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Arlo Guthrie - Last Of The Brooklyn Cowboys (1973 us, bright special folk...
Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys, Guthrie's sixth album, was released in April 1973. It was another effort largely given over to cover material and performed with the cream of Los Angeles session...
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The Soul Explosion - Soul Fire (1968 germany / us, charmy funky psych...
Detroit? Chicago? Well, no not at all. This 1968 release comes from a German band playing some lush and dynamic soul pop with an emotionally exalted vocal style that reminds a bit of Tom Jones at...
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Soul Survivors - Take Another Look (1969 us, great funky groovy psych. 2013...
The Soul Survivors flamed out quite quickly, but their second album was a superb slice of blue-eyed R'n'B. They could do effective hard-driving dance tunes or decent ballads, and while Gamble and Huff...
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Nirvana And Patrick Campbell Lyons - Me And My Friend (1973 uk, wonderful...
Patrick Campbell Lyons formed Nirvana in the still-swinging London of the late-60s, together with Alex Spryropoulos. In 1968, signed to Island Records, they charted with 'Rainbow Chaser', a classic...
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Fludd - C@ck On! (1972 canada, awesome solid classic rock)
By late 1971 Fludd was picked up by Frank Davies' upstart label Daffodil Records later that year and released the highly controversial ... ON in early '72, recorded in Toronto with new producer Lee...
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Mud - Mud (1971 us, spectacular heavy psych jam blues rock, 2016 korean...
Originally called Mudd, (probably to distinguish themselves from Mud, an English band that had been around since 1966 and finally enjoyed a spell of success once they teamed up with glam rock producers...
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The Truth - Who's Wrong? Mod Bedlam (1965-69 uk, splendid mod beat, 2015...
Frank Aiello and Steve Jameson were mods, but did they make mod music? Aiello and Jameson were the singers who comprised the British vocal group the Truth, and they were faces on the mid-'60s U.K. mod...
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Jim Capaldi - Whale Meat Again (1973-74 uk, wonderful classic rock, 2012...
Jim Capaldi's second solo album was recorded virtually simultaneously with Traffic's final album of the 1970s, Where The Eagle Flies. Indeed, it may have even arisen as a result of the long genesis of...
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Elyse - Elyse (1968 canada, brilliant folk psych rock, 2000 reissue)
Elyse Weinberg was born in Canada and, after making small waves on the Toronto folk scene in the 1960s (the same place and time as such legendary names as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell), moved to Los...
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The Byrds - Ballad Of Easy Rider (1969 us, essential country folκ psych rock,...
Ballad of Easy Rider was one of two great Byrds’ albums to be released after the groups’ acknowledged heyday (Mr. Tambourine Man to Sweetheart of the Rodeo). Released in 1969, before the excellent...
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Wishbone Ash - Live Dates (1973 uk, outstanding solid guitar rock, 2013...
'Live Dates' is the first live album by Wishbone Ash. Although it's not the same, as being in the first row of the seats, this record is an excellent display for the true concert. "The double album was...
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The Moving Sidewalks - The Complete Moving Sidewalks (1966-68 us, superb...
The Moving Sidewalks have been rendered down to a rock n’ roll footnote – they were the band that spawned young guitar sensation Billy Gibbons to eventually find fame and fortune with the power trio ZZ...
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Bernie Schwartz - The Wheel (1969 us, fantastic soulful blend of country folk...
Bernie Schwartz’s first classic single, Her Name Is Melody was released off Warner Brothers in late 1966 under the name Adrian Pride. This record is an excellent, early stab of raga rock that was...
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Bobby Lance - First Peace / Rollin' Man (1971-72 us, marvelous soul tinged...
Check the liner notes of an album by an artist that doesn’t primarily write their own material, and the credits will be teeming with the names of the people responsible for penning the songs. Sometimes...
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Various Artists - Welcome to Zamrock! Vol 1 How Zambia’s Liberation Led To A...
By the mid 1970s, the Southern African nation known as the Republic of Zambia had fallen on hard times. Though the country’s first president Kenneth Kaunda had thrown off the yoke of British...
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Various Artists - Of Hopes And Dreams And Tombstones (1964-67 australia,...
From the moment I heard Friday On My Mind by the Easybeats, I was convinced Australians had a special knack for rock. Diligent subsequent listening to pioneering Aussie-60s anthologies such as Ugly...
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Guy Clark - Old No1 (1975 us, wonderful folk country rock, 2016 japan remaster)
Guy Clark waited a long time to get himself on record, despite a proven pedigree as a songwriter penning sometimes joyous, sometimes bittersweet, frequently autobiographical, always poetic narratives...
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Travis Wammack - Travis Wammack (1972 us, splendid classic rock roots 'n'...
There are some names you never forget. Names like Narvel Felts, Felton Jarvis, Elvis Presley...Good Southern names for self-styled boys that made some of rock-n-roll’s great wild records. Such a name...
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Arlo Guthrie - Arlo Guthrie (1974 us, marvelous folk rock, 2005 digipak...
Arlo Guthrie's seventh record follows a formula that he'd been developing over the past several years -- a handful of interesting originals mixed with a song or two by a legend, something traditional,...
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Brewer And Shipley - Weeds / Tarkio / Shake Off The Demon / Rural Space...
Inextricably linked with the US counter-culture of the late 1960s and early 70s courtesy of their drug referencing hit single One Toke Over The Line (which incurred the personal wrath of the hippie...
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