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A heavy, oft-sampled slab of Bay Area history, and a psych funk masterpiece that cannot be denied.Aura formed in 1974 and played extensively throughout Northern California. By 1976, the bandrecorded their first and only album at Pacific Recording Studio in San Mateo. The original title of thealbum was meant to ...
In 1966, Dallas was a Mecca for great bands and two of the best, The Exotics and The Esquires, are included on this album. The Exotics began as a rock and roll band in 1959, but by 1966 were recording psych-pop and folk-rock gems. They released three singles, one of them, ‘Come With ...
“We’re not evil, but we do evil things. Anything to blow society’s mind. When we play, we take people’s brains out and then put them back in. A dry-cleaning job,’ said the Fallen Angels lead singer and songwriter, Jack Bryan, in an interview with the short-lived Dapper Magazine in 1968. Since that time ...
“The Mad Hatters Meet The Fallen Angels” (CICD 986); UPC: 619981331128:In the course of one year (1965), the Mad Hatters released three stunningly great singles: ‘I Need Love,’ ‘Go Find a Love’ and ‘I’ll Come Running’ — all with Dylan-esque/PF Sloan-ish sounding folk-rock songs as the B-sides. Mad Hatter live shows were ...
For the first time since its original release in 1970, an exact re-issue of The Human Zoo album, taken from the original master tapes, with all album artwork faithfully replicated! As was the case with label-mates The Human Expression, The Human Zoo were also from the Los Angeles suburbs of Westminster and were ...
In February of 1969, Johnny Winter signed with Columbia Records for a record sum of $500,000 and gained worldwide fame seemingly overnight (even though his recording career started in 1959). An ensuing rush to cash in on Winter’s fame resulted in countless hodge-podge compilations of his pre-Columbia recordings with inferior sounding dubs and ...
Since their arrival on the music scene in 1965, the mystique of The JuJus and their lead singer, Ray Hummel, has continued to grow — helped along by the inclusion of ‘You Treat Me Bad’ on the first volume of Pebbles in 1979. That song, their first single, rose to the number two ...
Taken from the original four track masters •Includes previously unreleased tracks. Blues legend Lightnin’ Hopkins recorded over a dozen songs for the Clarity Music Company at the “ACA” Recording Studio in Houston in April of 1969. These songs ranged from new originals, such as ‘Born In The Bottom,’ ‘December 7, 1941,’ ‘A Rainy ...
Many have said that Lightnin’ Hopkins woke up The Dead when he played San Francisco in the 1960’s. So it is appropriate that his song ‘Wake Up The Dead’ is the centerpiece of this two and a half hour journey into the world of electrified Texas blues. Accompanying Lightnin’ on this journey is ...
In 1965, the Outcasts entered Texas Sound Studios to cut their debut single, the self-released ballad “Nothing Comes Easy” — the record is perhaps most notable because it was written and produced by Mike Post, the future composer of hit TV themes including Hill Street Blues, Magnum P.I., and The A-Team. Post, then ...
Piano Slim—Willard Burton of Houston, Texas—played with legendary musicians such as TBone Walker, Johnny Winter, Johnny Copeland, and Bobby “Blue” Bland; even so, he is often confused with another Piano Slim, Robert T. Smith. While Willard Burtons’ recording career lasted nearly thirty years, this compilation concentrates on his solo outings from 1959 to 1962, ...
“Briefly, the regular ictus of a reverberating guitar and a low industrial hum float in, giving way to an insistent propulsive two-chord drive. Huge buzz saw bass churns its way through this heavy-progressive tune, all stern Fripp-ian chord changes and driving insistency, amidst the primal guitar sludge. Seompi then deliver the line that ...
SUNSET LOVE + INNER SANCTUM “Psychedelic Moods, Part Two”Had Sunset Love released their album in the 60’s, there is no doubt it would have been an instant classic. In the fall of 1968, thirteen original songs and two covers were recorded by Sunset Love for a potential album, but nothing was ever ...
Essential Michigan garage/psych! Propelled by their local chart-topper ‘Rainbow Chaser,’ Battle Creek quintet The Troyes entered the orbit of bandleader Ray Anthony (‘Dragnet’ and ‘Peter Gunn’), laying down a multitude of fuzztone laced tracks throughout 1966-1967 that, save for one 7” release on his Space Records label, remained unreleased — until now. The Troyes ...
“There were vigorous garage band scenes all over the U.S. in the mid-’60s as young musicians, inspired by the British Invasion sounds of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, the Who, and the Kinks, picked up electric guitars and had at it, usually resulting in music that was more about attitude and ...