05-08-2021 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1988-1992 (2h 34m)

05-08-2021 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1988-1992  >>Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, The Rolling Stones, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Lou Reed & John Cale, John Scofield, Massive Attack, A Tribe Called Quest, Gong, Peter Gabriel<<

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1988-1992

Wildly influential British guitarist who made a splash with the Yardbirds and as a session player before founding Led Zeppelin. Unquestionably one of the all-time most influential, important, and versatile guitarists and songwriters in rock history is Jimmy Page. Just about every rock guitarist from the late '60s/early '70s to the present day has been influenced by Page's work with Led Zeppelin...

Jimmy Page 

Liquid Mercury (Jimmy Page)3:03

Hummingbird Lead voc. Chris Farlowe (Leon Russell) 5:22

Emerald Eyes (Jimmy Page) 3:31

from Outrider 1988

Outrider is an album by Jimmy Page, released by Geffen Records on 19 June 1988. It is his first solo studio album (and his only one as of 2021) and the first time since 1969 he has recorded with a record label other than Atlantic Records/Swan Song Records. Page recorded the music at his personal studio The Sol...

Former Led Zeppelin vocalist whose successful solo career has found him covering a wide range of styles... 1982 solo debut, Pictures at Eleven, Plant pursued a feverishly adventurous solo career, embracing synthesizers and art rock that seemed to be the antithesis of Zeppelin's majestic hard rock, but he'd also later dabble in sampling and world music, while taking detours to reunite with Zep guitarist Jimmy Page for both a rockabilly lark and a folk-based revival of their catalog. 

Robert Plant 

Tall Cool One (Phil Johnstone / Robert Plant) 4:38

Ship of Fools (Phil Johnstone / Robert Plant) 5:00

Helen of Troy (John Cale / Phil Johnstone / Robert Plant) 5:10

from Now and Zen 1988

After years of trying to separate himself from his legendary status as Led Zeppelin's frontman, Robert Plant finally reconciles with his past on Now & Zen. He borrows a few Zeppelin riffs, and even enlists Jimmy Page to play guitar on his hit "Tall Cool One." This album is also notable in that it marks his first collaboration with keyboardist Phil Johnstone, who would continue to play and write with Plant on subsequent albums.... a must-own for fans of Led Zeppelin.

15-08-2020 > BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1965-1959

Howlin' Wolf

15-08-2020 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1965-1959 # Howlin' Wolf, The Rolling Stones, Little Walter, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Reverend Gary Davis, Curtis Jones, Al Smith, Snooks Eaglin, Lonnie Donegan, Jack McDuff

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1965-1959

A primal, ferocious blues belter with a roster of classics rivaling anyone else, and a sandpaper growl of a voice that has been widely imitated. In the history of the blues, there has never been anyone quite like the Howlin' Wolf. Six foot three and close to 300 pounds in his salad days, the Wolf was the primal force of the music spun out to its ultimate conclusion. 
Howlin' Wolf 
Killing Floor  (Chester Burnett)
Tail Dragger (Willie Dixon)
The Natchez Burnin' (Chester Burnett)
from The Real Folk Blues 1965
In the mid-'60s, Chess Records released a great series of compilations of '40s and '50s singles by some of its best blues artists, all of them called The Real Folk Blues. The Howlin' Wolf entry is possibly the best of the batch, and one of the best introductions to this mercurial electric bluesman. Opening with the savage "Killing Floor," the album doesn't let up in intensity, and it happily focuses on Wolf's less-anthologized sides, which gives the album a freshness a lot of blues compilations lack... every track is pure Chicago blues at its finest...

The premier British rock band for over half a century, creators of the sound and style imitated by countless groups. By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an impressive claim on the title.
The Rolling Stones
Confessin' the Blues  (Walter Brown / Jay McShann)
2120 South Michigan Avenue  (Mick Jagger / Nanker Phelge / Keith Richards)
from 12 x 5 1964
The evolution from blues to rock accelerated with the Rolling Stones' second American LP. They turned soul into guitar rock for the hits "It's All Over Now" and "Time Is on My Side" (the latter of which was their first American Top Ten single). "2120 South Michigan Avenue" is a great instrumental blues-rock jam; "Around and Around" is one of their best Chuck Berry covers; and "If You Need Me" reflects an increasing contemporary soul influence...

A major figure of post-war blues, brought the harmonica out of its rural setting into an urban context.
Little Walter
It Ain't Right (Little Walter)
Crazy Mixed Up World (Willie Dixon / Bruce Willis)
Confessin' the Blues (Walter Brown / Jay McShann)
from Confessin' the Blues 1953-1963 (1966)
...Still, for those who can't afford either of those pricey sets, this disc, coupled with the two best-of volumes, and the other Walter compilations, fills in some holes that are well worth filling. Made up of songs cut between 1953 and 1959 -- none of which had ever appeared on LP before the original 1974 release of this collection -- the selection features Walter in his prime, playing alongside Robert Lockwood, Jr. and Louis Myers or Luther Tucker on guitar (with Muddy Waters present on slide on one indispensable track, "Rock Bottom"), mostly Willie Dixon on bass, and Fred Below on the drums, with Lafayette Leake or Otis Spann on piano...

23-07-2020 > FRESH FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1965-1969 (2h)

The Who

23-07-2020 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1965-1969  >>The Who, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Love, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Donovan, THE BEATLES, Spirit, King Crimson, The Moody Blues<<

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1965-1969

An explosive combo that pioneered progressive and arena rock, each new sound increasing their influence and legacy.
The Who
Out In the Street (Pete Townshend)
I Don't Mind (James Brown)
from My Generation 1965

An explosive debut, and the hardest mod pop recorded by anyone. At the time of its release, it also had the most ferociously powerful guitars and drums yet captured on a rock record... While the execution was sometimes crude, and the songwriting not as sophisticated as it would shortly become, the Who never surpassed the pure energy level of this record.

With a style honed in the gritty blues bars of Chicago's south side, the Butterfield Blues Band was instrumental in bringing the sound of authentic Chicago blues to a young white audience in the mid-'60s, and although the band wasn't a particularly huge commercial success, its influence has been enduring and pervasive.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Born in Chicago (Nick Gravenites)
Screamin' (Michael Bloomfield)
from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band 1965
Even after his death, Paul Butterfield's music didn't receive the accolades that were so deserved. Outputting styles adopted from Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters among other blues greats, Butterfield became one of the first white singers to rekindle blues music through the course of the mid-'60s. His debut album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, saw him teaming up with guitarists Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield, with Jerome Arnold on bass, Sam Lay on drums, and Mark Naftalin playing organ. The result was a wonderfully messy and boisterous display of American-styled blues, with intensity and pure passion derived from every bent note. In front of all these instruments is Butterfield's harmonica, beautifully dictating a mood and a genuine feel that is no longer existent, even in today's blues music....

One of the best L.A. folk/psych bands, and producers of the seminal Forever Changes, a symphonic masterpiece of lush textures and surreal lyrics.
Love
Stephanie Knows Who  (Arthur Lee)
Orange Skies (Arthur Lee / Bryan MacLean)
Seven & Seven Is  (Arthur Lee)
She Comes in Colors (Arthur Lee)
from Da Capo 1966
Love broadened their scope into psychedelia on their sophomore effort, Arthur Lee's achingly melodic songwriting gifts reaching full flower. The six songs that comprised the first side of this album when it was first issued are a truly classic body of work, highlighted by the atomic blast of pre-punk rock "Seven & Seven Is" (their only hit single), the manic jazz tempos of "Stephanie Knows Who," and the enchanting "She Comes in Colors," perhaps Lee's best composition (and reportedly the inspiration for the Rolling Stones' "She's a Rainbow")...

05-06-2020 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1973-1964

FREE

05-06-2020 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1973-1964 # Free, Long John Baldry, Ten Years After, Fleetwood Mac, Otis Spann with Fleetwood Mac, B.B. King, Canned Heat, J.B. Lenoir, Howlin' Wolf, The Rolling Stones

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1973-1964

Free helped lay the foundations for the rise of hard rock, stripping the earthy sound of British blues down to its raw, minimalist core to pioneer a brand of proto-metal later popularized by 1970s superstars like Foreigner, Foghat and Bad Company. 

Free 

Heartbreaker (Paul Rodgers) 6:13

Seven Angels (Paul Rodgers) 5:04

from Heartbreaker 1973

The final Free album, Heartbreaker was patched together from a variety of sessions -- and it often sounds like it. Aside from drummer Simon Kirke and singer-guitarist Paul Rodgers, the band was in fragments. Lead guitarist Paul Kosoff -- who was suffering from the drug demons that would eventually kill him -- appears on only half of the album, and it certainly takes away some of the communal vibe that Free was all about. There are some great moments... The rest of the record is by no means filler, but only proves what a great band Free was, even if their ranks had dwindled.

R&B-and-blues drenched British pop singer of the 1960s of imposing stature... As a historical figure, he has undeniable importance. When he began singing as a teenager in the 1950s, he was one of the first British vocalists to perform folk and blues music. 

Long John Baldry 

You Can't Judge a Book 4:21

Hambone 4:02

Jubilee Cloud 4:16

from Everything Stops For Tea 1972

Like its companion It Ain't Easy, the second half of Long John Baldry's early-'70s comeback Everything Stops for Tea initially attracted the most attention via its producers, former Baldry sidemen Elton John and Rod Stewart... With Baldry's musical tastes now drawing folkier textures into his blues (and eschewing the big ballad pop altogether), it's a varied and oft-times eclectic collection. But the strength of Baldry's performance smooths over any rough edges that might have tripped other singers and, though It Ain't Easy remains the superior of these two albums, this one really isn't that far behind it.

Hard-rocking British blues band led by virtuosic guitarist Alvin Lee... A storming blues and boogie band from the U.K., Ten Years After rocketed from modest success to worldwide fame in the wake of their performance at the Woodstock Rock Festival in 1969, where their nine-minute rendition of "I'm Going Home" showed off the lightning-fast guitar work and howling vocals of Alvin Lee, the unrelenting stomp of bassist Leo Lyons and drummer Ric Lee, and the soulful support of keyboard man Chick Churchill.

Ten Years After 

One of These Days (Alvin Lee) 5:58

Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'N' Roll You (Alvin Lee) 2:14

Let the Sky Fall (Alvin Lee) 4:20

Uncle Jam (Chick Churchill / Alvin Lee / Ric Lee / Leo Lyons) 2:00

from A Space in Time 1971

A Space in Time was Ten Years After's best-selling album...  TYA's first album for Columbia, A Space in Time has more of a pop-oriented feel than any of their previous releases had. The individual cuts are shorter, and Alvin Lee displays a broader instrumental palette than before. In fact, six of the disc's ten songs are built around acoustic guitar riffs. However, there are still a couple of barn-burning jams. The leadoff track, "One of These Days," is a particularly scorching workout, featuring extended harmonica and guitar solos... Many of the cuts make effective use of dynamic shifts, and the guitar solos are generally more understated than on previous outings. The production on A Space in Time is crisp and clean, a sound quite different from the denseness of its predecessors...

02-02-2020 > FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1971-1966

02-02-2020 > FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1971-1966  >>Leonard Cohen, Ten Years After, THE BEATLES, Rare Bird, The Rolling Stones, Grand Funk Railroad, Pink Floyd, The Freeborne, THE BEATLES, John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers, The Kinks<<

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1971-1966

Cerebral yet sensual Canadian poet, novelist, and singer/songwriter who is acknowledged as one of the greatest lyricists of all time. One of the most fascinating and enigmatic -- if not the most successful -- singer/songwriters of the late '60s, Leonard Cohen retained an audience across six decades of music-making, interrupted by various digressions into personal and creative exploration, all of which have only added to the mystique surrounding him. Second only to Bob Dylan (and perhaps Paul Simon), he commanded the attention of critics and younger musicians more firmly than any other musical figure from the '60s who continued to work in the 21st century, which is all the more remarkable an achievement for someone who didn't even aspire to a musical career until he was in his thirties.
Leonard Cohen
Diamonds in the Mine (Leonard Cohen) 3:50
Avalanche (Leonard Cohen)5:02
Dress Rehearsal Rag (Leonard Cohen) 6:06
from Songs of Love and Hate 1971
Songs of Love and Hate is one of Leonard Cohen's most emotionally intense albums -- which, given the nature of Cohen's body of work, is no small statement... If Songs of Love and Hate isn't Cohen's best album, it comes close enough to be essential to anyone interested in his work.

A storming blues and boogie band from the U.K., Ten Years After rocketed from modest success to worldwide fame in the wake of their performance at the Woodstock Rock Festival in 1969, where their nine-minute rendition of "I'm Going Home" showed off the lightning-fast guitar work and howling vocals of Alvin Lee, the unrelenting stomp of bassist Leo Lyons and drummer Ric Lee, and the soulful support of keyboard man Chick Churchill. While the group was also capable of moody pop and acoustic-based material, it was the group's raw blues-based music that remained their trademark, powered by Lee's high-speed guitar figures.
Ten Years After
One of These Days (Alvin Lee) 5:58
Here They Come (Alvin Lee) 4:35
Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'N' Roll You (Alvin Lee) 2:14
Let the Sky Fall (Alvin Lee) 4:20
from A Space in Time 1971
A Space in Time was Ten Years After's best-selling album... TYA's first album for Columbia, A Space in Time has more of a pop-oriented feel than any of their previous releases had. The individual cuts are shorter, and Alvin Lee displays a broader instrumental palette than before... However, there are still a couple of barn-burning jams. The leadoff track, "One of These Days," is a particularly scorching workout, featuring extended harmonica and guitar solos. After the opener, however, the album settles back into a more relaxed mood than one would have expected from Ten Years After. Many of the cuts make effective use of dynamic shifts, and the guitar solos are generally more understated than on previous outings. The production on A Space in Time is crisp and clean, a sound quite different from the denseness of its predecessors. Though not as consistent as Cricklewood Green, A Space in Time has its share of sparkling moments.

The most popular and influential rock act of all time, a band that blazed several new trails for popular music. So much has been said and written about the Beatles -- and their story is so mythic in its sweep -- that it's difficult to summarize their career without restating clichés that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans. To start with the obvious, they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era, and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century.
The Beatles
Two of Us (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) 3:36
Dig a Pony (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) 3:55
Across the Universe (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) 3:48
I Me Mine (George Harrison) 2:25
from Let It Be 1970
The only Beatles album to occasion negative, even hostile reviews, there are few other rock records as controversial as Let It Be. First off, several facts need to be explained: although released in May 1970, this was not their final album, but largely recorded in early 1969, way before Abbey Road. Phil Spector was enlisted in early 1970 to do some post-production work, but did not work with the band as a unit, as George Martin and Glyn Johns had on the sessions themselves; Spector's work was limited to mixing and some overdubs... As flawed and bumpy as it is, it's an album well worth having, as when the Beatles were in top form here, they were as good as ever.

Rare Bird came together in October 1969 when organist Graham Field, keyboardist Dave Kaffinetti, drummer Mark Ashton, and vocalist Steve Gould envisioned a two-keyboard rock sound without guitars.
Rare Bird
What You Want to Know (Mark Ashton / Rare Bird / Graham Field / Steve Gould / Dave Kaffinett) 5:59
Hammerhead (Mark Ashton / Rare Bird / Graham Field / Steve Gould / Dave Kaffinetti) 3:31
Flight: I. As Your Mind Flies By/II. Vacuum/III. New Yorker/IV. Central (Rare Bird) 19:38
from As Your Mind Flies By 1970
The legendary Charisma label's first signing was a Rare Bird indeed, a prog rock band without a guitarist in sight. The quartet's 1970 debut eponymous album launched the label, while "Sympathy" gave it its first hit. As Your Mind Flies By soared into the shops later that year, sadly the original lineup's swan song. Boasting the rhythm section of lead singer/bassist Steve Gould and drummer Mark Ashton, and keyboardists Dave Kaffinetti and Graham Field on electric piano and organ, the group was far removed from the showboating likes of Yes and ELP... it was the epic, side-length "Flight" that really sent Rare Bird soaring. Here the band showcased its distinctiveness, as the almost-20-minute song courses along Gould and Ashton's driving rhythm. Divided into four sections, the piece takes to the sky on a series of stunning arpeggios, quickens, then darkens. Organs burst out of the shadows, a church choir sails in, a phenomenal dual takes place between the surf guitar-ing electric piano and the psych-mad organ, before the Bird flitters into experimental avant-garde territory, then brings it all home with a flourish of vocals and organ...

03-11-2018 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues songs from the BLUES circle 1962-1972

03-11-2018 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues songs from the BLUES circle 1962-1972 # Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup, Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson II, The Rolling Stones, Long John Baldry, John Hammond, Buddy Guy, Albert King, Little Milton, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison

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1962-1972

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (also known as "Pop" Crudup) (August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1976) was a delta blues singer and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for writing songs later covered by Elvis Presley (and since covered by dozens of other artists)...
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
If I Get Lucky (Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup) 3:05
Rock Me Mama (Or Mamma) (Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup) 2:58
from The Definitive Collection 1941-62, Vol. 1

Regarded as the last of the great Chicago harmonica players, he was an impressive stylist and a leading practitioner of postwar blues harmonica. He was one bad dude, strutting across the stage like a harp-toting gangster, mesmerizing the crowd with his tough-guy antics and rib-sticking Chicago blues attack. Amazingly, Junior Wells kept at precisely this sort of thing for over 40 years; he was an active performer from the dawn of the '50s until his death in the late '90s.
Junior Wells
Two Headed Woman (Willie Dixon / Junior Wells) 2:41
I Could Cry (Junior Wells) 3:10
So Tired (Junior Wells) 2:13
from Calling All Blues - The Chief, Profile & USA Recordings 1957-1963
Following his recorded debut as a leader for States Records, Junior Wells signed with Mel London, producing a number of sides for the producer's Chief and Profile imprints. Perhaps best-known for his spectacular harmonica playing, this period, documented on Calling All Blues, saw Wells emerging as an outstanding vocalist as well. A consummate performer with a firm grasp of the range of emotions the music can produce, Wells wrings every drop of feeling out of the lyrics. The singer growls, shouts, howls, moans across these 24 tracks...

Highly-regarded blues singer and harmonica player, an unpredictable character, and a major figure of Chicago blues. Sonny Boy Williamson was, in many ways, the ultimate blues legend. By the time of his death in 1965, he had been around long enough to have played with Robert Johnson at the start of his career and Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Robbie Robertson at the end of it. In between, he drank a lot of whiskey, hoboed around the country, had a successful radio show for 15 years, toured Europe to great acclaim and simply wrote, played and sang some of the greatest blues ever etched into black phonograph records. 
Sonny Boy Williamson II 
Help Me (Sonny Boy Williamson II) 3:10
Nine Below Zero (Sonny Boy Williamson II) 3:31
Trying to Get Back on My Feet (Sonny Boy Williamson II) 2:09
Close to Me (Willie Dixon) 3:03
from More Real Folk Blues Rec: 1960-1964 (1967)
His delivery was sly, evil and world-weary, while his harp-playing was full of short, rhythmic bursts one minute and powerful, impassioned blowing the next. His songs were chock-full of mordant wit, with largely autobiographical lyrics that hold up to the scrutiny of the printed page. Though he took his namesake from another well-known harmonica player, no one really sounded like him.

1964 - Sonny Boy Williamson II and club compère Bob Wooler
at the Cavern Club, Liverpool, UK,  Photographer Peter Kaye

The premier British rock band for over half a century, creators of the sound and style imitated by countless groups. 
The Rolling Stones
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love  (Bert Berns / Solomon Burke / Jerry Wexler) 2:58
What a Shame  (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) 3:05
Little Red Rooster  (Chester Burnett / Willie Dixon) 3:05
from The Rolling Stones, Now! 1965
Although their third American album was patched together (in the usual British Invasion tradition) from a variety of sources, it's their best early R&B-oriented effort. Most of the Stones' early albums suffer from three or four very weak cuts; Now! is almost uniformly strong start-to-finish, the emphasis on some of their blackest material...

The Rolling Stones - Every parents nightmare in America.