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Leviathan - The Legendary Lost Elektra Album (1969 uk, amazing beat psych...
The Brighton band Leviathan, previously known as Mike Stuart Span, featured in one of the very best TV programmes ever about Pop Music. It is also unintentionally very funny indeed. In their episode...
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Mott The Hoople - Hoople (1974 uk, power glam rock, 2006 remaster and expanded)
The Hoople was Mott's third album release on CBS/Columbia Records and the band had much to live up to after their two previous studio work outs. All the Young Dudes had taken the group in an exciting...
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Mott The Hoople - Two Miles From Heaven (1969-72 uk, tough classic rock with...
After British Lions broke up, Dale Griffin (and Morgan) went in the studios to put together this compilation of rare and unreleased Mott The Hoople material from Island's vaults. Mott recorded...
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Trapeze - Medusa (1970 uk, fantastic tough funky, classic rock, 2008 remaster)
Not only is Medusa the finest offering from '70s outfit Trapeze, it is one of the decade's most underappreciated hard rock recordings. With a lineup that consisted of future Deep Purple, Judas Priest,...
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Stone The Crows - Stone The Crows / Ode To John Law (1969-71 uk, impressive...
Stone the Crows was a tough-luck, working class, progressive soul band that came out of the pubs of Scotland in the early '70s. They had everything going for them at the start: not one, but two gritty...
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Joe Beck - Nature Boy (1968 us, outstanding heavy fuzz jazz psych rock, 2006...
Most music lovers know Joe Beck as a famous jazz guitarist, composer and producer. At the early age of eighteen he left his home town Philadelphia to New York, where due to his extraordinary talent he...
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Bridget St John - Dandelion Albums (1969-72 uk, amazing tender folk rock,...
Venerated BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel once called Bridget St. John “the best lady singer-songwriter in the country.” So when Peel formed Dandelion Records in 1969, the label’s first signing was St. John;...
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Nick Gravenites And Mike Bloomfield - Steel Yard Blues (1972 us, a long lost...
With a killer leading couple of Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland—fresh from their box office triumph co-starring in Klute—and a soundtrack by the Electric Flag’s Mike Bloomfield and Nick...
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Various Artists - With Love A Pot Of Flowers (1965-67 us, fantastic garage...
“With Love: A Pot Of Flowers” was originally issued in late 1967 by Mainstream Records. It is testament to the quality of the groups and songs included, not to mention the A&R proclivities of...
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The Mandrake Memorial - 3 Part Inventions (1969 us, exceptional psych prog...
The lost, third studio album from 1969 by this quite good psychedelic / proto-progressive band. An absolutely worthwhile release for fans of music of this era.“Having made two superb psychedelic albums...
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American Blues - Do Their Thing (1969 us, superb psych blues rock, 2016...
Released by MCA's Uni subsidiary, 1969's "The American Blues Do Their Thing" was a major improvement. Self-produced, the collection found the band opting for a major change in direction. Written by the...
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Second Hand - Death May Be Your Santa Claus (1971 uk, intense prog...
By the time Second Hand released this, the band's second album, in 1971, the progressive elements were much stronger, and the group went further with experimentation. Only a couple tracks have guitar,...
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Quintessence - Spirits From Another Time (1969-71 uk based international...
Formed in fashionable Ladbroke Grove in 1969, this international six-piece played extended, improvisatory compositions highlighted by lengthy guitar solos, flute, sitar and communal, Indian-inspired...
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Redbone - Beaded Dreams Through Turquoise Eyes (1974-75 us, pleasant blue...
A blend of contrasts highlights this fine record, from a group that seems equally at home with hard rockers, what used to be called "blue eyed soul" or wekk handled ballads. Adept at using a single...
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Lydia Pense And Cold Blood - Live Blood (2008 us, superb blues jazz funky...
Live Blood was recorded at the Sunbanks Music Festival in Washington State, and captures the band in their most natural of habitats: on stage and smokin. Live Blood is what Cold Blood fans have been...
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Shawn Phillips - Rumplestiltskin's Resolve (1976 us, extraordinary...
Upon reflection, the front sleeve for Rumplestiltskin’s Resolve might have helped its initial dismissal, in 1976, as raggle-taggle hippie meandering, but it’s worth fresh appraisal today. Shawn...
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Julie Felix - Clotho's Web (1972 us / uk, amazing folk rock with great...
From the opening title track, with its arresting arrangement possibly masterminded by John Paul Jones, it’s immediately clear that this is an album to be taken seriously. At the time of its release,...
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Marc Benno - Marc Benno (1970 us, fascinating melt of blues, southern and...
Marc Benno was known through the Asylum Choir with Leon Russell in the end 1960s. He is still a Texas musician who actives as a blues guitarist, a piano player, a singer songwriter, etc ... in the...
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Steeplechase - Lady Bright (1970 us, excellent heavy groovy psych, 2006 reissue)
Us groovy heavy psych band, probably hailing from New York City, their music balances between Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly and Rascals. Drummer Joe Forgione and organ player Tony Radicello were members...
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Gene And Debbe - Playboy The Best Of Gene And Debbe (1967-68 us, attractive...
Gene Thomas and Debbe Neville were a fresh-scrubbed pop duo from Nashville, TN, who sounded something like a twangier Sonny & Cher, or as if Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood had been stripped of...
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