This week, in issue 11, I offer you eight recent releases for review, splitting the content between vinyl and CDs ON CD GLENN HUGHES Title: The Official Bootleg Box Set Volume…
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Blues Review CD Country/Bluegrass Review Jazz & Easy Review Rock Review Singer-Songwriter Review Vinyl
VINYL & CD REVIEW ROUND-UP #8
This week, in issue 8, I offer you eight recent releases for review, splitting the content mostly into vinyl with two CDs tagged on the end SHEILA & B.DEVOTION Title: King…
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Blues Review CD Electronica/Electro Review Jazz & Easy Review Rock Review Vinyl
CD/VINYL REVIEW ROUND-UP #6
This week, in issue 6, I offer you eight recent releases for review, splitting the content into CD and Vinyl ON CD JON BALKE Title: Discourses Label: ECM A bloke and…
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Blues Review CD Electronica/Electro Review Folk Review Hip Hop/Funk Review Jazz & Easy Review Rock Review Singer-Songwriter Review
CD/VINYL REVIEW ROUND-UP #5
This week, in issue 5, I offer you a round dozen of recent releases for review, splitting the content into CD and Vinyl ON CD WINTER DANCE PARTY 1959 #2…
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Blues Review CD Electronica/Electro Review Hip Hop/Funk Review Jazz & Easy Review Rock Review Singer-Songwriter Review Vinyl
CD/Vinyl Review Round-Up #3
This week, in issue 3, I offer you a round dozen of recent releases for review, splitting the content into CD and Vinyl For your delectation, this week… ON VINYL TIMO…
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Title: The Josh White Stories Vols: I & II Label: Jasmine He sang a combination of blues and folk but he was also part of the New York scene populated by…
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Title: Before the Beginning, Vol.1: Live 1968 Label: We Are Vinyl This is the first of – I assume – two proposed sets that mirror the earlier CD releases of the…
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Title: Crossroads Revisited: Selection From the Crossroads Guitar Festivals Label: Rhino Eric Clapton runs a charity organisation, based in Antigua, in the West Indies. Founded to run and maintain a rehabilitation…
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Title: Boomer’s Story Label: Music On Vinyl “Rock as it is known today just doesn’t interest me at all,” said Ry Cooder to The Guardian in 2011. “I hate commercial music.…
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Title: Volumes 1 & 2 Label: Third Man Until Third Man drew my attention to it, the Ann Arbor festival had completely past me by. It took place across 1-3 August,…
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Title: Gonna Make it Alone Label: Atomicat If there is one organisation to take advantage of a fad, fashion or, indeed, controversy then its a record label. They’ve been doing it…
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Title: Best Of Label: Angel Air Scotland-spawned Stone the Crows had everything going from them but luck. They were talented, well known and respected but never received the success they deserved.…
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Title: The Rhythm, The Blues, The Hot Guitar Label: Koko Mojo Koko what? Koko Mojo is a ‘division’ of Rockstar Records and Rockstar Records, which was originally founded in 1979, became…
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Title: American Primitive Guitar & Banjo 1963-1974 Label: Craft A very long name for a rather long, yet wonderfully conceived compilation of guitar picking and more with a targeted style and…
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Title: Live at the BBC 1970-1978 Label: Repertoire Formed in Stafford, England in 1968: the Midlands Delta as the band would have it, CBB were initially signed to Parlophone who were…
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Title: Live Album Label: Repertoire This UK outfit includes ex-Manfred Mann vocalist Paul Jones and Dave Kelly – who has been releasing music for decades – including the John Drummer Band. The album…
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Title: The Atco Albums Collection Label: Atco It’s amazing that this man had been active in the music business since the late 50s but he really didn’t become generally known until…
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Title: The Joanna Conner Band Label: M.C Records A blues guitar player and one of some skill too. She also sings and her voice is decent but I would draw the…
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Title: You’re Gonna Miss Me Label: Jasmine This collection of 30 tracks is subtitled, The Complete Singles Collection As & Bs 1951-1958. Guitar Slim (it sounded better than Eddie Jones, his…
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Title: Like Never Before/Dancing the Blues Label: Floating World An important blues singer and multi-instrumentalist who has done a lot to retain and grow the popularity in the blues genre over…
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Title: On My Merry Way: The Earliest Sessions of the Guitar King 1954-1962 Label: Jasmine A critical influence on all guitar-toting artists interested in both blues and rock. You ask Eric…
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Title: The Chicago Super Blues Revisited Label: Jasmine The Super Blues record releases were basically two session albums from the late 60s via the Chess label. The first, from 1968, featuring…
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Title: Lightnin’ Hopkins Label: Vinyl Lovers This LP has already been issued by Smithsonian/Folkways and was called The Roots of Lightnin’ Hopkins. Recorded back in 1959, this LP was one of…
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Title: The Complete Aladdin/Peacock Singles As & Bs 1947-1961 Label: Jasmine Many would listen to Brown’s music and think, “Ah, yes, the blues,” but Brown himself wasn’t keen on being tagged…
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Title: Midnight Special Label: Soul Jam This CD collection features iconic songs that would influence a host of talented musicians from The Beatles to Johnny Cash and from Pete Seeger himself…
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Title: Blues Hit Big Town Label: Delmark An incredible collection of important Chicago blues tracks, recorded in 1953 (Side A) and 1954 (Side B) from Wells which also features the likes…