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Five Man Electrical Band - Half Past Midnight / The Staccatos And Beyond...
TracksFive Man Electrical Band1. Five Man Electrical Band - 3:212. Last Time I Saw Memphis - 3:303. Private Train - 2:214. Half Past Midnight - 2:255. You're Gonna Lose That Girl (Lennon, McCartney) -...
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Sherman Hayes - Catman (1973 us, awesome swamp blues rock with folk drops,...
Sherman Hayes Sr is a Californian who first recorded with Del Courtnet's band in 1939 & 1940. Hayes led a "White" hotel orchestra, in which he played tenor sax and vocalized. The band then featured...
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Hookfoot - Roaring (1973 uk, great tough southern blues rock, expanded edition)
Hookfoot, created by Southampton based musicians vocalist Ian Duck, bassist Dave Glover and drummer Roger Pope, was virtually the side act to their day jobs as session musicians for Elton John. The...
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Max Webster - Universal Juveniles (1980 canada, great hard prog rock)
Despite a fabled team-up of Max Webster and Rush on the song "Battlescar", 1980's 'Universal Juveniles' had a noticeable absence of that trademark Watkinson keyboard sound and the band was falling...
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Terry Frank - Loaded To Fire (1981 us, exceptional sharp blues rock)
After playing in rock bands for nearly ten years, Terry Frank (T-Bone) began his Bone Deluxe ensemble in 1980 as 'Black Cat Bone' against the advice of loyal followers in order to 'play the music I...
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Cream - Live Cream (1967-68 uk, superb heavy blues psych rock, 2010 japan SHM...
Cream was a band born to the stage, a fact that the band and their record label realized the public fully understood by the number one U.S. chart placement for Wheels of Fire, with its entire live...
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Freedom - Freedom At Last (1969 uk, awesome hard blues rock, 2004 remaster)
Freedom was formed in the autumn of 1967 by two ex. members of Procol Harum, drummer Bobby Harrison and guitarist Ray Royer. Their spell with Procol had been a short though not exactly a sweet affair....
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Blue Cheer - OutsideInside (1968 us, superb heavy fuzz rock, 2012 edition)
Blue Cheer’s second album, Outsideinside, fully matches its predecessor’s primal power. The last Blue Cheer release to feature the beloved lineup of Stephens, Peterson and Whaley, Outsideinside is a...
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Captain Marryat - Captain Marryat (1974 uk, splendid hard prog rock)
1974 was a banner year for what has become known as progressive heavy rock. Bands such as Lucifer’s Friend, Beggars Opera, and Wishbone Ash were all in their heyday. The heavy organ and guitar sound...
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Reggie King - Looking For A Dream (1968-71 uk, fabulous power guitar pop...
The story of The Action and its players is an ever evolving wonder. There seems to be no point at which to say: "We've heard it all and know it all now". Every once in a while there is a fresh surprise...
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The Leaves - All The Good That's Happening (1966-67 us, splendid folk psych...
From south to east and west to west, then back again. So the cyclone went in the early sixties. It carried blues and rhythm to New York, spun across the sea, casting rare vinyl nuggets on the shore of...
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Left End - Spoiled Rotten (1974 us, jagged hard glam rock)
The rain continued to fall on a September Friday evening in downtown Youngstown, Ohio. The thick air made the last chords of the last song ring on beyond their normal cry. It was over. The young rock...
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Headband - The Headband Collection (1971-75 new zealand, outstanding blues...
In the early sixties, singer Tommy Adderley enjoyed a couple of minor hits and became a popular television performer. He then spent two years in Australia, returning home a seasoned cabaret performer....
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Morgen - Morgen (1969 us, superb heavy fuzz psych, 2013 remaster and expanded)
Morgen was a hard rock/psych band that hailed from Long Island, NY. They were fronted by guitarist/vocalist/wild man Steve Morgen but also included drummer Bob Maiman and guitarists Barry Stock and...
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Huckle - Upon A Once Time (1974 canada, remarkable folk rock, 2012 korean...
The singer-songwriter known as Huckle (ne Kelly Cavanagh) was raised in Montreal and Toronto, but by 1973 the self-described freak ("...we didn't call ourselves hippies then - we were freaks") had...
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The Charles Ford Band - The Charles Ford Band (1972 us, excellent classic...
When I recorded blues harmonica ace Charlie Musselwhite early in 1971 he had a tight little band which included two brothers, Pat and Robben Ford. Pat impressed me as a solid drummer and Robben was...
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Beau Brummels - Autumn Of Their Years (1964-66 us, amazing folk beat psych)
"The Beatles opened the door and the Beau Brummels sailed through it and for a while really rode the crest. That they have turned out, in the light of history, to be better than they seemed at the...
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Dr. Feelgood - Down By The Jetty (1974 uk, superb pub rock tough boogie 'n'...
The reissue of this album is a must-own release, even for those who already have one of the Dr. Feelgood anthologies currently available, neither of which has more like the 24 tracks here. The 1974...
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Dr Feelgood - Stupidity (1976 uk, live rock 'n' roll dynamite, 2014 japan SHM...
The best live record ever: and it reached No1! Just a few years into the 1970s, rock had become self-indulgent, and pompous, and singles were increasingly cheesy. But on the pub-rock live circuit Dr...
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Lutha - Stop! The Music Is Over (1972-73 new zealand, amazing classic groovy...
This is a compilation of Lutha's two albums, fleshed out with three live tracks. Lutha was formed in Dunedin in 1970 and signed to HMV in 1972 producing their albums 'Lutha' and 'Earth' that year. They...
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