1970 – RISING STORM

Episodes

1. 10

   Bluebird “Country Boy Blues”

   Bluebird’s only album was cobbled together from their Jerden, London and Burdette 45s but also tracks that were cut for an aborted album. The group hailed from Mercer Island, Washington and were known as one of the best folk rock/country rock bands of the Pacific Northwest. Most of the cuts on...

   Jun 25, 2020
2. 9

   The Wildweeds “Wildweeds”

   The Wildweeds were a popular regional group (Windsor, CT) that had a big hit with blue-eyed soul classic No Good To Cry in 1967. More significantly, this was guitarist Al Anderson’s first successful pop rock group. They are primarily known for their early Cadet sides but this album, which…

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   Apr 16, 2020
3. 8

   PODCAST 29 Garage,Psych,Folk-Rock

   I Will Go – The Beau Brummels (1965) You Gotta Run – The Roosters (1966) Song of a Gypsy – Damon (1969) Invisible People – Hamilton Streetcar (1968) Walkin’ Shoes – The Trolls (1964) The Losing Game – The Five Americans (1966) Thesis – The Penny Arkade (1968) Swim – The Penny Arkade (1968?) Do I...

   Mar 7, 2014
4. 7

   Amon Duul “Paradieswarts Duul”

   This is quite an anomalous record. Issued under the name Amon Duul in 1970, Paradieswarts Duul has very little to do with any previous records released under that aggregate’s name. In fact, it is not hard to see how this record tanked commercially back when it was released. By the time this album...

   Mar 11, 2013
5. 6

   Bronco “Country Home”

   British country rock sounds about as likely and as authentic as British blues, but both were forces to be reckoned with in late sixties and early seventies rock respectively. Whilst the UK country rock vein certainly aped its US counterpart rather than actually kickstarting it as its blues...

   Oct 17, 2012
6. 5

   Linda Perhacs “Parallelograms”

   This unique and fascinating album has belatedly garnered a considerable following in recent years as a result of the new interest in what is nowadays referred to as Acid Folk. In reality it’s finely-structured acoustic folk-rock, but with strong elements of psychedelic studio treatment and...

   Oct 9, 2012
7. 4

   Waterloo “First Battle”

   There’s an old gag particularly prevalent in Britain that goes along the lines of I bet you can’t name five famous Belgians. In fact this small bilingual, bicultural European country has produced more celebrities than you’d think: Gérard Mercator, designer of the universal map projection that...

   Aug 28, 2012
8. 3

   Soundtrack to Performance

   Despite boasting a rather eclectic hodgepodge of performers, the record was all cut by Nitzsche with a steady session band built on the inimitable guitar of Ry Cooder. Despite star turns by Mick Jagger and Randy Newman, however, it may very well be that it’s the soundtrack’s production that ends…

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   Jul 31, 2012
9. 2

   Fire “The Magic Shoemaker”

   For me the most depressing thing about today’s rock music is that so much of it exhibits such a lack of creativity or originality. If something sells, clone it, quickly. What a contrast to the late sixties, when for a brief heady spell the artists rather than the bean-counters had the whip hand…

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   Jul 16, 2012
10. 1

    Les Fleur De Lys “Reflections”

    As Britain’s other major Atlantic seaport, Southampton might have been expected to produce a stream of pop and rock successes to rival Liverpool during the Golden Years, but it didn’t happen. Probably the highest-profile outfit to emerge from the south coast seaport during this period was Les…

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    Jul 5, 2012