tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91017790630799144612024-03-21T18:17:53.818-07:00There's Something About 1970...Welcome to Mark Barry's Review Site for quality CD Reissues and Exceptional Remasters. This Blog String deals with 1970...(see also separate string for 1971 reissues)...
Genres include Rock and Pop, Soul, Funk and Jazz Fusion, Blues, Rhythm 'n' Blues, Doo Wop and Vocal Groups, Prog, Psych, Reggae, Punk/Garage and New Wave. I also extensively review Blu Ray issues for Modern and Classic Movies.
Rants, Raves and High Geekery...Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.comBlogger229125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-2754442748372784332022-01-24T04:20:00.000-08:002022-01-24T04:20:05.809-08:00"On Track...STATUS QUO: The Frantic Four Years" by RICHARD JAMES - 1968 to 1984 Studio Album and Single Reviews (December 2021 UK Sonicbond Publishing Paperback Book) - A Review by Mark Barry... <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYUAd9420w3X9ijbv8gLyZtgzYeNvLSe0V714RkY0ff8B5T-KIAW0B-MgoMAlg8E_xKxjkVF9Kf4MpyOpPPL5BT_eBl9hi6sXu1ri9kMCt2GTbkUq-SpBRooR6jKrU0vUovhQPnkzTXzDr5SPQUq8MlfSotbcAepq3Y3LLoPkqQigWZMAp2jsfVp-S=s2748" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2748" data-original-width="2223" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYUAd9420w3X9ijbv8gLyZtgzYeNvLSe0V714RkY0ff8B5T-KIAW0B-MgoMAlg8E_xKxjkVF9Kf4MpyOpPPL5BT_eBl9hi6sXu1ri9kMCt2GTbkUq-SpBRooR6jKrU0vUovhQPnkzTXzDr5SPQUq8MlfSotbcAepq3Y3LLoPkqQigWZMAp2jsfVp-S=w324-h400" width="324" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRRAnVB2YmjwKvyjmejwuj_6ebGNe4Rw43xsR04tPuATPJb0fec5ih-ngAPyUNJs1PNT8VmoC3PX19g5MQi3qxs402_Gsyq5VjfFIih8yYqKE2ioPloiv8BxR3qItu4Fjp7rKquZsx8XW2Y9cEAtz1hwQNU8L7VdvfzhtODAZ-0wcYugxCH2NGNygh=s2448" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2136" data-original-width="2448" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRRAnVB2YmjwKvyjmejwuj_6ebGNe4Rw43xsR04tPuATPJb0fec5ih-ngAPyUNJs1PNT8VmoC3PX19g5MQi3qxs402_Gsyq5VjfFIih8yYqKE2ioPloiv8BxR3qItu4Fjp7rKquZsx8XW2Y9cEAtz1hwQNU8L7VdvfzhtODAZ-0wcYugxCH2NGNygh=w400-h349" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlah36a2xy-mN7fJVr3F8PmTXNScLIfqPhpkjheZfgqxD556CXAqPi3liXYWHajV57H7_WD9sAEd_v2VSVCoQvncE3ZOonHumG9-Q3PGIYH4pJxK_bkfgA8HX1o0GOA2-KSJs8BuxX7_vDhFQHUzO5nKnUpb_gtuVCCAxWACrrX7-Fne21epvK4hk7=s2641" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2641" data-original-width="2075" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlah36a2xy-mN7fJVr3F8PmTXNScLIfqPhpkjheZfgqxD556CXAqPi3liXYWHajV57H7_WD9sAEd_v2VSVCoQvncE3ZOonHumG9-Q3PGIYH4pJxK_bkfgA8HX1o0GOA2-KSJs8BuxX7_vDhFQHUzO5nKnUpb_gtuVCCAxWACrrX7-Fne21epvK4hk7=w314-h400" width="314" /></a></div><iframe
style="width:120px;height:240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=1789521602&asins=1789521602&linkId=861abe6dc5bd9874d31b87086df8c6ac&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true"></iframe><br /> </span></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"...Whatever You
Want..." <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The problem with fans is
that they're fans. And if you're an old mucksavage like me (soon to be a
pensioner with a hairstyle that should know better) - you look back on really
great Seventies Rock Bands with such rose-tinted hues that it's hard to separate
out the Weetabix from the Crapabites. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I've enjoyed the Led
Zeppelin and Electric Light Orchestra books in this on-going "On
Track..." series from <i>Sonicbond Publishing of the UK</i> precisely because
they've been written by people who love and know their chosen poison and can
relay that with good writing. These books also dig in where it matters – the
actual songs, the albums, the music – even if that critique is not all milk and
cookies. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Richard James is the same
when it comes to the England's Mighty Status Quo. But James' problem is that
he's honest about the song-quality of their output after the March 1977
"Live" Double (which defined them like Lizzy's stunning "Live
And Dangerous" did in 1978) - it went downhill or even off a cliff edge. Truth
is that most of us Punk/New Wave embracers had moved on and would never come
back. Also, because this paperback series concentrates on 'studio' sets, the
"Live" double of March 1977 that went to No. 3 in the UK LP charts is
'not' reviewed here. That alone kind of negates their impact in their natural
arena - a place they were king. With Quo, it was always about how good they
were on stage (saw them in Dublin - fabulous stuff) when all that riffage came
to life. So the book loses out a little on that. Let's get to what is good... </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I suspect like most
Seventies Quo fans, I'm a "Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon" starter in 1970
with crackers like "Shy Fly", "Junior's Wailing" and the
cool chugging boogie single "In My Chair" through to 1976's "Blue
For You" with the full length album version of "Mystery Song".
What a tune - a rocker that like the best of 1976 and 1977 Thin Lizzy - it
could awaken a dead man and make a preacher lay his good book on the pew for a
moment and get, well, "Down Down - Deeper And Down". </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Across the 142 A5-pages of
this 31 December 2021 paperback (published 25 February 2022 in the USA) -
<b>"On Track... STATUS QUO: The Frantic Four Years" by RICHARD JAMES
</b>also supplies 16-pages of colour photos. There are period live shots from each
of their decades (including the reunion tour), Album Sleeves, the four
principal culprits - Francis Rossi (Lead Guitar), Rick Parfitt (Lead Guitar),
Alan Lancaster (Bass) and John Coghlan (Drums) with their two long-time song
collaborators and part-time/full-time fifth and sixth band members - Bob Young
(Harmonica) and Andy Bown (Keyboards). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I loved albums like 1971's
"Dog of Two Head" on Pye Records with classics like
"Gerdundula" and "Railroad" through to 1972's Vertigo
Records debut LP "Piledriver" with that great attacking stance cover
and tunes like "Don't Waste My Time", their blistering cover version
of The Doors "Roadhouse Blues" and sleepers like "O Baby"
and the slow blues of "Unspoken Words". Worst sleeve design in the
world didn't stop 1973's "Hello" going to No. 1 - something that
1975's "On The Level" did followed by 1976's Levi-Jeans covered
"Blue For You" (were you a Wranglers kid or a Levis one?). In fact if
you look in the Guinness Book of Chart Hits - the three-chord wonder boys have
clocked up a huge page and half of entries from 1968 to the present day - over
50 years of defying their detractors. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">James is aware that Status
Quo and their same-song rawk elicits ridicule in some circles, but is smart
enough to dismiss that as unwarranted snobbery and instead concentrates on the
tunes within those confines. He will rightly highlight for instance
"Lonely Man" on 1974's "Quo", "Long Legged Linda"
on 1978's "If You Can't Stand The Heat" and even find something in
"Ol' Rag Blues" on the piddle poor "Back To Back" album of
1983. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Changes in musical
direction, the relentless grind of touring demands and a copious amount of
chemical intake eventually took its toll and they imploded after poor albums
like "Never Too Late" and "1.9.8.2." - a record with even
worse artwork than "Hello". His track-analysis ends at their
workmanlike cover version of that Dion & The Belmonts classic "The
Wanderer" in 1984. Quo reformed in 1986 and a variant of that old school
sound/band existed until 'The Frantic Four's Final Fling Tour' in 2014.
Frontman and all-round handsome guy Richard Parfitt sadly left us Christmas
2016 and Bassist Lancaster passed in 2021 (then living in Australia). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Status Quo have sold over
110-million records (probably three times that if truth be told when it comes to
used vinyl), been inducted into all manner of Halls of Fame – Rossi and Parfitt
were given the Royal OBE nod for Contributions to Music and Charitable Work and
the band was the perfect raucous act to open the monumental 'Live Aid' Concert
in July 1985 with John Fogerty's "Rockin' All Over The World". That
show reminded everybody of what they had missed and gave the group a whole new
lease of life. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Status Quo are held in
affection for a reason and it's nice for old codgers like me to read
track-by-track reminiscences of those songs we tapped feet to - those gorgeous
Vertigo Records gatefold sleeves we held under our arms with pride. It isn't
perfect, but then neither were they!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Time for me to get my head
down, push aside the Zimmer Frame and give it some boogie with a tennis-racket.
God bless ye boys and Rock In Peace...</span></span></div>Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-24826998597961946042022-01-20T01:02:00.001-08:002022-01-20T01:02:54.858-08:00"Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971" by THE BEACH BOYS – August 1970 US LP "Sunflower" and August 1971 US LP "Surf's Up" and 34 Unreleased Tracks (27 August 2021 UK/EU UME/Capitol/Brother 2CD Compilation of New Remasters – Mark Linnett and Alan Boyd Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry... <div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSTyfbDBzGX3OlBhNMxbbHAojX5_G0Lqh8VhKU-i6xil6S4hAKccOuazUSmwfE_KOOPQZDJ8g9dZCPrfFzizyqcXXpvRHe6LTPpqisWmZf-eqchh-RiOgljXZR3-_WU7aHqfzw43b4UrdG0Cj3iA7Mn21GkClCj_LEVWynfH_FnKYmLJI7JsSapaGC=s2402" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2039" data-original-width="2402" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSTyfbDBzGX3OlBhNMxbbHAojX5_G0Lqh8VhKU-i6xil6S4hAKccOuazUSmwfE_KOOPQZDJ8g9dZCPrfFzizyqcXXpvRHe6LTPpqisWmZf-eqchh-RiOgljXZR3-_WU7aHqfzw43b4UrdG0Cj3iA7Mn21GkClCj_LEVWynfH_FnKYmLJI7JsSapaGC=w400-h340" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRC60uGKBqlwF3TuWcos6n1lc22J-2iTB3pXHpSNwgi5j0HnLZVaJum6zXa8JAO8iPUugTXZVxFJM8Fh5jW887fpQOfHmWkTzPC8_Pep5TJ6Sje_5KpddKoUt9GaBZdYQzalw2iileBbViWeeXFm-ppLGJFEqTLWRspO8bETQAwN0AnpWbpnr0vyY8=s2448" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1285" data-original-width="2448" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRC60uGKBqlwF3TuWcos6n1lc22J-2iTB3pXHpSNwgi5j0HnLZVaJum6zXa8JAO8iPUugTXZVxFJM8Fh5jW887fpQOfHmWkTzPC8_Pep5TJ6Sje_5KpddKoUt9GaBZdYQzalw2iileBbViWeeXFm-ppLGJFEqTLWRspO8bETQAwN0AnpWbpnr0vyY8=w400-h210" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG9IwpU9v-JIWzyya-kIhXpvmrVeHyl4IJTh_fX2f1dVhQss7DW0b5YXmj8rd7vZ_sEs-Y97Atpau-SVziZVoZaIVJxMo_4EK6IZqUp18Uod-Uc4GrphOko8qC1QXy_CyXO80SHrzUkBCfqolhgxfVWldmYmzQy7ERhlWHyFPV-WIaDDFuszHWJw9t=s2426" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1309" data-original-width="2426" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG9IwpU9v-JIWzyya-kIhXpvmrVeHyl4IJTh_fX2f1dVhQss7DW0b5YXmj8rd7vZ_sEs-Y97Atpau-SVziZVoZaIVJxMo_4EK6IZqUp18Uod-Uc4GrphOko8qC1QXy_CyXO80SHrzUkBCfqolhgxfVWldmYmzQy7ERhlWHyFPV-WIaDDFuszHWJw9t=w400-h216" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUgDTR_GV9fbKsUN7Yni28GknU3N01q6IHdEWn53xPoYuHLNV_GoP6d3Hxt6Pta4YKxPu-5ZYcQLfs2fKrhs4mGT7Gzqo8088eGXeLJJco98HPLzbgNxExAjuKPkTTfgbdrqXCnUqOGyKpF9nFwcFpBBWGxktqHn4c6cmxlbD4mZEdGIDvagN0_d9F=s2423" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1252" data-original-width="2423" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUgDTR_GV9fbKsUN7Yni28GknU3N01q6IHdEWn53xPoYuHLNV_GoP6d3Hxt6Pta4YKxPu-5ZYcQLfs2fKrhs4mGT7Gzqo8088eGXeLJJco98HPLzbgNxExAjuKPkTTfgbdrqXCnUqOGyKpF9nFwcFpBBWGxktqHn4c6cmxlbD4mZEdGIDvagN0_d9F=w400-h206" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikQC2ZjkCyu__2jgcE87dy_uMEC3bh11R9ibhRgTjw9f68i-0qcnCFrQbj0ouyEN_sel1Dg6Ec4lwNYFuhix0i_w7e2q9vDU9hjIL9635LvRjpUiuFNz0bKvETrDFmcFZMIoGGa7UMHjhxs6zMNWnb6pB6kyDVpSwqj8ZFT2oahcl9GsDRIgy4Fw67=s2585" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2585" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikQC2ZjkCyu__2jgcE87dy_uMEC3bh11R9ibhRgTjw9f68i-0qcnCFrQbj0ouyEN_sel1Dg6Ec4lwNYFuhix0i_w7e2q9vDU9hjIL9635LvRjpUiuFNz0bKvETrDFmcFZMIoGGa7UMHjhxs6zMNWnb6pB6kyDVpSwqj8ZFT2oahcl9GsDRIgy4Fw67=w379-h400" width="379" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqQYLTRz6eruvYMdWi2zmpVUsqFCoLmM4BeKWVfSdZeEk5Z2pcGI7Lx9hLV16ZhQbyBgf_d4nA8zosh9MOM7uATzRs2rKv1kqpn-AzkFWM2sIx6IYZPT8FILMQSxY-LtZkr9xuI7dKRRiAd1MoFZZcYsLOzj4fXcd4URWsjvd7PHbI4VA7XHUyNnSz=s2448" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2243" data-original-width="2448" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqQYLTRz6eruvYMdWi2zmpVUsqFCoLmM4BeKWVfSdZeEk5Z2pcGI7Lx9hLV16ZhQbyBgf_d4nA8zosh9MOM7uATzRs2rKv1kqpn-AzkFWM2sIx6IYZPT8FILMQSxY-LtZkr9xuI7dKRRiAd1MoFZZcYsLOzj4fXcd4URWsjvd7PHbI4VA7XHUyNnSz=w400-h366" width="400" /></a></div></span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">This Review and 315 More Like It </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Are Available in my e-Book...</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><b><span>ALL THINGS MUST PASS</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span>1970</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Your All-Genres Guide To</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Exceptional CD Reissues and Remasters </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Classic Albums, 45-Singles, Compilations </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">ALL GENRES <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Over 2,300 E-Pages of Reviews from the discs themselves</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">(No Cut and Paste Crap) <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe
style="width:120px;height:240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B01MZYC9BR&asins=B01MZYC9BR&linkId=5c474c0c30ed5b9ad0db0d280d9cb30f&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true"></iframe></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"...Touching Your
Heart..."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Although
it's now over 21 years ago, most Beach Boys fans who wanted these cool early
70ts albums plumbed for the Capitol/Brother Reissue that Remastered both LPs
onto 1CD released back in July 2000 in the USA (August 2000 in the UK). I've
had that 70:22 minutes and its chunky 22-page booklet in pride of 'B' place on
my shelves for over two decades now as I say. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So
even with the promise of 56-Tracks across 2CDs as stated on the shrink-wrap
sticker - 34 of which are unreleased - I have to admit (and to my amazement),
that I'm a tad underwhelmed by this new 2021 "Feel Flows: The Sunflower
& Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971" compilation. I should explain why. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
103-Track 5CD Super Deluxe Box Set (also issued 27 August 2021) is a beast and
a true beauty - book to die for etc. Unfortunately, the standard issue (which
I’m reviewing) or just plain 'Deluxe Version' as some are calling it - is no
such thing. You get a rather crappy gatefold card sleeve with a 20-page booklet
in one of the two slots. The first half is taken up with just listing the
tracks, while the remainder of that lesser booklet sports new liner notes from
Original/Subsequent Engineers and Producers ALAN BOYD and MARK LINNETT on the
new transfers and tape library discoveries (Linnet has a 30-year association
with The Beach Boys and was behind "The Smile Sessions" "Pet
Sounds" etc - is also a 3-times Grammy Winner). There is some discography
material on the inner gatefold by HOWIE EDELSEN and a potted history of the period
- especially their absence from the charts for nearly three years (something
they dominated with ease for nearly all of the 60ts). But in truth - visually,
when the wrap is off, this 2CD set feels and looks wimpy compared to its
predecessor of two decades back. Still, there is at least the music, new and
old, and all of it sparkling like never before. To the boards...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">UK
released 27 August 2021 - <b>"Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up
Sessions 1969-1971" by THE BEACH BOYS on UME/Capitol/Brother
00602508790584 (Barcode 602508790584) is a 56-Track 2CD Compilation that offers
both the 1970 Album "Sunflower" with 18 Previously Unreleased Bonus
Tracks and the 1971 Album "Surf's Up" with 16 Previously Unreleased
Bonus Tracks</b>. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Album Remasters are New 2019 Versions and the CDs play out as
follows: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Disc
One</b> (78:32 minutes):</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">SUNFLOWER
Original Album (2019 Remaster)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1.
Slip On Through</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2.
This Whole World </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3.
Add Some Music To Your Day </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4.
Got To Know The Woman </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">5.
Deirdre</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">6.
It's About Time </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">7.
Tears In The Morning [Side 2]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">8.
All I Wanna Do </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">9.
Forever </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">10.
Our Sweet Love </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">11.
At My Window </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">12.
Cool, Cool Water </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tracks
1 to 12 are the album <i>"Sunflower" </i>- released 31 August 1970 in the
USA on Brother Records/Reprise RS 6382 and November 1970 in the UK on Stateside
SSL 8251. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">SUNFLOWER
Bonus Tracks (Previously Unreleased):</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">13.
Loop De Loop (1969 Mix) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">14.
San Miguel (2020 Mix)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">15.
Susie Cincinnati (2020 Mix) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">16.
Good Time (2019 Mix) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">17.
I Just Got My Pay (2019 Mix)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">18.
Two Can Play (2019 Mix) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">19.
I'm Goin' Your Way (Alternate Mix) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">20.
Where Is She (2019 Mix)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">21.
Break Away (Backing Vocals Excerpt)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">22.
Our Sweet Love (String Section) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">23.
This Whole World (Alternate Ending) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">24.
Soulful Old Man Sunshine (2019 Mix)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">25.
All I Wanna Do (a Cappella)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">26.
Back Home (Alternate Version)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">27.
When Girls Get Together (2019 Mix) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">28.
Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) (2012 Stereo Mix)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">29.
This Whole World (Live 1988) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">30.
Sunflower Promo 1</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNSqkGpmbv0sq5nYjaMebkHO62opiBWYmuDktVgolgs_rKKTBRJ8UJFHKjcvtPE-IxjCKGHZzUb7RS1FPqEPAZPKUjvUBEEal2Fi6qJY9kQRsb2BfqHt-1eSVgzmYWUwxw5-4gu7sRy0cSprjq4lCawBQq54Sk_FfGVfLToDuE3L2XBavy1oPpzE5u=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1016" data-original-width="1024" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNSqkGpmbv0sq5nYjaMebkHO62opiBWYmuDktVgolgs_rKKTBRJ8UJFHKjcvtPE-IxjCKGHZzUb7RS1FPqEPAZPKUjvUBEEal2Fi6qJY9kQRsb2BfqHt-1eSVgzmYWUwxw5-4gu7sRy0cSprjq4lCawBQq54Sk_FfGVfLToDuE3L2XBavy1oPpzE5u=w400-h398" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Disc
Two</b> (78:59 minutes):</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">SURF'S
UP Original Album (2019 Master)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1.
Don't Go Near The Water [Side 1] </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2.
Long Promised Road</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3.
Take A Load Off Your Feet </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4.
Disney Girls (1957)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">5.
Student Demonstration Time </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">6.
Feel Flows [Side 2]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">7.
Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">8.
A Day In The Life Of A Tree </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">9.
'Til I Die </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">10.
Surf's Up </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tracks
1 to 10 are their album <i>"Surf's Up"</i> - released 30 August 1971 in the
USA on Brother/Reprise RS 6453 and November 1971 in the UK on Stateside SSL
10313. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">SURF'S
UP Bonus Tracks (Previously Unreleased):</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">11.
It's A New Day </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">12.
Big Sur </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">13.
(Wouldn't It Be Nice To) Live Again (2019 Mix)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">14.
4th Of July (2019 Mix)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">15.
Lady (Fallin' In Love) (1970 Stereo Mix)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">16.
Behold The Night </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">17.
Medley: All Of My Love/Ecology </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">18.
Sweet And Bitter</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">19.
My Solution </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">20.
Awake </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">21.
Disney Girls (Live 1982)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">22.
Surf's Up (Live 1979)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">23.
You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone (Track & Backing Vocals) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">24.
Feel Flows (Backing Vocals Excerpt)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">25.
Disney Girls (Backing Vocals Excerpt) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">26.
Surf's Up Promo</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpjjBWj3ylwgcdudhIsHrkntWVwf_0EphSyruE1IVYD8mqjJ3YtBb9qBE6tHTJAdL4FkmMjM8cPja-lkaQGz0peDp8_GiDQKk5DjKayy-IZemqCN6mD6wsktR5lHb0lWaAnKbPhM6CclBIpxu1MWdbkzUFVLm2XX4emhNeAcbTEqG7Im5uBKcUdsPR=s820" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpjjBWj3ylwgcdudhIsHrkntWVwf_0EphSyruE1IVYD8mqjJ3YtBb9qBE6tHTJAdL4FkmMjM8cPja-lkaQGz0peDp8_GiDQKk5DjKayy-IZemqCN6mD6wsktR5lHb0lWaAnKbPhM6CclBIpxu1MWdbkzUFVLm2XX4emhNeAcbTEqG7Im5uBKcUdsPR=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
Audio it has to be said is a bit of a mixed blessing - the extra clarity has
brought out quite a bit of that tape hiss behind those layers of vocals and you
can really hear it in-between those musical gaps. But when it does work like on
the gorgeous "Deirdre" or "Disney Girls (1957)", it's so
damn sweet. I suppose you could argue that placing 17-seconds on CD1 and
calling it a 'Previously Unreleased" song ("Break Away") and
following that with a 'push-the-boat-out' one-whole minute of 'String Section'
for "Our Sweet Love" is a bit of a stretch on two fronts. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One
anomaly in the booklet calls Track 17 on CD2 as a Medley with "Happy
Birthday" and "God Only Knows" as the duo of tracks when the
back of the gatefold card sleeve gets its right – it's actually "All Of My
Love" and "Ecology" – and for me it's one of a few unreleased
dazzlers. Takes 1 and 2 of "Sweet And Bitter" with Mike on Lead
Vocals are damn good too while the 3:43 minutes of "My Solution"
complete with spoken and sung lines is just plain Beach Boys bonkers (easy on
the mushrooms lads). The Final Take of the Floyd Tucker song "Awake"
is so pretty (Brian on Lead) – an outtake that will thrill long-term BB fans. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But
there is no doubt that when you re-hear Bruce Johnston's truly lovely
"Tears In The Morning" that ends Side 1 of "Sunflower" that
the band was at that moment swimming in melody and ideas. They were
unfortunately saddled with that 60ts Surfin' Beach Boys image thing that did
for them in the harder-hitting 70ts. I can remember huge numbers of people
discovering these albums in retrospect and being impressed.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
2CD Version of "Feel Flow: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions
1969-1971" is a good reissue for me then, when I was hoping to be hopping
up and down in hysterics. I'll just have to wait for the Big Daddy 'Super
Deluxe Version' to drop in price and in the meantime, take a load off my feet
with this...</span></span></div>Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-23880315207848056422022-01-20T01:00:00.004-08:002022-01-20T01:00:59.309-08:00"Ahead Rings Out/Getting To This: Deluxe Edition" by BLODWYN PIG – July 1969 UK Debut Album on Island Records in Stereo (December 1969 USA on A&M Records with Different Artwork and Tracks on Side 2) and April 1970 UK 2nd Album on Chrysalis Records (June 1970 USA) – Featuring Mick Abrahams [ex Jethro Tull], Jack Lancaster, Andy Pyle and Ron Berg (July 2018 UK Chrysalis 2CD Compilation with Eight Bonus Tracks of New Remasters – Two Previously Unreleased) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGrZ7UpJ-oOxPl06HDeyepZ_5tGNDMl2XG3Zohg3BYGwFhTcbrUb8bmQ07IVBtV7ljBIVZEcNp858JU7F4As_oxDOIICWXg8PHs5OjGXJgSjaJ1k6wt9-AJVV_hGFwr-0Ch6ISpao7b9-Rqurw69cNbAtUhxORDnw2_IjdMiczqYeUvQ5_-x2USKvi=s2361" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="2361" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGrZ7UpJ-oOxPl06HDeyepZ_5tGNDMl2XG3Zohg3BYGwFhTcbrUb8bmQ07IVBtV7ljBIVZEcNp858JU7F4As_oxDOIICWXg8PHs5OjGXJgSjaJ1k6wt9-AJVV_hGFwr-0Ch6ISpao7b9-Rqurw69cNbAtUhxORDnw2_IjdMiczqYeUvQ5_-x2USKvi=w400-h374" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiavP-BMCGd8DiEFChJHCUWedEFnu4YElQ_E4WJVRE0Vt-8tF1DHSJfzoYaxYj0UGvWTSPAohJFms-TC4M8Z91bspnpi6bc5DXm12Mo0TcpbQbBkQVUdbTL7XqkF4m-DxOE6ritDG9OCRsrx2lVS5G1YUxp_JoyNzLB49ZlHWe7CFzz6mB-FGOteyOk=s2441" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2242" data-original-width="2441" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiavP-BMCGd8DiEFChJHCUWedEFnu4YElQ_E4WJVRE0Vt-8tF1DHSJfzoYaxYj0UGvWTSPAohJFms-TC4M8Z91bspnpi6bc5DXm12Mo0TcpbQbBkQVUdbTL7XqkF4m-DxOE6ritDG9OCRsrx2lVS5G1YUxp_JoyNzLB49ZlHWe7CFzz6mB-FGOteyOk=w400-h368" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZHkElcOzQ6JdjkMAIpRI3fblHGzoiuEFnURqw9HGY0ENF-6RlP4M86jJDNsbIwymFkmve0Nc45tGRsdCt66M2q54oPn4i8ComEDf9FlUIjT7Xj_mcERKWK4R8-9uUTXfR_k0NXA9wHeHj616i3qNiUMGiDiBB4c4YHiGNu0hdFPBbrrwdNDhlD0a8=s2437" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="2437" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZHkElcOzQ6JdjkMAIpRI3fblHGzoiuEFnURqw9HGY0ENF-6RlP4M86jJDNsbIwymFkmve0Nc45tGRsdCt66M2q54oPn4i8ComEDf9FlUIjT7Xj_mcERKWK4R8-9uUTXfR_k0NXA9wHeHj616i3qNiUMGiDiBB4c4YHiGNu0hdFPBbrrwdNDhlD0a8=w400-h208" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxKOUZOy1RXU6jmjPdWj9oeVbmDBqdT-0lmRkaHMwCZGsvTRqXYlNYeAtePDBjiMh-XSKrerkb6JYTWJb2avBN-tj_MRC6TthOJtTSx8YhdGc2WeOdkGGpyNmk-2Vo8c2-YUMSgP4i7VK4AszXAvTQGdvTmXB5rr-q-i3h4hIMYYJNgNaOjMuQyHZO=s2448" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1397" data-original-width="2448" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxKOUZOy1RXU6jmjPdWj9oeVbmDBqdT-0lmRkaHMwCZGsvTRqXYlNYeAtePDBjiMh-XSKrerkb6JYTWJb2avBN-tj_MRC6TthOJtTSx8YhdGc2WeOdkGGpyNmk-2Vo8c2-YUMSgP4i7VK4AszXAvTQGdvTmXB5rr-q-i3h4hIMYYJNgNaOjMuQyHZO=w400-h229" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">This Review and 315 More Like It </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Are Available in my e-Book...</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><b><span>ALL THINGS MUST PASS</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span>1970</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Your All-Genres Guide To</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Exceptional CD Reissues and Remasters </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Classic Albums, 45-Singles, Compilations </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">ALL GENRES <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Over 2,350 E-Pages of Reviews from the discs themselves</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">(No Cut and Paste Crap) <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe
style="width:120px;height:240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B01MZYC9BR&asins=B01MZYC9BR&linkId=5c474c0c30ed5b9ad0db0d280d9cb30f&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true"></iframe></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"...The Squirreling Must Go On..."</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe
style="width:120px;height:240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07DX8NV7S&asins=B07DX8NV7S&linkId=d32fa3a73372ac62d8332caafd47926e&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true"></iframe>
<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jethro Tull's first album
"This Was" was released on the now legendary Island label in October
of 1968 with Mick Abrahams on lead guitar. Dissatisfied with the result,
Abrahams left and was replaced by the brilliant Martin Barrie. Abrahams then
roped in Jack Lancaster on Sax, Flute & Violin, Andy Pyle on Bass and Ron
Berg on Drums and formed the delightfully named and much revered <b>BLODWYN PIG
</b>(Abrahams himself handling lead guitar, vocals and all the principal song
writing).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the middle of 1969, they
popped into Morden Studios in Willesden in London and with Producer Andy Johns
(brother of the famous Glyn Johns) promptly produced their much-loved debut
<i>"Ahead Rings Out"</i>, released late July 1969 on Island Records
(December 1969 on A&M Records in the USA with a different Track List on
Side 2 and a slightly altered cover). The "Blods" or The "Pig"
as they're affectionately known over here in Blighty, made only two albums
before Abrahams finally went solo - the second being on the then emerging
Chrysalis Records - <i>"Getting To This"</i>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Which brings by a circuitous
route to this fantastic 2CD firecracker of a compilation from July 2018 that
lumps both their album releases together and throws in 8 Bonus Tracks – 4 to
each CD with 1 track on each disc being Previously Unreleased. There is much
Blodness to squirrel away at, so once more my porky friends to The Pig sporting
a pair of Headphones and The Girl with a Bra made of eyes...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">UK released, Friday 27 July
2018 - <b>"Ahead Rings Out/Getting To This: Deluxe Edition" by BLODWYN PIG on Chrysalis
CRCX 1087 (Barcode 5060516091423) is a 2CD Expanded Edition Compilation of
their first two albums from 1969 ("Ahead Rings Out") and 1970 )"Getting To This") </b>that plays out as follows: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CD1 "Ahead Rings
Out"</b> (58:21 minutes):</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1. It's Only Love [Side 1]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2. Dear Jill </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3. Sing Me A Song That I
Know </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4. The Modern Alchemist </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">5. Up And Coming [Side 2]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">6. Leave It With Me </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">7. Change Song </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">8. Backwash </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">9. Ain't Ya Comin' Home,
Babe?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tracks 1 to 9 are their
debut album <i>"Ahead Rings Out"</i> – released late July 1969 in the UK on
Island Records ILPS 9101 (Stereo Only). Produced by ANDY JOHNS – peaked at No.
9 in the UK and No. 149 in the USA. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The equivalent American
album went out in December 1969 on A&M SP-4210 on their famous Tan label,
but with a different track line up on Side 2. It dropped two of the British LP
tracks in favour of two others. To sequence the US debut LP for "Ahead
Rings Out" from this CD, use the following tracks:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Side 1: It's Only Love (1),
Dear Jill (2), Sing Me A Song That I Know (3), The Modern Alchemist (4)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Side 2: See My Way (3 on
CD2), Summer Day (12), Change Song (7), Backwash (8), Ain't Ya Comin' Home,
Babe? (9)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Note: "See My Way"
was first released in the UK on their 2nd album "Getting To This" in
April 1970 (see CD2)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">BONUS TRACKS: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">10. Sweet Caroline (16 May
1969 UK 45-single on Island WIP 6059, Non-LP B-side of "Dear Jill" –
also their first recording)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">11. Walk On The Water </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">12. Summer Day (Tracks 12
and 11 are the Non-LP A&B-sides of a UK 45-single released September 1969
on Island WIP 6069 – Note running order)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">13. McGregor Muckabout
(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED Outtake)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CD2 "Getting To
This"</b> (54:17 minutes):</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1. Drive Me [Side 1]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2. Variations On Nainos </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3. See My Way </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4. Long Bomb Blues </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">5. The Squirreling Must Go
On </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">6. San Francisco Sketches
[Side 2]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(a) Beach Scape </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(b) Fisherman's Wharf</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(c) Telegraph Hill</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(d) Close The Door, I'm
Falling Out Of The Room</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">7. Worry </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">8. Toys</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">9. To Rassman</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">10. Send Your Son To Die </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tracks 1 to 10 are their
second and last studio album <i>"Getting To This"</i> –released April 1970
in the UK on Chrysalis ILPS 9122 and June 1970 in the USA on A&M SP-4243
(same tracks). Produced by ANDY JOHNS – it peaked at No. 96 on the US Billboard
Rock LP charts.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">BONUS TRACKS: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">11. Same Old Story </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">12. Slow Down </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tracks 11 and 12 are the
A&B-sides of a Non-LP 45-single released 30 January 1970 in the UK on
Chrysalis WIP 6078</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">13. Meanie Mornay (outtake,
first issued June 2006 by EMI on their Remaster of "Ahead Rings Out"-
EMI 357 6852 (Barcode 094635768527))</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">14. One Thing Leads To
Another ("Getting To This" LP Outtake, PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRopW9JnKz5t0NpqIRvpRvmWCigWHgh5IVafFRzhXpEPJBj4hHCOD1MJTCaLh2Hp4uFcbb9U7vbSk0esGLfgvag0iCYO3CvfI-thlo7-RxXY_VYj729JT1W3Uh912Ne9Gs87rMg-kaInv1AUG0MUdEZ_T3eFLfui_Us1xsOJNiojv0PFImOoeXy7Jp=s2420" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1985" data-original-width="2420" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRopW9JnKz5t0NpqIRvpRvmWCigWHgh5IVafFRzhXpEPJBj4hHCOD1MJTCaLh2Hp4uFcbb9U7vbSk0esGLfgvag0iCYO3CvfI-thlo7-RxXY_VYj729JT1W3Uh912Ne9Gs87rMg-kaInv1AUG0MUdEZ_T3eFLfui_Us1xsOJNiojv0PFImOoeXy7Jp=w400-h328" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiivZEXX-JLODujSh4XtBDetTkIUmEOj23lyn3KZ2n6RX2eGLDzU_wZ6tc_q2M_3TdY3p9ttm_dGSQYrUGETgJ2wlSyktqCbeIEYzjmz0bcFJQDMFRD2UZOSbC40LDqYbmB78Ejep7QKhbtEs02-pQ6Kfm7p0heFiOB9Zojjbb3Sep8uJ5mE9yyj5S3=s2448" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1968" data-original-width="2448" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiivZEXX-JLODujSh4XtBDetTkIUmEOj23lyn3KZ2n6RX2eGLDzU_wZ6tc_q2M_3TdY3p9ttm_dGSQYrUGETgJ2wlSyktqCbeIEYzjmz0bcFJQDMFRD2UZOSbC40LDqYbmB78Ejep7QKhbtEs02-pQ6Kfm7p0heFiOB9Zojjbb3Sep8uJ5mE9yyj5S3=w400-h321" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi45dSl9s4MsLyZPH5_4emaNgda3wNcsBW5FB9Iqtc0u6A-NEb9bFsz66_qhD8Gyo2Q5N1M6_dpVPfujooslI8y4LUg3qnRcBskrIo_syQOBV2VnWIHeiUTFje2sjbzj4gEFemMvjlVYMmM3I1Z67Ei-jc3qOMbCD0MVhnPzTW2Hl07MmwpQhizEnap=s2448" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1412" data-original-width="2448" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi45dSl9s4MsLyZPH5_4emaNgda3wNcsBW5FB9Iqtc0u6A-NEb9bFsz66_qhD8Gyo2Q5N1M6_dpVPfujooslI8y4LUg3qnRcBskrIo_syQOBV2VnWIHeiUTFje2sjbzj4gEFemMvjlVYMmM3I1Z67Ei-jc3qOMbCD0MVhnPzTW2Hl07MmwpQhizEnap=w400-h231" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3_dlIxhh7WuaIyEQbc_E1b0vUcGQLrjlO-Dhg3nQuK127ZUkGrdzhIKroCzh5AbEQgx1cYtXTFLR_D22EPYjX049wcynJgQyfuoXsTcsps9-__bQ3V7TjqOqCfbOWspn3D_O7UH1H--jCZS-McPghedvWAJvLzpaP-_Zt76G2uH1OpkSBGSTeOLOa=s2441" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="2441" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3_dlIxhh7WuaIyEQbc_E1b0vUcGQLrjlO-Dhg3nQuK127ZUkGrdzhIKroCzh5AbEQgx1cYtXTFLR_D22EPYjX049wcynJgQyfuoXsTcsps9-__bQ3V7TjqOqCfbOWspn3D_O7UH1H--jCZS-McPghedvWAJvLzpaP-_Zt76G2uH1OpkSBGSTeOLOa=w400-h378" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">PACKAGING: Inside a card wrap with a
four-way fold-out digipak interior, the 2006 booklet of old has been replaced
with a double-sided foldout sheet sporting new 2018 ruminations by Mick
Abrahams – ever witty, humble and very informative (oddly he deals only with
the debut and not the second LP). The UK artwork of the original two albums is
faithfully reproduced across the inner flaps, colour pictures of the band from
the same featured beneath each respective see-through CD tray, track lists on
the flaps etc. But those tasty European picture sleeves of rare 7" singles
in the 2006 issue are gone and there is no mention of the US album with its
different Track list on Side 2 and slightly altered artwork. Each CD has cool
BP logos too – the smoking pig for Ahead and a Draw By Numbers Pig for Getting
- a nice touch. My issue of the 2CD set is a corrected version (some original
copies had track errors). To the reissue and the music... </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 2006 remaster by Peter
Mew was glorious (done at Abbey Road) and it doesn't ever say who Remastered
this version, but again, it has huge sound and clarity without ever being
overbearing - just in your face and rocking like a madman. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If I were to categorize how
they sound, it would be early Tull but with a jazzier feel provided by
Lancaster's superb sax playing. As a gangly teenager in Dublin, I was suckered into
buying the album by the bluesy feel of their initial single "Dear
Jill", but that song doesn't actually reflect what most of the album
sounds like - rocking Tull with a jazz tint. I was a bit disappointed at first,
but on replays their unique sound grew on me - to a point where I wore the
record out - and would replace it sporadically through the years with VG copies
- just to have a copy to play. Further Slow Blues Rock comes in the shape of
"Up And Coming", but mostly the album is defined by Flute, Saxophone
and Guitar – the punchy instrumental "Leave It To Me" sounding so
Tull, while "The Modern Alchemist" goes very Prog in its wild soloing
passages. The hilarious "Leave It To Me" gives us a dialogue in mock
Cockney as our hero dedicates his song to all his mates in Wormwood Scrubs and
his sister in prison too for nicking handbags – but not to worry cause he's a
millionaire now from singing the Blues (the Remaster is clear as a bell). Same
stunning clarity opens the Flute, Acoustic Guitar and Water sounds of the
52-second "Backwash" before the Blods launch into a seriously heavy
piece of Tull-type riffage with "Ain't Ya Comin' Home, Babe?" A great
Rock album and number two is a corker too...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Album two "Getting To
This" opens with "Drive Me" – a Rock and Brass rollicking tune
with a push that gas and put your foot down demand from Abrahams. The audio is
fabulous for this blinding little bit of fun and for those of us who have had
the ancient BGOCD 81 from 1990 as a go-to CD – the full-bodied power of the
Remaster is going to shock. With track 2 "Variations Of Nainos", it's
like we're listening to a different band as we go back to the very Jethro Tull
Flute and Rock rhythm – bloody good though and that slinky Abrahams guitar solo
still thrills and those treated dribbling vocals. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Surely one of the fan faves
has to be "See My Way" which could so easily have been on Tull's
"Stand Up" or the Blods debut "Ahead Rings Out" (both 1969)
– Guitar and Flute giving it some welly and the Remaster lending that guitar
and rapid drums break a real kickass power. I have always longed for "Long
Bomb Blues" to be longer than one minute and eight seconds – this fabulous
acoustic Blues telling a witty tale of cops and beers and a missus giving him a
bunch of fives for being a naughty boy. Side 1 ends with a proper 4:22 minute
Rock whigout instrumental - "The Squirreling Must Go On" roaring out
of your speakers with multiple guitars soloing without apology – fantastic
stuff (even those fading in and out guitar parts towards the end sound more
meaty). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Side 2 of "Getting To
This" opens with a four-parter called "San Francisco Sketches"
penned by Jack Lancaster regaling the band's adventures Stateside. The ocean
washing up on shore with a Flute and Acoustic guitar ushers in "Beach
Scape" (a) only to go into a Bass and Guitar driving rhythm for
"Fisherman's Wharf" (b) – very Tull, very Blodwyn Pig. Adam Pyle
gives us the excellent rocker "Worry" – a stop-your-moaning plea. My
other favourite cut is "Toys" – a co-write between Mick Abrahams and
Andy Pyle – an acoustic hymn to beloved childhood things. The Remaster is
beautiful on this – those slide acoustic pings rattling around your speakers
like a memory you’re fond of. The LP then falls off a rock big time with the
terrible Reggae Rasta pastiche "To Rassman" by Ron Berg – must have
seemed like fun at the time but now sounds decidedly clunky and even mildly
offensive. But all is retrieved with the 4:26 minutes of "Send Your Son To
Die" – the band's conscience disgusted by that war over there far away
that made sense to no-one. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">BONUSES: They made three 45s
in the UK leading off with the Bluesy "Dear Jill" and five of their
Non-LP sides are all here (as listed above). I have always thought they were as
good as the album tracks if not better. Abrahams talks of rehearsing
"Summer Day" backstage at the Isle Of Wight Festival and because it
went down a storm on stage, it was recorded for their 2nd album, but ended up
being a 7" single B-side. "Slow Down" is a Saxophone Rock Out of
a Larry Williams cover version (not unlike John Lennon and his "Rock N'
Roll" album in 1975, the Blods having fun. "Meanie Mornay" - a
fantastic inclusion – first showed as a Bonus Track on the single CD Remaster
for "Ahead Rings Out" in June 2006 (a Peter Mew Remaster). And on top
of that, we get two new outtakes for 2018 – the very silly and dismissible
heavy bonds "McGregor Muckabout" and the far better "One Thing
Leads To Another". </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At a patience-testing 10:31
minutes, "McGregor Muckabout" appears to be the oldest outtake for
the band and one Abrahams jokingly dismisses. One long ramble of voice madness,
think the Goons and Hamish McMad and The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band let loose in a
studio with a late 60ts Rock Band as backup (actually its very funny in places)
and there is no explanation in the new notes accompanying the second. But after
the nonsense of McGregor, "One Thing Leads To Another" is a good one
– a 3:39 minute see all your problems, don't look for trouble tune with clever
guitar mood-changes throughout. I know it isn’t quite there and you can feel
why it was left in the can, but to me, it's shockingly good as well as showing
how inventive the band was in their song constructions. With regard to the
EXTRAS - bluntly (or Blodly as Mick might imbibe), I'd have to say that the
bulk of the bonus tracks are just that - genuine bonuses - and for collectors,
a thrill to hear after all these years languishing in obscurity. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Abrahams made 3 solo albums
immediately after Blodwyn Pig folded - first up was "A Musical Evening
With Mick Abrahams" on Chrysalis Records ILPS 9147, UK released 7 May 1971
(it is often just referred to as "Mick Abrahams" because of the label
while "An Evening With Mick Abrahams" is on the front sleeve). He
followed that solo debut with "At Last" by The Mick Abrahams Band in
1972 on Chrysalis CHR 1005 and finally "Have Fun Learning" The Guitar
With Mick Abrahams" on the privately pressed SRT Productions SRT 73313 in
the spring of 1975 (February/March). "Evening" and "At
Last" are available on CD as are subsequent releases through the years. Of
note to this re-issue is the excellent 2CD mini box set in 2004 which is called
"All Said & Done" where he re-visits several tracks on
"Ahead" with superb rocking results, including the great "Dear
Jill".</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Like Taste's "On The
Boards" (1970), Free's "Fire And Water" (1970) and Fleetwood
Mac's "Then Play On" (1969) - "Ahead Rings Out" is a
classically great Rock album of the period with tints of blues and jazz thrown
in for good measure. I only have to see the cover and I get mushy. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Coupled with the equally
cool "Getting To This" from 1970 and those tasty Bonus Cuts covering
both albums – this is a fab compilation for a band that are remembered with
great affection for a reason...</span></span> <br /></div>Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-4588980888839780072022-01-20T00:59:00.001-08:002022-01-20T00:59:28.634-08:00"Mona Bone Jakon: 2CD Deluxe Edition" by CAT STEVENS – April 1970 UK Third Studio Album (and first) on Island Records (August 1970 USA on A&M Records) – Guests Include Alun Davies on Guitar, Peter Gabriel on Flute, Paul Samwell-Smith on Backing Vocals and Production with Del Newman String Arrangements (December 2020 UK Universal UMC/Cat-O-Log/Island Records 50th Anniversary Reissue 2CD Deluxe Edition with 10 Bonus Tracks – Geoff Pesche Remaster) - A Review by Mark Barry...<p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu9GMi3WNRxuxQd9NO1_PojBoj6JX-XtaDlrN5CbiPuhoLDvY-l0_ZDlqExL-f35vvES_XEl9T6k2Yk77Dr8t48i2UedrmA6ns3sUjTzVmk_tffK7dqQxbbj7HBg6qZ5n1NFcjLMRYKLb2a7xoORH2rrIZkUmrn16MYzpNuXwjXeWHrOJvw2udFe32=s2473" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2473" data-original-width="2422" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu9GMi3WNRxuxQd9NO1_PojBoj6JX-XtaDlrN5CbiPuhoLDvY-l0_ZDlqExL-f35vvES_XEl9T6k2Yk77Dr8t48i2UedrmA6ns3sUjTzVmk_tffK7dqQxbbj7HBg6qZ5n1NFcjLMRYKLb2a7xoORH2rrIZkUmrn16MYzpNuXwjXeWHrOJvw2udFe32=w391-h400" width="391" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ1dF4apdxU5MO6l99vUp4_DoJ9Ekf2sShlWqFR4gUyFo-kkVmAAb9buApwPT9Fy_z6-qrnCSPr5acJQMjv3YUjTQwIszKrA6mPGoFOg_Wi_GNofCM2L-qrmJw0mGQegx7lBpP_O5oZU4aO6mxfPBTbvkaevfW10nxFRMO-ItYkjrM8pnjKjYKGQ9s=s2448" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1698" data-original-width="2448" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ1dF4apdxU5MO6l99vUp4_DoJ9Ekf2sShlWqFR4gUyFo-kkVmAAb9buApwPT9Fy_z6-qrnCSPr5acJQMjv3YUjTQwIszKrA6mPGoFOg_Wi_GNofCM2L-qrmJw0mGQegx7lBpP_O5oZU4aO6mxfPBTbvkaevfW10nxFRMO-ItYkjrM8pnjKjYKGQ9s=w400-h278" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDiyICfPBb4omlBa9TFt0ycvoIoiWsBdedw52J7jGrU0Hji8lK1LhEz0bsGNZJTOM_82Ug4q4wChWegL7M5msnG6ckDBlfZ9PBv2R48zre-MBjt0q4xdVfd9uYScfmc4YemPRXMYTgSVLcPMOk02Hgei3VffuN68J7NNEfj49YWw8YThsfVsOqOSID=s2443" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1578" data-original-width="2443" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDiyICfPBb4omlBa9TFt0ycvoIoiWsBdedw52J7jGrU0Hji8lK1LhEz0bsGNZJTOM_82Ug4q4wChWegL7M5msnG6ckDBlfZ9PBv2R48zre-MBjt0q4xdVfd9uYScfmc4YemPRXMYTgSVLcPMOk02Hgei3VffuN68J7NNEfj49YWw8YThsfVsOqOSID=w400-h259" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7gl7hHXTzjD2S_Pjs0xiw1XECTHDe38hp3FxOn-77-O69ilQm6O5wJtxObLh5MpvGZfINl49PYKXXIoU6bQPjqhpAmyaYInlMkNrWsK5MJ5wKF5lmaBv09vqKI1ZVuwq56uk9sKaPrl9OZOGSjtUOLgjxn2xqE7lnR_uVRPiQ9Ymy2ItDTd3S79sc=s2434" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2373" data-original-width="2434" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7gl7hHXTzjD2S_Pjs0xiw1XECTHDe38hp3FxOn-77-O69ilQm6O5wJtxObLh5MpvGZfINl49PYKXXIoU6bQPjqhpAmyaYInlMkNrWsK5MJ5wKF5lmaBv09vqKI1ZVuwq56uk9sKaPrl9OZOGSjtUOLgjxn2xqE7lnR_uVRPiQ9Ymy2ItDTd3S79sc=w400-h390" width="400" /></a></div></span></span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">This Review and 315 More Like It </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Are Available in my e-Book...</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><b><span>ALL THINGS MUST PASS</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span>1970</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Your All-Genres Guide To</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Exceptional CD Reissues and Remasters </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Classic Albums, 45-Singles, Compilations </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">ALL GENRES <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Over 2,350 E-Pages of Reviews from the discs themselves</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">(No Cut and Paste Crap) <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe
style="width:120px;height:240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B01MZYC9BR&asins=B01MZYC9BR&linkId=5c474c0c30ed5b9ad0db0d280d9cb30f&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true"></iframe></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"...I Think See The Light..."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To date I've purchased two
of these <i>50th Anniversary Reissues</i> - "Mona Bone Jakon" and "Tea
For The Tillerman" - both albums originally issued in 1970. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">They are part
of an ongoing series of reissues entitled <i>The Yusuf / Cat Stevens Cat-O-Log
Collection</i>. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2021 has also seen September 1971's "Teaser And The
Firecat", and 2022 will undoubtedly see September 1972's "Catch Bull
At Four" also get a <i>50th Anniversary</i> makeover, and in multiple formats too. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Only ever available as a
bare-bones single CD remaster from 2000, this is the first time "Mona Bone
Jakon" has been given a proper upgrade (see list of formats below). And
like most purchasers/fans I've loved the fabulous new spangly-clean Geoff
Pesche Remasters (done at Abbey Road in 2020), and the 2CD Hardback Book
Digipaks are certainly presentation lookers. But there are frustrating clunkers
across this 2CD set masquerading as 'Bonuses' and irritating omissions that
really should have been on here (and this is before we get to the initial vs.
now prices of the 'Super Deluxe Box Sets' which started out at £185+ and are
now hard to sell at £78 and £75 respectively). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyway, let's deal with what
we have to celebrate and moan about in equal measure...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">UK released 4 December 2020
- <b>"Mona Bone Jakon: 2CD Deluxe Edition" by CAT STEVENS on
UMC/Cat-O-Log/Island 0602508395260 (Barcode 602508395260) is a 2CD Reissue and
Remaster with 10 Bonus Tracks (on CD2) </b>that plays out as follows:<span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CD1</b> "Mona Bone Jakon,
2020 Remaster" (35:19 minutes):</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1. Lady D'Arbanville [Side
1]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2. Maybe You're Right</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3. Pop Star</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4. I Think I See The Light</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">5. Trouble</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">6. Mona Bone Jakon [Side 2]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">7. I Wish, I Wish</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">8. Katmandu</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">9. Time</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">10. Fill My Eyes</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">11. Lilywhite</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tracks 1 to 11 are his 3rd
studio album "Mona Bone Jakon" - released April 1970 in the UK on
Island ILPS 9118 and August 1970 in the USA on A&M Records SP-4260.
Produced by PAUL SAMWELL-SMITH with all songs written by CAT STEVENS - it
peaked at No.63 on UK LP charts in June 1970 (didn't chart USA).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CD2</b> "Mona Bone Jakon,
Demos and Live Recordings" (31:59 minutes):</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1. Maybe You're Right
(Studio Demo)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2. I Think I See The Light (Studio
Demo)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3. Trouble (Studio Demo)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4. I Wish I Wish (Studio
Demo)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">5. I Want Some Sun (Studio
Demo)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">6. Interview - BBC Live
Recording 16 June 1970</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">7. Lady D'Arbanville - BBC
Live Recording 16 June 1970 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">8. Katmandu - BBC Live
Recording 16 June 1970 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">9. Time / Fill My Eyes<span> </span>- Audience Recording Live at Plumpton Jazz
& Blues Festival 8 Aug 1970</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">10. Maybe You're Right -
Audience Recording Live at Plumpton Jazz & Blues Festival 8 Aug 1970</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The hardback book with
embossed front-cover artwork that precisely mimics the original British LPs
that comes with these 2CD Deluxe Editions is gorgeous and of course the same
generic artwork will make a row of titled spines stretching right up his last
album on Island Records "Back To Earth" in December 1978. To date
(January 2022), there have been three (see list below). Unfortunately once the
shrink-wrap is torn open, the titled sticker has nowhere to go and worse, the
credits page on the rear simply falls off (don't know why they can't simply
paste these bloody things on). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But once inside, those minor
niggles fade. There is a newly laid out 28-page booklet replacing the 12-page
inlay of the old 2000 CD version. Anyone who had the original UK and US LPs on
Island and A&M Records will remember fondly that the inner holding bags
actually had the lyrics to the songs printed out in his handwriting on either
side of the bag with little noodle drawings above some of the songs. The 2000
CD booklet repro'd that, but unfortunately this reissue ditches all such
slavish devotion to detail in favour of a more elaborate presentation.
In-between the period B&W/Colour photos and rare Euro Picture Sleeves, each
song gets a detailed liner-notes history of its creation and the lyrics are
typed next to them in a clear font. The period snaps are fab - publicity
photos, live shots with Alun Davies on Guitar, a repro of the Harold And Maude
film that Cat Stevens gave songs to and well as two pages at the rear showing
the actual British Mastertapes. Genesis fans will know that an in-between albums
19-year-old Peter Gabriel played flute on "Katmandu" (not much of a
contribution truth be told) and we get thankful reminiscence from him on it,
but sadly no photos. A huge let down (as it is with all these 2CD sets) is that
CD2 is merely listed by tracks in the booklet but has no discussion at all –
the lazy approach. There is a sort of apology and acknowledgment that the
Audience Tape sound on the two Plumpton Jazz & Blues Festival cuts is less
than brill - even with Abbey Road audio restoration and remastering. I think
they're a joke and CD2 filler of the worst order. But more of that later...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ted Jensen - a long-standing
Audio Engineer of WEA catalogue renown – mastered the 2000 single CD reissue
series and lovely they were too. Here we get technology advanced by 20 years
and GEOFF PESCHE at Abbey Road having another go round in 2020. These '50th
Anniversary' Reissues are gorgeous and even though you can feel the crudity
with which "Mona Bone Jakon" was recorded, the audio feels bigger and
more spacious. The instruments are in your face and in a clarity-way you would
actually want. Impressive... </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">MBJ opens with an obvious
single, the lovely mid-paced "Lady D'Arbanville". Actually darker
than its pleasant strum would initially suggest - the warmth of that acoustic
soundstage is countered with cheery lines like "...in your grave you
lie...I'll always be with you...this rose will never die..." A hurting
smoocher follows - this time Cat leading with piano on "Maybe You're
Right". It’s a rather stunning little song that sounds like it could
easily have been on "Tea For A Tillerman". With it's strings and deep
melody - I can't help thinking it would have made a great follow up 45 - but
Island let "Lady D'Arbanville" be the only 7" single lifted from
the album. The rather acidic "Pop Star" whines just a little too much
and just seems strangely out of place (a B-side) - but at least as he sings
"...going to the cold bank..." the acoustics are crystal (a great
transfer this). Side 1 ends with "I Think I See The Light" - a slight
return to the Pop sound of the Deram days - and the beautiful
"Trouble" - a song that exudes a tangible hurt (superb remastered
sound).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Side 2 opens with the short
and echoed title track "Mona Bone Jakon" where he sings 'jack-on' and
tells us 'it won't be lonely for long' - whatever that means. A pencilled face
with a closed-up mouth stares down at the lyrics for "I Wish, I Wish"
in the booklet (his own sketch) - a strange hybrid sound that's somewhere
between Deram and Island - and dig that fabulous Acoustic Guitar solo (Alun
Davies I'd swear). The catgut strings of a Spanish acoustic guitar squeak
throughout "Katmandu" where we hear the occasional Flute flourishes
of Genesis' Peter Gabriel making a few bob before stardom on Charisma Records.
It's a tad hissy this track but the audio is magnificent – Pesche has wisely
let it breath. At 1:26 minutes "Time" is short but wow what a
gorgeous little melody - him on acoustic with the occasional piano note nipping
in and out like a jet (treated production). It segues into the equally pretty
"Fill My Eyes" - a song with a sweet chorus. It finishes on another
LP highlight - the ballad "Lilywhite" - Newman's arrangement of those
big strings and cello notes elevating the song into something special - especially
in that gorgeous fade-out passage.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But the lovely new 2020
album audio is as nothing to the five Studio Demos that start CD2, that as far
as I'm concerned actually outshine the finished versions on CD1. They are
startling in their sonic clarity to say the bloody least – beautiful – acoustic
guitar on "Maybe You're Right" and "I Wish I Wish" with
pounding piano on "I Think I See The Light". His attack on these
Studio Demos is palpable – like he's got something to prove after a yearlong
illness with TB and with this stunning audio feel more 'alive' than the rather
stilted finished cuts ended up sounding on the LP. The new outtake "I Want
Some Sun" is beautifully recorded but awkward, not great either vocally or
lyric-wise and easy to see why it remained in the can all these years. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As I say, fans are going to
love those five Studio Demos. Unfortunately the dairy of them is quickly
reduced to rubble by the crappy last five – one of which is a 1:11 second
interview with the BBC explaining about Patti D'Arbanville, the actress he was dating
at the time who featured in the Andy Warhol movie "Flesh" and whom
"Lady D'Arbanville" is based upon. "Katmandu" follows, but
both are hissy and only OK sonic-wise. The two Plumpton Jazz and Blues Festival
offerings are awful (the poster is repro'd in the booklet) – unlistenable
far-away crap. They shouldn't be here and 'historical importance' is a poor
excuse. When I think of the Mona outtakes on the Cat Stevens Box Set like
"I've Got A Thing About Seeing My Grandson Grow Old" or the lovely
Harold And Maude tracks like "Don't Be Shy" and "If You Want To
Sing Out Sing Out" – they would have been so much more appropriate and
genuine 'bonuses'. As it is, it won't take fans long to work out that the good
five could have been tagged onto the 1CD 50th Anniversary version - cheaper for
us - less for the morally upright artist. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Mona Bone Jakon"
isn't as special as the "Tea For The Tillerman" and "Teaser And
The Firecat" LPs that would follow and make his name. Instead it's a
three-star effort that's <i>getting</i> to those two stabs of genuine five-star greatness. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I've also watched this 2CD Deluxe Edition of "Mona Bone Jakon"
fluctuate wildly in price ever since release, up to a point that as I write this in
January 2022, it's less than eight quid new on Amazon with "Tillerman"
clocking in at one point a few days ago at a staggering low price of £6.35 for the double! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So, to sum up - anywhere under a whinging
ten-spot for the 2CD Deluxe Edition of "Mona Bone Jakon" and I say go
for it my peeps of taste and cultural refinement, this being upgraded tears
from a dustbin truly worth nabbing...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Titles in <i>The Yusuf/Cat
Stevens/Cat-O-Log Collection</i> Series Of</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>50th Anniversary Reissues</b> - Geoff Pesche Remasters at
Abbey Road</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1. <i>Mona Bone Jakon</i> (April
1970 UK Original LP)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All 50th Anniversary Formats
UK/EU released 4 December 2020 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On Universal UMC/Cat-O-Log
Records/Island Records</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Single CD Version is
0602508820298</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2CD Deluxe Edition Version
is 0602508395260</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4CD/LP/12”/BLU RAY Super
Deluxe Box Set Version is 0602508395178</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">VINYL LP Version is 0602508820304</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2. <i>Tea For The Tillerman</i>
(November 1970 UK Original LP) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All 50th Anniversary Formats
UK/EU released 4 December 2020 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On Universal UMC/Cat-O-Log
Records/Island Records</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Single CD Version is
06025088203598</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2CD Deluxe Edition Version
is 0602508395253</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">5CD/LP/12”/BLU RAY Super
Deluxe Box Set Version is 0602508395086</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">VINYL LP Version is
0602508820311</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3. <i>Teaser And The Firecat
</i>(September 1971 UK Original LP) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All 50th Anniversary Formats
UK/EU released 19 November 2021 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On Universal UMC/Cat-O-Log
Records/Island Records</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Single CD Version is
0602435513188 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2CD Deluxe Edition Version
is 0602435513126</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4CD/BLU RAY Super Deluxe Box
Set Version is 00602435949628</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">VINYL LP Version is
0602435513218</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div>Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-38391461723050075222022-01-20T00:57:00.002-08:002022-01-20T00:57:20.984-08:00"Tea For The Tillerman: 2CD Deluxe Edition" by CAT STEVENS – November 1970 UK Fourth Studio Album (And Second) on Island Records (January 1971 USA on A&M Records) – Featuring Alun Davies on Guitar, John Ryan on Double Bass, Harvey Burns on Drums, Jack Rostein on Violin, Paul Samwell-Smith on Backing Vocals and Production with Del Newman String Arrangements (4 December 2020 UK Universal UMC/Cat-O-Log/Island Records 50th Anniversary Reissue 2CD Deluxe Edition with 14 Bonus Tracks – Geoff Pesche Remaster) - A Review by Mark Barry...<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFZmR5JwkT0TsoXeeeMMZmOcZem8nm5NqzfaXo6PxGXomGEDk_KMEGr02dPA058w3mnjylA-UB5MSIh7UOf1ld45lsgEPP39vyjLt8LbALmReyFUnWEH1aER0OBOpkUTUg6Cb_fTv2EI3dwOUJRrT78dGntk4L6U5wyc75u0ryThwKzAKWUgHqkE5_=s2269" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2269" data-original-width="2269" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFZmR5JwkT0TsoXeeeMMZmOcZem8nm5NqzfaXo6PxGXomGEDk_KMEGr02dPA058w3mnjylA-UB5MSIh7UOf1ld45lsgEPP39vyjLt8LbALmReyFUnWEH1aER0OBOpkUTUg6Cb_fTv2EI3dwOUJRrT78dGntk4L6U5wyc75u0ryThwKzAKWUgHqkE5_=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibAJbzRIKKdVQvHuRhDB16IsQCIlQYMzIjfLXTHCXsRemrBwnFeaJ2iDqgfrHSkAa2naZWR0SEPST_H0flSPmTAbc0jpZTZGupY3M4Oa-E0R_UdAJoxiS917kPO7PgzAOH2P6hwQWeYlkHwwFDxabqXjSWWWGveBPjzLmZtCk7jj99MumHTY5ryDHi=s2427" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1632" data-original-width="2427" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibAJbzRIKKdVQvHuRhDB16IsQCIlQYMzIjfLXTHCXsRemrBwnFeaJ2iDqgfrHSkAa2naZWR0SEPST_H0flSPmTAbc0jpZTZGupY3M4Oa-E0R_UdAJoxiS917kPO7PgzAOH2P6hwQWeYlkHwwFDxabqXjSWWWGveBPjzLmZtCk7jj99MumHTY5ryDHi=w400-h269" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh419izzz8X69Zpch4716Knp2am9Pqi7RkV0pbnzM6wj1a8c3tXsXPGq5S2a5fkxrjxn98Xc-5ikRH64i4VG9Ccfu3BbRZHxVHj4LdxshCKszmHzNxokHsaf2xm3FCcpNHic6XOzgZyS8dNwLuEZ5jSsak-sIcufH_RVrGl8hUGnlUxUj6g8uTEH6r4=s2426" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1566" data-original-width="2426" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh419izzz8X69Zpch4716Knp2am9Pqi7RkV0pbnzM6wj1a8c3tXsXPGq5S2a5fkxrjxn98Xc-5ikRH64i4VG9Ccfu3BbRZHxVHj4LdxshCKszmHzNxokHsaf2xm3FCcpNHic6XOzgZyS8dNwLuEZ5jSsak-sIcufH_RVrGl8hUGnlUxUj6g8uTEH6r4=w400-h259" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEif5afGrvLtkSZX2CI8AmzxFuGVFAEeW7ClP_aQPplmNK9bxRFjKY_qVMgGc6XwK2HyO8zKVjegwto5XuccBUVc-FCAMnlxbJoTeJthFdbJJARTD40CjzG_a5IjhmZzrTgu93uq4BRHZPC7LABCgvBJ9a8zOZ6x9CARztb_ZgV5WL-_W03XGyod2gSq=s2424" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1641" data-original-width="2424" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEif5afGrvLtkSZX2CI8AmzxFuGVFAEeW7ClP_aQPplmNK9bxRFjKY_qVMgGc6XwK2HyO8zKVjegwto5XuccBUVc-FCAMnlxbJoTeJthFdbJJARTD40CjzG_a5IjhmZzrTgu93uq4BRHZPC7LABCgvBJ9a8zOZ6x9CARztb_ZgV5WL-_W03XGyod2gSq=w400-h271" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitMMGegFRHkdAySFYle071cRE3ZRJK8rugYUl1LeKm_l6fNmqIFLviisoA-pcslRoJRN6X6gLdU97CHlh2wE1BdijV9imbAkDpG-QQyE1ttmVdEgNEsG8F6DXi9aa4RBxsvrPtqDKcPwfPFAemRAqDn2jE_q1AF1av-HGCXL-WTIH16FbrCQj7FYGD=s2463" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2463" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitMMGegFRHkdAySFYle071cRE3ZRJK8rugYUl1LeKm_l6fNmqIFLviisoA-pcslRoJRN6X6gLdU97CHlh2wE1BdijV9imbAkDpG-QQyE1ttmVdEgNEsG8F6DXi9aa4RBxsvrPtqDKcPwfPFAemRAqDn2jE_q1AF1av-HGCXL-WTIH16FbrCQj7FYGD=w398-h400" width="398" /></a></div></span></span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">This Review and 317 More Like It </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Are Available in my e-Book...</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><b><span>ALL THINGS MUST PASS</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span>1970</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Your All-Genres Guide To</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Exceptional CD Reissues and Remasters </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Classic Albums, 45-Singles, Compilations </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">ALL GENRES <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Over 2,350 E-Pages of Reviews from the discs themselves</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">(No Cut and Paste Crap) <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe
style="width:120px;height:240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B01MZYC9BR&asins=B01MZYC9BR&linkId=5c474c0c30ed5b9ad0db0d280d9cb30f&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true"></iframe></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe
style="width:120px;height:240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B08HRTYL9Y&asins=B08HRTYL9Y&linkId=212751ef2e556dc492bb4fa875f747c3&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true"></iframe>
<br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"...Coming To Win Us..."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To date I've purchased two
of these <i>50th Anniversary Reissues</i> - "Mona Bone Jakon" and
"Tea For The Tillerman" - both albums originally issued in 1970. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">They
are part of an ongoing series of reissues entitled <i>The Yusuf / Cat Stevens
Cat-O-Log Collection</i>. But in order</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to get a lay of the land on this new version of "Tea For The Tillerman", we
need to backtrack a little. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not surprisingly and following on from the
bare-bones single CD remaster of 2000, Universal subjected both November 1970's
"Tea For The Tillerman" and its popular September 1971 follow-up
album "Teaser And The Firecat" (UK release dates) to their chunky <i>2CD
DELUXE EDITION</i> Series in November 2008 – another Ted Jensen Remaster with
eleven new Previously Unreleased bonus tracks on CD2 of "Tillerman".</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<style>@font-face
{font-family:Arial;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073711037 9 0 511 0;}@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-font-charset:78;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}</style></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You would therefore think that
they would <i>all</i> turn here in December
2020 on this New 2CD Deluxe Edition Remaster along with more for our
audio
delectation – but actually – no. Six have survived the transfer - Wild
World (Demo Version, Recorded 1969), Miles From Nowhere (Demo
Version, Recorded 1969), Longer Boats (Live At The Troubadour, Recorded
1970), Into
White (Live At The Troubadour, Recorded 1970), On The Road To Find Out
(Live at
KCET-TV, Recorded in Los Angeles, 1971) and Tea For The Tillerman (Live
At The
BBC, Recorded 1970 for BBC Radio 1's "Sounds Of The Seventies" at the
Playhouse Theatre). Not even the Super Deluxe Edition 5CD Box Set has
the
remaining five – one live track recorded in Japan in 1976, two from the
Majikat
Earth Tour of 1976 and two more recorded 2006 at Yusuf's Café. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So any fan
wanting the lot will need to keep that 2008 2CD Deluxe Edition – which frankly
seems a bit lax. But given the gorgeous new Audio on this 2020 version, new
Unreleased actually worth owning and its rather spiffing presentation, there is
still oodles to be gleeful about. Let's
deal with what we have...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">UK released 4 December 2020
- "Tea For The Tillerman: 2CD Deluxe Edition" by CAT STEVENS on
Universal UMC/Cat-O-Log/Island Records 0602508395253 (Barcode 602508395253) is a 2CD Reissue and
Remaster with 14 Bonus Tracks (on CD2) that plays out as follows:<span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CD1</b> <i>"Tea For The
Tillerman, 2020 Remaster"</i> (36:51 minutes):</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1. Where Do The Children Play? [Side 1]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2. Hard Headed Woman</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3. Wild World</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4. Sad Lisa</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">5. Miles From Nowhere</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">6. But I Might Die Tonight [Side 2]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">7. Longer Boats</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">8. Into White</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">9. On The Road To Find Out</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">10. Father And Son</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">11. Tea For The Tillerman</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tracks 1 to 11 are his fourth studio album
"Tea For The Tillerman" - released November 1970 in the UK on Island
Records ILPS 9135 and January 1971 in the USA on A&M Records SP-4280.
Produced by PAUL SAMWELL-SMITH - it peaked at No. 20 in the UK and No. 8 in the
USA.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CD2</b> <i>"Tea For The
Tillerman, Demos, Alternate Versions, Bonus Tracks, Live Recordings" </i>(45:21
minutes):</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1. Wild World (Demo)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2. Miles From Nowhere
(Studio Demo)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3. But I Might Die Tonight (<i>Deep End</i> Movie Version)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4. Can This Be Love? (Album
Out-Take)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">5. Honey Man (Duet with
Elton John recorded October 1967, first issued October 2001 on the "On The
Road To Find Out" 4CD Long Box Set, Reissued June 2008 in a smaller
Digibook Format as "Cat Stevens")</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">6. If You Want To Sing Out
Sing out (Demo)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">7. Don’t Be Shy (Demo)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">8. Wild World (Live At The
Troubadour, December 1970) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">9. Longer Boats (Live At The
Troubadour, December 1970)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">10. Into White (Live At The
Troubadour, December 1970)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">11. On The Road To Find Out (Live at KCET-TV Studios, Los Angeles USA, 8
June 1971)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">12. Where Do The Children
Play? (Live at KCET-TV Studios, Los Angeles USA, 8
June 1971)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">13. Father And Son (Cat
Stevens In Concert, 27 November 1971)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">14. Tea For The Tillerman
(BBC Live Recording, 16 June 1970)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The hardback book with
embossed front-cover artwork that precisely mimics the original British LPs
that comes with these 2CD Deluxe Editions is gorgeous and of course the same
generic artwork will make a row of titled spines stretching right up his last
album on Island Records "Back To Earth" in December 1978. To date
(January 2022), there have been three (see list below). Unfortunately once the
shrink-wrap is torn open, the titled sticker has nowhere to go and worse, the
credits page on the rear simply falls off (don't know why they can't simply
paste these bloody things on). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But once inside, those minor
niggles fade. There is a newly laid out 28-page booklet with notes from Yusuf,
guitarist Alun Davies and Producer Paul Samwell-Smith that replaces the 12-page
inlay of the old 2000 CD version. Anyone who had the original UK and US LPs on
Island and A&M Records will remember fondly the Gatefold Sleeve with that
cauldron photo on the inside and the lyrics in tiny print on the rear. The
looking down photo is now on the inside flaps and the lyrics smartly abutting
text that deals with every song. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There are some tasty touches
– the titled US 45-single sleeve for Where Do The Children Play? On A&M
Records AM 1291 siding the text for that Side 1 song opener – a French
face-profile picture sleeve for Sad Lisa that was backed with Wild World on
Island 6014 042 – a rare Dutch picture sleeve for Father And Son with
Moonshadow on the flipside on Island 10 485 AT. There are publicity photos, live
shots of Cat with his right-hand man Alun Davies on acoustic guitars, two of
the British Mastertape Boxes, the album artwork, sheet music and even a rare
Dutch split photo issue 45 for Wild World that shows and tells us Jimmy Cliff
sings it, while Cat Stevens wrote it (Island 6014 024). It’s very pretty (see
photos provided) and well thought out. Let downs (as it is with all these 2CD
sets) – those missing tracks - CD2 merely listing its bonuses in the booklet
but with no discussion at all – a lazy approach. Also be careful removing the
actual CDs (both entirely Pink in colour to reflect the original famous British
label on Island Records) – they are tucked in tight into pouches built into the
walls of the hardback sleeves so are too damn easy to rip. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ted Jensen - a long-standing
Audio Engineer of WEA catalogue renown – mastered both the 2000 single CD
reissue series and the 2CD Deluxe Edition in 2008 – and lovely they were too.
Here we get technology advanced by 20 years and GEOFF PESCHE at Abbey Road
having another go round in 2020. These '50th Anniversary' Reissues are gorgeous
– the liquid watery sound of the piano on "Sad Lisa" (recorded
through a Lesley) comes pounding out of your speakers like never before, the acoustic
clarity on the opening to "Father And Son" feeling bigger and more
spacious. John Ryan and his Double Bass on the flying saucers song "Longer
Boats" thumping away like a goodun. All the instruments are in your face
and in a clarity-way you would actually want. Impressive... </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Not surprising that CD2
opens with the Demo of "Wild World" that first appeared in 2008 – it
has huge audio presence and even in its purely acoustic state – packs a serious
punch. From there we go to piano for "Miles To Nowhere" – his playing
just fantastic and featuring different fills to that of the recording version
(it also has Acoustic doubled onto it – great). Things dip dramatically with a
seriously overwrought "But I Might Die Tonight" done for the "Deep
End" movie – a far heavier and uglier version that you can’t help feel has
been dubbed from something other than a mastertape. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But things kick into the
stratosphere with a gorgeous unreleased outtake called "Can This Be Love?"
– what a discovery – acoustic, piano and double bass, drums – its fully formed
and would have been a stunning B-side to say "Father And Son" in both
tone and theme. The duet with Elton John "Honey Man" first showed on
the 2001 4CD Box Set "On The Road To Find Out" and is probably best
forgotten by both great men. Far better is a 2:59 minute Demo Version of "If
You Want To Sing Out Sing Out" – a finished version of which recorded in
February 1971 made its way onto the "Harold And Maude" film. Another
winner from that film is "Don’t Be Shy" (also recorded proper in
February 1971) which again turns up here in crystal clear 2:41 minute Demo form
– a beautiful little melody fans will thrill too. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Smartly that’s followed by "Wild
World" played live at the Troubadour in LA in December 1970 – a month
after the album came out in the UK – its audio almost mimicking that of the "Don’t
Be Shy" demo. Very well recorded, "Longer Boats" follows which
he announces is about spaceships. He carries on with a thing called "Into
White" – as pretty and as delicate as the LP version – and again – well
recorded for the day. And on it goes...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His first album for Island
Records "Mona Bone Jakon" issued in April 1970 was a good start - a
three-star effort 'getting' to the genuine five-star greatness of "Tea For
The Tillerman". In September 1971 when he issued "Teaser And The
Firecat" – there would be no doubt – Cat Stevens became a household name
and one of the artists carrying the burgeoning singer-songwriter flag of
excellence. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So, despite a few minor
whinges, anywhere beneath or around a British ten-spot for this new 2020 "Tea
For The Tillerman" 2CD Deluxe Edition and it quickly becomes an absolute
must buy for fans and unconverted alike. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Now, if I could only afford
that Super Deluxe Box Set, I’d put the kettle on...again...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Titles in <i>The Yusuf/Cat
Stevens/Cat-O-Log Collection</i> Series</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>50th Anniversary Reissues</b> - Geoff Pesche Remasters at
Abbey Road</span></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1. <i>Mona Bone Jakon</i> (April
1970 UK Original LP)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All 50th Anniversary Formats
UK/EU released 4 December 2020 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On Universal UMC/Cat-O-Log
Records/Island Records</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Single CD Version is
0602508820298</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2CD Deluxe Edition Version
is 0602508395260</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4CD/LP/12”/BLU RAY Super
Deluxe Box Set Version is 0602508395178</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">VINYL LP Version is
0602508820304</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2. <i>Tea For The Tillerman</i>
(November 1970 UK Original LP) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All 50th Anniversary Formats
UK/EU released 4 December 2020 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On Universal UMC/Cat-O-Log
Records/Island Records</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Single CD Version is
06025088203598</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2CD Deluxe Edition Version
is 0602508395253</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">5CD/LP/12”/BLU RAY Super
Deluxe Box Set Version is 0602508395086</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">VINYL LP Version is
0602508820311</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3. <i>Teaser And The Firecat</i>
(September 1971 UK Original LP) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All 50th Anniversary Formats
UK/EU released 19 November 2021 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On Universal UMC/Cat-O-Log
Records/Island Records</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Single CD Version is
0602435513188 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2CD Deluxe Edition Version
is 0602435513126</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">4CD/BLU RAY Super Deluxe Box
Set Version is 00602435949628</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">VINYL LP Version is
0602435513218</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><style><font size="4"><span style="font-family: arial;">@font-face
{font-family:Arial;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073711037 9 0 511 0;}@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:fixed;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:fixed;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}</span></font></style></div>Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-48067338179673732872020-03-02T02:41:00.004-08:002021-02-08T14:00:46.294-08:00"Celestial Blues: Cosmic, Political & Spiritual Jazz 1970-74" by VARIOUS ARTISTS (July 2016 UK Beat Goes Public CD Compilation of Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2s09yfjckv86pJ1o0x5eyoHYuYXvT69fFPcnBpUQ3bgk0YplDKZbpoTWpzEPevyBVTg9jBdvAaQDl3nej9xc2GN9UpsDSeZ2ZT7aQC9hmVvufgA9iFrYiFXnL5hHUoJhkc3EVruSGsWw/s1600/zzcelestialbluescosmi_101b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2s09yfjckv86pJ1o0x5eyoHYuYXvT69fFPcnBpUQ3bgk0YplDKZbpoTWpzEPevyBVTg9jBdvAaQDl3nej9xc2GN9UpsDSeZ2ZT7aQC9hmVvufgA9iFrYiFXnL5hHUoJhkc3EVruSGsWw/s400/zzcelestialbluescosmi_101b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This Review Along With 289 Others Is Available in my</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>SOUNDS GOOD E-Book </i>on all Amazon sites</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>HIGHER GROUND</b> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">70ts SOUL, FUNK and JAZZ FUSION On CD </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Exceptional Reissues and Remasters </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Just Click Below To Purchase for £3.95</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Thousands of E-Pages</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">All Details and In-Depth Reviews From Discs</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(No Cut and Paste Crap) </span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B00MTCDTWS&asins=B00MTCDTWS&linkId=6402145afc4d1446ca4b715871afa173&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></b></div>
<b><br /></b></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B01GSOOK9I&asins=B01GSOOK9I&linkId=e70151373301df39161d77a024ec6a3a&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">"...Let It Take Your Mind..."</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In a crowded marketplace - the 'Various
Artists' compilation is something of an endangered beast - especially if it's even
slightly 'jazzy', 'progressive' or 'experimental' - and 2016's utterly
brilliant "Celestial Blues" from Ace's 'BGP' label imprint is all
three and more.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I review a lot and I'll admit that I have a
'thing' for Ace Records of the UK in all their varying reissue magnificence -
Kent-Soul, Beat Goes Public (BGP), the 'Hip Pocket' Series, their amazing Rock
'n' Roll and Blues LP and CD reissues that stretch back 40 years and more. So
it's not something new that I say Ace is really good at 'this sort of thing' -
but holy crap - they really are. I love my Soul, Funk and Jazz Fusion (check
out my 'Sounds Good: Exceptional CD Remasters for SOUL, FUNK and JAZZ FUSION'
e-Book available on Amazon with over 1000 pages and a reasonable price tag) -
but even with a real knowledge and love for the fields - I'll admit I don't
know 90% of what's on here - and yet I'm digging most of it and wondering how I
missed so much of this. And isn't that the best after all these years in the
musical trenches. Let's get to the cosmic details...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">UK released Friday 29 July 2016 (5 August 2016 in the USA) -
<b>"Celestial Blues: Cosmic, Political And Spiritual Jazz 1970 to 1974"
by VARIOUS ARTISTS on Ace/Beat Goes Public CDBGPD 300</b> (Barcode 029667530026) is
<b>a single-CD 10-track compilation of mainly Milestone and Prestige labels Jazz
and Fusion tracks</b> that play out as follows (79:10 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Celestial Blues - GARY BARTZ NTU TROOP (from
the 1970 US LP "Harlem Bush Music - Uhuru" on Milestone MSP 9032)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Fire<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>- JOE HENDERSON and ALICE COLTRANE (from the 1974 US LP "The
Elements" on Milestone M 9053)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Warriors Of peace – AZAR LAWRENCE (from the
1974 US LP "Bridge Into The New Age" on Prestige P-10086)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Brown Eyes – CHARLES EARLAND, FREDDIE
HUBBARD and JOE HENDERSON (from the 1974 US LP "Leaving This Planet"
on Prestige P-66002)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. The Free Slave – ROY BROOKS (from the 1972
US LP "The Free Slave" on Muse MR 5003)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. The Almoravid – JOE CHAMBERS (from the 1974
US LP "The Almoravid" on Muse MR 5035)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Let Us Go (To Higher Heights) – CARLOS
GARNETT (from the 1974 US LP "Journey To Enlightenment" on Muse MR
5057)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Let It Take Your Mind – BAYETE UMBRA ZINDIKO
(from the 1973 US LP "Seeking Other Beauty" on Prestige PRST 10062)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Josie Black – HAMPTON HAWES (from the 1972
US LP "Universe" on Prestige P-10046)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Aftermath – OLIVER NELSON (Previously
Unreleased 'Edited Version' from the 1970 LP "Black, Brown And
Beautiful" on Flying Dutchman FDS 116)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As you can see from the track list and generous
near 80-minute playing time - "Celestial Blues..." gives you 10
lengthy Jazz and Fusion tracks from 1970 to 1974 (one of which is a Previously
Unreleased edit) mostly culled from the Milestone and Prestige sets of labels
with some Fling Dutchman and Muse thrown in. The 16-page booklet has superbly
detailed and informative liner notes from DEAN RUDLAND - a name known to every
lover of Soul, Funk and Fusion compilations. He's written for Ace, Edsel and
many more and smartly accompanies the paragraphs with repros of the LP artwork
so you can get a visual lay of the land too. Above all the text is musician
credits and discography info for each entry and Ace's long-time Audio Engineer
NICK ROBBINS has carried out the stunning remasters. Beautifully recorded and
produced in the first place - this is an amazing-sounding CD reissue - huge
presence as all that expert playing fills your room. Test drive the busy Joe
Chambers track "The Alomoravid" to see what I mean - wonderful
stuff...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It opens with the Gil Scott-Heron moaning of
Andy Bey on Vocals while Gary Bartz gives it some backing Saxophone on
"Celestial Blues" – an 'expand your mind' track I do recognise from
other Jazz-Funk compilations on vinyl - very cool stuff. Tenor Saxophonist Joe
Henderson penned the instrumental "Fire" - 11:07 minutes of
instrument sparring between him and Alice Coltrane (Piano, Harp, Tamboura and
Harmonium) and Michael White on Violin. A funky groove is set up right from the
start - Charles Haden on Bass, Ngudu on Drums with Kenneth Nash on varying
Percussion - that allows Joe to counter with the other soloists. But the big
draw is his partnership with the amazing Alice Coltrane – a musical journey
that started on the 1970 Milestone LP ""Ptah, The El Daoud" - an
album that graced the Reckless Records CD shuffle play on many an occasion. The
title track to the album "Bridge Into The New Age" by Tenor and
Soprano Saxophonist Azar Lawrence has provided the title for another CD
compilation in this series of reissues - Beat Goes Public CDBGPD 203 from late
August 2009. Ex McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones' bands - Azar Lawrence is described
as a 'spiritual Jazz musician' and his frantic but disciplined soloing with
Pianist Joe Bonner will test many people's faith for the eight minute duration
of "Warriors Of Peace" (too manic for my delicate palette). Far better
is the very hip organ sound that Charles Earland eases out on "Brown
Eyes" – a cut from the "Leaving This Planet" LP he did with
Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson in 1974. You get the three great soloists
giving it slices of their magic for 11:45 minutes of mellow and mid-tempo Jazz
Funk – slinky Moogs meshing Henderson's Trumpet, Dave Hubbard's Alto Flute and
Harvey Mason's expert drumming.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Things liven up with the Herbie Hancock's
"Cantaloupe" feel to "The Free Slave" where Detroit Drummer
Roy Brooks (toured with Yusef Lateef and was part of Horace Silver's 1950
group) lets Woody Shaw and George Coleman take the Trumpet and Tenor Saxophone
leads while Hugh Lawson plinkers on the old Joanna. "The Free Slave"
is a fabulous groove that doesn't seem to overstay its considerable 12:14
minute duration and is a shoe-in for a 'cool' CD-R compilation as fast as I can
make one. The sexy and rather trippy sleeve art to the rare Carlos Garnett
album "Journey To Enlightenment" is given the whole of Page 12 in the
booklet. Coming over like the sophisticated but musical mid-section of Steely
Dan's "Aja" track from 1977 - "The Alomoravid" by Drummer
Joe Chambers is stunning stuff. Ray Mantilla is on Congas while David Friedman
gives it some sublime Marimbas as Cedar Walton plays Piano and Richard Davis
anchors it with tasteful Bass lines.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A part of the Miles Davis ensemble - reed
player Carlos Garnett clearly had his eye on the dancefloors of the USA in 1974
because he took Stevie Wonder's clavinet sound and gave his "Let Us Go (To
Higher Heights)" track a seriously funky edge. It's that wonderful mixture
of great music meets (dare we say it) commercial appeal - all 'peace brother'
shouts, football game whistles, clavinet Funk, driving Saxophone and a backbeat
that just won't quit for its six-minutes plus (a 12" of this sucker would
go for such money). The 2:44 minutes of the decidedly Graham Central
Station/Sly Stone fuzzed-up Funk of "Let It Take Your Mind" by Bayete
Umbra Zindiko (Todd Cochran to you and I) is completely new to me - a furious
little thing that half works (he played on Peter Gabriel's 2nd LP and is
associated with Santana's drummer Michael Shrieve). The two finishers elevate
things - "Josie Black" - an eight-minute slinky Funk Out by
Keyboardist Hampton Hawes where wah-wah guitars do battle with his Fender
Rhodes - and finally "Aftermath" by Saxophonist Oliver Nelson - a
beautifully orchestrated filmic piece that's been edited down to 3:09 minutes -
its melodramatic strings against an aching Saxophone (written about MLK's
assassination) is both beautiful, difficult and exciting - all at the same time
(great compiling choice).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Looking at its rather nondescript quarter-moon
artwork and its hipster 'space' title - I hadn't expected much from
"Celestial Blues". But as Joan Armatrading said two years after most
of these 1974 tracks were recorded - 'I'm open to persuasion'. A brilliant CD
compilation and well done to all involved...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Other CD compilations like this on Beat
Goes Public include:</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Bridge Into The New Age: Funky Afro-Centric
Spiritual Sounds From Jazz’s Forgotten Decade</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">July 2009 CD on Beat Goes Public CDBGPD 203</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. A Loud Minority: Deep Spiritual Jazz From
Mainstream Records 1970-1973 May 2010 on Beat Goes Public CDBGPD 215</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Liberation Music: Spiritual Jazz And The Art
Of Protest On Flying Dutchman Records 1969-1974</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">March 2013 CD on Beat Goes Public CDBGPD 259</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-55935161801386404752020-03-02T02:32:00.000-08:002020-03-02T02:43:46.516-08:00"One-Way Glass: Dancefloor Prog, Brit Jazz & Funky Folk 1968-1975" by VARIOUS ARTISTS (August 2017 RPM Records 3CD Box Set) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggLacl8zG7QUf8cl3tvQFhV102ZZmqio4xzVrnSD5t6CqbIwBkC8GejJh-yjTAkaFbrnOh44HDrhowHznVe-Skne3GgCVIZPGN4Ofk1M72RqA8Fbq7vp6mI-MuX-w4aIEts0lzmSDu2Fk/s1600/Various+-+One-Way+Glass+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1590" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggLacl8zG7QUf8cl3tvQFhV102ZZmqio4xzVrnSD5t6CqbIwBkC8GejJh-yjTAkaFbrnOh44HDrhowHznVe-Skne3GgCVIZPGN4Ofk1M72RqA8Fbq7vp6mI-MuX-w4aIEts0lzmSDu2Fk/s400/Various+-+One-Way+Glass+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="396" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOEqj9VyJzNDtpW6QDop04r1J7wAjN0oNgqWiTwTYUxf8wEbOn4uIK9X1Uw4n7sKqFaAfQRFWS4qa_SCwD6iyGj1RH7OR54RZ6FPpdmBi3Pc14MUl136O1KOH9i0q-JgpoEN1k-bVnpCE/s1600/Various+-+One-Way+Glass+%2528Mine+Inners+1+-+Booklet+and+Three+Card+Slvs+Spread%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1251" data-original-width="1600" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOEqj9VyJzNDtpW6QDop04r1J7wAjN0oNgqWiTwTYUxf8wEbOn4uIK9X1Uw4n7sKqFaAfQRFWS4qa_SCwD6iyGj1RH7OR54RZ6FPpdmBi3Pc14MUl136O1KOH9i0q-JgpoEN1k-bVnpCE/s400/Various+-+One-Way+Glass+%2528Mine+Inners+1+-+Booklet+and+Three+Card+Slvs+Spread%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJZmP95kSH4SUkLHPcuNpmxtr-8iUhCdNDhf7pTcBBeo1wG8Oasg2dMG1aeLTzKbZR8y5r4rwrCrLHTqvN0b3mxGeAFuaayLe_Y552fgz7FTZgzgYjHBXIQENO5wVorSmMLEB415YVOkY/s1600/Various+-+One-Way+Glass+%2528Mine+Inners+2+-+Booklet+Text+Pages+Spread%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="1600" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJZmP95kSH4SUkLHPcuNpmxtr-8iUhCdNDhf7pTcBBeo1wG8Oasg2dMG1aeLTzKbZR8y5r4rwrCrLHTqvN0b3mxGeAFuaayLe_Y552fgz7FTZgzgYjHBXIQENO5wVorSmMLEB415YVOkY/s400/Various+-+One-Way+Glass+%2528Mine+Inners+2+-+Booklet+Text+Pages+Spread%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0FJB5UMXblhzNoaFDtR4P1DemJAvViHQsAwJCJVy0gGVyBsEEbF8eP7P52FpmVnuWCJwnKUCJocYEp_Xqhp0XL7-C5tdgSKwpisnnaQsV5EMfmqjUhYn5WD2rLu9mljq53NHetdM5mw/s1600/Various+-+One-Way+Glass+%2528Mine+Inners+3+-+Booklet+Credits+Pages+Spread%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="1600" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0FJB5UMXblhzNoaFDtR4P1DemJAvViHQsAwJCJVy0gGVyBsEEbF8eP7P52FpmVnuWCJwnKUCJocYEp_Xqhp0XL7-C5tdgSKwpisnnaQsV5EMfmqjUhYn5WD2rLu9mljq53NHetdM5mw/s400/Various+-+One-Way+Glass+%2528Mine+Inners+3+-+Booklet+Credits+Pages+Spread%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC2CbiqqaL6Tfn5PwC3ODxjI8dRrzXLEfWXXR5DMDpf4AORL1zLA2vCQjOM_hcn6sElYGXSLcOLmnAWSExVJMtKONBen3w9oVOxjE3lkCXGRhW8Kv1OUdDhfdqto2duczE6N5dp13J9UA/s1600/Various+-+One-Way+Glass+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1583" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC2CbiqqaL6Tfn5PwC3ODxjI8dRrzXLEfWXXR5DMDpf4AORL1zLA2vCQjOM_hcn6sElYGXSLcOLmnAWSExVJMtKONBen3w9oVOxjE3lkCXGRhW8Kv1OUdDhfdqto2duczE6N5dp13J9UA/s400/Various+-+One-Way+Glass+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="395" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B072ZD5MRR&asins=B072ZD5MRR&linkId=35565344f4310e5efee5871a40fbdd87&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">This Review Along With Almost 300 Others Is Available In My</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">SOUNDS GOOD E-Book </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">on all Amazon sites</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">1960s and 1970s MUSIC ON CD - Volume 3 of 3</span></b></div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">- Exceptional CD Remasters</span></b></div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">As well as 1960s and 1970s Rock and Pop - It Also Focuses On</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Blues Rock, Prog Rock, Psych, Avant Garde, Underground</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Folk-Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Country Rock and more</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Just Click Below To Purchase for £3.95</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Thousands of E-Pages - All Details and In-Depth Reviews From Discs</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(No Cut and Paste Crap)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B01FCAVIU8&asins=B01FCAVIU8&linkId=598ab9e403b1443deb6db04d9ae5b2e1&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"...Out Of Nowhere..."</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Weird, adventurous, cool, surprising yet
forgotten, brilliant yet often unknown, sometimes crap and even risible - but
at other times as Funky as a loved-up Bishop Curry on biblical-speed at a Royal
Wedding. I love Box Sets like "One Way Glass..." – it’s not all
undiluted James Brown vs. Deep Purple crossover genre-genius for sure - but
when its Funky Breaks are good – man they’re shockingly so...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Spanning 1968 to 1975 and offering 58 tracks
across 3CDs - "Dancefloor Prog, Brit Jazz & Funky Folk" is a
catchall that goes so deep that even fairly knowledgeable types like yours
truly here might look at the artist names on any of these near-eighty-minute
CDs and shout 'who the hell are they?' Most are British Rock bands with great
players that tapped into their Bad Soulful American Selves on throwaway B-sides
and album fillers – getting down with the Groove be it on Mellotron or Wah Wah
Pedal. Some are well known names but most were very much on the fringes and get
a long overdue outing here. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But for me that's what makes this superb RMP
Records anthology such a winner is the dip and discover factor - and all of it
presented with knowledge, enthusiasm and even glee (a 42-page jam-packed
booklet) and Audio that does well with ancient tapes. There is a heap of Hard
Stuff to wade through - so once more my Burning Red Ivanhoes unto the Fat
Mattress, Skin Alley and Jody Grind (and that's just the Pesky Gee)...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">UK released 25 August 2017 (1 September 2017 in
the USA) - <b>"One Way Glass: Dancefloor Prog, Brit Jazz and Funky Folk
1968-1975" by VARIOUS ARTISTS on RPM Records RPMBX 537 (Barcode
5013929553705) is a 58-Track 3CD Clamshell Box Set of Remasters with a 42-Page
Booklet </b>and plays out as follows:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 1 (79:04 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. One Way Glass - TRIFFLE (from the December
1970 UK LP "First Meeting" on Dawn DNLS 3017 – a Manfred Mann Chapter
Three cover version – for Triffle see also Track 11, Disc 3)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Elegy - COLOSSEUM (from the November 1969 UK
LP "Valentyne Suite" on Vertigo VO1)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Man From Afghanistan - CURTISS MULDOON (from
the October 1971 UK LP "Curtiss Muldoon" on Purple Records TPS 3501)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. 3D Mona Lisa - PAUL BRETT'S SAGE (from the
October 1970 UK LP "Paul Brett Sage" on Pye NSPL 18347)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Home Is Where I Belong - QUICKSAND (from the
1973 UK LP "Home Is Where I Belong" on Dawn DNLS 3056)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Somethin' You Got - SECOND HAND (from the
April 1971 UK LP "Death May be Your Santa Claus" on Mushroom 200 MR
6)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Get One Together - PALADIN (from the April
1972 UK LP "Charge!" on Bronze ILPS 9190 - see also Track 2 on Disc
3)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Cold Wall Of Stone - FAT MATTRESS (Recorded
1969 and Previously Unreleased at the time - first appeared in 1992 on Sequel
NEX CD 192 as a Bonus Track - a UK CD Reissue of their 1969 Polydor Records
debut album "Fat Mattress" - see also Track 5 on Disc 3)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Libel - HARD STUFF (from the March 1973 UK
LP "Bolex Dementia" on Purple TPSA 7507)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Sanctuary - GRAVY TRAIN (Non-album B-side
to "Climb Aboard The Gravy Train (And Get On To A Good Thing)", a
stand-alone July 1975 UK 7" single on Dawn DNS 1115)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. City Of Darkness - THE WEB (from the August
1968 UK Stereo LP "Fully Interlocking" on Deram SML 1025 - see also
Track 15 on Disc 3)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. Out Of Nowhere - PATRICK CAMPBELL-LYONS
(from the February 1973 UK LP "Me And My Friend" on Sovereign SVNA
7258)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. The Bitch - THE GASOLINE BAND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(from the May 1972 UK LP "The Gasoline
Band" on Cube HIFLY 9)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. I Saw An Angel - PENTANGLE (B-side to the
May 1969 UK 7" single "Once I Had A Sweetheart" on Big T Records
BIG 124)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15. Ricochet - JONESY (and abridged edit of a
track on their "On This New Day" LP issued as an A-side in January
1973 on Dawn DNS 1030)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">16. Revolution's Death Man - EDWARDS HAND (from
the 1970 UK LP "Stranded" on RCA Victor SF 8154)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17. Macumbe - BOND & BROWN [Graham Bond and
Pete Brown] (Track 2 on Side 1 from the July 1972 UK 3-Track 7" EP
"Lost Tribe" on Greenwich Gramophone Company GSS 104)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">18. Henry - CMU (from the June 1971 UK LP
"Open Spaces" on Transatlantic TRA 237)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">19. Sunburnt Virgin Trousers - KNOCKER JUNGLE
(from the 1970 UK LP "Knocker Jungle" on Ember NR 5042)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">20. Cubano Chant - CLIMAX CHICAGO BLUES BAND
(from the November 1969 UK Stereo LP "Plays On" on Parlophone PCS
7084)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">21. She's My Sister - OPEN ROAD (from the
August 1971 UK LP "Windy Daze" on The Greenwich Gramophone Company
GSLP 1001)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">22. The Lord Doesn't Want You - THE CRAZY WORLD
OF ARTHUR BROWN (Recorded 1969, Previously Unreleased at the time)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 2 (79:29 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. I've Got My Mojo Working - MELANIE (from the
October 1975 UK LP "Sunset And Other Beginnings" on Neighborhood NBH
69168)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Eyeballs - BLUE MINK (from the April 1974 UK
LP "Fruity” on EMI Records EMC 3021)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Celebration - CHILLUM (Recorded 1971, not originally
released)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Confusions About A Goldfish - JOHN KONGOS
(from the 1969 UK LP "Confusions About A Goldfish" on Dawn DNLS 3002
- see also Track 1 on Disc 3)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Skin Alley Serenade - SKIN ALLEY (from the
December 1972 UK LP "Two Quid Deal?" on Transatlantic TRA 260 - see
also Track 10 on Disc 3)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Little Message - JODY GRIND (from the
November 1969 UK LP "One Step On” on Transatlantic TRA 210)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Weren't Born A Man - DANA GILLESPIE (from
the December 1973 UK LP "Weren't Born A Man" on RCA Victor APL1 0345)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Drinking My Wine - HARDIN & YORK (from
the November 1969 UK Stereo LP "Tomorrow Today" on Bell SBLL 125)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. She's Mine, She's Yours - JUICY LUCY (from
their November 1969 debut UK LP "Juicy Lucy" on Vertigo VO 2 - see
also Track 12 on Disc 3)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Avez-Vous Kaskelainen? - BURNIN' RED
IVANHOE (from the November 1971 UK LP "W.W.W." on Dandelion 2310 145)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. Message To Mankind - DEMON FUZZ (from the
November 1970 UK LP on Dawn DNX 2504)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. Closer To The Truth - ALAN JAMES EASTWOOD
(A-side of a September 1972 stand-alone UK 7" single on President PT 379)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. Wake Up My Children - SIREN (from the
December 1969 UK LP "Siren" on Dandelion S 63755)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. The Devil Made Me Do It - CURTIS KNIGHT
ZEUS (A-side of January 1974 UK 7" single on Dawn DNS 1049 - also on the
German-only LP "Sea Of Time")</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15. Hilary Dickson - ATLANTIC BRIDGE (Track 2
on Side 1 of the 3-Track January 1971 UK 7" EP "I Can't Lie To You”
on Dawn DNX 2507)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">16. Sly Willy - BLUE BEARD (from the 1971 UK LP
"Blue Beard” on Durium D 30-214)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17. Mean Old Man - JOAN ARMATRADING (from the
November 1972 UK debut LP "Whatever's For Us" on Cube HIFLY 12)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">18. Funky - THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP (from the
withdrawn 1970 US LP "Funky" on Date Records TES 4021)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">19. In The Beginning - THE FOUNDATIONS (A July
1970 UK 7" single on Pye 7N 17956, instrumental B-side to "I'm Gonna
Be A Rich Man")</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 3 (79:12 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. He's Gonna Step On You Again - JOHN KONGOS
(from the November 1971 UK LP "Kongos" on Fly Records HIFLY 7, also a
UK chart single that peaked at No. 3)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Bad Times - PALADIN (from the May 1971 UK LP
"Paladin" on Bronze ILPS 9150)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Instant Whip- THE TREMELOES (Non-Album
B-side of "(Call Me) Number One", an October 1969 UK 7" single
on CBS 4582)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. The Rock - ATOMIC ROOSTER (an Instrumental
from their September 1971 album "In Hearing Of" on Pegasus PEG 1 -
also the B-side to the No. 3 chart UK 7" single "The Devil's
Answer")</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Margarita - FAT MATTRESS (Recorded 1969 and
Previously Unreleased at the time - first appeared in 1992 on Sequel NEX CD 192
as a Bonus Track - a UK CD Reissue of their 1969 Polydor Records debut album
"Fat Mattress" - see also Track 8 on Disc 1)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Gesolreut (Live) - SOFT MACHINE (from the
February 1973 2LP set "Six" on CBS Records S 68214)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Some Kind Of Beautiful - BRIDGET ST. JOHN
(from her July 1974 UK LP "Jumble Queen” on Chrysalis CHR 1062)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. House On The Hill - AUDIENCE (from their
November 1969 UK Debut LP "Audience" on Polydor 583 065)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Indian Rope Man - NOIR (from the November 1971
UK LP "We Had To Let You Have It" on Dawn DNLS 3029 - a Richie Havens
cover)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. So Many People - SKIN ALLEY (from the
December 1972 UK LP "Two Quid Deal?" on Transatlantic TRA 260 - see
also Track 5 on Disc 2)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. Alibi Annie - TRIFFLE (from the December
1970 UK LP "First Meeting" on Dawn DNLS 3017 - see also Track 1 on
Disc 1)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. I'm A Thief - JUICY LUCY (Non-Album B-side
to "Pretty Woman", a stand-alone UK 7" single released December
1970 on Vertigo 6059 015 - see also Track 9 on Disc 2)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. Travelling Like A Gypsy - HANSON (from the
December 1973 UK LP "Now Hear This" on Manticore K 43507)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. Looking For The Red Label - FAIR WEATHER
(B-side to "Lay It On Me", a May 1971 UK 7" single on RCA Neon
NE 1001)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15. I'm A Man - THE WEB (1968 Recording Previously
Unreleased at the time - a Spencer Davis Group cover - see also Track 11 on
Disc 1) </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">16. Pigs Foot - PESKY GEE (from the August 1969
UK LP "Exclamation Mark" on Pye NSPL 18293)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17. One Way Glass - JOHN SCHROEDER ORCHESTRA
featuring Chris Thomas (a November 1971 UK 7" single on Pye 7N 45108,
Non-Album Track, A-side, a Manfred Man Chapter Three cover version) </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Compiled
and co-ordinated by JOHN REED and MARK
STRATFORD (with help from good eggs like Dave Timperley over at Cherry
Red
Records) – the 44-page booklet is amazing – a feast of knowledge, album
covers,
45 label repros, trade adverts and of course rare photos of artists who
are so
underground they may have dirt in their mouths. Fluid Mastering has done
the
transfers and as Cherry Red has remastered much of this in the last ten
years –
it’s not surprising to find that the music audio is uniformly great. To
the music of hairy-men secretly longing to be the Average White Band...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 1: Triffle and their brass-funky "One
Way Glass" give the anthology its name - an in-the-background guitar
suitably distant as the backbeat gets laid down. Jon Hiseman and Dick
Heckstall-Smith trade licks in the bopping Colosseum track "Elegy"
while somebody with an itch in Curtis Maldoon is waiting for the "Man From
Afghanistan" - a surprisingly cool 'waiting for the man' groove.
Flute-Folk-Rock drives the excellent "3D Mona Lisa" - a
guitar-chugger by Paul Brett Sage featuring some great fretwork and frantic
Small Faces-type vocals. (Songwriter and Guitarist) Terry Davis features prominently
on "Home Is Where I Belong" - a genuine highlight on a jam-packed
Disc 1. We enter the valley of weird and silly voices tagged onto a Prog Funky
beat with the very Greenslade-sounding Second Hand. Another winner on here is
Noel Redding's Fat Mattress and their sexy "Cold Wall Of Stone" -
Steve Hammond's guitar and Neil Landon's vocals highlights on an outtake from
the first album that only saw the light of day in 1992 as a CD Bonus Track.
Other notables are the piano-funky instrumental "Out Of Nowhere" by
Nirvana’s Patrick Campbell-Lyons (entirely unrepresentative of the album’s
overall singer-songwriter sound – see separate review) and the Folk-Rock cool
of Pentangle’s groovy double-bass rhythms in "I Saw An Angel". </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 2 opens with a shocker - Melanie Kafka
getting Funky as she gets her Mojo working (even if it won't work on the man
she wants) - a fantastic groover from 1975 when her albums were probably being
ignored. Equally shocking is the hard-hitting Labelle meets Sly Stone Funk of
Blue Mink's "Eyeballs" - a truly brilliant Bass-Pounding Beast as
inspirational singers Roger Cook and Madeline Bell get up to their eyeballs in
backbeats and love. Chillum's "Celebration" is certainly funky but as
a five-minute instrumental it feels a tad laboured. South African John Kongos
gets the first of two entries - the title track from "Confusions About A
Goldfish" being his intro - with lyrics flitting about wildly - from
Thalidomide to Thanksgiving to the worries of a goldfish in a room we call the
World (it's a good groove but "He's Gonna Step On You Again" over on
Disc 3 annihilates it). Skin Alley's "Skin Valley Serenade" also
promises much but like Chillum's entry feels overly-long and tired. Jody
Grind's "Little Message" on the other hand has a fab organ vs. guitar
battle going on throughout its pounding stay. Things also pick up with Dana
Gillespie's 'Son Of A Preacher Man' groovy "Weren't Born A Man" - as
cool as Lou Reed in 1973. Another Disc 3 highlight surely has to be superbly
groovy "Drinking My Wine" by Hardin & York - Eddie Hardin and
Pete York - both ex The Spencer Davis Group. And I've always been a sucker for
the fantastic slide-guitar Blues Boogie sound of Juicy Lucy - vocalist Ray Owen
howling and snarling out those sleazy lyrics while ace-supremo Glenn Ross
Campbell goes all Johnny Winter on his guitar to truly hair-raising effect.
Other notables include the go-go 60ts throwback chug of "Sly Willy"
by Blue Beard – the acoustic attack of a young and angry Joan Armatrading on "Mean
Old Man", the Flute-Cool Richie Havens-sounding emotional world of
"Closer To The Truth" by Alan James Eastwood and a rare outing for
the Chicago/BST sounding Jazz-Rock album you never see by The Spencer Davis
Group – the withdrawn "Funky" LP on America's Date Records.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 3 features the fantastic Malo/Santana
Latin-Rock Fusion of Paladin's frantic "Bad Times" - a huge
nine-minute Funk Monster that starts out slowly in 'Oye Coma Va' mode but then
builds into a full-on tearaway Boogie with Drums and Guitars battling it out.
Shocker-city comes with a B-side from The Tremeloes of all things - the funky
instrumental "Instant Whip" with Drummer Dave Munden letting rip on
some strangled Screaming Jay Hawkins yelps whilst guitarist Rick Westwood gives
it some fantastic guitar chops throughout. I've raved before about the superb
Atomic Rooster B-side "The Rock" (flip to "The Devil's
Answer") - an instrumental guitar/keyboard/brass groover that's tucked
away on one of the era's biggest Prog Rock LPs - 1971's "In Hearing Of..."
Surprises come at you in the shape of Soft Machine finding their inner
Mahavishnu Funk on the instrumental "Gesroleut" but Bridget St.
John's "Some Kind Of Beautiful" is a tad too fey for its own good.
Better is "Indian Rope Man" by Noir - a Richie Havens song from his
1969 double-album "Richie P. Havens, 1983" that seemed to produce a
long line of covers that rocked as much as the original. And Skin Alley don’t
disappoint with their Focus-sounding Flute-Rock-Funky "So Many
People". And on it goes...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A huge haul and even for a know-all like me –
some amazing finds in genres I love – music I make CD compilations of when
Beelzebub is not looking. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Don’t let the vertigo-inducing
up-the-side-of-glass-tower-buildings-artwork put you off – there is so much in
here to savour and discover. And I'm thinking that somebody in Royal Circles
should drop a sword on John Reed’s shoulder for his musical services to ageing
Prog hooligans everywhere and their groove-aroused Zimmer frames. Or better
still – punish him with four days chained to the pulpit of Bishop Curry after
he’s read the Financial Times. That'll teach the little Funky Folker...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Fabtastic Flutes and then some. Recommended...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-5244993153025925032020-03-02T00:27:00.002-08:002020-03-02T00:27:46.327-08:00"Time Machine: A Vertigo Retrospective" by VARIOUS ARTISTS (April 2005 Universal 3CD Mini Box Set – Paschal Byrne Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2TTp8BNM1RhWFlYKVyYXRjrVd2rZAcFXidL0EmFZ8D9XOtcqHaoQFgCE3NLnLLrNbIrYejzsryvIrDhSjTU371Ij1G6uaYoL-btK_VdeCoBfW37NPjgD4aCK-LzGAPB4jxJgyEpDbt0w/s1600/Various+-+Time+Machine+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1590" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2TTp8BNM1RhWFlYKVyYXRjrVd2rZAcFXidL0EmFZ8D9XOtcqHaoQFgCE3NLnLLrNbIrYejzsryvIrDhSjTU371Ij1G6uaYoL-btK_VdeCoBfW37NPjgD4aCK-LzGAPB4jxJgyEpDbt0w/s400/Various+-+Time+Machine+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="396" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0007Q6QWI&asins=B0007Q6QWI&linkId=acec133c64c914acd351c510ce11502c&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">This Review Along With 250+ Others Is Available In My</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>SOUNDS GOOD E-Book </i>on all Amazon sites</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PROG ROCK, PSYCH, AVANT GARDE</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And Others Genres Thereabouts</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Exceptional CD Reissues and Remasters</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Covering 1967 to 1977 - It Also Focuses On</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fusion Rock, Acid Folk, Art Rock and Underground </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just Click Below To Purchase</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thousands of E-Pages - All Details and In-Depth Reviews From Discs</span></div>
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(No Cut and Paste Crap)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07KK8FR9Z&asins=B07KK8FR9Z&linkId=49d1fc807c6c4a5aa2ad4e60b2b95b9f&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></div>
</div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Featuring Many Albums from <b>1970 on Vertigo Records </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"…Let It Happen…"</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Ah! the <b>VERTIGO Record Label</b> –
subject of affection and ridicule in unequal amounts...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">So what makes me buy a 41-track
3CD mini box set full of the eclectic and the indulgent? Because on rehearing
this much-maligned label's output - there's so much to enjoy on here that isn't
crap - especially if you like your Rock with a Funky Fusion kick in the nuts. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Here are the Black Sabbaths having a Warhorse by the Beggars Opera in the Tudor
Lodge (if you know what I mean)…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">UK released April 2005 – <b>"Time
Machine: A Vertigo Retrospective" by VARIOUS ARTISTS on Universal/Vertigo 9827982 (Barcode
602498279823) is a 3CD Mini Clamshell Box Set</b> of Remasters that breaks down as follows:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Disc 1</b> – Vertigo 9827984 -
(78:09 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. The Kettle – COLOSSEUM
(from the album “Valentyne Suite” released November 1969 on Vertigo VO 1.
Charted at 15 in the UK. The band featured Drummer JON HISEMAN (ex Graham Bond
ORGANization), Saxophonist DICK HECKSTALL SMITH with Keyboard Player DAVE
GREENSLADE and Bassist TONY REEVES who later formed GREENSLADE)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Who Do You Love? – JUICY
LUCY (February 1970 UK 7” single on Vertigo V 1. A Bo Diddley cover – it
reached No. 14 on the UK charts)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. My Heaven – CLEAR BLUE
SKY (on the album “Clear Blue Sky” released April 1971 on Vertigo 6360 013)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Travelling Lady – MANFRED
MANN’S CHAPTER THREE (on the album “Manfred Mann Chapter Three” released
November 1969 on Vertigo VO 3)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Behind The Wall Of Sleep
– BLACK SABBATH (on their debut album “Black Sabbath” released February 1970 on
Vertigo VO 6. It reached No. 8 in the UK charts)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. To Play Your Little Game
– CRESSIDA (on the album “Cressida” released February 1970 on vertigo VO 7)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Introduction – GRACIOUS!
(From the album “Gracious!” released June 1970 on Vertigo 6360 002)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Three Sisters – AFFINITY
(from the album “Affinity” released June 1970 on Vertigo 6360 004. The band
featured LINDA HOYLE who also had a Solo album on Vertigo in 1971 called
“Pieces Of Me”)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Walking On – BOB DOWNES
(from the album “Electric City” released July 1970 on Vertigo 6360 005)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. I Don’t Know – MAY BLITZ
(from the album “May Blitz” released July 1970 on Vertigo 6360 007)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Torrid Zone - NUCLEUS
(from the album “Elastic Rock” released June 1970 on Vertigo </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Handbags And Gladrags –
ROD STEWART (on his debut album “An Old Raincoat Won’t Let You Down” released
February 1970 in the UK on Vertigo VO 4)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Nothing At All – GENTLE
GIANT (on the album “Gentle Giant” released November 1970 on Vertigo 6360 020.
They went on to have a long career on both WWA Records and Chrysalis in the UK
and remain highly collectable to this day)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. The Influence – BEN (on
the album “Ben” released August 1971 on Vertigo 6360 052)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Disc 2</b> - Vertigo 9827985 –
(76:58 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Evil Woman's Manly Child
– Dr. Z (on the album "Three Parts To My Soul" released August 1971 on Vertigo
6360 048)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Borne On The Solar Wind –
JADE WARRIOR (on the album "Last Autumn's Dream" released November 1972 on
Vertigo 6360 079)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. The Man – PATTO (on the
album "Patto" released November 1970 on Vertigo 6360 016)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Thinking Of My Life –
JUICY LUCY (on their 2nd album "Lie Back And Enjoy It" released October 1970 on
Vertigo 6360 014) </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Half Baked – JIMMY
CAMPBELL (on the album "Half Baked" released August 1970 on Vertigo 6360 010)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. For Madmen Only – MAY
BLITZ (on their 2nd album "Second Of May" released June 1971 on Vertigo 6360
037)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. The Lady's Changing Home
– TUDOR LODGE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(on the album "Tudor
Lodge" released July 1971 on Vertigo 6360 043)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Time Machine – BEGGARS
OPERA (on the album "Waters Of Change" released September 1971 on Vertigo 6360
054)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Bring Out Your Dead –
COLOSSEUM (on the album "Daughter Of Time" released November 1970 on Vertigo
6360 017)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Mouthpiece – WARHORSE
(on the album "Red Sea" released May 1972 on Vertigo 6360 066)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Lady In Black – URIAH HEEP
(on the album "Salisbury" released February 1971 on Vertigo 6360 028)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Through The Years –
FREEDOM (on the album "Through The Years" released August 1971 on Vertigo 6360
050)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Midnight Moses – THE
SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND (on the album "Framed" released December 1972 on
Vertigo 6360 081)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Lord Of The Ages – MAGNA
CARTA (on the album "Lord Of The Ages" released September 1973 on vertigo 6360
093)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Disc 3</b> – Vertigo 9827983 –
(79:17 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Living At The End Of Time
– ATLANTIS (on the album "Atlantis" released March 1973 on Vertigo 6360 609)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Life Child – RAMASES (on
the LP "Space Hymns" released July 1971 on Vertigo 6360 046)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. McArthur Park – BEGGARS
OPERA (on the album "Pathfinder" released July 1972 on Vertigo 6360 073. It's a
cover of the Jimmy Webb song made famous by actor Richard Harris and later
Disco Diva Donna Summer)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Song For The Bearded Lady
– NUCLEUS (on the album "We'll Talk About It Later" released February 1971 on
Vertigo 6360 027)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Patagruel's Nativity –
GENTLE GIANT (on the album "Acquiring The Taste" released July 1971 on Vertigo
6360 041) </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. (A Ballad Of) A Peaceful
Mind – GRAVY TRAIN (on the album "(A Ballad Of) A Peaceful Man" released
September 1971 on Vertigo 6360 051)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Powers Of Darkness –
RONNO (on the album "Powers Of Darkness" released March 1971 on Vertigo 6360
029. The band featuring ace-guitarist MICK RONSON who went on to Solo stardom
and as a sidekick to both David Bowie and Lou Reed)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Paper Plane – STATUS QUO
(on the album "Piledriver" released 8 December 1972 on Vertigo 6360 082)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Little Known – IAN
MATTHEWS (on the album "If You Saw Thru My Eyes" released May 1971 on Vertigo
6360 034)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Let It Happen – VANGELIS
O. PAPATHANASSIOU (from the album "Earth" released 1973 on Vertigo 6499 693)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Mwenga Sketch – JADE
WARRIOR (exclusive to the double-album Vertigo label sampler "Suck It And See" released May 1973 on Vertigo 6641 116)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. The Four Horsemen –
APHRODITE'S CHILD (on the album "666" released May 1972 on Vertigo 6673 001.
The band famously featured keyboard wizard Vangelis and Greek singer DEMIS
ROUSSOS)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Spiral Architect – BLACK
SABBATH (on the album "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" released December 1973 on
Vertigo 6360 115)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The mini clamshell box
contains a fantastic 48-page booklet with hugely detailed liner notes by
reissue hero MARK POWELL – there’s the usual band photos, the album sleeves in
miniature (and in colour) – but it’s the trade adverts you’ve never seen that
impress most. Better is the PASCHAL BYRNE remastering (done at Audio Archiving
in London) which is up to his usual standard of excellence. This guy has been
on hundreds of reissues – especially in the Progressive Rock field – so he
knows how to handle these tapes. The audio is clear, punchy and if there’s hiss
on some tracks – he lets them breath. A great done…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The
funkier side of Vertigo
is kind of shocking – Affinity's "Three Sisters" from their debut
features
LINDA HOYLE on lead vocals and comes on like Cold Blood with Lydia Pence
(Atlantic Records) – great brass, keys and guitar hooks aligned around a
Julie
Driscoll type vocalist. It's immediately followed by the even
more-catchy "Walking On" from BOB DOWNES sounding not unlike Blood,
Sweat & Tears finding their inner Prog. That funky groove
continues with "I Don't Know" by
MAY BLITZ with a fantastically clever guitar repetition throughout that
digs in
from the start and only deviates to let the drums and bass battle it out
before
the guitars rip. At times it sounds like the innovativeness of Zeppelin
II. We
then firmly enter the area of Rock Fusion with the stunning NUCLEUS
instrumental "Torrid Zone" – a near 9-minute fest of IAN CARR's trumpet
sounding like Miles Davis discovering his inner bop. It's easy to see
why
Jazzers and even Soul Boys want this so much – it's undeniably brilliant
and
the remaster is fabulous highlighting the amazing speaker-to-speaker
musicianship. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">After all the Hard Rock, Metal, Jazz Fusion and general mayhem –
Rod Stewart's gorgeous cover of Mike D'Abo's "Handbags & Gladrags" comes as
a melodic surprise – and as ever – a heart-warming one. We return to more familiar
Genesis-like Prog territory with GENTLE GIANT's equally lovely "Nothing At
All". Produced by Tony Visconti – its nine minutes has beautifully
accomplished harmony vocals floating over pretty guitars and keys – and again –
it's shockingly good. Like their fellow mates on Vertigo – the obscure BEN fit
into the jazzy Nucleus, Affinity and Colosseum bracket. The ten-minute flute
and guitar battle that is "The Influence" sounds like its late Sixties Doors
doing an instrumental – funky Rock with Jazz leanings – very cool indeed and it
ends Disc 1 on a definite high. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 2 opens with a rarity by DR. Z - their album having reputedly sold less than 100 copies. Formed by a Professor of
Swansea University - Keith Keyes aped his surname and played a mean set of
keyboards. Their lone track has a slightly vaudeville backing and funky piano
riff – sounding not unlike the kind of thing you'd hear in a Jesus Christ
Superstar stage show. Colosseum's "Bring Out Your Dead" is a fabulous funky
instrumental but Uriah Heep's clunky "Lady In Black" is less impressive. Freedom was
formed by ex Procol Harum bods Bobby Harrison and Ray Roger and their "Through
The Years" is a cracking Rock tune with great lead guitar from Roger
throughout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then things go stellar
for me – the utterly brilliant "Borne On The Solar Wind" by JADE WARRIOR – the
kind of drifting, floating Prog instrumental I love. I'm forever putting it on
70s FEST CD-Rs and it always elicits a "...whose this!?" response. It sounds not
unlike Brian Eno's instrumental "Another Green World" – the theme music used
for the British TV program "Arena" (with the logo floating in the bottle). Disc
2 ends with the acoustic whimsy of "Lord Of The Ages" where most of its story
of knights, dark forests and black granite is spoken. Genius… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 3 opens with a
lesser-heard belter – "Living At The End Of Time" by ATLANTIS - sounding like
Graham Bond meets Greenslade. It also reminds me a lot of the title track of
Gary Moore's first solo album on CBS called "Grinding Stone" – a sort of Jeff
Beck speed guitar thing with a fast funky rock backbeat. Things get hippy-dippy
with "Pantagruel's Nativity" by GENTLE GIANT sounding not unlike RUSH on too
many mushrooms. We're then hit with a piece of genuine Progressive Rock
excellence – Gravy Train's "(A Ballad Of) A Peaceful Man" that opens with
classily orchestrated strings and goes a bit Tull for the rest of it seven
minutes. Things get Folk-plaintive with "Little Known" from the wonderful ex
Fairport Convention songsmith Iain Matthews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
then we get my favourite on the entire box – a true hidden gem – "Let
It Happen" by none other than Blade Runner supremo VANGELIS (trading
under
his full name). The vocals on this funk fusion gem are actually sung by
Robert
Fitoussi and I can safely say I've seen the "Earth" album maybe twice in
my
life. Apparently it was big in Europe but Vertigo did little to promote
it or
him here in Blighty. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">So there you have it. Having
worked in record shops all my life – I know the resistance this particular
record label evokes – almost to the point of being pathological. Well – well
done to all involved with this superb box set for making a case. Don’t be put
off – dig in and explore the swirl…</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-55597359354908290682020-03-02T00:13:00.000-08:002020-03-02T00:16:08.362-08:00"Torrid Zone: The Vertigo Recordings 1970-1975" by NUCLEUS and IAN CARR (29 March 2019 UK Esoteric Recordings 6CD Clamshell Box - Paschal Byrne Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZjJa39u9TYjyzJQqF8GTVkZCNH4n7GVpM_Xrz_aZWusjcrqYdffJe_9BP3f83o_9OM8InyvpcB4O1zGUta6MQ9lw43EPE5p-MPr1KxNi2c2UAxLRQFuf5L5w9KnrKL9qXgrXgTCOudGM/s1600/IMG_5928.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1517" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZjJa39u9TYjyzJQqF8GTVkZCNH4n7GVpM_Xrz_aZWusjcrqYdffJe_9BP3f83o_9OM8InyvpcB4O1zGUta6MQ9lw43EPE5p-MPr1KxNi2c2UAxLRQFuf5L5w9KnrKL9qXgrXgTCOudGM/s400/IMG_5928.JPG" width="378" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZOytDVmOy0pKuQTrzZaPkOVH0v0pzWhe1tIb9kKf__sL84IHXqgD-IXJdBfZagMV87RC8lwUMTAiGvJ-GbZ276TTiiHIlCFpQZrpn2MZWYvMFnkxABujNZbzVNdftitQgVbRb4o4cHAg/s1600/IMG_5936.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1111" data-original-width="1600" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZOytDVmOy0pKuQTrzZaPkOVH0v0pzWhe1tIb9kKf__sL84IHXqgD-IXJdBfZagMV87RC8lwUMTAiGvJ-GbZ276TTiiHIlCFpQZrpn2MZWYvMFnkxABujNZbzVNdftitQgVbRb4o4cHAg/s400/IMG_5936.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCySE-EkQhYYaMeXWjiNsn6qFXlcKrcfbfaETNAVyJbrwDjKRdXDVDA6iyW8c4IXQ5mmWkdb-M_BB7uAHXNqt-lErmVVjLy6mjDJvBu6LhVzkebZ6EejdMen_ToR1-59SbdTffTbnCRjE/s1600/IMG_5937.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1600" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCySE-EkQhYYaMeXWjiNsn6qFXlcKrcfbfaETNAVyJbrwDjKRdXDVDA6iyW8c4IXQ5mmWkdb-M_BB7uAHXNqt-lErmVVjLy6mjDJvBu6LhVzkebZ6EejdMen_ToR1-59SbdTffTbnCRjE/s400/IMG_5937.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNMuGYKvrlT9Ufg-b31KFruYVhI5kJSqNooj_pduZQb-X8Anykk8qqvC3lT3RFzOOBA9mYyBTPssDyAr9w2CBS8r-HxQ8JoZ84wU4NKgJ1wbiETYtoP_Z7nwiROO-AyAXICo-F1iIplNk/s1600/IMG_5947.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="1600" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNMuGYKvrlT9Ufg-b31KFruYVhI5kJSqNooj_pduZQb-X8Anykk8qqvC3lT3RFzOOBA9mYyBTPssDyAr9w2CBS8r-HxQ8JoZ84wU4NKgJ1wbiETYtoP_Z7nwiROO-AyAXICo-F1iIplNk/s400/IMG_5947.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_bLGSUYZYiuZQY5va9yv8M-adw8hPuv5-vplEypY6PP8Vrc6S1_3teefFizx9C7F_FOMUkXxSdVO2QFyLUlf1XS9ZQHJNcK4dJ2L_HwTzmmrXEdrZV4-w8vtUTAjpvKDZNU8UEWC4gc/s1600/IMG_5954.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1511" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_bLGSUYZYiuZQY5va9yv8M-adw8hPuv5-vplEypY6PP8Vrc6S1_3teefFizx9C7F_FOMUkXxSdVO2QFyLUlf1XS9ZQHJNcK4dJ2L_HwTzmmrXEdrZV4-w8vtUTAjpvKDZNU8UEWC4gc/s400/IMG_5954.JPG" width="377" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07MWXTN2M&asins=B07MWXTN2M&linkId=f548fdf605cba0b019401ceb696191b8&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">This Review and 100s of Others Available in my e-Book:</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07KK8FR9Z&asins=B07KK8FR9Z&linkId=49d1fc807c6c4a5aa2ad4e60b2b95b9f&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Contains their debut album <b>"Plastic Rock" from 1970</b> on Vertigo Records </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"...Labyrinth..."</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Scottish Trumpeter IAN CARR (raised in
Newcastle) has deserved this kind of lavish clamshell-dom for some time now.
But fans will quickly clock that nine album front covers onto six card sleeves
does not artwork go. I say this because on opening this still brilliant
Esoteric Recordings mini box set (which the spirit of textured gatefold LP
sleeves within me has been looking forward to for some time) - I have to
confess to being slightly crest-fallen. Five of the single CD card sleeves
reflect the original and cool Roger Dean and Keith Davis artwork for sure (disc
three has the October 1972 Ian Car solo album "Belladonna") – but my
fave die-cut for their brilliant debut "Elastic Rock" had to be
replaced with a period image instead. Boo hoo...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But not to fear my elasticated rocking alley
cats – this Jazz Rock Prog-tastic monster hasn’t missed anything else that I
can see - all of the original artwork inside and out is repro’d faithfully in the
substantially chunky booklet, alongside a whole lot more from magazine and
personal archives, most of it seeing the 2019 light of day for the first time
in nearly five decades. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But for me, best news is the new Audio - fabulous
Paschal Byrne Remasters taken from original Vertigo Records mastertapes, which
for my money is one of 'the' reasons for fan purchase. Sweet as a zone that’s
torrid (as they say in pre Brexit Brussels). There's a veritable magma flow of
solar plexus blowhard horns and synths to wade through, so once more my swirl
label devotees unto the die-cut breach...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">UK released Friday, 29 March 2019 (5 April 2019
in the USA) - <b>"Torrid Zone: The Vertigo Recordings 1970-1975" by
NUCLEUS & IAN CARR on Esoteric Recordings ECLEC 62663 (Barcode
5013929476301) is a 6CD Clamshell Box Set offering 9 albums in full</b> (no
other bonuses) and plays out as follows:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 1 (64:42 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. 1916 [Side 1]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Elastic Rock</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Striation</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Taranki</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Twisted Track</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Crude Blues (Part One) </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Crude Blues (Part Two)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. 1916 - The Battle Of Boogaloo</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Torrid Zone [Side 2]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Stonescape</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. Earth Mother</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. Speaking For Myself, Personally, In My Own
Opinion, I Think...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. Persephones Jive</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 13 are their debut album
"Elastic Rock" [as NUCLEUS] - released June 1970 in the UK on Vertigo
6360 008 (no US issue) - Produced by PETE KING.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. Song For The Bearded Lady [Side 1]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15. Sun Child</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">16. Lullaby For A Lonely Child</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17. We'll Talk About It Later</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 14 to 17 are Side 1 of their second album
"We'll Talk About It Later" [as NUCLEUS] - released February 1971 in
the UK on Vertigo 6360 027 (no US issue) - Produced by PETE KING. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 2 (67:27 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Oasis [Side 2]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Ballad Of Joe Pimp</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Easter 1916</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 3 are Side 2 of their second album
"We'll Talk About It Later" [as NUCLEUS] - released February 1971 in
the UK on Vertigo 6360 027 (no US issue) - Produced by PETE KING. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Elements I & II [Side 1]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Changing Times</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Bedrock Deadlock</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Spirit Level</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Torso [Side 2]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Snakehips Dream</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 4 to 9 are their third studio album
"Solar Plexus" [as IAN CARR with NUCLEUS] - released June 1971 in the
UK on Vertigo 6360 039 (no US issue) - Produced by PETE KING. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">IAN CARR - Trumpet and Flugelhorn </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">BRIAN SMITH - Tenor and Soprano Saxophone and
Flute</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">KARL JENKINS - Baritone Saxophone, Oboe, Piano
and Electric Pianos</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">CHRIS SPEDDING - Guitar</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">JEFF CLYNE - Bass Guitars </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">JOHN MARSHALL - Drums and Percussion<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Above line-up for the first two LPs, but for
"Solar Plexus", these additional:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Kenny Wheeler and Harry Beckett on Trumpets
(Tracks 4, 5, 8 and 9)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tony Roberts – Tenor Saxophone, Bass and
Clarinet</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ron Matthewson – Bass </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Keith Winter – VCS3 Synthesiser </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 3 (65:56 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Belladonna [Side 1]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Summer Rain</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Remadione [Side 2]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. May Day</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Suspension</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Hector's House</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 6 are the album
"Belladonna" [by IAN CARR] – released October 1972 in the UK on
Vertigo 6360 076 (no US issue) – Produced by JON HISEMAN of Colosseum </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">IAN CARR - Trumpet and Flugelhorn </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">BRIAN SMITH - Tenor and Soprano Saxophone, Alto
and Bamboo Flute</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">DAVE MacRAE – Fender Electric Piano</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ALAN HOLDSWORTH – Guitar </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ROY BABBINGTON – Bass Guitar</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">CHRIS THACKER - Drums</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Origins [Side 1]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Bull Dance</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Ariadne</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Arena</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 7 to 10 are Side 1 of the album
"Labyrinth" [by IAN CARR with NUCLEUS] – released July 1973 in the UK
on Vertigo 6360 091 (no US issue) – Produced by IAN CARR and ROGER WAKE</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 4 (73:59 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Arena/Exultation [Side 2]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Naxos</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 2 are Side 2 of the album
"Labyrinth" [by IAN CARR with NUCLEUS] – released July 1973 in the UK
on Vertigo 6360 091 (no US issue) – Produced by IAN CARR and ROGER WAKE</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">IAN CARR - Trumpet and Flugelhorn </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">BRIAN SMITH - Tenor and Soprano Saxophone, Flute</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">DAVE MacRAE – Fender Electric Piano</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ALAN HOLDSWORTH – Guitar </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ROY BABBINGTON – Bass Guitar</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">CHRIS THACKER – Drums</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Plus Guests:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Kenny Wheeler – Trumpets and Flugelhorn</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Norma Winstone – Vocals</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Paddy Kingsland – VCS3 Synthesiser</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Trevor Tomkins – Percussion </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tony Levin – Drums</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Roots [Side 1]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Images</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Caliban</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Whapatiti [Side 2]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Capricorn</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Odokamona</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Southern Roots And Celebration</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 3 to 19 are the album "Roots"
[by IAN CARR’S NUCLEUS] – released November 1973 in the UK on Vertigo 6360 100
(no US issue) – Produced by FRITZ FRYER </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">IAN CARR – Trumpet</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">BRIAN SMITH – Tenor and Soprano Saxophone,
Flute and Bamboo Flute</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">DAVID MacRAE – Electric and Acoustic Piano</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">JOCELYN PITCHEN – Guitars </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ROGER SUTTON – Bass</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">CLIVE THACKER – Drums (Percussion on
"Images")</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">AUREO de SOUZA – Percussion (Drums on
"Images")</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">JOY YATES - Vocals</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. In Procession [Side 1]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. The Addison Trip</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. Pastoral Graffiti</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. New Life</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. A Taste Of Sarsaparilla</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 10 to 14 are Side 1 of the album
"Under The Sun" [by NUCLEUS] – released October 1974 in the UK on Vertigo
6360 110 (no US issue) - Produced by FRITZ FRYER.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 5 (67:24 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Theme 1 - Sarsaparilla</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Theme 2 - Feast Alfresco</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Theme 3 - Rites Of Man</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 3 are Side 2 of the album
"Under The Sun" [by NUCLEUS] – released October 1974 in the UK on
Vertigo 6360 110 (no US issue) - Produced by FRITZ FRYER.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">IAN CARR – Trumpet and Flugelhorn</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">BOB BERTIES – Alto and Baritone Saxophone, Bass
Clarinet and Flute</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">GORDON BECK – Electric Piano and Percussion
(Solo on "Sarsaparilla")</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">GEOFF CASTLE – Electric Piano and VCS3 Synthesiser
(Piano on "A Taste Of Sarsaparilla")</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">JOCELYN PITCHEN – Guitars (Solo on "New
Life")</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">KEN SHAW – Guitars (Ring Modulated Piano on
"In Procession")</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ROGER SUTTON – Bass</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">BRYAN SPRING – Drums, Tympani and Percussion </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Guests: </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Keiran White (of Steamhammer) sings Vocals on
"The Addison Trip"</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Rat's Bag [Side 1]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Alive And Kicking</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Rachel's Tune</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Snakehips Etcetera [Side 2]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Pussyfoot</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Heyday</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 4 to 9 are the album "Snakehips
Etcetera" [by NUCLEUS] – released April 1975 in the UK on Vertigo 6360 119
and Sire SASD-7508 in the USA (first album by Nucleus issued in America) -
Produced by JON HISEMAN of Colosseum.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 6 (41:22 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Phaideaux Corner [Side 1]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Alleycat</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Splat [Side 2]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. You Can't Be Sure</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Nosegay</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 5 are the album
"Alleycat" [by NUCLEUS] – released November 1975 in the UK on Vertigo
6360 124 (no US issue) - Produced by JON HISEMAN of Colosseum.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Line-Up for both "Snakehips Etcetera"
and "Alleycat"</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">IAN CARR – Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Acoustic Piano,
Moog, Percussion</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">BOB BERTIES – Alto, Baritone and Soprano
Saxophones, Flute, Voice</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">KEN SHAW – Guitars and Percussion</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">GEOFF CASTLE – Keyboards, Moog, Percussion</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ROGER SUTTON – Bass</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ROGER SELLERS – Drums and Percussion </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Guest:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Trevor Tomkins – Percussion on "Phaideaux
Corner" and "Alleycat" on the "Alleycat" album</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Compiled and co-ordinated by MARK POWELL with
full involvement from those still around the band, the 48-page booklet is an
impressive affair and very proudly flaunts the boxes of original Vertigo master
tapes across its many picture-festooned pages (along with all of that dinky
Roger Dean artwork). Noted writer SID SMITH (who did the liner notes for the
impressive Panegyric 'Definitive Edition' CD and BLU RAY reissues of YES) digs in deep for a
history across nine studio albums beginning with Carr’s career as part of the
Don Rendell Quartet (1965 to 1969) on to Best Group awards at The Montreaux
Jazz Festival and celebrated dates in the USA. There are promo pages from
Phonogram (who distributed Vertigo), a concert poster for the Queen Elizabeth
Hall where a program would set you back a frankly extortionate 10p (ten new
pence to you mate) and so on. To the music...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I suspect the last time anyone had these albums
on CD in their mits was the 2005 Repertoire reissues – here the Audio is not so
in-your-face – warmer and fuller. Spedding trades his guitar licks with the
horns of Ian Carr and Karl Jenkins on "Taranaki" – a Karl Jenkins
mellow instrumental on Side 1 of "Elastic Rock" and two things are
apparent – the band has been listening to Miles Davis and his 1969 Columbia/CBS
Records output for a entire year and that the Remaster is fantastic. Sure the
separation of instruments is a tad harsh but man are they reproduced well in
this transfer. Again the Chris Spedding intro to "Earth Mother" over
on Side 2 accompanied by some heavy Oboe soloing is clear and present – Jeff
Clyne on Bass. Another moment of remaster clarity comes with the drums, guitar
and brass unison opening of "Crude Blues (Part Two)" – a short but
very cool opening to Side 2 of the album. Many fans rate "Elastic
Rock" as a brilliant account-opener and they’d be right – apart from the
one and half-minute drum nonsense of "Speaking For Myself..." – there
is hardly a wasted moment. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Issued in February 1971, the proper full-on
Jazz-Prog-Rock of "Song For The Bearded Lady" from their second album
"We'll Talk About It Later" was chosen as the representative track
for the "Time Machine" 3CD Box Set covering Vertigo Records in 2005 ("Torrid
Zone" from the 1970 debut album is in there too). And frankly it’s easy to
hear why – a neck-jerking seven and a half-minute instrumental workout with
clever musical breaks and a hat-tip to King Crimson over on Island Records. Spedding
gets to wah-wah his gee-tar on the Clyne/Marshall jabber "Sun Child"
behind Carr and Jenkins letting it rip. Miles Davis pretty surfaces in the
guise of "Lullaby For A Lonely Child", but the echoed vocals of "Easter
1916" Zappa-fy the album finisher too much for me (and not in a good way).
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">By the time we reach album three, Ian Carr has
taken over composition of all tracks. Guests Kenny Wheeler on Flugelhorn and
Tony Roberts on Tenor Sax act as the soloists on "Changing Times" –
Nucleus getting Funky. Karl Jenkins does the Oboe solo on the sad Tudor
soundscape of "Bedrock Deadlock" with Jeff Clyne drawing his bow
across large Double Bass strings before the six and half-minute track takes a
sudden and unexpected Funky direction change with a treated guitar from
Spedding (very clever and sounding spiffing on this transfer). Confirming its
rep as a quality Nucleus outing, the album ends on an epic 15-minute slink – "Snakehips’
Dream" – a tribute to a lady dancer Carr once knew called "Snakehips"
Johnson. It’s the first time for me that the keyboards/guitar battles get pride
of place – and it so works (best track they ever did methinks). </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The inevitable Ian Carr solo album arrived in
October 1972 in the shape of "Belladonna" – again its six lengthy
instrumentals steeped in the smooze of IC’s acknowledged hero – Miles Davis.
The transfer on the lovely and nay even sexy "Summer Rain" is so
sweet – with newcomer Dave MacRae bringing his keyboard chops to the party. Jon
Hiseman’s production certainly amps up the Alan Holdsworth Guitar and Brian Smith
Brass blasts on "Hector's Party" – a song that sounds exactly like
its hep title.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A muscular loincloth-clad gladiator brute-type
manhandles a Minotaur on the front cover of "Labyrinth" – Nucleus
commissioned by the Park Lane Group (with Arts Council funding) to create music
based on the antiquities myth (Athens vs. Crete etc). They augmented the band
with so many musicians that they literally get a credits ‘Plus’ on the front
sleeve – amongst the names being Norma Winstone on Vocals with ace sessionman Tony
Levin on Drums (years later he would become the defacto kit-man for Peter
Gabriel’s touring band). It opens with the suitably ominous danger inherent in
the stabby "Origins" only to go all Bullet bass lines chase sequence
on the sexy "Bull Dance". Shimmering Greenslade-type electric piano
notes open seven minutes of the excellent "Ariadne" with Norma
Waterstone’s high-flying vocals singing of seekers and their detractors - while
over on Side 2 the two lengthy workouts "Exultation" and "Naxos"
bring the ancient tale into serious Prog-Fusion mode. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Highlights from albums five to nine include the
first-time-on-CD appearance of the much-sampled "Roots" LP from
November 1973 – resplendent here on CD 4 with its fab Keith Davis designed
sleeve. Super cool slow-Drums and Brass-jabbing Grooves give the title track
the feel of a Seventies Cop TV show where some Superslick Detective falls in
love with a babe from the driver’s seat of his cigarettes ‘n’ coffee filthy car
(fantastic remaster too). The cool continues with "Images" where Joy
Yates Jazz-moans her words as the British lads smooze the backbeat. "Caliban"
sees Nucleus once again embrace their inner Billy Cobham by way of Donald Byrd
– funky and sounding like a dead ringer for the sequel "Baby Driver 2: Behind
The Wheel Again". Keiran White of Steamhammer moans scat vocals on the
hipster Jazz-Funk of "The Addison Trip" while Roger Sutton lets rip
on a Bass solo. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The "Under The Sun" album is probably
the most Jazz of the lot while I’ve always been partial to the Jon Hiseman
produced "Snakehips Etcetera" LP with its garish glossy laminate
sleeve (fave tracks "Alive And Kicking" and "Pussyfoot").
And on it goes...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For sure listening to nine albums worth of Jazz
Rock, Prog Fusion and even Jeff Beck like funkiness may prove too much for the
uninitiated – but I’ve loved this vaults trawl. And how good is it to see the
missing digital hole of "Roots" finally be filled and in such Audio
style too. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As Sid Smith quite rightly points out in his
typically excellent liner notes, bands like Chick Corea’s Return To Forever and
John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra probably sold more album on Columbia/CBS
in a month than poor Ian Carr did across six years in Blighty - even when Prog
Rock and Fusion were literally flavour of the year in 1973 and 1974 – regularly
nabbing the No. 1 spot on the LP charts for ELP, Yes, Jethro Tull and Top 5 for
Genesis. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But
spare a moment for the nine-LP Spice Girls
of Jazz-Rock – NUCLEUS. They may have only charted their debut album for
one miserly week
in 1970 (at No. 46) - but their consistent (yet commercially ignored)
brilliance
is reflected in this jam-packed box. Man, I could even forgive Ian
Carr’s seriously
garish Tartan trousers on Page 41 of the booklet as he giggles at the
advances
of a scantily clad lady in hots pants threatening to do things to his
improvisational ass with a Bottle of Stout that may have worried those
nice people over at the BBC. Them were the days
baby. Recommended and well-done to all involved...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-38574085172170032872020-03-02T00:10:00.000-08:002020-03-02T02:34:34.541-08:00"Five Guys Walk Into A Bar..". by FACES - A Review Of the 2004 Rhino 4CD Book Set...Featuring Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ58KBku0YZGbaNY3koEiddQtWNUAUV89wYi36icrxNiKQxKzXlbtjCY3-8iW8jb-oqFK3t26F4E5BzQVEoXy6P4b4FBnx-XLsqgubzn15bBUiVys7eY3ipi1GbyRC7AufcXjBVbJ5mCnI/s1600/Faces+-+Five+Guys+Box+Set.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ58KBku0YZGbaNY3koEiddQtWNUAUV89wYi36icrxNiKQxKzXlbtjCY3-8iW8jb-oqFK3t26F4E5BzQVEoXy6P4b4FBnx-XLsqgubzn15bBUiVys7eY3ipi1GbyRC7AufcXjBVbJ5mCnI/s1600/Faces+-+Five+Guys+Box+Set.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=5559619833&asins=5559619833&linkId=096843c589c6e9bc1fdead64e74f182f&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></div>
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Features their Debut album from 1970 <b>"First Step"</b> on Warner Brothers </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"...How's That Ron? Very Nice!"</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such
is the industry-wide legacy of THE FACES, when Glen Matlock of THE SEX
PISTOLS auditioned for the band - he played "Three Button Hand Me Down"
and immediately got the job, Slash from GUNS 'N' ROSES, Jeff Tweedy from
WILCO, Rich Robertson from THE BLACK CROWES and Gaz Coombes from
SUPERGRASS all wax lyrical about the only British Rock 'n' Roll band to
seriously rival (and at times beat) The Rolling Stones. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
this fantastically evocative 4CD Book Set from the mighty reissue label
of Rhino only hammers home their legend - offering up a lethal mixture
of new and old with a boozy swagger than would make most modern bands
blush. Here are the champers...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Released July 2004 - <b>"Fives Guys Walk Into A Bar..." by FACES</b>
on Warner Brothers/Rhino 8122-78233-2 (Barcode 081227823320) is a 4CD
Book Set of Remasters covering 1970 to 1975 and breaks down as
follows...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Disc 1 (77:41 minutes):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Flying - from their debut LP "First Step", also the A-side of a UK 7" single issued February 1970 on Warner Brothers WB 8005</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. On The Beach - from their 2nd LP "Long Player"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3.
Too Bad - from their 3rd album "A Nod's As Good As A Wink...To A Blind
Horse" - credited in the USA as "A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind
Horse")</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. If I'm On The Late Side - from their 4th and last studio album "Ooh La La"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Debris - as per 3. Also the B-side of "Stay With Me", a 3 December 1971 UK 7" single on Warner Brothers K 16136.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Note the US B-side was the album track "You're So Rude" on Warner Brothers WB 7545</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Jealous Guy [John Lennon cover] - an "Ooh La La" outtake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Evil (Rehearsal) - a Willie Dixon song (done by Howlin' Wolf) - from their first rehearsals recorded in the Summer of 1969</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. As Long As You Tell Him - the non-album B-side to "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything..."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - a 7" single released November 1974 on Warner Brothers K 16494 in the UK and May 1975 in the USA on Warner Brothers WBS 8102</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9. Maggie May (Live/BBC) - from The BBC Radio 1 Program Top Gear recorded 28 September 1971</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10. Cindy Incidentally (Alternate Mix) - an "Ooh La La" outtake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11.
Maybe I'm Amazed (Live/BBC) - a Paul McCartney cover recorded for the
BBC TV Program "Sounds For Saturday: The Music Of The Faces" on 26
October 1971</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12. Insurance - an instrumental "Ooh La La" outtake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13.
I Came Looking For You (Rehearsal) - from a quick shag at THE MARIE
ANTOINETTE HOTEL in New Orleans, Louisiana recorded 25 July 1971</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">14. Last Orders Please - as per 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15. Wyndlesham Bay (Jodie) - an "Ooh La La" outtake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">16. I Can Feel The Fire (Live) - from a concert at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino in California recorded 7 March 1975</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">17.
Tonight's Number - from the RONNIE WOOD and RONNIE LANE album
"Mahoney's Last Stand", an Original Soundtrack LP released in 1976 on
Atlantic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was also a 7" single in the UK on Atlantic K 50308</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">18. Come See Me Baby (The Cheater) - an "Ooh La La" outtake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[Note: 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, and 18 are PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Disc 2 (79:10 minutes):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Pool Hall Richard - a non-album 7" single first released 30 November 1973 in the UK on Warner Brothers K 16341 as the A-side</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. You're My Girl (I Don't Want To Discuss It) (Live/BBC) - recorded 1 April 1973 for the BBC Radio 1 Program 'In Concert'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Glad And Sorry - from "Ooh La La" album</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Shake, Shudder, Shiver (Rehearsal) - as per 7 on Disc 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Miss Judy's Farm (Live/BBC) - as per 2 on Disc 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Richmond - from "Long Player" album</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. That's All You Need - from "A Nod's As Good As A Wink..." album</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Rear Wheel Skid - the non-album B-side to the 7" single of "Had Me A Real Good Time"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - released 13 November 1970 in the UK on Warner Brothers WB 8018 and 21 October 1970 in the USA on Warner Brothers WB 7442</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9.
Maybe I'm Amazed - a 6 April 1971 US 7" single on Warner Brothers WB
7483. It's a non-album edit of the full album version which is on "Long
Player"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right - a Homer Banks cover and an "Ooh La La" outtake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11. Take A Look At The Guy (Live) - as per 16 on Disc 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12. Flags And Banners - from "Ooh La La" album</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13. Bad 'n' Ruin (Live/BBC) - recorded 19 April 1971 for the BBC TV Program 'Disco 2'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">14.
Around The Plynth [Album Version at 5:56 minutes] - from the "Long
Player" album. Note: in the USA there was a 7" single edit at 4:02
minutes released 29 April 1970 on Warner Brothers WB 7393 with "Wicked
Messenger" from the album as its B-side (a Bob Dylan cover). It was also
credited to the SMALL FACES and is unfortunately not on this box set.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15. Sweet Lady Mary - from the "Long Player" album</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">16.
Had Me A Real Good Time [Album Version 5:53 minutes] - from the "Long
Player" album. Note: the US 7" single released 21 October 1970 on Warner
Brothers WB 7442 and 13 November 1970 in the UK on Warner Brothers WB
8018 both used 'edits'. If you program this track on your PC or Mac to
end at 2:53 minutes - you will get that 7" single edit. Its non-album
instrumental B-side "Real Wheel Skid" is Track 8 on Disc 2.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">17.
Cut Across Shorty (Live/BBC) - an Edie Cochran cover version recorded
13 May 1971 for the BBC Radio 1 Program 'John Peel's Sunday Concert'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[Note: 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13 and 17 are PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Disc 3 (74:24 minutes):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1.
You're So Rude - from "A Nod's As Good As A Wink..." album. Also the
American B-side to "Stay With Me" (see Track 5 on Disc 1)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. (I Know) I'm Losing You (Live/BBC) - as per Track 11 on Disc 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Love Lives Here - from "A Nod's As Good As A Wink..." album</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. I'd Rather Go Blind (Live) - an Etta James/Chicken Shack cover - as per Track 16 on Disc 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5.
Hi-Heel Sneakers/Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - studio outtake from
the FACES last recording session at Air Studios in London, 27 January
1975</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Getting' Hungry - A Beach Boys cover - as per Track 5 on Disc 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Silicone Grown - from "Ooh La La" album</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Oh Lord I'm Browned Off - non-album B-side to the 7" single of "Maybe I'm Amazed" - see Track 9 on Disc 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9. Just Another Honky - from "Ooh La La" album</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10.
Open To Ideas - as per Track 5 on Disc 3. First appeared as a new song
on the 1999 Best Of CD compilation "Good Boys...When They're Asleep"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11. Skewiff (Mend The Fuse) - the non-album instrumental B-side to "Cindy Incidentally"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- released 5 February 1973 in the USA on Warner Brothers WB 7681 and 9 February 1973 in the UK on Warner Brothers K 16247</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12. Too Bad (Live) - from a concert at Tampa Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida recorded 30 April 1972</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13. Rock Me - as per Track 5 on Disc 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">14. Angel (Live/BBC) - a Jimi Hendrix cover - as per Track 2 on Disc 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15. Stay With Me (Live/BBC) - as per Track 11 on Disc 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">16.
Ooh La La - from "Ooh La La" album. Also issued as a 7" single 6 June
1973 in the USA on Warner Brothers WB 7711 with the album track "Borstal
Boys" as its B-side</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[Note: 2, 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14 and 15 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Disc 4 (76:28 minutes):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. The Stealer (Live/BBC) - a Free cover - as per track 2 on Disc 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Around The Plynth/Gasoline Alley (Live/BBC) - from the BBC Radio Program `Top Gear' recorded 15 September 1970</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3.
You Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend
A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Short
Comings)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-
a non-album 7" single released 11 November 1974 in the UK on warner
Brothers K 16499 and 28 May 1975 in the USA (as an edit) on Warner
Brothers WBS 8102</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4.
I Wish It Would Rain (Live) - a Temptations cover - non-album B-side of
"Pool Hall Richard" released 30 November 1973 in the UK on Warner
Brothers K 16341</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Miss Judy's Farm (Live/BBC) - as per Track 11 on Disc 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Love In Vain (Live/BBC) - as per Track 17 on Disc 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. My Fault (Live/BBC) - from the BBC Radio 1 Program 'Radio 1 Club' recorded 12 February 1973</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. I Feel So Good (Rehearsal) - as per Track 7 on Disc 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9. Miss Judy's Farm - from "A Nod's As Good As A Wink..." album</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10.
Three Button Hand Me Down - from "First Step" album. It was also the
B-side of their debut British single "Flying" released February 1970 on
Warner Brothers WB 7150</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11. Cindy Incidentally - from "Ooh La La" album. Also issued as a 7" single - see Track 11 on Disc 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12. Borstal Boys - from "Ooh La La". Also issued a 7" single - see Track 16 on Disc 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13. Flying (Live/BBC) - from the BBC Radio 1 Program `Dave Lee Travis' recorded 10 March 1970</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">14. Bad 'n' Ruin - from "Long Player" album</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15. Dishevelment Blues - a non-album exclusive track recorded for the UK 'NME Magazine April 1973' issue - recorded 5 April 1973</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">16. Stay With Me - from "A Nod's As Good As A Wink..." album. Also issued as a 7" single - see Track 5 on Disc 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[Note: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 13 are PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
attached 62-page colour booklet is a fabulous fan-fest - loads of
foreign picture sleeves, press clippings, live photos and all manner of
boozy tour shenanigans. There's a FACES towel with Rod Stewart, Ronnie
Wood, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones embroidered beneath the
'Faces' logo. Testimonials come from all the luminaries mentioned above
as well as witty remembrances from the boys and a great set of liner
notes by noted writer DAVID FRICKE. It really captures the fun of the
band and the lightning-in-a-bottle magic of their 4 studio albums. No
domestic shortcomings here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
DAN HERSCH and BILL INGLOT remasters are just 'so' good. These two
long-time in-house tape engineers have handled so much primo WEA
material across the years for Rhino - Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis
Redding to name but a few legends - but I bet they got their jollies
transferring and digitally preserving this catalogue. The audio is
wonderful - muscular, clear and full of that 'live-in-the-studio' feel
original Producers Glyn Johns, Mike Bobak and Ron Nevison got for the
Faces at the time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
Box Set mentions the "Coast To Coast" American Live album in 1973 on
Mercury Records but doesn't feature any tracks from it. You get three
tracks out of 10 from the debut LP "First Step", five out of 9 from the
2nd LP "Long Player", 8 out of 9 from "Nod" ("Memphis" is the missing
song) and 8 from the 10 from "Ooh La La" ("Fly In The Ointment" and "My
Fault" are the missing cuts). The rest are non-album singles, B-sides, a
Flexi Disc exclusive and a whopping 32 Previously Unreleased.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
first thing you notice (and appreciate) about the actual songs is that
IAN McLAGAN wisely hasn't sequenced the set chronologically (which he
felt would have been boring). Instead he jumbles it up and the result is
a play list on each CD that flits from one LP to another with an array
of top quality PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED material bolstering up the rowdy
proceedings in-between. It makes each disc feel like you're hearing the
band anew - a thrill at every turn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A
scan across the disc details listed above will show that there's a
large haul of outtakes from "Ooh La La" ("Come See Me Baby..." is great)
but disappointingly zip from their undisputed masterpiece "Nod". Still
the slide-fest that is "Around The Plynth" seguing into "Gasoline Alley"
is a belter - properly produced BBC quality. And the Soulfulness of the
band kicks in when covering the Homer Banks classic "(If Loving You Is
Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right" at their first rehearsals (the boy's
witter banter in the run out moments titles this review). The shadow of
Ronnie Lane lingers everywhere (the set is dedicated to him) - and I
don't care how many times I hear either "Debris" of "Glad And Sorry" -
they make me weak at the knees. And is it any wonder The Stones had to
have Ronnie Wood - his axework throughout is just brill. On the downside
you can actually hear Rodders' disinterest on the final 1975 sessions
covering songs they used to once die for. But it all ends on the glory
of "Stay With Me" and who could ask for more...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Raise
a glass of Dom Perignon to this sensational British band and prepare
the neighbours in advance...because things are going to get a bit rowdy
'round your house...</span>Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-73088464693581618882020-03-01T10:42:00.003-08:002020-03-01T10:42:35.978-08:00"The Atlantic Albums Collection" by ARETHA FRANKLIN (6 November 2015 Rhino/Atlantic 16-Albums Remastered onto 19CDs in a Clamshell Box Set – All Albums In Stereo – 336 Tracks - Bill Inglot and Dan Hersch Remasters) - Guest Musicians Include Ray Charles, Billy Preston, King Curtis, The Memphis Horns, Cornell Dupree, Curtis Mayfield, Duane Allman, Jerry Wexler, Arif Mardin and many more - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrRFGya3ZaamDDYEutob-TSRPLrFNKjaQvNXy8lRg2I4Y1Wlkv7mxYrN2kM1TKISvjySGrOy-6wuDSsLmGvFMLI1-HcpwiDml29ncQmYxOkVL0amiged3gyBIVItWrp-506_wyqH665p8/s1600/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1543" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrRFGya3ZaamDDYEutob-TSRPLrFNKjaQvNXy8lRg2I4Y1Wlkv7mxYrN2kM1TKISvjySGrOy-6wuDSsLmGvFMLI1-HcpwiDml29ncQmYxOkVL0amiged3gyBIVItWrp-506_wyqH665p8/s400/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="385" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy3qm6v2NGaYFCj3boJpcBihsjqtztluiK5axzmBjFWe1kbJMDjzOq-zxso5KFSr4aTIyi9cF6ncNyFtfdKjudAyzxZYrG2DKjTxKQiIP3Y0pnHf8LhZXZ8CPRxPhm_6eZj7Ru_jqBLfk/s1600/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Inners+16+Card+Sleeves+Spread%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="1600" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy3qm6v2NGaYFCj3boJpcBihsjqtztluiK5axzmBjFWe1kbJMDjzOq-zxso5KFSr4aTIyi9cF6ncNyFtfdKjudAyzxZYrG2DKjTxKQiIP3Y0pnHf8LhZXZ8CPRxPhm_6eZj7Ru_jqBLfk/s400/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Inners+16+Card+Sleeves+Spread%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBK_vR3B4UBSCEKZk8WhnpPjmy69TG83tWa000RW-9C542IpQhNk6bm9st5Tj0ifljpfXUOnuPF_nyw-SKgBorOWLcXRYrhveRpnIyt64D0hRHTyaiQIWtoG_sTndMckHZC9lGwRQSlg/s1600/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Inners+2+-+Six+Card+Sleeves+Spread%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1234" data-original-width="1600" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBK_vR3B4UBSCEKZk8WhnpPjmy69TG83tWa000RW-9C542IpQhNk6bm9st5Tj0ifljpfXUOnuPF_nyw-SKgBorOWLcXRYrhveRpnIyt64D0hRHTyaiQIWtoG_sTndMckHZC9lGwRQSlg/s400/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Inners+2+-+Six+Card+Sleeves+Spread%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gmjd7DKt5yKO3b1979BMgrIF7jQqo-RI_-brPui84g-ks7-nugE-qVyJ59_y-ntZomfgNqCI4jzQBPD8BvdCSvZQNM9bk3xlnEXlZc8BLwcNMsSrjhcwDf2T2QjDilgQbtm7uchhkAc/s1600/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Inners+3+-+Six+Card+Sleeves+Spread%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1600" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gmjd7DKt5yKO3b1979BMgrIF7jQqo-RI_-brPui84g-ks7-nugE-qVyJ59_y-ntZomfgNqCI4jzQBPD8BvdCSvZQNM9bk3xlnEXlZc8BLwcNMsSrjhcwDf2T2QjDilgQbtm7uchhkAc/s400/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Inners+3+-+Six+Card+Sleeves+Spread%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBVgsL7vT2t7pGbLrEOCsdT1zf6NbWkYcxMljWWtNpGh2_U75TqD3SFgtBRTa_2XEWr_6yaJ9AFrGATucFc6c_cReBkmuVehrQpA48Ttd-atKt0KHVzuSgRvaa0_hSxavQZJAWyP3mMi4/s1600/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Inners+4+-+Four+Final+Card+Sleeves+Spread%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1341" data-original-width="1600" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBVgsL7vT2t7pGbLrEOCsdT1zf6NbWkYcxMljWWtNpGh2_U75TqD3SFgtBRTa_2XEWr_6yaJ9AFrGATucFc6c_cReBkmuVehrQpA48Ttd-atKt0KHVzuSgRvaa0_hSxavQZJAWyP3mMi4/s400/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Inners+4+-+Four+Final+Card+Sleeves+Spread%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3-fsGFWPmeWXIIi_nfkJzybCb32A_K4SSv9AwxtYccfhO_IobgOegnixfqrk3zviM1WO8mFfFv_TTg9RtDQyI205rHdLhqeus-3x9qutUzNR8j93N2R6owJjhqh3XJ4wQpRNtDH0Fhec/s1600/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1577" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3-fsGFWPmeWXIIi_nfkJzybCb32A_K4SSv9AwxtYccfhO_IobgOegnixfqrk3zviM1WO8mFfFv_TTg9RtDQyI205rHdLhqeus-3x9qutUzNR8j93N2R6owJjhqh3XJ4wQpRNtDH0Fhec/s400/Aretha+Franklin+-+The+Atlantic+Albums+Collection+BOX+SET+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="393" /></a></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B014QHQRW2&asins=B014QHQRW2&linkId=7c66f8ba4d4d7dfecb903c92d2231a1f&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Review Along With Over 300 Others Is Available in my</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>SOUNDS GOOD E-Book </i>on all Amazon sites</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>HIGHER GROUND</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SOUL, FUNK and JAZZ FUSION </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Exceptional CD Reissues and Remasters </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just Click Below To Purchase for £6.95</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<div style="font-family: times;">
<div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thousands of E-Pages - All Details and In-Depth Reviews From Discs </span></div>
<div style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(No Cut and Paste Crap)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B00MTCDTWS&asins=B00MTCDTWS&linkId=22ec43652e0494ab4ccf1a969962507e&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span><br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Featuring the 1970 Albums <b>"This Girl's In Love With You"</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">And <b>"Spirit in The Dark"</b> on Atlantic Records </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">"...So Sweet The Sound..."</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Although it doesn't advertise it too well on the front of the box or indeed on the shrinkwrap description sticker for that matter – the albums contained within this mighty lummox are the Rhino/Atco CD Reissues released across the Nineties. Ably Remastered by Rhino's longstanding engineering duo of tape experts DAN HERSCH and BILL INGLOT - fans will know that some were 'Expanded Editions' - and deck the halls with holistic holly - for Rhino has been smart enough in its digital dotage to include the lot for this rather gobsmacking Atlantic Records retrospective...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">I mean the bounty here is staggering - 30 Bonuses across the fourteen Stereo albums Aretha released between 1967 and 1976 - while the final two CD compilations from 2007 offer up a further 14-track live set from 1972 (her vocals in blistering form) and 35 primo studio outtakes, rarities and single-sides from 1967 to 1976. There are 336 tracks in this mini behemoth with much of it being either inspired or just plain brill (take your pick). Amazing Grace, so sweet the sound - indeed. Let's get to the heavenly creatures...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">UK released October 2007 - <b>"The Atlantic Albums Collection" by ARETHA FRANKLIN on Rhino Records 081227951993 (Barcode 081227951993) is a 336-Track 16-Album/19CD Clamshell Box Set Housing 16 Repro Card Artwork Sleeves with Remasters </b>stretching from 1992 to 2007 and it breaks down as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">1. <i>I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(10 March 1967 USA LP on Atlantic SD 8139 in Stereo – 11 Track Album with 3 Bonuses on CD - 41:26 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">2. <i>Aretha Arrives</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(4 August 1967 USA LP on Atlantic SD 8150 in Stereo – 11 Track Album - 36:29 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">3. <i>Lady Soul</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(22 January 1968 USA LP on Atlantic SD 8176 in Stereo – 10 Track Album with 4 Bonuses on CD – 43:56 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">4. <i>Aretha Now</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(14 June 1968 USA LP on Atlantic SD 8186 in Stereo – 10 Track Album – 29:28 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">5. <i>Aretha In Paris (Recorded At The Olympia Theatre) </i>(12 October 1968 USA LP on Atlantic SD 8207 in Stereo – 13 Track Album – 41:06 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">6. <i>Soul '69</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(17 January 1969 USA LP on Atlantic SD 8212 in Stereo – 12 Track Album - 40:49 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">7. <i>This Girl's In Love With You </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(15 January 1970 USA LP on Atlantic SD 8248 in Stereo – 10 Track Album - 35:48 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">8. <i>Spirit In The Dark </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(24 August 1970 USA LP on Atlantic SD 8265 in Stereo – 12 Track Album - 39:12 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">9. <i>Aretha Live At Fillmore West </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(19 March 1971 USA LP on Atlantic SD 7205 in Stereo – 10 Track Single Album on CD1 (most tracks are uncredited as extended versions) with and additional 13 Bonuses on CD2 - CD1: 67:54 minutes, CD2: 60:50 minutes - see NOTES)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">10. <i>Young, Gifted And Black</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(24 January 1972 USA LP on Atlantic SD 7213 – 12 Track Album – 44:43 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">11. <i>Amazing Grace</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(1 June 1972 USA 2LP Live Gospel Set on Atlantic SD-2 906 – 14 Track Double-Album. This CD variant is <i>"The Complete Recordings"</i> two-disc version from 1999 with 13 Bonus performances spread across 2CDs (27 Tracks altogether) - CD1: 78:27 minutes, CD2: 78:11 minutes – see NOTES for sequencing of the original double-album from these CDs)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">12. <i>Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky) </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(25 June 1973 USA LP on Atlantic Records SD 7265 – 9 Track Album plus 1 Bonus on CD – 51:10 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">13. <i>Let Me Into Your Life </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(25 February 1974 USA LP on Atlantic Records SD 7292 – 11 Track Album – 43:29 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">14. <i>Sparkle </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(27 May 1976 USA US LP on Atlantic SD 18176 - 8 Track Album – Songs Composed and Arranged by Curtis Mayfield – 33:08 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">15. <i>Rare & Unreleased Recordings From The Golden Reign Of The Queen Of Soul</i> (October 2007 UK on Rhino/Atlantic 8122-79970-3 – A 2CD 35-Track Compilation of Remastered Outtakes, Alternates and Single-Sides – CD1: 66:15 minutes and CD2: 72:38 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">16. <i>Oh Me Oh My: Aretha Live in Philly, 1972 </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(October 2007 US-Only 14-Track Set on Rhino Handmade RHM2 07757. A limited edition of 7,500 copies only – 56:19 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">NOTES: Eagle-eyed collectors will have noticed the oddly long total playing time of 67:54 minutes for the 10-track LP "Aretha Live At Fillmore West". This is because it doesn’t tell you that most tracks are extended in small ways – the Simon & Garfunkel cover of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" goes from 5:49 to 7:25 minutes, her own "Dr. Feelgood" is upped from 7:02 to 8:57 minutes, the final track "Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand)" goes from 2:39 to 5:03 minutes and so on. But while the CD label does quietly tell you that both "Spirit In The Dark" duets with guest RAY CHARLES are <i>unedited versions</i> – there are no track times. So the first "Spirit In The Dark" on Side 2 goes up from 5:20 to 7:24 minutes – but what it doesn’t say is that the Reprise entry leaps from 8:38 to a whopping 19:24 minutes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The legendary 1972 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Amazing Grace"</i> Gospel Live Double-Album is even more convoluted. What you get here is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"The Complete Recordings"</i> issued 1999 by Rhino of the USA on Rhino R2 75627 – the full 27 performances Remastered and Unedited onto 2CDs. What that means is that the original 14-Track 2LP vinyl set of old which was pieced together from performances across both nights is actually spread across both CDs in higgledy-piggledy order. This reissue presents both shows as they were - Thursday and Friday nights, the 13th and 14th of January 1972 in strict play-list order with no nod towards how the original double-album we are all used to played out. So for fans, here is the way to acquire the original from this twofer reissue:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Side 1: Use Track 9 on CD2, 10 on CD 1, 8 on CD2 and 14 on CD1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Side 2: Use Tracks 9, 7 and 12 on CD1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Side 3: Use Tracks 8 on CD1, 11 on CD1, 11 on CD2 and 7 on CD2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Side 4: Use Tracks 5 on CD1, 6 on CD1 and 10 on CD2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">To the contents - of course the real beauty with something like this is the <i>discovery</i>. I recall after the late 60ts flourish of genius where it seemed like she was releasing a winner every couple of months - Soul fans and their interest waned a little. British fans probably dipped their feet into the Gospel joy of "Amazing Grace" from 1972 and not much else. LPs like "Spirit In The Dark" (1970), "Young, Gifted And Black" (1972), "Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky)" (1973) and even the "Sparkle" soundtrack from 1976 with Curtis Mayfield are full of Soulful nuggets a-begging to be rediscovered. I've already reviewed the amazing "Rare And Unreleased Recordings..." double CD set from 2007 - here in its entirety. With studio dialogue pre some of the takes, you feel like you are literally eavesdropping on magic being made – and how cool is it to see that retrospective in a gatefold Mini LP Card Sleeve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The guest musicians list is impressive too to say the least – Bobby Womack, Ray Charles, Billy Preston, Spooner Oldham, King Curtis, The Memphis Horns, Jimmy Johnson, Joe South, Cornell Dupree, Curtis Mayfield, Duane Allman, The Sweet Sensations, Erma and Carolyn Franklin, Bernard Purdie and so many more - all alongside the capable hands of Producer/Arranger legends like Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Niggles: for sure the title carefully avoids the word <i>complete </i>so this box set doesn't contain five later Atlantic albums like "With Everything I Feel In Me", "You", "Sweet Passion", "Almighty Fire" or "La Diva" from 1974 through to 1979. Nor does it have a decent fact-filled booklet, which it’s crying out for, or indeed the Mono mixes of those Sixties LPs. But with the sheer amount of quality on offer here that wish list feels like a completist gripe rather than an actual negative. Better to concentrate of what we do have – huge swathes of fab 60ts and 70ts Soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">"The Atlantic Albums Collection"</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> by Aretha Franklin is a beautiful little thing and like Rhino's similarly well-endowed 2012 Joni Mitchell box set <i>"The Studio Albums 1969-1979"</i> is frankly an embarrassment of classy musical riches (with aesthetically pleasing matt card sleeves repro'ing the original period-gorgeous artwork and quality mastering - both look and sound cool too). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Got a few bob to spend on pressies for your hip-replaced loved one (<i style="font-family: Arial;">"The Atlantic Albums Collection"</i> is currently on Amazon in December 2019 for under £47.00 as new including P&P) – then look no further my myopic messieurs and mademoiselles. And thanks Lady Soul for your passionate voice, beliefs and Dr. Feelgood-sounds oh so sweet...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-43076686436482069352020-03-01T10:40:00.001-08:002020-03-01T10:40:09.321-08:00"Walk In The Night: The Motown 70s Studio Albums" by JR. WALKER and THE ALL STARS - Including The Albums "A Gasssss" (1970 USA and UK), "Rainbow Funk" (1971 USA, 1972 UK), "Moody Jr." (1972 USA and UK), "Peace And Understanding Is Hard To Find" (1973 USA and UK), "Jr. Walker & The All Stars" (1975 UK) and "Hot Shot" (1976 USA and UK) – Featuring Johnny Bristol and Gladys Knight (24 May 2019 UK SoulMusic Records Clamshell Box Set – 6LPs onto 3CDs - Nick Robbins Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry... <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYkBTCS23pjKRXxqyYlLOAuwkz6tjofkPgbpb0o2BcLA_U0xVUgkQ7VCZQAJIiUhtDPbxEl0FnbXebKg8xhdehiIOOGdSNfKEmx-47nc9dhwO7Ib6fKDyYCVC3Ivd6a9Ig-AeUOwyv4ZA/s1600/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1543" data-original-width="1600" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYkBTCS23pjKRXxqyYlLOAuwkz6tjofkPgbpb0o2BcLA_U0xVUgkQ7VCZQAJIiUhtDPbxEl0FnbXebKg8xhdehiIOOGdSNfKEmx-47nc9dhwO7Ib6fKDyYCVC3Ivd6a9Ig-AeUOwyv4ZA/s400/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEive4Lslrycfkc9uSLmQgD0izpWhbpWSrPg9iuZcL1dryp9nDS2M_q32jkScC-kViFR-yDSn-9PUUWxOyOT9KcNV9W8XaRbX4J8-emmUmjAaeacgdcU_f9TtJ2dINzg6j8fMO-oRVrHDKA/s1600/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+1+of+4%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="1600" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEive4Lslrycfkc9uSLmQgD0izpWhbpWSrPg9iuZcL1dryp9nDS2M_q32jkScC-kViFR-yDSn-9PUUWxOyOT9KcNV9W8XaRbX4J8-emmUmjAaeacgdcU_f9TtJ2dINzg6j8fMO-oRVrHDKA/s400/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+1+of+4%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWmbH67jXFGRzFoL8ZXR6Hlu30yKlv6pwf9g2wvoy1jTC_AT9nHg-RAoE-x33cjY4SqGFDY74_Evf5p605Pxd9aZpQccnkzHlWxXwamtJX08Iy-lqb5OnOCOwrBovV0zfYKD-w5ypEfs/s1600/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+2+of+4%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="1600" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWmbH67jXFGRzFoL8ZXR6Hlu30yKlv6pwf9g2wvoy1jTC_AT9nHg-RAoE-x33cjY4SqGFDY74_Evf5p605Pxd9aZpQccnkzHlWxXwamtJX08Iy-lqb5OnOCOwrBovV0zfYKD-w5ypEfs/s400/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+2+of+4%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZiBm-IsIfDTIjBOpXsPt0dooMpSVQvh3rQT0wjLgONm4MknxYhJIge8YCi4-6pFrQhkGC3NB1br7vc8Crm72h-u5Is2m7wRZuoVzouji9XXKSrFKjOzbgYVFHSNuBPG-kaM9OL5kYEa8/s1600/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+3+of+4%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="947" data-original-width="1600" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZiBm-IsIfDTIjBOpXsPt0dooMpSVQvh3rQT0wjLgONm4MknxYhJIge8YCi4-6pFrQhkGC3NB1br7vc8Crm72h-u5Is2m7wRZuoVzouji9XXKSrFKjOzbgYVFHSNuBPG-kaM9OL5kYEa8/s400/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+3+of+4%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0EmAYop-uJNsTv3tnAbZRh6GfeYQa6gKSyE_1eDI0Al8vnl8IIp8Pk0RlrXbbLxHtVE0bgSUK_bw-93BpJYegZkB3e4yZ8oxEF1UzyNjRb8My3FYC_Ado4QLUnZuQepcbMjWHf8rI8k/s1600/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+4+of+4%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="1600" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0EmAYop-uJNsTv3tnAbZRh6GfeYQa6gKSyE_1eDI0Al8vnl8IIp8Pk0RlrXbbLxHtVE0bgSUK_bw-93BpJYegZkB3e4yZ8oxEF1UzyNjRb8My3FYC_Ado4QLUnZuQepcbMjWHf8rI8k/s400/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+4+of+4%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_D7CXxwH28vuH48piB5Xjb5NZ2om5NY0jp3kkSr-ayV6E3uirb7_28xkRx3j9qPVrE8cYOTr5vo9w-Al3RplLJqQAHquvTu60Ityf5RVCNy385-oJvwt_k0EpgeeZhDC1V_mxShNwxU/s1600/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1595" data-original-width="1600" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_D7CXxwH28vuH48piB5Xjb5NZ2om5NY0jp3kkSr-ayV6E3uirb7_28xkRx3j9qPVrE8cYOTr5vo9w-Al3RplLJqQAHquvTu60Ityf5RVCNy385-oJvwt_k0EpgeeZhDC1V_mxShNwxU/s400/JR.+WALKER+and+THE+ALL+STARS+-+Walk+In+The+Night+BOX+SET+-+The+Motown+70s+Studio+Albums+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Your All-Genres Guide To</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Exceptional CD Reissues and Remasters </span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1,990 E-Pages of In-Depth Information</span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Over 260 Reviews from the discs themselves...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilqkAeO9fNQLlOdsFVcRvMm6-8_ir-BdbgqOxxQMdNE4CuHQyU1qMQSVq5DvBBhi5z83oPiGryZwn_h5yi3aDsroslYQELotIZKi_TM0lDnDczN2jE4BL7dp5i_RDJyr98EyuF9wLws6s/s1600/%252814%2529+TUMBLING+DICE+1972+-+FRONT+COVER+ART+%2528July+2019+Update%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: times; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilqkAeO9fNQLlOdsFVcRvMm6-8_ir-BdbgqOxxQMdNE4CuHQyU1qMQSVq5DvBBhi5z83oPiGryZwn_h5yi3aDsroslYQELotIZKi_TM0lDnDczN2jE4BL7dp5i_RDJyr98EyuF9wLws6s/s400/%252814%2529+TUMBLING+DICE+1972+-+FRONT+COVER+ART+%2528July+2019+Update%2529.JPG" width="300" /></a></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Featuring the 1970 US LP </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><b>"A Gasssss" </b>on Soul Records (USA)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; text-align: start;">And Tamla Motown Records (UK)</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"...Groove Thang..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The big sell here for Saxophone and Soul Instrumental fans is the official reissue (for the first time) of six Motown albums covering Jr. Walker's primo period at the Home of Young America – 1970 to 1976 - issued on Gordy's Soul Records label imprint Stateside and on Tamla Motown in the UK (one of them from 1974 only available in Blighty).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And it has to be said that SoulMusic Records of the UK (part of Cherry Red) has done a very sweet job with this 2019 reissue (and at an affordable price too). There's a walk-in wardrobe-full of detail to wade through, so let's have ourselves an all-star gas and groove thang (if you catch my drift)…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">UK released Friday, 24 May 2019 - <b>"Walk In The Night: The Motown 0s Studio Albums" by Jr. WALKER and THE ALL STARS on SoulMusic Records SMCR5183BX</b> (Barcode 5013929088337) is a Clamshell Box Set featuring Six Albums Remastered onto 3CDs (with booklet) that plays out as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Jr. WALKER and THE ALL STARS - SIX ALBUMS:</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 1 (74:43 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Do You See My Love (For You Growing) [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. And When I Die<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. I Was Made To Love Her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Carry Your Own Load<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Shut Up, Don't Interrupt Me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Groove And Move<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Holly Holy [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Honey Come Back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Riding High On Love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Hey Jude<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. At A Saturday Matinee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 11 are his ninth album "A Gasssss" - released October 1970 in the USA on Soul Records SS 726 and November 1970 in the UK on Tamla Motown STML 11167. Produced by JOHNNY BRISTOL - it peaked at No. 28 on the US R&B LP charts (none of Walker's albums charted in the UK top 50)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. Way Back Home - Instrumental [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. Take Me Girl, I'm Ready<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. Feeling Alright<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15. Right On Brothers And Sisters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">16. Teach Them To Pray<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17. Something [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">18. Psychedelic Shack<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">19. Pieces Of A Man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">20. These Things Will Keep Me Loving You<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 12 to 20 are his tenth album "Rainbow Funk" - released July 1971 in the USA on Soul Records SS 732L and February 1972 in the UK on Tamla Motown STML 11198. Produced by JOHNNY BRISTOL - it peaked at No. 12 on the US R&B LP charts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 2 (72:16 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Way Back Home - Vocal [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. I Don't Want To Do Wrong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Bristol's Way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Don't Blame The Children<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Me And My Family<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Groove Thang<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Still Water Medley<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Never Can Say Goodbye<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Walk In The Night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Moody Junior<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 10 are his eleventh album "Moody Jr." - released January 1972 in the USA on Soul Records SS 733L and August 1972 in the UK on Tamla Motown STML 11211. Produced by JOHNNY BRISTOL - it peaked at No. 22 on the US R&B LP charts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. I Ain't Going Nowhere [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. I Don't Need No Reason<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. It's Alright, Do What You Gotta Do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. It's Too Late<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15. Soul Clappin'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">16. I Can See Clearly Now [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17. Gimme That Beat (Part 1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">18. Gimme That Beat (Part 2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">19. Country Boy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">20. Peace And Understanding (Is Hard To Find)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 11 to 20 are his twelfth album "Peace And Understanding Is Hard To Find" - released May 1973 in the USA on Soul Records S S38L and July 1973 in the UK on Tamla Motown STML 11234 (it peaked at No. 47 on the US R&B LP charts)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 3 (78:35 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. All In Love Is Fair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Killing Me Softly With This Song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. My Love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Boogie Down [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. I Ain't That Easy To Lose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Dancin' Like They Do On Soul Train<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Break Down And Sing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I Gonna Do)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 9 are his thirteenth album "Jr. Walker & The All Stars" - recorded in 1974, it was released July 1975 in the UK on Tamla Motown STML 11274 (no US issue)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. I'm So Glad [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. Why Can't We Be Lovers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. You Ain't No Ordinary Woman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. Just Can't Get Enough<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. Love (Keep Us Together) [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15. I Need You Right Now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">16. Probe Your Mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17. Don't Lose What You Got (Trying To Get Back What You Had)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">18. Hot Shot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 10 to 18 are his fourteenth album "Hot Shot" - released February 1976 in the USA on Soul Records S6-745S1 and March 1976 in the UK on Tamla Motown STML 12018 (it peaked at No. 45 on the US R&B LP charts)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jr. WALKER and THE ALL STARS - SINGLES:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Do You See My Love (For You Growing) [Edit] b/w Groove And Move<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17 June 1970 US 7" single on Soul S 35073<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">25 September 1970 UK 7" single on Tamla Motown TMG 750<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Holly Holy b/w Carry Your Own Load<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">24 November 1970 US 7" single on Soul S 35081 [A-side is a Neil Diamond cover]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">21 September 1973 UK 7" single on Tamla Motown TMG 872<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(UK single used the 1973 song "Peace And Understanding Is Hard To Find" as its B-side with the 1970 song on the A)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Take Me Girl, I'm Ready b/w Right On Brothers And Sisters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8 July 1971 US 7" single on Soul S 35084F<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12 January 1973 UK 7" single on Tamla Motown TMG 840 with "I Don't Want To Do No Wrong" on the B-side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Way Back Home (Vocal) b/w Way Back Home (Instrumental)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4 November 1971 US 7" single on Soul S 35090F<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 June 1973 UK 7" single on Tamla Motown TMG 857 (some UK copies have "Country Boy" as an extra track on the B)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Walk In The Night b/w I Don't Want To Do No Wrong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">29 February 1972 US 7" single on Soul S 35095F<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">21 July 1972 UK 7" single on Tamla Motown TMG 824<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(UK issues have "Right On Brothers And Sisters" and "Gotta Hold On To This Feeling" as its B-sides<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Groove Thang b/w Me And My Family<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">June 1972 US 7" single on Soul S 35097F<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Gimme That Beat (Part 1) b/w Gimme That Beat (Part 2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11 January 1973 US 7" single on Soul S 35104F<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. I Don't Need No Reason b/w Country Boy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 May 1973 US 7" single on Soul S 35106F<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Peace And Understanding Is Hard To Find b/w Soul Clappin'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3 July 1973 US 7" single on Soul S 35108F<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(for UK issue of "Peace And Understanding..." see "Holly Holy" entry from 1970)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Don't Blame The Children b/w Soul Clappin'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 February 1974 UK 7" single on Tamla Motown TMG 889<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. Gotta Hold On To This Feeling b/w I Ain't Going Nowhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">19 April 1974 UK 7" single on Tamla Motown TMG 894<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. Dancing Like They Do On Soul Train b/w I Ain't That Easy To Lose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9 May 1974 US 7" single on Soul S 35110F<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life b/w Until You Come Back (That's What I Gonna Do) - UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">July 1974 US 7" single on Soul S 35114S - UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. What Does It Take To Win Your Love b/w Country Boy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">May 1975 US 7" single on Motown M 1352F<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">24 October 1980 UK 7" single on Tamla Motown TMG 962<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(UK B-side is Take Me Girl, I'm Ready)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15. I'm So Glad b/w Soul Clappin'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5 January 1976 US 7" single on Soul S 35116F<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">23 April 1976 UK 7" single on Tamla Motown TMG 1027<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(UK B-side was "Dancin' Like They Do On Soul Train"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">16. You Ain't No Ordinary Woman b/w Hot Shot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">27 May 1976 US 7" single on Soul S 35118F<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17. I Ain't Going Nowhere b/w B1. What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)? B2. Take Me Girl, I'm Ready<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6 May 1977 UK 7" single on Tamla Motown TMG 1070<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">18. Walk In The Night b/w I Need You Right Now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 September 1978 UK 7" single on Tamla Motown TMG 1118<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(B-side is Jr. Walker with Thelma Houston)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The card-sleeves cleverly double-up the albums so the CD cover features the front sleeves and A-sides of both LPs – the rear CD card sleeve has Side 2 of each and their rear album artwork. The 24-page booklet boasts seriously in-depth liner notes from SHARON DAVIS as well as page after page of 45 labels and foreign picture sleeves peppering the text. There are track-by-track credits that mention American 45 issues where relevant and other reissue credits. NICK ROBBINS of Ace Records fame handled the remasters and they sound great – very punchy – the rhythm sections kicking your speaker cones with bad intent. As this is a Studio Albums set, his first LP of the Seventies from May 1970 "…Live" is not included and although the single "What Does It Take To Win Your Love" is not in this box, I’ve included it because the B-side is. Let’s get to the music…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The multiple-times 's' Gas LP opens with a total winner "Do You See My Love (For You Growing)" penned by the mighty dancing duo of Johnny Bristol and Jacky Beavers - Juniors well-underrated lead vocal sending its joyous dancer groove to No. 3 on the US R&B charts (what you get here is the Stereo LP cut - the mono single version is only on "The Complete Motown Singles Volume 10: 1970" book pack from 2008). Not so sure about Neil Diamond's "Holly Holy" or The Beatles "Hey Jude" but his take on Laura Nyro's "And When I Die" shows a smart head. But my poison is the instrumental sax-strutter "Groove And Move" followed quickly by the old-time Motown do-do Northern Soul vibe of "Riding High On Love"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(a co-write with Edwin Starr).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Penned by Wilton Felder of The Crusaders - the second LP's irrepressibly catchy "Way Back Home" turns in both Instrumental and Vocal form on this set - the first being closest to that Jazz-Funk sound we're used to - the ladies cleverly harmonizing all the way to the close with "...way back home..." refrains. Gladys Knight would have a hand in the lyrics to the vocal take of "Way Back Home" on the third LP in this set "Moody Jr.". You can so here why Tamla UK used "Take Me Girl, I'm Ready" on so many single-sides - its lovely shuffling rhythms and Walker vocal being like honey to Northern Soul bees. And once again the fabulous Dave Mason classic he did for Traffic "Feeling Alright" gets another cover though I'd personally reach for the wah-wah geetars of The Temps' "Psychedelic Shack" where Junior manics up the Funk pace to clever effect before his 'do your thang' vocal comes in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Highlights for "Moody Jr." album include the 'I just can't help myself' girly smooch of "I Don't Want To Do No Wrong", the hard Funk pump behind "Groove Thang" and the almost Blaxploitation feel to "Walk In The Night" as it Barry White's its groovy posterior across your mind's movie screen. Walker once again upbeats his Soul to chart-winning effect with "I Ain't Going Nowhere" - a dancer with gravel vocals and his trademark saxophone dancing over the top. Carole King's magisterial "Tapestry" took 1971 by storm and its hardly surprising that many Soul and Rock acts leaped on the inherent Soulfulness inside one of its Grammy winners "It's Too Late" - Walker giving it a dirty shame vocal before he assures us there'll be good times once again for me and you. We get a wee bit JB with the two-part Funk of "Gimme That Beat" where he asks y’all to have a ball (ok junior) - but for my money the Willie Hutch tune "It's Alright, Do What you Gotta Do" is far better than the promise of musical greatness in the title song "Peace And Understanding…" The last two records simply deliver more of the same…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Not everything on here is Aretha or Marvin or Donny H magical – and Walker could be accused of hacking the same sound over and over again – but within these six long forgotten platters are nuggets I’ve so enjoyed rediscovering and that’s a tip-top recommendation in my patch…</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-79312776347114697002020-03-01T10:37:00.002-08:002020-03-01T10:37:40.048-08:00"I'm A Freak 2 Baby: A Further Journey Through The British HEAVY PSYCH and HARD ROCK Underground Scene 1968-73" by VARIOUS ARTISTS – Album and Single Tracks from 1968 to 1973 by Atomic Rooster, The Jeff Beck Group, Bodkin, The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Budgie, Clark-Hutchinson, Dark, The Deviants, High Tide, Leaf Hound, The Move, 9:30 Fly, NSU, Patto, Pluto, Purple Haze, Red Dirt, Sam Gopal, Stack Waddy, Stray, Three Man Army, Thor, Warhorse, Writing On The Wall and more (25 January 2019 Grapefruit UK 3CD Clamshell Box Set – Simon Murphy Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry... <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ry0zNIJZIoWzuNg6VAkfn3Salw9rZ7P1ltvUzi5fqtai_q0JeNriFw9jv3SmvOXYpiPRkilNxq5WC8U5W1RnX8zNEzmGppyo8Zxavybc15Q7DAwtqG8wZ1hXCpcp6h-n_LmCKoSjdfw/s1600/Various+-+I%2527m+A+Freak+2+Baby+BOX+SET+2019+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1572" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ry0zNIJZIoWzuNg6VAkfn3Salw9rZ7P1ltvUzi5fqtai_q0JeNriFw9jv3SmvOXYpiPRkilNxq5WC8U5W1RnX8zNEzmGppyo8Zxavybc15Q7DAwtqG8wZ1hXCpcp6h-n_LmCKoSjdfw/s400/Various+-+I%2527m+A+Freak+2+Baby+BOX+SET+2019+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="392" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6d7nkGY-rNb56sV14Fy4po8F8V_S4JDg7jr7-lSaBRQKlFpA15cexRqimfjsSio_O0VajPelQbspYHEZitRvUOgXI-AL2v3FTyYK7PoSNnS4syx78G2TTK19B3NUaA1QL_Bd096McTU/s1600/Various+-+I%2527m+A+Freak+2+Baby+BOX+SET+2019+%2528Mine+Inners+1+of+3%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1443" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6d7nkGY-rNb56sV14Fy4po8F8V_S4JDg7jr7-lSaBRQKlFpA15cexRqimfjsSio_O0VajPelQbspYHEZitRvUOgXI-AL2v3FTyYK7PoSNnS4syx78G2TTK19B3NUaA1QL_Bd096McTU/s400/Various+-+I%2527m+A+Freak+2+Baby+BOX+SET+2019+%2528Mine+Inners+1+of+3%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnobZUU7qT0UmuUcWmQcgxvtI1_cfDJsXKIVUtyCyNzDnEKGpY6dmydZDXac617yzwB9DStQj_MAPVqP4GCaCxOe2QNPGCYiwpGXX7XoHgM-XzbQ10fz4n1rR7LZm5tS2sccgoCFwW8U/s1600/Various+-+I%2527m+A+Freak+2+Baby+BOX+SET+2019+%2528Mine+Inners+2+of+3%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="1600" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnobZUU7qT0UmuUcWmQcgxvtI1_cfDJsXKIVUtyCyNzDnEKGpY6dmydZDXac617yzwB9DStQj_MAPVqP4GCaCxOe2QNPGCYiwpGXX7XoHgM-XzbQ10fz4n1rR7LZm5tS2sccgoCFwW8U/s400/Various+-+I%2527m+A+Freak+2+Baby+BOX+SET+2019+%2528Mine+Inners+2+of+3%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinfNvcoYKjHBXMHsA7xXszhwKcm5SoCKE44di1gHxneodn9gvQcFQy4OSHW8IjInRbyqe0lhnzZ2sRCgEY7OKiemWk9Y1gBFu9P5_PJiCPOva9hS9wgJR4YN9KFE4-B109o4RLgd_TczM/s1600/Various+-+I%2527m+A+Freak+2+Baby+BOX+SET+2019+%2528Mine+Inners+3+of+3%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1511" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinfNvcoYKjHBXMHsA7xXszhwKcm5SoCKE44di1gHxneodn9gvQcFQy4OSHW8IjInRbyqe0lhnzZ2sRCgEY7OKiemWk9Y1gBFu9P5_PJiCPOva9hS9wgJR4YN9KFE4-B109o4RLgd_TczM/s400/Various+-+I%2527m+A+Freak+2+Baby+BOX+SET+2019+%2528Mine+Inners+3+of+3%2529.JPG" width="377" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Irosue_0IHLGKUIRLw35NlQ4TRSHMKqzcTudsjDUe_jkOU8-NN-Q_CZzeJkI2iUYYMU3nbHLLLlXeOQzVgCD7c2BIdvOyI8e5GQa0Hch3a4kbQOOAml68UpZImTbmZrulcFr0rmxL5o/s1600/Various+-+I%2527m+A+Freak+2+Baby+BOX+SET+2019+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1487" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Irosue_0IHLGKUIRLw35NlQ4TRSHMKqzcTudsjDUe_jkOU8-NN-Q_CZzeJkI2iUYYMU3nbHLLLlXeOQzVgCD7c2BIdvOyI8e5GQa0Hch3a4kbQOOAml68UpZImTbmZrulcFr0rmxL5o/s400/Various+-+I%2527m+A+Freak+2+Baby+BOX+SET+2019+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="371" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07KLFK8X8&asins=B07KLFK8X8&linkId=b89e561b40e6f5884910176fd6535198&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Review and 260 More Like It Are Available </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">In My E-Book <b>US AND THEM - 1973</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">Your All-Genres Guide To</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">Exceptional CD Reissues and Remasters </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">Available on Amazon as a Download</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07WNDRDNP/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&linkCode=li3&tag=mabasreofcdbl-21&linkId=996ef904fe2d0cdc749e8679ee0ffeed&language=en_GB" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B07WNDRDNP&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=GB&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&l=li3&o=2&a=B07WNDRDNP" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">"...Shapes Of Things..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Having reached what must have been a satisfying 500th outing-zenith in their December 2019 issue - England's celebrated Record Collector Magazine quite rightly nominated a few Grapefruit Records anthologies for gongs in their 'Best Of 2019' annual round up. And I nor any other frazzle-top gent was too shocked to see this little musical brute and underground beastie nestling in the 'PSYCH Collector' column - in at No. 1 with a smack in the establishment jaw.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Following on from their 2016 Grapefruit 3CD Box Set "I'm A Freak Baby..." - round two offers up 50 more fistfights from 1968 to 1973 (only this time, it might even be better than that previous musical knuckleduster). There are a lot of hairy men with attitudes and busted lips to examine here, so let's have at England’s Vosene marauders...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">UK released Friday, 25 January 2019 - <b>"I'm A Freak 2 Baby: A Further Journey Through The British HEAVY PSYCH and HARD ROCK Underground Scene 1968-73" by VARIOUS ARTISTS on Grapefruit Records CRSEGBOX050 (Barcode 5013929185005) is a 3CD Mini Clamshell Box set of 50 Remastered Tracks</b> that breaks down as follows:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>CD1 </b>(78:21 minutes):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Guts - BUDGIE (from their August 1971 UK debut album "Budgie" on MCA Records MKPS 2018)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Shapes Of Things - JEFF BECK (from his August 1968 US debut solo album "Truth" on Epic Records BN 26413)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Run The Night - WICKED LADY (not originally issued, recorded 1969)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. The Man Who Paints Pictures - STRAY (not originally issued, recorded November 1968)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Rosie - SLOWROAD (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, recorded 1971)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Turkish Tram Conductor Blues - THE MOVE (from their December 190 UK LP "Looking on" on Fly Records HIFLY 1)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Chocolate Piano - ORANG-UTAN (from their April 1971 US debut album "Orang-Utan" on Bell Records BELL 6054)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Clawstrophobia - IRON CLAW (not originally issued, recorded December 1970)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Plastic Man - BODKIN (from their privately pressed 1972 LP "Bodkin" of 100 copies on West CSA 104)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Let's All Watch The Sky Fall Down - ANDROMEDA (not originally issued, recorded late 1969)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Mother Grease The Cat - ANCIENT GREASE (from their July 1970 debut album "Women And Children First" on Mercury 6338 033)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Rosalyn - STACK WADDY (from their November 1972 UK LP "Bugger Off!" on Dandelion 2310 231)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Horse - SAM GOPAL (not originally issued, recorded late 1968)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Sabre Dance - LOVE SCULPTURE with Dave Edmunds (A-side to their November 1968 UK 7" single on Parlophone R 5744)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Dog Man - MONUMENT (from their October 1971 debut album "First Monument" on Beacon BEAS 15)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Freelance Fiend - LEAF HOUND (from their October 1971 debut album "Grower Of Mushrooms" on Decca SKL-R 5094)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Loud Green Song - PATTO (from their November 1972 UK LP "Roll 'Em Smoke 'Em Put Another Line Out" on Island ILPS 9210)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. Winter Of My Love - SAM APPLE PIE (from their October 1969 debut LP "Sam Apple Pie" on Decca SLK-R 5005)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>CD2</b> (77:27 minutes):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Woman For Sale - TEAR GAS (from their August 1971 UK LP "Tear Gas" on Regal Zonophone SLRZ 1021)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Death Walks Behind You - ATOMIC ROOSTER (from the November 1970 UK LP "Death Walks Behind You" on B&C Records CAS 1026)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Apache Drop Out - EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND (A-side of a November 1970 UK 7" single on Harvest HAR 5032)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Turn On, Or Turn Me Down - N.S.U. (from the June 1969 UK LP "Turn On, Or Turn Me Down" on Stable SLE 8002)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Brain Worker - RED DIRT (from the April 1970 UK LP "Red Dirt" on Fontana STL 5540)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Early In Spring - THE RATS (not originally issued, recorded November 1969)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Somewhere To Go -THE DEVIANTS (from the October 1968 UK LP "Disposable" on Stable SLP 7001)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Armageddon - DOGFEET (from their February 1972 UK LP "Dogfeet" on Reflection REFL 8)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Down And Out - PLUTO (from their October 1971 UK LP "Pluto" on Dawn Records DNLS 3030)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Brush With The Midnight Butterfly - THE HUMAN BEAST (from the November 1970 UK LP "Volume One" on Decca SKL 5053)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. R.C. 8. (Demo Version) - DARK (not originally issued, recorded October 1971)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Wolf A While - PURPLE HAZE (not originally issued, recorded early 1969)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Daze - THREE MAN ARMY (from their August 1971 UK LP "A Third Of A Lifetime" on Pegasus PEG 3)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Old Father Time - TONGE (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, recorded 1971)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Ashen Besher – MOUSE (from the December 1973 UK LP "Lady Killer"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Fussing And Fighting – SUNDAY (from the October 1971 German LP "Sunday" on Bellaphon BLPS 19066)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Going Down – FREEDOM (from the July 1972 UK LP "Freedom Is More Than A Word" on Vertigo 6360 072)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>CD3 </b>(77:26 minutes):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Futilist's Lament - HIGH TIDE (from their September 1969 UK LP "Sea Shanties" on Liberty LBS 83264)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Yesterday - LIGHTYEARS AWAY (from their May 1971 UK LP "Astral Navigations" on Holyground HG 114)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Woman - SAMUEL PRODY (from their May 1971 German LP "Samuel Prody" on Global 6306 906)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Confusion - EUGENE CARNAN (not originally issued, recorded March 1972)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. So Long I'm Moving On - HARD HORSE featuring Paul Thomas (B-side to "(Get It) Up-Down", an October 1972 UK 7" single on D'art ART 2012)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Fire! (Demo Version) - THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN (not originally issued, recorded circa March 1968)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Early Morning Sun - TARSUS (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, recorded May 1971)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Is There Any Doubt? - NATURAL GAS (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, recorded 1972)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Back In Time - WARHORSE (from their June 1972 UK LP "Red Sea" on Vertigo 6360 066)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Name Of The Game - LITTLE BIG HORN (from their October 1971 German LP "Little Big Horn" on Bellaphon BLS 19067)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Sinister Minister - BULLET (B-side of "Hobo", a November 1971 UK 7" single on Purple PUR 101)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. I Need Someone - FROZEN TEAR (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, recorded October 1969)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. The Nymph - SARDONICUS (January 1973 UK privately-pressed 7" single of 101 copies on County COUN 240, A-side)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Someone's Been At My Woman - CLARK-HUTCHINSON (not originally issued, recorded March 1969)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Big Jim Salter - STONE THE CROWS (from their October 1971 fourth and final album "Ontinuous Performance" on Polydor 2425 071)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Paranoid - THOR (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, recorded circa October 1970)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Lucifer Corpus - WRITING ON THE WALL (B-side of "Child On A Crossing", an October 1969 UK 7" single on Middle Earth MDS 101 and a debut release for the label)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">A 40-page booklet features the usual feast of period memorabilia, Oz and Zig Zag underground magazine covers, rarest of the rare LP covers and single picture sleeves, Apple acetates, publicity photos of varying hairy men in bad need of a ex-army disciplinarian barber – DAVID WELLS (compiler and annotator) pouring on the factoids like it was getting close to Christmas. SIMON MURPHY of Another Planet has done the mastering and apart from the odd ropey demo or two – the grunge assault is pleasingly loud, in yer face and full of presence (even menace). Fans will be pleased...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Proceedings open with our favourite Welsh power trio BUDGIE whose fabulous debut-album opener "Guts" comes at you with more grungy guitar riffage than a Black Sabbath commune with dark materials. Budgie's first three albums on MCA Records ("Budgie" from 1971, "Squawk" from 1972 and "Never Turn Your Back On A Friend" in 1973) had a huge and long-reaching influence on so many world-dominating metal bands of the future (Iron Maiden and Metallica to name but a few). And the Sabbaths tie-in is real too, coming in the shape of their go-to Producer <i>Rodger Bain </i>who went nuts for the simple rocking brilliance of Six Ton Budgie and promptly produced their debut (our heroes wisely shortened their name and employed Roger Dean to do their fab cover art). Rod Stewart adds top vocals to Beck's strident guitar for "Shapes Of Things" but even that hero of axe worship is given a run for his wild money by Wicked Lady's "Run The Night" (named after a cocktail drink) - a stunning rarity where guitarist Martin Weaver lets rip on a solo like he wants to bleed his fingers to death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">After a stint with late 60ts Pop whimsy – pre ELO bods Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan decided in 1970 to rock like the proverbial mother and the kick-ass brilliance of "Turkish Tram Conductor Blues" from their "Looking On" album is the result. I'll admit I've never heard of Orang-Utan but their multiple-guitar-layered moment in "Chocolate Piano" is brilliant – like Derek & The Dominoes mating with The Groundhogs – gung-ho guitars ahoy. Proper heavy and hard Rawk ala a Budgie rehearsal comes in the doomy shape of the delightfully titled "Clawstrophobia" by (well blow me but its only) Iron Claw. This is the kind of bad vocalist, wild guitar, drugged-up maniac rocker then sends collectors into a mini cardiac arrest. Other angina-inducing highlights on Disc 1 include a shockingly good Ancient Grease, the very Crazy World of Arthur Brown budget vibe to the Monument tune "Dog Man" (play those echoed vocals to any of your ailing wealthy relatives and that'll kill them off for sure) and the pre Help Yourself "Winter Of My Love" from a guitar-slashing Sam Apple Pie clearly channeling Fleetwood Mac and their 1969 album "Then Play On" as they practiced in Walthamstow. Those darlings of the £1000 LP Leaf Hound do the price tag justice on their excellent "Freelance Fiend" - another amp-kicking guitar chugger while Patto's Ollie Halsall plays his staggering style that attracted Kevin Ayers so much.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 2 opens with Tear Gas charitably offering their "Woman For Sale" which feels so wrong lyrically no amount of phased vocal effects save it (shame cause it has some ace axework). Vincent Crane's Atomic Rooster (ex Crazy World Of Arthur Brown) holds a special place in the hearts of heavy-heavy lovers and the title track to their second album shows why. A righteously nasty vocal that is clearly mashing up Captain Beefheart's "Dropout Boogie" with Hank Marvin's tremolo guitar gives a genuinely weirded out moment at the hands of The Edgar Broughton Band for their "Apache Drop Out" single on Harvest. Session ladies Sue and Sonny lend some badly needed vocal class to N.S.U.'s slightly heavy-handed "Turn On, Or Turn Me Down". Both Red Dirt and The Rats amp up the hard-hitting homemade Rock while Pluto gets some funky back-beat in for their decidedly Pop-Rock "Down And Out". Other highlights include a rare Demo version of "R.C.8." by another hugely sought-after cult band, Dark. The nearest Disc 2 gets to commerciality is the piano-bop-Rock of "Fussing And Fighting" by Sunday - a band whose seven-minutes of guitar soloing vs. keyboards would have given Grand Funk a run for their money. Our second vaults-haul ends Disc 2 with the very Thin Lizzy vs. Budgie twin guitars assault of Freedom informing us that they're "Going Down".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 3 opens with the take-no-prisoners nor wall-paint of High Tide and their guitar-wailing assault "Futilist’s Lament" – a thrasher which I find hard to take at the best of times though I know there are collectors out there who love it to distraction precisely because of hedonistic abandon. The Yorkshire co-operative label Holyground has attained near mythical legend amongst collectors of hard-hitting noises and the fuzzed-up acid-crazed guitars of Lightyears Away and their "Yesterday" - a band that featured future Be Bop Deluxe axeman Bill Nelson - is proof as to why. And with only 250 copies of the Lightyears Away LP in existence, I'll admit, even after 30 years in the rarities game, I've never seen an actual 1971 original. Bullet are an early incarnation of Hard Stuff who released a brace of albums on Deep Purple's Purple Records and again I've never seen nor heard the raw rock of Sardonicus and their uber-rare self-financed UK 7" single "The Nymph" from 1973…but then again this Box set is full of that kind of discovery (and more). And any compilation that features the wonderful vocals of Stone The Crows' Maggie Bell and the note-bending of axeman Les Harvey (Alex's younger brother) is all right by me - represented here by the very cool "Big Jim Salter" from their fourth and final studio album "Ontinuous Performance".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">For damn sure after wading through a bruiser like "I'm A Freak 2 Baby..." you may need a very tall Scotch with no ice, half a bottle of Kalms and a three-month holiday in tranquil-land by the sea. But what great fun those halcyon mad musical pirate years were. And a times me hearties, genuinely cocked and loaded blunderbuss-exciting too. Well done to Grapefruit and all involved...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-68960129351398061312020-03-01T10:34:00.001-08:002020-03-01T10:35:18.897-08:00 "Home" by DELANEY & BONNIE [BRAMLETT] - Second US LP from October 1969 on Stax Records STS-2026 and March 1970 UK LP on Stax Records SXATS 1029 (both in Stereo) – featuring Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn and Al Jackson, Jr. of Booker T & The MG's with Isaac Hayes, Wayne Jackson, William Bell, Leon Russell and more and Songs From David Porter, Eddie Floyd and Homer Banks (23 May 2006 US on Universal/Stax (13 July 2006 in the UK) Expanded Edition CD Reissue with Six Bonus Tracks and Rejiggered Playing Order – Stephen Hart Remaster) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG54kREPIIl4n9DaLV_BKWE0WLKlA_gMHn8dOXUdZShQeufie4qen42xjGa7hoAk1_MHvfjgSdABafYCf5z6WeKsuhUgTd150Vc9JvpQtcbHpQ_GlES_M7MftkhOruF_w1n65dDqfEtHU/s1600/Delaney+and+Bonnie+-+Home+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1409" data-original-width="1600" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG54kREPIIl4n9DaLV_BKWE0WLKlA_gMHn8dOXUdZShQeufie4qen42xjGa7hoAk1_MHvfjgSdABafYCf5z6WeKsuhUgTd150Vc9JvpQtcbHpQ_GlES_M7MftkhOruF_w1n65dDqfEtHU/s400/Delaney+and+Bonnie+-+Home+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUP7hz6y2oSRNLIEBL5HA27tcQdlbI_oe5TqoA8A9pWYrd4TICZZ9nVaCtzSA0koxR-Dp3PG6J7ncqUBBkbkX4FNHBFD7WYMWfjNQAT2DRsUZ8thrWi0cPDry0wslrlKqlQFmuC9u0MGU/s1600/Delaney+and+Bonnie+-+Home+%2528Mine+Inner+CD+Label+and+Inlay+Spread%2529.JPG.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1600" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUP7hz6y2oSRNLIEBL5HA27tcQdlbI_oe5TqoA8A9pWYrd4TICZZ9nVaCtzSA0koxR-Dp3PG6J7ncqUBBkbkX4FNHBFD7WYMWfjNQAT2DRsUZ8thrWi0cPDry0wslrlKqlQFmuC9u0MGU/s400/Delaney+and+Bonnie+-+Home+%2528Mine+Inner+CD+Label+and+Inlay+Spread%2529.JPG.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv7JBrNtz5Gv9W2A0ebnK-n4gY6Ibm7QxUhxv8e_1lLbsktvnoDMThTc_NtLJMpeq4Yg68oXDUkQIEdF_gtGrt8tDhP4sAeWk7oLaniVx3wDkCefZ-hIljdELl5_Bmx0K0HSUarxiGKvc/s1600/Delaney+and+Bonnie+-+Home+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1390" data-original-width="1600" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv7JBrNtz5Gv9W2A0ebnK-n4gY6Ibm7QxUhxv8e_1lLbsktvnoDMThTc_NtLJMpeq4Yg68oXDUkQIEdF_gtGrt8tDhP4sAeWk7oLaniVx3wDkCefZ-hIljdELl5_Bmx0K0HSUarxiGKvc/s400/Delaney+and+Bonnie+-+Home+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B000F1IPQA&asins=B000F1IPQA&linkId=b29cdcc19c56e3fff5e15ccdc0a5cce5&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Review and Over 400 More Like It</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are Available In My E-Book </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>THE TOWN HAS </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>NO NEED </b></span><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">TO BE</span> </b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">NERVOUS!</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>THE GROOVIEST </b></span><b style="font-family: arial;">1960s MUSIC ON CD </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Your All-Genres Guide To </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Exceptional Reissues and Remasters </span></div>
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B013TDUC2K&asins=B013TDUC2K&linkId=5a6379ebbb67ab7be061e14d6712495c&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>1970 UK LP on Stax Records in Stereo</b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"...My Baby Specializes..."</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ohio's Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett's second album "Home" hit the shops on Stax Records in late October 1969 in the USA (delayed until March 1970 in the UK) and featured their much-loved brand of Rock-Soul - a bit of Stax meets Atlantic meets two great vocalists who pioneered the genre and could pen a tune or two into the bargain.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As you see from the musician list provided below, the album also featured an impressive roster of Stax talent and players – all of Booker T & The MGs with Isaac Hayes and William Bell too and guests like Leon Russell (the Production was handled by Donald "Duck" Dunn of The MG's with funky troubadour Don Nix as his partner in crime). A true crossover record, it's no wonder the 10-track LP is viewed with such affection even in 2020.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But its CD history (especially this rejiggered and slightly buggered-up CD reissue which is actually in MONO instead of STEREO) needs a bit of an encyclopedia to fully understand, so to the details my groovy 60ts pals...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">UK released 13 July 2006 (23 May 2006 in the USA) - <b>"Home" by DELANEY & BONNIE on Universal/Concord/Stax 0025218862622 (Barcode 025218862622) </b>offers a Remaster of the 10-Track October 1969 US LP Plus Six Bonus Tracks (in a rejiggered formation) and plays out as follows (46:34 minutes):</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1. A Long Road Ahead</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2. My Baby Specializes</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3. Things Get Better</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4. We Can Love</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5. All We Really Want To Do</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6. It's Been A Long Time Coming</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7. Just Plain Beautiful</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8. Everybody Loves A Winner</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9. Look What We Have Found</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10. Piece Of My Heart</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">11. A Right Now Love</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">12. I've Just Been Feeling Bad</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">13. Dirty Old Man</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">14. Get Ourselves Together</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">15. Pour Your Love On Me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">16. Hard To Say Goodbye</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The CD is configured as above with 1, 2, 9, 12, 13 and 14 listed as BONUS TRACKS. As well as rejiggering the original playing order of the album, it also states the CD is remastered in STEREO when in fact it was mastered and released in MONO in error and as of February 2020 this mistake remains unfixed. The original 1969 (Mono) LP can be sequenced using the following CD tracks:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Side 1:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1. It's Been A Long Time Coming [Track 5]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2. A Right Now Love [Track 11]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3. We Can Love [Track 4]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4. My Baby Specializes [Track 2]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5. Everybody Loves A Winner [Track 83]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Side 2:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1. Things Get Better [Track 3]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2. Just Plain Beautiful [Track 7]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3. Hard To Say Goodbye</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4. Pour Your Love On Me [Track 15]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5. Piece Of My Heart [Track 10]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Tracks 1 to 10 above are their second album "Home" - released late October 1969 in the USA on Stax Records STS 2026 in Stereo and March 1970 in the UK on Stax Records SXATS 1029 in Stereo. Produced by DONALD "Duck" DUNN and DON NIX - it didn't chart in either country.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Musicians:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DELANEY BRAMLETT – Lead Vocals and Guitar</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">BONNIE BRAMLETT – Lead Vocals</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">BOOKER T. JONES and ISAAC HAYES – Keyboards</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STEVE CROPPER – Guitar</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DONALD "Duck" DUNN and CARL RADLE – Bass</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">AL JACKSON, Jr. – Drums</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">WAYNE JACKSON and BEN CAULEY – Trumpets</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">JAY PRUITT, DICK STEFF and JOHN DAVIS - Trumpets</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ANDREW LOVE, ED LOGAN, JOE ARNOLD and JIM TERRY – Saxophones</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">WILLIAM BELL and PHIL FORREST – Backing Vocals</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LEON RUSSELL – Keyboards</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">JIMMY KARSTEIN – Percussion</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The six-leaf three-way foldout inlay offers a potted history of the trailblazing crossover duo and their second LP by MICHAEL POINT with recording and reissue credits on the last leafs (written in 2002). Point claims their entry in the annals of Rock Music is woefully underappreciated and Michael would be right. Steeped in Soul Music and Stax Records whilst able to put up similar fare with tunes like their own "It's Been A Long Time Coming", they co-wrote "Pour Your Love On Me" and "A Right Now Love" with deep Soul hero HOMER BANKS and "Hard To Say Goodbye" with bassist CARL RADLE. A quick glance through the credits for the outtakes that were left off the album (included here as bonus tracks) and again you can see the co-writes with Radle on "A Long Road Ahead" and "Get Ourselves Together". And even though you can so hear why some of the extras were left off the LP (weakness) – its still a very nice vaults trawl for fans (their rejects don't sound so bad now).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The audio is provided by STEPHEN HART and as already mentioned, is mistakenly mastered into MONO despite the CD and rear labeling it as Stereo. But bizarrely enough it kicks like a mule. The listen feels like an extended singles list from 1968 and 1969 and is a vast improvement on a Stereo CD I had by Ace/Stax from the late 80ts that was both weedy and dull in comparison. As you can see from the total playing time of 46:34 minutes for 16 cuts, the bonuses can be dropped for a future reissue and both Mono and Stereo versions of the LP easily fitted onto 1CD – but alas we must wait and see...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Begun in 27 February 1968 sessions, recordings and overdubs continued into August, September and November 1968 right through until two final studio spurges on the 1st and 2nd of July 1969. The CD listen opens on a Bonus - "A Long Road Ahead" initially laid down in November 1968 with Leon Russell, Carl Radle and Jimmy Karstein playing, then returned to in July 1969 with Booker T on further Keyboards and Phil Forrest on Backing Vocals. It's a goodie and sets the Rock-Soul tone nicely. Next up is the first song from the original LP - "My Baby Specializes" - an Isaac Hayes/David Porter composition that William Bell and Judy Clay made a duet hit 45 in December 1968 on Stax STA-0017. With the bulk of Booker T & The MG's as the backing band, it was laid down at the 27 Feb 1968 session with none other than William Bell singing backing vocals (no doubt he spotted the potential hit even then for him and Judy).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From the same February 1968 recording date and written by Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper and Al Jackson - "Things Get Better" fills your speakers with Stax Funk – a very Blues Brothers moment as those horns jerk and jab while Delaney and Bonnie declare that they have no doubts – duality makes things better baby. Cropper and Eddie Floyd penned "We Can Love" – a truly joyous baby-I've-been-lovin'-you Rock-Soul dancer. Written by Bobby Crutcher with Steve Cropper – Stax UK tried a 45 A-side with the brass-swinging duet-vocals of "Just Plain Beautiful". Released a few months before the album appeared in Blighty (March 1970) – the early January 1970 British single on Stax STAX 139 had the LP cut "Hard To Say Goodbye" as its B-side. But despite the strength of both cuts, it didn't take. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Homer Banks and Bonnie Bramlett penned the lovely "A Right Now Love" - a without your lovin' arms pleader where starving hearts need some lurve stat. The album ends of a storming brass/vocals cover of Erma Franklin's "Piece Of My Heart" that by the end feels like Bonnie is a channeling her inner Janis Joplin screams (lovely organ work from Booker T and we never do find out who is providing those girly backing vocals). Of the bonus cuts - "Look What We Have Found" feels like a discovery worth making even if Concord Music don't know who wrote it to forward those royalties to.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Prior to "Home" - the dynamic duo had issued "Accept No Substitute" on Elektra in July 1969 and after "Home" three more on Atco - "Delaney & Bonnie and Friends On Tour With Eric Clapton" (April 1970), "To Bonnie From Delaney" (October 1970), "Motel Shot" (April 1971). With a label change to Columbia Records, "D & B Together" came in March 1972 (see review) after which the partnership dissolved into divorce and further solo releases.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I can't help thinking that someone like Esoteric Recordings should do a 6LP/6CD Box Set of DELANEY & BONNIE and their 1969 to 1972 output - get all their stuff out there in one cool remastered place - hopefully sometime in the future. In the meantime, Mono or no, give this cheap but rather cool little CD reissue a spin...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-40650747648236662572020-03-01T10:32:00.000-08:002020-03-01T10:35:06.223-08:00"The Letter-Neon Rainbow/Cry Like A Baby/Non Stop/Dimensions/Bonus Tracks" by THE BOX TOPS - Four Albums from 1967, 1968 (2) and 1969 on Bell Records (USA) in Stereo with 1970 Non-Album Singles in Mono - Featuring Alex Chilton [later of Big Star], Donnie Fritts, Eddie Hinton, Spooner Oldham with Dan Penn, Mickey Newbury, Chip Taylor, Glen Spreen and more (28 February 2020 UK Beat Goes On Reissue - 4LPs Onto 2CDs with Seven Bonus Tracks - Andrew Thompson Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlk4WQBssFqCh7S_XB5qDkGYE_45jfeoSrj_K2loVlItwZxZuKRubg6qEPm9hmAOWNZUAqafY_MXHLAjXCZ_yoz9tSklHV5_6GSegeHa4stdD70cdfXavMi4OsSYcHN0VCk7MH_xzoTe4/s1600/Box+Tops+-+You+Keep+Tightening+Up+On+Me+%255B1970+US+45+on+Bell+B-865+A-side+Large%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlk4WQBssFqCh7S_XB5qDkGYE_45jfeoSrj_K2loVlItwZxZuKRubg6qEPm9hmAOWNZUAqafY_MXHLAjXCZ_yoz9tSklHV5_6GSegeHa4stdD70cdfXavMi4OsSYcHN0VCk7MH_xzoTe4/s400/Box+Tops+-+You+Keep+Tightening+Up+On+Me+%255B1970+US+45+on+Bell+B-865+A-side+Large%255D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
INSIDE...</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgldpdfWtGmqF853B5ModrBAf-l9xNgZ3HFUxfejO9epr8CSiz8EO_XObhSB2QIuuaOoFu8PpHNykoX32e1tLakJlWpotraRobgUKspRaOIHQuhjgTVrVpJX6Tfhnz0uhlz3BQLHoPS0V8/s1600/Box+Tops+-+The+Letter+and+3+More+Albums+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1382" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgldpdfWtGmqF853B5ModrBAf-l9xNgZ3HFUxfejO9epr8CSiz8EO_XObhSB2QIuuaOoFu8PpHNykoX32e1tLakJlWpotraRobgUKspRaOIHQuhjgTVrVpJX6Tfhnz0uhlz3BQLHoPS0V8/s400/Box+Tops+-+The+Letter+and+3+More+Albums+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="345" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlo4ekW3IGfna7igFMXie7GkBAcxhKf1Wbgp76BGo3e2tuD6SXK3dQUA63lT1qOVMbSV4REb88yM_hM3-O-vPndxqEp21Urus1RazIPW5WWzYPB1s0XEMisQEHdDR0gNKQK-STiBLqJxM/s1600/Box+Tops+-+The+Letter+and+3+More+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+CD1+and+Booklet+Spread%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="1600" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlo4ekW3IGfna7igFMXie7GkBAcxhKf1Wbgp76BGo3e2tuD6SXK3dQUA63lT1qOVMbSV4REb88yM_hM3-O-vPndxqEp21Urus1RazIPW5WWzYPB1s0XEMisQEHdDR0gNKQK-STiBLqJxM/s400/Box+Tops+-+The+Letter+and+3+More+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+CD1+and+Booklet+Spread%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZl8Hbf3FpszyBKYp0OvK-P7hmBJ11j9x1ozsrYipW9EOSTk5D-J7Q1hnEOU1S5FHgMUjKKhbzIMeJd__Hb5Mcxh_wWolI3aotQeLviTe1V_OXf9-dOZ58TfoBM2zO7L_RWm0NjZ-mcR8/s1600/Box+Tops+-+The+Letter+and+3+More+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+CD2+and+Rear+Inlay%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="1600" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZl8Hbf3FpszyBKYp0OvK-P7hmBJ11j9x1ozsrYipW9EOSTk5D-J7Q1hnEOU1S5FHgMUjKKhbzIMeJd__Hb5Mcxh_wWolI3aotQeLviTe1V_OXf9-dOZ58TfoBM2zO7L_RWm0NjZ-mcR8/s400/Box+Tops+-+The+Letter+and+3+More+Albums+%2528Mine+Inners+CD2+and+Rear+Inlay%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU3zVhwmJPhR84nfYhOHkXbZsQUwZY32tOOSCjjYxx5ehwpUmRJTFMmaZcGUqzyDHd7SoYIh19oH9sRptY87ofbb8G0a53F4Bdfh30SHLQRmJ5sVeevXd_QKN3hTHy7wh3_1zsXdh_pws/s1600/Box+Tops+-+The+Letter+and+3+More+Albums+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1472" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU3zVhwmJPhR84nfYhOHkXbZsQUwZY32tOOSCjjYxx5ehwpUmRJTFMmaZcGUqzyDHd7SoYIh19oH9sRptY87ofbb8G0a53F4Bdfh30SHLQRmJ5sVeevXd_QKN3hTHy7wh3_1zsXdh_pws/s400/Box+Tops+-+The+Letter+and+3+More+Albums+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="367" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B082PRBMV9&asins=B082PRBMV9&linkId=d190288019e2c17cb6ae69d87cebfd40&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Review and Over 400 More Like It</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are Available In My E-Book </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>NO NEED </b></span><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">TO BE</span> </b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">NERVOUS!</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>THE GROOVIEST </b></span><b style="font-family: arial;">1960s MUSIC ON CD </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Your All-Genres Guide To </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Exceptional Reissues and Remasters </span></div>
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B013TDUC2K&asins=B013TDUC2K&linkId=5a6379ebbb67ab7be061e14d6712495c&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"...Lay Your Shine On Me..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">This fantastic-sounding February 2020 double-header CD set from the hirsute bods prowling the corridors of England’s Beat Goes On offers up four studio albums THE BOX TOPS did in the USA between 1967 and 1969 with some dips into 1970. All were released in the UK too, albeit one LP with an additional track and another with two extras (the full compliment is provided here in this release – see notes below the track lists for sequencing).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Bolstering the quartet are seven more bonuses - three album outtakes (from the first 3 LPs) and four non-album single sides - with the bulk of it being in glorious Stereophonic marvelousness. It be a wee bit of a jellybean jar and that’s for darn gosh sure (as they say in enlightened parts of Alabama).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">All this and a young Alex Chilton of Big Star (only 16 going on 17) stretching his Eric Burdon via Jim Morrison voice and newly acquired songwriting chops, Rock-Soul tunes with a Countrified air from those good ole Southern Soul gentlemen and all-round beloved dapper dudes – Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn (Penn produced the first three LPs) - with other melodies penned by Donnie Fritts and Eddie Hinton (guitar too). Hell The Tops even do a nine-minute cover of a B.B. King Blues classic at the end of album four that would give Jimmy Page a possible envy streak (and that’s not at the size of Robbie Williams' nearby and neighbourly water appendage). And 1968’s "Non Stop" (their one studio set that didn't make the top 200) may be obscure in 2020, but its an unfairly forgotten classic in my book and ripe for rediscovery. All this and these are the longest two BGO CDs I've ever seen in their near 40 years of digital reissue – both 81-minutes-plus. Very cool and not in the least bit square (if you know what I mean). Here are the unboxed details...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">UK released Friday, 28 February 2020 - <b>"The Letter-Neon Rainbow/Cry Like A Baby/Non Stop/Dimensions/Bonus Tracks" by THE BOX TOPS on Beat Goes On BGOCD 1400 (Barcode 5017261214003) offers 4LPs Remastered Onto 2CDs with Seven Bonus Tracks </b>and plays out as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">CD1 (81:40 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. The Letter [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. She Knows How<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Trains & Boats & Planes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Break My Mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Whiter Shade Of Pale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Everything I Am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Neon Rainbow [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. People Make The World<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. I'm Your Puppet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Happy Times<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Gonna Find Somebody<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. I Pray For Rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 12 are their debut album "The Letter/Neon Rainbow" – released November 1967 in the USA on Bell Records 6011 in Stereo-only and January 1968 in the UK on Stateside SSL 10128 in Stereo-only - the STEREO MIX is used<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Cry Like A Baby [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Deep In Kentucky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. I'm The One For You<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Weeping Analeah<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Every Time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. Fields Of Clover<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">19. The Letter [see Notes below]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">20. Trouble With Sam [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">21. Lost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">22. Good Morning Dear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">23. 727<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">24. You Keep Me Hanging On<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">25. The Door You Closed To Me [see Notes below]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 13 to 25 are their second studio album "Cry Like A Baby" – released April 1968 in the USA on Bell Records 6017 in Stereo-only as an 11-track LP. The US variant is sequenced 13 to 18 for Side 1 and 20 to 24 for Side 2. The songs at the end of each side ("The Letter" and "The Door You Closed To Me") were two bonuses only on the June 1968 UK 13-track LP on Bell Records MBLL 105 (Mono) and SBLL 105 (Stereo). The song "The Door You Closed To Me" was also a non-album track in the USA and appeared as the B-side of the "Cry Like A Baby" 45 single in February 1988 on Mala Records 593. The STEREO MIX is used for CD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACKS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">26. Georgia Farm Boy (album outtake first issued March 2000 in the USA on Sundazed SC 6158 - the Expanded Edition CD reissue of the "The Letter-Neon Rainbow" LP)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">27. Take Me To Your Heart (album outtake first issued March 2000 in the USA on Sundazed SC 6159 - the Expanded Edition CD reissue of the "Cry Like A Baby" LP)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">28. Come On Honey (non-album track, March 1970 US 7" single on Bell 865, B - CD reissue as per 27)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">29. You Keep Tightening Up On Me (non-album track, March 1970 US 7" single on Bell 865, A - CD reissue as per 27)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">CD2 (81:43 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Choo Choo Train [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. I'm Movin' On<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Sandman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. She Shot A Hole In My Soul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. People Gonna Talk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. I Met Her in Church [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Rock Me Baby<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Rollin' In My Sleep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. I Can Dig It<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Yesterday Where's My Head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. If I Had Let You In<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 11 are their third studio album "Non Stop" – released October 1968 in the USA on Bell Records 6023 in Stereo-only and November 1968 in the UK on Bell Records MBLL 108 (Mono) and SBLL 108 (Stereo) - the STEREO MIX is used<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Soul Deep [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. I Shall Be Released<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Midnight Angel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. I'll Hold Out My Hand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. I Must Be The Devil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. Sweet Cream Ladies (Forward March) [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">19. (The) Happy Song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">20. Ain't No Way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">21. I See Only Sunshine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">22. Rock Me Baby (Version 2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 12 to 22 are their fourth album "Dimensions" – released September 1969 in the USA on Bell Records 6032 in Stereo-only as a 10-Track LP without the song "I See Only Sunshine" on Side 2 and November 1969 in the UK on Bell Records MBLL 120 (Mono) and SBLL 120 (Stereo) as an 11-track LP with the song "I See Only Sunshine" slotted in as above on Side 2 – the STEREO MIX is used<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACKS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">23. King's Highway (non-album track, March 1971 US 7" single on Bell 981, A - CD as per 25)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">24. Since I Been Gone (non-album track, March 1971 US 7" single on Bell 981, B - CD appearance is March 2000 in the USA on Sundazed SC 6160 - the Expanded Edition CD reissue of the "Non Stop" LP)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">25. Lay Your Shine On Me (album outtake first issued March 2000 in the USA on Sundazed SC 6161 - the Expanded Edition CD reissue of the "Dimensions" LP)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The outer slipcase card wrap, 24-page booklet and foldout double-CD jewel case all lend this reissue a typical air of class. Longstanding writer for BGO – Mojo and Record Collector’s CHARLES WARING - provides superbly detailed and researched liner notes that cover the recording and release of the first four albums, the singles surrounding them, Producers Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn, Tommy Cogbill and Chips Moman, line-up changes and even quotes from singer-songwriter Alex Chilton and original drummer Danny Smythe on their punishing and sometimes disillusioning schedules. The booklet also features all original artwork (hokey liner notes from 1967 and 1968 by Hal Smith and Mark Lindsay) and well as the usual 2020 Remaster reissue credits. Even the inner back inlay beneath the CD trays has a shot of the "Dimensions" album sleeve (nice touch).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">ANDREW THOMPSON did the Remasters at Sound Performance in London and I have to say that these albums are sparkling. Although most are in full STEREO, I can’t help thinking (and to my ears) that certain cuts are in MONO – like the single "The Letter" on the debut (repeated on the British LP for "Cry Like A Baby"). The audio on deeply cool album cuts like "She Knows How",<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"People Make The World", "Choo Choo Train" and "She Shot A Hole In My Soul" is wonderful – a genuine pleasure to hear in all their 60ts cool-aid grooviness. To the records...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Arising out of a Memphis Beat group called The Devilles, the embryonic 1966 Box Tops hooked up with Soul-steeped producers Chips Moman and Dan Penn. Then with the aid of an uppercoming Missouri songwriter called Wayne Carson Thompson (usually credited on the labels as Carson Thompson) – they found a total world-beating winner in one of his three demo songs called "The Letter" (ticket for an aeroplane, anyone). Thompson also penned the album’s other moniker "Neon Rainbow" which would become the group’s second single and a dual title on the debut album. His third contribution to the covers-heavy first LP outing was "She Knows How" – another wickedly hooky tune.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Young Soul buck Bobby Womack provided two - "People Make The World" and "Gonna Find Somebody" – neither of which would turn up on his two stunning albums for Imperial "Fly Me To The Moon" and "My Prescription" in 1968 and 1970. We get a purely functional version of Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", a wimpy cover of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David Dionne Warwick vehicle "Trains & Boats & Planes" and a slightly better take on John D. Loudermilk's "Break My Mind". But what really interests me about the debut (apart from how mature Chilton sounded as a 16-year old giving it some 60ts R&B) is the four Rock-Soul songs from the pens of two of my absolute fave-rave writers – Memphis boys Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn (accompanied by ace arranger Mike Leech). They give us "Everything I Am", the James and Bobby Purify classic "I'm Your Puppet", "Happy Times" and "I Pray For Rain". It's been eons since I played these period slices of Southern hospitality and gosh darn their burning-churning groovy bits but they've stood up well – especially as they come from a year that saw the dynamic duo write "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" for Aretha Franklin and "The Dark End Of The Street" for James Carr. Yum yum...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The second LP "Cry Like A Baby" once again saw Dan Penn at the Production controls – the US copy offering 11 cuts whilst the UK issue slapped on a further two songs – one at the end of either side. The team of Oldham and Penn stumped up the fantastic hit "Cry Like A Baby" and five more - "Every Time", "Fields Of Clover", "Trouble With Sam" (Penn only), "727" and the bonus cut on the British LP "The Door You Closed On Me". The band gets yeah-man psych on their cover of The Supremes Holland-Dozier-Holland classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On", goes all Peppers Sitar on "I'm The One For You", whilst the album is also notable for the inclusion of two from cult Country Rocker Mickey Newbury - "Good Morning Dear" and a waltz co-write with Dan Folger on "Weeping Analeah". </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">A quietly unnoticed hero of mine called Glen Spreen arranged the strings on "Lost" (a co-write of his with Mark James) – Spreen would enjoy a huge working career as LP arranger for the much-missed Dan Fogelberg on Dan's albums "Home Free", "Captured Angel", "Phoenix", "The Innocent Age" and more (he even arranged for Presley). And amidst the four bonuses tail-ending CD1 is Alex Chilton's first songwriting-credit for the band on "Come On Honey", Carson Thompson once again throwing up a non-LP groover in "You Keep Tightening Up On Me" and another Mickey Newbury cover in the album outtake - "Georgia Farm Boy" - that I believe Sundazed first unearthed to the world in 2000 on their expanded CD reissue of the debut album "The Letter-Neon Rainbow".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Which brings us to album number three "Non Stop" from October 1968 opening CD2 with the LP's lead off single – the Donnie Fritts and Eddie Hinton penned "Choo Choo Train". Mala Records had in fact debuted the 45 Stateside in May 1968 (Mala 12,005) with "Fields Of Clover" from the second album on the flipside – but even then the writing seemed to be on the wall for this non-charting LP. "Cry Like A Baby" had gone all the hit way to an impressive No. 2 on the American singles chart in March 1968 – but in June 1968 (only months later) when "Choo Choo Train" hit the Billboard listings – it only managed a peak of only No. 26. And despite the songwriting strength of the album's second 45 "I Met Her In Church" on Mala 12.017 - an Oldham/Penn original backed with their equally cool "People Gonna Talk" song on the flipside - it too only rose to No. 37 and this time only managed one week on the chart. Hardly surprising then that in November 1968, a slightly panicking Bell Records tried to cash in on what must have appeared to be an already fading band by putting out the LP "The Box Tops Super Hits" as a mop-up exercise. At least it charted and rose to No. 45 – reminding people of how much they loved those hooky Rock-Soul numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">As well as the clever rework of Hank Snow's country groover "I'm Movin' On" on Side 1 (John Kay of Steppenwolf may have nicked his arrangement of the cover from the Box Tops for his "Forgotten Songs & Unsung Heroes" LP in 1972) – the "Non Stop" album also has an enlightened cover version choice on Side 2 in the B.B. King classic "Rock Me Baby". A Bluesy little gem running to 3:49 minutes, I mention the tune because when The Box Tops returned with their fourth "Dimensions" album in 1969, clearly recognizing that they'd stumbled on a sound and Rock-Soul-orientated groove Chilton really liked - they went at it again, only this time extending its fantastic Blues-Rock-Soul vibe to nearly nine minutes. Wayne Carson Thompson provided "Sandman" which I think is good rather than great – Fritts and Hinton put up contribution number two in the shape of the US Side 2 finisher "If I Had Let You In" (sweet) and keyboardist Paul Davis of The Reivers provided the excellent "Rollin' In My Sleep". As I said earlier, why the public ignored this rather cool and sexy little LP is anyone's guess – but I'd say it's time to go back and re-look.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The final album "Dimensions" opens with the absolute winner that is "Soul Deep" - a Wayne Carson Thompson masterpiece. But then you're hit with a genuine surprise. Even in 1968, Dylan cover versions had become a seriously overdone thing. And yet The Box Tops managed in their version of "I Shall Be Released" to capture the song's beauty and spirituality and even (some would say) take it further. Their take is gorgeous and in April 1969 Mala previewed the album by putting "I Shall Be Released" on a US 45 A-side (Mala 12,038) with Chilton's equally superb Blues number "I Must Be The Devil" on the flip. 23 May 1969 saw this combo issued by Bell Records in Blighty (Bell BLL 1063) and for me is one of the great forgotten combos of that amazing year (love me two times). Can't say I like the cover of Neil Diamond's "Ain't No Way" much, but the Al Gorgoni and Chip Taylor song "I'll Hold Out My Hand" is a goody. And the three bonus cuts ending CD2 has Chilton's rare single-only track "Since I Been Gone". The only minor gripe is that the stand-alone September 1969 single "Turn On A Dream" (a Mark James song) with Chilton's "Together" on the flipside is not here, but that perhaps is being too greedy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Beat Goes On has gotten good at these sort of releases and this is another feather in their long-standing fluffy hat. Great audio, great content and quality presentation – my love is Soul Deep boys for sure...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-89360480681138000642019-04-06T03:28:00.002-07:002020-03-01T10:34:37.489-08:00"Strangers In The Room: A Journey Through The British Folk-Rock Scene 1967-73" by VARIOUS (March 2019 Grapefruit Records 3CD Clamshell Box Set) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzvnaZc-ZaTml2sr0KKihecdWlIASKIbIkGNeB_nWpsWAeflJia26dTZH88bSUQdE1o6GJtCFP3zH-n2KS8FVAOZBtCIrtohOrD6kpLBwZn9OWC8Ovb46LMGMNr7RKaqYP5ayqNEM72Xc/s1600/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1590" data-original-width="1600" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzvnaZc-ZaTml2sr0KKihecdWlIASKIbIkGNeB_nWpsWAeflJia26dTZH88bSUQdE1o6GJtCFP3zH-n2KS8FVAOZBtCIrtohOrD6kpLBwZn9OWC8Ovb46LMGMNr7RKaqYP5ayqNEM72Xc/s400/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8afY5jDPhX-K6Kf4eya1AlVW4dTu9H3dtz-ly_F0s6-4ggDdypwRwMe4EdzjHegCW5EnP7jvpS6-sgMoc-3Wq5bfUoWBNHwnxeyw08MBty957BGIq0r_uzE_xDXSK4q8jj-qBAiv8Xg0/s1600/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Inners+1+-+Three+Card+Slvs+Front%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="1600" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8afY5jDPhX-K6Kf4eya1AlVW4dTu9H3dtz-ly_F0s6-4ggDdypwRwMe4EdzjHegCW5EnP7jvpS6-sgMoc-3Wq5bfUoWBNHwnxeyw08MBty957BGIq0r_uzE_xDXSK4q8jj-qBAiv8Xg0/s400/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Inners+1+-+Three+Card+Slvs+Front%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnT5-fVFPM09md2kRMKOOwHxhacVG4By6VXX7yMjounuN421X1U58LkhmxzEHq3fkKODG6uSZXq3wlrC-Ttjo21OseRLrelY3B_ZNTL6f15ZIAQEX6YXqj5MmtAyuc9RJCH9X79COwGk/s1600/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Inners+2+-+Three+Card+Slvs+Rear%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1600" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnT5-fVFPM09md2kRMKOOwHxhacVG4By6VXX7yMjounuN421X1U58LkhmxzEHq3fkKODG6uSZXq3wlrC-Ttjo21OseRLrelY3B_ZNTL6f15ZIAQEX6YXqj5MmtAyuc9RJCH9X79COwGk/s400/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Inners+2+-+Three+Card+Slvs+Rear%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyP-83RHGl4v3GQUSvrpD_3NzlKN-ZpEgyEFMMVfaEhZmo4CDspBzUw6x24o7vAPq7xGgySSMSsmug06j5s79TDeXAyi9OEuZrsc4a8g0u4s5MG5PI54hnFEhIHzfhOiEJ3-gpBbSsm3c/s1600/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Inners+3+-+Booklet+Spread+Pages%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="1600" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyP-83RHGl4v3GQUSvrpD_3NzlKN-ZpEgyEFMMVfaEhZmo4CDspBzUw6x24o7vAPq7xGgySSMSsmug06j5s79TDeXAyi9OEuZrsc4a8g0u4s5MG5PI54hnFEhIHzfhOiEJ3-gpBbSsm3c/s400/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Inners+3+-+Booklet+Spread+Pages%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnGLUAkdIQbhCQqtyCJXO-Yi3U3ehU4Qf2TOOIpMeRvkQH-r0hLcfuLBw5LX5mM3C_4RDx1qMlasPwrMRXf7xVzPSrOHbEdud2rndfXlsF-5-OkCHBTymS42o24JveR2-47nJGeJwmJw/s1600/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Inners+4+-+Rear+Booklet+Spread+Pages%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="1600" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnGLUAkdIQbhCQqtyCJXO-Yi3U3ehU4Qf2TOOIpMeRvkQH-r0hLcfuLBw5LX5mM3C_4RDx1qMlasPwrMRXf7xVzPSrOHbEdud2rndfXlsF-5-OkCHBTymS42o24JveR2-47nJGeJwmJw/s400/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Inners+4+-+Rear+Booklet+Spread+Pages%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoXbLq8fov7iVeIrvh2j9nsgFL3omwLN7nSujUCYuQRzq5cilLAGsNW3alxDLa3Y4jyC_8ZY4LCY4iNIo9CbzGulLksXfAxWaaUXJLkjqoPf6eBMT3lVDErmO1TiKshgZ5Sg-wHtuqUiI/s1600/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1571" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoXbLq8fov7iVeIrvh2j9nsgFL3omwLN7nSujUCYuQRzq5cilLAGsNW3alxDLa3Y4jyC_8ZY4LCY4iNIo9CbzGulLksXfAxWaaUXJLkjqoPf6eBMT3lVDErmO1TiKshgZ5Sg-wHtuqUiI/s400/Various+-+Strangers+In+The+Room+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="392" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07MWPYMZ7&asins=B07MWPYMZ7&linkId=4a7fe8d2ecf6dea543d5095cfc1a4fe6&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">This Review and 259 more like it are available </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">In my e-Book<b> "There's Something About 1970..."</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Your All-Genres Guide To The Best CD Remasters </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">(No Cut and Paste Crap - All Reviews from the Actual Discs) </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B01MZYC9BR&asins=B01MZYC9BR&linkId=a3921296a51c6a82184e467dcd209e89&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Containing </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">featuring 7" Single and Album tracks from 1970 by </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Michael Chapman, Chimera, The Humblebums, Knocker Jungle, Trader Horne, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Mike
Hart, Matthews Southern Comfort, Mary-Anne, Mick Softley, Storyteller, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Fresh
Maggots, Canticle, Andy Roberts, Mr. Fox, Ralph McTell, Heron, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Paper Bubble, </b></span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Mike Cooper and Lifeblud </b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></b>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"...Gathering Wild Roses..."</span><br />
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]-->
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>JA</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
<w:UseFELayout/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="276">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="59" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]-->
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Arial;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:10887 -2147483648 8 0 511 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-font-charset:78;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;
mso-header-margin:36.0pt;
mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;
mso-paper-source:0;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
</style>
</div>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: arial;">Grapefruit Records have been slowly winning the pickled hearts of collectors these last few years with a steady stream of these 3CD clamshell-type Box Sets - and I suspect they'll be avalanched with quite a few saucy Valentine Cards (even in late March) for this wee buxom beauty.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Sixty genre-bending Folk and Folk-Rock tracks from 1967 to 1973 across three CDs (four Previously Unreleased with many others not stated as being Alternate or Rare Versions) and a Billy Bunter sized 40-page booklet to scoff it all down with. It's off to the Tuck Shop my wassailing lads and lassies of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and any other shire we may drag our non-European musical ruin stones and shillelaghs through. Put your finger-in-the-ear people and hope for the best. Here goes...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">UK released Friday, 29 March 2019 (5 April 2019 in the USA) - <b>"Strangers In The Room: A Journey Through The British Folk-Rock Scene 1967-1973" by VARIOUS ARTISTS on Grapefruit CRSEGBOX054 (Barcode 5013929185401) is a 60-Track 3CD Clamshell Box Set of Remasters</b> that plays out as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 1 "Raise Your Voice And Sing Sweetly" (79:15 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Stranger In The Room - MICHAEL CHAPMAN (from the March 1970 UK LP "Fully Qualified Survivor" on Harvest SHVL 764)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. The Blacksmith - STEELEYE SPAN (from the March 1971 UK LP "Please To See The King" on B&C Records CAS 1029)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Dangerous Dave (Alternative Version) - SPIROGYRA (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, Recorded February 1972) *<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Murdoch - TREES (from the February 1971 UK LP "On The Shore" on CBS Records S 64168)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Sad Song For Winter - CHIMERA (Recorded November 1970 with a Wil Malone arrangement, not originally issued) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Shoeshine Boy - THE HUMBLEBUMS (March 1970 UK 7" single on Big T Records BIG 130, A-side. Featured the comedian Billy Connolly and singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty later with Stealer's Wheel and a solo career)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Martha - HARVEY ANDREWS (from the May 1972 UK LP "Writer Of Songs" on Cube Records HIFLY 10)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Hanging Tree - OO BANG JIGGLY JANG (November 1971 UK 7" single on President PT 356, A-side - featuring Peter Bramall and James Roper of The Motors)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. She's Getting Married In August - ALAN JAMES EASTWOOD [of The Exception] (from the February 1971 UK LP "Seeds" on President PTLS 1037)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Amongst Anemones - JADE (from the July 1970 UK LP "Fly On Strangewings" on DJM Records DJLPS 407)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. I Don't Know Why - KNOCKER JUNGLE (November 1970 UK 7" single on Ember EMBS 293, A-side. Were Tony Coup and Keith Jones of Mandragon)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. The Sailor - ROBIN SCOTT (August 1969 UK 7" single on Head HDS 4003, A-side - members of Mighty Baby featuring as the backing band)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Here Comes The Rain - TRADER HORNE (February 1970 UK 7" single on Dawn DNS 1003, A-side. Featured Judy Dyble of Fairport Convention and Jackie McAuley of Them)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. My Delicate Skin - DAVE CARTWRIGHT (May 1973 UK 7" single on Transatlantic BIG 510, A-side and the May 1973 UK LP "Back To The Garden")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Almost Liverpool 8 - MIKE HART (from the February 1970 UK LP "Mike Hart Bleeds" on Dandelion S 63756)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Candy Dora - RICHMOND (January 1973 UK 7" single on D'Art ART 2008, A-side - featuring Chas Seward and Steve Hall)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Don't Know Why You Bother Child - GARY FARR (from the December 1969 UK LP "Take Something With You" on Marmalade 608 013)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. 1917 Revolution - BEAU (August 1969 UK 7" single on Dandelion 4403, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">19. Jesus Was A Carpenter - THE JOHNSTONS (from the November 1969 UK LP "Bitter Green" on Transatlantic Records TRA 211 featuring Paul Brady and Paddy Maloney - Ewan MacColl song)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">20. We Can Swing Together - ALAN HULL (December 1969 UK 7" single on Big T Records BIG 129, A-side - later lead singer and songwriter in Lindisfarne)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 2 "Back To The Garden" (78:31 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Woodstock - MATTHEWS SOUTHERN COMFORT (original 8-Track mix but not finally issued version, recorded July 1970) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. The Man Who Called Himself Jesus - THE STRAWBS (not originally issued alternative mix, Recorded July 1968) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. As I Roved Out - THE WOODS BAND (from the December 1971 UK LP "The Woods Band" on Greenwich Records GSLP 1004 - featuring Gay and Terry Woods - Terry later with The Pogues, Gay with Auto Da Fe)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Sir Patrick Spens - FAIRPORT CONVENTION (not originally issued, recorded October 1969 during "Liege & Lief" sessions) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Be Not So Fearful (Demo Version) - BILL FAY (not originally issued demo version, recorded early 1969) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. I Loved Her So Long - UNICORN (from the June 1971 UK LP "Uphill All The Way" on Transatlantic TRA 238)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Sarah In The Isle Of Wight - AL JONES (from the September 1969 UK LP "Alun Ashworth-Jones" on Parlophone PCS 7081 in Stereo)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Song For A Dead Mole - LEA NICHOLSON and STAN ELLISON (from the June 1972 UK LP "God Bless The Unemployed" on Transatlantic TRA 254)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. There's A Place I Know - BRIDGET ST. JOHN (February 1972 UK 3-Track 7" single on Dandelion 2001, Track 1 of 2 on the B-side of "Fly Away")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. People Smile With Ghosts In The Land Of Make-Believe - JEREMY HARMER (from the privately pressed 1968 UK LP "Idiosyncratics And Swallow's Wings" on JH Records JH 001 - features David Costa of Trees and Celia Humphris sister Sue) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Pucka-Ri - URBAN CLEARWAY (not originally issued, recorded circa August 1972) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Scranky Black Farmer - C.O.B. [Clive's Own Band - Clive Palmer of The Incredible String Band] (from the November 1971 UK LP "Spirit Of Love" on CBS Records 69010)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Lady Of St. Clare - DAYLIGHT (August 1971 UK 7" single on RCA Victor RCA 2106, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Love Has Gone - MARY-ANNE [Mary-Anne Patterson] (from the April 1970 UK LP "Me" on Joy Records JOYS 162)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Time Machine - MICK SOFTLEY (August 1970 UK 7" single on CBS Records S 5130, B-side of "Can You Hear Me Now" - features Mike Vickers of Manfred Mann on Keyboards)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Fleance - THIRD EAR BAND (from the March 1972 UK LP "Music From Macbeth" on Harvest Records SHSP 4019)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Morning Glow - STORYTELLER (from the May 1970 UK LP "Storyteller" on Transatlantic Records TRA 220)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. Riverboat - DANDO SHAFT (from the May 1971 UK LP "Dando Shaft" on RCA/Neon NE 5)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">19. What I Am - FRESH MAGGOTS (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, recorded circa October 1970) *<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">20. Like A Rolling Stone - CANTICLE (November 1970 USA 7" single on Century Records 36685, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 3 "Down Into The Moonlight World" (77:21 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Queen Of The Moonlight World - ANDY ROBERTS (from the March 1970 UK LP "Home Grown" on RCA Victor SF 8086 - ex Liverpool Scene, later with Everyone, also with Iain Matthews in Plainsong)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. The Cuckoo - THE PENTANGLE (from the October 1969 UK LP "Basket Of Light" on Transatlantic TRA 205)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Little Woman (Single Version) - MR.FOX (November 1970 UK 7" single on Big T Records BIG 135, A-side - featuring Bob and Caroline Pegg - different mix from the LP, first appearance on CD since release) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Father Forgive Them - RALPH McTELL (from the November 1970 UK LP "Ralph McTell Revisited" on Transatlantic TRA 227)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Just As The Tide Was A Flowing - SHIRLEY COLLINS and THE ALBION COUNTRY BAND (from the November 1971 UK LP "No Roses" on Pegasus PEG 7)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Oh Did I Love A Dream - THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND (not originally issued, recorded circa mid-1972) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Strange Days - PAPER BUBBLE (not originally issued, recorded October 1970) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Dahlia - PAULK BRETT'S SAGE (March 1973 UK 7" single on Dawn Records DNS 1021, A-side – possibly withdrawn and never released) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Your Lovely Ways (Part One) - MIKE COOPER (May 1970 UK 7" single on Dawn Records DNX 2501, A-side) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. River Of Fortune – HERON (not originally issued, recorded July 1970) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Beverley Market Meeting – JUDE (not originally issued, recorded February 1971 – Judith Willie) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. All In A Dream - STEVE TILSTON (from the May 1972 UK LP "The Collection" on Transatlantic Records TRA 252)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Carry Me – PRELUDE (from the October 1973 UK LP "How Long Is Forever" on Dawn Records DNLS 3052 – Irene Hume on Lead Vocals)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. City Girl - JOAN ARMATRADING (from the November 1972 UK LP "Whatever’s For Us" on Cube Records HIFLY 12)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Furniture – HORSLIPS (from the January 1973 Ireland and UK debut album "Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part" on Oats Records MOO 3)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Who Cares - GERRY RAFFERTY (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, recorded mid 1971) *<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Young Waters - JSD BAND (from the June 1973 UK LP "Travelling Days" on Cube Records HIFLY 14)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. September - 9.30 FLY (from the June 1972 UK LP "9:30 Fly" on Ember NR 5062)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">19. Waxing Of The Moon - LIFEBLUD (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, recorded circa January 1970) *<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">20. Who Knows Where The Time Goes - SANDY DENNY (not originally issued, recorded July 1967) +<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">+ ALTERNATE or RARE VERSION<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Put together by the uber-knowledgeable and Baby Driver with-it JOHN REED – his equally sexy co-compiler DAVID WELLS pours on the facts in the multitudinous 40-page booklet – each artist and song given a full appraisal usually sided by period photos, ticket stubs, flyers, trade adverts and those impossibly rare single and LPs pictured throughout. Take the Steve Tilston entry for his "All In A Dream" song on Disc 3. It advises that in late 1972 after the album's release in May, Steve did an interview with Zig Zag magazine ruminating on how fame and fortune might affect his songwriting. None other than John Lennon replied in writing (to his worries) and that was the basis for the rather insipid Al Pacino film vehicle "Danny Collins" – or that Prelude who had a huge hit with their truly gorgeous Acapella version of Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush" sang backing vocals on another huge Folk-ish hit - "Streets Of London" by Ralph McTell. I didn’t know either of those things and I dare say, neither did you. Each entry is full of great name-checks like that. Beautifully laid out and aimed at collectors and novices alike – when I think of the recent miserable 8-page inlay given to Fleetwood Mac and their supposed '50 Years – Don’t Stop' 3CD celebration, it really does show how independents light the way, when the majors seem content with what they can get away with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Audio is by ALAN WILSON and with so many sources is a mixed bag of the astonishing vs. the muffled with most being way better than that. For sure the audio dips on each of the CDs when it comes to those fast and loose demos and alternate mixes, but the rest of it is impressively presented and in some cases (as I say) will blow your socks off for recordings that are mostly 50+ years old. To the garden of delights...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Across 60 tracks there are those fabulous discoveries - the debut Unicorn LP on Transatlantic Records where the chosen debut album song "I Loved Her So Long" is the link between Matthews Southern Comfort and Plainsong (much of their better material in the mid 70ts on Harvest Records had the same hooky gorgeous melodies) - the beautiful ethereal harmony vocals of Fairport Convention's Judy Dyble and Them's Jackie McAuley in their Trader Horne incarnation for "Here Comes The Rain" (see my separate review of that album reissued by Earth Records on CD). Some of it (as already mentioned) is unfortunately ropey Audio wise - the hissy Billy Fay demo and The Woods Band is disappointingly muddied but on the other hand Dave Cartwright's McGuinness Flint-sounding "My Delicate Skin", Michael Chapman's box-set title song "Stranger In A Room" (see my review for Light In The Attic's stunning reissue of his second album "Fully Qualified Survivor" and Storyteller's early Genesis-like "Morning Glow" all sound superlative - huge acoustic guitars, voices and clever string arrangements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Only winners are the fabulous Folk-meets-Pastoral union in Dando Shaft's flute-and-acoustic shuffle "Riverboat" - the jolly acoustic jostle of my "Lady Of St. Clair" by the staggeringly collectable Daylight - and even if Jeremy Harmer's self-recorded "People Smile With Ghosts In The Land Of Make-Believe" gives us some 'ships in squalls that change to gurgling laughter' might be a hippy lyric too far - the 99-only copies LP contained David Costa from Trees with their singer Celia Humphris' sister Sue doing harmony vocals (just about as cultish and collectable as it can get). Paul Brady and Paddy Maloney newly attached to The Johnstons transform the Ewan MacColl song "Jesus Was A Carpenter" into a "Woodstock" beautiful moment while Mick Softley gets fully-fledged Audio quality on his impressive "Time Machine" where he sings 'who will they be in 5000 AD' - indeed – a star tripper maybe. Speaking of that famous Joni song, I love the 8-Track Tape Version of the Matthews Southern Comfort UK No. 1 - it's a version that unlike the single has the acoustic and pedal steel guitars much more to the fore. And although it doesn't say it anywhere in the box, I think it's the version that turned up on the "Three's A Charm" privately-pressed CD from Iain Matthews in 1999 for his fans – the mix that was remastered by Bradley Kopp in Boulder, Colorado and is featured in his forthcoming "Orphans And Outcasts" 4CD Box Set. Anyway – it's a keeper, much like this fabulously inventive little box set...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">A companion piece to Grapefruit's much praised duo of threesomes - "Milk Of The Tree: An Anthology Of Female Vocal Folk & Singer-Songwriters 1966-73" from June 2017 (see review) and "Gathered From Coincidence: The British Folk-Pop Sound Of 1965-1966" from June 2018 (review to follow) – March 2019’s "Strangers In The Room: A Journey Through The British Folk-Rock Scene 1967-1973" is a deserved Amazon No 1 in the Folk-Rock genre section.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Cadburys Easter Eggs on every desk and big-time kudos to the compilers and everyone else involved...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-4561982071224474342019-04-06T02:57:00.001-07:002020-08-31T15:53:27.101-07:00"Blood, Sweat & Tears 3" by BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS (June 2014 Music On CD Reissue and Remaster) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZhcoAMmAcO_Yv9E0BX4zw0rOrjZEQN9D7ZVFRAi3RM6LCTjn7uKi5VKHKY3Fv1CXmlficWpYjXV0evCbNH71OcCC8aV6MYA6zT04dw_vwfzxceiryJrKLt6XQFGFOFmdCHoS4IN2ktc/s1600/IMG_6075.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1600" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZhcoAMmAcO_Yv9E0BX4zw0rOrjZEQN9D7ZVFRAi3RM6LCTjn7uKi5VKHKY3Fv1CXmlficWpYjXV0evCbNH71OcCC8aV6MYA6zT04dw_vwfzxceiryJrKLt6XQFGFOFmdCHoS4IN2ktc/s400/IMG_6075.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPwZp-2sdduc3UXWnSlCYLGclJO05n8sbuG_kgrqwZZvTG9m9yf-CasvEdTRcgSVU4JD30ac6GiIIYfxhxZjq9Vp6XLDvlyFPKJUfFT51vtRha0Z5shLuWT7ScKhKtlrsnsqJX6GAb8iw/s1600/IMG_6077.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPwZp-2sdduc3UXWnSlCYLGclJO05n8sbuG_kgrqwZZvTG9m9yf-CasvEdTRcgSVU4JD30ac6GiIIYfxhxZjq9Vp6XLDvlyFPKJUfFT51vtRha0Z5shLuWT7ScKhKtlrsnsqJX6GAb8iw/s400/IMG_6077.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3bga8gnYD8KsAAD-AIqBM3b69qoQzkHAu0jxFKZhG_63oaSQqWrdRyqvlypRMZ4eKLNSYkj2T1MtHPpxWDgINbnpU2FEGeNXp2wTcR7cn2b8S2XWEx9zbN4nTuHzskx8n6TbkkENIeck/s1600/IMG_6081.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1600" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3bga8gnYD8KsAAD-AIqBM3b69qoQzkHAu0jxFKZhG_63oaSQqWrdRyqvlypRMZ4eKLNSYkj2T1MtHPpxWDgINbnpU2FEGeNXp2wTcR7cn2b8S2XWEx9zbN4nTuHzskx8n6TbkkENIeck/s400/IMG_6081.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_JOhOuF8joDj_1lUpYEBwSoK3ei_yI8tlXe7iXsB7SbmeRWo8OvAshh0AzXfwXKdLc8WLxo-FdXodd-Rtgl6IQmZoR8zruk6ZPgR51uKko3PiRXvDNpvN_c3_YL1OVu6kgLqDJRdnxg/s1600/IMG_6117.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1387" data-original-width="1600" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_JOhOuF8joDj_1lUpYEBwSoK3ei_yI8tlXe7iXsB7SbmeRWo8OvAshh0AzXfwXKdLc8WLxo-FdXodd-Rtgl6IQmZoR8zruk6ZPgR51uKko3PiRXvDNpvN_c3_YL1OVu6kgLqDJRdnxg/s400/IMG_6117.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B00IU5ADU4&asins=B00IU5ADU4&linkId=3e1a08dd9e5932f31a9049d6df5e16e7&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"...Emergence and Submergence..."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>"Blood, Sweat & Tears 3" album from 1970</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I've had a few Music On CD reissues before (Joan Armatrading's "To The Limit" and John Renbourn's "Faro Annie" to be precise) and they come as is - a gatefold slip of paper for an inlay and in this case - an SACD-type jewel case. And while you really do miss a booklet and some decent background details on this 'huge' album (a second US No. 1 for BST) – you do at least get the ‘original album artwork’ inner gatefold that came with 1970 Vinyl originals (not that you can actually read any of the miniaturised wording).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">What you don't notice is the Audio. I mention this because I'd swear this is the SACD Remaster done by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab in 2003 – even if it doesn’t mention Remasters or indeed mastering anywhere on the packaging. I could be wrong of course - but I guess what I’m saying is that without costing a small part of your already heavily taxed anatomy - this unassuming and relatively cheap little CD reissue 'sounds damn good' and is only docked a star because of the lazy inlay. Here is the Audio Hi-De-Ho (Lucretia)...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">UK released 16 June 2014 - <b>"Blood, Sweat & Tears 3" by BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS on Music On CD MOCCD 13139 (Barcode 8718627221389) is a straightforward Remaster of their third LP originally from 1970</b> and plays out as follows (42:45 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Hi-De-Ho [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. The Battle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Lucretia Mac Evil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Lucretia's Reprise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Fire And Rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Lonesome Suzie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Sympathy For The Devil / Sympathy For The Devil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">(i) Emergence - A. Fanfare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">(ii) Devil's Game - A. Labyrinth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">B. Satan's Dance C. The Demand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">(iii) Submergence - A. Contemplation B. Return<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. He's A Runner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Somethin' Comin' On<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. 40,000 Headmen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 10 are their third studio album "Blood, Sweat & Tears 3" - released July 1970 in the USA on Columbia Records KC 30090 and August 1970 in the UK on CBS Records S 64024. Produced by LOU WAXMAN - the album peaked at No. 1 on the US LP charts and No. 14 in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS were:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">DAVID CLAYTON-THOMAS - Lead Vocals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">STEVE KATZ - Guitars and Harmonica<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">FRED LIPSIUS - Alto Saxophone, Piano, Electric Piano, Musical Box [Music Box] and Vocals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">DICK HALLIGAN - Organ, Piano, Electric Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta, Trombone, Flute, Alto Flute, Baritone Horn and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vocals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">JERRY HYMAN - Trombone, Bass Trombone and Recorder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">CHUCK WINFIELD - Trumpet and Flugelhorn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">LEW SOLOFF - Trumpet, Flugelhorn and Piccolo Trumpet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">JIM FIELDER - Bass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BOBBY COLOMBY - Drums, Percussion and Vocals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Their fabulous April 1968 US debut LP "Child Is Father To The Man" (when Al Kooper was with the band) had been a slow burner – peaking at No. 47 in the States but doing seven better at No. 40 in the UK when released there in July 1968 (on CBS Records). No such dithering with the New York band's second platter - the self-titled "Blood, Sweat & Tears" released in January 1969 that went all the way to No. 1 on the Billboard Rock Albums chart and a healthy No. 15 in the UK (released in Blighty in April 1969). The Jazz-Rock/Blues-Rock band simply compounded that roaring second success with another in 1970 – the third album launched in July with the superbly catchy "Hi-De-Ho" 45 on Columbia Records 45204 (CBS Records 5137 in the UK in August 1970). "Hi-De-Ho" broke the Top Twenty in America peaking at No. 14, and in both countries came with "The Battle" from Side 1 of the LP as its B-side. October 1970 saw the album’s other obvious hooky little winner "Lucretia Mac Evil" get a 7" single release with (not surprisingly) "Lucretia's Reprise" on the flipside. And although Columbia Records 45235 only made No. 29 in the USA – it kept the album in the public's ears and hearts, eventually lasting a whopping 41 weeks on the US Billboard charts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Three had its fair share of choice cover versions - Laura Nyro's "He's A Runner" sits alongside James Taylor's "Fire And Rain while Richard Manuel's "Lonesome Suzie" from The Band's 1968 debut LP "Music From Big Pink" rubs up against Traffic's Steve Winwood-penned "40,000 Headmen". And of course The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" (one of the Sympathy songs on Side 2 - the other with the same name being by BST's Dick Halligan) dominates much of Side 2. The other nods to quality songwriters comes in the shape of two obscure B-sides - the first is the renamed "Hi-De-Ho" - a Jerry Goffin and Carole King composition given to Dusty Springfield in 1969 - the flip to her cover of Tony Joe White's "Willie And Laura Mae Jones" - called (just to be confusing) "That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho)". Blood, Sweat & Tears just kept it simple and renamed it "Hi-De-Ho". The second nod was the B-side to Joe Cocker's 1968 single "With A Little Help From My Friends" on Regal Zonophone Records - a tune called "Somethin' Comin' On" penned by Chris Stainton and Joe Cocker. The rest of the album is original material provided by Steve Katz, David Clayton-Thomas, Fred Lipsius and Dick Halligan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Right from the get-go you’re blasted with the huge audio and even if it is 1970, the music sounds so hip and happening even in 2019 – almost fifty years after the event. Like so many other bands, BST discovered something Soulful in the music of James Taylor and indeed in Carole King – songs like "Hi-De-Ho" and "Fire And Rain". That’s not to say that guttural vocalist David Clayton-Thomas and his "Lucretia Mac Evil" contribution isn’t in fact one of the best songs on here. The near eight minutes of the double-named "Sympathy For The Devil" Suite over on Side 2 can (it has to be said) test your patience in the stop-start world of 2019, but all that brass and fantastic arrangements by Halligan is still thrilling. And that trio of choice-covers only serve to bring home an already great LP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Blood, Sweat & Tears would start a slow musical decline after this – Clayton-Thomas issuing some very cool solo LPs in 1972 and 1973 which Repertoire (of Germany) have reissued on Remastered CDs. But there is something wildly special about their initial trio of albums – a band on fire – lightning-in-a-bottle moments from the tail end of one special decade segueing into one even more amazing. Dig in get dancing...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-56854612012269694832019-03-01T09:06:00.000-08:002019-03-01T09:06:45.199-08:00"Gonna Rock Tonite! The Complete Recordings 1969-1971" by FLAMIN GROOVIES (February 2019 UK Grapefruit Records 3CD Box Set) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6akwRd23jdkxjHNXlGtfUar3WbW3KWh62UuLvDprz3pUu8qdwQTWcTjZHfbMLQb4NlwK0iGl77XAJibBnov95defLQ0e6RyXlHVe05PB2GuCKNGZhAn3yuiJw8aPnzR_3fbAsqTRR-nE/s1600/Flamin+Groovies+-+Good+Rock+Tonite+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1586" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6akwRd23jdkxjHNXlGtfUar3WbW3KWh62UuLvDprz3pUu8qdwQTWcTjZHfbMLQb4NlwK0iGl77XAJibBnov95defLQ0e6RyXlHVe05PB2GuCKNGZhAn3yuiJw8aPnzR_3fbAsqTRR-nE/s400/Flamin+Groovies+-+Good+Rock+Tonite+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="396" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKHUnTUImHbtxzO7Kxpi3y43HAHNbgBkVTK_HTnmLwAVLlLagduqGE9nzszQ3WdTZDMKmUNQeudL-q67v3mW9JGx0ViXu3Qn_2SU9u7M3n5KxC2ClM-1szPZc0bCU2M28E-sDpXWnfvJY/s1600/Flamin+Groovies+-+Good+Rock+Tonite+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+Spread+of+3+Card+Slvs+and+Booklet%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1410" data-original-width="1600" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKHUnTUImHbtxzO7Kxpi3y43HAHNbgBkVTK_HTnmLwAVLlLagduqGE9nzszQ3WdTZDMKmUNQeudL-q67v3mW9JGx0ViXu3Qn_2SU9u7M3n5KxC2ClM-1szPZc0bCU2M28E-sDpXWnfvJY/s400/Flamin+Groovies+-+Good+Rock+Tonite+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+Spread+of+3+Card+Slvs+and+Booklet%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1ASwJ0chYgnF_D001sJH2zNk3qqUEG3EME7ub8NFgQKu0uFBUD1CkkYcPNDJ_Jir94QsmzVDo3PE-AvCwtIfWolLJ_F5NHVLjfEL8RaX8Fek1X3uQB9x71DQSMaVJ9bTyeFnzvx9Z1A/s1600/Flamin+Groovies+-+Good+Rock+Tonite+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1468" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1ASwJ0chYgnF_D001sJH2zNk3qqUEG3EME7ub8NFgQKu0uFBUD1CkkYcPNDJ_Jir94QsmzVDo3PE-AvCwtIfWolLJ_F5NHVLjfEL8RaX8Fek1X3uQB9x71DQSMaVJ9bTyeFnzvx9Z1A/s400/Flamin+Groovies+-+Good+Rock+Tonite+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="366" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07LG1C9GB&asins=B07LG1C9GB&linkId=3decdf516ab56aae7f62d01123ae34b6&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Featuring the album <b>"Flamingo"</b> from 1970</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"...Pistol Packin' Mama..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Like most fans of San Francisco's all-partying, all rocking, all greasy FLAMIN GROOVIES – I've had the 2009 Rev-Ola CD that offered up their kicking third and fourth albums on Kama Sutra Records - "Flamenco" from June 1970 and "Teenage Head" from March 1971. They’ve been snottily leaping around my mancave shuffle plays for years now. And before that - the double-album you used to pick up in secondhand record shops in the late 1970s that paired those two crackers together for our voracious vinyl consumption and my Dustbuster battered Garrard SP25 turntable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Well reissue heroes ahoy but England's Grapefruit Records have gone and decided to expand into the album prior as well ("Supersnazz" from September 1969) and throw in a whopping seventeen bonuses too – all three albums and extras newly remastered in a cool and tactile pre Brexit mini box set. Why it’s enough to make me wanna rub jam all over my soggy doughnuts (while its still legal like). Here are the Super Snazzy details...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">UK released 22 February 2019 (1 March 2019 in the USA) - <b>"Gonna Rock Tonite! The Complete Recordings 1969-71" by FLAMIN GROOVIES on Grapefruit CRSEGBOX051 (Barcode 5013929185104) offers their second, third and fourth albums Remastered onto 3CDs in a Clamshell Box Set with Seventeen Bonus Tracks (Singles and Outtakes) </b>that plays out as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 1 "Supersnazz" Album + Bonus Tracks (47:12 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Love Have Mercy [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. The Girl Can't Help It<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Laurie Did It<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Apart From That<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. The First One's Free [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Pagan Rachel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Somethin' Else/Pistol Packin' Mama<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Brushfire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Bam Balam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Around The Corner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 11 are their second studio album "Supersnazz" - released September 1969 in the USA on Epic Records BN 26487 in Stereo (no UK issue). Produced by STEVE GOLDMAN - it didn't chart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACKS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (Single Mix) - 18 July 1969 US 7" single on Epic 5-10507, A-side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. The First One's Free (Single Mix) - 18 July 1969 US 7" single on Epic 5-10507, B-side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Somethin' Else (Single Mix) - 31 December 1969 US 7" single on Epic 5-10564, A-side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Laurie Did It (Single Mix) - 31 December 1969 US 7" single on Epic 5-10564, B-side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">FLAMIN GROOVIES for "Supersnazz" was:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">CYRIL JORDAN - Lead Guitar, Vocals and Acoustic Guitar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">TIM LYNCH - Lead Guitar, Cello, Vocals and Harmonica<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">MIKE LANG - Keyboards<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">GEORGE ALEXANDER - Bass, Vocals and Harmonica<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">DAVID MIMH - Drums and Percussion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 2 "Flamingo" Album + Bonus Tracks (65:04 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Gonna Rock Tonite [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Comin' After Me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Headin' For The Texas Border<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Sweet Roll Me On Down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Keep A Knockin'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Second Cousin [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Childhood's End<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Jailbait<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. She's Falling Apart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Road House<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 10 are their third studio album "Flamingo" - released June 1970 in the USA on Kama Sutra Records KSBS 2021 (no UK release, but see Note below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACKS (Recorded Live in Studio A, 13 January 1971):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Shakin' All Over<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. That'll Be The Day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Louie Louie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. My Girl Josephine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Around And Around<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Going Out Theme (Version 1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 11 to 16 first issued on the 1976 US-only vinyl compilation "Still Shakin" on Kama Sutra BDS 5683<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Track 17 first issued as one of the six Bonus Tracks on the 1999 'Original Masters' CD Reissue of "Flamingo" on Buddah 74321 71691 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 3 "Teenage Head" Album + Bonus Tracks (52:07 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. High Flyin' Baby [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. City Lights<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Have You Seen My Baby?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Yesterday's Numbers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Teenage Head [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. 32-20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Evil Hearted Ada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Doctor Boogie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Whisky Woman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 9 are their fourth studio album "Teenage Head" - released March 1971 in the USA on Kama Sutra Records KSBS 2031 (no UK release, but see Note below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACKS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Scratch My Back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Carol<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Rumble<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Somethin' Else<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Walking The Dog<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Going Out Theme (Version 2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 10, 11 and 15 first issued as three of the seven Bonus Tracks on the 1999 'Original Masters' CD Reissue of "Teenage Head" on Buddah 74321 71690 2 (Track 14 was also one of those bonuses)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 12 and 13 first issued as two of the six Bonus Tracks on the 1999 'Original Masters' CD Reissue of "Flamingo" on Buddah 74321 71691 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Track 14 first issued on the 1976 US-only vinyl compilation "Still Shakin" on Kama Sutra BDS 5683<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">FLAMIN GROOVIES for "Flamingo" and "Teenage Head" was:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">CYRIL JORDAN - Lead Guitar, Slide Guitar, Percussion and Vocals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">TIM LYNCH - Lead Guitar, Cello, Percussion and Vocals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">ROY LONEY – Guitar, Lead Vocals and Percussion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">GEORGE ALEXANDER – Bass and Percussion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">DAVID MIMH – Drums, Percussion, Piano and Organ<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Guests:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Commander Cody plays Piano on three "Flamingo" album tracks - Comin' After Me, Keep A Knockin' and Second Cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Jim Dickinson plays Piano on three "Teenage Head" album tracks - High Flyin' Baby, City Lights and Have You Seen My Baby?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Note: In August 1971, Kama Sutra in the UK issued both the "Flamingo" and "Teenage Head" LPs for the first time as a belated British double-album package on Kama Sutra 2683 003, simply called "Flamin' Groovies" (it was also issued in Germany entitled "2 Original LP's" on Kama Sutra 2623 101). That 1971 British double album was again reissued in October 1976 (by Pye Records) as "Teenage Head", but in slightly different artwork on Kama Sutra KSMD 101.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">DAVID WELLS provides the superb October 2018 liner notes in the new and chunky 24-page booklet. Even though its not part of the remit for this set - the notes explain how the band's self-made 1968 "Sneakers" debut on their own Snazz Records came about - a 7-Track 10" Mini LP of 4500 copies they sold themselves in Tower Records (pressed up in three batches of fifteen hundred). Its artwork (front and rear) is pictured on Page 5. There are trade adverts, a Billboard piece from November 1970, publicity and live photos, rare single artwork and a line of those Epic and Kama Sutra singles (including Promo copies). Interviews with band members Roy Loney and Cyril Jordan are included illuminating the hectic 1969 to 1971 period. Experienced and dedicated names like DAVID WELLS and JOHN REED collated and organised the Box while Remaster Engineer OLI HEMINGWAY of The Waxworks did the audio tweaking. Like the Rev-Ola CD - this baby sounds amazing – huge presence and all the muscle you would want without being over done...and I like the three single card sleeve repros...nice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Apart from the cover versions of Little Richard's Rock 'n' Roll masterpiece "The Girl Can't Help It", the barroom R'n'B of Huey Smith's "Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu" (which Kama Sutra issued as a US 45) and the Eddie Cochran twofer "Somethin' Else/Pistol Packin' Mama" - most of the "Supersnazz" album sees us bombarded with flashy originals from both Roy Loney and Cyril Jordan. "Love Have Mercy" and another single "The First One's Free" rip and roar while "Bam Balam" and "Around The Corner" round things off very nicely. And I have to admit that I've never heard the single mixes - very nice touch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"...Ten head hunters...with a buzz saw...and they was comin' after me..." - the boys tell us in the raw and raunchy guitar-pop of "Comin' After Me" - ten state troopers chasin' close behind with meat hooks. But the Proto-Punk edginess really starts to come screaming in on "Headin' For The Texas Border" where the band is headed to New Orleans to get their mojo back. I love the rapid guitars and the transfer gives it serious wallop. It's 1970 for gawd sake but it could be 1976 - so damn sharp. They then cleverly switch to Acoustic Rock 'n' Roll with "Sweet Roll Me On Down" as they Buddy Holly 'ah-ha' through the chorus. I'm reminded of the British band Fumble who also did Little Richard's brilliant "Keep A Knockin'" in the same all out rocking way - letting the inner joy of this Fifties anthem rip. Roy Loney stumps up another rocker in the excellent "Second Cousin" - the lyrics straying dangerously into Jerry Lee Lewis lawsuit territory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Things finally settle into a Hank Williams saunter with "Childhood's End" - a very witty childhood song from Ron Loney where he sounds amazingly like Mick Jagger circa "Exile On Main St." doing his best Hillbilly impression. "Jailbait" is a cool and snarly blues chugger where he pleads 'baby what you tryin to do!' to a mean guitar barrage. The fantastic "Gonna Rock Tonight" is the kind of out-and-out Rock 'n' Roll homage that Dave Edmunds would have loved when his regal Zonophone 'Rockpile' album was in play over in Blighty - ooh-wee baby indeed (and dig that huge grungy Bass solo too). The weird but utterly wonderful "She's falling Apart" follows - a song that feels wildly out of synch with the rest of the album but actually a song I return to most. It then blasts into a frantic Punk-rocking finish with the trashy "Road House" - rapid guitars a go-go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">For album number four we go Dr. Feelgood with the fabulous slide guitar intro to "High Flyin' Baby" – a superb little Ron Loney and Cyril Jordan rocker. We then return to "Exile On Main St." with the boozy swagger of the acoustic barroom "City Lights" and it’s hard to understand why this wickedly cool Acoustic Blues was slagged off at the time (still sounds so damn good to me). The hard-rocking and deliberately grungy "Have You Seen My Baby?" was probably too much Rock 'n' Roll for delicate minds back in the day - but I love it and "Yesterday's Numbers" that follows it which could have been Brinsley Schwarz or Help Yourself or even Free - stunning acoustic Rock that stays with you. Amidst the bonus stuff you’re clobbered with a fantastic loose cover of Link Wray’s guitar magnum opus – the album outtake of "Rumble". Jordan and the boys are clearly having riffage fun with the famous menace Link’s song exudes – a very cool bonus indeed that even includes giggles at the end from a band that would have worshipped at Wray’s feet in the blink of an eye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Summing up - how cool is it to see these three storming platters in the one place and with so much excellent bonus material too (Sundazed issued the debut in 1996 as an Expanded CD should you want to check out their beginnings).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The New York Dolls, MC5 and especially The Stooges are constantly name-checked as keeping the wild snotty pure spirit of Rock 'n' Roll alive in the early Seventies - a time when Hard Rock and Prog Goliaths dominated the chart landscape and bedsits of the world threatening to swamp all three-minute blasts of proto-punk with hairy chests, tales of wizards and semi classical pomp. I loved them too (truth be told) - but spare a dime brother for the Bay's FLAMIN GROOVIES – fab, groovy and side burning into the Devilish bargain. Well done to all involved...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-831234034501052292019-03-01T09:04:00.002-08:002019-03-01T09:04:59.567-08:00"Down Town Albums Collection, The" by VARIOUS ARTISTS (February 2019 Doctor Bird Reissue - 4LPs Remastered onto 2CDs) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNgv-EzDHI9huSRWBRGCTA0cw2nJR5SFzMdWH7EKWUoZlbxBeljnB-PpzZW1-mZ6I0Dtni1KZRPBnUnO3FPz6FICJ38dOgRmzweWEx9b4fx6XLuq9OLFYLf-YDUZwzRyIic9rxSrkXRc/s1600/Various+-+Down+Town+Albums+Collection+The+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1501" data-original-width="1600" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNgv-EzDHI9huSRWBRGCTA0cw2nJR5SFzMdWH7EKWUoZlbxBeljnB-PpzZW1-mZ6I0Dtni1KZRPBnUnO3FPz6FICJ38dOgRmzweWEx9b4fx6XLuq9OLFYLf-YDUZwzRyIic9rxSrkXRc/s400/Various+-+Down+Town+Albums+Collection+The+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhauQhUNSmxw06p9evQUtJEcTtHsGiVj2b896R51gPGOuLYbRfc3YvNDzYtpxssG5tv0nsd404dMnOzyClMhvnZdiuCaYgLKWeM72n1Bfpx205G1mNaFwd4M3S97VZzemguknOrU86h3tQ/s1600/Various+-+Down+Town+Albums+Collection+The+%2528Mine+Inners+1%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="1600" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhauQhUNSmxw06p9evQUtJEcTtHsGiVj2b896R51gPGOuLYbRfc3YvNDzYtpxssG5tv0nsd404dMnOzyClMhvnZdiuCaYgLKWeM72n1Bfpx205G1mNaFwd4M3S97VZzemguknOrU86h3tQ/s400/Various+-+Down+Town+Albums+Collection+The+%2528Mine+Inners+1%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO2E34mYUBj7ycbbaJxhXlHuQ_qBkhpcEDeMlH_WdJW3n254h2AppnhL75ffEwahNnfozKkm3ALDdknWUfxhbtiqQ5Vqi1pOuAtU07t4AVM-v1j_ITLjqYrAdXwqyRA5nYMmr1DfYIr2c/s1600/Various+-+Down+Town+Albums+Collection+The+%2528Mine+Inners+2%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1031" data-original-width="1600" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO2E34mYUBj7ycbbaJxhXlHuQ_qBkhpcEDeMlH_WdJW3n254h2AppnhL75ffEwahNnfozKkm3ALDdknWUfxhbtiqQ5Vqi1pOuAtU07t4AVM-v1j_ITLjqYrAdXwqyRA5nYMmr1DfYIr2c/s400/Various+-+Down+Town+Albums+Collection+The+%2528Mine+Inners+2%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9z1ASBRkM65KnJsx59aXG41_Dw-icc3d2bM2bUXDf1Vn-qJa5wC9YBQ9s5kn1qb3jO9QwJq72CHdTkRtiMBJeRdZKTGEk6kMI5wVoZAECQQM_Z4JiZb7ca-15guySrB-lVPDhWhtgOps/s1600/Various+-+Down+Town+Albums+Collection+The+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1458" data-original-width="1600" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9z1ASBRkM65KnJsx59aXG41_Dw-icc3d2bM2bUXDf1Vn-qJa5wC9YBQ9s5kn1qb3jO9QwJq72CHdTkRtiMBJeRdZKTGEk6kMI5wVoZAECQQM_Z4JiZb7ca-15guySrB-lVPDhWhtgOps/s400/Various+-+Down+Town+Albums+Collection+The+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07KZ3ZMDC&asins=B07KZ3ZMDC&linkId=66d4ea81b55dfea7e2e12403bd33e480&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Featuring the albums <b>"Red Red Wine, Volume Two" by Various Artists</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">and <b>"Dandy Your Musical Doctor" by Dandy Livingstone </b>both from 1970</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"...Spreading Love..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Now here's a doozy worth donning your porkpie hat for. Continuing on from their 50th Anniversary celebrations of all things 'Trojan Records' (see list of reissues below) – this fantastic Doctor Bird Records 2CD set offers up a whopping four period LPs on their offshoot label 'Downtown Records' (two from 1969 and two from 1970) and even throws in three relevant bonus seven-inch cuts. There is a vat of vino to be slurped, so let's get to the vintage inside...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">UK released Friday, 8 February 2019 (15 February 2019 in the USA) -<b> "The Down Town Albums Collection" by VARIOUS ARTISTS on Doctor Bird Records DBCDD-020 (Barcode 5013929272033) offers 4LPs Remastered onto 2CDs with Three Bonuses</b> and plays out as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 1 (76:08 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"Red Red Wine" LP by VARIOUS ARTISTS (November 1969)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Red, Red Wine - TONY TRIBE (April 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT-419, A-side - for the B-side, see Track 25 on Disc 2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Games People Play - THE ISRAELITES (1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT-421, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Move Your Mule - DANDY (November 1968 UK 7" single on Downtown DT-401, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. I'm Your Puppet - DANDY (March 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT 416, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Lead Them - DESMOND RILEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Love Me Tonight - AUDREY (February 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT-414, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Reggae In Your Jeggae - DANDY (January 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT 410, A-side – for the B-side see Track 26 on Disc 1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Lovers Concerto - AUDREY (April 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT-418, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Sentimental Reason - GENE RONDO (June 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT-431, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Night Train - SONNY BINNS & THE RUDIES (May 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT-424, B-side of "Wheels")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. You'll Lose A Good Thing - AUDREY (July 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT-436, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Lovers Question - GENE RONDO (1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT-422, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 12 are the UK album "Red Red Wine" - released November 1969 on Downtown/Trojan TTL-11. Track 5 first appeared on this compilation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"Red Red Wine, Volume Two" LP by VARIOUS ARTISTS (September 1970)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Someday We'll Be Together - AUDREY (February 1970 UK 7" single on Down DT 457, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Got To Come Back - DANDY<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Somebody's Baby - DESMOND RILEY [as LITTLE DES] (January 1970 UK 7" single on J Dan JN 4400, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Spreading Love [aka "Spreading Peace"] - GENE RONDO (May 1970 UK 7" single on Downtown DT 459, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. I'm Gonna Give Her All The Love I've Got - TONY TRIBE (August 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT 439, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. Raining In My Heart - DANDY (February 1970 UK 7" single on Down DT 456, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">19. Can't Get Used To Losing You - DANDY (April 1970 UK 7" single on J Dan JN-4410, B-side to "Can't Help From Crying")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">20. Song Bird - LYNDON JOHNS (October 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT 444, B-side, for A see Track 24)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">21. The Boy I Love - BLOSSOM JOHNSON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">22. The Way You Move - AUDREY (January 1970 UK 7" single on Downtown DT 452, B-side to "Sweeter Than Sugar")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">23. Party Rush - THE MUSIC DOCTORS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">24. Don't Gamble With Love - LYNDON JOHNS (October 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT 444, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">25. Come Together - THE ISRAELITES (1969 UK 7" single as "Let's Come Together" on Downtown DT 445, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 13 to 25 are the UK album "Red Red Wine, Volume Two" - released September 1970 on Downtown/Trojan TBL 116. Tracks 14, 21 and 23 first appeared on this compilation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACK:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">26. Reggae Shuffle - DANDY (January 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown DT-410, B-side to "Reggae In Your Jeggae")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 2 (71:59 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"Blow Your Horn" LP by RICO & THE RUDIES (December 1969)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Reco's Message<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Niyah Man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Jumping The Gun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. The Lion [by Dandy]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Caribbean Serenade<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Mighty Dan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Quando Quando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Session Man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Doctor Sure Shot [by Dandy & The Israelites]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Muma Muma [by Dandy & The Israelites]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Biafra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 11 are the UK album "Blow Your Horn" – released December 1969 on Downtown/Trojan TTL-12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"Dandy Your Musical Doctor" LP by DANDY (February 1970)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Here I Go Again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. I'm Gonna Give Her All The Love I Got<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Run Girl<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Doctor At Work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Running Wild<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Meeting Over Yonder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. Voicing Our Choice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">19. Everybody Loves A Winner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">20. Music Doctor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">21. Gumption Feeling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">22. Touch Of Poison<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">23. Come On Home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 12 to 23 are the UK LP "Dandy Your Musical Doctor" – released February 1970 on Trojan TTL-26<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACKS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">24. Won't You Come Home – DANDY (December 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown 453, A-side)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">25. Blues - RICO RODRIGUEZ & THE RUDIES as THE RUDIES (April 1969 UK 7" single on Downtown 419, B-side to "Red, Red Wine" - for A-side see Track 1 on Disc 1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The 16-page booklet is the usual feast of memorabilia, some really great foreign picture sleeves, master tape boxes, trade adverts and reviews and walls of those gorgeous mottled Downtown 45 labels. ANDY LAMBOURN [aka Charlie Chalk) and MARC GRIFFITHS of Bosssounds provide the superb liner notes – deep level info on all four of the albums. With its fourteen schillings and six pence sticker – along with "Tighten Up" Volumes 1 and 2 – the Various Artists compilation "Red, Red Wine" was the second most common British Reggae album you saw in second hand record shops (with the Dandy album probably a close second). But how good is it to see pictures of and details on those other two harder-to-find pieces. Best of all is new mastering by my face Engineer ANDY PEARCE – a gent with a huge Rock catalogue to his name and now many of these new Trojan related releases as well. Best I’ve ever heard these...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">While the collection of popular 1969 singles that is the "Red Red Wine" compilation album will tickle many (it even had the first single release on Downtown Records DT-401 – the cool "Move Your Mule") - I’m loving the obscure "Blow Your Horn" album – Rico blasting that trumpet with such feel and dare we say it - Soul. And I’d forgotten just how much Dandy Livingstone contributed in those amazingly productive years too. It’s all so good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">What a winner and a top reissue...recommended big time...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>2018 DOCTOR BIRD CD REISSUES covering the TROJAN RECORDS label:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. BOB & MARCIA - Young, Gifted And Black/Pied Pier (May 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-014 - Barcode 5013929271432)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. DAVE & ANSEL COLLINS – Double Barrel (June 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-016 - Barcode 5013929271630)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. DESMOND DECKER & THE ACES – Action!/Intensified (August 2018 2CD Set, Doctor Bird DBCD-025 – Barcode 5013929272538)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. DESMOND DEKKER – You Can Get It If You Really Want (September 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-015 - Barcode 5013929271531)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. DESMOND DEKKER – Double Dekker (November 2013, Doctor Bird DBCD-018 – Barcode 5013929271838)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. PHYLLIS DILLON – One Life To Live (September 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-021 – Barcode 5013929272132)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. ETHIOPIANS – Reggae Power/Woman Capture Man (January 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-10 – Barcode 5013929271036)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. HARRY J. ALL STARS - Liquidator (June 2008, Doctor Bird DBCD-012 - Barcode 5013929271234)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. THE MAYTALS – Monkey Man/From The Roots (July 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-017 – Barcode 5013929271739)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. THE PIONEERS – Long Shot/Battle Of The Giants (September 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-019 – Barcode 5013929271937)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. THE UNIQUES - Absolutely The...Uniques (January 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-011 - Barcode 5013929271135)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. THE UPSETTERS – The Upsetter/Scratch The Upsetter Again (October 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-022 – Barcode 5013929272231)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. THE UPSETTERS – Return Of Django/Eastwood Rides Again (May 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-013 - Barcode 5013929271333)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. VARIOUS ARTISTS – Greater Jamaica Moonwalk Reggae/Reggay At Its Best (October 2018 2CD Set, Doctor Bird DBCDD-030 – Barcode 5013929273030)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. VARIOUS ARTISTS – King Size Reggae (November 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-026 – Barcode 5013929272637)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">16. VARIOUS ARTISTS [Duke Reid and Treasure Isle Productions] – Soul Of Jamaica/Here Comes The Duke (August 2018 2CD Set, Doctor Bird DBCDD-024 – Barcode 5013929272439)</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-70742878580778622662019-02-13T10:15:00.001-08:002019-02-13T10:15:23.208-08:00"Session Guitar Star" by REGGIE YOUNG [Various Artists] (January 2019 Ace Records CD Compilation - Duncan Cowell Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEYjyRQAW5186CJlLofR2gzE90ndRVhdHWInUPHf0A7cHWn2kL143Qu6ZS2J1i-errTWTPm7uTIasjBjG1FF9SGNgHKGCAcz08QPEVN3onAYa8RggIW-8V6K9tKHfkPPAlB2NEaEmZYzU/s1600/Reggie+Young+-+Session+Guitar+Star+%255B2019+Ace+CD+Front+Slv+-+Large%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEYjyRQAW5186CJlLofR2gzE90ndRVhdHWInUPHf0A7cHWn2kL143Qu6ZS2J1i-errTWTPm7uTIasjBjG1FF9SGNgHKGCAcz08QPEVN3onAYa8RggIW-8V6K9tKHfkPPAlB2NEaEmZYzU/s400/Reggie+Young+-+Session+Guitar+Star+%255B2019+Ace+CD+Front+Slv+-+Large%255D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07KZHVJCM&asins=B07KZHVJCM&linkId=1e9be173688aaf9df8410384c26c265d&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Featuring "</span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Stranger in My Own Home Town" by ELVIS PRESLEY</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; text-align: start;">From his <b>1970 Album "Back In Memphis" </b>on RCA Victor Records </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"...Meet Me In Church..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Despite there being about 3 or 4 clunkers on this CD compilation (in my not-so-humble opinion) - the others are all so damn good, I'm going to resist dropping that final star and keep it a full five. Why? Because this nimble-fingered US contributor (Reggie Young) deserves his hour in the sun and your dosh/attention. Some background first as to why I think this is a properly great Ace Records release (aren't they all you might say)...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">In December 2018, Missouri's Reggie Young was a sprightly 82 and yet its odds on that you've never heard of the guy or his sweet guitar picking style and contributions. Or have you? Ace Records UK put out his first official solo album called (not surprisingly) "Forever Young" in May 2017 on Ace CDCHD 1500 (Barcode 029667079822) - a 7-Track CD album of Soul-Rock instrumentals in the vein of J.J. Cale meets Dan Penn meets George Benson - a combo many would gladly scorch their unmentionables to acquire. Actually, the album’s good rather than being great, but it still exudes class.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Anyway, in my review of that late beginning for Reggie Young, I listed a 20-song resume of his work - seriously famous tunes by people like Elvis Presley and Dusty Springfield – all showcasing his knack of playing the right part at just the right time. And lo and behold, from that Hall of Fame potpourri of Soul, Rock and Beat (covering a six-decade career) - some of those name-checks have turned up here. Nice! Let's pick up that Fender and get to church people...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">UK released 25 January 2019 - <b>"Session Guitar Star" by REGGIE YOUNG [featuring Various Artists] on Ace Records CDCHD 1537 (Barcode 029667093323) is a CD compilation offering 24-Tracks from 1956 through to 2010 </b>(79:55 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Slip, Slip, Slippin' In - EDDIE BOND and HIS STOMPERS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Carol - BILL BLACK'S COMBO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. A Touch Of The Blues - BOBBY BLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Dream Baby - JERRY and REGGIE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. I'm Movin' On - THE BOX TOPS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. The Champion Pt. 1 - WILLIE MITCHELL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Meet Me in Church - SOLOMON BURKE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Chicken Crazy - JOE TEX<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. In The Pocket - KING CURTIS and THE KINGPINS (some copies simply credit The Kingpins)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. More Love - JAMES CARR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Don't Forget About Me - DUSTY SPRINGFIELD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Stranger in My Own Home Town - ELIVIS PRESLEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. I Wanna Roo You - JACKIE De SHANNON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Drift Away - DOBIE GRAY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life) - SONNY CURTIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Victim of Life's Circumstances - DELBERT McCLINTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Lover Please - BILLY SWAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. Morning Glory - JAMES and BOBBY PURIFY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">19. Cocaine - J.J. CALE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">20. I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink - MERLE HAGGARD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">21. The Highwayman - THE HIGHWAYMEN [Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">22. Griselda - NATALIE MERCHANT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">23. Whenever You Come Around - LITTLE MILTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">24. Where Do We Go from Here - WAYLON JENNINGS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">From the 1956 pure Rockabilly of "Slip, Slip, Slippin' In" by Eddie Bond & His Stompers through to late soul from Little Milton's "Whenever You Come Around" (2002 on Malaco Records) - you're hit with class over and over again. Interesting Beat instrumentals turn up in the form of a Chuck Berry cover of "Carol" at the hands of Bill Black's Combo and Roy Orbison's "Dream Baby" by our hero and his mate Jerry 'Satch' Arnold trading as Jerry and Reggie (1964 on M.O. Records). Written by Curtis Ousley and Bobby Womack, King Curtis and The Kingpins give us a stunning Funky B-side in the shape of "In The Pocket" - the flip to "Ode To Billy Joe" in September 1967 on Atco 6516.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the kind of head-jerking brass-punching guitar-groove that sends my saggy ass into raptures. Throw in James Carr and the gorgeous righteous Southern Soul of "More Love" and even James & Bobby Purify proving they still had a way with a tune in 1975's "Morning Glory" and Soul Music is never far from your ears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Only when it gets to the truly cheesy rot that is "Rock 'n Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)" by Sonny Curtis (Track 15) and a weedy Delbert McClinton effort from 1975 alongside the vastly overrated "Highwayman" LP project with Nelson, Jennings and Cash - does the track run go off the boil. The Natalie Merchant contribution "Griselda" comes from her lesser-seen "Leave Your Sleep" 2010 CD on Nonesuch – a compilation that concentrates on children’s poetry (Reg coughs up a sweet solo). It all ends on a Waylon Jennings Country boogie from 1987 - "Where Do We Go From Here" – Reggie’s guitar (accompanied by Jim Horn's brass, Jim Horn of Rolling Stones fame) giving the bopper real bottom end. I’ll even forgive the overly hissy Solomon Burke song "Meet Me In Church" because what it lacks in fidelity – it tramples all-comers in sheer Soulfulness and feel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Throw in great mastering from DUNCAN COWELL, a fabulous jam-packed 36-page booklet that out-details this detailed review (courtesy of BOB DUNHAM - includes loads of affectionate recollections from Reggie) and you're on a winner. The only Audio dull moment for me was the wimpy volume to the 1968 Stereo Box Tops cut of Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On" from their "No Stop" LP on Bell Records - for some reason it has no oomph at all. But any CD compilation that sports Dobie Gray's masterful take on Mentor Williams "Drift Away", J.J. Cale's "Cocaine", the King's yeah baby "Stranger In My Own Home Town" (Elvis getting funky) and Jackie DeShannon's lovely cover of Van Morrison's "I Wanna Roo You" gets my vote. And there's nearly 80 minutes of it too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"...You know a melody can move me...and when I'm feeling blue...the guitar is coming through to sooth me..." – Dobie Gray sang on 1973's fantastic Soul-Rock single "Drift Away" - a tune Rodders would cover so well on his "Atlantic Crossing" album in 1975. Reggie Young is one of the reasons why we felt that way. Gimme the beat boys and free my soul indeed...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-88995766551279307842019-02-13T09:57:00.000-08:002019-02-13T09:57:08.568-08:00"Morning Brings The Light/John James/Sky In My Pie/Head In The Clouds" by JOHN JAMES (June 2017 Beat Goes On Reissue - 4LPs Remastered onto 2CDs) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Fmw_HMBOW-htM_o7ROp9qRO8_ja3ZXa8zo4QStTYZpPhWh-nJkkwpw5yga_BetBcAwGZZn0GuLrR-uAtwXfEWHwB_RCKcMbC-HrMSkNbu3K_uU-mXLpXvfU-inYR0o7xaAncvSur6R4/s1600/John+James+-+Morning+Brings+The+Light+and+3+Others+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1387" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Fmw_HMBOW-htM_o7ROp9qRO8_ja3ZXa8zo4QStTYZpPhWh-nJkkwpw5yga_BetBcAwGZZn0GuLrR-uAtwXfEWHwB_RCKcMbC-HrMSkNbu3K_uU-mXLpXvfU-inYR0o7xaAncvSur6R4/s400/John+James+-+Morning+Brings+The+Light+and+3+Others+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="346" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrZtuqyabZIGdtBHvzlxi3d5CbFT8TFo0iFJB_O1y0cv4-NoM8dkzVBEat4qisrohq4sy8X6Uwz8P68Mk5yZVhudBuqERt2tnl4aOK6YvBpZasR-6awZ_QjWjQ4GELAu1I3zYol7LP3o/s1600/John+James+-+Morning+Brings+The+Light+and+3+Others+%2528Mine+Inners+1%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="885" data-original-width="1600" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrZtuqyabZIGdtBHvzlxi3d5CbFT8TFo0iFJB_O1y0cv4-NoM8dkzVBEat4qisrohq4sy8X6Uwz8P68Mk5yZVhudBuqERt2tnl4aOK6YvBpZasR-6awZ_QjWjQ4GELAu1I3zYol7LP3o/s400/John+James+-+Morning+Brings+The+Light+and+3+Others+%2528Mine+Inners+1%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7hlmj4m0Wg0xj-eMiOn3q6Z7j1k1Aiwsg1gT-ac7q2n4K-0815s9vRB485Tbe5VabjfxfcwUyH3sq3WZ8WNss3CLZXuWJO8ZLtd0q_7-ZpXoeNgWJWbMqZp07rhc0j6MOaR-fKXjBJqc/s1600/John+James+-+Morning+Brings+The+Light+and+3+Others+%2528Mine+Inners+2%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="1600" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7hlmj4m0Wg0xj-eMiOn3q6Z7j1k1Aiwsg1gT-ac7q2n4K-0815s9vRB485Tbe5VabjfxfcwUyH3sq3WZ8WNss3CLZXuWJO8ZLtd0q_7-ZpXoeNgWJWbMqZp07rhc0j6MOaR-fKXjBJqc/s400/John+James+-+Morning+Brings+The+Light+and+3+Others+%2528Mine+Inners+2%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHyh9OBu8tfHjRuj8bJgJ1X0xJ-EkFlB1wtBujRpJ94N0eb_vcHWRXTxk4kYYF0Gjw7rtXE2M9PuLfTG31xQo4NiF7nsOGyibDac0GlJM3w2F-fqATinQUwjD29tPvPQGTntfmU9yS4Zg/s1600/John+James+-+Morning+Brings+The+Light+and+3+Others+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1491" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHyh9OBu8tfHjRuj8bJgJ1X0xJ-EkFlB1wtBujRpJ94N0eb_vcHWRXTxk4kYYF0Gjw7rtXE2M9PuLfTG31xQo4NiF7nsOGyibDac0GlJM3w2F-fqATinQUwjD29tPvPQGTntfmU9yS4Zg/s400/John+James+-+Morning+Brings+The+Light+and+3+Others+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="372" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B06XQBRFSM&asins=B06XQBRFSM&linkId=0da7632411d2d83840c7e9775d8bebbb&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">This Review Along with many others are available in my e-Book</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">For sale on Amazon </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B06XFXCG47&asins=B06XFXCG47&linkId=378e8a82599ea27b713fab6df652676c&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Features the <b>1970 Album "Morning Brings The Light" </b>on Transatlantic Records </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"...Through The Lanes..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Now here's an obscuro. And once again England's Beat Goes On Label (BGO) has done our unsung hero a Welsh Guitar Picker solid (if that's not too rude).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Stretching from 1970 to 1975 – you get full four albums originally on Transatlantic Records in the UK remastered in 2017 by long-standing Audio Engineer Andrew Thompson onto 2CDs – the first two containing some vocals but the last two strictly instrumental with genres crossing between straight-up Acoustic Folk to Bluegrass, Dixieland Jazz and Ragtime (all on Acoustic Guitar). Here are the skies in the pie...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">UK released 16 June 2017 (23 June 2017 in the USA) - <b>"Morning Brings The Light/John James/Sky In My Pie/Head In The Clouds" by JOHN JAMES on Beat Goes On BGOCD 1301 (Barcode 5017261213013) offers 4 full LPs originally on Transatlantic Records (UK) in 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1975 newly remastered in 2017 onto 2CDs </b>and plays out as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 1 (75:05 minutes, 22 Tracks):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. If Only I [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. One Long Happy Night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Pickles And Peppers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Liverpool Lullaby<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Hogan's Alley (Black Eyed Blues)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Once I Lived By The Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Picture Rag [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. A Little Blues<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. So Long Since I Was Home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Ostrich Walk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Lampeter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Morning Brings The Light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 12 are his Debut album "Morning Brings The Light" – released August 1970 in the UK on Transatlantic Records TRA 219 (produced by Chris Golby).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. To Meet You I Hurry Down [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Original Rags<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Jazzbo's Holiday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Evening Comes Quickly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Three Through The Lanes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. Tim E Whay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">19. Song Around A Square [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">20. Rolling On Down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">21. Stoptime<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">22. Daughter Of The Wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 13 to 22 on Disc 1 and Track 1 on Disc 2 are his second album "John James" - released November 1971 in the UK on Transatlantic Records TRA 241 (produced by John Whitehead).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Disc 2 (79:56 minutes, 27 Tracks):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Listening To That Old Rag/Ragtime Dance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 13 to 22 on Disc 1 and Track 1 on Disc 2 are his second album "John James" - released November 1971 in the UK on Transatlantic Records TRA 241 (produced by John Whitehead).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. And Sam Came Too [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Sailor's Farewell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Mammy O'Mine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Easy Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Out On The Rolling Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Sky In My Pie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Conquistador<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Bach Goes To Town [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Kicking Up The Dust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Nola<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Quiet Days<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Weeping Willow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Blap Bam Boom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Be Mine Or Run<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Turn Your Face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 2 to 16 are his third album "Sky In My Pie" (credited to JOHN JAMES and DAVE BERRYMAN) – released 1972 in the UK on Transatlantic Records TRA 250 (produced by Stephan Grossman).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Georgemas Junction [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. Black And White Rag<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">19. Head In The Clouds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">20. Slow Drag<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">21. Wormwood Tangle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">22. Stranger In The World<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">23. Rags To Riches [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">24. Blues For Felix<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">25. Heliotrope Bouquet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">26. Secrets In The Sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">27. Stretching Of A Young Girl’s Heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 17 to 27 are his fourth album "Head In The Clouds" – released November 1975 in the UK on Transatlantic Records TRA 305 (produced by Ritchie Gold).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The outer card slipcase lends these BGO reissues a classy feel whilst long-time associate to the label JOHN TOBLER has penned the new 12-page liner notes and interviewed John James especially for the project. Anyone who knows the original vinyl platters – their rear sleeves had a few words but little by way of any meaty info (the 1970 and 1971 Jeremy Gilbert and Robin Denselow original liner notes are here nonetheless). I say this because James now enlightens of many of the tunes and their genesis and his collaborations with Berryman on the 3rd LP and John Renbourn on the fourth. The ANDREW THOMPSON Remasters are quietly lovely – strings pinging - sweetly done – the original tapes clearly in very good shape. To the music...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Songs like on "Once I Loved By The Sea" and "A Little Blues" are like pretty John Renbourn or Bert Jansch vignettes - plaintive, lovely and peaceful on the ear and head. Scott Joplin is never far from James' thoughts either - his own "Picture Rag" a beautifully gut-string-picked nod to the great Ragtime man - whilst "Ostrich Walk" is another instrumental but this time more in the Dixieland style. On the second self-titled album his then wife Jo James joins him on two tunes in duet vocals - the awful hippy claptrap of "Rolling On Down" which is rescued by "Daughter Of The Wind" - a James original Ralph McTell might have looked at with envy. Pete Berryman who would share a credit on the third album "Sky In My Pie" turns up on album two having written the playful travelling song "Jazzbo’s Holiday".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The third LP "Sky In My Pie" is a co-credit with another guitarist – PETE BERRYMAN (don’t you just love that gorgeous John Ashcroft artwork). JOHN RENBOURN of Pentangle guests as Second Guitarist on three songs (all instrumentals) – two by James called "Georgemas Junction" and "Stranger In The World" and a Renbourn original called "Wormwood Tangle". Parts of the melody in the fab "Stranger In The World" almost come across as Acoustic Prog while the Charlie Byrd cover of "Blues For Felix" feels very Leon Redbone without the voice. Scott Joplin turns up once again in the lazy afternoon mint-juleps-on-the-lawn feel to "Hellotrope Bouquet" – the very accomplished fourth album then ending in four and half minutes of "Stretching Of A Young Girl’s Heart" where some of the playing actually mimics such young hurt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">So hard to find on original vinyl now and unlikely to see reissue on the format (even in these vinyl is cool days of 2019) – this BGO 2CD twofer is a superb reissue and welcome too. John James will probably never be a household name – but this is a sweetly stacked reminder of what we all missed first time around...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-86593851528207257222019-01-28T03:34:00.001-08:002020-08-31T15:53:42.848-07:00"You Can Get It If You Really Want" [1970] by DESMOND DEKKER (September 2018 Doctor Bird 'Expanded Edition' CD Reissue - Andy Pearce Remaster) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZCP7hzz2C1Ldvjhul7lqL5IM888Jm7SpQcsYBzcpmh9hj8egeimkL6PJN_88HKO7QqJGGSJcHhnpx5H9EkQAyqq3Nq7vfHZgCI7gHp84_090pEW6fqHr179i-VvKcXZq7ItpMTWeqYOo/s1600/Desmond+Dekker+-+You+Can+Get+It+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1409" data-original-width="1600" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZCP7hzz2C1Ldvjhul7lqL5IM888Jm7SpQcsYBzcpmh9hj8egeimkL6PJN_88HKO7QqJGGSJcHhnpx5H9EkQAyqq3Nq7vfHZgCI7gHp84_090pEW6fqHr179i-VvKcXZq7ItpMTWeqYOo/s400/Desmond+Dekker+-+You+Can+Get+It+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_eFF9L3yYdaThlWGY7Dkx1mEJnrynvKIvBWNO-vSvhwzAhY_nlMlWakfIDKmuXJJRjmVGd9keRFSfV0tAaQeQG-4Ikj328PxvFwCRhpaBnCnHWIKHpSGhfF8MgWMQhxbmk_Be2YqGgrE/s1600/Desmond+Dekker+-+You+Can+Get+It+%2528Mine+Inner+-CD+and+Label+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1600" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_eFF9L3yYdaThlWGY7Dkx1mEJnrynvKIvBWNO-vSvhwzAhY_nlMlWakfIDKmuXJJRjmVGd9keRFSfV0tAaQeQG-4Ikj328PxvFwCRhpaBnCnHWIKHpSGhfF8MgWMQhxbmk_Be2YqGgrE/s400/Desmond+Dekker+-+You+Can+Get+It+%2528Mine+Inner+-CD+and+Label+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbOY-kwyZJL0dAQQqtqH6oN2tag6nnb691L2OUbmow3EpPT38xNaIzzvWCL73MLLJs41DTSP6_BJJTK8Ap_CMj_8vKTXjZ5bOlkCTHqYN9Jc_et_hF-irWSoXsnlBqdFbk9v36yUUPdrM/s1600/Desmond+Dekker+-+You+Can+Get+It+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1467" data-original-width="1600" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbOY-kwyZJL0dAQQqtqH6oN2tag6nnb691L2OUbmow3EpPT38xNaIzzvWCL73MLLJs41DTSP6_BJJTK8Ap_CMj_8vKTXjZ5bOlkCTHqYN9Jc_et_hF-irWSoXsnlBqdFbk9v36yUUPdrM/s400/Desmond+Dekker+-+You+Can+Get+It+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07HDXJRB1&asins=B07HDXJRB1&linkId=255db3384b1ec9142ab02bd8ff1f6d77&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>"You Can Get It If You Really Want" album from 1970</b></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">"...Sing A Little Song..."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tapping into the 50th Anniversary celebrations for Trojan Records UK - 2018 has seen Doctor Bird Records (part of Cherry Red UK) bombard us ravenous Reggae and Ska lovers with fantastic 'Expanded Edition' CD reissues of albums disappeared from our record shop racks four and five decades ago – many of which in truth weren't widely available in the first place.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Centred round the magical output of Trojan’s catalogue from the late 60ts on up to about 1975 (see list below) - these CD reissues are not haphazard cash-ins. Each is tastily done, reasonably priced, properly expanded booklets, often two albums on 1CD or one-album with a huge number of bonus tracks, rarities getting their digital debut and all of it mastered from best sources by one of the top Audio Engineers out there – Andy Pearce – a name more commonly known for his decades of work on a huge array of artists under the Universal umbrella.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this release we get one of Trojan's true Kingston hit-makers – Desmond Adolphus Dacres - or DESMOND DEKKER to you and I. Here are the Pickney details...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UK released Friday, 28 September 2018 - <b>"You Can Get It If You Really Want" by DESMOND DEKKER on Doctor Bird DBCD-015 (Barcode 5013929271531) is an 'Expanded Edition' CD Reissue</b> that offers you his 12-track 1970 LP of the same name originally on Trojan Records TBL-148 and adds on a further 11-tracks from 1972 to 1975 – mostly single sides originally on the Creole label in the UK (67:45 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. YOU CAN GET IT IF YOU REALLY WANT [Side 1]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. I BELIEVE</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. PERSEVERANCE</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. GET UP LITTLE SUZIE</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. PEACE ON THE LAND</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. CINDY</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. PICKNEY GAL [Side 2]</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. YOU GOT SOUL</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9. COOMYAH</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10. THAT’S THE WAY LIFE GOES</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11. PEACE OF MIND</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12. POLKA DOT</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BONUS TRACKS (2018 CD REISSUE):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13. BEWARE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">14. EVERYBODY JOIN HANDS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15. SING A LITTLE SONG</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">16. BUSTED LAD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">17. MY WORLD IS BLUE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">18. MOTHER NATURE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">19. MONEY AND FRIENDS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">20. NO PLACE LIKE HOME</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">21. PICK UP THE PHONE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">22. TRAVEL ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">23. SUGAR DUMPLING </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tracks 1 to 12 are the "You Can Get It If You Really Want" UK LP from 1970 on Trojan Records TBL 148 </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 16-page booklet is a fantastic affair - new liner notes by fan and devotee of all things Jamaican - HARRY HICKS - whilst each page is festooned with ticket stubs, concert posters, a huge array of different picture sleeves for the big single, talk of "Israelites" - the first Reggae single to make it to No. 1 in the UK and break open the genre all over the world and much more. But best of all is one of my fave-rave Audio Engineers at the helm - ANDY PEARCE - who along with his engineer partner Matt Wortham has done Lee Perry, The Upsetters, Treasure Isle box set and wads of huge Rock names like Free, Rory Gallagher, Budgie, Wishbone Ash, ELP, Spooky Tooth, Mott The Hoople and so on..</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Highlights for me include the hit singles I bought as a budding teen - "Peace In The Land", "Pickney Gal" and of course that stunning "You Can Get It..." Amidst the bonus stuff are goodies like "Sing A Little Song" (originally on Rhino), his cover of Jimmy Cliff's "My World Is Blue" originally on the 1975 UK LP "Israelites" on Cactus Records and a bopper in "Sugar Dumpling" - a non-album single cut tucked away on the flipside of April 1975's "Israelites" (Cactus CT 57). Very cool...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Desmond Dekker passed in 2006 and this rather brill little CD reissue does his memory and chart importance proud. Well done to all involved for treating his underestimated musical legacy with such affection...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial";">2018 DOCTOR BIRD CD REISSUES covering the TROJAN RECORDS label</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. BOB & MARCIA - Young, Gifted And Black/Pied Pier (May 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-014 - Barcode 5013929271432)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. DAVE & ANSEL COLLINS – Double Barrel (June 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-016 - Barcode 5013929271630)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. DESMOND DECKER & THE ACES – Action!/Intensified (August 2018 2CD Set, Doctor Bird DBCD-025 – Barcode 5013929272538)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. DESMOND DEKKER – You Can Get It If You Really Want (September 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-015 - Barcode 5013929271531)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. DESMOND DEKKER – Double Dekker (November 2013, Doctor Bird DBCD-018 – Barcode 5013929271838)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. PHYLLIS DILLON – One Life To Live (September 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-021 – Barcode 5013929272132)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. ETHIOPIANS – Reggae Power/Woman Capture Man (January 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-10 – Barcode 5013929271036)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. HARRY J. ALL STARS - Liquidator (June 2008, Doctor Bird DBCD-012 - Barcode 5013929271234)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9. THE MAYTALS – Monkey Man/From The Roots (July 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-017 – Barcode 5013929271739)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10. THE PIONEERS – Long Shot/Battle Of The Giants (September 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-019 – Barcode 5013929271937)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11. THE UNIQUES - Absolutely The...Uniques (January 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-011 - Barcode 5013929271135)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12. THE UPSETTERS – The Upsetter/Scratch The Upsetter Again (October 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-022 – Barcode 5013929272231)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13. THE UPSETTERS – Return Of Django/Eastwood Rides Again (May 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-013 - Barcode 5013929271333)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">14. VARIOUS ARTISTS – Greater Jamaica Moonwalk Reggae/Reggay At Its Best (October 2018 2CD Set, Doctor Bird DBCDD-030 – Barcode 5013929273030)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15. VARIOUS ARTISTS – King Size Reggae (November 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-026 – Barcode 5013929272637)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">16. VARIOUS ARTISTS [Duke Reid and Treasure Isle Productions] – Soul Of Jamaica/Here Comes The Duke (August 2008 2CD Set, Doctor Bird DBCDD-024 – Barcode 5013929272439)</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-48779986071302890012019-01-28T03:30:00.001-08:002019-01-28T03:30:31.595-08:00"King Size Reggae" [1970] by VARIOUS ARTISTS including Leslie Kong Productions (November 2018 Doctor Bird 'Expanded Edition' CD Reissue - Andy Pearce Remaster) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ9a7J-0ijwu0QIfDcBymrpW0amkCtpK5zw3moeS3VD6bnxQZfNVwBUjVfFYu1N0aQ-HYAqGmZm6Ds4Rus4pDlUxgl4XKSfbFMt2cm30vxbrZu77vdrHAKAgqi0a6d28NIyWKNtBP0fro/s1600/Various+-+King+Size+Reggae+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1456" data-original-width="1600" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ9a7J-0ijwu0QIfDcBymrpW0amkCtpK5zw3moeS3VD6bnxQZfNVwBUjVfFYu1N0aQ-HYAqGmZm6Ds4Rus4pDlUxgl4XKSfbFMt2cm30vxbrZu77vdrHAKAgqi0a6d28NIyWKNtBP0fro/s400/Various+-+King+Size+Reggae+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6UsbrZtu3NJ2dJ8Of6OAZZLx4O12hUAejs3TKgLKbUWaISumljlYiSO4lndlSzRE8sdSM9ALN8lOouf5trkoR-RweoH18XQGdVEGJQay9f2jsOTKlxOLGIDckjb0SRvnpcWPiQYf4ZA/s1600/Various+-+King+Size+Reggae+%2528Mine+Inner+-+CD+Label+and+Inlay+Spread%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1600" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6UsbrZtu3NJ2dJ8Of6OAZZLx4O12hUAejs3TKgLKbUWaISumljlYiSO4lndlSzRE8sdSM9ALN8lOouf5trkoR-RweoH18XQGdVEGJQay9f2jsOTKlxOLGIDckjb0SRvnpcWPiQYf4ZA/s400/Various+-+King+Size+Reggae+%2528Mine+Inner+-+CD+Label+and+Inlay+Spread%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwl4HqC1ynOertTnqTmhl81GM3OUoLIn7UiwVuHqEgoKZTqebObfyGhlWFIZG21EDRKdRcjNIzhBxM5PtsIc7eFz7ddO36faPGr60Aqo3v7xFtpGqR1e5vNCiryLdj2jBcS5Rficjh8Vk/s1600/Various+-+King+Size+Reggae+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1457" data-original-width="1600" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwl4HqC1ynOertTnqTmhl81GM3OUoLIn7UiwVuHqEgoKZTqebObfyGhlWFIZG21EDRKdRcjNIzhBxM5PtsIc7eFz7ddO36faPGr60Aqo3v7xFtpGqR1e5vNCiryLdj2jBcS5Rficjh8Vk/s400/Various+-+King+Size+Reggae+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07HGBTYVQ&asins=B07HGBTYVQ&linkId=5fe72fea1852cfaaac516af0b0bd18ed&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>"King Sized Reggae" by Various Artists from 1970</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"...Give You My Love..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tapping into the 50th Anniversary celebrations for Trojan Records UK - 2018 has seen Doctor Bird Records (part of Cherry Red UK) bombard us ravenous Reggae and Ska lovers with fantastic 'Expanded Edition' CD reissues of albums disappeared from our record shop racks four and even five decades ago – many of which in truth weren't widely available in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Centred round the magical output of Trojan’s catalogue from the late 60ts up to about 1975 (see list below) - these CD reissues are not haphazard cash-ins. Each is tastily done, reasonably priced, have properly expanded booklets with newly researched and updated liner notes, often offer two albums onto 1CD or one-album with a huge number of bonus tracks - and some give label rarities their digital debut after decades languishing in the vaults. And all of it mastered from best sources by one of the top Audio Engineers out there – Andy Pearce – a name more commonly known for his decades of work on a huge array of artists under the Universal umbrella.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">For this release we get one of Trojan's lesser-seen LP compilations – the Leslie Kong produced "King Size Reggae". First UK issued 1970 as a 12-Track Various Artists budget compilation on Trojan TBL 140 – here it loses three songs - "Soul Shake Down Party" and "Cheer Up" by The Wailers (no doubt contractual reissue refusal is the cause for these two Bob Marley tracks being absent) and what was the opening song on Side 1 - "Drums Of Freedom" by Ken Boothe. That tune has already been issued November 2017 as the opening track on the "Hot Shots Of Reggae" CD reissue (Doctor Bird DBCD-08 – Barcode 5013929270831) – a complimentary Various Artists set of the same period hence its exclusion here. Of the 9 tracks that are present, most were Trojan singles with Leslie Kong Productions or tie-ins and the three losses are more than compensated with by a massive 19 bonus cuts from the period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">This Doctor Bird CD reissue is also a first digital outing for "King Size Reggae" and amidst the 19 Bonus Tracks are three songs not originally available in the UK (Tracks 13, 15 and 25) and one Previously Unreleased (Track 28). Here are the Soul Sisters...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">UK released Friday, 23 November 2018 - <b>"King Size Reggae" by VARIOUS ARTISTS on Doctor Bird DBCD-026 (Barcode 5013929272637) is an 'Expanded Edition' CD Reissue of that 1970 compilation LP</b> offering fans 9 of the original 12-songs alongside a further 19 bonuses (74:53 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. (God Love You) Soul Sister – THE GAYLADS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. It's Gonna Take A Miracle – KEN BOOTHE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. The Bitterness Of Life – BRUCE RUFFIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. (Come) Rock It With Me – THE MELODIANS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Money Day – THE PIONEERS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Gave You My Love – DELROY WILSON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Now I Know – KEN BOOTHE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Staircase Of Time – TONY BREVETT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Tell The Children The Truth – THE GAYLADS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 9 are most of the 12-track compilation LP "King Size Reggae" originally UK issued 1970 on Trojan Records TBL 140 (see notes above re track list)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACKS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Cecilia – BRUCE RUFFIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. I Can Remember – THE TENNORS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Got To Get Away – DELROY WILSON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. I'm A True Believer – TYRONE EVANS & BRUCE RUFFIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. I'm Black – THE EPICS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Night Flight (aka "Sentimental Journey") – ANSEL COLLINS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Who's Gonna Be Your Man – BRUCE RUFFIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Collie And Wine – GLEN BROWN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">18. Tribute To Prince Ruff – THE MONSTER & THE BEVERLEY'S ALL STARS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">19. Baby Don't Do It – THE CLARENDONIANS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">20. You Were So Much In Love – THE TENNORS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">21. Ooh Child – BRUCE RUFFIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">22. Run Fattie – THE SLICKERS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">23. Fat Cat – ANSEL COLLINS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">24. I'm Gonna Make It – THE KINGSTONIANS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">25. Let Them Stay – TYRONE EVANS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">26. The Bells Of Freedom – THE EPICS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">27. Candida – BRUCE RUFFIN & BEVERLEY'S ALL STARS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">28. Bull Rush – ANSEL COLLINS [Previously Unreleased]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Like all the others in this series - the 12-page booklet is a fantastic affair - new liner notes by ANDY LAMBOURNE [aka Charlie Chalk] and MARC GRIFFITHS of Boss Sounds. Each page is festooned with tape boxes, the two label sides of the original LP on Trojan TBL 140, photos of Bruce Ruffin, Ken Boothe, The Gaylads, The Melodians (and more) and of course Leslie Kong, nine label repros for singles on Trojan alongside another nine for associated labels like Beverley’s Records, Summit and Blue Mountain and even the Elephant rear artwork. But best of all is one of my fave-rave Audio Engineers at the helm - ANDY PEARCE - who along with his engineer partner Matt Wortham has done Lee Perry, The Upsetters, Treasure Isle box set and wads of huge Rock names like Free, Rory Gallagher, Budgie, Wishbone Ash, ELP, Spooky Tooth, Mott The Hoople and so on...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Fantastic cuts like "(God Loves You) Soul Sister", "Money Day" and "Tell The Children The Truth" all stem from 1970 Trojan 45s (TR 7771, TR 7781 and TR 7783) - but I also dig "Baby Don't Do It" by The Clarendonians amidst the extras - a sexy little shimmy originally issued February 1970 on Trojan TR 7719 and written by Peter Austin about his girlfriend Hortense Lewis of The Soulettes. Those ever popular Kingstonians throw in their tuppence worth with a Leslie Kong composition called "I'm Gonna Make It" - a B-side to "I'll Need You Tomorrow" in January 1970 on Trojan TR 7708. And on it goes...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">You could argue that the three missing songs compromise the original listen too much – but frankly in all the years I was trading rare records and albums at Reckless in Berwick Street – I've never laid eyes on this LP – so to have it here at all is all right by me. Recommended my Soul Sisters and Reggae Brothers...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>2018 DOCTOR BIRD CD REISSUES covering the TROJAN RECORDS label<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. BOB & MARCIA - Young, Gifted And Black/Pied Pier (May 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-014 - Barcode 5013929271432)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. DAVE & ANSEL COLLINS – Double Barrel (June 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-016 - Barcode 5013929271630)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. DESMOND DECKER & THE ACES – Action!/Intensified (August 2018 2CD Set, Doctor Bird DBCD-025 – Barcode 5013929272538)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. DESMOND DEKKER – You Can Get It If You Really Want (September 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-015 - Barcode 5013929271531)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. DESMOND DEKKER – Double Dekker (November 2013, Doctor Bird DBCD-018 – Barcode 5013929271838)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. PHYLLIS DILLON – One Life To Live (September 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-021 – Barcode 5013929272132)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. ETHIOPIANS – Reggae Power/Woman Capture Man (January 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-10 – Barcode 5013929271036)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. HARRY J. ALL STARS - Liquidator (June 2008, Doctor Bird DBCD-012 - Barcode 5013929271234)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. THE MAYTALS – Monkey Man/From The Roots (July 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-017 – Barcode 5013929271739)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. THE PIONEERS – Long Shot/Battle Of The Giants (September 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-019 – Barcode 5013929271937)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. THE UNIQUES - Absolutely The...Uniques (January 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-011 - Barcode 5013929271135)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. THE UPSETTERS – The Upsetter/Scratch The Upsetter Again (October 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-022 – Barcode 5013929272231)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. THE UPSETTERS – Return Of Django/Eastwood Rides Again (May 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-013 - Barcode 5013929271333)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. VARIOUS ARTISTS – Greater Jamaica Moonwalk Reggae/Reggay At Its Best (October 2018 2CD Set, Doctor Bird DBCDD-030 – Barcode 5013929273030)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. VARIOUS ARTISTS – King Size Reggae (November 2018, Doctor Bird DBCD-026 – Barcode 5013929272637)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">16. VARIOUS ARTISTS [Duke Reid and Treasure Isle Productions] – Soul Of Jamaica/Here Comes The Duke (August 2008 2CD Set, Doctor Bird DBCDD-024 – Barcode 5013929272439)</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-66575272826141500592018-11-07T09:09:00.000-08:002018-11-07T09:09:10.889-08:00"Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-71" by MOTT THE HOOPLE (November 2018 Universal/Island 6CD Box Set of Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZi3b-KWDK3c2s2BtHrjXli_HldA0GMCOAwRqKCyEScZaEZyGxB_X3UbILpQcMhtMZN2q3MClNZpm-VnPzELKhpW1urWjgrrR79kAvGbg84LJZmiHepWf17U2oY-mpK1bY6hTOAQw0bq8/s1600/Mott+The+Hoople+-+Mental+Train+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1211" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZi3b-KWDK3c2s2BtHrjXli_HldA0GMCOAwRqKCyEScZaEZyGxB_X3UbILpQcMhtMZN2q3MClNZpm-VnPzELKhpW1urWjgrrR79kAvGbg84LJZmiHepWf17U2oY-mpK1bY6hTOAQw0bq8/s400/Mott+The+Hoople+-+Mental+Train+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="302" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSv_kzJO2u1GGHlL5TVjcCJORBFYqbjY0fkowTaBWP3d9qIXbeLtCi1RHGox5OMmUAILH-LuJHV57PVu2kpWNwFfusLhteTfehCPRDeg8cpHdYmtF6tKbe9cs3uq_t9shtlZmI3lC2Ybs/s1600/Mott+The+Hoople+-+Mental+Train+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+1+-+Sticker+and+Inner+Book+Inside+Box%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSv_kzJO2u1GGHlL5TVjcCJORBFYqbjY0fkowTaBWP3d9qIXbeLtCi1RHGox5OMmUAILH-LuJHV57PVu2kpWNwFfusLhteTfehCPRDeg8cpHdYmtF6tKbe9cs3uq_t9shtlZmI3lC2Ybs/s400/Mott+The+Hoople+-+Mental+Train+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+1+-+Sticker+and+Inner+Book+Inside+Box%2529.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeaDpGPbxchEhyphenhypheneU1lJhwBUw1HOxcfhyphenhyphen0kzdM_5sQY2sV84iuOwxenmZ2rU2qsJnZiQMi6uOjEvv69bDyWszmRHN1PO-CuW_bWIthJYO2kZQwrFMjc7FIp5h3jlWxTiKM-ccV65ukqC08/s1600/Mott+The+Hoople+-+Mental+Train+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+2+-+Six+CD+Card+Sleeves+Spread%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1117" data-original-width="1600" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeaDpGPbxchEhyphenhypheneU1lJhwBUw1HOxcfhyphenhyphen0kzdM_5sQY2sV84iuOwxenmZ2rU2qsJnZiQMi6uOjEvv69bDyWszmRHN1PO-CuW_bWIthJYO2kZQwrFMjc7FIp5h3jlWxTiKM-ccV65ukqC08/s400/Mott+The+Hoople+-+Mental+Train+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+2+-+Six+CD+Card+Sleeves+Spread%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG6hNJ0eP_P5EDiflc6XxJb362_5whvASA_QzKzvw_887PuuHFRuUxK0ESY7yZSAPd0uEQY9su83insue6Yk8QKEsuorvC6BIqLnbRJ8QMtlHF0LE-EpY3t1DbWQi5yRW9knqQwXRqd_I/s1600/Mott+The+Hoople+-+Mental+Train+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+3+-+Back+Pages+of+the+Book+and+Poster%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1561" data-original-width="1600" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG6hNJ0eP_P5EDiflc6XxJb362_5whvASA_QzKzvw_887PuuHFRuUxK0ESY7yZSAPd0uEQY9su83insue6Yk8QKEsuorvC6BIqLnbRJ8QMtlHF0LE-EpY3t1DbWQi5yRW9knqQwXRqd_I/s400/Mott+The+Hoople+-+Mental+Train+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+3+-+Back+Pages+of+the+Book+and+Poster%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZF4wazdtYkYyuItCG0cqhmQ3mS1y-man3ZdzqJuUN5H63OJC-tSBeyBNKJajKEZ57CA31Ug1z0o9jf3s7XZnZGcrDvVQz9PEgsOdN8sDsWJPLlCSNGvPCetW2iovn_wAIHKGvg-vIDE/s1600/Mott+The+Hoople+-+Mental+Train+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1231" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZF4wazdtYkYyuItCG0cqhmQ3mS1y-man3ZdzqJuUN5H63OJC-tSBeyBNKJajKEZ57CA31Ug1z0o9jf3s7XZnZGcrDvVQz9PEgsOdN8sDsWJPLlCSNGvPCetW2iovn_wAIHKGvg-vIDE/s400/Mott+The+Hoople+-+Mental+Train+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="307" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07G2CJMQ8&asins=B07G2CJMQ8&linkId=ddb71b8ad06735bc27e26e40a9160f38&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"...Thunderbuck Ram..."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Featuring the albums <b>"Mott The Hoople"</b> (USA) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">and <b>"Mad Shadows"</b> (UK and USA) from 1970</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I was both looking forward to and in some ways dreading this MOTT THE HOOPLE Box Set - an odd thing to say when you're spending over £40 of your pensioner’s pre-Brexit allowance. And typically "Mental Train..." both delivers and disappoints is several weird ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">What’s good - the new Andy Pearce and Matt Wortham Remasters have massively improved on what went before - as their skills always seem to do (see my reviews for Free, Budgie, Rory Gallagher, ELP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– a very long list of great work). Some of the unreleased stuff is shockingly magnificent - check out Take 6 of "Angel Of Eight Avenue" on Disc 5 mixed from faders-up multi-tracks - whilst Kris Needs once again nails it with wickedly insightful liner notes that feature new contributions from key players (Campbell Devine and Kris Needs compiled the set). But there's fluff too aplenty, the mock distressed look card artwork is horribly presented and the actual albums themselves have always left so much to be desired – piano-plonking tedium often sitting uncomfortably alongside thundering Rock brilliance. Guy Stevens would have been proud even if the band weren't selling jack for four whole LPs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">There's an absolute ton of Buffin details to crawl through, so Mad Shadows and Willard Manus paperbacks ahoy (they took their name from one of his novels) – let’s get Overend Watts mental on this huge haul...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">UK released Friday, 2 November 2018 - <b>"Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-71" by MOTT THE HOOPLE on Universal/Island MOTTBOX 001 (Barcode 602547869623) is a 89-Song 6CD Box Set of New Remasters (30 Previously Unreleased) with a 52-Page Hardback Book, Single Sleeve Mini LP Artwork for all Six Discs and a fold-out Colour Poster all housed in a 10x8 Box with Ribbon</b>. It breaks down as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">CD1 "Mott The Hoople" (79:13 minutes, 17 Tracks):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. You Really Got Me [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. At The Crossroads<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Laugh At Me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Backsliding Fearlessly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Rock And Roll Queen (Full Album Version, 5:10 minutes) [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Rabbit Foot & Toby Time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Half Moon Boy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Wrath And Wroll<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 8 are their debut album "Mott The Hoople" - released 22 November 1969 in the UK in Stereo on Island Records ILPS 9108 and June 1970 in the USA on Atlantic Records SD 8258. Produced by GUY STEVENS - it didn't chart in the UK but peaked at No. 185 in the USA in July 1970.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACKS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. If Your Heart Lay With The Rebel (Would You Cheer The Underdog) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED INSTRUMENTAL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Rock And Roll Queen [Single Edit, 3:20 minutes] - October 1969 debut UK 7" single on Island WIP 6072, non-album version<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Road To Birmingham - non-album B-side to their October 1969 UK debut 7" single on Island WIP 6072<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Road To Birmingham (Guy Stevens Mix) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. You Really Got Me (Full Take, 11:14 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. You Really Got Me (Guy Stevens Vocal Mix, 2:51 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Rock And Roll Queen (Guy Stevens Mono Mix, 3:21 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Rock And Roll Queen (Kitchen Sink Instrumental, 5:22minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Little Christine [Recorded 24 June 1969] - first UK released March 1981 on the Mott The Hoople compilation LP "Two Miles From Heaven" on Island Records IRSP 8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">CD2 "Mad Shadows" (73:24 minutes, 15 Tracks):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Thunderbuck Ram [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. No Wheels To Ride<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. You Are One Of Us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Walkin' With A Mountain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. I Can Feel [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Threads Of Iron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. When My Mind's Gone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 7 are their second studio album "Mad Shadows" - released September 1970 in the UK on Island Records ILPS 9119 and October 1970 in the USA on Atlantic SD 8272 (didn't chart in either country)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACKS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Thunderbuck Ram - BBC Session, Top Gear, 21 February 1970 [John Walters Producer]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Thunderbuck Ram (Original Take with Organ Solo, 4:50 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. No Wheels To Ride (Demo Version, 6:29 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Moonbus (Baby's Got A Down On Me) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. The Hunchback Fish (Vocal Rehearsal, 6:01 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. You Are One Of Us (Take 9, 5:12 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Going Home [recorded 16 Jan 1970] - first UK released March 1981 on the Mott The Hoople compilation LP "Two Miles From Heaven" on Island Records IRSP 8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Keep A Knockin' (Studio Version, Take 2, Little Richard cover, 2:30 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">CD 3 "Wildlife" (73:30 minutes, 17 Tracks):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Whiskey Women [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Angel Of Eight Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Wrong Side Of The River<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Waterflow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Lay Down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. It Must Be Love [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Original Mixed Up Kid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Home Is Where I Want To Be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Keep A Knockin' (Live 1970 at The Fairfield Hall, Croydon in London)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 9 are their 3rd studio album "Wildlife" - released 19 March 1971 in the UK on Island Records ILPS 9144 and April 1971 in the USA on Atlantic Records SD 8284 (didn't chart in either country); the Live Version of "Keep A Knockin'" also includes an uncredited version of "What I’d Say" by Jerry Lee Lewis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACKS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Midnight Lady – 9 July 1971 UK 7" single on Island WIP 6105, Non-album A-side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. The Debt – Non-album B-side of "Midnight Lady"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Downtown – 17 September 1971 UK 7" single on Island WIP 6112, Non-album A-side (B-side was the Mick Ralphs album track "Home..."); A-side is a Crazy Horse cover version originally written by Danny Whitten and Neil Young on his backing band's self-titled debut album from 1970<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Brain Haulage (Whiskey Women) (3:55 minutes) – PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. Growing Man Blues (Take 10, 3:40 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Long Red (Demo, 3:53 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. The Ballad Of Billy Joe (3:38 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">17. Lay Down (Take 8, 5:08 minutes, Melanie cover) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">CD4 "Brain Capers" (68:58 minutes, 16 Tracks):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Death May Be Your Santa Claus [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Your Own Backyard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Darkness Darkness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. The Journey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Sweet Angeline [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Second Love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. The Moon Upstairs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. The Wheel Of The Quivering Meat Conception<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 8 are their fourth studio album "Brain Capers" - released 19 November 1971 in the UK on Island Records ILPS 9178 and January 1972 in the USA on Atlantic Records SD 8304 (didn't chart in either country)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">BONUS TRACKS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Mental Train (The Moon Upstairs) (5:16 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. How Long (Death May Be...) (4:10 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. Darkness Darkness (3:04 minutes, Jessie Colin Young song, Youngbloods cover) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Your Own Backyard (Complete Take, 4:12 minutes, Dion Cover) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">13. Where Do You All Come Front? (Backing Track, 3:16 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">14. One Of The Boys (Take 2, 4:22 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">15. Movin' On - first UK released March 1981 on the Mott The Hoople compilation LP "Two Miles From Heaven" on Island Records IRSP 8 (mastered from a cassette)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">16. Black Scorpio (Mamma's Little Jewel) - first UK released March 1981 on the Mott The Hoople compilation LP "Two Miles From Heaven" on Island Records IRSP 8 (mastered from a cassette)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">CD5 "The Ballads Of Mott The Hoople" (Exclusive compilation, 73:18 minutes, 12 Tracks):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Like A Rolling Stone (Fragment, 1:29 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No Wheels To Hide (Live, 1st House Fairfield Hall, Croydon, 7:25 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Angel Of Eight Avenue (Take 6, Mastered from faders-up multi-tracks) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. The Journey (10:24 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Blue Broken Tears (3:11 minutes, Mastered from faders-up multi-tracks) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. Black Hills (Full Ralphs Version, 4:07 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. Can You Sing The Song That I Sing (15:54 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Till I'm Gone - first UK released March 1981 on the Mott The Hoople compilation LP "Two Miles From Heaven" on Island Records IRSP 8 (mastered from a cassette)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. The Original Mixed Up Kid - BBC Session, Mike Harding, 16 March 1971<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Ill Wind Blowing - first UK released March 1981 on the Mott The Hoople compilation LP "Two Miles From Heaven" on Island Records IRSP 8 (mastered from a cassette)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. I'm A River (Rehearsal, 10:40 minutes) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Ride On The Sun (Sea Diver) - first UK released March 1981 on the Mott The Hoople compilation LP "Two Miles From Heaven" on Island Records IRSP 8 (mastered from a cassette)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">CD6 "It's Live And Live Only" (Exclusive Compilation, 78:18 minutes, 12 Tracks):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Rock And Roll Queen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. No Wheels To Ride/Hey Jude<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Thunderbuck Ram<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Keep A Knockin'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">6. You Really Got Me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 1 to 6 recorded 1 September 1970 at The Fairfield Hall in Croydon, London<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"Ohio" is a Neil Young song - a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cover; "Hey Jude" is a Beatles cover; Keep A Knockin' is a Little Richard cover and "You Really Got Me" is a Kinks cover<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">7. The Moon Upstairs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">8. Whiskey Women<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">9. Your Own Backyard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10. Darkness, Darkness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11. The Journey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">12. Death May Be Your Santa Claus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tracks 7 to 12 recorded 30 December 1971 for the BBC's Radio 1 "In Concert" programme (produced by Guy Stevens)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">MOTT THE HOOPLE was:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">IAN HUNTER (Ian Hunter Patterson) – Lead Singer, Piano<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">MICK RALPHS – Lead Guitars and Second Lead Vocals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">VERDEN ALLEN (Terence Allen) – Organ and Other Keyboards<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">OVEREND WATTS (Pete Overend Watts) – Bass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">DALE “Buffin” GRIFFIN (Terence Dale Griffin) – Drums<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Guests:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Guy Stevens – Production, Song Contributions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">James Archer of the LSO – Violin on "Angel Of Eighth Avenue"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Jess Roden (of Bronco) – Backing Vocals on "Lay Down"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Stan Tippins (of Doc Thomas Group) – Backing Vocals on "Lay Down"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Jerry Hogan – Pedal Steel Guitar on "It Must Be Love" and "Original Mixed-Up Kid"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Jim Price – Trumpet on "Second Love"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The box looks the part and ribbon allowing you to access the six single card sleeves in the inner well is a nice touch – but as already said and noted by other buyers – none of the card sleeves actually reflect the original British albums. The gatefolds for the first three are gone – removed to the book. The five pinched faces on the inner debut gatefold is spread across the back pages of the hardback, the child and lions photo inside "Mad Shadows" is on the inside of the front, the live shot of the band on the inner gatefold of "Wildlife" is behind text on Pages 36 and 27 and the airplanes inner for "Brain Capers" and the gimmick mask appear at both ends of the book too. The colouring of the CDs reflects the original British LP pressings - the Pink Island 'Pink I' Logo for the first two – the Palm Tree Pink Rim Logo Label for the other two and so on...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The book may seem a little slight at first but there’s a lot of info inside and period stuff to peruse (a fab promo photo on Page 13 for the Doc Thomas Group which featured a young Mick Ralphs and Pete Watts before Guy Stevens altered their names for Mott). Renowned writer KRIS NEEDS provides the tangled and at times chaotic history of the British Band – informative and entertaining reading, as always. The uber rare British picture sleeve for the 1969 "Rock And Roll Queen" single in on Page 48 as is the front sleeve for the final Island album from the period – the 9-Track "Rock And Roll Queen" compilation from 1972 on Island ILPS 9125. It was issued to cash in on the success of the "All The Young Dudes" single and LP on CBS Records (their first chart single courtesy of a song gifted to them by David Bowie). The LP is pictured on Page 48 (along with other European single picture sleeves) and if you want to sequence the popular "Rock And Roll Queen" compilation as a CD from this Box Set use the following tracks:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Side 1:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Rock And Roll Queen (Disc 1, Track 5, Album Version)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. The Wheel Of The Quivering Meat Conception (Disc 4, Track 8)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. You Really Got Me (Disc 1, Track 1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">4. Thunderbuck Ram (Disc 2, Track 1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">5. Walkin' With A Mountain (Disc 2, Track 4)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Side 2:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1. Death May Be Your Santa Claus (Disc 4, Track 1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2. Midnight Lady (Disc 3, Track 10)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">3. Keep A Knockin' (Live, Full Album Version) (Disc 3, Track 9)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The Audio is fabulous and as these hirsute/girl-leering gents were prone to Rocking out big time like Spooky Tooth with spiked Vodka or a demented Free in a graveyard after dark – both Pearce and Wortham capture all that bottled power so well. The listen is also surprisingly downbeat – way too many slow ballads – ill-advised Country Rock stints on "Wildlife" and a 15-minute outtake from Hunter that will test his mother’s patience. Having said that – I actually think that Disc 4 with the Previously Unreleased material is one of the strongest discs on here – fantastic alternate versions – that Take 6 of the Manhattan morning ballad "Angel Of Eight Avenue" brought a tear of joy to my demonically-possessed elderly-person’s eyes. Let’s get to the content...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The self-titled debut always felt to me like a rudderless beginning - the opening three covers (The Kinks "You Really Got Me", Doug Sahm's "At The Crossroads" and Sonny Bono's "Laugh At Me") displaying a band that seemed to be recording whatever they liked as they were rehearsing. For sure there's power in the sheer riffage on offer as they turn the Kink's proto-punk anthem into an instrumental - whilst Hunter's "Backsliding Fearlessly" sounds like a bad Dylan cover. The first sign of a genuine 'rawk' hit comes with Mick Ralphs "Rock And Roll Woman" presented here in two variants - the full and clear stereo album cut at 5:10 minutes and the severely muffled single edit of 3:20 minutes that sounds like it was mastered in a bucket. "Rabbit Foot And Toby Time" is another rockin' Ralphs tune, but it's an instrumental of two minutes duration that goes absolutely nowhere. Side 2 and the album in general is dominated by the 10:39 minutes of Ian Hunter's "Half Moon Bay" - a slow boiler with great organ playing from Verden Allen that at times feels both epic and indulgent with just the right measures of both. The debut ends with a mad Guy Stevens contribution called "Wrath And Roll" (a habit they would repeat again and again) and unfortunately you can't help thinking it might have been a better idea to include something possibly resembling a tune. Way more interesting is the Previously Unreleased and catchy-titled "If You Lay With The Rebel (Would You Cheer At The Underdog)?" - a riffage instrumental with better Production values than some of the album tracks. Die-hard fans will appreciate 11:17 minutes of "You Really Got Me" where the take descends into guitar mayhem and the fruity "Little Christine" from the "Two Miles..." compilation actually feels like the Faces circa their debut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">From the axe of Mick Ralphs, "Mad Shadows" opens with the wild "Thunderbuck Ram" where England’s Mott The Hoople suddenly thinks it’s a hybrid between MC5 and The Stooges with a bit of melodic Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac thrown in for the middle eight. As Ian Hunter delivers the brooding, epic and even sad "No Wheels To Ride" – only two songs in and the second album already feels like the band has found something – their own MTH sound. A trio of Hunter songs - the reverential "You Are One Of Us", the Chuck Berry boogie of "Walkin' With A Mountain" and the warbling seven-minute keyboard ballad that opens Side 2 "I Can Feel" (complete with Uriah Heep drama vocals) stamps his songwriting authority on proceedings (lovely solo too from Ralphs). "Threads Of Iron" is a jaunty little number from guitarist Ralphs with a catchy 'you are what you are' vocal line. The album closes with Hunter's unnerving and funereal composition "When My Mind's Gone" - a six-and-half-minute piano plonk that sounds as casket-inducing as its title suggests. It's a good album. Amidst the extras - Radio 1's Fluff Freeman introduces an in-the-distance BBC Session version of "Thunderbuck Ram" immediately indicating what an exciting prospect this band must been - live and in yer face. Far better however is the 'Original Take with Organ Solo' of the same song where Mott start to sound dangerously close to Peter Green's "Oh Well" with a disgruntled Hammond playing in the background (have to say this is a highlight amongst the unreleased). Another goody comes in the guise of the Kossoff-sounding riffage for "Moonbus (Baby's Got A Down On Me)" – a very tasty period find. It's also cool to finally hear their fast and furious studio take for Little Richard Penniman's "Keep A Knockin'" – here kept down to a boogie baller of just two and a half minutes (the Georgia Peach would approve).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">They try to go American-ish with the very Steppenwolf guitar vs. organ boogie of "Whiskey Women" – the opening track to the infuriating every-musical-direction-will-do third album "Wildlife". But that boys-own beginner is solidly trounced by what I believe to be Ian Hunter's first moment of musical magic – the gorgeous ballad "Angel Of Eight Avenue" where he describes waking up in New York on the first Mott US tour with a lady who is as fragile and as beautiful as the Manhattan morning he's gazing out upon (what a lovely transfer too – great work boys). The cover of Melanie's "Lay Down" features a chorus contribution from Bronco's Jess Roden but the Country-Rock of "It Must Be Love" is awful (the "Downtown" stand alone single wasn't much better - a cover of a Crazy Horse song). The album ends of what feels like a different group - a crowd rousing 11-minute live take on Little Richard's "Keep A Knockin'" with Mick Ralphs showing what he can do when let rip. Late 1971's "Brain Capers" was always their best album and it seems the band thinks so too. "Death May Be Your Santa Claus" opens the record in raucous Rock fashion and this time covers of Dion's "Your Own Backyard" and The Youngbloods "Darkness Darkness" (a Jessie Colin Young song) actually sound like Mott made the right choices. Both "The Journey" and "Sweet Angeline" see Hunter in a melancholy mood (there's a man on a bridge called Suicide) - while Verden Allen provides a rare lead vocal on his own "Second Love". A damn good album "Brain Capers" - wee bit of a lost masterpiece really. I hadn't expected either CD5 or CD6 to provide much but they're full of goodies – especially those unreleased studio outtakes on disc five.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">For sure "Mental Train..." is not for the casual browser and it would take until album number five ("All The Young Dudes") to awaken record buyers to MOTT THE HOOPLE. But their is a strange kind of bloody-minded heroism on offer here - a time when bands were allowed to sound nuts - grow with each release - until that initial magic someone saw before they signed them - finally broke through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Leaping lizards but it's astonishing any of them survived given the times and acrimony within the ranks. Ralphs would go on of course to form Bad Co. with Paul Rodgers of Free whilst Ian Hunter would enjoy a massive solo career and aged 79 in 2018 is still rocking, touring and writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Always nuts but glam loveable - on the musical evidence presented here - you may find yourself seeking out Mott The Hoople and "Death May Be Your Santa Claus" this Christmas...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101779063079914461.post-65461721040824798532018-08-23T05:49:00.002-07:002018-08-23T05:49:55.935-07:00"All In Your Mind: The Transatlantic Years 1970-1974" by STRAY (October 2017 Esoteric Recordings 4CD Box Set - Ben Wiseman Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBo8prIguHjVCxdR8z8_3cwC03I99clZp6Ac4PSiDNafeoPpBPh7ZAW5DA_DNRRWfPiD0XFGcaikCSgHmMhg7uMRwiQv-GqvrXz7SzDAtcnufgeQ6jDDh_WY9LJK39cx1X3i_heK4e77E/s1600/Stray+-+All+In+Your+Mind+2017+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1570" data-original-width="1600" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBo8prIguHjVCxdR8z8_3cwC03I99clZp6Ac4PSiDNafeoPpBPh7ZAW5DA_DNRRWfPiD0XFGcaikCSgHmMhg7uMRwiQv-GqvrXz7SzDAtcnufgeQ6jDDh_WY9LJK39cx1X3i_heK4e77E/s400/Stray+-+All+In+Your+Mind+2017+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Front+Slv%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjic0tK86gZIv46XLE9zSYtcu51QFTVoeONYuYs7nr4fVyz4-eSYD9qL0m2cAV2Jv_VlI5I_khLNxqfdi15VniyaxKoz8B9twUw9b0GU3c2kYC0RgT0reArKnPrCF0wMS11qgjEoSl4dU/s1600/Stray+-+All+In+Your+Mind+2017+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+1%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1600" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjic0tK86gZIv46XLE9zSYtcu51QFTVoeONYuYs7nr4fVyz4-eSYD9qL0m2cAV2Jv_VlI5I_khLNxqfdi15VniyaxKoz8B9twUw9b0GU3c2kYC0RgT0reArKnPrCF0wMS11qgjEoSl4dU/s400/Stray+-+All+In+Your+Mind+2017+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+1%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxUn8BFW0n9_-9h_ujw8He2YLKq3RTj8vbwbMLLVaFmvEeJJtnIdPbW3lyBA7CsCL1BuSEIWsdkIcGO7TPsn61s7QcKbAgs7xUII8sqkZOjQBWuHhW1Uyy9D7SL0kZgmG6WmxX3vhH3W8/s1600/Stray+-+All+In+Your+Mind+2017+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+2%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1591" data-original-width="1600" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxUn8BFW0n9_-9h_ujw8He2YLKq3RTj8vbwbMLLVaFmvEeJJtnIdPbW3lyBA7CsCL1BuSEIWsdkIcGO7TPsn61s7QcKbAgs7xUII8sqkZOjQBWuHhW1Uyy9D7SL0kZgmG6WmxX3vhH3W8/s400/Stray+-+All+In+Your+Mind+2017+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+2%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_7XbXgX1QUHvruGxSYfoVdBgoi3XnGXWqpZvvcKJ2pO11Cp7e95EG4LwMOuHMaqhgX8TbmzGMpJocGs8lbNfETf5C2f3LhqfFJiisOAduKeM9fWJlw97bikfcUfBOF0P1IgRvLBeefzo/s1600/Stray+-+All+In+Your+Mind+2017+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+3%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1559" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_7XbXgX1QUHvruGxSYfoVdBgoi3XnGXWqpZvvcKJ2pO11Cp7e95EG4LwMOuHMaqhgX8TbmzGMpJocGs8lbNfETf5C2f3LhqfFJiisOAduKeM9fWJlw97bikfcUfBOF0P1IgRvLBeefzo/s400/Stray+-+All+In+Your+Mind+2017+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Inners+3%2529.JPG" width="388" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJnU8A3ZYil25RC3GTXmC35tWwUJdRQmSU11bTb_2Ri1EgEXfnsDP2giPl8ZWlNgu2R3XeQPNeQZzTYMZWwlWBzXSK0qvrHIuQmlleoQHiMu4wM_j_rft1uErYUUTgA-35VoqD_t__xE/s1600/Stray+-+All+In+Your+Mind+2017+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJnU8A3ZYil25RC3GTXmC35tWwUJdRQmSU11bTb_2Ri1EgEXfnsDP2giPl8ZWlNgu2R3XeQPNeQZzTYMZWwlWBzXSK0qvrHIuQmlleoQHiMu4wM_j_rft1uErYUUTgA-35VoqD_t__xE/s400/Stray+-+All+In+Your+Mind+2017+Box+Set+%2528Mine+Rear+Slv%2529.JPG" width="373" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B07511FBBY&asins=B07511FBBY&linkId=2d88bdb1989b66721079298f2482222d&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Featuring the album "Stray" from June 1970</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"...Time Machine..."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Review Along With 100s Of Others Is Available in my</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>SOUNDS GOOD E-Book </i>on all Amazon sites</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT 1970... - Exceptional CD Remasters </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just Click Below To Purchase for £3.95</span></div>
<div style="font-family: times;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thousands of E-Pages - All Details and In-Depth Reviews From Discs </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times;">
<div style="font-family: times;">
<div style="font-family: times;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(No Cut and Paste Crap)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: times;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mabasreofcdbl-21&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B01MZYC9BR&asins=B01MZYC9BR&linkId=4837ae76976b56fb5fa7166df5e0a799&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For such a prolific British band - Acton’s finest never once saw the fruits of their LP labours chart in any meaningful way. West London's hard-rockers STRAY put out a whopping eight studio albums on two huge record labels between 1970 and 1976 (Transatlantic Records first and then Dawn) and all of it made up of almost entirely original material (the only cover version is one of Cliff Richard’s 50ts classic "Move It"). And yet despite a passionate and loyal college circuit following and years of relentless gigging – not a snifter. Welsh three-piece Budgie placed loads – Space Rock mavericks Hawkwind the same - Ireland's Skid Row with a very young Gary Moore and their weird variant of Speed Rock even nabbed one in 1970 against all the musical odds - but not STRAY.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Hindsight however has seen a growing-warmth towards our head-banging heroes that has transcended decades. Steve Harris of Iron Maiden and Neil Peart of Rush have sung their praises and name-checked Stray's more Prog elements as a seminal influence. The respected and artist-orientated Angel Air Records of the UK put out a live set of the classic line-up in 2014 and fans of hard-hitting Blues Rock mixed with a tinge of Psych and complicated time-phrases have been discovering their forgotten albums for decades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Hardly surprising then that here comes Cherry Red's much-praised Esoteric Recordings with another overhaul - a 4CD Mini Box Set covering the first period of their output on Transatlantic Records – five albums and a heap of rarities (thirteen to be exact). Although the outer clamshell looks the part – the inner card sleeves decidedly let the side down with no original artwork and albums split across discs. But even despite these iffy presentation choices (not something I ever say of Esoteric Recordings who along with Ace Records are amongst my favourite British reissue labels) - there's much to be praised here – especially the new Ben Wiseman Remastering. So once more my hirsute hobbit-obsessed friends unto the suicidal past, mind trips, moving on Mudanzas and flicks on a Saturday morning...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">UK released 20 October 2017 - <b>"All In Your Mind: The Transatlantic Years 1970-1974" by STRAY on Esoteric Recordings ECLEC 42607 (Barcode 5013929470743) is a 4CD Mini Clamshell Box Set </b>containing five albums plus rarities that plays out as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 1 (77:30 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. All In Your Mind [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Taking All The Good Things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Around The World In 80 Days<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Time Machine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Only What You Can Make It [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Yesterday's Promise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Move On<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. In Reverse/Some Say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 8 are their debut album "Stray" - released June 1970 in the UK on Transatlantic Records TRA 216 (no USA release) - Produced by HUGH MURPHY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Son Of The Father [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Nature's Way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. Where Do Our Children Belong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. Jericho<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. Run Mister Run [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. Dearest Eloise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15. Do You Miss Me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 9 to 15 on Disc 1 and Track 1 on Disc 2 are their 2nd studio album "Suicide" - released March 1971 in the UK on Transatlantic TRA 233 and September 1971 in the USA on Mercury SRM-1-611 with the same track list but different artwork<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 2 (70:05 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Suicide (as per Tracks 9 to 15 on Disc 1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Our Song [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. After The Storm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Sister Mary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Move That Wigwam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Leave It Out [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. How Could I Forget You?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Mr. Hobo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Queen Of The Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 2 to 9 are their 3rd studio album "Saturday Morning Pictures" - released February 1972 in the UK on Transatlantic Records TRA 248 and in the USA on Mercury SRM-1-624 - Produced by MARTIN BIRCH and STRAY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Changes [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. Come On Over<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. Alright Ma!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. Oil Fumes And Sea Air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. Gambler<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15. Hallelujah<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 10 to 15 are Side 1 of their 4th studio album "Mudanzas" - released May 1973 in the UK on Transatlantic TRA 268 (no USA release) - Produced by WILF PINE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 3 (64:08 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. I Believe It [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. Pretty Things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. Soon As You've Grown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Leave It To Us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 5 as Side 2 of "Mudanzas" (as per Tracks 10 to 15 on Disc 2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. Tap [Side 1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Move It<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Hey Domino<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Customs Man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Mystic Lady<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Somebody Called You<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. Give It Up [Side 2]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. Like A Dream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. Don't Look Back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14. Right From The Start<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15. Our Plea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 5 to 15 are their 5th studio album "Move It" - released May 1974 in the UK on Transatlantic TRA 281 (no USA issue) - Produced by WILF PINE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Disc 4 (43:17 minutes):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Demos & Rarities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1. Change Your Mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2. The Man Who Paints The Pictures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3. In The Night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4. Outcast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 1 to 4 are Pye Studio Demos recorded November 1968 and Produced by JOHN SCHROEDER<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5. All In Your Mind (Single Version) - released 1971 in Italy as a 7"single on Transatlantic TN 111<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6. Encore - recorded during the sessions for "Suicide"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7. Our Song (Single Version)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8. Mama's Coming Home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 7 and 8 are the A&B-sides of a January 1972 UK 7" single on Big T Records BIG 141 in a picture sleeve<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9. Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10. Get Out Right Away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 9 and 10 were featured on and exclusive to the Stray compilation LP "Tracks" released September 1975 in the UK on Transatlantic TRA SAM 33<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11. Brand New Day - non-album B-side to the UK 7" single of "Hallelujah" released 1973 on Transatlantic/Big T Records BIG 512<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12. Move It (Single Version)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13. Crazy People<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tracks 12 and 13 are the A&B-sides of a 1973 UK 7" single on Transatlantic/Big T Records BIG 512<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">STRAY was (same four-piece line-up for all five LPs):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">STEVE GADD - Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitars and Percussion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">DEL BROMHAM - Lead Guitars, Keyboards, Harmonica, Percussion and Second Vocals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">GARY GILES - Bass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">RITCHIE COLE - Drums and Percussion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Guests:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mike Evans - Violin, Andy Bearne – Harmonica, Keith Bleasy – Congas - all on the "Suicide" LP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Barry St. John, Kay Gardner, Lisa Strike and P.P. Arnold - all Backing Vocals on the "Suicide" LP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jimmie Helms - Brass on "Hey Domino" and Backing Vocals on "Customs Man" on the "Move It" LP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Castle Music/Sanctuary first issued these five rare albums onto CD in Remastered form in 2005, 2006 and 2007 with the first four as Expanded Edition single CDs whilst the fifth album "Move It" became a double. Disc 4 of this 2017 reissue gathers up 13 of the Bonus Tracks from those Castle reissues but misses out on eleven BBC Sessions – one on the "Mudanzas" issue in 2006 and ten on the "Move It" double from 2007. With the total playing time on Disc 4 clocking in at 43:17 minutes - there was clearly room for some – but probably licensing rights have disallowed their inclusion here – which is a damn shame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Another problem (if you can call it that) is that with five LP covers to represent and only four CD card sleeves to use – Esoteric have decided to do themed artwork for all four cards with background images of the original LPs. They’re black and white and are quite awful really (see photos provided). You lose the impact of the die-cut debut gatefold "Stray" – the gatefold for the hugely popular "Saturday Morning Pictures" – the die-cut van sleeve for "Move It" and so on. Worse – as you can see from the Disc listings provided above – the second LP "Suicide" has its last song on Disc 2 with the bulk of the album on Disc 1 (others are similar). Hardly the greatest way to listen to or look at the albums as they were issued. It would of course have been far better to have had five card sleeves with all the original artwork and the bonuses spread out evenly across them – but alas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So what do you get? The 20-page booklet has new liner notes from noted writer and rocker extraordinaire MALCOLM DOME that illuminate the band’s hurried and prolific output - whilst principal songwriter and Stray stalwart throughout the decades DAVE BROMHAM provides insider details that are both informative and witty. There are reproductions of Marquee posters, trade adverts for various albums, live shots of the four piece in full flow, snaps of the five album sleeves, a Country Club poster where they shared the venue with an eclectic choice of different-genre bands like Dando Shaft, Osibisa, Mike Westbrook and the Faces. But what I do really like is the BEN WISEMAN Remasters – 24-Bit Digital Versions done at Broadlake Studios in Hertfordshire – full of piss and vinegar – rocking out like the music does but without being overly bombastic. To the music...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Stray had been rehearsing, gigging and writing since 1968 so when they signed to Transatlantic in late 1969 (the label by then looking to expand their predominately Folk and Blues roster into the latest trends) - their self-titled debut was ready to rock. Recorded across only four days of first and second takes - "Stray" carries this Box Set's title track "All In Your Mind" - a huge fan fave and a Del Bromham song that was given prominence on the much-praised "I'm A Freak, Baby" 3CD Mini Box Set on the Grapefruit label in 2016 (goodies galore for fans of Underground Heavies). Barely into their twenties – the songs and playing belie their youth and inexperience with Bromham especially way past his Hank Marvin fixation judging by the heavy-heavy wah-wah "Time Machine". The slow and brooding "Yesterday’s Promise" sounds like Mick Abraham’s Blodwyn Pig meets Black Sabbath getting mellow with their surprisingly trippy "Planet Caravan". The manic guitar pyrotechnics of "Move On" feels like Procol Harum letting Robin Trower out of his amplifier cage. It’s pretty remarkable stuff for such youngsters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">By the time of the second LP "Suicide" in 1971 – founder member Dave Bromham had added an increasing array of instruments to his Electric and Acoustic Guitars of the debut - Mellotron, Organ, Piano, Harpsichord and Harmony Vocals - whilst simultaneously supplying all the songs except "Dearest Eloise" which was a Steve Gadd tune. His songwriting prowess was taking leaps as both the lovely and lonely "Where Do Our Children Belong" and the Stranglers-hooky guitar-chug of "Run Mister Run" testify. At just under 2:20 minutes "Dearest Eloise" has both Harpsichord and Mellotron at its quietly pretty core – more Moody Blues than Stray. And finally things go Funky with the near seven-minute "Do You Miss Me?" – a song I’d swear The Jam’s Paul Weller was listening to as he tried on long trousers for the first time. A doomy feeding-back guitar opens the album’s coolest and yet most dated rocking moment – the Side 2 finisher "Suicide" – 7:42 minutes of very 70ts angst.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For many their 3<sup>rd</sup> album from February 1972 "Saturday Morning Pictures" was like discovering "Argus" by Wishbone Ash – a band hitting a creative stride with the gatefold visuals to go along with the thrill. You can hear the Soulful Backing Vocals of Lisa Strike and Immediate’s P.P. "First Cut Is The Deepest" Arnold on the opener "Our Song" – a much more melodic Stray suddenly sounding like their bursting with confidence and the tunes to match the braggadocio. As if discovering Prog by Track 2 - "After The Storm" opens with rain and other ethereal soundscapes only to slip niftily into a wicked Ten Years After strut-fest for the rest of its seven-minutes (Bromham giving it some Tony McPhee on his axe). "Sister Mary" could be Focus, The Moody Blues, The Strawbs or even a speeding Groundhogs – it’s a frantic acoustic-guitar strummer that encompasses all manner of styles whilst at the same time remaining a cute little rocker at heart. Another fave of mine is the loose-lips swagger of "Move That Wigwam" sounding not unlike the Faces rehearsing circa “Long Player” – brill little rocker with clever changes and a catchy doubled-vocal. They go a tad yee-haw Country-Rock with the Terry Stamp sounding "Leave It Out" – better is the fuzzed up blitz of guitars that is "How Could I Forget You" – flanged plucking and vocals ahoy. Both "Mr. Hobo" and "Queen Of The Sea" bring the melodic Rock proceedings to a very satisfying close.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Album four from the spring of 1973 "Mudanzas" (the title comes from a Spanish word for moving on/changing) opens with gorgeous string arrangements from Andrew Powell on the one-minute "Changes" only to return to Rocking business with "Come On Over" – a grungy rocker with some uncomfortable string passages thrown over the top that sound both right and wrong at one and the same time. Clearly listening to The Who - "Alright Ma!" starts our kerranging before settling down into a melodic chorus and cute tune. Going all Ronnie Lane vs. Lindisfarne - "Oil Fumes And Sea Air" is a song about freedom, ships in the bay and the sound of the water going away somewhere new. "Gambler" features some Harmonica warbling and brass jabs but both "Hallelujah" and "I Believe It" have Brass and Strings powered over them to a point where it feels they’re trying too hard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Album five from May 1974 saw them shake it and groove it – opening with a Drum Solo called "Tap" only to segue into an almost unrecognisable but cleverly boogiefied cover of the Cliff Richard and The Drifters 1958 hit – "Move It" (let me tell you baby it’s called Rock ‘n’ Roll). But after four albums stuff like "Hey Domino" sounds like second-rate Man looking for a hit and failing. Neither here nor there rhythms and badly recorded vocals on "Customs Man" only add to the ordinariness. "Mystic Lady" also tries to be a hit single and actually gets there in a Byrds jangly guitar way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">After signing to Pye Records (covered by another Esoteric Recordings CD compilation called "Fire & Glass: The Pye Recordings 1975-1976" issued November 2017) - Transatlantic Records dragged two compilations out of the band - "Tracks" in September 1975 with two exclusive tracks that appear as Bonuses on Disc 4 and a final comp called “Reflecting & Generation” in July 1977 on Transatlantic TRA SAM 44 that sampled the five albums.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So – a lot of rare 70ts music on offer and despite the presentation carps - there is a lot to savour here and more than a niggling feeling that the British LP charts (and by extension, the British public) lost out to STRAY and not the other way around...</span></div>
Sounds Good, Looks Good...http://www.blogger.com/profile/09282985860612859444noreply@blogger.com0