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Various Artists - Brown Acid / The First Trip (1969-79 us, impressive hard...
After Flower Power and before punk, heavy, hard rock bands dominated the American music scene. In towns across the country, garage bands that had grown up taking drugs, flashing peace signs, and...
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The Climax Blues Band - Plays On (1969 uk, outstanding blues rock with...
Britain's Climax Blues Band didn't waste any time following up their self-titled debut in 1969 (dropping the moniker The Climax Chicago Blues Band), as they once again entered EMI's Abbey Road studios...
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Scott Fagan - South Atlantic Blues (1968 us, brilliant mystical, mythical and...
Contemporary music documentaries are saturated with exasperating stories just like Scott Fagan’s. Recent cultural excavations have yielded new knowledge about artists like Rodriguez, as examined in the...
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Rock Shop - Mr Lee's Swingin Affair Presents (1968 us, amazing folk psych...
Hailing from California, they became one of the most popular bands in the area, playing regularly at Mr Lee's Swingin' Affair nightclub in West Covina to packed houses. The band's one and only album,...
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The End - From Beginning To End..(1964-70 uk, brilliant sparkling bright...
One thing you learn, sleuthing for obscure psychedelic music from the sixties, is that for every “White Rabbit” there is a “Night Sounds Loud.” And a “Crystal Forms.” And God knows how many other...
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Rowans - The Rowans (1975 us, beautiful folk country soft rock)
Progressive bluegrass group the Rowans consisted of harmonizing brothers Peter (guitar, most members of the mandolin family), Lorin (guitar), and Chris (guitar, flute). All three grew up in the small...
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Jesse Winchester - Learn To Love It / Let The Rough Side Drag (1974-76 us /...
As the title suggests, making a virtue of necessity had always been one of Jesse Winchester's goals, and by the time of the release of his third album, the American expatriate had gone ahead and...
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Shawn Phillips - Furthermore (1974 us, brilliant prog folk rock with funky...
Shawn Phillips is one of those legends that had been swept up in mystery, disappeared under the cloak of the sixties, or stripped of acknowledgement due to dirty management and contracts. Such is the...
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Jim Sullivan - U.F.O. (1969 us, tremendous folkish psychedelia, 2010 issue)
In March 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost in the desert. Some think he fell...
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Jim Sullivan - Jim Sullivan (1972 us, fascinating swamp folk rock, 2011...
Sullivan’s second, self-titled and final essay was released in 1972 and hosted by Hugh Heffner’s record label “Playboy”. Three years after U.F.O., Sullivan began his new musical adventure exactly where...
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The Frantics - Relax Your Mind (1968 us, magical trippy psychedelic rock,...
The Frantics were from the same era and area as The BlueThings the '60s and the Midwest. They were musicians from parts of Montana and North Dakota who formed The Frantics in Billings, Montana. All of...
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The Rowans - Sibling Rivalry / Jubilation (1976-77 us, marvelous country silk...
Jerry Garcia called them the California Beatles. Rock critic Dave Marsh quipped that Garcia must have been tripping at the time. The truth about the Rowans can be found where the truth often resides:...
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Redwing - Redwing (1971 us, astonishing classic rock with country folk blues...
The seeds of Redwing were sown in Sacramento, California in 1962. when folk trio Tim, Tom and Ron formed. Comprising Timothy B Schmit (guitar / bass / vocals), Tom Phillips (guitar / vocals) and Ron...
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Barbara 'Sandy' Robison With The Peanut Butter Conspiracy - Barbara (1966-70...
This is a collection of recordings featuring Barbara (Sandy) Robison during the time she was a member of the Peanut Butter Conspiracy. On various recordings not all of the other members were included....
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Satisfaction - Three Ages Of Man (1971-72 uk, extraordinary hard prog jazz...
Lucas and the Mike Cotton Sound were a British R'n'B band who never broke through as recording artists but enjoyed a successful run playing clubs and college dates. However, in the late '60s they...
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Cold Blood - Cold Blood / Sisyphus (1969-70 us, exceptional funk soul rhythm...
In the heady days of the '60s pop music explosion in the San Francisco Bay area numerous bands formed, played a few dates and then their members dispersed to more successful groups. One example of that...
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Cold Blood - First Taste Of Sin (1972 us, spectacular funk soul brass rock)
Many of the greatest groups in rock and roll history have made their home in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. While 'Frisco was at the forefront of the psychedelic music movement spinning...
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Essra Mohawk - Essra Mohawk (1974 us, elegant avant jazzy funk smooth rock,...
Philadelphian Essra Mohawk is best known as the answer to the trivia question: “Who was the first female Mother (of Invention)?” She joined Frank Zappa and the band in 1967. Her name was Sandy Hurvitz...
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Janis Joplin - Joplin In Concert (1968/70 us, individual classic live...
Overall an uneven album, In Concert's highest moments are sublime. The collection is culled from concerts with Big Brother and the Holding Company and Full Tilt Boogie. "All Is Loneliness," with Big...
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Frantic - Conception (1970 us, exciting hard blues psych rock, 2007 digi pak...
Formed in 1965 and originally known as The Frantics (note the plural), this six piece bounced all over the country. Leaving Montana, the mid-1960s found them alternately calling Santa Fe, New Mexico,...
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