highlights include a Dead & Co. debut of the old country-blues standby “Deep Elem Blues” and an exceptionally soulful “Sugaree” (in which you can hear appropriate echoes of one of the works that it inspired it – “Soul Serenade” by the late, great King Curtis, whose saxophone was an integral part of so many records by another Motor City immortal, Aretha Franklin). The second set heads off into the cosmos right from the jump, with “Dark Star” morphing into “Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain.” The astral traveling continues unabated through the Drums>Space segment, after which we are emphatically returned to the here and now with a powerful rendition of Bob Dylan’s still-all-too-timely protest anthem “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” That sobering dose of reality in turn gives way to joy with the set-closing “The Wheel>Not Fade Away,” with a giddily off-the-rails “Casey Jones” encore to close things out

Tracklist:
1. Dancin’ in the Street 12:29
2. Jack Straw 08:16
3. Brown-Eyed Women 08:17
4. Ramble on Rose 08:06
5. Deep Elem Blues 07:49
6. Beat it on Down the Line 04:28
7. Sugaree 14:24
8. New Speedway Boogie 10:13
9. Dark Star 15:00
10. Scarlet Begonias 09:06
11. Fire on the Mountain 09:29
12. Drums 06:40
13. Space 04:04
14. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall 11:00
15. The Wheel 10:12
16. Not Fade Away 07:57
17. Casey Jones 07:01

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Dead & Company – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17 (Live) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Dead & Company – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:45:00 minutes | 1,8 GB | Genre: Rock
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“Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart / When I can hear it beat out loud.” Nowhere on Earth do the hearts of Dead Heads beat louder and stronger than in New York City and its surrounding metropolitan area, which the Grateful Dead came to consider a second home over the course of their three decades of touring. A small but devoted gaggle of fans that greeted the band on its first visit to town in June of 1967 grew into the core of the Dead’s huge East Coast following, taking them from clubs to theaters to arenas and stadiums. And of all the venues the Dead played, none played a more significant role in the band’s career than Madison Square Garden, the internationally famous arena that has been the site of some of the most memorable events in both sports and entertainment history, and at which the Dead performed 52 times between 1979 and 1994. The exchange of energy between that band, that building and that audience was quite literally palpable, thanks in part to the Garden’s unique design – the roof is suspended from cables, and the arena floor, located five stories above street level, rests on giant shock-absorbing springs, so that the room actually moves to the music as the audience does… and you know how this audience moves, even without help from the building!

Happily, more than two decades after the Grateful Dead last played there, the synergy between this music, the venue and the fans remains fully intact, as can be heard in the two shows Dead & Company played at the Garden to launch the Fall tour of 2017. “Shakedown Street,” a song that’s always had special resonance for the New York audience, proved a perfect choice to kick things off on opening night, setting the stage for a first set that also features such standouts as “Bertha,” “Cassidy,” “They Love Each Other” and “Cumberland Blues.” The band immediately ups the intensity after halftime, with the old reliable one-two punch of “China Cat Sunflower” and “I Know You Rider,” briefly dials it down for a subtle and soulful “Ship Of Fools,” then ascends to the heights with “Terrapin Station” before launching straight into the cosmos for the Drums and Space sequences – which provide a perfect prelude to the astral ruminations of Garcia and Hunter’s poignant “Standing On The Moon.” It’s back to terra firma for “The Other One,” via the fabled bus driven by Cowboy Neal, and then that out-of-control train headed for trouble with “Casey Jones.” The traditional dose of Sunday gospel, “Samson And Delilah” serves as the encore.

Tracklist:
01. Shakedown Street (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 13:09
02. Greatest Story Ever Told (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 05:55
03. Bertha (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 09:36
04. Cassidy (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 12:09
05. Beat It On Down the Line (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 03:54
06. They Love Each Other (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 10:06
07. Cumberland Blues (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 09:36
08. China Cat Sunflower (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 09:09
09. I Know You Rider (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 08:56
10. Ship of Fools (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 08:04
11. Terrapin Station (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 13:19
12. Drums (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 12:00
13. Space (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 04:09
14. Standing on the Moon (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 09:55
15. The Other One (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 11:32
16. Casey Jones (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 08:41
17. Samson and Delilah (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 07:59
18. Werewolves of London (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/12/17) 06:51

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Dead & Company – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/14/17 (Live) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Dead & Company – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 11/14/17 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:59:08 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Rock
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Let us pause for a moment to praise some of the hardest-working people on the planet – those insanely dedicated individuals who toil on road crews for touring bands, and especially the men and women who have served in those roles for the Grateful Dead and its performing offspring for over five decades. These are the rock ‘n’ roll heroes that most people never see or know by name, but are every bit as essential to making the music happen as the musicians themselves – the people who work the longest hours, do the heaviest lifting and have to attend to the countless logistical and technical details that assure everything will work as seamlessly as possible at show time. We call this to your attention here because, as you might notice, Dead & Company played their two shows at Madison Square Garden on non-consecutive nights. This is because when attempting to book shows into multi-purpose facilities like the Garden, bands and their promoters are at the mercy of the schedules of the professional sports teams that are the building’s principal tenants. And so it was in this case – the New York Knicks had games on tap for November 11th, 13th and 15th. Which meant that the Dead & Company crew had to wait until the first of those games was over and the basketball court and seats removed before they could load in the band’s gear and set up the stage, sound and lights in the wee small hours of the 12th, start breaking everything down and storing it the moment the first show was over, start the whole process over after the game on the middle day, and then clear out for the Knicks yet again immediately after the show on the 14th, loading everything into the trucks headed for the next show in Philly. So, the next time you go to a show… thank the crew!

Of course, all that hard work pays off the moment the house lights go down and you hear that roar of anticipation from the crowd, and Dead & Company’s second night at the Garden was no exception, from the opening jam that built into a rip-roaring “Hell In A Bucket” to the full-out “U.S. Blues” encore – with highlights in between including a rollicking “Tennessee Jed,” a beautiful “Bird Song,” the “Help On The Way>Slipknot>Franklin’s Tower” triptych, a post-drums sequence that includes a visit to the first movement of John Coltrane’s masterpiece “A Love Supreme,” a moving “Stella Blue” and a powerhouse second set-closing coupling of “St. Stephen” and “Not Fade Away.”

Tracklist:
1. Hell In A Bucket
2. Cold Rain And Snow
3. Me & My Uncle
4. Brown-Eyed Women
5. Tennessee Jed
6. Bird Song
7. Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
8. Help On The Way
9. Slipknot!
10. Franklin’s Tower
11. China Doll
12. Estimated Prophet
13. Drums
14. Space
15. A Love Supreme
16. Stella Blue
17. St. Stephen
18. Not Fade Away
19. U.S. Blues

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Dead & Company – Nationwide Arena, Columbus, OH 11/25/17 (Live) (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Dead & Company – Nationwide Arena, Columbus, OH 11/25/17 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:48:29 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Rock
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While they were a California band with a massive contingent of fans on the East Coast, the Grateful Dead always enjoyed a large and loyal following in the Midwest. That relationship has continued with Dead & Company, with the band including the nation’s heartland in its plans numerous times since first convening in 2015. They made a particularly rewarding visit to Columbus in November of 2017, with a show that many listeners, as well as members of the band and its traveling party, have ranked among the very best of that Fall’s tour. The recorded evidence fully supports that assessment.

After setting the table nicely with a first set featuring fine performances of such favorites as “Cold Rain and Snow,” “Row Jimmy,” “Althea” and “One More Saturday Night,” the band returns from intermission ready to raise the roof – which they immediately do (aided and abetted by the audience, as you can hear in the explosion of joy that attends the first notes of the set-opening “St. Stephen”). “He’s Gone” takes a hairpin turn into “China Cat Sunflower,” which in turn brings one of the evening’s great moments: instead of the usual transition from “China Cat” to its traditional companion “I Know You Rider,” the band slows things down and eases into a stunning surprise – Dead & Company’s first performance (with a beautiful lead vocal by Oteil Burbridge) of “If I Had The World To Give” – a Garcia-Hunter song that only appeared three times in the Grateful Dead’s live repertoire, way back in 1978. Having taken the crowd’s breath away, the band then gets the house rocking again with “I Know You Rider,” only to pull us through another portal into the great beyond with one of the most fearlessly out-there Drums>Space sequences any lover of the deeply weird could ask for. “Stella Blue,” “All Along The Watchtower,” “Sugar Magnolia” and the “Ripple” encore provide an ideal capper for an evening to remember.

Tracklist:
1. Cold Rain and Snow 08:20
2. The Music Never Stopped 09:29
3. Row Jimmy 10:21
4. Me & My Uncle 04:30
5. Cumberland Blues 10:52
6. Althea 12:36
7. One More Saturday Night 05:39
8. St. Stephen 15:09
9. He’s Gone 11:21
10. China Cat Sunflower 06:05
11. If I Had the World to Give 06:50
12. I Know You Rider 12:26
13. Drums 10:45
14. Space 09:02
15. Stella Blue 10:43
16. All Along the Watchtower 07:35
17. Sugar Magnolia 11:26
18. Ripple 05:20

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David Lynch – The Big Dream (Deluxe Edition) (2013) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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David Lynch – The Big Dream (Deluxe Edition) (2013)
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Legendary multimedia artist David Lynch presents the follow-up to Crazy Clown Time, his acclaimed 2011 solo debut. The 2013 album sees Lynch returning to primary songwriting and performance duties, writing 11 out of the album s 12 tracks. Also included in the lineup is Lynch s signature take on the Bob Dylan folk classic “The Ballad of Hollis Brown, ” and a bonus track contribution featuring acclaimed Swedish musician Lykke Li. The Big Dream was recorded over several months at Lynch s own Asymmetrical Studio with engineer Dean Hurley, who also contributes production and instrumentation to the album.

Describing his style of music as “modern blues, ” Lynch says, “most of the songs start out as a type of blues jam and then we go sideways from there. What comes out is a hybrid, modernized form of low-down blues. ” As you would expect from an accomplished film director, the songs are cinematic in scope. Lynch uses his reverb-drenched guitar and processed voice to summon primal moods and melodies that color a strange world populated by character archetypes familiar to fans of his films: the irresistible femme fatale in “Star Dream Girl, ” the tender romantic in “The Big Dream, ” and “Are You Sure, ” the smooth psychopath in “Say It, ” and the quirky oddball in “Sun Can t Be Seen No More.”

While Lynch touches on modern electronic production (“Wishing Well” and “Last Call”) and classically dreamy material (“Are You Sure, ” “Cold Wind Blowin “), the album always manages to keep one foot rooted in the blues a style of music he loves. “The Blues is an honest and emotional form of music that is thrilling to the soul. I keep coming back to it, because it feels so good, ” Lynch says. The double LP comes with a bonus 7″, “I m Waiting Here, ” featuring Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li. The B-side of the 7″ contains a one-of-a-kind etching inscribed by Lynch.

Tracklist:
01. The Big Dream
02. Star Dream Girl
03. Last Call
04. Cold Wind Blowin
05. The Ballad of Hollis Brown
06. Wishin’ Well
07. Say It
08. We Rolled Together
09. Sun Can’t Be Seen No More
10. I Want You
11. The Line It Curves
12. Are You Sure
13. I’m Waiting Here
14. And Light Shines
15. Bad The John Boy
16. Are You Sure (Bastille Remix)
17. Wishin’ Well (Hot Since 82 Remix)
18. The Big Dream (Venetian Snares Remix)
19. We Rolled Together (Yttling Jazz Remix)

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David Nail – Fighter (2016) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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David Nail – Fighter (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:53 minutes | 515 MB | Genre: Country
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Fighter features 11 tracks overall including Nail s current hit single Night’s On Fire written by Jonathan Singleton and Deric Ruttan. Nail wrote or co-wrote seven songs for Fighter and teamed up with the same producer from his previous successful albums, Frank Liddell, for the project.

I truly believe this album, from top to bottom, is the first time I have been able to tell my story in real-time of where I am right now as an artist, a husband and a father, said David Nail. I wrote more songs for this album than I have for any of my other three so it s already more personal. Fighter speaks to my journey, my life and now to where I am personally and professionally.

Tracklist:
01. Good at Tonight
02. Night’s on Fire
03. Ease Your Pain
04. Home
05. Lie with Me
06. I Won’t Let You Go
07. Fighter
08. Babies
09. Got Me Gone
10. Champagne Promise
11. Old Man’s Symphony

Produced by Frank Liddell

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David Orlowsky Trio – one last night – Live at Elbphilharmonie (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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David Orlowsky Trio – one last night – Live at Elbphilharmonie (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:19  minutes | 767 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Sony Classical

Music can only grow when you overcome fear of the new,« claims David Orlowsky. »Who wants to hear music that has always resisted outside influences?« In a time when boundaries are being established again, the musicians of the David Orlowsky Trio set off on a trip through the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, driven by curiosity to discover new sounds. And their new compositions know no bounds – they lie between klezmer, jazz and classical music, and are inspired by the many different impressions that the three musicians gathered on the journey from Paris to the Black Sea.

Tracklist:
1. Bucovina (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 05:41
2. Prayer (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 03:07
3. Lebedig un Freylach / Odessa Bulgar (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 04:09
4. Jodaeiye (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 07:18
5. Des Nachts (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 03:54
6. Valsa sem nome (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 02:13
7. Der Schelm (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 02:32
8. Taxi Bucuresti (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 04:55
9. Indigo (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 04:10
10. Sababa (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 04:28
11. Insomnia (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 07:32
12. Noema (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 03:29
13. Quinta (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 03:35
14. Ultimate Bulgar (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 06:49
15. Goldfinger (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 02:41
16. Arirang (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 01:56
17. Juli (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 05:00
18. Donna Donna (Live at Elbphilharmonie) 03:50

Personnel:
David Orlowsky Trio:
David Orlowsky, clarinet
Jens-Uwe Popp, guitar
Florian Dohrmann, double bass

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David Torn, Tim Berne & Ches Smith – Sun Of Goldfinger (2019) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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David Torn, Tim Berne & Ches Smith – Sun Of Goldfinger (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:55 minutes | 714 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM

Guitarist-composer David Torn, a longstanding ECM artist, has enjoyed a particularly fruitful 21st-century with the label, releasing two albums under his own name – the solo only sky and quartet disc prezens in addition to producing records by Tim Berne and Michael Formanek.

With Sun of Goldfinger, Torn returns in a trio alongside the alto saxophonist Berne and percussionist Ches Smith (a member of Berne’s Snakeoil band who made his ECM leader debut in 2016 with The Bell). The Torn/Berne/Smith trio, also dubbed Sun of Goldfinger, features alone on two of this album’s three intense tracks of 20-plus minutes; the vast sonic tapestries of “Eye Muddle” and “Soften the Blow” – each spontaneous group compositions – belie the fact that only a trio is weaving them, with live electronics by Torn and Smith expanding the aural envelope.

The third track, the Torn composition “Spartan, Before It Hit,” showcases an extended ensemble with two extra guitars (played by Mike Baggetta and Ryan Ferreira), keyboards (Craig Taborn) and a string quartet (the Scorchio String Quartet); it’s an otherworldly creation, ranging from hovering atmospherics to dark-hued lyricism to storming, sky-rending grandeur.

The words of LondonJazz, reviewing Sun of Goldfinger live, also suit the band’s debut on record: “This is dangerous music – at times angry, at others blissed-out and illuminating – with its thunderous rumblings… delivering not so much a wash of sound, more a tidal wave.”

Tracklist:
1. Eye Meddle
2. Spartan, Before It Hit
3. Soften The Blow

Personnel:
David Torn (electric guitar, live looping, electronics)
Tim Berne (alto saxophone)
Ches Smith (drums, electronics, tanbou)

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