If you are a guitar player, a fan of guitars, the look, the sound, the curves, the possibilities, then you can be extremely excited not just by songs or technical skills but also by tone. Other people like gardens, or sex or tinkering with electronics, cars, clothes, dancing, collecting stamps, rubber dolphins, piano stools, paintings, […]
The Faith Healer is one of my favourite songs of the seventies and I was lucky enough to see The Sensational Alex Harvey Band perform it live twice in Liverpool all those years ago. The song though is no secret, opening side two of Next, the band’s second album released in 1973. But Next’s opening track […]
The link between The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and the previous post about Stealers Wheel (apart from Scotland) is the legendary American songwriting team Lieber & Stoller. They weren’t just songwriters they were also producers and they turned up in England in the seventies and produced some unlikely artists such as Elkie Brooks, Procol Harum and […]