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Tim Buckley - Venice Mating Call (1969 us, monumental live recordings, 2017...
In September 1969, and at just 22 years old, Tim Buckley was at the top of his game. A couple of months after the release of what remains one of his most widely-loved albums (Happy Sad), he was in the...
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Lee Michaels - Fifth (1971 elegant funky rhythm and blues, 2016 remaster)
Michael Olsen was born in Los Angeles in 1945. In 1961, Michael Olsen joined a surf-rock band named The Sentinels. In 1962, they played in concert with The Coasters and The Righteous Brothers. One of...
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Blue Oyster Cult - Original Album Classics (1972-79 us, superb hard rock,...
Blue Öyster Cult was the thinking man's heavy metal group. Put together on a college campus by a couple of rock critics, it maintained a close relationship with a series of literary figures (often in...
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Blue Oyster Cult - Spectres / Secret Treaties (1977 / 1974 us, exceptional...
Often looked at as the least attractive and least talented younger sibling to the monster Agents of Fortune, 1977's Spectres is actually quite strong on its own and holds up pretty well next to that...
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Lou Reed - Original Album Classics (1972-75 us, amazing 2008 five disc box set)
The career of Lou Reed defied capsule summarization. Like David Bowie (whom Reed directly inspired in many ways), he made over his image many times, mutating from theatrical glam rocker to strung-out...
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Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening (1978 us, solid hard rock, 2007...
Even though their previous studio release, Spectres, was one of the best selling albums of their career it just didn't live up to the monstrous ideology of that Blue Oyster Cult had created with such...
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Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll Heart (1976 us, shinny uptempo with pop hooks, 2006...
By the mid-'70s, Lou Reed had been through a lifetime of rock 'n' roll experiences in just a little more than a decade. From early-'60s session work to the Velvet Underground to the unexpected chart...
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Country Joe And The Fish - Together (1968 us, magnificent acid folk psych...
Together, Country Joe & the Fish's third album, was the group's most consistent, most democratic, and their best-selling record. Unlike their first two albums, which were dominated by Country Joe...
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The Allman Brothers Band - Live At The Atlanta International Pop Festival...
This double disc was recorded over two days in Atlanta in 1970. The venue was only 14 miles from the Allmans “Big House” in Macon, Georgia. So they feel at home.Day one features some fine excursions,...
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Bob "Catfish" Hodge - Different Strokes The Complete East And Westbound...
Blues rocker Bob “Catfish” Hodge grew up in Detroit, where he formed his first group while still at school. The city became world famous via the success of Motown, which inspired many young Detroiters,...
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Don Nix - Gone Too Long (1976 us, awesome bluesy classic rock, 2018 japan...
Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, he acquired a broad taste in music...records from blues greats such as Sonny Boy Williamson and Freddie King were placed alongside the Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra...
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Marian Segal And Jade - Fly On Strangewings The Anthology (1970-2013 uk,...
Every autumn, when the nights start to get longer, the air begins to cool and all of the leaves start to change colors, I get an insatiable craving for folk music, but specifically English and...
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The Frost - Through The Eyes Of Love (1970 us, superb detroit rock 'n' roll,...
Frost’s final and, in Dick Wagner’s opinion, best album, “Through The Eyes Of Love”, was released in 1970. The album contained seven great songs including two, Wagner’s “Black As Night” and Donny...
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The Frost - Live At The Grande Ballroom! (1969 us, powerful detroit hard...
Designed in 1928 by Charles N. Agree for dance hall entrepreneurs Edward J. Strata and his partner Edward J. Davis, the Grande started off as a place Detroiters would go to dance and listen to jazz and...
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Trapeze - You Are The Music We're Just The Band (1972 uk, exceptional hard...
Trapeze has long been underrated in hard rock and metal circles, as along with bands like UFO, Thin Lizzy, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple, helped define European heavy metal and shape...
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Gary Farr - Strange Fruit (1971 uk, magnificent blend of folk blues acoustic...
Gary Farr has one of the most distinctive r'n'b inflected voices of the early seventies British singer-songwriter. His second and finest solo album - 1970's Strange Fruit is an unjustly neglected gem...
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The Yardbirds - For Your Love (1965 uk, trailblazer rock 'n roll rhythm and...
The album commences with its title song, which was at once the first real hit for the band as well as the single song which made Clapton decide to depart. “For Your Love” was presented to the band by...
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Mad Timothy - A Very Snug Joiner (1969 us, rough bluesy psych rock, 2019 issue)
First ever release for this previously unknown late ‘60s/ early ‘70s acetate, rescued from a thrift store in Chicago. Damaged heavy blooz-psych in the vein of Blue Cheer, Majic Ship, Mount Rushmore,...
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Chaplin Harness - Chaplin Harness (1969 us, groovy funky bluesy jam psych...
My first memory of the Chaplin Harness legend was from about ten years ago. I had a collector friend from overseas ask me if it was possible to obtain a copy of the test pressing. Not aware of what it...
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Chaplin Harness - Chaplin Harness II (1969 us, jazz funk jam rock, 2010 release)
Chaplin Harness was a great unknown band. This is their second studio effort, recorded in late 1969. Personnel changes included the addition of John Tiberi and Greg Hayes on Keyboards, Phil Argentina...
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