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Monday, June 16, 2014

Warhorse - Warhorse (1970 uk, excellent heavy prog rock, 2010 remastered with bonus tracks)

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in November 1970, a new album came along that you just knew was destined to fulfill every last vertiginous criteria for which V...
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Sunday, June 15, 2014

Sandrose - Sandrose (1972 france, elegant prog rock with gorgeous female vocals, 2007 japan remaster)

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One week in Studio Davout was all it took for Sandrose to record an album that has long been considered one of the most important...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Happy And Artie Traum - Double Back (1971 us, wonderful country folk rock, 2010 korean remaster)

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The Traums were of mixed bloodlines. On one side their grandparents were German Jews, while their other grandparents were of Eng...
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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Yellow Hand - Yellow Hand (1969 us, remarkable west coast rural psych)

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For every ten albums I pick up, the vast majority prove to be disappointing, or even worse.  That makes an album like "Yellow Ha...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Autumn - Comes...Autumn (1970-72 aussie, marvelous smooth rock with prog shades, 2010 digipak remaster with extra tracks)

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Like their contemporaries The Executives, The Affair, New Dream and Zoot, Sydney band Autumn has been unfairly labelled as a lightwe...
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The Zoo - Presents Chocolate Moose (1968 us, exciting blend of garage blues and psych)

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Under the tutelage of Mike Cobb, 1968 found the band signed to Cobb's own Sunburst label. A single "Subset Strip" b...
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Monday, June 9, 2014

Mad Dog - Dawn Of The Seventh Sun (1969 us, stunning garage psych blues rock)

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Monstrous and unreleased at the time heavy/psychedelic/west coast  artifact of the highest order. This is one of the five best ev...
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Bobby Jameson - Color Him In (1967 us, fabulous orhestrated beat psychedelia, 2007 issue)

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Cutting a long and quite confusing story short(er), Bobby started out as himself on the mid’60s folk-rock scene in L.A., winding ...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Lyle Swedeen - Sunshine Inside (1974 us, magnificent classic soulful rock with folk traces, 2009 korean remaster and expanded)

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 Lyle Swedeen has been a natural talent with music since the age of five. By the age of twenty he set out to LA, California to pursue...
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Monday, June 2, 2014

Instant Orange - Instant Orange (1968-74 us, awesome low fi folk psych country rock, 2008 release)

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The eternal mania for reissues of obscurities turns up all sorts of trumps but sometimes the results are a cut above not simply w...
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