The Electric Prunes — The Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes was a band that, when I first learned they existed, I just thought was a cool dumb joke, a name meant to sound extreme and psychedelic (see also: Ultimate Spinach). I...
Category: ’60s
The Electric Flag – Live From California 1967-68
So, how does it come to be that I come from the ’70s, and that I come from a love of the blues, and yet, until the last couple of years, never had any...
Various Artists – Eccentric Deep Soul
It’s funny that we commonly look down on collections, compared to works by single artists, and it’s true that they’re often a mess. K-Tel collections are just anything they could get a license to...
Various Artists – Eccentric Northern Soul
Here in the US, we were deprived of the phenomenon known as Northern Soul. It wasn’t even a phrase I was familiar with until I started reading about Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” as being...
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation — Retaliation
I was so excited by the little sampling of the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation I heard on the Sire “History of the British Blues, Vol. 1” collection that at the same time as I ordered...
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation — Doctor Dunbar’s Prescription
One of the revelations of the great Sire collection “History of British Blues (Volume One)” was several tracks by the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation. I knew the name of one of the most famous drummers...
Donovan — Donovan’s Greatest Hits
As an aficionado of pretty much everything from the hippy dippy era, I was of course obliged at some point to get at least slightly into Donovan. It was mandatory. I remember my roommate...
Willie Dixon — The Chess Box
When I started this project, I absolutely knew that I was going to miss some of the box sets – they’re off on another shelf, and easily forgotten. So yes, when I first went through...
Jackie DeShannon — Put A Little Love In Your Heart
I’ve always had a weak spot for Jackie DeShannon. Her version of Bacharach/David’s “What the World Needs Now Is Love” is one of the earliest songs I really have a memory of. While it...
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