The Kinks – Kwyet Kinks - Non-Album Tracks (1965)

Next up for dealing with the Kinks’ stray tracks is "Kwyet Kinks," covering 1965. All the songs put together make for a very good and cohesive album that in my opinion is better than the official Kinda Kinks album that year – as well as 10 minutes longer. It’s surprising how many good songs were never released at the time, and often only exist in demo form.

Once again, I generally put the songs  in the order they came out, or were recorded (since so many weren’t released). Virtually all of them were recorded in April and May of 1965. I did move "Hide and Seek," which was done a few months later, so it wouldn’t disturb the mellow run of the last bunch of songs.

Like the last Kinks album I made, I picked the title from an EP title during that year.

I wasn’t sure what to do with the song "She’s My Girl," a song written and sung by Dave Davies during the "Kink Kontroversy" sessions. It’s never been officially released, and it’s so obscure that I couldn’t even find it on YouTube. Based on the version appearing on various bootlegs, there’s good reason for that, due to the sound quality. The overall sound actually isn’t that bad, but it was taken from an acetate, which is a test run made out of poor material, so it would degrade to the point of being ruined after just a small number of listens. And apparently this copy was listened to too many times!  The first ten seconds especially sounded terrible, with so much crackling and hissing that it makes me cringe. The rest was fairly okay, though one hears some loud pops and crackles at times.  So what I did was simply lopped off the first ten seconds of the song.

I’ve included that edited version as a bonus track here for you to use or discard. I think it’s a pretty decent song for the time, if one can get over the remaining sound quality issues. Probably, it wasn’t developed or released because it was written by Dave, and Ray was dominating the songwriting.

Trust me, you’re not missing anything in those first ten seconds, unless you like lots of loud crackling. Plus, luckily, the song takes a while to get going, so I think it works quite well with those seconds removed. If I didn’t tell you, you’d probably never notice.

There’s another early Kinks era song called “Listen to Me” that I didn’t include. It also has sound issues, but they’re much worse. It sounds like it was recorded a few rooms away. Plus, it’s either a terrible song that’s a total rip off of “You Really Got Me” or it’s an early and far inferior version of that song.

On a different note, whomever decided which songs to record and release at this time should have been fired! For instance, "I Go to Sleep" later became a classic Pretenders tune, and the Kinks only ever made a demo of it. And Dave Berry’s version of "This Strange Effect" actually was a number one hit in some countries, but the Kinks only ever did it once for the BBC, and never in the studio. Sigh!

 

In 2021, a musical friend named MZ sent me a previously unbootlegged Kinks demo from December 1965 called "Never Say Yes." Incredibly, it was intended for Elvis Presley to sing in a movie of the same name. But that didn't work out, probably because the name of the movie was changed to "Spinout." The version I had had a radio DJ talking over the intro and ending. Luckily, he only talked over instrumental sections that were repeated elsewhere in the song, so I was able to edit his voice out.

This album is 38 minutes long.

 

01 Wait Till the Summer Comes Along (Kinks)
02 Such a Shame (Kinks)
03 A Well Respected Man (Kinks)
04 Don't You Fret (Kinks)
05 Set Me Free (Kinks)
06 I Need You (Kinks)
07 Hide and Seek (Kinks)
08 Time Will Tell (Kinks)
09 See My Friends (Kinks)
10 Never Met a Girl like You Before (Kinks)
11 I Go to Sleep (Kinks)
12 Tell Me Now So I’ll Know (Kinks)
13 A Little Bit of Sunlight (Kinks)
14 This I Know (Kinks)
15 There's a New World Just Opening for Me (Kinks)
16 This Strange Effect (Kinks)
17 Never Say Yes [Edit] (Kinks)

 

She’s My Girl (Kinks)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15482300/TKnks_1965_KwytKnks_atse.zip.html

 

The cover art shown here is from the EP of the same name with no changes.

The Kinks – Kinksize – Non-Album Tracks (1963-1964)

The Kinks are my second favorite group of all time, behind only the Beatles. They’re way underappreciated, due to them usually being the opposite of fashionable. Their 1960s stuff in particular blows me away. I feel that most of their b-sides and outtakes are better than most groups’ top material!

The Kinks also have a very scattered recorded output in the 60s. I’d estimate about half of all their stuff never made it only any of their proper albums at the time, and a good portion of that is better than the stuff that did make the albums, especially since the A and B sides of singles rarely went onto albums in those days (at least in Britain, and I’m basing this on the British albums). If you want to enjoy all their good 60s songs, you have to scour through all sorts of anthologies and deluxe editions and such.

The Kinks released seven albums in their 60s heyday: "Kinks," "Kinda Kinks," "The Kink Kontroversy," "Face to Face," "Something Else," "Village Green Preservation Society," and "Arthur." What I’ve done is taken all their remaining songs that are of the same quality and made five more albums of similar lengths to their released ones. In this way, I have 12 classic Kinks albums from the 60s to listen to, instead of seven!

Here’s the first of the five. Note that, to achieve the highest repeat listenability, I’ve avoided all songs that are on any of the previously mentioned seven albums, and I’ve only included one version of each. (So, for instance, I only included the version of Ray Davies singing "Mr. Reporter," even though his brother Dave sings it equally well in another version.)

This first album gathers up all their stray tracks from 1963 to 1964. The songs are generally ordered by when they were released. I’ve included just about every Kinks song from that time period, except for "Louie, Louie." The Kinks’ version of that song is no better or different than 10,000 other versions.

I picked the title “Kinksize” because the Kinks had an EP in this time period called “Kinksize Sessions.”

This makes a 38-minute long album. That’s actually long for them and many other groups at the time – "Kinda Kinks" is only 28 minutes long! The last two songs were actually released in early 1965, but recorded in late 1964. I stuck them on here instead of my next Kinks album to better balance out the album lengths.

A couple of the songs I probably wouldn’t have included (who needs another beat group cover of "Long Tall Sally," for instance) except for historical importance. For instance, "Long Tall Sally" was their very first A-Side.

And by the way, how is it "I Gotta Move" was an obscure B-Side instead of a big hit?!

UPDATE: On March 14, 2023, I updated the mp3 download file. I found an obscure release of the song "Ooba Diooba." This dates back to the time when the Kinks were known as the Ravens.

01 Ooba Diooba (Kinks)
02 I'm a Hog for You (Kinks)
03 I Believed You (Kinks)
04 I Don't Need You Anymore (Kinks)
05 Long Tall Sally (Kinks)
06 You Still Want Me (Kinks)
07 You Do Something to Me (Kinks)
08 It's Alright (Kinks)
09 All Day and All of the Night (Kinks)
10 I Gotta Move (Kinks)
11 I've Got that Feeling (Kinks)
12 I Gotta Go Now (Kinks)
13 Things Are Getting Better (Kinks)
14 Don't Ever Let Go (Kinks)
15 Little Queenie (Kinks)
16 Everybody's Gonna Be Happy (Kinks)
17 Who'll Be the Next in Line (Kinks)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700802/TKNKS1963-1964_Knksize_atse.zip.html

I made the cover by using the cover of the Kinks' "Kinksize Session" EP, then removing the word "Session" from the bottom, moving the rest of the image down, and then stretching the word "Kinksize" to cover the difference.

Bonnie Raitt – Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 3-27-1971

Bonnie Raitt was a different artist in the early years of her career, playing mostly in an acoustic blues style. This period is poorly represented on official record, especially since there are no live albums from her at all until the 1990s. Luckily, there are some excellent radio shows of her playing in the studio with high quality sound.

Here’s the earliest one I know of, recorded six months before her first album came out. I count no less than 14 songs out of the 23 here that never showed up on any of her official albums! At an hour and a half, it would have made a great double album to kickstart her career.

If all you know is the Bonnie Raitt from the late 1980s onwards, with her mainstream pop rock hits, you might want to give this a try anyway. I like it a lot better then her later stuff.

Note that Jackson Browne also performed a solo acoustic concert at this same venue on this same evening. It seems both of them did early and late shows. This is probably a combination of both of Raitt's shows. Both the Browne and Raitt performances were broadcast live on a local radio station, which is why this recording sounds so good.

Here's the link to the Jackson Browne performance:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/04/jackson-browne-jabberwocky-syracuse-ny.html
 

This album is an hour and 28 minutes long.

01 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
02 Something in the Way He Moves (Bonnie Raitt)
03 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
04 Mighty Tight Woman (Bonnie Raitt)
05 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
06 Bluebird (Bonnie Raitt)
07 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
08 Going Down to Louisiana - Rollin' and Tumblin' (Bonnie Raitt)
09 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
10 You Can Close Your Eyes (Bonnie Raitt)
11 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
12 Richland Woman Blues (Bonnie Raitt)
13 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
14 Blender Blues (Bonnie Raitt)
15 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
16 In My Reply (Bonnie Raitt)
17 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
18 Write Me a Few of Your Lines - Kokomo Blues (Bonnie Raitt)
19 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
20 Your Song (Bonnie Raitt)
21 Set You Free This Time (Bonnie Raitt)
22 Special Delivery Blues (Bonnie Raitt)
23 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
24 Woodstock (Bonnie Raitt)
25 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
26 Big Road (Bonnie Raitt)
27 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
28 I Ain't Blue (Bonnie Raitt)
29 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
30 Finest Lovin' Man (Bonnie Raitt)
31 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
32 Candy Man (Bonnie Raitt)
33 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
34 Walking Blues (Bonnie Raitt)
35 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
36 Can I Get a Witness (Bonnie Raitt)
37 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
38 Country Road (Bonnie Raitt)
39 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
40 Can't Find My Way Home (Bonnie Raitt)
41 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
42 Since I Fell for You (Bonnie Raitt)
43 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
44 Love in Vain (Bonnie Raitt)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EbENEqXu

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/3ZwPh45wK5wXNpE/file 

Originally, I used cover art from a bootleg of the concert. But many months later, I decided the main photo wasn't up to snuff and found a better one. This one is from the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 1971. However, the text and colors at the top are still largely based on those of that bootleg cover I first used.

The Guess Who – This Time Long Ago – Non-Album Tracks (1967-1968)

Note that I first posted this album back in 2018. This is a drastically different version. Originally, this album dealt with the years 1965 to 1968. But I reassessed the band's earliest years and found enough material for a 1965 and 1966 stray tracks album, and also enough to add to this one so that it only deals with the years 1967 and 1968. I think this is still a very solid album, and it holds together better musically, since it's from a more narrow time period when styles were rapidly changing.

You can find the earlier stray tracks album I made here:

 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-guess-who-its-my-pride-various.html

 

The Guess Who put out three albums from 1965 to 1966, while the band's name changed several times and they also changed lead singers. Despite having some hits, especially in their native country of Canada, they didn't release any albums in 1967 or 1968. Instead, they put out singles while staying busy being the house band for a Canadian TV show called "Let's Go." Five of the songs here are either the A- or B-Sides to singles. 

 

Three more songs come from an album called "A Wild Pair." This was a weird album because half of it contains Guess Who songs and the other half contain songs from the Staccatos, another Canadian band that would later find more success under the name "Five Man Electrical Band." The Guess Who had a rare opportunity to work with an orchestra for this album, so most of the songs have prominent strings on them. I only included three out of the five songs that the Guess Who did, as I think the other two aren't that good.

Another three songs come from an archival compilation called "This Time Long Ago." (I really should have called this album something else to avoid confusion with that one, but oh well.) One, "Miss Felicity Grey," is a studio outtake, and two others, "Sitar Saga" and "Shadow Cross the Shadows," were performed live on the "Let's Go" TV show mentioned above. They sound just as good as studio outtakes, especially since there wasn't an audience.

 

Most of the songs here are originals, though a notable exception is a cover of Neil Young's "Flying on the Ground Is Wrong" from a time when Young wasn't very well known.

 

I think this album shows that the Guess Who could have easily released a strong album from 1967 or 1968 without having to resort to cover versions. It's a shame they didn't.

 

There are two bonus tracks here, "Of a Dropping Pin" and "When Friends Fall Out." They're perfectly fine recordings. Each was the A-side to a single in 1968. The reason that they're only bonus tracks is because the band put different versions of these songs on later albums. "Of a Dropping Pin" was on "Canned Wheat" in 1969 and "When Friends Fall Out" was on "American Woman" in 1970. These single versions aren't that different from the album versions, but they aren't the same, so I figured they were worth including at least as bonus tracks.

This album is 34 minutes long, not including the bonus tracks.

 

01 This Time Long Ago (Guess Who)

02 There's No Getting Away from You (Guess Who)
03 Miss Felicity Grey (Guess Who)
04 Flying on the Ground Is Wrong (Guess Who)
05 If You Don't Want Me (Guess Who)
06 Mr. Nothin' (Guess Who)
07 Heygoode Hardy (Guess Who)
08 I Need Your Company (Guess Who)
09 Guess Who Blues (Guess Who)
10 Sitar Saga [Instrumental] (Guess Who)
11 Shadow Cross the Shadows (Guess Who)

 

Of a Dropping Pin [Single Version] (Guess Who)

When Friends Fall Out [Single Version] (Guess Who)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15119170/TGuessW_1967-1968_ThisTmeLongAgo_atse.zip.html

Note that the album cover shown here was made by PJ of the Albums I Wish Existed website. When I revised the song list, I made some changes to the cover to allow the center photo to be larger.

Dave Mason – Live at the Troubadour (1971)

In early 1971, Dave Mason recorded some shows at the Troubadour in LA for a live album.

Unfortunately, he was signed to a crappy record company at the time, and got into a contract dispute with them. He stopped working on his second solo album, Headkeeper, so the company put out one side of the album with the songs they did have, and put five songs from the Troubadour shows on the second side. Then, in 1973, having lost Mason as an artist, the company put out another album of material they owned called Dave Mason Is Alive. It was seven songs from the Troubadour shows, but strangely, they used two of the exact same performances as on the Headkeeper album!

What I’ve done is take the unique songs from both albums and put them together. It makes a nice 46-minute long live album. I have no idea about the song order, but I made an educated guess based on a set list from another 1971 Mason show. Due to the record company troubles, Dave Mason Is Alive is long out of print.

01 Pearly Queen (Dave Mason)
02 World in Changes (Dave Mason)
03 Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving (Dave Mason)
04 Walk to the Point (Dave Mason)
05 Shouldn't Have Took More than You Gave (Dave Mason)
06 Only You Know and I Know (Dave Mason)
07 Sad and Deep as You (Dave Mason)
08 Just a Song (Dave Mason)
09 Look at You, Look at Me (Dave Mason)
10 Feelin' Alright (Dave Mason)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16687954/DAVMSN1971_LivatthTrubdur_atse.zip.html

The album cover photo features Mason in July 1971, while briefly reunited with Traffic.

The Band – The Basement Tapes - Non-Album Tracks (1967-1969)

Note that this is The Basement Tapes by THE BAND, not by Bob Dylan. or Bob Dylan with the Band!

The Band released two classic albums in 1968 and 1969 – Music from Big Pink and The Band. But really, they made three albums’ worth of classic music in those years. This is the third.

All or nearly all of these songs had their origins in the Basement Tapes sessions with Dylan in the summer of 1967. But just as Dylan didn’t officially release any of these songs around that time, the Band didn’t either. Then, in 1975, the Band’s main songwriter Robbie Robertson put together an acclaimed double album, The Basement Tapes, containing songs from that time by both Dylan and the Band. The problem is, Robertson fudged things a little. It seems, in order to make the Band’s role seem larger, three of the Band songs put on that album were actually recorded in 1975, and overdubs were added to others.

But it turns out his fudging wasn’t really that bad, because two of those three songs were actually played by the Band at Woodstock in 1969 (the Band’s first public concert as their own unit), showing they weren’t first written or done in 1975 (one of them, Ain’t No More Cane, is a cover). Only the song Bessie Smith doesn’t seem to have a version from the 1960s, so that one isn’t included here. (I put it on a 1970s Band album that I hope to post at a later date.)

Many of the songs the Band did in the Basement Tapes sessions with Dylan were redone by them in sessions for their first or second albums. It’s hard to tell just what was recorded when, due to a continuing cover up that still fudges things to hide the Band’s 1975 overdubs and re-recordings. (The Band’s 2005 box set implausibly claims some versions of these songs were recorded at unknown locations at unknown dates.) That said, most of these versions appear to be outtakes from the Big Pink album, and thus not actually from 1967. The songs below are ordered roughly by when they were recorded, but only very roughly, due to all the confusion.

The two songs from Woodstock were edited to remove crowd noise.  Due to those songs and another from 1969, this album could have been released with these versions in late 1969. (It was a different time – Creedence Clearwater Revival released THREE great studio albums in 1969!)

I left off one Music from Big Pink outtake – "If I Lose" – because I simply thought it was weak, a cover of a very generic country song. Plus, without it, the album is 44 minutes long, which was near the maximum typical length for that time.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Katies's Been Gone (Band)
02 Orange Juice Blues [Blues for Breakfast] (Band)
03 Yazoo Street Scandal (Band)
04 Ferdinand the Imposter (Band)
05 Ruben Remus (Band)
06 Words and Numbers (Band)
07 You Don't Come Through (Band)
08 Long Distance Operator (Band)
09 Baby Lou (Band)
10 Key to the Highway (Band)
11 Get Up Jake (Band)
12 Don't Ya Tell Henry (Band)
13 Ain't No More Cane (Band)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700632/TBND1968a_ThBsemntTpes_atse.zip.html

Note that the original album cover for this album was made for this site by PJ at the "Alaums I Wish Existed" website. It was based on a black and white photo of the Band standing by the "Big Pink" house near Woodstock, New York. But about two years after I first posted this, I got an urge to change the covers to color. Changing that one would be a pain in the rear for technical reasons, so I chose a totally different color photo. It was taken in 1968, apparently as part of a photo shoot session for their "Music from Big Pink" album.

Here's the original, for anyone who prefers that cover.

Bob Dylan – Watching the River Flow – Non-Album Tracks (1971)

One reason I started this blog/website is seeing some other websites with the reconstructed or lost album theme, and being inspired to try my hand at it. There’s a new one called Albums I Wish Existed, that has some very similar ideas as I do, and even has a similar website title. (My title had been brewing in my head for a while). Here’s the link:

https://albumsiwishexisted.blogspot.co.uk/

That site (AIWE) just posted a reconstruction of Bob Dylan’s 1971 album Greatest Hits II. Dylan’s original album was a weird mix of new songs, rerecorded older songs, and old versions of some hits. AIWE kept it as a double album with one album of old hits. What I tried to do instead was make it a single album, using only songs recorded (or re-recorded) by Dylan at the time, and keep it at a length typical of albums from that time. Songs from other albums around that time, such as " New Morning" or "Self Portrait," were excluded.

In my opinion, this makes for an album that would have been hailed as another great one, like most of his albums released up until that point. True, five of the songs are re-recordings, but none of those had been publicly released by Dylan yet, so they would have been seen as new by the typical fan.

It might seem excessive to include two versions of George Jackson, but Dylan released them as the A and B-sides of a single that year, and putting both here pretty much puts all of Dylan’s finished 1971 tracks in one place.

 

Two of the songs here were actually recorded in 1970. But one of those, "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue," was released as a B-side in 1971, so I figure it belongs here. The other, "Working on a Guru," is such a strong original that I figure it belongs with these other originals rather than on 1970 albums I made that consist mainly of cover versions.

 

This album is 40 minutes long.

Here’s the song list:

01 George Jackson [Band Version] (Bob Dylan)
02 Watching the River Flow (Bob Dylan)
03 When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan)
04 Crash on the Levee [Down in the Flood] [1971 Version] (Bob Dylan)
05 I Shall Be Released [1971 Version] (Bob Dylan)
06 Wallflower (Bob Dylan)
07 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere [1971 Version] (Bob Dylan)
08 Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (Bob Dylan)
09 Working on a Guru (Bob Dylan)
10 Only a Hobo [1971 Version] (Bob Dylan)
11 East Virginia Blues (Bob Dylan)
12 George Jackson [Acoustic Version] (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/aMAPeXr6

 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/hW7QUKNFlPSakWe/file

Also, regarding the album cover, I used the art for Dylan's "Watching the River Flow" single, but I erased the name of the B-side from it. I also colorized parts of it red and blue. Later, in January 2025, I colorized the whole thing using the Kolorize and Krea AI programs.

Derek & the Dominos – Devil Road - Non-Album Tracks (1971)

Derek and the Dominos were a great band, and the peak of Eric Clapton’s career. Unfortunately, they didn’t last long, and there attempt at a second album in mid-1971 fizzled out. I’ve created a double album of what might have been, about the same length as the great Layla album.

A few tracks came out on Clapton’s Crossroads box set. There are a few other good still unreleased outtakes. Additionally, keyboardist Bobby Whitlock was working on a solo album at the same time. Some of the tracks on this album (also called Bobby Whitlock), plus one that was held over to his next album (Raw Velvet), essentially featured Derek and the Dominos, including Clapton. I’ve included those, as well as a solo Whitlock song that doesn’t feature Clapton, Dreams of a Hobo, to end the album on a mellow note in the same way Whitlock’s Thorn Tree in the Garden ends the Layla album.

I could have used the same version of Got to Get Better in a Little While that appears on a Layla reissue, that had Whitlock’s voice and keyboards added in the 1990s. However, in my opinion, it’s not nearly as good as the version Derek and the Dominos played on the Johnny Cash Show in November 1970. That was a live track, but with excellent sound, so I carefully edited out the crowd noises to make it appear like a studio track.

The problem with the album I’d made is that it had lots of Whitlock-sung songs, and instrumentals, and not enough Clapton-sung songs. To fix that, I took a performance of Roll It Over from the Fillmore East done in slow style (as opposed to the fast style on a quickly withdrawn single), and also edited the crowd noise out to make it sound like a studio track. Then I did the same thing to Motherless Children, a live track from the Electric Factory Theatre in Philadelphia in October 1970. It has pretty much the exact same arrangement as the song does on Clapton’s 1974 album. I also added a full band version of Mean Old World , an outtake from the Layla album.

But the highlight of the album for me is Devil Road. Derek and the Dominos was the backing band for this song for a planned solo album by the relatively obscure singer Renee Armand. It’s a bit odd to hear Armand’s female vocals, but that doesn’t matter much, because it’s a 13 minute long song, and the vast majority of it is Clapton going off with one of the best solos of his career.

The final result is seven songs sung by Clapton, five sung by Whitlock, one sung by Armand (that’s mostly instrumental), and three instrumentals. So it’s a bit odd, compared to the great Layla album, but what we have to work with is very limited, due to the recording sessions fizzling out early. I think it  holds together as a good listen.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

Here’s the song list:

01 Got to Get Better in a Little While (Derek & the Dominos)
02 Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham (Derek & the Dominos)
03 Roll It Over (Derek & the Dominos)
04 Back in My Life Again (Derek & the Dominos)
05 Evil (Derek & the Dominos)
06 Moody Jam [Instrumental] (Derek & the Dominos)
07 One More Chance (Derek & the Dominos)
08 Where There's a Will, There’s a Way (Derek & the Dominos)
09 Mean Old Frisco (Derek & the Dominos)
10 Snake Lake Blues [Instrumental] (Derek & the Dominos)
11 The Scenery Has Slowly Changed (Derek & the Dominos)
12 Got to Get Better in a Little While [Instrumental Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
13 Motherless Children (Derek & the Dominos)
14 Mean Old World (Derek & the Dominos)
15 Devil Road (Derek & the Dominos with Renee Armand)
16 The Dreams of a Hobo (Derek & the Dominos)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/LDRjcFhg

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/Al0SAyW3nM9FfLu/file

Note that the album cover was made with the help of PJ from Alums I Wish Existed. An Internet search found a photo that evoked the "Devil Road" concept. The never got close enough to finishing the album to come up with a name or cover art.

WHAT THIS WEBSITE IS ABOUT

I’m a big fan of classic rock, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s. I like listening to music in album format. I’ve collected a lot of music over the years that either never has been officially released or hasn’t found its way onto any mainstream albums. So I’ve frequently organized my music into albums I’ve created for my own listening enjoyment.

For instance, some prolific artists, such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, or Beck, have lots of great songs that have fallen into the cracks, appearing on B-sides, bonus tracks, soundtracks, and so on, or sometimes never released in any form at all. When I can, if there’s enough similar quality material from a certain time period, I like to gather the stray tracks together and make an album out of them. Sometimes, these might be “lost albums” that were planned to be released by the artist at some point, but more often they’ve never really been conceived in the forms I put them in.

In addition to that, I have many albums in my collection that are bootlegs/ROIOs, extremely rare, out of print, and the like, including lots of live performances. I plan to post lots of those too. I'm a guitarist and I have a particular love of songs stripped down to raw acoustic versions, so look forward to a lot of that type of music.

My purpose has been to make albums that I enjoy listening to. I’m not the kind of an that enjoys listening to 8 versions of the same song in a row with only minor differences. So sometimes I cut out weak material rather than being a stickler for completeness. I also sometimes edit songs in Audacity to enhance the listening experience. For instance, on a live ROIO there might be five minutes of audience cheering for an encore. I wouldn’t want to listen to five minutes of cheering, so I’d cut that part out. I also have tried as best I can to balance sound levels from song to song.

I’ve been making these albums entirely for my own enjoyment. I’m experimenting with putting some of these on the Internet. If you enjoy them great, if not, oh well. I’m including mp3s of each one, all at 320 kbps, using the best quality versions I can find. (However, with so many different masterings of albums over the years, it could be in some cases that I didn’t use the best versions.) More details of where the songs came from are often found in the mp3 data.

Note that details on where the songs came from appear in the mp3 tags for each song. In some cases, they're included in the album title field, and in other cases they're in the comments field. (As I write this, I'm in the middle of converting to the second style, but it's a time-consuming process.)

Any feedback is appreciated, especially on how I can make these albums better (for instance with song selection, song order, sound quality, etc).

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4) Use the Brave browser. It has built-in anti-spam features. Plus, it's great in general for avoiding ads and other crap while surfing the Internet.
5) Use the Tor browser. This is a modified Firefox browser with extra privacy features.
6) If all else fails, I also share everything I post on my blog through the music file-sharing program SoulseekQT. It's free, no strings attached, and super easy to use. Just search for the artist and album title, plus "atse" (which stands for "Albums That Should Exist").