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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The Sidekicks – Fifi The Flea (1966 us, beautiful garage sunny beats)

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The Sidekicks were a garage/pop rock band from Wildwood, NJ. First known as The Redcoats, the lineup consisted of John Spirt, Mike Burke, an...
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Sunday, February 26, 2023

Steve Gibbons - Short Stories / Stained Glass (1971/1996 uk, superb roots 'n' roll, pub rock, 2001 double disc remaster and expanded)

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Rock n’ roll sometimes isn’t fair with some of its representatives. Rock n’ roll isn’t giving everybody what he/she deserves. However, even ...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

The Hollies - Bus Stop / Stop! Stop! Stop! (1966 uk, marvellous folk beat, 2011 remaster)

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The Hollies scored their first American smash in 1966, when “Bus Stop” (written by Graham Gouldman, a future member of 10cc) cracked the Bil...
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Thursday, February 23, 2023

White Lightning - Strikes Twice (1968-69 us, raw garage heavy psych rock)

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Hard fuzz trio featuring the blazing leads of Zippy Caplan (ex-Litter). The band was less garagy and more pounding hardrock than the Litter....
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Strider - Misunderstood (1974 uk, good hard rock, 2009 digipak remaster)

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Misunderstood, is well worth the effort; hard rock without being overbearingly heavy, it's got great songs, all-round good musicianship ...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Stack - Above All (1969 us, solid heavy psych hard rock with ultra loud guitars)

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Don't let the murky sound quality, almost certainly a result of imperfect source tapes, fool you; Above All is an above-average slab of ...
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Saturday, February 18, 2023

Phil Ochs - Tape From California (1968 us, astonishing baroque folk psych, 2000 remaster)

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With his first album for A&M, Pleasures of the Harbor (1967, also reissued on CD by Collectors' Choice Music), Phil Ochs made a dari...
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Thursday, February 16, 2023

Penny Nichols - Penny's Arcade (1968 us, dazzling folk sunny psych with clear crisp vocals, 2006 edition)

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Like many musicians in the Sixties, Penny started her career as a folk singer in coffeehouses around Orange County, CA. She shared stages wi...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Paul Davis - A Little Bit Of Paul Davis (1970-71 us, wondrous blue eyed soul, r 'n' b, soft rock, 2009 bonus tracks reissue)

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The very title of Paul Davis’ 1971 debut is a nod toward Bert Berns, the founder of Bang records and author of “A Little Bit of Soap,” the 1...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

One - One (1969 uk, remarkable heavy psych bluesy rock)

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In late 1969/early 1970, a motley crew of London-based musicians entered Trident Studios in the heart of Soho to record a lone, rare album f...
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