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Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal (1968 us, electric blues masterpiece, 2017 japan reissue)
Taj Mahal's debut album was a startling statement in its time and has held up remarkably well. Recorded in August of 1967, it was as hard and exciting a mix of old and new blues sounds as surfaced on...
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Levi Smith's Clefs - Empty Monkey (1966-71 australia, awesome groovy psych...
This story has been amended immensely by Barrie McAskill from the written documentation of Chris Spencer (The Who’s Who of Australian of Rock & Roll) and Ian Mc Farlane (Whammo)During the 1960s,...
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Fat Chance - Fat Chance (1972 us, excellent brass rock, 2019 korean remaster)
"In '68 or '69, [Bill and I] started this group called Fat Chance," Eaton said. "We got a job at this place called Large David's that used to be over by The Downtowner. One night, Phil Garonzik [a sax...
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Cowboy - Boyer And Talton (1974 us, fantastic country southern classic rock,...
Cowboy's third album, 1974's Boyer & Talton, found the Florida-bred, Georgia-based combo pared down to its original creative core of founding singer-songwriter-guitarists Scott Boyer and Tommy...
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Amory Kane - Memories Of Time Unwound (1968 us, wonderful baroque folk psych,...
Amory Kane was born Jack Daniel Kane Jr. at St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco, California. The month was March in 1946. The Kane Family, with three small kids in tow, sailed to Great Britain in 1947,...
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Diabolus - Diabolus (1971 uk, fantastic psych jazz prog folk rock, 2004 digi...
Diabolus is another of those unusual bands that, like Nektar, were English but released their only album in Germany. Although their 1972 self-titled debut (also listed as High Tones) was released on...
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Rosebud - Rosebud (1971 us, spectacular folk rock with baroque jazz and prog...
Over the course of the 1960s, Judy Henske had gradually drifted from folk to pop to folk-rock and psychedelia. More than any of her other projects, the early-1970s LP Rosebud was very much a rock...
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Mandrake Paddle Steamer - Pandemonium Shadow Show (1968-70 uk, impressive...
Pure late 60s UK psychedelic sound with early prog moves, plenty of Hammond and fuzzed out guitar, powerful vocals…Including such lost gems as the Barrett-Floyd sounding ‘The World Whistles By’, killer...
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Trapeze - Trapeze (1970 uk, great debut classic rock with glam flashes, 2004...
Trapeze were the first act signed by the Moody Blues to their newly founded Threshold Records label, and remain the most substantial talent -- along with Nicky James -- ever to pass through that...
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Rumplestiltskin - Rumplestiltskin (1970 uk, impressive hard blues classic...
An abiding childhood memory for many people around the world is the strange story of Rumplestiltskin. Who was this creature and what possible connection could he have with the world of music? Well,...
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Devil's Kitchen Band - Been A Long Time Coming, Be A Long Time Gone (1969-70...
Back in the 1 960S, Carbondale, Illinois was a lively college town. There werelots of local bars that featured live rock bands. If you were a student, a rock 'n roll musician, and, you had a gig at one...
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Guy Clark - Texas Cookin' (1976 us, remarkable outlaw country rock, 2016...
Guy Clark's sophomore effort sounds more like a party of friends who got together to pick together on a Saturday night that it does a sensitive singer/songwriter outing. Essentially that's what it is,...
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Harvey Mandel - Baby Batter (1971 us, strong jazzy blues funk rock, 2016...
Originally released in 1971, this frenetic, funk-laden fusion of Jazz licks and Blues-Rock attack from former-Canned Heat guitarist Harvey Mandel is a true lost gem that pre-dates the later work of...
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David Lewis - Just Mollie And Me (1976 us, tremendous classic rock with folk...
Dave Lewis is a singer / songwriter who moved to California from Texas in 1971. He happened go to Gazzarri’s on the Sunset Strip where he met Mike Cochrane and his band Train. They went into the...
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Bolder Damn - Mourning (1971 us, raw fuzzed-out guitar solid rhythm section...
Bolder Damn, formed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1969, got a following by opening up for the big names that came through the state. They had a mad and theatrical live show that got a reaction in those...
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Paul Siebel - Woodsmoke And Oranges/ Jack-Knife Gypsy (1970-71 us, awesome...
In the dawn of the seventies, when the singer/songwriter boom was just starting to reach full steam, with the heady rush of psychedelic rock giving way to the intimate sounds of introspective...
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Paper Bubble - Behind The Scenery the Complete (1969-81 uk, brilliant folk...
Recognise this plotline? In 1969 folk-rockers Paper Bubble recorded Scenery. Despite some impressive songs by the band’s core duo, Brian Crane and Terry Brake, fine vocals and most of the future...
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Harvey Mantel - The Snake (1972 us, outstanding funky jam blues rock, 2016...
Guitarist/composer Mandel was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1945, and has been an active and creative musician throughout his long, distinguished career—collaborating with the likes of Canned Heat, the...
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Aarons And Ackley - Aarons And Ackley (1971 us, wonderful folk rock, 2014...
Cleveland, Ohio-born Chuck Aarons and Portland, Oregan native Jim Ackley were both in their own groups in the 1960s, but both wound up in Canada at the height of the Viet Nam War. Aarons was excused...
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Navasota - Rootin' (1972 us, tough southern boogie country rock, 2013 reissue)
The Year was 1969. The new Blues Rock music had taken the country by storm, and five lads from Southheast Texas had their own vision of how to create this sound. Steve Long (guitar), Ray Pawlik...
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