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‘One of the top San Francisco bluesrockers during the late 60s’ – www.allmusic.com Awesome San Francisco psych / blues Finally available on CD Two-disc set Includes background notes / rare photos The Steve Miller Band are one of themost legendary of all the acts thatflourished in late 1960s San Francisco.Recorded at the city’s legendaryCarousel Ballroom at the […]
THE FULL 1986 SYDNEY BROADCAST ACROSS 2 x CDS Bob Dylan and Tom Petty were just three weeks into their 1986 True Confessions world tour when they brought in a professional camera crew to film a two-night stand at Sydney, Australia’s Entertainment Centre. Dylan had made the mistake of chronicling a tour too early […]
Elvin Bishop is an icon of blues and Southern Rock with a 50-year performing career and thousands of devoted fans. He was a founding member of the seminal Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and later a member of Capricorn Records’ stable of Southern Rock masters, writing and performing the Top 10 hit “Fooled Around And […]
We are told ….. Private hard-rock ultra-rarity from Texas exhumed for the first time. With only 200 copies released in 1975, the “Stud” album has become a holy grail for collectors. A mystery for many years (all the band members used pseudonyms on the album credits), many people failed to track the band […]
Previously published here and elsewhere As Teodora Gheorghiu prepares to sing in Der Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne, she tells Rupert Christiansen how she overcame an illness that threatened her career. It may only be something they put in the water, but over the last century or so Romania has produced an extraordinary succession of velvety lyric […]
Dave Simpson writes: In the early days of Motown, it felt as if all the girl groups were having hits apart from us. The Marvelettes had Please Mr Postman; Martha and the Vandellas had Dancing in the Street. We were playing shows and people were going crazy, but in the office we were beginning to […]
ALEX JOHNSTON … Stanley Crouch loathed most post-WW2 popular music, but he regarded jazz as a sort of classical music which was expressive of the dignity of African-Americans. But he thought that it did so only as long as it sounded a certain way, i.e. like bop or post-bop jazz played on acoustic instruments. So […]
From the first time Walter Trout, as a tormented teenager, heard the haunting guitar playing of Mike Bloomfield he instinctively knew the blues was his calling. 2014 marks the year that Trout looks back at an almost 50-year commitment to playing and singing the blues. The songs on “The Blues Came Callin’” reflect Walter’s thoughts […]
“An intimate portrait of five key years in David Bowie’s career. Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved, from Ziggy Stardust to the soul star of Young Americans and the ‘Thin White Duke’. It explores his regeneration in Berlin with the critically-acclaimed album Heroes, his triumph […]
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A beginner’s guide to some of the finest Rubinstein recordings currently available Continues HERE
John Hartford, Joni Mitchell and Pete Seeger live on KCOP-TV’s Special ‘Gentle On My Mind’ in Los Angeles on Ocober 18, 1970. On October 18, 1970, John Hartford, Joni Mitchell, and Pete Seeger shared the stage for TV Special ‘Gentle On My Mind’, broadcast on KCOP-TV in Los Angeles. The twelve tracks on this CD include five […]
There is a very funny scene in The Sopranos when the family get into an argument over whether Herman Melville’s Billy Budd is a gay novel. Carmela, who has seen the 1962 movie version with Terence Stamp, claims it’s “the story of an innocent sailor being picked on by a cruel boss”. But her daughter […]
The sound is tremendous in the big choruses in this recording of Mendelssohn’s epic Old Testament oratorio, Eliijah, conducted by Paul McCreesh, writes Geoffrey Norris. MORE
Tell a false fact or a mistruth enough times and people will believe it to be accurate. I wonder if the same thing applies to music and its reproduction. Could it be that with enough repetition the hyper-compressed music of acts like Kanye West and Diddy is how music is supposed to sound? What happens when enough […]
Dave Thomas writes: A 3 disc set. 82 tracks in all. No information other than track listings on my copy – but with a beautiful wood-cut of Lightning on the paper slip-case. (£7.99 from Amazon) Playing these CDs I realised that I’d first heard some of these tracks fifty years ago on the LP […]