Records That Made History

Live Alive is the first live album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, released on November 15, 1986 by Epic Records, and is made up of four live performances by the group. Performances were recorded on July 15, 1985 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 17 and 18, 1986 at the Austin Opera House, and July 19, 1986 at the Dallas Starfest. Much of the album was recorded in […]

The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper is a double live album recorded at the Fillmore West. The album is essentially a follow-up to the commercially successful and critically acclaimed Super Session studio album, which featured Stephen Stills in addition to Bloomfield and Kooper, earlier in 1968.The performances, the recordings as well as the production cannot be described as flawless. In the liner notes, Kooper describes the difficulties […]

The Super Super Blues Band by Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley was recorded in September 1967 in Chicago and released on January 26, 1968.One could easily describe this album as a super bust of the blues. Power trios in the late 60s were all the rage, even at Chess Studios, where the special purpose supergroups Super Blues of 1967 and later the Super Super Blues Band were formed.The Super […]

The River is the fifth studio album by Bruce Springsteen and was released on October 17, 1980 by Columbia Records. This double album was produced by Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen and E-Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt. The album was Springsteen's first to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spent four weeks at the top of the chart. The song "The River" was nominated for Best Performance by […]

4 Way Street is the third album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, their second as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and their first live album in general, released on April 7, 1971 by Atlantic Records and certified gold by #1 on the Billboard 200. It was a documentary of their tour from the previous year, featuring live recordings made at concerts they played at the Fillmore East in New York […]

Agents Of Fortune is the fourth studio album by American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on vinyl on May 21, 1976 by Columbia Records, produced by Murray Krugman, Sandy Perlman and David Lucas.From 1972 to 1974, Blue Öyster Cult released three successful studio albums and toured constantly, attracting new friends, but the big commercial success came with 1975's live recording "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees" and […]

Alchemy: Dire Straits Live is the first live double album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on March 16, 1984 by Vertigo Records internationally and Warner Bros. Records in the United States. Recorded at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 22 and 23 July 1983, the album contains well-known songs from the band's first four albums, the ExtendeDancEPlay EP and Mark Knopfler's personal soundtrack album Local Hero. Many of the songs […]

Presence is the seventh studio album by Led Zeppelin, released in March 1976 on the Swan Song label.On August 5, 1975, Robert Plant was involved in a serious car accident on the island of Rhodes, leaving him with an ankle problem and unable to tour. This led the band to begin recording their next album, with most of the songs being written in Malibu, California by Jimmy Page and Robert […]

Blow Your Face Out is the second live album by American rock band The J. Geils Band, released in 1976.The album was recorded at two concerts held in November 1975. The first was at Boston Garden, in the band's hometown, on November 15 and was recorded by Record Plant East Remote and David Hewitt. The second was recorded by Metro Audio Detroit four nights later at Cobo Hall in Detroit, […]