Mike Cooper: ‘Five Albums On Three Discs’
This important release showcases a musician influential in the blues boom of the 1960s who, by the 1970s, was adapting that form to other styles. From the next...
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Beau – ‘Damascus Road’ (2019)
Beau – Damascus Road (Cherry Red Records 2019) To celebrate the exact day in April 1969 when Beau (i.e. Trevor Midgley) released his debut album for John Peel’s legendary...
I’m A Freak 2 Baby: A Further Journey through The British Heavy Psych & Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-73 (2019)
I’m A Freak 2 Baby: A Further Journey through The British Heavy Psych & Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-73, Various Artists 3CD CLAMSHELL Boxset (Grapefruit/Cherry Red CRSEGBOXO50 2019)...
Mountain – “Flowers of Evil” / “The Road Goes Ever On” (2018) review
Mountain - “Flowers of Evil” / “The Road Goes Ever On” (BGO Records, 2018) Your first image of Mountain might be their natty hippy clothes ransacked from Haight...
Bror Gunnar Jansson: Blues Tradition for the 21st Century
One of the rarely lauded treats of mass media is that different cultural genres can be explored and experienced simultaneously. Watching the T.V. series Damnation I was struck...
Barclay James Harvest – “Barclay James Harvest” (1970) review
Barclay James Harvest - Barclay James Harvest (Esoteric Recordings, 1970/2018) Music-finders all, how do we come to our stuff today in this new century? Much of course forms...
Beau – “Rattle the Asylum Bars” (2018) review
Beau - Rattle the Asylum Bars (Cherry Red Records) Almost 49 years to the day after his first recording session for John Peel’s Dandelion label that brought 1917...
Stack Waddy – “So Who The Hell Is Stack Waddy?” (2017) review
Stack Waddy - So Who The Hell Is Stack Waddy? (Cherry Red Records, 2017) Once upon a time—September 1969 to be precise—a band formed in Timperley near Manchester...
Skid Row – Skid / 34 Hours (2017) review
Skid Row - Skid / 34 Hours (BGO CD1302; 38.29 / 57.33 mins) The original Skid Row are usually called Gary Moore’s band and therefore blues, but these confuse...
Simfonica – “Letters In Time” (2017) review
Simfonica - Letters In Time (TM Studios TMS001) Just released is a fascinating new audio DVD by Trevor Midgley, known to John Peel and Dandelion record fans as...