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Album review: HARRY CHAPIN – Live At The Bottom Line (The Bottom Line Archive)
Store For Music [Release date 28.02.20] Harry Chapin was tragically killed some seven months after a series of gigs at New York’s legendary Bottom Line venue. In that sense, it marks a great songsmith and performer at the end of … Continue reading →
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Tagged 3-CD, album, expanded, folk, Harry Chapin, January 1981, Live At The Bottom Line, pop, reissue, review, singer, soft rock, songwriter
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Album review: TWELFTH NIGHT – Fact And Fiction
F2 Music/Festival [Release date 11.06.18] Twelfth Night were one of the bands to emerge in the early to mid-80′s boom in prog rock that was spearheaded by Fish-era Marillion. ‘Fact And Fiction’ was originally released back in 1982, Twelfth Night’s first proper … Continue reading →
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Tagged album, Brian Devoil, classic album, expanded, Fact And Fiction, Geoff Mann, neo prog, prog rock, Progressive Rock, reissue, review, rock, Twelfth Night
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Album review: WISHBONE ASH – Two Barrels Burning/Raw To The Bone (reissues)
Lemon/Cherry Red [Release date 02.02.18] Back in the racks for their first official outing on CD in some years, two eighties “lost classics” from the band who are currently receiving renewed attention largely thanks to the massive limited “vintage years” … Continue reading →
Album review: THOMAS LANG – Scallywag Jaz (2 disc expanded edition)
SFE/Cherry Red [Release date 10.11.17] As we learn from the informative liner notes Tom T. Jones made his first demos in a studio in Birkenhead (Lily Savage’s spiritual home) before returning to his day job as a British Rail joiner. … Continue reading →
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Tagged 30th anniversary edition, album, expanded, jazz, pop, review, Scallywag Jaz, soul, Thomas Lang
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Album review: ANTHONY PHILLIPS – Slow Dance (Deluxe reissue)
In March 2015 David Randall chatted to Anthony Phillips for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. In this exclusive edit, Ant talks about ‘Slow Dance’ (3:29) Esoteric [Release date 17.06.17] ‘Slow Dance’ might be regarded as Ant Phillips’ ‘Tubular Bells’, coincidentally … Continue reading →
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Tagged 5.1 surround mix, acoustic, album, Anthony Phillips, expanded, Genesis, instrumental, interview, reissue, review, rock, Slow Dance
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Album review: URIAH HEEP Reissues (Look At Yourself, Demons And Wizards, The Magician’s Birthday)
BMG [Release date 31.03.17] As we opined when reviewing the first tranche of Heep reissues, we would question the merits of adding a second disc with the “alternative” album version as reimagined by Heep fan and collector Robert Corich under … Continue reading →
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Tagged album, classic rock, Demons And Wizards, expanded, heavy rock, Ken Hensley, Look At Yourself, Mick Box, prog, progressive, reissue, remastered, review, The Magician's Birthday, Uriah Heep
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Album review: EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – Reissues (Works Vol.1 & 2, Love Beach)
BMG [Release date 26.05/17] Formed in 1970, Emerson, Lake & Palmer were one of the first progressive rock supergroups, and certainly one of the most successful. Keyboard player, pianist and keen advocate of the Moog Keith Emerson had previously played with … Continue reading →
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Tagged Carl Palmer, classical, Emerson, expanded, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Love Beach, prog, progressive, reissue, rock, Works Live, Works Volume 1, Works Volume 2
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Album review: BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST – Reissues
Esoteric [Release date: April & June 2016] For many readers BJH will conjure up images of a slightly rockier Moody Blues and, indeed, the band recognised that assertion in their song ‘Poor Man’s Moody Blues’. The band originally signed to … Continue reading →