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The Kinetic - Suddenly Tomorrow EP / Live Your Life LP (1966-67 uk, cool mod...
The Kinetic were Andy Mowbray (vocals), Bob Weston (lead guitar), Geoffrey Capper (bass), John Christopher Sze (drums), and Michael Humby (organ). They issued a 10 cut album for Disques Vogue, which is...
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Bloomfield, Hammond, Dr.John - Triumvirate (1973 us, marvelous funky blues...
Bringing together three strong musical personalities like John Hammond, Mike Bloomfield and Dr. John is no easy task. The least of the problems, to begin with, is finding o solid month and a half when...
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Various Artists - Raw Blues (1967 uk / us, classic blues)
From this modest beginning Mike Vernon was eventually able to lure several 'name' Stateside blues men to 'The Supreme Record Company's' then head offices on London's Albert Embankment, for the purpose...
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Chris Farlowe - Out of Time The Immediate Anthology (1965-69 uk, fabulous mod...
In his own time on Immediate Records, British soul shouter Chris Farlowe's output was sliced and diced and re-compiled so many times that no one even remembers the names of his original albums for the...
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The Siegel-Schwall Band - Sleepy Hollow (1972 us, solid chicago blues rock)
The Siegel-Schwall Band's 1972 album "Sleepy Hollow" was the progressive Chicago blues hand's second of five early '70s albums for the RCA-distributed Wooden Nickel label also the early home of Styx...
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Chicken Shack - 100 Ton Chicken (1969 uk, awesome blues rock, 2013 expanded...
The amusingly titled "100 Ton Chicken' represents Chicken Shacks third album on the Blue Horizon label. Released in late Spring '69 it heralded a shift in the band's recorded output brought about...
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The Lovin' Spoonful - Hums Of The Lovin' Spoonful (1966 us, delightful psych...
Writing about The Lovin' Spoonful can drive a guy nuts. As you dig into the group's music, the lingering questions become increasingly perplexing: Why have they never received their due as musicians?...
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Huckle - Wild Blue Yonder (1976 canada, exceptional psych folk harmonies with...
The singer-songwriter known as Huckle was born in 1954 and grew up in Montreal and Toronto Huckle moved west to Gabriola Island in 1973 and helped organize two western tours by Perth County Conspiracy...
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Guess Who - Shakin' All Over / Hey Ho (What You Do To Me) / It's Time...
Aside from the magical garage rock classic Shakin' All Over by The Guess Who, the other thirty one gems that make up this wonderful new collection are probably being heard for the very first time by...
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Steppenwolf - Live (1970 canada, great classic hard rock, 2013 japan SHM...
The group's first live album, recorded in one night and originally released as a two record set including some studio recordings overdubbed despite the bands will. Nevertheless, it catches the band in...
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Foghat - Energized (1974 uk, fantastic hard funky boogie rock, japan remaster)
It jumps open with an unequivocal derangement of ol' Kansas City Joe Turner's "Honey Hush," in a marvelously shameless send-up of the Yardbirds. A rare cut that makes you discover how loud your...
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The Siegel Schwall Band - 953 West (1973 us, amazing electric blues folk rock)
This is my favorite Siegel-Schwall album. It's the one I would take with me to a desert island, if I had to choose just one. Why? Well, the songs are all so well played and the writing is the most...
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Caravan - Cunning Stunts (1975 uk. magnificent progressive rock canterbury...
By July 1974, John Perry had moved off to play with Quantum Jump, to be replaced by Mike Wedgewood who had played previously in Curved Air.With Dave Sinclair firmly re-established in the band, an album...
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Fargo - I See It Now (1969 us, charming sunny flower baroque psychedelia,...
This post is dedicated to Cor by AnatolyDean Wilden and Tony Decker are Fargo. Their home is Salt Lake City, Utah. People who meet them or hear their music find that fact incongruous, for thinking of...
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Turnquist Remedy - Iowa By The Sea (1970 us, tremendous west coast psych folk...
Turnquist Remedy were a band that embodied the fluid guitar sound and vocal harmonies so prevalent of the late 60's and early 70's. Turnquist Remedy played together from 1968 to at least 1971, possibly...
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Ruthann Friedman – Hurried Life / Lost Recordings (1965-71 us, gorgeous...
Born in the Bronx in July 6th 1944. Too early to be a baby boomer and too late for the 4th of July. Dog Tag days in the post WWII 50s at P.S.94, with Nuclear Bomb Drills part of our daily lives....
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The Lovin' Spoonful - You're A Big Boy Now / Everything Playing (1967-68 us,...
A pair of tasty sets from The Lovin Spoonful! You're A Big Boy Now is soundtrack to the early Francis Ford Coppola film, and a surprisingly groovy batch of tracks! John Sebastian composed the whole...
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Ruthann Friedman - Windy - A Ruthann Friedman Songbook (1966-73 us,...
A look at the intense visage of Ruthann Friedman on the cover "Windy: A Ruthann Friedman Songbook" reveals those “stormy eyes that flash at the sound of lies,” but a listen to the sounds within shows...
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Aphrodite's Child - It's Five O' Clock (1969 greece, 2nd album, remarkable...
Aphrodite's Child's second LP was in some ways both a continuation of and departure from their debut album, End of the World. There were some grandiose keyboard-based sub-British psychedelic tracks...
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The Rippers - Honesty (1968 germany, fine beat psych, Vinyl edition)
The Rippers line featured four college aged Germans (keyboardist Hans Enderle, singer/lead guitarist Joachim (Jim) Gottescalk, drummer Peter Kempf, rhythm guitarist Lutz Wolf) and one Spaniard...
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