Ellen McIlwaine is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a slide guitarist. Born in Nashville, McIlwaine was adopted by missionaries and raised in Kobe, Japan, giving her exposure to multiple languages and cultures. She attended Canadian Academy, a K-12 international school in Kobe, graduating in 1963. Her first experience in music was playing Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Professor Longhair songs on piano that she heard on Japanese radio. On moving to back to the United States she bought a guitar, beginning a stage career in Atlanta, Georgia in the mid-1960s. In 1966, she had a stint in New York City's Greenwich Village where she opened every night at the Cafe Au Go Go, playing with a young Jimi Hendrix, and opening for Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, and Big Joe Williams. She returned to Atlanta to form the band Fear Itself, a psychedelic blues-rock band. After recording one album with Fear Itself, McIlwaine went solo, recording two albums for Polydor, Honky Tonk Angel (1972) and We the People (1973), the latter featuring a hit single, "I Don't Want to Play". Those albums, and most of her work since, have featured McIlwaine's approach to acoustic slide guitar. Honky Tonk Angel is the 1972 debut solo album by Ellen McIlwaine, following her departure from Fear Itself. The first side of the album contains songs that were recorded live at The Bitter End in New York City while side two of the record is made up of studio recordings. The album was re-released on CD in 1993.
01 - Toe Hold 02 - Weird Of Hermiston 03 - Up From The Skies 04 - Losing You 05 - It's Growing 06 - Ode To Billy Joe 07 - Pinebo (My Story) 08 - Can't Find My Way Home 09 - Wings Of A Horse 10 - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels 11 - Wade In The Water
Kathryn Marie McDonald, popularly known as Kathi McDonald, is a blues and rock singer. She currently performs with Kathi McDonald & Friends. She has appeared on an extensive list of rock and blues albums and toured extensively with Long John Baldry prior to his death. Kathi was born in Anacortes, Washington and resides in the Seattle Washington state area but still has strong San Francisco music connections. At the age of 19 she set off for San Francisco and its burgeoning musical climate, where she met the Turners and, through her association with them, took the first step on a career path that would span more than three decades. McDonald got her big break and her first big professional gig when she was attending an Ike (& Tina) Turner concert and was singing in the audience at Winterland. Her powerful voice drew Ike Turner's notice and he invited the aspiring singer to his and Tina Turner's next rehearsal. McDonald had snagged a spot in the Ikettes. It was a heady and magical beginning for someone who never had any formal lessons. This is the debut solo album.
01 - Bogart To Bowie 02 - To Love Somebody 03 - (Love Is Like A) Heatwave 04 - Threw My Love Away 05 - Freak Lover 06 - Down To The Wire 07 - Heartbreak Hotel 08 - If You Need Me 09 - Something Else 10 - All I Want To Be 11 - Insane Asylum
Mary Hopkin, is a Welsh folk singer. She is best known as one of the first musicians to sign to The Beatles' Apple label and for her 1968 single "Those Were The Days", a Top 10 hit single in both the UK and the US. Earth Song, Ocean Song, her second album, was released by Apple on 1 October 1971. The record was produced by her husband Tony Visconti and included cover versions of songs written by Cat Stevens, Gallagher and Lyle and Ralph McTell.
01 - International 02 - There's Got to Be More 03 - Silver Birch and Weeping Willow 04 - How Come the Sun 05 - Earth Song 06 - Martha 07 - Streets of London 08 - The Wind 09 - Water, Paper & Clay 10 - Ocean Song
Many a Mile is Buffy Sainte-Marie's second album, released in 1965. Though originally released on Vanguard Records, it was never reissued on CD when the rest of Sainte-Marie's catalog for that label came out in the late 1990s. The only CD issues of Many a Mile has been an Italian issues via Fontana and is now long out of print and extremely expensive if it can be found. The album contained a larger proportion of traditional material than her debut, including a number of Child ballads. The most famous song here is "Until It's Time for You to Go", which has been covered by Cher, Neil Diamond, Shirley Bassey, Françoise Hardy and Elvis Presley. "Groundhog" shows Sainte-Marie playing her unique mouthbow. The song "The Piney Wood Hills" was later re-recorded for I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again three years later. 01 - Must I Go Round 02 - Los Pescadores 03 - Ground Hog 04 - On The Banks Of Red Roses 05 - Fixin' To Die 06 - Until It's Time For You To Go 07 - The Piney Wood Hills 08 - Welcome, Welcome Emigrante 09 - Broke Down Girl 10 - Johnny Be Fair 11 - Maple Sugar Boy 12 - Lazarus 13 - Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies 14 - Many A Mile LINK
Love was an American rock group from Los Angeles of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Arthur Lee and the group's second songwriter, guitarist Bryan MacLean. One of the first racially diverse American pop bands, their music reflected different influences, combining elements of rock and roll, garage rock, folk and psychedelia. Arthur Lee - lead vocals, percussion, harmonica, drums, John Echols - lead guitar, - Bryan Maclean - rhythm guitar, lead vocals, Ken Forssi - bass and Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer - drums. Love is the eponymous debut by Love. Twelve of the album's fourteen tracks were recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood on January 24-27, 1966. The remaining two tracks ("A Message To Pretty" and "My Flash On You") come from another, undocumented session. One of the first rock albums issued on then-folk giant Elektra Records, the album was anchored by the group's radical reworking of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David song "My Little Red Book" which had guitar riffs that gave Syd Barrett some inspiration to write the Pink Floyd song "Interstellar Overdrive" which is on Pink Floyd's album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, the anti-drug anthem "Signed D.C." (allegedly a reference to one-time Love drummer Don Conka), and the poignant "A Message to Pretty". The stark instrumental "Emotions" is used uncredited in Haskell Wexler's 1969 film Medium Cool as a recurring theme. "My Little Red Book" was featured over the final credits of the movie High Fidelity in 2000, and the Beverly Hills 90210 episode "Alone at the Top" in 1995.
01 - My Little Red Book 02 - Can't Explain 03 - A Message To Pretty 04 - My Flash On You 05 - Softly To Me 06 - No Matter What You Do 07 - Emotions 08 - You I'll Be Following 09 - Gazing 10 - Hey Joe 11 - Signed D.C. 12 - Colored Balls Falling 13 - Mushroom Clouds 14 - And More
Gryphon were a British progressive rock band of the 1970s, best known for their unusual Medieval sound and instrumentation. Multi-instrumentalist Richard Harvey and his fellow Royal College of Music graduate Brian Gulland, a woodwind player, began the group as an all-acoustic ensemble that mixed traditional English folk music with medieval and Renaissance influences. Shortly after this, the duo was joined by guitarist Graeme Taylor and drummer/percussionist Dave Oberlé. After their self-titled debut, they expanded their sound to include electric guitars and keyboards as well as wind instruments, such as bassoons and krumhorns, not previously used in rock music. Gryphon's music often sounded as much like rural English folk or renaissance chansons as it did rock, at least on their early recordings. After their third album (Red Queen to Gryphon Three) and the subsequent tour as a supporting act for Yes, their instrumentation became more conventional and the use of non-standard instruments was reduced. Fans and critics generally regard Midnight Mushrumps and the all-instrumental Red Queen to Gryphon Three as their finest albums.
Out Here is the fifth album by Love, released in December 1969 on Blue Thumb Records in the United States, and Harvest in the United Kingdom. With the classic line-up of Love a memory, the group metamorphosized into a more experimental and free-flowing group, bearing little resemblance to its past except for the presence of leader Arthur Lee. Recording three LPs worth of material with his new group, Lee gave one to Elektra Records in order to fulfill the contract that had been in place for nearly four years. Four Sail, the result of Elektra's cherry-picking, was released in August 1969. Arranging the two remaining LPs into a double album, Lee signed a new contract with the independent Blue Thumb Records(*) and oversaw the release of the seventeen-track Out Here in December 1969, a mere matter of months after Elektra released Four Sail. Featuring Lee and company tackling funk, rock, ska and soul with ease, it proved that while Love may have been past their apex, that they were still capable of producing entertaining and thought-provoking songs. Arthur Lee - rhythm guitar, piano, organ, lead vocals, producer, Jay Donnellan - lead guitar, Frank Fayad - bass, George Suranovich - drums, Jim Hobson - organ, piano (01,13), Paul Martin - lead guitar (05), Gary Rowles - lead guitar (10) and Drachen Theaker - drums (03).
01 - I'll Pray For You 02 - Abalony 03 - Signed D.C. 04 - Listen To My Song 05 - I'm Down 06 - Stand Out 07 - Discharged 08 - Doggone 09 - I Still Wonder 10 - Love Is More Than Words Or Better Late Than Never 11 - Nice To Be 12 - Car Lights On In The Daytime Blues 13 - Run To The Top 14 - Willow Willow 15 - Instra-Mental 16 - You Are Something 17 - Gather 'round
A progressive hard rock outfit from Newcastle, most notable for including Bob Sargeant, who later played in several other groups, including The Mick Abrahams Band and Andy Roberts' Everyone. The album is reputedly very powerful and enjoyable. It's also rare and elusive, but not as rare and sought-after as the 45 they recorded five years earlier for Columbia. At that time they were a mod band. They've reformed several times and still gig today around Tyneside, but there's been no other recorded output. Charlie Harcourt was later in Jackson Heights and Lindisfarne. Bob Sargeant later went on to production work. Charlie Harcourt - Guitar, Bob Sargeant - Keyboards, Vocals, Dave Sproat - Bass and John Woods - Drums. 01 - Minotaur 02 - Fly Me High 03 - Change In Louise 04 - Black Widow 05 - Help Me 06 - Natural Thoughts 07 - Am I Blue 08 - Reprieve 09 - In The Morning 10 - Death By Fire LINK
Jeronimo was founded in 1969 in Germany and in '69/'70 they had their first two hits "He Ya" and "Na Na Hey Hey". With these two chartbreakers, Jeronimo climbed to the number 1 position in almost all European countries. In 1970 Jeronimo and "Steppenwolf" toured successfully through Germany and in the same year Jeronimo partook in the legendary "Progressive Pop Festival" in Cologne. Following that, Jeronimo shared the headlines with such groups as "Deep Purple" and "Golden Earring" at various European open-air festivals. In 1970, Jeronimo, together with Creedence Clearwater, presented the album "Spirit Orgaszmus", which was a success throughout all of Europe. After 30 years and millions of records sold worldwide, Jeronimo is still cult. In 1999/2000, their hits "Na Na Hey Hey" and "He Ya" were re-released on numerous hit-compilations. The CD's "Cosmic Blues", "Time Ride" and "Best of" have been available in record stores since 1991. Gunnar Schäfer: bass, vocals, Ringo Funk: drums, vocals, Rainer Marz: guitars, vocals and Walter Ortel: keyboards, vocals. 01 - News 02 - The Key 03 - Hands 04 - So Nice To Know 05 - Na Na Hey Hey 06 - Let The Sunshine In 07 - Highjack 08 - Number 5 09 - No No No 10 - Never Going Back 11 - The Light Life Needs 12 - Heya LINK
False Start is the sixth album by Love, released in December 1970. The second and final Love album for Blue Thumb Records saw bandleader Arthur Lee heavily influenced by his friend, Jimi Hendrix, even going so far as to coax Hendrix into appearing on the opening track of the album, "The Everlasting First", one of several tracks that Hendrix recorded with Love at a March 1970 session. "Stand Out", a song from the band's previous album Out Here, was again included here in a live rendition. Replacing Jay Donnellan with Gary Rowles and adding second rhythm guitarist Nooney Rickett after the session with Hendrix brought no great change to the sound of the group. There are shades of blues, funk, country and soul all based in rock and roll. 01 - The Everlasting First 02 - Flying 03 - Gimi A Little Break 04 - Stand Out 05 - Keep On Shining 06 - Anytime 07 - Slick Dick 08 - Love Is Coming 09 - Feel Daddy Feel Good 10 - Ride That Vibration LINK
Very good stereo cassette demo recordings from the Physical Graffitti sessions. Recorded at Headley Grange Studios, Hampshire, England Jan.-Feb. '74.
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01 - The Wanton Song (Take 1) 02 - The Wanton Song (Take 2) 03 - Take Me Home 04 - In The Morning (Take 1) 05 - Trampled Underfoot (Takes 1 Through 6) 06 - In The Morning (Take 2) 07 - Sick Again 08 - The Rover (Acoustic & Vocal) 09 - Untitled Instrumental (Funk-Jazz Rhythm Exercise) 10 - In My Time Of Dying (Takes 1 Through 5)
Live performances aired at the BBC Radio in 1967. Tracks 01,05,15 and 16 recorded at the BBC Broadcasting House in London, England on February 13, 1967, Tracks 02,03,08,09 and 14 recorded at the BBC Playhouse Theatre in London, England on December 15, 1967, Tracks 04,11 and 13 recorded at the BBC Broadcasting House on March 28, 1967, Tracks 06,07,10 and 17 recorded at the BBC Playhouse Theatre on October 6, 1967, Track 12 recorded at the BBC Playhouse Theatre on October 17, 1967. Jimi Hendrix – guitar, lead vocals, Noel Redding – bass, backing vocals, Mitch Mitchell – drums, backing vocals, Paul McCartney – backing vocals (03), Jimmy Leverton – backing vocals (11), Trevor Burton – backing vocals (11).
01 - Stone Free 02 - Radio One 03 - Day Tripper 04 - Killing Floor 05 - Love Or Confusion 06 - Drivin' South 07 - Catfish Blues 08 - Wait Until Tomorrow 09 - Hear My Train A Comin' 10 - Hound Dog 11 - Fire 12 - Hoochie Koochie Man 13 - Purple Haze 14 - Spanish Castle Magic 15 - Hey Joe 16 - Foxy Lady 17 - Burning Of The Midnight Lamp Back.jpg
Live at the BBC: 1967–1970 is a two-disc album by The Moody Blues. Released in 2007, it features numerous live recordings from various performances for BBC, with all of the recordings were recorded between 1967 and 1970. Justin Hayward - vocals, guitar, sitar, John Lodge - vocals, bass, Ray Thomas - vocals, flute, Graeme Edge - drums and Mike Pinder - vocals, mellotron, keyboards. Disc 1 01 - Fly Me High 02 - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 03 - Love & Beauty 04 - Leave This Man Alone 05 - Peak Hour 06 - Nights In White Satin 07 - Fly Me High 08 - Twilight Time (Evening) 09 - Dr Livingstone I Presume 10 - Voices In The Sky 11 - Ride My See-Saw 12 - The Best Way To Travel 13 - Voives In The Sky 14 - Dr Livingstone I Presume 15 - Peak Hour 16 - Tuesday Afternoon 17 - Ride My See-Saw 18 - Lovely To See You 19 - Never Comes The Day 20 - To Share Our Love 21 - Send Me No Wine 22 - So Deep Within You 23 - Lovely To See You Disc 2 01 - The Morning Another Morning 02 - Ride My See-Saw 03 - The Morning Another Morning 04 - Dr Livingstone I Presume 05 - Ride My See-Saw 06 - Dr Livingstone I Presume 07 - House Of Four Doors 08 - House Of Four Doors 09 - Voices In The Sky 10 - The Best Way To Travel 11 - Voices In The Sky 12 - The Best Way To Travel 13 - Visions Of Paradise 14 - The Actor 15 - Visions Of Paradise 16 - Gypsy 17 - The Actor 18 - Gypsy 19 - The Sun Set 20 - Never Comes The Day 21 - The Sun Set 22 - Are You Sitting Comfortably 23 - Never Comes The Day 24 - Are You Sitting Comfortably 25 - Poem The Dream 26 - Have You Heard 27 - Poem The Dream 28 - Have You Heard 29 - Nights In White Satin 30 - Legend Of A Mind 31 - Nights In White Satin 32 - Legend Of A Mind 33 - Question 34 - Question LINK
The Grass Roots are a U.S. rock band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri. In their career, The Grass Roots achieved one platinum album, two gold albums, one gold single and charted singles a total of 21 times. Between 1967 and 1972, The Grass Roots set a record for being on the Billboard charts for 307 straight weeks. They have sold over thirty million records worldwide. Early member Rob Grill and a newer lineup of The Grass Roots continue to play many live shows each year. The band released a new live album chronicling their fourteen Top 40 Billboard hits titled Live Gold in 2008. Feelings is the third album of the band, released in 1968.
01 - Feelings 02 - Here's Where You Belong 03 - The Sins Of A Family Fall On The Daughter 04 - Melody For You 05 - Who Will You Be Tomorrow 06 - You Might As Well Go My Way 07 - All Good Things Come To An End 08 - Hot Bright Lights 09 - Hey Friend 10 - You And Love Are The Same 11 - Dinner For Eight 12 - Feelings, Reprise 13 - Depressed Feeling 14 - Midnight Confessions
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy. The musical broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of "rock musical", using a racially integrated cast, and inviting the audience onstage for a "Be-In" finale. After an off-Broadway debut in October 1967 at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and a subsequent run in a midtown discothèque space, the show opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances. Simultaneous productions in cities across the United States and Europe followed shortly thereafter, including a successful London production, which ran for 1,997 performances. 01 - Aquarius 02 - Donna - Hashish 03 - Sodomy 04 - Colored Spade 05 - Manchester England 06 - I'm Black - Ain't Got No 07 - Air 08 - Initials 09 - I Got Life 10 - Hair 11 - My Conviction 12 - Don't Put It Down 13 - Frank Mills 14 - Be-In 15 - Where Do I Go 16 - Black Boys - White Boys 17 - Easy To Be Hard 18 - Walking In Space 19 - Abie Baby 20 - Three-Five-Zero-Zero - What A Piece Of Work Is Man 21 - Good Morning Starshine 22 - The Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In) LINK
Grace Slick is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s. Slick was an important figure in the 1960s psychedelic rock genre, and is known for her witty lyrics and powerful contralto vocals. Manhole is Grace Slick's first solo album credited solely to her (she had previously recorded Sunfighter with Paul Kantner and Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun with Kantner and David Freiberg, both of whom co-produced Manhole). The album was recorded in 1973, when Jefferson Airplane had stopped touring, and Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady were making the Hot Tuna album, The Phosphorescent Rat. All the members who would form Jefferson Starship in 1974 performed on this album, except for Papa John Creach. The album was conceived as a soundtrack to a movie, although there was no such movie made. Grace drew all of the artwork for the album, and wrote on the cover "Child Type Odd Art by Grace." The album only reached #127 on the Billboard charts. 01 - Jay 02 - Theme From The Movie Manhole 03 - Come Again Toucan 04 - It's Only Music 05 - Better Lying Down 06 - Epic (#38) LINK
One of the best Dutch blues groups formed 1967 in The Hague. Ted Oberg Guitar, Ruud VanBuuren Bass, Dick Beekman Drums, Nicko Christiansen Guitar, Vocals, Saxophone and John Legrand Harmonica. 01 - Wang Dang Doodle 02 - I Came Home At Night 03 - Whiskey And Gin 04 - This Is The Hour 05 - When The Sun Goes Down 06 - Go-Go Train 07 - Spoonful LINK
Herbert "Herb" Alpert is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or TJB. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records (a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold). Alpert's musical accomplishments include five number one hits, twenty-eight albums on the Billboard charts, eight Grammy Awards, fourteen Platinum albums and fifteen Gold albums. As of 1996, Alpert had sold 72 million albums worldwide. Volume 2 is the second album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, known in this recording as "Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass". It was released in 1963 on A&M Records, and sold poorly upon initial release. After the TJB became massively popular with hits from their later albums, Volume 2 was reissued in 1966 and eventually reached #17 on the Billboard album chart. A CD version of the album was issued by A&M Records in 1990 but is now out of print. Some LP copies of the album have a spoken introduction by Herb Alpert at the beginning of "The Great Manolete (La Virgen de la Macarena)".
01 - The Great Manolete (La Virgen De La Macarena) 02 - Spanish Harlem 03 - Swinger From Seville 04 - Winds Of Barcelona 05 - Green Leaves Of Summer 06 - More 07 - America 08 - Surfin' Senorita 09 - Marching Thru Madrid 10 - Crea Mi Amor 11 - Mexican Corn 12 - Milord
Silver Apples are a psychedelic electronic music duo from New York City composed of Simeon Coxe III, who performs as Simeon, on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising (also named The Simeon), and until his death in 2005, drummer Danny Taylor. The group was active between 1967 and 1969, before reforming in the mid 1990s. They were one of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively within a rock idiom, and their minimalistic style, with its pulsing, driving beat and frequently discordant modality, anticipated not only the experimental electronic music and krautrock of the 1970s, but also underground dance music and indie rock of the 1990s. Silver Apples is the debut album by the band. It was the most successful original album by the band, reaching 193 on the Billboard 200. The album was re-released in 1997 by MCA Records. 01 - Oscillations 02 - Seagreen Serenades 03 - Lovefingers 04 - Program 05 - Velvet Cave 06 - Whirly-Bird 07 - Dust 08 - Dancing Gods 09 - Misty Mountain LINK
Steve Ellis & the Starfires, garage folk rock band from Pipestone, Minnesota. This is not The Love Affair's Steve Ellis. Rare & legendary LP from 1967. This reissue is produced from the original tapes and includes 2 previously unreleased tracks. A must-have for fans of the Byrds and the 12-string folk rock aesthetic. 01 - Pride Of A Man 02 - Her Face 03 - On My Mind 04 - Looking Thru Me 05 - My Baby's Gone 06 - That's How It Feels 07 - Walking Around 08 - Pride Of A Man - Alt. 09 - On My Mind - Unreleased Version 10 - Since I Fell For You - Unreleased Version LINK
