Mike Bloomfield – It’s Not Killing Me
There are some classic new blues (if that phrase makes any sense – I’m talking about the interpreters of the ’60s and ’70s) that I have come to very late. Despite my love for...
Category: Blues
Marc Benno — Ambush
Honestly, I had never heard of Marc Benno until I happened to take a chance on an odd Leon Russell album I found at Forever Changes just about a year ago, when it was...
Marcia Ball – Gatorhythms
In these crazy times when we can’t really get together with friends or family, when we can’t casually go out and enjoy ourselves at will, and when my wife is subject to some rather...
Atlantic Blues: Vocalists
“Atlantic Blues: Vocalists,” like the previous album (“Atlantic Blues: Piano”), came out in 1986. It is every bit as good as the piano collection — a little less broad in range, but with significantly...
Atlantic Blues: Piano
“Atlantic Blues: Piano” is one of my favorite album acquisitions of all time. I bought this new when it came out in 1986, a time when CDs were still quite pricey and double CDs...
The Animals – Ark
In 1983, the original Animals recorded another reunion album, on I.R.S. Records, of all things (I.R.S. was well known for new wave and alternative rock, not for bands whose heyday had been almost two...
The Original Animals – Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
The original Animals — Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Hilton Valentine, Chas Chandler, and John Steel — hadn’t recorded together since 1965. They did a single reunion concert in 1968 (when the “new” Animals were...
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Every One Of Us
The pace of record releases in the ’60s was truly astonishing, and almost certainly one of the reasons so many bands fell apart under the pressure. Perhaps a bit easier when they were covering...
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Winds of Change
The ‘60s were an incredible time of social upheaval, experimentation, change. Anything was possible — any artist could borrow inspiration from anything that had come before. The old rules had to be thrown out....
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