Music today has been the early Donovan albums. I’ve been meaning to play them and then Boydy told me he’s just bought A Gift From A Flower To A Garden (dbl album box from 1967). I thought I had it but then I realised I have the two albums that were in the box and […]
Music today has taken a trip to 1970 again, the absolute opposite to Betty Davis song-wise, sound-wise, image-wise, but they are both strong talented women who went missing. Vashti Bunyan made one Folk album, Just Another Diamond Day (1970). It sold so badly that she gave up music as a bad idea. I saw it […]
Music today comes from the great Funk/Soul sensation Betty Davis (née Mabry) who was 74 yesterday. She seems to be off most people’s radar despite heavy friends and a slew of fantastic albums in the seventies. Possibly missed because she retired from the music business at the end of the seventies but like Annette Peacock, […]
Sadly, music today has to be a tribute to another great loss that I haven’t seen reported anywhere other than on Wikipedia’s R’n’R deaths 2020 page that I check for this very reason. On July 19th we lost Emitt Rhodes, otherwise known as the one-man Beatles. I mentioned him recently when I posted Fairport Convention […]
Music today is, of course, all Peter Green although one week ago today I posted about British sixties Blues bands including the first Fleetwood Mac album and the Song Of The Day was Oh Well recorded live in 1969. If you followed Peter Green out of Fleetwood Mac you’ll know about the trauma, the acid […]
Music today was Ten Years After and Stonedhenge (1969), it was the first album I heard by them and I heard it a lot because it was in our house as a lost family member had a collection of sixties records. Although the band is seen as a Blues-Rock band, this album, like Cream, comes […]