Bare Wires was the first Bluesbreakers album of new studio material since A Hard Road,
released 16 months before. In that time, the band had turned over entirely, expanding to become a septet. Mayall's musical conception had also expanded -- ...
When it was originally released in June 1969, Beck-Ola, the Jeff Beck Group's second album,
featured a famous sleeve note on its back cover: Today, with all the hard competition in the music business, it's almost impossible to come up ...
The sequel to the award-winning Beethoven's Wig is just as much fun as the original.
Richard Perlmutter's wacky bunch once again provide silly songs for famous classical melodies in a package that both entertains and informs. This time out, favorites ...
Mayall's first post-Bluesbreakers album saw the man returning to his roots after the jazz/blues fusion
that was Bare Wires. Blues from Laurel Canyon is a blues album, through and through. Testimony to this is the fact that there's a guitar ...
This double-disc set offers two budget-line collections of scraps from two lineups of the Yardbirds:
one featuring Clapton, one featuring Beck. This is the stuff that shows up on budget-line comps all the time and while this isn't one of ...
This collection gathers 11 tracks featuring the best of the seminal power trio's recordings from
1966-1969. All the usual suspects are here, including Sunshine of Your Love, Strange Brew, White Room, and Crossroads. While this is a tolerable retrospective of ...