Linda Ronstadt - A Merry Little Christmas

A Merry Little Christmas is Linda Ronstadt's Christmas album, released in 2000. It was the final release under Ronstadt's recording contract with Elektra.
It was the biggest-selling Christmas album of the 2000 season. It peaked at #179 on Billboard's main album chart and has continued to sell year in and year out. Among the highlights of this disc are Ronstadt's duet with the late Rosemary Clooney on the perennial track White Christmas and her ultra-somber interpretation of Joni Mitchell's River.

White, Clarence - Tuff & Stringy

In the CD Booklet you can find the following information:
Clarence White needs no introduction.
This is a collection of rare singles, demos and studio outtakes. It's not claiming to make a definitive statement upon his career or to represent his best work. The purpose of this collection is to shed some light on two short years that were a pivotal stage in his development as a guitarist but also as an artist. This is also the story of a group of musicians, producers, family and friends- Kentucky Colonels, Reasons, Byrds, Gary Paxton, Gene Parsons,Gib Guilbeau et al. that surrounded Clarence White.

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Update Kraftwerk - Computerwelt/Computer World

Kraftwerk's 1981 Computer World has been updated. It now includes both the remastered German release Computerwelt and the remastered International release Computer World.

Poco - Cantamos

Poco's 1974 release Cantamos is their 8th and the main album of Poco's Timothy B. Schmit phase. Both Ritchie Furay(1973) and Jim Messina(1971) already had left the band. So some changes took place, but again Poco were able to release a fine country rock album.
Line-up:
Rusty Young(v,g,steel) Paul Cotton(v,g)
Timothy B. Schmit(v,b) George Grantham(d)

McGuinn, Roger Limited Edition

Roger McGuinn is well known as ex-leader of the Byrds and his trademark the electric twelve string guitar.
Limited Edition is a CD rich in Rickenbacker " Jingle Jangle",including five electrified folk and blues songs,seven new songs written by McGuinn and his wife Camilla and a tribute to his inspiration George Harrison, If I Needed Someone.
This CD came out after the compilation of some of his favorite Folk Den songs.
Roger McGuinn has been recording traditional folk songs for his on line project The Folk Den since 1995.(http://folkden.com) The songs are available for free download with lyrics and stories about the songs.
On Limited Edition are the next musicians:Roger McGuinn,Pedro Araujo,Delyn Christian,John Jorgensen,Curt Keidser,Kammy Kolorado,Bill Lee,Stan Lynch.
The album was produced by Roger and Camilla Mcguinn.

The Blues Band - Part III

1983 Bye Bye Blues
1991 Fat City







1993 Homage
1999 Brassed Up

Bye Bye Blues is the live recording released after Brand Loyalty in 1983. I had not posted it in Part II. The other ones are all from the 90's. 1999's Brassed Up is recorded with heavy brass as the name implefies.

Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Remaster)

The release of Autobahn in 1974 saw the band moving away from the sound of their earlier albums. They invested in newer technology such as a Minimoog, helping give them a newer, disciplined sound. Autobahn would also be the last album that Conny Plank would engineer. After the commercial success of Autobahn, the band invested money into updating their studio. At this time the painter and graphic artist Emil Schult became a regular collaborator with the band, working alongside the band. Schult designed artwork in addition to later writing lyrics and accompanying the group on tour. The now regarded classic line-up of Kraftwerk was formed in 1975 for the Autobahn tour. During this time, the band were presented as a quartet, with Hütter and Schneider joined by Wolfgang Flür and Karl Bartos, hired as electronic percussionists. This quartet would be the band's public persona for its renowned output of the latter 1970's and early 1980's. Flür had already joined the band in 1973, in preparation for a television appearance to promote Kraftwerk's third album.

Emmylou Harris - Gliding Bird

Emmylou Harris typically omits 1970's Gliding Bird from her discography; her first album was issued on the folk label Jubilee, which filed for bankruptcy within weeks of the LP's release. Cut before her tenure with Gram Parsons, it's a straightforward folk effort, owing more to Joni Mitchell than anything else; although most of the songs were composed by Tom Slocum, Harris' first husband, there are also a number of ill-suited covers, including Hank Williams' I Saw the Light and the Bacharach/David composition I'll Never Fall in Love Again.