Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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

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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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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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Friday, January 6, 2012

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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Saturday, October 15, 2011

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.


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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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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Thursday, October 13, 2011

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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