Small Faces – ‘Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake’ (50th Anniversary Edition) (2018)
The final LP from Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones has long been considered their masterpiece and how it failed to top the charts and...
Reviews
Locksley Hall – ‘Locksley Hall’ (2019)
Named after a poem written in 1835 by Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall came from Spokane, Washington. Established 1967, the band was well regarded on the Pacific Northwest circuit...
The Rolling Stones – ‘Rock and Roll Circus’
For years, the Rolling Stones’ concert The Rock and Roll Circus was no more than a superstar concert that was only witnessed by a small, select audience of...
Climax Blues Band – ‘The Albums 1969-1972’ (2019)
Formed in Stafford, England in 1967 by vocalist and harmonica player Colin Cooper, guitarist and vocalist Pete Haycock, guitarist Derek Holt, bassist and keyboardist Richard Jones, drummer George...
Moon Duo – ‘Stars Are the Light’ (2019)
Review from my pre-release listening experience ... On Stars Are The Light, the band hooks up with Sonic Boom (late of Spacemen 3) to deliver an odd arrangement...
Manfred Mann
Four new CDs that constitute the next phase of releases as put out by the Artist Approved label with the full blessing of the group members. Whereas in...
Seattle’s Seaprog Festival 2019: Turning the Corner
Seaprog began in 2013, a relative newcomer on the world stage as an international-class prog festival. While it is not comparatively very large in terms of the sheer...
Rose City Band – ‘Rose City Band’ (2019)
Traveling down the same mellow cosmic path as Wooden Shjips, yet with a bit more structure and the feel of rambling 70’s stoner rock, Rose City Band amble...
Cavern of Anti-Matter – ‘Hormone Lemonade’ (2018)
While all of Cavern’s albums sound as if they’re about swim across electric fields of sound, none more so than here on Hormone Lemonade, were the band take...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: David Friesen – ‘Amber Skies’ (1984)
David Friesen’s music always sounds like the soundtrack for waterfalls. There is an environmental sensibility that evokes rushing waters, gentle breezes, hurricanes and lightning. Yet he has never...