Folky

2012-02-07T06:36:00.000-08:00

The Animals' second British album, recorded just before Alan Price exited the lineup, displays far more energy and confidence than its predecessor, and it's fascinating to speculate where they might've gone had the original lineup held together. There are a few lightweight tunes here, such as "Let the Good Times Roll" and the rollicking opener, "Mess Around," that capture the Animals loosening up and having fun, but much of Animal Tracks is pretty intense R&B-based rock. "How You've Changed" is a reflective, downbeat Chuck Berry number that Eric Burdon turns into a dark romantic confessional/inquisition, matched by Hilton Valentine's chopped out, crunchy lead work over the break, while Alan Price does his best to impersonate Johnnie Johnson.

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2012-02-07T06:28:00.000-08:00

The folk singer-songwriter Judy Collins was born in Seattle, Washington in 1939. She studied classical music as a youth but influenced by the music of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. During the traditional folk revival in the early sixties, she learned the guitar, moving to New York where she eventually got a record contract.

She released her first album in A Maid of Constant Sorrow in 1961.

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2012-01-10T03:13:00.000-08:00

Givin' It Back is as much a time capsule as an album. Not that it can't be enjoyed on its own absolute musical terms by someone just off a boat who wasn't even around in 1971, but to really appreciate how daring it was and how delightful it is, that side of its history should be known.

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2012-01-10T02:43:00.000-08:00

Canadian Hippie Folk from 1976. Excellent music for the road, this rare and hard to find album is a perfect example of folk and rock made by a bunch of hippies in the seventies.

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2012-01-10T02:37:00.000-08:00

Indian Summer is the Only Album by the American Psychedelic-Progressive Blues Rock Band Panama Limited.

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2012-01-10T01:49:00.000-08:00

The Spencer Davis Group were one of the UK's most convincing R&B bands to emerge during this period. They were best known for introducing a prodigious teenager, Steve Winwood, to the world. It was apparent from their first record that Winwood, with his ferocious soul drenched voice, belying his tender sixteen years, would be the focal point of the group.

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2012-01-10T01:44:00.000-08:00

In 1967, a group of English lads formerly known as The Shots turned out one of the defining moments between the beat sounds warped by mid-Sixties mod bands, and the all important sounds of British psychedelia. Blistering guitar lines, and one single line of the lyric, which opened their most famous song:"My friend Jack eats sugar lumps"
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2012-01-06T11:53:00.000-08:00

This is more of a hippie west coast vibe. Lots of harmonies, some sitar sprinkled through, and folk-psych rock moments as well. Definitely worth checking out.

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2011-10-15T02:36:00.000-07:00

David Essex was originally a drummer in the Everons. He turned to singing during the mid-60s, recording a series of singles for an array of labels. Manager Derek Bowman recommended that Essex switch to acting after a series of minor roles catapulted him into the lead part in the musical entitled Godspell.

The films That'll Be the Day and its sequel Stardust followed. That'll Be the Day revived Essex's recording career. The song that he composed for the film "Rock On" became a Top Ten hit in the United States and in the U.K.

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2011-10-15T01:44:00.000-07:00

Oscar Brown Jr. - Between Heaven And Hell 1962

Oscar Brown Jr was the voice of blacks during the 1960s. In a way, a black Bob Dylan. However, Brown could actually sing as well as write important songs. He covered the Black experience and so much more. This is my favorite of all his albums. There are 4 songs in particular that just hit me hard when I first heard them. "Mr Kicks" is from a broadway style show about a demon who came to earth to collect souls. The song swings and the lyrics are so bitter and so true. "World Full of Gray" is a song that could have been written by many different people but only Oscar was able to capture the pain and longing of seeing one thing and desperately wanting something else. "Lucky Guy" is really bitter. Love his use of the catch phrase "and all of the true love that........money can buy". Finally, and really the only song here that is "only" about the Black experience, "Elegy". A summation of a life that is about the Black experience but could also be about anyone who lives, loves and experiences.

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2011-10-15T01:24:00.000-07:00

Booker T. & the M.G.s-Soul Dressing (1965)

The first question that should be on everyone's mind when it comes to Booker T. & the M.G.s sophomore album, Soul Dressing is why the heck did it take them three years to come up with it? ...After all three years was practically an eternity in the days of early pop-rock. Only God can tell me how many bands were born and subsequently died in that period of time, and I don't think he cares. ...Ultimately, the answer to that burning question is that we shouldn't think of early '60s bands as album-oriented. Bands didn't start becoming album-oriented until a few years later. Naturally, Booker T. & the M.G.s were still active all those years not only acting as the backing band to legendary people like Otis Redding and ; they were just predominately singles oriented. (The Yardbirds are perhaps the most famous example of a singles-oriented band.) Thus, this isn't so much an “album” but rather a compilation of their singles from 1963-1965.

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2011-10-13T05:02:00.000-07:00

Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers - Super Freak

Full performer name: Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers. Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers include: Pucho (drums, timbales); Marilyn Johnson (vocals); Kenny Rodgers (saxophone, flute); Al Pazzant (trumpet); John Spruli (electric piano); Cornell Dupre (guitar, sitar); Ernie Adams (bass); George Michaels (drums). Producers include: George Patterson, George Tindley, George Williams. Engineers include: Tony May, Tony Bon Jovi, Michael De Lugg. Recorded at Media Sound and Generation Sound Studios, New York, New York.

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2011-10-13T04:30:00.000-07:00

Merry Clayton - "Gimme Shelter"(1970)
We've all heard those amazing backing vocals on the Rolling Stones' song "Gimme Shelter." Those backing vocals were from the great Merry Clayton. Merry has a long and storied career in pop music though. In the early 60's, she was one of Ray Charles' Raelettes. She recorded tracks with Elvis Presley, Joe Cocker, and the Superemes, among many others. She has made a handful of her own albums and appeared on many soundtracks, but her best work was from her own records in the early 70's.

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2011-10-13T04:24:00.000-07:00

Julie London-With body&soul(liberty1970)

A sultry, smoky-voiced master of understatement, Julie London enjoyed considerable popularity during the cool era of the 1950s. London never had the range of Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan, but often used restraint, softness, and subtlety to maximum advantage. An actress as well as a singer, London played with heavyweights like Gregory Peck and Rock Hudson in various films, and was married to Jack Webb of Dragnet fame for seven years before marrying songwriter Bobby Troup ("Route 66"). London performed her biggest hit, "Cry Me a River," in the Jayne Mansfield film The Girl Can't Help It.

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2011-10-12T03:02:00.000-07:00

Huey "Piano" Smith was an important part of the great New Orleans piano tradition, following in the footsteps of Professor Longhair and Fats Domino to take his place among the Crescent City's R&B elite. He was also one of R&B's great comedians, his best singles matching the Coasters for genial, good-time humor, although his taste often ran more towards nonsense lyrics. Smith's sound was too earthy to match the pop crossover appeal of Domino or the Coasters, which limited his exposure, and he couldn't match the latter's amazing consistency, lacking their reliable supply of material. But at the peak of his game, Smith epitomized New Orleans R&B at its most infectious and rollicking, as showcased on his classic signature tune "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu."

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2011-10-12T02:47:00.000-07:00

The Stowaways were a promising quintet who managed to leave behind an album's worth of impressive material on Calvin Newton's Justice Records label, based in Winston-Salem, NC. Tim Tatum was the lead singer, equally adept at lyrical Beatles covers or harder punk sounds, and the rest of the band was Tommy O'Neal on lead guitar, Paul Quick on rhythm guitar, Ken Knight on bass, and Ken Tanner at the drums.

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2011-10-12T02:17:00.000-07:00

At the time the Mamas & the Papas broke up in 1968, it was painfully obvious that Dunhill Records was placing all their bets on Elliot as far as a successful solo recording career.
Mama Cass-Dream a Little Dream(1968)

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2011-10-12T01:54:00.000-07:00

Like many a late-'60s album pressed in extremely minute quantities, Hickory Wind's self-titled record is a mighty odd bird. It's not so much that any one song is weird. It's more the cumulative effect of the record, in which the band not only don't seem to be seriously pursuing one direction in particular, but don't seem to be particularly serious about pursuing anything. The nonchalant, naive, slightly off-key way they trundle through this mixture of garage rock, country-rock, and melodramatic teen pop almost gives the impression of B-grade session players recruited to record an exploitation album.

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2011-10-12T01:45:00.000-07:00

Experimental Psych/Rock/Pop album from 1967.

Featuring some very good garage, psych, and British Invasion sounds.

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2011-09-03T05:08:00.000-07:00

The Mack Soundtrack (1973)

The year of his first LP, the manager of Sister's Love thought it would be a good idea for him to write music for the upcoming film that they were to have a cameo role in. This resulted in him recording the soundtrack for the Blaxpoitation film 'The Mack.

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2011-07-26T02:56:00.000-07:00

Mayo Thompson - Corky's Debt to His Father (1970)

The album features a softer Thompson sounding like a Texan Syd Barrett, with songs that are spare and mystical but ultimately friendly. While the band sticks mostly to the familiar sounds of folk guitars, pianos, deep horns, and heavy bass, the instrumental arrangements are designed to clink along and never quite reach harmony. What is created in the end is an uptight and warped version of the stripped-back country & western of late '60s Dylan. If Thompson could sing, Corky's Debt's jazz touches and linear quality might have made the record something of an American Astral Weeks. Instead, we'll settle for coherence and a considerable amount of charm.

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2011-07-26T02:35:00.000-07:00

Spanky & our Gang - `67 Debut

Spanky & Our Gang started out in Chicago with a sound somewhere midway between the original Jefferson Airplane and the original Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, a folk-rock ensemble with a few jazzy twists and some funny between-song sketches.

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2011-07-12T12:46:00.000-07:00

Like the simultaneously released ALICE, BLOOD MONEY features songs written for a Robert Wilson play. That's pretty much where the similarity ends; unlike ALICE's moody balladry, BLOOD MONEY is full of crazed, rhythmic pieces of sonic barbed-wire. The lyrics portray the main character of Wilson's WOYZECK, a man filled with madness and rage. The combination of junkyard percussion, near-psychotic vocals, and lounge-band-from-hell tones provides the perfect complement. The outlook is an unremittingly dark one, eventually bypassing existentialism ("God's Away on Business") in favor of outright misanthropy (the aptly titled "Misery is the River of the World"). The brief, Raymond Scott-like instrumental "Knife Chase" is a madcap interlude that brings the glory days of SWORDFISHTROMBONES to mind. Despite the gusto with which Waits throws himself into all this craziness, a couple of sadly romantic ballads provide a brief respite from the mayhem and make the rest of BLOOD MONEY feel all the more hard-hitting in contrast.

Recorded at In The Pocket Studios, Forestville, California.(2002)

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2011-07-06T13:38:00.000-07:00

Delaney & Bonnie - Home(1969)

The first album by husband-and-wife singers Delaney & Bonnie, released on the Stax label. Most of the album was recorded in 1969 at Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, and features many of Stax's house musicians, including Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones, and Isaac Hayes.

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2011-07-06T13:00:00.000-07:00

Love peace & poetry - British psychedelic music

Tracks:

Memories - Red Dirt

Magazine Woman - Gary Walker and The Rain

Felix - Andwellas Dream

Maypole - Dark

Now I Know - Dogfeet

There Are No Greater Heroes - Tony, Caro and John

Comets - Pussy

Reach Out - Candida Pax

Mandolin Man - Mark Fry

On a Meadow-Lea - Mother Light

Yesterday - Lightyears Away - Astral Navigations

Three Days After Death, Pt. 1 - Bodkin

The Dreamer Flies Back - Forever Amber

Telephone - Oliver

Harvington Hall - Parameter

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2011-07-06T12:44:00.000-07:00

THE FALLEN ANGELS - THE FALLEN ANGELS (PSYCHEDELIC GARAGE US 1968)

The first album (entitled simply "The Fallen Angels")

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2011-07-06T12:23:00.000-07:00

In early 1967 this album was released, revealing the depth of Ian's craft. While her roots are decidedly folky, her material traverses through a number of genres.

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2011-07-05T13:20:00.000-07:00

Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith (1958)
1. After You've Gone
2. Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
3. Jailhouse Blues
4. Trombone Blues (AKA Trombone Cholly)
5. You've Been A Good Ole Wagon
6. Careless Love
7. Backwater Blues
8. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
9. Me And My Gin
10. Fine Fat Daddy
11. Trombone Butter (Alt Take)
12. Careless Love (Mono)
13. Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair (Live)
14. Me And My Gin (Live)
15. Backwater Blues (Live)

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2011-07-02T05:27:00.000-07:00

Beautiful bossa – and one of Leny Andrade's best albums! The record was recorded way back in 1965, when Leny was starting her career, years before she went onto become one of Brazil's most famous jazz singers. She's working here with Deodato, who did a beautiful set of jazzy arrangements that work perfectly with Leny's rich voice – warm and airy, with a sweetly skipping quality throughout!

The whole thing's really jazzy and wonderful – without any of the heavier styles of Leny's later work – and titles include "Tema Feliz", "Samba De Rei", "A Resposta", "Banzo", "Cliché", "Samba Em Paris", and "Coisa Nuvem".

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2011-07-02T05:03:00.000-07:00

Gare du Nord - Kind Of Cool

Electronic, Jazz

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2011-07-02T04:58:00.000-07:00

Very Best of Latin Jazz - Volume 2

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2011-07-02T04:44:00.000-07:00

Disc One

01 - El Wool Suite

02 - The Juggler's Song

03 - Time

04 - Bad Sadie Lee

05 - Queen Of Love

06 - Partial Belated Overture

07 - Light in Time of Darkness , Glad to See You

08 - Walking Along With You

09 - Hirem Pawnitof , Fairie's Hornpipe

Disc Two

01 - Bridge Theme

02 - Bridge Song

03 - Astral Plane Theme

04 - Invocation

05 - Robot Blues

06 - Puppet Song

07 - Cutting The Strings

08 - I Know You

09 - Rainbow

Folk and psychedelic touch

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2011-01-17T03:26:00.000-08:00

George Fame and the blue flames - Get away

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2010-09-26T03:53:00.000-07:00

Back in 1968, Tetragrammaton Records of Beverly Hills, Bill Cosby’s label, released a local Los Angeles group’s only recorded album, Quatrain. The group consisted of Don Senneville, one of Los Angeles’ more creative lead guitarists, Steve Lindsay on bass guitar, Rick Pease on rhythm guitar, and Jim Lekas on drums. The record album was produced and engineered by the late David Briggs, Neil Young’s producer for many years.
Quatrain was a garage band out of the San Fernando Valley and was originally formed in 1963 as The Fourth Shadow by founding members Senneville and Pease, with Lekas joining to play drums and sing in November of 1964 after a stint as an aerospace worker and part-time surf band drummer. Pease was a talented folk musician and excellent writer, as was Senneville.

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2010-09-13T13:57:00.000-07:00

Released: 1962 Big Band Bossa Nova is a 1962 Bossa Nova album by American impresario, jazz composer, trumpeter, arranger and record producer Quincy Jones. and his big band.

Over the course of his long career Quincy Jones’ contribution to the musical world is huge – as a solo artist, songwriter, producer, film composer and record label executive he has made an indelible mark on modern life. He has worked with many of the biggest names in the business and his credits include some of the most notable albums of the last few decades, and this feat is recognised in his significant collection of Grammys.His early career was as a trumpeter in the Dizzy Gillespie Band and before long he was leader of his own band. Though his performances were critically acclaimed, all did not go well financially on tour, and he ended up with considerable personal debt. So he took a job at Mercury Records and by 1964 he was vice-president.

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2010-09-13T13:35:00.000-07:00

The Four Tops - 1967 - Reach Out

One of Motown's most consistent hitmakers and its longest lived lineup (40 years), the Four Tops were the most stable and consistent vocal groups to emerge from Motown Records in the '60s, charting with scores of upbeat love songs featuring Levi Stubbs' rough hewn lead vocals.

"Reach Out and I'll Be There" hit #1 in October, 1966, followed by "Standing in the Shadows of Love" (#6) in 1967.

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2010-09-13T11:48:00.000-07:00

this is the first original recording of Joan Baez

Original release date: May 1964 (Recorded in June 1958)Produced and recorded by: Dick Tognazzini for Storm Records

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2010-09-12T00:32:00.000-07:00

This album has received only bad reviews and the most of the people says that this album isn't good. Well, in my opinion this is not true. The three first albums are great and better than "Bernice", but you can find also in this album some good songs, with nice and psych melodies. Only one thing. Don't expect to find in that album any Middle - Eastern sounds and things like in the previous albums.

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2010-09-11T03:17:00.000-07:00

Pavlos Sidiropoulos (Greek: Παύλος Σιδηρόπουλος) (Athens, August 27, 1948 – Athens, 6 December 1990) was a Rock musician, noted for supporting the use of Greek lyrics in rock music, at a time when most Greek rock groups were using English lyrics. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was arguably the most popular Greek rock musician. Despite his early death, he remains one of the most popular rock musicians in Greece.

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2010-09-06T12:07:00.000-07:00

The Plastic Cloud were an Ontario-based folk-rock quartet, consisting of Brian Madill (bass), Don Brewer (lead vocals, 12-string guitar), Mike Cadieux (guitar), and Randy Umphrey (drums). Formed in 1967, they managed to encompass the commercial side of the music in pleasant, Byrds-like original numbers, but also showed a much harder sound dominated by fuzztone guitar and other effects, for a much more spaced-out sound on about half of their recorded material. Madill and Umphrey were the initial partners, with Cadieux and Brewer -- who not only sang lead but wrote all of their original songsFrom Bay Ridges, Ontario, this band made one of the best and most sought-after albums of the psychedelic era. All of the tracks were written by Don Brewer and it’s one of the most consistently good Canadian albums of this era.

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2010-09-03T04:50:00.000-07:00

One-shot masterpiece from genius songwriter Spider Barbour. His songs show remarkable lyrical and musical depth. Acoustic rock (not quite folk-rock) songs dominate, but the album is full of surprises, from searing fuzz guitar to the whacked-out fantasy “Dr. Root’s Garden” that closes the album. There are spots of jazz, prog (way before its time) and music hall, all of which can ruin psychedelic records, but work incredibly well here because they’re part of Barbour’s vision, not just attempts to be trendy. Favorite lyric: “God is a ring of smoke, wrapped around my finger, a wasp without a stinger, buzzing in my ear." Other lyrics veer towards the psychological and emotional with equally memorable results. Barbour’s voice is soothing and appealing. Nancy Nairn is used sparingly but effectively (two and a half songs) as the other lead vocalist. Her unhinged performance on “April Grove” adds to the appeal and strangeness of the album but is effective precisely because it’s not overused. Some other songs are stunningly beautiful and tragic. One of the all-time greats.

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2010-08-31T03:17:00.000-07:00

MANEIGE is probably the Quebec band that epitomizes best the Quebec Prog boom from 74 to 79. Their music are probably one of the best example of what Fusion music can be by blending in classical and folk elements together with jazz tones the whole thing having a very progressive rock ideal and could also fit the chamber rock style. Their style can only be really compared to other Quebecois group as SLOCHE and OPUS-5.

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2010-08-30T02:38:00.001-07:00

Forgotten_Jewels

Formed around '67 / '68 when Martin Briley and Brian Engel met at Art School in Walthamstow, London[UK psychedelic rock/197Mandrake Paddlesteamer made one, now legendary, psychedelic 45 which inevitably interests collectors. The original release of Strange Walking Man is now very expensive to purchase but aside from the disc's reissue by Bam-Caruso in 1988, the 'A' side, Strange Walking Man has also been heavily compiled. It's unusual for a tempo change towards the end where the vocal parts end and the song culminates with an instrumental passage. The track also features some great understated guitar work, and superb trippy lyrics. The flip side, Steam, is a pretty decent keyboard-driven instrumental.

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2010-08-18T08:35:00.000-07:00

Galliard is a sextet formed in the summer of 68, and developed a psychedelic type of brass rock, fronted by twin wind players Caswell and Smith and singer Geoff Brown. They recorded two albums on the Deram Nova label (the subsidiary prog label of Decca records) around the turn of the 70’s decade, when brass rock was the rage. Their first album Strange Pleasure By Galliard, released in 69, was quite eclectic, ranging from Medieval to Flamenco/Spanish music. For their second album New Dawn, wind player John Smith was gone, but the group adjoined a mega brass section of four player, plus keyboardist Morton. This second album sounds a bit different, but we are still roughly in the same realm even if the spectrum is enlarged to folk and Indian raga.

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2010-08-16T04:24:00.000-07:00

Mike Absalom was a genuine oddity on the late-'60s/early-'70s U.K. scene, a singer/songwriter with a bent sense of humor that seemed to be driven as much by a heavy load of illicit pharmaceuticals as by a skewed worldview. Unlike the contemporary Syd Barrett, however, Absalom did not become an acid casualty. He recorded one album for Saydisc in 1969, a disc that escaped under the title of Save the Last Gherkin for Me, and he set out on a career of busking and living hand to mouth. Producer/A&R man Patrick Lyons (of Nirvana [U.K.] fame) found his attention engaged by Absalom's music when the singer/songwriter was playing for small change in a London Underground station, subsequently signing him to Vertigo Records.

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2010-08-14T04:29:00.000-07:00

US pop rock/1964

Contrary to what the exploitative title might have you believe, this was not recorded during a Beatles tour (though Jackie DeShannon was an opening act on their 1964 North American tour), or even a live album. Instead, it was something of a grab bag of a dozen tracks that had already been released on Liberty singles between 1962 and 1964.

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2010-08-14T03:31:00.000-07:00

Born Irving Lee Dorsey in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dorsey moved to Portland, Oregon when he was ten years old. He served in the United States Navy and began a career in prizefighting. Boxing as a light heavyweight in Portland in the early 1950s, he fought under the name “Kid Chocolate” and was quite successful. In 1970 Dorsey and Toussaint collaborated on an album entitled Yes We Can; the title song was Dorsey’s last entry in the singles chart. It was later a hit for the Pointer Sisters under the title, “Yes We Can Can”.

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2010-08-14T01:15:00.000-07:00

Marie "Queenie" Lyons is a mystery girl, a Southern enigma. Like a kind of black Bobbie Gentry, after just one album ("SOUL FEVER") Queenie vanished. Following its 1970 release, she disappeared off the soul map forever, like a roman candle floating off into the warm Southern night.

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2010-08-13T05:22:00.000-07:00

Cargoe did an admirable job blending power-pop melodicism with various contemporary sounds - late Beatles, post-CS&N and Traffic soft/folk rock, blues lead guitar and some country sounds. Listening to Cargoe, it sounds like they just a bunch of Southern boys who loved the Beatles and others, and went in a different direction. Southern rock were their brethren, (you can hear it on the vocals, the acoustic guitar bedrock and the blues-rock guitar leads), but instead of founding a new tribe, Cargoe became a curious attempt. Had they become more popular, they might have been the American Badfinger, but even better. You can sit down and figure out a Badfinger song relatively easily - Cargoe's songs are more complex and have excellent arrangements, probably the result of years of live playing and recording an earlier version of this album.(1972)

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2010-08-12T05:04:00.000-07:00

AQUELARRE (meaning witches nocturnal meeting with the devil) was formed after the dissolution of the band ALMENDRA in 1970, as its bass player Emilio del Güercio and drummer Rodolfo Garcia joined up with guitar player Héctor Stark and keyboard player Hugo González Neira joined up. They performed in B.A.Rock II festival 1971, and their first studio album "Aquelarre" was released in 1972. It's cover was drawn by the band's bass player, who became graphic designer later. Their music is sophisticated psychedelic rock'n'roll with very impressionistic moments, artistic arrangements, surrealistic themes and they have a jazzy rhythm section. During next years they released three more albums, "Candiles" in 1973, and it's cover is a painting of Goya, which name is the same as the bands name!

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2010-08-12T02:36:00.000-07:00

A 4-LP vinyl box, with some good psychedelic tracks. In the back side of the box is written: "This limited 4-LP collectors edition contains 60 ultrarare psychedelic, punk e.t.c. 60's tracks. All this tracks were not available on other albums before. This material comes mostly from private 45's, but also from acetates , soundtracks and unreleased mastertapes", and after the track list "This special collectors set is limited to 300 copies (booklet inside)".

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2010-08-11T01:41:00.001-07:00

Dreamy, sunshine-infused pop psychedelia with a folk bent, originally released by independent Canadian label Allied Records in 1968.

Release the Sunshine - 1968

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2010-08-11T01:10:00.000-07:00

BLONDE ON BLONDE (taking their name from BOB DYLAN's 1966 album) were formed in Newport, South Wales in 1967.
In 1968 the band moved to London to give out concerts, and their publicity led them to be signed for Pye Record label in late 1968. A single "All Day All Night / Country Life" was released in November of the same year. Then was recorded their debut long player ablum "Contrasts", which was issued by Pye in mid-1969 and produced by Barry Murray.
Musically the group was exploring the areas pioneered by 1967 psychedelic acts like PINK FLOYD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and CREAM, but in a much larger scale of influences than them, having a more wider musical palette than the bands influenced which them, offering much to the listener open to their style, with slightly varying production quality. Their music is a dance between contrasts of free impressionism paired with predefined melodic more carefully constructed elements, varying from streetwise side to high levels of spirituality, from folk tones, classical guitar runs and mantra like instrumental runs, bursting with oriental musical influences, introducing cosmic drones running hypnotically on varying time scales, and all this paired with hard rock tones of heavy psychedelic guitar similar to JIMI HENDRIX and 1960's work of PETE TOWNSHED.

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2010-08-08T02:14:00.000-07:00

Mark Spoelstra: Five and Twenty Questions (1965) Elektra EKS-7283 Mark Spoelstra was an old friend of Joan Baez; they dated in high school. Fariρa met Spoelstra at the Big Sur Folk Festival where Richard & Mimi performed their first professional gig in June of 1964. In these liner notes Fariρa recalls his meeting with Spoelstra at a "seminar on the how-comes of New Folk Music" that attended the Festival, and he praises Spoelstra's political and musical integrity.

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2010-08-08T01:39:00.000-07:00

One of the founding fathers of the British blues movement, Graham Bond released two spectacular albums in 1965 as the Graham Bond Organization. The Sound of ’65 and There’s a Bond Between Us (also re-released on BGO Records) are essential jazz/blues albums for any music fan. When Bond broke up the Organization, he moved to the United States where he recorded two “solo” albums in 1965. In 1966, he returned to England where he became a member of Ginger Baker’s Air Force for a time then left and formed the band Magick with his wife Diane Stewart. Holy Magick, the band’s debut album, was originally released on the “progressive” Vertigo label in 1970 . The album was based on Bond’s interest in white magic and Druid and Celtic mysticism. Holy Magick consists of two parts containing 18 songs based around mantras, rituals, and improvisational pieces. The band, a flexible unit, featured some of the top musicians Britain had to offer in 1970 including Rick Gretch (Blind Faith), Victor Bronx, Alex Dmochowski, Jon Moreshead from the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, and a host of session performers.

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2010-08-08T01:05:00.000-07:00

A posthumous collection of odds and ends, this actually holds considerable appeal for anyone who likes their pair of fully realized albums. The 12 songs include a few studio outtakes, a few solo turns by Mimi on compositions written by Richard but incompletely recorded at the time of his death, a couple performances from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, and a couple of Joan Baez tracks from sessions for an aborted album Richard was producing with her. These leftovers are generally up to the standard of the two “real” albums, especially “The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood” (covered by Fairport Convention) and “Morgan the Pirate” (a farewell to Bob Dylan, according to the sketchy liner notes). The two cuts by Baez (which Richard wrote or co-wrote), especially the compellingly melancholy “All The World Has Gone By,” are excellent, leading one to wonder if the projected album they came from would have been one of Baez’s best if it had been completed. These may be leftovers, but it’s a worthwhile collection nonetheless.

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2010-08-08T00:24:00.000-07:00

An early seventies folk-rock album from the collaboration of Phil Pickett and Georg Kajanus before they form the successful pop band Sailor.

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2010-08-07T01:49:00.000-07:00

A tripped-out batch of tracks from Brazil! These guys mix together a bit of funk, a bit of psych, and touches of Jorge Ben-like soul -- into a blend that's really groovy all the way through, and which will be sure to please any fan of the Samba Soul groove! Jorge Ben's influence is all over the set -- filtered through some garagey production that makes the tracks sound rawer than any of Ben's own work, and which give the guitars a nice fuzzed out edge. The whole thing's almost psychedelic at times, but has a fair bit of soul as well.

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2010-08-04T04:17:00.000-07:00

Bobbie Gentry remains one of the most interesting and underappreciated artists to emerge out of Nashville during the late '60s. Best-known for her crossover smash "Ode to Billie Joe," she was one of the first female country artists to write and produce much of her own material,
In 1971, she issued her final Capitol effort, Patchwork, primarily confining her performing to her nightclub act for the next several years.

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2010-08-04T03:57:00.000-07:00

Willie McKinley Hutchison, known professionally as Willie Hutch (December 6, 1944 — September 19, 2005) was an American singer, as well as a songwriter and record producer for the Motown record label during the 1970s.

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2010-08-03T04:58:00.000-07:00

This album is of interest for Flower Pot, a long fifteen minute psychedelic suite which takes up the whole of Side Two. Complete with sound effects, phasing, screams, echo loops and bird noises, the track was recorded in one take, with the voices overdubbed later. The group formed in Las VegasThe groups energy in live performance could never really be captured on record. The horn sound created by the Trumpet, Trombone and Sax with the funky rhythm section was truly incredible.

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2010-08-03T04:42:00.001-07:00

The Poppy Family was a late 1960s and early 1970s Canadian pop music group, based in Vancouver, British Columbia."In the late summer of 1969 the Canadian record buying public chose to endorse The Poppy Family by establishing "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" as the biggest Canadian hit ever. 'Billy' successfully climbed to the No.1 spot on all radio stations across Canada. Having watched The Poppy Family from Vancouver, British Columbia, evolve as a recording group has been a satisfying and rewarding experience. The constant creative growth, both musically and lyrically, within the group is evident in the album Which Way You Goin' Billy?. The versatility of the group, from Terry Jacks' meaningful writing, to his wife Susan's beautiful and emotion-packed voice allow them to explore avenues of musical expression hitherto uncharted. All the while The Poppy Family retain their own sound so unique to themselves". (Fraser Jamieson, President London Records, Canada - November 17 1969).[citation needed]

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2010-08-03T04:34:00.000-07:00

Mega-rare light psych item is one of the few in the genre in which the creative force is a woman, Sue Akins. This isn't really much like all of the Airplane-wannabe bands, either; Hendrickson Road House has a distinctive sound with mildly jazzy arrangements, subtle lead guitar, a tad of autoharp, smooth vocals and a definite late-night feel. The guitar playing has a bit of a West Coast influence, though it's not the least bit heavy. The closest comparison would be the Serpent Power songs with Tina Meltzer on lead vocals. One jazzy instrumental with a lot of sax manages not to sound out of place. Otherwise Akins sings all of the songs, and the album has a coherence not often felt in the genre. Not a masterpiece, but quite good, and the lack of a reissue is truly puzzling given its quality and rarity.

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2010-08-03T02:56:00.000-07:00

The band formed in 1966, with the members coming from Westminster, California, and Tustin, California (both in Orange County). Jim Quarles invented the name "because it had a mystical and otherworldly ring", and the father of one of the band members (Jim Foster) served as their manager. The two then began writing songs for the new band: "I didn't know what I was doing at the time. I just wrote the songs with Jim Foster. I didn't have any prior experience."

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2010-08-03T02:47:00.000-07:00

Clem Alford was a classically-trained sitar player who spent time in India to enhance his knowledge of Indian classical music prior to joining the interesting but short-lived Magic Carpet in the early seventies. Upon their demise he recorded two solo albums of sitar music which are not easy to track down. The first is now a collector's item, and has been reissued on CD with additional material. The second, which is even harder to find, was recorded exclusively for use in music libraries. Prior to this in 1972 he'd recorded an album under the name Sagram.

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2010-08-01T09:03:00.000-07:00

Charles Wright (born in 1940 in Clarksdale, Mississippi) & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band is a pioneering soul and funk band. Formed in the early 1960s, they had the most visibility from 1967 to 1973.
The title track is an upbeat soul/funk classic. The fuzzy bass and upbeat lyrics are sure to turn the party out. You can't front, this shit will have thugs smilin. "You are the One for Me" has a hard, stripped-down bassline and drum backing and nice laid back lyrics, also a party favorite. Like I said, almost everything on here has a catchy groove. I think there's even a Tribe sample in the beginning of "Mother's Love." Above all, what I like most about this album is the upbeat vibe. This shit is happy music. We pump it at the Lab when we have all-niters. Even the ballads got a groove to them, perfect for staring into space when you're feeling bezerk.

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2010-07-27T12:29:00.000-07:00

Barclay James Harvest is a well-known British band with a strong influence from The Moody Blues. Their self-titled debut seemed although to be more in the vein of late 60's psychedelic rock with a few symphonic and progressive tendencies, especially on "The Sun Will Never Shine" and "When the World Was Woken". The two main songwriters in the band were guitarist John Lees and bassist Les Holroyd, and they would usually sing on their own songs, just like their influences in The Moody Blues.

Track Listings:

1. Taking Some Time On (5:27)

2. Mother Dear (3:13)

3. The Sun Will Never Shine (5:04)

4. When The World Was Woken (5:44)

5. Good Love Child (5:05)

6. The Iron Maiden (2:39)

7. Dark Now My Sky (11:54)

Total Time: 39:06

Bonus Tracks on EMI remaster (2002):

8. Early Morning

9. Mister Sunshine

10. So Tomorrow (1968 BBC session)

11. Eden Unobtainable (1968 BBC session)

12. Night (1968 BBC session)

13. Pools Of Blue (1968 BBC session)

14. Need You Oh So Bad (1968 BBC session)

15. Small Time Town (1968 BBC session)

16. Dark Now My Sky (1968 BBC session)

17. I Can't Go On Without You

18. Eden Unobtainable

19. Poor Wages

20. Brother Thrush

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2010-07-26T05:05:00.001-07:00

This is the Sandy Denny of Greek folk music (although her father was a German). She had a superb voice. Her albums will enthrall you with the exotic delights of Greek folklore. Not only that, there are also elements of free jazz, mediaeval music and progressive rock.

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2010-07-26T04:54:00.000-07:00

Please were formed by Peter Dunton and Bernie Jinks in late 1967. They had just returned to Britain from Germany where they had played with Neon Pearl, which also included their third member Jurgen Ermisch. The fourth original member Adrian Gurvitz later co-founded Gun. Unfortunately this line-up left no vinyl legacy or unreleased recordings that have been located behind it. They disbanded in May 1968 when Peter Dunton joined The Flies for whom he wrote both sides of their Magic Train 45.

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2010-07-26T04:41:00.000-07:00

Joe South's debut LP was deleted almost too quickly for most listeners to find it, much less hear it. Now regarded as a country-soul classic (and, perhaps, the first country-soul album), Introspect anticipated the sound that Elvis Presley and Tony Joe White would both bring to the fore in the following year, except that it was even more ambitious than Presley or White, mixing and bending genres in new and exciting ways. Country, Eastern raga, gutbucket soul, and pop all brush up against each other within the same songs, some of which sound like Elvis singing with a backing band that included James Burton and Ravi Shankar. And thanks to South's use of various electronic devices in association with the considerable virtuosity in the playing, and his exceptional singing, this is still a bracing album four decades later. US rock/1968

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2010-07-26T04:37:00.000-07:00

Please Mr. Postman is the 1961 debut LP from Motown girl group The Marvelettes. The focal track is the number-one hit single, "Please Mr. Postman", which was the album's only hit. It notably features a cover version of "I Want a Guy", which was the debut single for fellow Motown girl group The Supremes the same year. Other songs on the album include "Oh I Apologize", produced by Smokey Robinson, who would produce much of the group's later material, and "Angel". Both songs were early leads for Wanda Young who would later take Gladys Horton's place as the group's main lead singer.

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2010-07-25T14:30:00.000-07:00

When one thinks about swamp music (and one should think about swamp music, at least sometimes), the first guitar player who comes to mind is probably Tony Joe White. He is of it. And he is so highly regarded by his iconic peers that a handful of the most luminary showed up to contribute to his newest recording. When you make a record, and Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, J.J. Cale, Michael McDonald, and Waylon Jennings (posthumous) all come aboard to contribute songs, singing and playing, at that point surely you can conclude that you got all the way there in your lifetime.

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2010-07-25T13:17:00.000-07:00

BABY WHALE were a brief and relatively obscure early seventies folk band based out of Cambridge whose sole album sat archived for nearly thirty years before being released on CD in 2002. The band's genesis came when Cambridge Folk Club resident Nick Barraclough met his future wife Anne Baker, an American in England playing acoustic folk music. The two recruited TOBY JUG BAND guitarist/vocalist Steve Brooks and GOODY TWO SHOES was born. Shortly afterwards Brian Wren and Lindsey Scott would sign on, and the band would change their name to BABY WHALE and appear at 1973's Cambridge Music Festival. During their short existence the group was known to have supported or appeared with such varied acts as VELVET UNDERGROUND, DAVID BOWIE, PRETTY THINGS, MC5, LOU REED, CURVED AIR, CHUCK BERRY and FAIRPORT CONVENTION. Signed to DJM Records, they cut a dozen tracks at Rockfield Recording Studios in Wales, but due to financial troubles the label folded before the record could be properly released. Shortly after those sessions Anne Baker would depart and be replaced only briefly by SALLY OLDFIELD (Mike's sister and half of the folk duo SALLYANGIE) before the group disbanded and its members dispersed to other ventures.

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2010-07-25T09:45:00.001-07:00

Nirvana's third and final album for Island (sometimes titled Dedicated to Markos III in discographies) was extremely rare in its first 1969 LP issue, the U.K. release limited to a few hundred promo copies. The group's cutesiness was toned down considerably for this LP, though they were still offering the kind of light orchestrated pop-rock that they had on their previous Island records, with some jazz and classical influences. It's a more mature product than their first two albums, but a little tired-sounding, and lacking in the more psychedelic ambition that produced some of their best songs, like "Rainbow Chaser" and "I Believe in Magic." In fact they sometimes sound rather like film composers or pop-jazz-vocals singer/songwriters caught in a different era, what with the rather grandiose (and certainly grandiosely arranged) Euro-romantic sweep of most of their songs.

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2010-07-24T08:56:00.000-07:00

“Girls In The Sun” it recounts one from the knownest histories of love of old Greek cinema, the innocent shepherd (Yannis Voglis) and a beautiful tourist (Anne Lonnberg), with background the Greek province of the 60s.Easily one of strongest "groovy 60's" soundtracks I've ever happened upon, this wonderful collection of tunes touches on quasi Morricone guitar and organ folk-twang, exotic late night cool cat jazz, twinkling mallet instruments, and a baroque touch that drapes a sleepy, mystical aura over everything. The performances are strong and the compositions very tight.

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2010-07-24T08:40:00.000-07:00

The rock group Family Tree formed in 1968 in Canada. Members of the lineup included vocalist and guitarist Bob Segarini, vocalist and keyboardist Michel Dure, drummer Vann Scater, keyboardist and guitarist Jimmy de Cocq, and bassist Bill Trochim. The band had a short life and only released one album. The year it formed, Family Tree landed a deal with RCA Records and recorded a debut album, Miss Butters. It would be the group's first and last offering. Some of the tracks from this loner are "Any Other Baby," "Nine to Three," "Butters Lament," "Simple Life," and "Melancholy Vaudeville Man." Members from Family Tree moved on to other groups, like the Dudes, Roxy, and the Wackers. Bob Segarini also carried on a long solo career.

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2010-07-23T05:34:00.000-07:00

A nearly forgotten singer/songwriter of the ’60s, Tim Rose’s early work bore a strong resemblance to another Tim working in Greenwich Village around 1966-1967 — Tim Hardin. Rose also favored a throaty blues folk-rock style with pop production flourishes, though he looked to outside material more, wasn’t quite in Hardin’s league as a singer or songwriter, and had a much harsher, even gravelly vocal tone. Before beginning a solo career, Rose had sung with Cass Elliott in the folk trio the Big Three a few years before she joined the Mamas and the Papas. Signed by Columbia in 1966, his 1967 debut album (which actually included a few previously released singles) is considered by far his most significant work. Two of the tracks were particularly noteworthy: his slow arrangement of “Hey Joe” inspired Jimi Hendrix’s version and “Morning Dew,” Rose’s best original composition, became something of a standard, covered by the Jeff Beck Group, the Grateful Dead, Clannad, and others. Years later, though, it was debated as to whether Rose wrote the song, or whether folksinger Bonnie Dobson penned the original version. Some non-LP singles he recorded around this time have unfortunately never been reissued, and although he made several other albums up through the mid-‘70s, none matched the acclaim of the first one.

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2010-07-22T03:43:00.000-07:00

David Hemmings is mostly known as a screen actor, his most famous role in his youth being the photographer in Michaelangelo Antonioni's classic 1966 Swinging London-set Blow Up, though he continued to appear in films for decades, landing roles in Last Orders and Gangs of New York shortly before his death. In the wake of Blow Up, he also had a little-known career as a recording artist, issuing a solo album, Happens, on MGM in 1967.Actor David Hemmings was afforded pop star-like status after his dashing turn in '60s pop culture flick BLOW UP, so it's appropriate that he took time out from the day job to make an album with members of The Byrds. Released in 1967, HAPPENS is a nine-track folk rock album by the talented actor. I recommend this album to all who loved the Byrds in their psychedelic era.

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2010-07-22T03:35:00.000-07:00

(1978)

Set up as an occasional formation Farmers Union played for a half year professional, with a repertoire that consisted of traditional English folk, completed with own material.This was exported mainly electric and in its time [1972] the group was pretty unique.

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2010-07-22T02:40:00.000-07:00

Released in 1969 , If Only For A Moment is the Blossom Toes second album .Their first "We Are Ever So Clean " was a flinty but enjoyable portion of British psychedelia but their second album see's the band take on more progressive and grungier tendencies .The four piece band had two rhythm and lead guitarists (Brian Goulding and Jim Cregan ) and three vocalists (the aforementioned two plus bassist Brian Belshaw, the drummer was Barry Reeves).This leads to some fascinating interplay and harmonising but also means the music tends to be over elaborate at times -"Indian Summer" even reminds me of Spinal Tap on occasions -but overall the album is a laudable mixture of bluesy acid rock with a west coast psychedelic timbre.The music recalls Captain Beefheart , Wishbone Ash , Frank Zappa, and even early Led Zeppelin to these ears but tracks like "Just Above My Hobby Horses Head" evokes the Beatles with it's plangent sitar courtesy of US folkie Shawn Phillips.

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2010-07-22T02:00:00.000-07:00

Jerry Butler, Jr. (born December 8, 1939 in Sunflower, Mississippi) is an American soul singer also known as “The Ice Man” because of his cool demeanour while singing often intensely emotional lyrics.Butler was dubbed the “Iceman” by a Philadelphia disc jockey while performing in a Philadelphia theater. However, Butler achieved what eluded many earlier Doo Wop groups during the 1950s and 1960s — longevity. Butler’s solo career had a string of hits, including “He Will Break Your Heart,” “Moon River,” “Make It Easy On Yourself,” “Let It Be Me” (the Everly Brothers classic re-done as a duet with Betty Everett), “Brand New Me,” “Ain’t Understanding Mellow,” (duet with Brenda Lee Eager), and “Never Gonna Give You Up,” followed by two hugely successful albums The Iceman Cometh in 1968 and Ice On Ice in 1970. The Iceman Cometh garnered Butler three Grammy nominations.

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2010-07-18T09:14:00.000-07:00

An amazingly soulful set of jazzy folk tunes from the late 60s -- the only album we've ever seen from singer Jerry Moore, and a real rarity from the ESP label! Moore's got a style that's somewhere between Terry Callier and Tim Buckley -- earthy and acoustic one minute, but stepping out with some hipper rock-influenced touches the next -- in a style that makes the album way more than just a conventional folk set.

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2010-07-16T01:57:00.000-07:00

There’s been so much written and said about each and every one of Bob Dylan’s albums that it’s all too easy to wind-up lost in the vast, labyrinthine myths surrounding them. One of the biggest is the whole shock-of-the-new deal, otherwise known as the day the earth stood still when Dylan picked up a Stratocaster. It seems ludicrous now that there could be so much ballyhoo over his decision to play some tunes with a rock group, especially when, even by the standards of the day, it was fairly innocuous rock music at that.

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2010-07-16T01:26:00.000-07:00

The tongue-twisting name is as unique as the band itself. It was formed in 1964 in Wiltshire, England, was active until 1972.Starting out in the very early 60s as Dave Dee and The Bostons, the Dozies plied their trade around various UK venues and were also extremely popular on the Hamburg scene, playing clubs like The Top Ten and The Star Club. Their stage act involved a lot of humor and showmanship - in fact it still does - which made them stand out on the circuit.The songs, too, were wonderfully dramatic, and although each one was instantly recognizable as one of theirs (mainly penned by managers and songwriters Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley) they also each had a different theme to them, from the Greek influences of Bend It to the Latino rock qualities of Save Me and many points in between. The band’s name stems from the nicknames of the members, and was thoroughly twisted and mangled by DJs and presenters alike. Well you’ve got to admit it’s a bit of a mouthful, and it’s much easier to refer to them as The Dozies for short. Another aspect that made them stand out from the crowd was their fashion sense. They would design their own clothes, get the material and have them sewn together by a lady in Cheshire. Later the designs would be copied and appear in some form in the Carnaby Street boutiques for public consumption. Check out some of the vintage footage of the band and you’ll be aware that they had quite an influence on the clothing scene at the time.

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2010-07-15T03:31:00.000-07:00

Clarence Carter (born 14 January 1936, Montgomery, Alabama) is a singer and musician.Carter’s earliest releases were as half of the duo Clarence And Calvin. Also known as the “C And C Boys”, the blind duo made seven singles, the last of which was recorded at Fame’s Muscle Shoals studio. When his partner, Calvin Thomas (aka Scott), suffered serious injuries in a car accident in 1966, Carter became a solo act (Calvin himself later reappeared as a solo act to record two Dave Crawford-produced Atco Records singles in 1969/70 and a Clarence Paul-produced 1971 album for Stax Records, I’m Not Blind . … I Just Can’t See, from which two singles were also taken). “Tell Daddy”, released in January 1967, began a fruitful spell of Fame-produced hits by Carter, released on the Atlantic Records label. Noteworthy were “Thread The Needle”, “Looking For A Fox” and “Slip Away”, where the singer combined his outstanding voice with his skill as an arranger and musician.“Patches”, first recorded by Chairmen Of The Board, was a UK number 2 and a US number 4 in 1970, but despite further strong offerings, Clarence was unable to sustain the momentum. He remained with Fame until 1973, where he also helped guide Candi Staton, who was now his wife, before moving to ABC Records the subsequent year.Further recordings on Venture and Big C took Carter’s career into the 1980s and later the artist found a sympathetic outlet with the Ichiban Records label. Despite being blinded as a child, he developed a distinctive guitar style that complemented his earthy delivery, and was just as comfortable on keyboards, writing songs or arranging sessions.

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2010-07-15T02:57:00.000-07:00

Vanity Fare were a UK pop/rock group formed in 1966, best remembered for their million selling song, “Hitchin’ a Ride,” which became a worldwide hit in 1970, and the genteel “Early In The Morning”.

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2010-07-12T09:26:00.000-07:00

The Vejtables had a career of two distinct parts. They were formed in San Mateo in 1964 and became a popular, local, folk-rock group. During this period they recorded for Autumn records and released two singles. In late 1965 and early 1966 they went through a period of personnel changes and lack of recording contract before landing a contract with Mercury. They then cut a number of tracks at Golden State Recorders. The new line-up, playing 'psychedelic-garage' music released one single. A final single was released by the group using the name The Book Of Changes. They finally split up in late 1967.

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2010-06-30T07:39:00.000-07:00

After Ballard's exit, the group was billed as Diana Ross & the Supremes, fueling speculation that Ross was being groomed for a solo career. The Supremes had a big year in 1967, even incorporating some mild psychedelic influences into "Reflections." Holland-Dozier-Holland, however, left Motown around this time, and the quality of the Supremes' records suffered accordingly (as did the Motown organization as a whole). The Supremes were still superstars, but as a unit, they were disintegrating; it's been reported that Wilson and Birdsong didn't even sing on their final hits, a couple of which ("Love Child" and "Someday We'll Be Together") were among their best.In November 1969, Ross' imminent departure for a solo career was announced, although she played a few more dates with them, the last in Las Vegas in January 1970. Jean Terrell replaced Ross, and the group continued through 1977, with some more personnel changes (although Mary Wilson was always involved).

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2010-06-30T06:43:00.000-07:00

DR. JOHN - Desitively Bonnaroo 1974

When you latch onto a hit formula, don't mess with it, and that is just what the doctor ordered with Desitively Bonnaroo. With installment number three of Dr. John's funky New Orleans-styled rock & roll, trying to strike gold again proved elusive. There wasn't the big hit single this time around to help boost sales, and the tunes were starting to sound a little too familiar. While not a carbon copy of his previous releases, Desitively Bonnaroo was a disappointment to his fans. Good as it was, it was the end of an era for Dr. John and his type of music.

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2010-06-30T06:30:00.000-07:00

Born in Norristown outside of Philadelphia on December 8, 1928, Jimmy revealed his musical talents early. He was playing stride piano by fourteen and performing with his piano-playing father in a dance team during the early forties.Jimmy Smith became the organist everyone wanted to chase. Several players caught up but few received as much attention. Jimmy's career solidified, and this has been well documented. His discography alone would fill many pages. Jimmy Smith persevered in times when the Hammond organ looked like it was down and out. Numerous organ players dropped off the scene. High-tech keyboards, with their lighter weight and new sounds, forced many to abandon the mighty warhorse and carry newly fabricated organs around in their cars. Jimmy remained true to form despite all this. This album, arranged by Lalo Schifrin, features selections from two film scores (including "The Cat," for which composer Schifrin won a Grammy), some big-band style orchestrations, and plenty of blues. In 1964 this release defied the boundaries of idiom, appealing to a huge audience of jazz, r&b, and pop fans.

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2010-06-30T03:25:00.000-07:00

Unit 4+2 was a one-hit wonder that probably deserved better. As one of the better acoustic-electric bands of the mid-'60s, the group stormed the charts with one memorable hit, "Concrete and Clay," scoring on both sides of the Atlantic, but they were never able to come up with a follow-up that was as catchy.

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2010-06-30T03:16:00.000-07:00

Huddie William Ledbetter (January 23, 1888 - December 6, 1949) was an American folk and blues musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing, his virtuosity on the twelve string guitar, and the rich songbook of folk standards he introduced.

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2010-06-30T02:52:00.000-07:00

The Rats are known by very few listeners, and they most likely know about them because Mick Ronson was a member before playing on David Bowie's highly influential early-1970s albums.
Formed in Hull, England, the first version of the group did not include Ronson, but did manage to release a couple of singles on Columbia U.K. in 1965.
Of the mid-sixties cuts, their version of "Spoonful" is pretty lean and mean, and the "House of the Rising Sun"-derived "New Orleans" is nicely moody.The title track is pretty indulgent 1967 psychedelia, but the hard rock covers of Gladys Knight's "Stop Get a Hold of Myself" and the folkie favorite "Morning Dew" are actually quite respectable, even if they're obviously using the Jeff Beck Group approach as the template.

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2010-06-13T11:14:00.000-07:00

If you're not familiar with Affinity,they were a five member English ensemble that had released this sole lp in 1970.The band seems to blend the elements of pop,folk,jazz and blues into their music.A lot of thought,heart and emotion went into the making of this record.

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2010-06-13T03:31:00.000-07:00

Another great taste of the Boston sound in the '60s.

The Rockin' Ramrods. The "hottest" band in New England in the sixties! When the Beatles offered the Rolling Stones "I Wanna Be Your Man" the Rockin' Ramrods were given the same chance. They grabbed the opportunity and made it one of the greatest hits of the northeast. The Rockin' Ramrods marked the golden era of the mid sixties with the release of 8 singles, with several hits. Probably the most famous "Beatle-type" group at the time, they have appeared with The Dave Clark Five, The Animals, Jan & Dean, Roy Orbison, Freddie Cannon and have opened for The Rolling Stones and The Kingsmen for nationwide tours.

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2010-06-13T02:29:00.000-07:00

In 1966, this Spanish quintet became one of the very few rock groups from a non-English speaking country to have an international smash with "Black Is Black," which got to number four in the U.S. and number two in the U.K. Lead singer Mike Kogel's overwrought, pinched vocals sounded so much like Gene Pitney that many listeners assumed that "Black Is Black" was a Pitney single, and the strong resemblance remained intact throughout Los Bravos' career, both in the singing and arrangements. Indeed, with their brassy pop/rock songs and production, which sounded about halfway between New York mid-'60s pop-soul and Jay & the Americans, Los Bravos sounded far more like a mainstream American pop/rock group than a Spanish or British one. Most of their records were sung in English, and although they never made the American Top 20 again, they were far more popular in Europe, even placing another single in the British Top 20 in late 1966 with "I Don't Care".

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2010-06-13T01:42:00.000-07:00

A great set of straight jazz from Roy, recorded for Atlantic, and with a feel that's a lot edgier than some of his other work from the time! The groups on the record feature some of the hippest soul jazz players of the time -- including Charles Tolliver, Jack Wilson, Joe Henderson, Harold Land, and Reggie Workman -- and the feel of the material is almost a precursor to the Strata East sound of the 70s. Tracks are long and spiritual -- and titles include "Glow Flower", "Ayerloom", "Virgo Vibes", "In The Limelight" and Charles Tolliver's "The Ringer".

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2010-06-11T04:19:00.000-07:00

Ford Theatre's second and final album is more subdued and song-oriented than their debut. There's still a downbeat tone to the tunes, but they're more reflective and wistful, and less filled with psychedelic angst. An intriguing name and titles to whet psychedelic collectors' appetites. However, Color Wheel is a rambling melodic pop ditty in the 'baroque' style. Flyin' High is a much better upbeat melodic power-popper - beware the 'psych' tag on collector lists!

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2010-06-10T05:39:00.000-07:00

1970.

Christine Anne Perfect was born on July 12, 1943 in Birmingham, England.

is an English singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the band Fleetwood Mac, though she has also released three solo albums, the first under her maiden name of Christine Perfect.

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2010-06-10T05:15:00.000-07:00

1969

Mellow, moody, atmospheric psychedelia.

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