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Tag Archives: Paul Kossoff
Album review: BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION – V
J&R Adventures [Release date 14.06.24] After a 7 year hiatus, the Anglo-American super group Black Country Communion return with an album that rocks hard. There’s plenty of intensity, spirit and a handful of decent tunes with plenty of early 70’s … Continue reading
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Tagged AC/ DC, album, Angus Young, Black Country Communion, blues, Deep Purple, Derek Sherinian, funk, Glenn Hughes, guitar, Jason Binham, Joe Bonamassa, JOE COCKER, Kevin Shirley, Led Zepplein, Paul Kossoff, review, rock, Stevie Wonder, vocal
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Album review: ROCKY ATHAS – Livin My Best Life
Pete Feenstra chatted to Rocky Athas for his show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, playing tracks from the album ‘Living My Best Life’. First broadcast 12 May 2024. Cherryburst Records [Release date 10.03.24] ‘Living My Best Life’ is Rocky … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bob Dylan, Buddy Miles, Don Nix, Double Trouble, Freddie King, Free, Gary Moore, Glenn Hughes, guitar, Jared Watson, Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Larry Samford, Leon Russell, Leslie West, Lightning, Livin My Best Life, Mick Jagger, Paul Kossoff, Peter Green, review, Robin Trower, Rocky Athas, Roky Athas11, Walter Watson
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Album review: RICHARD ROZZE – Lion
Pete Feenstra chatted to Richard Rozze for his show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, playing tracks from ‘Lion’. First broadcast 10 December 2023. Waterbound [Release date 29.09.23] Richard Rozze’s ‘Lion’ album finds the Kent based story teller counter balancing … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Eric Johnson, Free, funk, fusion, interview, jazz, Jonathan Noyce, Larry Carlton, Lion, Neil Young, Pat Metheny, Paul Kossoff, Peter Green, radio, review, Richard Rozze, rock, Simon Lea, Steely Dan, Wes Montgomery
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Album review: RUMOUR – Raised On River Blues
Self release [Release date 04.08.23] The UK West Midlands based Rumour revel in West Coast swept soft rock with Americana style imagery. They mix a acoustic-into-electric style musical landscape mixing a lightness of touch with tougher Brit blues-rock influences in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Anne Wilson, blues, Concrete Blonde, Dave Williams, Fleetwood Mac, folk, Heart, heritage rock, Johnette Napolitano, Liz Nicholls, Owen Davidson, Paul Kossoff, Peter Brookes, Phil Jones, Phil Thompson, Raised On River Blues, review, rock, Rumour, Stevie Nicks, Tony Dickeson, west coast rock
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Book Review: DECADES – Free and Bad Company in the 1970s by John Van der Kiste
Sonicbond Publishing (Publication Date 29.04.22) The latest in the Decades series, that delves in detail into the most productive phase of a band’s career, is one with a difference. It spans the activity of two separate bands, Free and Bad … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Company, book, Decades, Free, John Van der Kiste, Paul Kossoff, Paul Rodgers, review, Simon Kirke
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Album review: STARLITE CAMPBELL BAND – The Language Of Curiosity
Pete Feenstra chatted to Suzi Starlite and Simon Campbell for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast on 12 December 2021. Supertone [Release date 29.09.21] The Starlite Campbell Band’s second album ‘The Language of Curiosity’ is a cross genre, conceptual … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alkatraz, blues, Dave Davies, Elvis Costello, Free, funk, Gabriel Del Vecchio, George Harrison, grunge, interview, Johnny Henderson, Man, Neil Young, Paul Kossoff, Phil Ryan, Ray Manzarek, review, rock, Simon Campbell, Starlite Campbell Band, Steve Gibson, Steve Hillage, Sue Foley, Suzi Starlite, The Allman Brothers, The Byrds, The Faces, The Kinks, The Language of Curiosity, The Searchers, vocals
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Feature: Albums that time forgot…CALVERT FLEMING PROJECT – Shotgun Pixie
Amazing Radio 2021 ‘Shotgun Pixie’ is the ultimate album that time forgot, except it’s not been forgotten. This post psychedelic gem of an album by Ohio guitarist Jimmy Fleming and Robert Calvert’s grand daughter Maya Calvert is very much available … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Artie Kornfeld, Calvert Fleming Project, Chad Stout, Dan Smart, guitar, Hawklords, Hawkwind, Jerry Garcia, Jimmy Fleming, Keith Richard, Led Zeppelin, Matt Moon, Maya Calvert, Michael Moorcock, Nik Turner, Paul Kossoff, poetry, review, Robert Calvert, Rolling Stones, Sandy Denny, Shotgun Pixie, The Allman Brothers, Uncle Mont’s Quandary
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Album review: ROB KORAL – Wild Hearts
Pete Feenstra chatted to Rob Koral for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio playing tracks from the album ‘Wild Hearts’. First broadcast 13 June 2021. RKUK [Release date 28.05.21] Rob Koral’s ‘Wild Hearts’ is an exhilarating instrumental album comprising guitar, Hammond … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blue Commotion, Carlos Santana, drums, Focus, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, guitar, Hammond, instrumental, interview, Jeremy Stacey, John McLaughlin, King Crimson, Larry Carlton, Pat Metheny, Paul Kossoff, Paul Stacey, Pete Whittaker, Ralph Towner, review, Rob Koral, Wild Hearts
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Feature: What FREE mean to me…
Alan Jones on a woman in a diaphanous dress, a wailing Les Paul, and a T-shirt that said it all… It could have gone either way. In the late sixties my musical experiences were limited to my mother’s meagre collection … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Fraser, blues rock, feature, Free, Paul Kossoff, Paul Rodgers, review, Simon Kirke
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EP review: BLACK CAT BONES – Down To The River
Black Cat Bones [Release date 29.09.17] Not to be confused with the band that gave the world Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke from Free, this hard rocking quintet hail from Liverpool and deal with blues tinged hard rock. Fronted by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Rimmer, album, Black Cat Bones, blues, Down To The River, hard rock, Johnny Hodson, Led Zeppelin, Liverpool, Paul Kossoff, review, Simon Kirke
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Album review: BIG WOLF BAND – A Rebel’s Story
Big Wolf Records [Release date 15.5.17] In this age of instant downloads, there’s something reassuring about a Brummy blues-rock band with well crafted songs, deep grooves, tight arrangements and inspired playing fuelled by plenty of passion. Big Wolf Band come … Continue reading
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Tagged A Rebel's Story, Albert Collins, album, Bad Company, Big Wolf Band, Birmingham, Blacktop Deluxe, blues, Brothers Groove, Cream, Deano Bass, Emma Jonson, funk, Gary Moore, Jonathan Earp, Mad Hat Studios, Magnum, Mark V Stuart, Mick jeynes, Paul Kossoff, Peter Green, Rebecca Downs, review, rock, Sheena Sear, Slowburner, Steve Ajao Blues Giants, Steve Gibbons, Tim Jones, Vincent Flatts Final Drive Final Drive
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Gig review: JFK BLUE – Old Finchleians, London, 26 March 2017
JFK Blue is a new band on the rock/blues circuit and tonight they take a step up by opening for the Stevie Nimmo Trio at the new ‘Spirit of the Torrington’ club at the Old Finchleians, Finchley. They immediately remind … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, Chris Elliott, gig, Iago Banet, JFK Blue, Les Victor, Paul Blount, Paul Kossoff, review, Robert Cray, rock, Rough Round The Edges, Sol Ezra, Stevie Nimmo, The Allman Brothers, Warren Haynes
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Album review: THUNDER- Rip It Up
In this interview edit Pete Feenstra chats to Danny Bowes from Thunder (3:10). Check out the full interview: earMUSIC [Release date 10.02.17] The claims that Thunder are bigger, better and harder than before are indeed born out by their new … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ben Matthews, blues, Chris Childs, classic rock, Danny Bowes, David Bowie, Glenn Hughes, Harry James, Isaac Hayes, Led Zeppelin, Luke Morley, Paul Kossoff, review, Rip It Up, rock, Steely Dan, Thunder
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Album review: NO SINNER – Boo Hoo Hoo
Provogue [Release date 14.01.14] ‘Boo Hoo Hoo’ is an impressive debut album from Canadian rock-blues band No Sinner. The Vancouver based quartet readily venture beyond their core genres to explore rock, blues, soul, jazz, garage rock and jam band sensibilities, … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, Boo Hoo Hoo, Canada, Canadian, Cannonball Adderley, Colleen Rennison, Eric Campbell, Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, No Sinner, Paul Kossoff, Provogue, review, rock, vocal
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