This week, in issue 4, I offer you a round baker’s dozen of recent releases for review, splitting the content into CD and Vinyl ON VINYL SUPERCAR Title: Original Television Soundtrack …
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…
Last week I offered you a dozen or more pieces of vinyl for review. This time I’m mixing it up a little, splitting the content into CD and vinyl For your…
Title: Coat of Arms Label: SPV No, this is not another review of a classic album from the band’s catalogue this is, wait for it, a new album! In fact, the…
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…
Title: Justified Man, The Studio Albums 1995-2003 Label: Purple Records You might know Glenn Hughes for his time with the rock outfit, Deep Purple (from 1973 to 1976), Black Sabbath, Trapeze (for…
Title: Perhaps Label: Cherry Red Billy Mackenzie and Alan Rankine, straight from Edinburgh, Scotland, managed to pull it off. They managed to produce a creative entity that was, in my eyes…
He should have been a big star, says Paul Rigby, but Jack Scott’s music career perfectly followed the ups and downs of the pop music business of the time. Jack Scott…
Title: Halloween 73 Label: Zappa Records OK, I’m a little late on the Halloween thing but I just had to include this collection.. It includes two complete Halloween shows recorded on…
Title: From a Page/In The Present Live From Lyon Label: Yes 97 LLC Not the current line up, I have to say, this box set of three CDs actually includes Chris…
Title: Dan Reed Network/Slam Label: Mercury For this funk-rock outfit, both the debut self-titled album and the second album, Slam (produced by Nile Rodgers, no less), have now been reissued with…
All of the band’s albums have been offered love and attention from Abbey Road and are here in full, including Outlandos D’Amour (1978), Reggatta de Blanc (1979), Zenyatta Mondatta (1980), Ghost…
Title: The Collection Label: Floating World Goodness, this man had a tough life. It’s all there, abandoned by his parents when he was no age at all, having to work instead…
Title: Kent-Modern’s Black Music Legacy 1963-1972 Label: Kent This label was situated in 5810 South Normandie in Los Angeles, next to the clubs of South Central Los Angeles and not far…
Title: Bayswater Beat Girls 1964-1967 Label: Ace In Live It Up!, we’re looking at a compilation of British girl singers here but not any old British girl singers. This collection of 25…
Title: Live in Concert 1987 Label: Esoteric Building a Bridge to Your Heart, anyone? With that classic false count-in? A big, 1987 hit for this outfit. Not so much a supergroup…
A range of CD box sets are reviewed by Paul Rigby including those from Darts, America, Renaissance, Marty Wilde and Samson plus a compilation of movie themes… The related packaging design…
Title: Human’s Lib/Dream into Action Label: Cherry Red I’ve been watching a few recorded vintage episodes of Top of the Pops via BBC TV’s BBC Four. The time is the mid-80s…
Title: Just For A Moment: Music 1973-1997 Label: UMC Ronnie Lane may best be known for being the bass player, songwriter and occasional vocalist for the Small Faces and the Faces.…
Title: Deadlines Label: Esoteric The Strawbs were a strange group – which was an immediate attraction to many future fans. They emerged from a folkie tradition, more bluegrass to be honest,…
Title: Quivers Down the Backbone Label: Jasmine When your name is Fred Heath and you run a band called the Five Nutters, then you could be forgiven for thinking that that…
Title: Live at the Witch Trials/Dragnet Label: Cherry Red/Fall Sound Archive The Fall Sound Archive has been launched and, to celebrate the fact, the first two albums from the group form…
Title: Breaking Up is Hard To Do Label: Jasmine A multi-talented guy, you can’t deny it. He sang, he played piano, he wrote songs for himself and for others and he…
Title: In A Wild Sanctuary/Gandharva/All Good Men Label: Righteous Krause was a former manager of the Weavers folk group and producer at Elektra, he teamed up with Beaver who was a…
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…
Title: 60 Juvenile Delinquent Wrecks Label: RPM What a little treasure trove of Droogs we have here. As the subtitle says this is a selection of Rock’n’Glam (and a Flavour of Bubblegum)…