The Stained Glass "A Scene In-Between 1965-1967" (Ace Records/Big Beat, 2013) Another long-anticipated collection and part of the ongoing "Nuggets From the Golden State" series is this, an...
Robert Johnson "King of the Delta Blues Singers" (Music On Vinyl, 1961-1970/2013) Throughout successive generations, guitar players who’ve wanted to align themselves, especially, with the pre-war blues scene...
Yes "Time And A Word" (Music On Vinyl, 1970/2014) By the time of Yes's second LP for the Atlantic label, 1970’s Time And A Word, it's fair to...
Big Brother & the Holding Company "Live at Carousel Ballroom" (Music On Vinyl, 1968/2013) The first thing that struck me about this live recording was that I thought...
Jacco Gardner "Cabinet Of Curiosities" (Trouble In Mind, 2013) When ‘Clear The Air’ was first released on seven inch single by Spain’s Action Weekend label a year or...
John the Revelator - "Wild Blues" (Pseudonym Records, 2013) John The Revelator is an obscure Dutch ensemble, at least I’d never heard anything at all about them...
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - "The Paul Butterfield Blues Band" (Music On Vinyl, 2013) Seen in context, this is the album that, way back in 1965, brought the...
Free "Fire and Water" (Music On Vinyl, 2013) With a hectic gigging schedule and two already well-received sets behind them, Tons Of Sobs and Free, both in 1969,...
A US group from New Jersey who made one lone private-press album back in 1971. I have to say this is a particularly lovely collection of fantastically dreamy...
The Outsiders - "Outsiders" (Pseudonym Records, 2012) They are the incomparable Dutch 60s garage-punk, beautiful-and-ugly beat r’n’b, turned psychedelic rock mavens the Outsiders, and their eponymous half-live, half-studio...