EUPHORIA - LOST IN TRANCE 1970

Hailed in the Fuzz, Acid Flowers Book worth seeking out This Power triofrom Wisconsin 1973, showed amazing songwriting talent + musical ability Classic midwest American heavy psych with somewhat biker vibe Raging agressive Fuzz-guitar leads with great echoey-reverb effects ,true sledgehammer bass ,crunching drums ,very melodic tunefull vocals A Must for all 70 s heavy psych enthusiasts. This is a heavy rock album with lots of fine guitar work, particularly on the title track, Lost In Trance, the most psychedelic cut, and Enchanted. All the songs on the album were written by lead guitarist D. Walloch.









Tracks :

01 - Brotherhood
02 - Just for a Moment
03 - Lost in Trance
04 - Oriental News
05 - Enchanted
06 - Middle Asian Lament

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EMMYLOU HARRIS - PIECES OF THE SKY 1975

Emmylou Harris' Pieces of the Sky is one of the more welcome entries in her catalog. Before the auspicious and provocative Elite Hotel, issued later in 1975, Pieces of the Sky was the kind of record that became Harris' signature style for most of her time at Warner Brothers, and is one of the most auspicious debut recordings in the history of country music. Accompanied by the Hot Band featuring James Burton, Rodney Crowell, Brian Ahern, Rick Cunha, Glen D. Hardin, Linda Ronstadt, Amos Garrett, Mike Auldridge, and a slew of others, Harris offers a palette of songs that range from traditional country music, including her understated yet deeply moving read of Billy Sherrill's "Too Far Gone," Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors," Merle Haggard's "(Tonight) The Bottle Let Me Down," the Louvin Brothers' "If I Could Only Win Your Love," and the Bryants' "Sleepless Nights" (a staple of Harris when she played with the late Gram Parsons). From the then-current crop of country songwriters, she opened the album with Crowell's "Bluebird Wine" and Shel Silverstein's "Queen of the Silver Dollar." There's also another Lennon-McCartney selection included, with "For No One." But the most moving track on the set is "Boulder to Birmingham," a Harris original and her tribute to the memory of Parsons. In her voice one can hear the human heart break, shatter, and then gather itself in order to move on, forever looking back. When she sings, "Well you really got me this time/And the hardest part is knowing I'll survive/I've come to listen for the sound of the trucks as they move down out on 95/And pretending it's the ocean, comin' down to wash me clean/Baby, do you know what I mean?," the entire world opens in the grain of her voice and bathes the listener in grief, longing, and resolve. [On the 2004 remastered and expanded version of the album Rhino added a pair of Dallas Frazier tracks from the same sessions: there's the hard-singing honky tonk of "Hank and Lefty" and the standard "California Cottonfields." While nothing needed be added to this masterpiece, these cuts following Silverstein's (original) closer do not at all detract from it.] ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Tracks :

Bluebird Wine

Too Far Gone

If I Could Only Win Your Love

Boulder to Birmingham

Before Believing

Bottle Let Me Down

Sleepless Nights

Coat of Many Colors

For No One

Queen of the Silver Dollar

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BEEFEATERS 1967 / MEET YOU THERE 1969

Denmark, whilst not well known for its rock/blues groups, actually did have a number of really good bands. Alongside Midnight Sun, Gasolin', Ache, Culpeper's Orchid, Burnin' Red Ivanhoe and others, Beefeaters were one of their country's best outfits. They first started out as an early sixties beat outfit, later changing to a more bluesy/soul/psych style in 1966. Their initial line-up included Lars Kofoed and Jimmy Sardorff on guitars, Niels Mortensen on drums, Soren Seirup on bass and vocals, and Kurt Parking on on rhythm guitar. They were quite successful and were popular in the clubs, but they disbanded in 1964. Seirup and Sardoff reformed the band in 1965 with new members Erling Madsen on drums and Morten Kjaerumgard on organ Keith Volkersen on bass and Max Nhuthzhi on drums, and they released their debut album in 1966 and toured with outfits like The Kinks and the Pretty Things to support it. In November 1968, they supported bluesman Alexis Korner on a Danish tour and he contributed guitar on two tracks on their new album (our featured album). Thorup later left the band, teaming up with Korner in England to form New Church, C.C.S. and Snape. The Beefeater's albums are quite rare but now that they've been released on CD, it gives listeners outside of their home country the opportunity of finally hearing the magic of this great blues/rock outfit.

Tracks :

1. It Ain't Necessarily So

2. Crossroads

3. My Babe

4. I Want You

5. Hey Little Girl

6. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag

7. Let Me Down Easy

8. Shakin' Fingerpop

9. Night Flight

10. Summer Scene

11. I'll Meet You There

12. You Changed My Way Of Living

13. Night Train

14. Now I Know

15. Serenade To A Cuckoo

16. Stormy Monday

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CROSS & ROSS - BORED CIVILIANS 1972

Keith Cross first band was called Bulldog Breed and one year later he joined T2. Keith was hailed as the new Eric Clapton when T2 released their album It'll All Work Out in Boomland. He left T2 after a few months and 2 years later Keith Cross joined a partnership with Peter Ross. They separated after their album Bored Civilians was released. Fantastic record.

Tracks :

The Last Ocean Rider

Bored Civilians

Peace In The End

Story To A friend Side

Loving You Takes So Long

Pastels

The Dead Salute

Bo Radley

Fly Home"

Can you believe it

Blind willie johnson

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MICHAELANGELO - ONE VOICE MANY 1971

Michaelangelo's sole album is in most respects average, if pleasant, folk-rock-psychedelia with male-female vocal harmonies/lead trade-offs that sounds as if it might have been recorded a couple of years or so prior to its 1971 release date. There is, however, one factor that makes it distinguishable from many similar LPs of the era: the Autoharp of Angel Autoharp, as she's billed on the record, who also wrote the group's material. There's no other rock album of the period, quite possibly, that uses the Autoharp so prominently, almost as though it is, in effect, a lead guitar (or an important rhythm guitar) within the rock instrumentation. Angel also sings some of the material, which largely has a bittersweet and haunting (if basically upbeat) flavor, though male vocals also take the lead on some tracks. The vocal numbers are OK (though not special), but the real standouts are the instrumentals. In those, the harpsichord really steps forward as a featured instrument, and rock, folk, and classical melodies and dynamics are combined in a fashion that avoids the bombast and pretension afflicting many British and European attempts at a rock-classical fusion within the progressive rock format. An engagingly light if somewhat slight oddity, it's odd that a major-label album such as this had (as of 35 years after its release) escaped CD reissue, a situation that probably won't endure forever. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Tracks :

West

Come to Me

This Bird

Son (We've Kept the Room Just the Way You Left It)

Medley

It's Crying Outside

300 Watt Music Box

Okay

Half a Top

One Voice Many

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KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE 1975

Debut albums simply aren't supposed to be as accomplished and beautifully crafted as Kate & Anna McGarrigle's first record, which is as lovely and superbly realized as folk-rock gets. While producers Joe Boyd and Greg Prestopino assembled an all-star crew to back up the McGarrigle sisters (including Lowell George, Tony Levin, Steve Gadd, and Bobby Keys), nothing steals the spotlight away from Kate and Anna, both of whom sing with a pure clarity that's never so pretty it fails to reflect the real world, harmonize with an uncanny grace, and write songs that are clever, witty, wise, and often deeply moving. Lots of folkies have written movingly about the troubling ties of home (as in "My Town" and "Talk to Me of Mendocino"), a good number have sung about the ache of a broken heart (like in "Heart Like a Wheel," famously covered by Linda Ronstadt), some can communicate bitter resignation or sly, sarcastic wit ("Go Leave" and "Jigsaw Puzzle of Life"), and no more than a few can express the joys of grown-up eros ("Kiss and Say Goodbye"). Kate & Anna McGarrigle is a record that manages to make all these emotions ring true, and never with one canceling out another. Quite simply a nearly perfect record, and if you're not a fan, repeated listenings to this album might make you one. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide

Tracks :

1. "Kiss and Say Goodbye" – 2:47 - Kate
2. "My Town" – 2:57 - Anna
3. "Blues in D – 2:43 - Kate
4. "Heart Like a Wheel" – 3:08 - Anna
5. "Foolish You" – 3:02 - Wade Hemsworth
6. "Talk to Me of Mendocino" – 3:08 - Kate
7. "Complainte pour Ste-Catherine" – 2:48 - Anna/Philippe Tatartcheff
8. "Tell My Sister" – 3:37 - Kate
9. "Swimming Song" – 2:26 - Loudon Wainwright III
10. "Jigsaw Puzzle of Life" – 2:29 - Anna
11. "Go Leave" – 3:19 - Kate
12. "Travellin' on for Jesus" – 2:42 - traditional, arranged by J. Spence

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GORDON JACKSON - THINKING BACK 1969

Gordon Jackson's only album sounds a little like a Traffic LP with a singer who isn't in the band. The similarity is really no surprise, since Traffic men Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi, and Chris Wood all played on the record, and Mason produced. Other notables with connections to the Traffic family tree or Marmalade label also appeared, including Luther Grosvenor; Rick Grech, Jim King, and Poli Palmer of Family; and Julie Driscoll. There's a languid, minor keyed jazz-folk-psychedelic vibe to the songs, which have a meditative, spontaneously pensive air, appealingly sung by Jackson. Touches of Indian and African music are added by occasional tabla and sitar. What keeps this from being as memorable as Traffic or some of the other better late-'60s British psychedelic acts is a certain meandering looseness to the songs that, while quite pleasant, lacks concision and focus. That was a quality also heard in the album from the same era by fellow Marmalade artist Gary Farr, Take Something With You, and while Thinking Back is better and more original than Farr's effort, the songs are more interesting mood pieces with a yearning, mystic tone than they are outstanding compositions. At times this is like hearing psychedelic sea shanties (as on "My Ship, My Star"), such is the lilt of the tunes, though hints of blues and more playful pop-psych whimsy are heard in cuts like "Me and My Dog." ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Tracks :


# 1) The Journey
# 2) My Ship, My Star
# 3) Me And My Dog
# 4) Song For Freedom
# 5) Sing To Me Woman
# 6) When You Are Small
# 7) Snakes And Ladders

Bonus Tracks:

# 8) A Day At The Cottage (non-album B-side)
# 9) My Ship, My Star (demo)
# 10) Song For Freedom (single mix)
# 11) Sing To Me Woman (single mix)
# 12) Me And My Dog (long version)

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LAKE - LAKE 1977

Lake was a German rock music band that formed in the early 1970s under the name Tornados, changing their name to Lake in 1973. They mostly covered material by other bands in their early years, but released three singles, Come Down/We're Gonna Rock, King Of The Rock'n Roll Party, and Sailor. In 1975 they were joined by lead singer James Hopkins-Harrison, who gave them their signature sound for the remainder of their recording career.

They achieved modest success in much of Europe from the mid-1970s through the early 1980s, particularly in Germany where they were named artist of the year by the German Phono Academy in 1977. That same year, their self-titled debut album reached #22 in the US and the single Time Bomb reached #13, which would prove to be their greatest success in the US. They toured the US in the late 1970s as the opening act for various headline acts, including Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Oak Arkansas, and Neil Young.

Tracks :

01 - On the Run
02 - Sorry to Say
03 - Time Bomb
04 - Chasing Colours
05 - Do I Love You
06 - Key to the Rhyme
07 - Jesus Came Down
08 - Between the Lines

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THE WICKED LADY - THE AXEMAN COMETH 1968 - 1972

Wicked Lady exemplifies the "record collector" bands that gain new life through reissues: in this case, Kissing Spell's albums The Axeman Cometh and Psychotic Overkill. Their appearance marked some belated recognition for the power trio, which Northampton singer-guitarist Martin Weaver formed in 1968 with drummer "Mad" Dick Smith and bassist Bob Jeffries. However, Wicked Lady never came within a whisper of the stratospheric status attained by Cream, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The band's liberal use of feedback -- and large biker following -- kept them relegated to clubs, even during the twilight hours of the psychedelic era. Awash in drink and drugs, Wicked Lady split up in 1970, but Smith and Weaver soon regrouped with new bassist, Del "German Head" Morley. The new lineup duly set about documenting its existence, as captured on Psychotic Overkill -- whose feel is looser than Axeman Cometh. The effect is a shotgun marriage of Black Sabbath-style rifferama, supported by a less risk-taking rhythm section. Weaver's vocal style lacks charisma, but his wah-wah and fuzz-driven guitar style carries the day. The highlights include a bluesy cover of Hendrix's "Voodoo Child," the sex 'n' drugs snapshot of "Sin City," and the howling, 21-minute epic, "Ship Of Ghosts." But Wicked Lady's erratic ways proved too difficult for clubowners, who eventually refused to let them play. (At one gig, the band reportedly played the same song over and over until an irritated management pulled the plug on them.) Wicked Lady imploded in 1972, but Weaver rebounded that same year by joining the Dark, a more psychedelic- and progressive-outfit. Their Round The Edges album became a Holy Grail for collectors -- because only a handful of copies were made for band members and their associates. (Kissing Spell reissued the album in 1991.) Weaver next teamed with classically-trained keyboardist Dave "Doc" Wadley -- who'd worked with a pre-Sabbath Tony Iommi -- in the Mind Doctors. Kissing Spell also reissued On The Threshold Of Reality, an album of laidback instrumental "head" music.Weaver most recently surfaced on the re-formed Dark's Anonymous Days (1996), which featured material written in the 1970s and 1990s. ~ Ralph Heibutzki, All Music Guide

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01 - Run The Night.mp3 9.55 MB
02 - War Cloud.mp3 14.04 MB
03 - The Axeman Cometh.mp3 12.68 MB
04 - Life And Death.mp3 18.41 MB
05 - Wicked Lady.mp3 11.20 MB
06 - Out Of The Dark.mp3 18.88 MB
07 - Rebel.mp3 6.60 MB
08 - Living On The Edge.mp3

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MORMOS - THE MAGIC SPELL OF MOTHER'S WRATH 1972

Out of the remains of a super psychedelic rock band called SPOILS OF WAR, which develop an extra-cerebral rock containing dreamy folk rock, acid rock and electronic collages, and whose albums fetch fortunes, James Cuomo formed Mormos. The group moved to France and concentrated on the European scene playing a folk-rock that was rather complementary to the kind of the old world. Their sound on the first album can be likened to Incredible String Band, whuile their excellent second album MAGIC SPELL OF MOTHER'S WRATH... delved into a mixture of jazz and folk, somehow stepping between The Pentangle and John Martyn. Their only two albums are highly revered in folk circles but certainly deserve the proghead's attention.











Tracks :

1 Homeside
2 Walk in the light of the Lord
3 October song
4 Plastered in Paris
5 Doves are white
6 Cows in my colourbook
7 Hush
8 No 5 in the book
9 Rit yellow
10 Lady of night
11 Magic Stone
12 Hey Gilles

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