Food Brain - Social Gathering (1971/2001) Black Rose Records - BR 156

 

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Psychedelic Rock, Jazz Rock

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The only album from this project. It was created by Ikuzo Orita, head of Polydor Japan, specifically for Shinki Chen, with the participation of other famous (then and especially later) Japanese musicians: keyboardist Hiro Yanagida (ex-April Fool), drummer Hiro Tsunoda and bassist Masayoshi Kabe. It's an instrumental psycho-jazz album with some avant-prog elements.

Tracks:

1. That Will Do 9:16

2. Naked Mountain 0:33

3. Waltz For M.P.B. 3:45

4. Liver Juice Vending Machine 3:18

5. The Conflict Of The Hippo And The Pig 0:31

6. Clock 5:26

7. One-Sided Love 0:48

8. The Hole In A Sausage 15:05

9. Dedicated To Bach 0:52

Personnel:

Shinki Chen - guitar

Hiro Yanagida - keyboards

Masayoshi Kabe - bass

Hiro Tsunoda - drums

Michihiro Kimura - bass clarinet (8)

Johnny Winter - The Progressive Blues Experiment (1968/2005) Capitol Records - 72438-66568-2-7

 

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Blues Rock

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The Progressive Blues Experiment is the unauthorized debut album by American blues rock musician Johnny Winter. He recorded it in August 1968 at the Vulcan Gas Company, an Austin music club, with his original trio of Tommy Shannon on bass guitar and John "Red" Turner on drums. The album features a mix of Winter originals and older blues songs, including the standards "Rollin' and Tumblin'", "Help Me" and "Forty-Four".

Tracks:

1. Rollin' and Tumblin' (3:13)

2. Tribute to Muddy (6:22)

3. I Got Love If You Want It (3:54)

4. Bad Luck and Trouble (3:43)

5. Help Me (3:49)

6. Mean Town Blues (4:29)

7. Broke Down Engine (2:50)

8. Black Cat Bone (3:48)

9. It's My Own Fault (7:19)

10. Forty-Four (3:30)

Personnel:

Johnny Winter – vocals, electric guitar, National steel guitar, mandolin, harmonica

Tommy Shannon – bass guitar

John "Red" Turner – drums

Sam Samudio - Sam, Hard And Heavy (1971/2013) Real Gone Music - RGM-0116

 

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Psychedelic Blues Country Rock

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Sam Samudio, (born Domingo Samudio on February 28, 1937, in Dallas, Texas), is a retired American rock and roll singer best known by his stage name Sam the Sham.  He was the lead vocalist and bandleader of the 1960s band Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs. He was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2016.

Tracks:

1. Homework (Otis Rush, Al Perkins, Dave Clark) 2:17

2. Relativity (Domingo Samudio) 3:13

3. Lonely Avenue (Doc Pomus) 2:47

4. I Know It's Too Late (traditional, arr.by Domingo Samudio) / Starchild (Domingo Samudio) 6:20

5. Let's Burn Down The Cornfield (Randy Newman) 2:43

6. Sweet Release (Boz Scaggs, Barry Beckett) 4:47

7. Key To The Highway (Charles Segar, Willie Broonzy) 2:08

8. Don't Put Me On (Domingo Samudio) 2:29

9. 15° ASC (Domingo Samudio) 4:37

10. Goin' Upstairs (John Lee Hooker) 5:06

Bonus:

11. Me And Bobby McGee (single,1971) (Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson) 3:30

Personnel:

Sam Samudio - vocals, guitar, mouth harp

Freddy Hester - acoustic bass

Duane Allman - guitar & dobro (2,10), dobro (11)

The Dixie Flyers:

Jim Dickinson - piano, guitar

Mike Utley - organ

Charlie Freeman - guitar

Tommy McClure - bass

Sammy Creason - drums

The Memphis Horns:

Wayne Jackson - trumpet, flugelhorn

Andrew Love - tenor saxophone, flute

Ed Logan - tenor saxophone

James Mitchell - baritone saxophone

Roger Hopps - trumpet

Jack Hale - trombone

The Sweet Inspirations - backing vocals

Tom Dowd - producer (1-11)

Jerry Wexler - producer (11)

Chubby Checker - Chequered! (1971/2012) Sunbeam Records - SBRCD5091

 

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Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock, Funk, Soul

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Chubby Checker (real name: Ernest Evans, born October 3, 1941) American rock’n’roll singer, best known for popularizing the "Twist" dance craze with his 1960.

Chequered! is a studio album released by American singer Chubby Checker. Released by London Records in 1971, it is notable for being a stylistically different approach for Checker, opting for the more psychedelic sound that was popular at the time. Therefore the album did not sell well in its initial release.

Notes: Originally recorded and released in 1971 in Europe as “Chequered!”.

Reissued several times under various titles or eponymously, with slightly altering track sequence.

Tracks:

1. How Does It Feel? (7:46)

2. Stoned In The Bathroom (2:41)

3. No Need To Get So Heavy (3:07)

4. Let's Go Down (3:33)

5. My Mind (4:24)

6. Goodbye Victoria (5:53)

7. Love Tunnel (5:15)

8. Slow Lovin' (4:11)

9. He Died (3:35)

10. If The Sun Stopped Shining (3:51)

11. Gypsy (Bonus) (4:57)

The Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace In Toronto 1969 (1995) EMI Records - TOCP-70390

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Rock & Roll, Avant-garde

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The Plastic Ono Band's live album Live Peace in Toronto 1969 was recorded on 13 September 1969 at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival held at Varsity Stadium, University of Toronto. It was the debut public performance of the Plastic Ono Band, a group hastily assembled by John Lennon and Yoko Ono after receiving a last-minute invitation from festival promoters John Brower and Kenny Walker. The band consisted of Eric Clapton on guitar, Klaus Voormann on bass and Alan White on drums...

Tracks:

1. Blue Suede Shoes 3:55

2. Money 2:58

3. Dizzy Miss Lizzie 3:02

4. Yer Blues 3:30

5. Cold Turkey 2:59

6. Give Peace A Chance 3:06

7. Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow) 4:47

8. John, John (Let's Hope For Peace) 11:19

Personnel:

Bass Guitar – Klaus Voormann

Drums – Alan White

Guitar – Eric Clapton

Guitar, Vocals – John Lennon

Vocals – Yoko Ono

Producer – John & Yoko

 

The Fourmyula - The Complete Formyula (2010/4CD) EMI Music New Zealand - 50999 6265062 5

 

MP3/320Kbs/650MB

Pop-Psychedelic, Pop-Rock, Psychedelic Rock

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The Fourmyula were a New Zealand rock group formed in 1967 in Upper Hutt. They achieved considerable local success in the late 1960s, with ten of their fourteen singles reaching the New Zealand Top 20.

The group initially consisted of Wayne Mason (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Martin Hope (guitar and vocals), Ali Richardson (bass and vocals) and Chris Parry (drums). They were joined in 1968 by Carl Evensen as lead vocalist...

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Notes

CD 1: The A & B - Sides (1968-1971)

CD 2: The Fourmyula CSDM 6283 (1-14) / Green 'B' Holiday CSDM 6296 (15-26) (1968)

CD 3: Creation (1-11) CSDM 6309 / Live With Special Guest Star Shane CSDM 6313 (12-19) (1969-1970)

CD 4: Turn Your Back On The Wind (Unreleased 1970 Album)

Socrates Drank The Conium - Taste Of Conium (1972/1996) Polydor Records - 531872 2

 

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Blues based Hard Rock

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Socrates Drank the Conium, known also as Socrates, was a Greek rock band that formed in 1969 and achieved success in the 1970s. 

The band melded the unorthodox time signatures and orchestration of progressive rock and the intensity of blues and hard rock music, creating a unique sound that distinguished them from other Greek rock acts of that period. Outside Greece, Socrates is best known for "Phos", their 1976.

Tracks:

1. Wild Satisfaction 13:01

2. Good Morning Blues 2:25

3. See See Rider 3:11

4. Door Of The Dream 4:35

5. Waiting For The Sky 2:55

6. A Trip In The Sky 3:27

7. It's O.K. 1:44

8. Born To Be Free 2:34

9. She's Gone Away 4:21

Personnel:

Yannis Spathas (Γιάννης Σπάθας) - lead guitar

Antonis Tourkogiorgis (Αντώνης Τουρκογιώργης) - bass, vocals

Kostas "Gus" Doukakis (Κώστας "Γυσ" Δουκάκης) - guitar

Giorgos Trantalidis (Γιώργος Τρανταλίδης) - drums

[Request] John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy: Stripped Down (2010) Capitol Records - 5099990599026

 

MP3/320Kbs/217MB

Art Rock, Pop Rock

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Stripped Down is a complete remix of the original album carried out by Yoko Ono and Jack Douglas in order to shine a new light on the songs which were felt to have been clouded by the original production. It is packaged as a 2CD set contained both the 2010 remaster of the original album and the new, “Stripped Down” version.

"Double Fantasy is the fifth collaborative studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the seventh studio album released by John Lennon under his own name, and the final one before Lennon's death."

CD1

Stripped Down

1. (Just Like) Starting Over (2010 Remix) 4:24

2. Kiss Kiss Kiss (2010 Remix) 2:44

3. Cleanup Time (2010 Remix) 3:55

4. Give Me Something (2010 Remix) 1:31

5. I'm Losing You (2010 Remix) 4:25

6. I'm Moving On (2010 Remix) 2:28

7. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) (2010 Remix) 3:50

8. Watching the Wheels (2010 Remix) 3:32

9. Yes, I'm Your Angel (2010 Remix) 2:53

10. Woman (2010 Remix) 3:45

11. Beautiful Boys (2010 Remix) 3:15

12. Dear Yoko (2010 Remix) 3:03

13. Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him (2010 Remix) 4:45

14. Hard Times Are Over (2010 Remix) 3:37

CD2

Original Album

1. (Just Like) Starting Over [Remastered] 3:56

2. Kiss Kiss Kiss (Remastered) 2:41

3. Cleanup Time (Remastered) 2:58

4. Give Me Something (Remastered) 1:34

5. I'm Losing You (Remastered) 3:57

6. I'm Moving On (Remastered) 2:21

7. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) [Remastered] 4:05

8. Watching the Wheels (Remasteedr) 3:59

9. Yes, I'm Your Angel (Remastered) 3:09

10. Woman (Remastered) 3:32

11. Beautiful Boys (Remastered) 2:55

12. Dear Yoko (Remastered) 2:34

13. Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him (Remastered) 4:03

14. Hard Times Are Over (Remastered) 3:19

New Grass Revival - Fly Through The Country & When The Storm Is Over (1992) Flying Fish Records - FF70032

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Progressive Bluegrass

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New Grass Revival was an American progressive bluegrass band founded in 1971 and composed of Sam Bush, Courtney Johnson, Ebo Walker, Curtis Burch, Butch Robins, John Cowan, Béla Fleck, and Pat Flynn. They were active between 1971 and 1989 releasing more than twenty albums as well as six singles.

In 1992,  Fly Through the Country and When the Storm is Over were re-released on one CD.

Tracklist:

1. Skippin' In the Mississippi Dew (2:40)

2. Good Woman's Love (3:20)

3. Glory (3:09)

4. All Night Train (3:15)

5. Fly Through the Country (5:17)

6. This Heart of Mine (2:21)

7. The Dancer (3:51)

8. When She Made Laughter Easy (3:22)

9. Doin' My Time (6:17)

10. These Days (5:45)

11. Four Days of Rain (3:43)

12. White Freightliner Blues (2:41)

13. Sail to Australia (3:51)

14. When the Storm is Over (2:43)

15. And He Says ''I Love You'' (3:46)

16. Vamp in the Middle (3:47)

17. Like a Child in the Rain (3:52)

18. Tennessee Wagoner (1:35)

19. Colly Davis (2:43)

20. Crooked Smile (7:47)

Tracks: 1-10 from the album "Fly Through The Country" 1975 Flying Fish Records

Tracks: 11-20 from the album "When The Storm Is Over" 1977 Flying Fish Records

Personnel:

Sam Bush - mandolin, lead vocals, violin, slide mandolin, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

John Cowan - electric bass, lead vocals

Courtney Johnson - banjo, vocals

Curtis Burch - guitar, Dobro, vocals

Chuck Cochran - Electric piano

Kenny Malone - congas, percussion (11-20)

Bobby Wood - piano (track 15)

 

Fusion - Border Town (1969/2007) Wounded Bird Records - WOU 3295

MP3/320Kbs/97MB

Rock, Blues Rock

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Short-lived American blues rock band from Los Angeles, previously known as The Jazz Folk. They are mostly remembered because Ry Cooder played slide guitar on their lone album from 1969. Bassist Marker had met Cooder in the Rising Sons, which is how he came to guest.

Tracklist:

1. Struttin' Down Main Street 4:10

2. Goin' Up To Clarksdale 3:30

3. Somebody's Callin' My Name 2:43

4. One More Hand 4:53

5. Another Man 3:33

6. What Magic 2:34

7. Time Of The Ostrich Head 3:57

8. Cajun Two-Step 3:06

9. News Of Salena 2:52

10. Erebus 6:20

Personnel:

Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass, Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Producer - Gary Marker

Backing Vocals - Bernie "Black Pearl" Fieldings (tracks: 6)

Clavinet, Piano, Drums, Vocals, Vibraphone - Rick Luther

Drums - Richard Matzkin

Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Bass - Bill Wolff

Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute - Harvey Lane

Guest Artist:

Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar - Ed Carter

Rhythm Guitar, Guitar (Bottleneck Guitar) - Ry Cooder