Music today has been Carolyn Franklin, Aretha’s younger sister. Carolyn was the youngest of three sisters, Erma, the oldest, also sang and had a hit with Piece Of My Heart before Janis Joplin recorded it. Nobody I know seems to remember Carolyn or Erma, Aretha was the star people know, although Carolyn contributed songs to […]
Questions Without Answers Is it true I can’t believe this hatred What do you do The world is so ill-fated But when you’re sitting On a quiet afternoon With the sunlight Pouring like gold into your room You can’t believe that the world will end soon The world will end soon You sometimes feel […]
Music today was Edgar Winter Group’s They Only Come Out At Night from 1972 and what a diverse record it is. It has, of course, the classic instrumental Frankenstein but it also has some great tracks, Free Ride, Round And Round, Autumn, super catchy melodic songs across an album that is also inspired by the […]
Music today was inspired by hearing Carmen McRae in the coffee shop singing the Jazz classic Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1929). McCrae, a jazzer, had that fascinating warble in her voice that seemed to exist in many female voice boxes during the period between the fifties and sixties. As it happens in 1968 she made the album […]
Music today was a soundtrack inspired by talking to Tony about Free but I decided one song into Tons Of Sobs (1969) that I wanted to hear Rory Gallagher instead so I listened to the first Taste album from the same year. The band also featured Richard McCracken on bass and John Wilson on drums. […]
Music today comes from the American band Kaleidoscope that included the ubiquitous David Lindley on various stringed instruments and vocals. A Beacon From Mars was their second album released in 1968 and caught good reviews but few sales. It’s a strange mix of Folk (European and American), Psychedelia, Blues, and Middle Eastern music with band […]