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Friday, November 15, 2019

Harvey Mandel - Righteous / Games Guitars Play (1969-70 us, beautiful after hours jazzy blues rock, 2005 remaster)

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Many listeners’ first exposure to the unique, slithering guitar sound of Harvey Mandel came when the Rolling Stones’ “Hot Stuff”...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Great Jones - All Bowed Down! (1970 us, sharp bluesy hard rock, Vinyl issue)

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With only one highly collectible 1970 album to their credit, Great Jones, as the liner notes to their LP declared, was an odd com...
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Monday, November 11, 2019

Mushroom - Early One Morning (1973 ireland, brilliant, heavy prog rock psych folk with blazing guitar and fiddle attacks, 2004 edition)

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This rare album by this obscure early-'70s Irish folk-rock outfit is in some ways quite similar to the brand of British folk-...
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

Lucifer's Friend - Banquet (1974 germany / uk, remarkable prog jazz brass rock, 2015 digi pak remaster with bonus track)

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On Banquet, Lucifer's Friend finally pulled together the many different elements to their sound (prog, soul, jazz, hard rock)...
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Sugar Cube Blues Band - Sugar Cube Blues Band (1967 us, excellent garage psych folk rock, 1995 Vinyl edition)

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From Grenada, Mississippi, the Sugar Cube Blues Band were not a blues band, but more a garage-psychedelic group, as heard on their so...
Sunday, November 3, 2019

The Ten Wheel Drive - Peculiar Friends (1971 us, good funky bluesy brass rock, 2019 korean remaster)

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The third and final disc on Polydor from Ten Wheel Drive before Annie Sutton would come in to take over for the irreplaceable Gen...
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Thursday, October 31, 2019

Michael Chapman - Savage Amusement (1976 uk, remarkable folk blues rock, 2015 remaster with extra tracks)

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Savage Amusement is Michael Chapman’s 8th album and was recorded in 1976. Recorded at Sawmills in Cornwall, Tapestry in London an...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Fred Neil - Fred Neil (1967 us, superb folk blues psych with raga elements, 2006 remnaster)

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From the clatter of the Greenwich Village 60s folk scene came a voice that was inspired, authentic, and extraordinarily deep. Fre...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Twilights - The Way They Played Best Of (1965-69 australia, fine beat folk baroque psych, 2013 remaster)

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The migrant hostels of the major Australian cities were the fertile breeding grounds for some of the most vital and seminal rock ...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Fred Neil - Tear Down The Walls / Bleecker And MacDougal (1964-65 us, amazing acoustic folk blues, 2001 release)

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Fred Neil's first album for Elektra, 1964's Tear Down the Walls, had established him as a folk-blues troubadour unmatched...
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