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rep>>> Tim Rose - Tim Rose • Through Rose Coloured Glasses (1967•69 us, folk...
Quite coincidentaly, Tim Rose has re-emerged strongly in Britain in the mid-1990s, after an viapparent absence of around twenty years, and a new album has been released on a British independent label,...
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rep>>> Audience - Friend's Friend's Friend (1970 uk, fantastic post psych...
Fiend's, Friend's, Friend was the second album by British art-rock band Audience, and first for Charisma Records. Now remastered by Cherry Red Records along with a host of bonus material, this...
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rep> Truk - Truk Tracks (1971 us, strong heavy psych rock, 2008 Retro Disc...
Truk hailed from Oklahoma, and played a high energy Hard Rock magma punctuated with stunning heavy organ, there is a good cover of Gun's " Yellow Cab man", some acoustic melodic passages and few...
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rep>>> Strife - Back To Thunder (1977-78 uk, stunning hard rock, 2021...
Liverpool based three piece Strife emerged during the mid-seventies amassing a strong live following on the club circuit and releasing an impressive debut album 'Rush' on the Chrysalis label. It was a...
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rep>>> Nucleus - Nucleus (1969 canada, exellent hard rock with prog touches)
The origins of Nucleus lay in late- 60s Toronto combo The Lords Of London. They were a popular live attraction and appeared at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, which ran from 15th August...
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rep>>> Strife - Rush (1975 uk, super power trio, solid hard rock with...
British rock band from Liverpool in the mid 70's. They released two albums, Rush and Back to Thunder. Strife were formed by Paul Ellson in 1969 with Peter Trotman on guitar, Peter Hobbs on bass , and...
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rep>>> Thomas Jefferson Kaye - First Grade (1974 us, wonderful folk classic...
Thomas Jefferson Kaye's second solo work “First Grade'' is perfect. Along with the 1st, it can be recommended as a masterpiece of a swamp singer-songwriter. All three albums he released in the 70's,...
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rep>>> Plainsong - In Search Of Amelia Earhart (1972 uk, wonderful folk rock,...
In just under three years, Ian Matthews split from Fairport Convention, went solo, formed Matthews' Southern Comfort - with whom he scored a number one U.K. hit - left the group at the height of its...
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Chicken Shack - 100 Ton Chicken (1969 uk, awesome blues rock, 2013 remastered...
The amusingly titled "100 Ton Chicken' represents Chicken Shacks third album on the Blue Horizon label. Released in late Spring '69 it heralded a shift in the band's recorded output brought about...
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rep>>> People - Both Sides Of People (1969 us, awesome psych rock with...
One of the last great '60s bands hailing from the San Jose area, People followed in the homegrown tradition of such fabled South Bay combos as the Syndicate of Sound, Count Five, Chocolate Watchband,...
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rep>>> Wicked Lady - Psychotic Overkill (1972 uk, awesome heavy psych, 2012...
The second and final collection of Wicked Lady tracks all came from 1972, following the replacement of original bassist Bob Jeffries with Del Morley. Nothing else about either the band or its...
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rep>>> One - Come (1972 us, marvelous spiritual jam psych rock, 2015 edition)
One of the more curious acts in the Bay area group scene was a band (or collective) called One, or, more specifically. 1, acquaintances of Paul Kantner and Grace Slick from Bolinas. A nine-piece...
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rep>>> Thomas Jefferson Kaye - Thomas Jefferson Kaye (1973 us, marvelous...
Thomas Jefferson Kaye was a bit of a prodigy. Born in North Dakota, by the age of 18 he was already in New York working for the record label Scepter as an A&R man. In next to no time he was...
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rep>>> Green - To Help Somebody (1971 us, pleasant rural, classic rock, 2011...
One of the most unjustly-neglected bands of their time, Green got together at North Texas State University in the late '60s, and released a stunning psych-pop debut in 1969. Their largely-overlooked...
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rep>>> Green - Green (1969 us, great texas psych rock, 2007 edition)
Like many bona fide lost classics, Green is still largely shrouded in mystery. It sold badly on its original release (in the spring of 1969, on Atlantic subsidiary Atco), and still hasn't received its...
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rep>>> Barbara Keith - Barbara Keith (1973 us, marvelous folk country rock,...
A singer/guitarist and folk-influenced songwriter, Barbara Keith's curious career began when she was discovered at Greenwich Village's famous Café Wha?. Her first appearance on record was in 1968,...
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rep>>> The Kitchen Cinq - Everything But (1967 us, nice garage folk psych,...
When buying albums by '60s rock bands, ground zero is 1966. If I'm hesitant to spend the cash, proximity to that year makes a difference in whether I end up springing for something or not. One of the...
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rep>>> The Buoys - Timothy "Golden Classics" (1971-73 us, fine classic rock...
"Timothy” really was about a mule, but a lot of people thought he was another trapped miner." Rupert Holmes, the man who wrote "Timothy", was still trying to explain his 1971 hit for The Buoys in a...
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rep> Mouzakis - Magic Tube (1965-73 us, stunning raw garage psych with rhythm...
Mouzakis were an East coast basement garage psych group and this is their full LP from 1971. The band started with R&B rock standards, adapted on its way bits of rock’n roll, early rock, and...
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rep>>> magine - Images Clear Skies And Rainbows (1975 us, elegant progressive...
"Images, Clear Skies and Rainbows" was an impressive venture into prog-rock teetering on the edge of progressive by a group called Imagine. An exceptionally solid effort from start to finish. The first...
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