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Gig review: THUNDER – Caerphilly Castle, Wales, 14 July 2018
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Tag Archives: Ten Years After
Album review: SUPERSONIC BLUES MACHINE – Californisoul
Provogue [Release date 20.10.17] The all star Supersonic Blues Machine’s second album ‘Californisoul’ isn’t so much a concept as a feel and attitude, as revealed by the album title. It’s all there in the sparkling interplay on a subtle melange … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Andrea, Arc Angels, Billy F. Gibbons, blues, Cream, Eric Gales, Fabrizio Grossi, Francis Benitez Grossi, Kenny Aronoff, Lance Lopez, Poppa Chubby, review, Robben Ford, Sergei Ximic, soul, Steve Lukather, Supersonic Blues Machine, Ten Years After, Walter Trout, ZZ Top
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News: TEN YEARS AFTER – 50th Anniversary Box Set in November 2017
Chrysalis Records release a 50th Anniversary box set in November to coincide with the release of Ten Year’s After’s debut album in 1967. For the first time including albums from both the Deram and Chrysalis eras, between 1967 and 1974, … Continue reading
Album review: MIKE BROOKFIELD – Brookfield
Golden Rule [Release date 22.09.17] Mike Brookfield is back. For those in the know it’s a welcome return to the recording scene by the Irish based Liverpool blues/rocker who cut the impressive ‘Love Breaks The Fall’ album last year. Newbies … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alvin Lee, Arc Angels, blues, Eamon Carr, Eric Clapton, guitar, Horslips, interview, Jimi Hendrix, Love Breaks the Fall, lyrics, Mike Brookfield, review, rock, Son House, Tara Telephone, Ten Years After, Willie Johnson
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Album review: KRISSY MATTHEWS – Live At Freak Valley
Proper [Release date 14.04.17] Krissy Mathews lives or dies by the first take and his road tested band do him proud on an album full of tight interplay, scorching solos, raw aggression and a magnificent unexpected finish. He makes up … Continue reading
Album review: DOUG ABRAHAM – Better Late Than…
BBM [Release date 27.10.15] Doug Abraham is a fine Liverpudlian singer-songwriter and confident guitarist who has a solid background in instrumental music and funk rock, though this album goes well beyond those genres. The title of the album ‘Better Late … Continue reading
Album review: SIMO – Let Love Show The Way
Provogue [Release date 26.01.16] Sometimes a new band needs a relevant context to make a splash. Happily for Simo, they seems to be in the right place at the right time to explode on to the contemporary blues-rock scene with … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Abrashoff, album, Allman Brothers, blues, Cream, Elad Shapiro, Grateful Dead, guitar, JD Simo, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Mountain, Peter Green, psychedelia, review, Simo, soul, Ten Years After, Zeppelin
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Gig review: SIMO – St.Moritz Club, London, 23 November 2015
Sometimes you just have to dip into the past to make sense of the present and such is the case with alt. Nahville’s psychedelic tinged improvisational jam trio Simo. Their intense improvisational spirit draws from a wide variety of classic … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Abrashoff, blues, Cream, Elad Shapiro, Fleetwood Mac, gig, J.D.Simo, JOE COCKER, Leo Lyons, Let Love Show The Way, Mike Bloomfield, Mountain, Nashville, Peter Green, Phish, Pink Floyd, psychedelia, review, rock, Simo, soul, Ten Years After, The Allman Brothers. Grateful Dead, Umphrey McGhee, Vanilla Fudge, Widespread Panic
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Album review: TEN YEARS AFTER, THE BLUE AEROPLANES (Access All Areas)
Edsel [Release date 29.06.15] CD/DVD Right up until his untimely passing in March 2013, Alvin Lee always bemoaned that he’d been typecast after Woodstock. And this 1990 TV concert demonstrates that he still carried the albatross of ‘Good Morning Little … Continue reading
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Tagged Access All Areas, Alvin Lee, blues rock, CD, Central TV, concert, DVD, Gallon Drunk, Matchbox, pop, psychedelia, punk, rock, rockabilly, Ten Years After, The Blue Aeroplanes
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Album review: KRIS POHLMANN – Taylor Road
CD Baby [Released 16.01.15] Kris Pohlmann is an English guitarist who has established himself in Germany and Holland. He’s made his name with over ten years of roadwork and a couple of albums, which culminated in a spectacular year in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Gary Moore, guitar, Kris Pohlmann, melodic rock, review, Taylor Road, Ten Years After, Wishbone Ash
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Album review: TEN YEARS AFTER – The Friday Rock Show Sessions Live At Reading 1983
Talking Elephant [Release date 21.07.14] 6 March 2013 was a sad day for British rock, when it was announced that Alvin Lee had died suddenly. He was 68 but had seemed to be invincible. However, with Ten Years After and … Continue reading
Album review: ALVIN LEE & TEN YEARS LATER – Live At Rockpalast
Repertoire [Release date 10.06.13] Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later actually came 5 years after the dissolution of Ten Years After. It was essentially a virtuoso power trio who relentlessly toured The US and Europe and on this live DVD … Continue reading
Album review: ALVIN LEE – The Best Of
Repertoire Records (2012) This album has been brought into sharp focus by the sad loss of Alvin Lee. The Woodstock guitar hero seemed to be more affected than most by the prevailing sweep of punk and new … Continue reading
