Steve Ellis - Rollin' with the 69 Crew

Steve Ellis - Rollin' with the 69 Crew - 2013

from Steve´s official site

Steve Ellis, lead singer with Love Affair - London based pop, soul, R&B group formed in 1966. With Number One success "Everlasting Love". The band had several other Top 20 hits including "Rainbow Valley", "A Day Without Love" ,"One Road" and "Bringing on Back the Good Times".

From recently uncovered long lost tapes which have been lovingly remixed to the highest of modern standards, we have unearthed this treasure trove of classic tracks . We are so pleased to be able to release this wonderful selection of music from the vaults of SONY.

Featuring one CD of tracks with the Keith Mansfield Orchestra and followed by a more standard group set up for disc two. This album features many top artists including Herbie Flowers, Zoot Money, Hookfoot, Clem Cattini and many more.

One of the best ‘not to be missed’ Lost Gems re-located and cleaned up to absolute perfection.

CD ONE

01. Good Time Livin'
02. Somethin's Gotten Hold of my Heart
03. It’s a Man’s Man’s Man's World
04. Bread and Wine
05. Lean on Me
06. Rainy Night in Georgia
07. Holly Holy
08. Sympathy
09. Evie
10. Take Your Love

CD TWO
 
01. Charley Patton Rides the Delta
02. I Don't Know Why
03. Gimme Shelter
04. Fat Crow
05. Pisces Apple Lady
06. Way Up on the Hill
07. I Got a Feelin'
08. Can't Stop Worryin'
09. Take Me to The Pilot
10. Hold On




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Steve Marriott And The Official Receivers - Some Kind of Wonderful

Steve Marriott And The Official Receivers - Some Kind of Wonderful  - 2006

Some Kind Of Wonderful é um 2 CD set lançado em 2006 pela Wappingwharf - selo criado por fans do Small Faces e que de tempos em tempos, brinda um mercado ávido por novidades com demos, shows, gravações inéditas e outros tipos de "raridades".

Foi assim com lançamentos anteriores (a sua maioria colocada aqui no blog) tais como Wham Bam, Humble Pie Atlanta Years, Rainy Changes e Lend Us a Quid. 

Em "Some Kind", o primeiro CD traz um show gravado em Hammersmith em 09 de julho de 1987 (NB. Esse mesmo show consta do duplo lançado apenas como "Steve Marriott & The Official Receivers, que voce pode encontrar no blog). Trata-se por tanto de uma enganação sob o pretexto que este vêm com outra remasterização, e o segundo CD registra um show no Park Hotel Tynemouth em 05 de fevereiro daquele mesmo 1987. Este Show, embora com uma qualidade de áudio fraca, registra bem o momento em que Steve passava, fazendo shows em tudo quanto era birosca. Para os fans, é um registro imperdível daquela fase.

A banda é composta, além de Marriott na guitarra, por Jim Leverton no baixo, Ian Wallace na bateria e Mick Weaver nos teclados.

Aproveitem e curtam mais esta exclusividade do blog.

 

CD 01 - Steve Marriott and the Official Receivers live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1987 

 

01. WATCHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT
02. DON'T LIE TO ME
03. MOTHER IN LAW
04. ALL OR NOTHING
05. I KNOW
06. MY GIRL
07. FOOL FOR A PRETTY FACE
08. FIVE LONG YEARS
09. SHAME SHAME SHAME
10. BIG TRAIN STOPS AT MEMPHIS
11. I DON’T NEED NO DOCTOR
12. TIN SOLDIER
13. SLOW DOWN

 

CD 02 - Steve Marriott and the Official Receivers Live at the Park Hotel, Tynemouth 1987

01. SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL
02. DON'T LIE TO ME
03. MOTHER IN LAW
04. ALL OR NOTHING
05. I KNOW
06. NEVER LOVED A WOMAN
07. WHATCHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT
08. TALKING ABOUT YOU
09. FOOL FOR A PRETTY FACE
10. FIVE LONG YEARS
11. TIN SOLDIER
12. RUN RUDOLPH RUN
13. WALKING THE DOG
14. Swinging Radio England interview with Steve 1988 (bonus)

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Travis Wammack - Snake, Rattle & Roll in Muscle Shoals

Travis Wammack - Snake, Rattle & Roll in Muscle Shoals - 2000

There are some names you never forget.  Names like Narvel Felts, Felton Jarvis, Elvis Presley...Good Southern names for self-styled boys that made some of rock-n-roll’s great wild records.  Such a name and such a man is Travis Wammack. Born in Walnut, Mississippi, he began his professional music career when he wrote and recorded his first record at the tender age of eleven, and also became the youngest member ever voted into the musicians union.

After moving to Memphis, Tennesse, the young guitarist made his mark on the music world at the age of sixteen with his 1963 number one hit “Scratchy”.  He was the first to develop and use the fuzz tone for an electric guitar.  

By 1969, Wammack’s skills landed him in Muscle Shoals, Alabama where he teamed with legendary producer Rick Hall at Hall’s FAME Records. Travis’ guitar licks can be heard on hit records that have sold over 'SIXTY Million' copies.

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01. Cookin' On The Front Burner
02. Counterfeit Love
03. Tell You About My Girl
04. Still Some Good Rockers
05. Keep On Running
06. Greenwood Mississippi
07. Keep The Fire Burning
08. Training Wheels
09. Linda Lou (Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't)
10. Get Outta Here

Travis Wammack - Vocal, Guitar

Junior Lowe, Pete Carr, Will McFarlane - Guitar

Lonnie "Big Arms" Ledford - Bass

N. C. Thurman, Jim Jackson - Keys

Brad Guin - Sax

Robbie Stout - Trumpet

Phillip Oliver - Tambourine

Travis Wammack Jr., Brian Vick, Chris Forrest - Drums

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Corky Laing & the Memory Thieves - House of Thieves (re-post)

Corky Laing & the Memory Thieves - House of Thieves - 2012

Legendary drummer Corky Laing and his band of Memory Thieves take you on a mind-blowing musical journey through time, performing hits Laing wrote, recorded and performed with MOUNTAIN and West, Bruce & Laing - rock anthems like "Mississippi Queen," "Nantucket Sleighride," and "The Doctor." The Memory Thieves also beat the drum of pulsing modern rock with edgy, newly-minted originals to deliver an unforgettable show where past meets present and nothing gets old.

Corky Laing - Drums, Vocal

Josh Horton - Lead Vocal

Denny Colt - Guitar, Keys, Vocal

Bonnie Parker- Bass, Vocal

01. Promised Land

02. House of Thieves
03. Rockafella's Lament
04. Eve of Destruction
05. Roadkill

Um pequeno repost para atender ao nosso amigo russo, Boris.

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RO RO - Meet At The Water

RO RO - Meet At The Water - 1972

Não existe muita coisa quando pesquisamos sobre a RO RO, a não ser que ela foi formada pelo guitarrista Alan Ross e pelo baixista Warwick Rose.

Pouco além de que a RO RO é anterior à banda Ross e existiu somente por um único e especial disco e teve, segundo li pela net, a produção do Tony McPhee.

Pra quem conhece os dois discos da Ross - um cult com o advento da internet - e os dois álbuns solos  que o guitarrista Alex Ross gravou após a debandada daquela banda, dizer que aquele prima pela qualidade é o mesmo que tocar um rock de um nota só (se bem que rock de uma nota só atende pelo nome de punk).

A cópia aqui disponibilizada vem de um EXCELENTE ripagem de vinil (que não fui eu quem fiz). É uma pena que eu (ainda) não tenha em CD, relançado junto com toda a obra correlata naquele maravilhoso formato japonês.

Leia alguma coisa sobre a genialidade do Alan Ross AQUI .

Bom, o que era raridade até agora tá aqui. Altamente recomendado pra quem quiser um som nota 10.

Deixe-me saber do interesse de virem postados aqui os dois álbuns solos do Alex.

Alan Ross - Vocals, Guitar
Rose Warwick - Bass
John Weider - Guitar, Violin
Neil Sheppard - Keyboards, Vocals
Rod Coombes - Drums, Vocals
Brian Rogers – Orchestration





01. Goin Round My Head
02. Beautiful Lady
03. Something About Her
04. Down On The Road
05. Meet At The Water
06. Mandala
07. Give Me The Benefit
08. June
09. Wild, Wild Woman
10. Whole Fire Burning

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Melton, Levy and the Dey Brothers (Re-post)

Melton, Levy and the Dey Brothers - 1972

 By Richie Unterberge, cduniverse.com

Melton, Levy and the Dey Brothers' sole album has a bit of a come-down-from-the-reckless-heights-of-Haight-Ashbury vibe, but is a reasonably accomplished and pleasing record, if an unassuming one. It's got the characteristic San Francisco Bay Area blend of blues, country, rock, and good counterculture cheer, with a more laid-back, soul-influenced approach than Barry Melton had taken with his first band, Country Joe & the Fish. Everyone from the quartet contributes original material, with Melton, Rick Dey, and Jay Levy taking roughly equal shares of the writing credits. Some of the more keyboard-oriented tracks sound a little like Paul McCartney's early solo work, as unlikely as that comparison might seem; check the chorus of Jay Levy's "Been So Fine" for an illustration. It's easy to imagine this as suitable rustic rock to play on your escape from the big bad city of San Francisco to a more laid-back locale with similar progressive hippie ethos, but more space and less angst, even if that journey would probably go no further than Marin County. A little bit of Melton's more radical past sneaks through on "Taxpayer's Lament," with its opening bursts of reverb guitar and anguished anti-war lyrics, in a vocal that falls between John Fogerty and Burton Cummings.

01. Ooh, Ooh, Ooh
02. She Dances Through

03. Closer
04. Been So Fine
05. Sweeter the Peaches
06. S.O.S
07. Highway
08. Hold on to the Good Times
09. Play Little Children
10. Be With the One
11. Newsboy
12. Taxpayer's Lament
13. Bye Bye Sequence

Barry Melton - Vocals, Guitar, Trombone
Jay Levy - Vocals, Keyboards
Rick Dey - Vocals, Bass
Tony Dey - Vocals, Drums

With

Michael Bloomfield - Guitar, Slide Guitar
Bruce Brymer - Drums, Vocals
Carol Davis - Horns
King Errisson - Congas
Rick Jagger - Percussion
Ginette Melton - Vocals

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Denny Newman - Sleepwalking with You

Denny Newman - Sleepwalking with You - 2005

Denny has been in and around the music scene since 1970, as a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Working as a song writer for various artists Denny now records his own solo albums. These are a rarity only being sold by mail and at gigs. The first "Bless Tupelo", was recorded in 1990 on vinyl, sold out of it's original 1,000 pressings and has since been transferred to cd. It features 13 original songs and has long time pal Geoff Whitehorn guesting on guitar. An album recorded live in the studio, reminiscent of early Fleetwood Mac, and British electric blues. After a live broadcast on London's GLR radio, presenter Mary Costello described Denny as "the best kept secret in British blues".
 

In 1995 Denny recorded his next album,"Noah's Great Rainbow". Tired of the normal 'my woman left me and I'm broke' blues lyrics, he noted that blues was everywhere, in all of us for different reasons, "you don't have to come from the delta, or chicago to feel blues". The songs penned are about his own experiences, ie, house reposession, taxes systems, and why modern youth has become so ignorant of it's own history. Of course, there's the odd 'I love my girl' song to cheer things up, but if you like English style guitar and dylanesque lyrics, give this one a whirl. In the ten tracks here there's "a world of emotion that just keeps turning", "intense guitar", and "blues poetry", to pull out some radio quotes from various sources.
 

Denny's third album 'SLEEPWALKING WITH YOU'  it features 10 original songs, and the inclusion of Max Middleton on keys

Denny Newman - Guitar, Vocals
Max Middleton - Keyboards
Scott Newman - Bass, Vocals
Jeff Allen - Drums

01. Livin' for the Past
02. Sleepwalking with You
03. This World Keep Turning
04. Burying Ground
05. I'Ll Get Over You (when You Get Over Getting Over Me)
06. The Case Is Closed
07. Frenchman
08. Potato Boat Blues
09. When the Sun Don't Shine
10. Goin' Down




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Pete Townshend - Live Brixton Academy '85 (re-re-post)

Pete Townshend - Live Brixton Academy '85 - 2004

Pete Townshend and the Deep End Band played live for two benefit outings - November 1 and 2, 1985 at the Brixton Academy - to help support Townshend's own "Double O' Charities. The performances are excerpted and were used in a made-for-home-video, also called Pete Townshend's Deep End Live!.  However, significant interest in the project would ultimately yield a 10-song LP which was issued to retail a few months later. Townshend is backed by an ensemble that includes a core band of John "Rabbit" Bundrick, Chucho Merchán, Simon Philips and David Gilmour.

This is THE COMPLET SHOW. The double CD set presents many Who and Solo tracks, including some rare performances of tracks from the White City album, as well as covers of fifties and sixties classics.

Disc 1

01. Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand
02. Won't Get Fooled Again
03. A Little Is Enough
04. Secondhand Love
05. That’s Alright, Mama
06. Behind Blue Eye
07. The Shout
08. Harlem Shuffle
09. Barefootin’
10. After The Fire
11. Love On The Air
12. Midnight Lover
13. Blue Light
14. I Put A Spell On You
15.  I'm One




Disc 2

01. Driftin’
02. Magic Bus
03. Save It For Later
04. Eyesight to the Blind
05. Walkin’
06. Stop Hurting People
07. The Sea Refuses No River
08. Boogie Stop Shuffle
09. Face The Face
10. Pinball Wizard
11. Give Blood
12. Night Train



Pete Townshend - Guitar, Vocals
David Gilmour - Guitar, Vocals
Simon Philips - Drums
John "Rabbit" Bundrick - keyboards
Chucho Merchan - Bass
Peter Hope-Evans - Harmonica
Jody Linscott - Percussion
Gina Foster, Chris Staines, Coral Gordon, Billy Nicholls, Ian Ellis - Backing Vocals
"The Kickhorns" - Simon Clarke, Tim Saunders, Peter Thoms, Roddy Lorimer, Dave Plews

 
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Bobby Parker - Bent Out Of Shape

Bobby Parker - Bent Out Of Shape - 1993

from classicrockmagazine

Born in Louisiana in August 31, 1937 (+ November 1, 2013) and raised in Los Angeles, Robert Lee Parker’s first professional gig was with Otis Williams and the Charms in the 1950s, followed by stints with Bo Diddley, Sam Cooke, Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

Watch Your Step inspired the Beatles’ song I Feel Fine, with John Lennon once saying they’d used the riff “in various forms” throughout their career. Led Zeppelin made use of it in Moby Dick. The track was also covered by the Spencer Davis Group, Dr Feelgood and Carlos Santana, who once said: “Bobby inspired me to play guitar – he’s one of the few remaining guitarists who can pierce your heart and soothe your soul.”

In 2008 Parker reflected: “Watch Your Step was a culmination of blues rock guitar that nobody else had ever thought of. Mine was First. The United States was engulfed by Motown, but the whole world knew when I recorded Watch Your Step that I broke the brick wall of the sameness of Motown.

“I sent music in another direction worldwide, especially for guitarists like Jimmy Page, Santana, Eric Clapton and millions of others. Everybody who was anybody knew Bobby Parker alone penned the lick that created what’s known as the British revolution.

“I heard 600 or more blatant copycat recordings – everybody was playing my lick and trying to claim it, the Beatles included. Even now I hear copycat riffs in TV commercials.” He laughed: “I wish they’d come up with a different riff and leave mine alone…”

The track’s success led to international touring and an offer of a record deal from Jimmy Page, which didn’t work out. Parker spent the 1970s and 1980s based in Washington DC and out of international acclaim, but returned to the spotlight with his first solo album Bent Out Of Shape in 1993, followed by Shine Me Up in 1995. He remained active until his death, having played a series of blues festivals during the summer. Recently he said: “I keep doing it for the music and the people – I love the people.”

Parker has songwriting credits for a total of 55 tracks including his two other singles, Blues Get Off My Shoulder from 1958 and It’s Hard To be Fair from 1968.

01.Fast Train

02.It's Hard But It's Fair

03.Bent Out Of Shape 

04.So Glad I Found You

05.I Call Her Baby 

06.Watch Your Step 

07.Break It Up 

08.Let That Be The Reason

09.I've Got A Way With Women 

10.Bobby-A-Go-Go 

11.Blues Get Off My Shoulder

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