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Archive for the '1970s' Category
10th September, 2009 | 22 views
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Don’t know anything about this artist, heard this track being played on a Sunday afternoon at The Vibe Bar a few years back. I had to don my anorak and ask the DJ what it was and remembered to put a note in my phone before I forgot, then acquired a copy online by the power of the internets. Funky blues rock, appears to be fairly sought after in it’s original seven-inch release but is also available on this compilation collated by the nice folks at Harmless, who have released some educational selections of music over the years. It’s the kind of music that would follow you stumbling out of a bar on a hot muggy moonlit night somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line, brain soaked in bourbon.
8th September, 2009 | 109 views
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Massive selling album in the seventies but apart from the hit singles taken from it, you have this dreamy piece of post-psychedelia progressive rock. Sounds like something that Steve Hackett would have composed at the beginning of his solo career but without the overt mystical references to wizards, princesses etc. Instead it reflects the mellow vibe of the West Coast rather than the Old World of the United Kingdom.
31st July, 2009 | 27 views
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Bluesy funk-rock from a band that contained Tom Fogerty, ex-guitarist of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Track that swaggers along with the occasional stab of what sounds like a vocoder. Best suited to being played live in a suburban pub populated by leather-clad bikers… maybe.
14th May, 2009 | 26 views
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Trippy Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry production during the same rich period where he produced The Heptones (see this blog post) and enhanced perfectly by the plaintive falsetto of Junior Murvin. A phat 12″ vinyl pressing that begs to be played loud on as big a system as one can muster, so as to get lost in the subtle nuances of Perry’s production techniques.
11th May, 2009 | 31 views
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The song originally a hit for Ray Charles (written by Percy Mayfield) but reggae-fied by Big Youth, with his deejay delivery.
