Julie Felix - First, Second And Third-The Complete Three Decca LPs (1964-66...
Although California-born, Julie Felix found herself in Britain smack dab in the middle of the folk revival in the mid-'60s, and with her serviceable voice and exotic good looks, she was soon a poster...
View ArticleMarc Brierley - Welcome To The Citadel (1966-69 uk, superb folk rock, 2014...
Life is lived in phases and periods. This CD package contains approximately three of the phases of my period as a recording and performing singer /songwriter, which spanned from 1965 to 1973... By the...
View ArticleWayne Kramer And The Pink Fairies - Cocaine Blues (1974-78 us / uk, tough...
This album features elements of two of the greatest revolutionary rock bands of all time. Wayne Kramer came to prominence as a teenager in 1967 as a co-founder of the Detroit rock group MC5 (Motor City...
View ArticleFusion Farm - Rush Job (1971-74 uk, astonishing rough 'n' roll, 2016 release)
We have heard about Fusion Farm for the first time from a well-known French collector who sent us the music. It took many years to locate the band and by coincidence the daughter of one of the band...
View ArticleTim Hardin - The Millennium Collection (1966-68 us, outstanding folk psych,...
Hardin's best-known compositions -- "If I Were a Carpenter,""Reason to Believe," and "Lady Came From Baltimore" -- are all included. Hardin recorded for Verve Records, now part of the Universal...
View ArticleAshton Gardner Dyke And Co - What A Bloody Long Day It's Been (1972 uk,...
Though chiefly remembered for their UK No.3 hit, "Resurrection Shuffle", the careers of Ashton, Gardner & Dyke stretched back a long way before they achieved that sole international smash in...
View ArticleSweet Stavin Chain - Sweet Stavin Chain (1970 us, sensational psych blues...
Geez, its amazing how many horn bands seemed to have been given a chance to record in the wake of Blood, Sweat and Tears late- 1960s commercial breakthrough. An eight man outfit, Sweet Stavin Chain...
View ArticleAndy Armstrong - Before I Forget (1979 australia, beautiful folk rock, vinyl...
Before I Forget… was recorded at Pepper Studios, The first side of the album contains five songs. The opener is a marvellous effort; the gentle, personal “My Song” which features some beautiful singing...
View ArticleAudience - House On The Hill (1971 uk, impressive prog rock, 2015 remaster...
"The House on the Hill" is maybe Audience's strongest effort, made up of simple, elegantly arranged songs, focusing around Howard Werth's "electric classical" guitar and Keith Gemmel's tenor sax and...
View ArticleAudience - Lunch (1972 uk, sublime electric folk prog rock, 2015 bonus tracks...
Audience rose from the ashes of a semi-professional soul band named Lloyd Alexander Real Estate, which had included all the Audience members with the exception of Connor, who had unsuccessfully...
View ArticleWe The People - Too Much Noise (1966 us, awesome garage beat, 2008 reissue)
Although they were blessed with two excellent in-house songwriters (Wayne Proctor and Tommy Talton) and produced several above-the-mill garage band singles in the mid-'60s, Florida's We the People...
View ArticleZakary Thaks - It's The End The Definitive Collection (1966-69 us,...
Although our hometown Corpus Christi is somewhat isolated on the Texas coast, in the 1960s it had a very active local music scene, which turned out to be the proving ground for the Zakary Thaks to...
View ArticleTimber - Bring America Home (1971 us, great rural psych rock with funky...
A curious mix of white-boy boogie-funk and more rural material, reminiscent of Leon Russell and Little Feat, with Wayne Berry apparently the more versatile songwriter: he contributes a couple of the...
View ArticleMortimer - On Our Way Home (1969 us, wondrous baroque folk country light...
I can remember seeing a while back an old reprint of advertisement for the Beatles Apple label, showing a one man band who in the ad copy signed to the Fabs label and subsequently made enough to run a...
View ArticleTerry Dolan - Terry Dolan (1972 us, amazing classic rock with psych country...
On April 24, 1971, the San Francisco Examiner ran a piece titled “The Hit That Isn't a Record.” It was about an unsigned local musician named Terry Dolan who was “doing the impossible – having a hit...
View ArticleLocomotive - Locomotive (1969 us, good hard bluesy rock, 2013 reissue)
Guitarist John Ussery wrote almost all the songs, and he is a functional blues player with an appropriately slightly scratchy voice. But the band has an almost ceaseless approach to blues/rock, with a...
View ArticleDiamond Reo - Diamond Reo (1975 us, excellent hard groovy glam rock, 2008...
The Diamond Reo band was founded in 1974 by Frank Zuri, Bob McKeag, Norman Nardini and Robbie Johns. McKeag and Zuri played together earlier in the group Igniters, which managed to release only one...
View ArticleGary Wright And Wonderwheel - Ring Of Changes (1972 us / uk, astonishing...
In a career spanning seven decades, there’s little Gary Wright hasn’t accomplished. Having earned a role on Broadway before hitting his teenage years, the musically-talented New Jersey native moved to...
View ArticleDoctor Feelgood - Something To Take Up Time (1971 us, spectacular blues jazz...
Doctor Feelgood evolved out of Boston’s North Shore music scene of the early 60s with Cooper, Corelle, and Winters having played in the rock band The Sensations.Later that band evolved into Teddy And...
View ArticleBoondoggle And Balderdash - Boondoggle And Balderdash (1971 us, magnificent...
Boondoggle and Balderdash are John Herron and Robert McLerran. Herron is a Colorado musician who performed with GNP in 1967. He was also with a group called "Climax" - not "Precious and Few" and then...
View Article