After the success of the first Classics delivers the musical range of the singer-songwriters enough good material to make a second part to be able to build. This time with gems of artists that we missed on the first part such as Sting, Janis Ian, Cat Stevens, Lyle Lovett, and even the old stalwarts such as Leonard Cohen, Chris Rea, Bob Dylan, JJ Cale, Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon.

Kenny Rogers & the First Edition's Greatest Hits contains all of the group's greatest hits, including "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" and "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Is In)," plus a number of lesser-known singles. Though the group didn't have enough strong material to make the compilation consistently entertaining, this single-disc collection is nevertheless the definitive retrospective of Rogers' early years.

Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela [Limited Edition]
EAC+LOG+CUE / VIDEO_TS | WV: 260 MB / DVD: 3,48 GB | Full Artwork
Label/Cat#: PIAS # PIASR110CDVD | Country/Year: UK 2007 | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Rock, Folk, Acoustic | Style: Alternative, Flamenco, Metal

…In encountering this record, all doubt and cynicism should removed; what is happening here is that the canon for the acoustic, classical guitar is being rewritten. This music is the sound of passion as interpreted by and spoken for in a new rock & roll language. Initial copies of the CD also come with an enclosed DVD so you can see the magic as well as hear it.

Fritz Reiner was one of the foremost conductors of his time. Crowning his long career in Europe and America was the decade from 1954 to 1963 as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra – an illustrious partnership that ranks along such other historical tenures as Karajan’s in Berlin, Szell’s in Cleveland and Bernstein’s in New York. Luckily for posterity, Reiner’s legendary interpretations at the helm of the Chicago Symphony – which no less than Igor Stravinsky called “the most precise and flexible orchestra in the world” – were captured on record by RCA Victor. Now for the first time ever, they are being issued together in a single Sony Classical box set of 63 re-mastered CDs.

The 2006 Gong Unconventional Family Gathering was for many fans the moment they had been waiting on for decades. What some considered an improbability verging on impossible was happening: Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage, Mike Howlett, Didier Malherbe and Miquette Giraudy all on stage at one time in the closest thing to a classic Gong reunion, playing a set laden heavily with pieces from the classic trilogy of Flying Teapot, Angels Egg, and You…