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Renaissance - Live At Carnegie Hall (1976 uk, gorgeous art prog rock, 2019...
In 1976, British progressive/symphonic rock/folk act Renaissance released of the greatest live albums the genre has ever seen, titled Live at Carnegie Hall. It's a double live album that doesn't get...
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Southwind - Ready To Ride (1970 us, awesome country rural psych rock, 2015...
Southwind's second LP ‘Ready To Ride" released in early 1970,, at that time the band was comprised of Fontaine Brown (Dugg Brown), Eric Dalton, Jim Pulte and John Martin. Very often, during their live...
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The Seeds - Bad Part Of Town (1961-72 us, top notch garage punk psych roots...
1965, in the heat of the nights of San Francisco and Los Angeles, the rock-rhythm and blues changes itself into psychedelism. Towards Jefferson Airplane and Arthur Lee's Love, the Seeds appear then as...
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Bert Sommer - Inside (1969 us, elegant psych folk, with baroque prettiness,...
In the space of 10 years between 1967-77, singer-songwriter Bert Sommer released four studio albums, collaborated with the Left Banke and the Vagrants with Mountain’s Leslie West, performed in the...
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Bert Sommer - Bert Sommer (1971 us, beautiful psych folk rock, 2017 korean...
In 1972, Bert’s music was to be featured in a movie. The film in question was called “Ultra Violet’s Hot Parts”, a seedy film in which a French painter called Vampy – who had studied under Salvador...
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Southwind - What A Place To Land (1971 us, excellent bluesy country classic...
The third and final album from Southwind, originally released by Blue Thumb in 1971. Compared to the band's debut this effort is less psychedelic and more pronounced blues influence than past efforts,...
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Howl The Good - Howl The Good (1972 us, remarkable classic rock, 2019 korean...
Howl The Good's self-titled album, originally released in 1972. During the early 1970s, Detroit rock band Howl The Good signed to Motown's prog-rock offshoot, Rare Earth. Travelling to London to record...
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Tryad - ...If Only You Believe In Lovin` (1972 us, notable psych folk rock,...
Tryad's If Only You Believe In Lovin', originally released in 1971 as a private press. Ultra-deluxe LP reissue on the newly resurrected Del Val label -- obscure but legendary label previously...
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White Duck - In Season (1972 us, essential country rock, 2014 korean remaster)
Hiatt made his first recording as a member of White Duck, a likable if unspectacular country rock band. Hiatt was on board for the band's second and final album In Season in 1972. (Hiatt did not play...
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Keef Hartley Band - British Radio Sessions (1969-71 uk, outstanding blues...
The history of rock and roll has produced innumerable drummers. A small number of them have become household names, Ringo Starr, Ginger Baker, Charlie Watts,John Bonham. How many though, have been...
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Johnny Winter - Johnny Winter And (1970 us, superb hard blues rock, 2018...
After two late-'60s albums on Columbia, Johnny Winter hit his stride in 1970 working with Rick Derringer and the McCoys, now recruited as his sidemen and collaborators (and proving with just about...
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Saraband - Close To It All (1973 uk, wonderful folk rock, 2018 korean remaster)
Saraband was a short lived folk band from Rochdale (England), released only album in 1973. They started out as The Honeydew releasing one LP in 1970, befor changing their name to Saraband. Fragile...
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Willie And The Red Rubber Band - We're Comin' Up (1969 us, awesome r 'n' b...
Texas band, lead by Willie Redden and released two albums in the late 60's. This is their second effort "We're Comin' Up" saw the light of the day in 1969. A really pleasant trip with roots n' roll and...
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White Duck - White Duck (1971 us, awesome swamp country rock, 2014 korean...
A whole herd of various ducks and ducklings nested on the rock scene of the seventies. This one is the debut album of the American band White Duck, which consisted of musicians who accompanied Jimmy...
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Dan Penn - Nobody's Fool (1973 us, essential country soul funk, 2016 japan...
Nobody’s Fool was recorded by Penn for Bell Records in 1973, and remained his only solo album for more than two decades. Penn, the co-author of such unquestioned classics as “The Dark End of the...
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Toe Fat - BBC Sessions (1969-70 uk, splendid hard bluesy rock, 2013 release)
Toe Fat - the improbable teaming of a slick, classy, 60's Soulster and three-quarters of an obscure Psychedelic/Blues outfit from the sticks - are one of those bands who invariably turn up in the...
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The Outsiders - The Outsiders (1966-67 holland, excellent punkadelic, 2018...
The Amsterdam-based combo were one of the most popular homegrown bands in the Netherlands from 1965 to 1967, and have since become a favorite among historians of the beat music era; Richie Unterberger...
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Siegel Schwall Band - Live The Last Summer (1974 us, fine chicago blues, 2018...
Siegel–Schwall Band's ninth album, was recorded live in the summer of 1973 at the Brewery in Lansing, Michigan and at the Quiet Knight in Chicago, Illinois. They had a regular Tuesday night spot there....
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Michael Bloomfield - If You Love These Blues Play'em As You Please (1976 us,...
On 15 February 1981, the blues guitar legend was found dead from a drugs overdose, slumped in his car in a side street in San Francisco. During the 1960s, his guitar playing had ignited "live"...
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Siegel Schwall Band - R.I.P. Siegel Schwall (1974 us, essential blues rock,...
R.I.P. Siegel/Schwall was the band’s swansong, of sorts. The Siegel-Schwall Band had broken up in February 1974, around the time of the release of Live: The Last Summer, but Wooden Nickel asked them to...
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