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Morning - Morning (1970 us, marvelous country folk rock, 2009 edition)
Based in Los Angeles and originally known as The Morning and The Evening (wisely shortened to The Morning), this short-lived outfit featured the talents of guitarists Barry Brown and Terry Johnson,...
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The Youngbloods - High On A Ridge Top (1972 us, beautiful soft rock blended...
The striking Larry Heald painting spread across fie gatefold sleeve of the Youngbloods' 1972 album High On A Ridge Top depicts a panorama of the rugged west Warm outback with a raccoon in the...
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Bond And Brown - Two Heads Are Better Than One (1972 uk, superb progressive...
It was inevitable that one day Pete Brown and Graham Bond would work together. They had been friends going back to the early 1960s and the jazz poetry gigs where Pete, Mike Horowitz, Spike Hawkins and...
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Brimstone - Paper Winged Dreams (1973 us, spectacular progressive art rock)
Official reissue by the band themselves, Â an early Seventies harmonic progressive / psych rock band from the USA, who made this excellent album. Long instrumental tracks with keyboard and guitar mixing...
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Bob Theil - So Far... (1973-82 uk, gorgeous progressive folk rock)
Scottish born Bob Theil is a singer-songwriter guitarist very much in the tradition of British exponents, such as Roy Harper, AI Stewart, Michael Chapman and Bert Jansch who filled the folk clubs and...
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Blood Sweat And Tears - New Blood (1972 us, marvelous jazz progressive rock)
New Blood is the well chosen title for this entry in that the package highlights some change in the personnel with lead singer Jerry Fisher, new to the group, showing first-rate quality throughout....
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The Butterfield Blues Band - Keep On Moving (1969 us, awesome blues rock with...
Released in 1969, Keep on Moving was the fifth Elektra album by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. During a four-year span the group's namesake and leader was the only original member left from their...
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Paper Garden - Paper Garden (1968 us, beautiful sunny psychedelia, 2012...
A decent if somewhat candy-coated effort in the pop-psychedelic vein, combining cheerful sunshine pop sensibilities with some hard-edged psychedelic playing. It all falls somewhere between the Beatles'...
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Blood Sweat and Tears - 4 (1971 us, amazing jazz blues rock)
When Ed Sullivan welcomed Blood, Sweat and Tears to his show a while back he asked them where they got the unusual name from. From Churchill, they replied. Well, since the Kinks did Arthur, everybody...
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The Allman Brothers Band - Brothers And Sisters (1973 us, classic superb...
The Allman Brothers Band's first Number One album, 1973's Brothers and Sisters, was a miracle of recovery and reinvention amid grim, enforced change: the deaths, in 1971 and 1972, respectively, of...
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The Case - Blackwood (1971 us, terrific primitive misty psychedelia, 2013...
The title alone is portentous, at the very least semi-evil sounding. Fear not, there are no devils, demons, or witches lurking in these woods. Instead we have a heretofore almost completely unknown and...
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The Buttefield Blues Band - In My Own Dream (1968 us, magnificent blues jazzy...
Sometimes, one has to wonder whether the youth of the 1960s were really as open to new ideas and new sounds as their press would make you believe. Take the album at hand, In My Own Dream by the Paul...
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Euphoria - Euphoria (1969 us, bright ethereal sunny folk, korean remaster)
Anyone who has ever seen Tom Pacheco perform knows that they have been in the presence of greatness, watching a singer/songwriter who is a master of his craft and who, if there were any justice in the...
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Resurrection Of The Pigboy Crabshaw...
The 1968 edition of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band featured a larger ensemble with a horn section, allowing for a jazzier feeling while retaining its Chicago blues core. They also adopted the...
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East West (1966 us, pioneer influental...
In the fall of 1965, the blues guitar prodigy Michael Bloomfield dropped acid. He had a vision, a musical vision, that he said unlocked the secrets of Indian music.After the all-night psychedelic...
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (1965 us,...
Even after his death, Paul Butterfield's music didn't receive the accolades that were so deserved. Outputting styles adopted from Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters among other blues greats, Butterfield...
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Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Closer To It (1973 uk, magnificent jazz...
British keyboard maestro Brian Auger achieved something virtually unheard of with this classic album upon its 1973 release. Closer To It, Brian's heady mix of jazz, soul, funk and rock entered the US...
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Paul Revere And The Raiders - Alias Pink Puzz (1969 us, exceptional...
The seismic changes in the musical landscape of the late 1960s influenced the sound of nearly every major pop and rock act, and Paul Revere and the Raiders were no exception. As bassist Keith Allison...
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The Youngbloods - Beautiful! Live In San Francisco (1971 us, amazing west...
Recorded live at Pacific High Recorders in December 1971 for radio broadcast on KSAN in San Francisco, this is a fine-sounding document of the Youngbloods playing live shortly before their breakup. It...
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Stalk-Forrest Group - St. Cecilia, The Elektra Recordings (1970 us,...
For a band that issued only one single, and that only pressed in a quantity of a few hundred, the Stalk-Forrest Group have a very confusing history, and are very well-known by collectors. Much of this...
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