10 March 2026

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* Ok here is the thing, we share with you, our music collections with you all for free!! All we ask is a comment in return, I don't think this is too much to ask. Everything we share we check and guarantee, it's true flac, wav, 320 or lower bit rate, the rate is stated on every post. Vibes gets over 1,000+ visits everyday, everything we share is downloaded on average 30+ times. And for all this we get the odd comment. Well this has to change for sure. If the number of comments, doesn't increase by a vast amount, then maybe Vibes will close it's doors. So the ball is in your court now, support us by adding comments to posts, it only takes a few seconds to say thank you, via an anonymous comment, but please add a name as well. Well you have been warned!! *

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Various - Box Of Vibes No. 26 (C-R-A) (2026) 320

* Just remembered I had this to post, we have had a busy weekend, bands to see and family thing yesterday, two bands Friday night, then an hour drive to see two singer songwriters on Saturday night. Then a trip to a museum and lunch with my 5 year old Niece. So had to edit a tag on one track, missed it when these were first compiled, but is very easily fixed. *

* Because we compiled these home made comps some time ago, I forget what is on every edition, so while I surf the net today, I will listen again!! *

* This week we post Box Of Vibes (BOV) number 26, which is started by Concha's tracks 1 to 8, then my (Reb) selections from 9 to 16 and then Andy's tunes close the box with tracks 17 to 24. *

* As always a great mix of music from many decades, genres, with cover, alternative and remastered version of songs, some of which you might already know, but hopefully some will be new to you and inspire you to go look for more music from your discovery. *

*I said last week maybe, you the visitors of Vibes could contribute tracks for a special edition for BOV 50, been thinking and once we post Box 40, I will make a post and any of you can suggestion a couple of tracks to be included, all you will need to do I add the artist and track titles onto this post via a comment, I will then find the tracks, I don't have them Concha or Andy will, or will search for a copy. So maybe it would make it easier to track the track down if you include which album the song is taken from, as there are many different versions of the same song by artists. If a lot of tracks are submitted, I will make a double edition. So This will be posted about the middle of June, and will give me 10 weeks to compile them and sort a running order. Hopefully some of you will take the time to submit tracks for BOV 50, of one last thing can you also add your name to the comment once you suggest your selections, so we can add your names on the BOV 50 post. *

* Please feel free to add a comment to this post saying if you like to or don't, and the reason why (just out of interest) any feed back positive or negative is most welcome. *

* BOV 27 will be posted next Monday, if I don't forget again, I do like to listen before posting that all is ok, but just haven't got the time this weekend, sorry, but they were all checked when they were originally compiled, so am sure all will be ok.*

* Thanks again to Andy & Concha for their time spent selecting the tunes and making a running order for their selections. *

* Enjoy, Reb 😎 Link 👇 *

Deniece Williams – Free (The Columbia/Arc Recordings 1976-1988) 2021 320

* Nice 8 CD box set, covering 11 albums and bonus tracks *

* Discogs *

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Violent Femmes – The Blind Leading The Naked (1986) 320

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2022 - Larkin Poe - Blood Harmony

2022 - Larkin Poe - Blood Harmony @320

The Larkin Poe story goes back to 2010, when they released four beautiful and distinctive seasons-related EPs, displaying the Lovell sisters Rebecca and Megan’s rich, absorbing vocal harmonies, slippery slide guitar work and a winning with with crunchy blues-rock riffs. They’ve released five albums since then, and Blood Harmony is, for the Georgia-born siblings, a musical homecoming to the sultry humidity of the American South of their musical and familial roots. The cover art looks like a Seventies vintage that’s been hauled around in a crate ever since, and that decade spreads its own aura through the music too.

Album opener “Deep Stays Down” sees the sisters set their stall with a lean, seductive and irresistible guitar riff set to an ominous bass drum rhythm and their own subtle harmonies, with heavy rock guitars and hard rock vocals bursting out of their trousers out at the 2.30 mark, and the rock-out feel extends to the heavy Southern blues-rock of “Bad Spell”.

Their 2018 set, Venom & Faith was a Grammy Award nominee for Best Contemporary Blues Album, and on the strength of its best tracks, Blood Harmony could well be in the running for another nomination at least. Recorded at Rebecca and her husband Tyler Bryant’s home studio, with Megan’s husband on keys, and with longtime stage band members Kevin McGowan on drums and Tarka Layman on bass, the album is truly a family affair.

The title song is all about ties that bind – specifically, the memory of the sisters singing with their mother at the family piano – set to a twin guitar riff so slinky and tight it could shed itself like a snake’s skin and slip off into the underworld. The twin harmonies and twin guitars seem to cross-talk with each other, McGowan’s drums and Layman’s bass spreading some ground from which the Lovell sisters take flight through an amalgam of rock, blues, gospel and soul, with lyrics that seem to have been sweated out of the music, as on the crunchy blues riffing of “Kick the Blues” or “Summertime Sunset”, sporting a vicious hard-rock guitar line that would make Malcolm Young proud. They close with the more ethereal, hazy and reflective “Lips as Cold as a Diamond” which takes a fairly sombre look at death, as each of us must do, since death is an intimate member of everybody’s bloodline.

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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Devil's Night Out

(1990)

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Josh Ritter

Golden Age of Radio

(2000)

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Various Artists

The Odyssey

A Northern Soul Time Capsule 1968-2014

[8cds]

(2015)

cd5 - More Wigan Casino

cd6 - Wigan Casino To Cleethorpes Pier

cd7 - The 100 Club And Top Of The World, Stafford Eras

cd8 - The Weekenders Era

That's all, folks!

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09 March 2026

Dave Vanian’s Phantom Chords – Loveless & The Damned (Unofficial Release) 320

* Bootleg of unreleased Polydor album. *

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2012 - The Archives - Archives

2012 - The Archives - Archives (Flac)

U.S. reggae band The Archives have just put out their self-titled rootsy debut album produced and mixed by Eric Hilton and Chris Garrett from Thievery Corporation.

The Archives came together when Eric Hilton began a quest to explore the roots of reggae music. He asked keyboard player Darryl Burke to put together a cover band that would introduce club goers to the rock steady hits and obscurities of the pre-reggae era.

The band started to perform regularly at a club called Patty Boom Boom, where they played nightlong sets, often around 60 tunes or more.

“Everyone in the band has recorded and toured internationally with acts like Eek-A-Mouse, Culture, Gregory Isaacs and The Abyssinians,” explains Darryl Burke in a press release, and continues:

“We weave together the best of foundation roots, rock steady, early dub and dancehall influences with arrangements that use funky throwbacks such as jazz flute, melodica and organ to create a classic, yet fresh and conscious sound.”

The album’s 13 tracks include vocals from lead singers Ras Puma and Lenny Kurlou as well as guests Sleepy Wonder, Desi Hyson and Ichelle Cole. Featured are also covers of Timmy Thomas’ Why Can’t We Live Together and One More Time by The Clash and Mikey Dread.

“Dali once said he learned to paint like the masters before embarking on his visionary quest,” explains Mateo Monk, who handles guitar, flute and melodica, and continues:

“We strive to play like the masters in our field, but we’re part of our generation. Modern sensibilities have developed since the golden era of reggae: better gear, more awareness of studio techniques, new approaches to improvisation, new paradigms for the concert experience and greater social consciousness. We are not a retro band. We’re a 21st century band with really deep roots and we want to contribute to reggae’s evolution. Same tree, new leaves.” (United Reggae)

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Various Artists

The Odyssey

A Northern Soul Time Capsule 1968-2014

[8cds]

(2015)

cd1 The Twisted Wheel

cd2 The Twisted Wheel To The Golden Torch

cd3 The Golden Torch To Blackpool Mecca

cd4 Blackpool Mecca To Wigan Casino

The other four tomorrow. See you!

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08 March 2026

2003 - Bobby Womack - Anthology

2003 - Bobby Womack - Anthology @320

A repackaging of 1993's Midnight Mover: The Bobby Womack Collection, Anthology -- released by Capitol's The Right Stuff subsidiary in 2003 -- is an excellent overview (cheapo identikit design aside) that features just about every significant moment of Womack's most productive years. All his biggest hits, including "Lookin' for a Love," "Woman's Gotta Have It," "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out," "Daylight," and "Across 110th Street" are featured here, along with some album cuts that most casual fans will have no trouble appreciating. Short of picking up all the albums released during this era, you could not do any better. (AllMusic)

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