Medicine Head – ‘Warriors Of Love’ (2021)
Just out is a new album by Medicine Head, highly praised by such as John Peel, Pete Townshend, John and Yoko around 1970 and in this century by...
Brian R. Banks
Breakthrough – ‘Underground Sounds of 1971’ (2022)
The year 1971 is celebrated in a lush anniversary four CD box set from Esoteric Records via Cherry Red. That time saw vinyl albums emerging as serious market...
Gypsy – ‘Comes A Time, The United Artists Recordings’ (2021)
When we look back into modern music’s history, it’s made more difficult (not just clouded) unfortunately because of some fad called the internet, a tool which assumes it...
Global Village Trucking Company – ‘Dancing In The Street With Smiling Revolutionaries’
An east coast band in a different country nicknamed the British Grateful Dead due to extended jams? A co-founder who was a close cousin in regal line to...
Juicy Lucy: ‘Juicy Lucy’ / ‘Lie Back And Enjoy It’ / ‘Get A Whiff A This’
A group of name-banders recording three well-reviewed albums on major labels in barely 18 months, by most criteria should have laid solid foundations for a glittering career. Their...
Mungo Jerry – ‘A & B Sides and E.P. Tracks 1970–75’ (2019)
When is a one-hit wonder not a one-hit wonder? When successive singles rack up 29 weeks in the top 10 and 72 in the top 40, except in...
Surrender To The Rhythm: The London Pub Rock Scene Of The Seventies (2020)
Just released on Cherry Red’s subsidiary Grapefruit is a triple CD wallet of an influential music scene that bridged at least two important periods of modern music: early...
Beau – ‘The Magic Of Public Relations’ (2020)
Born in 1946 in North England, Trevor Midgley has always loved words and word-play, reflected in stage-names too: C.J.T. Midgley first took the stage in The Raiders, who...
Sir Lord Baltimore – ‘Complete Recordings 1970-2006’ (2020)
If we travelled back to a time when media reaction was singular rather than pandemic (bringing back the true meaning of viral!), hindsight might provide an interesting panorama...
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...