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News: Albums of the Month (April – June 2024)
ATLANTIC Another World (Escape Music) This summer’s AOR album has arrived! Lush keys, harmonies, plenty of lovestruck lyrical themes, soaring guitar solos and the vocals of Mark Grimmett, who adds that extra bit of class to the whole musical proceedings. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, albums of the month, AOR, April, Atlantic, Big Big Train, Black Country Communion, blues rock, heavy rock, June, May, melodic rock, Nestor, Progressive Rock, rock, Son Of Man, These Wicked Rivers
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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
Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS
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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Gig review: BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION – Hammersmith Apollo, 4 January 2018
About time. Over six years on from their last shows, Black Country Communion were hitting the boards again. Just when we thought it was all over, the band put on a brace of shows full of zest and rediscovered comradeship … Continue reading
Album review: BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION – BCCIV
Mascot Records [Release date: 22.09.17] When Bonamassa walked out of Black Country Communion in 2013, you could have taken long odds on a reunion. Particularly given the relative success both camps have had with their own projects in the … Continue reading
Gig review: GLENN HUGHES – Islington Assembly Hall, London, 21 January 2017
In October 2016, Glenn Hughes chatted to Get Ready to ROCK! Radio about his music with tracks from ‘Resonate’ Keeping up a gruelling schedule that would break many a younger man, Glenn Hughes’ solo career, which took a bit of … Continue reading
News: GLENN HUGHES UK tour dates 20 January-2 February 2017
David Randall chatted to Glenn Hughes in October 2016 for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio and the sequence includes tracks from ‘Resonate’. Glenn Hughes plays a series of dates in the UK – rearranged from November 2016 – in January/February. … Continue reading
News: GLENN HUGHES – New album and radio interview (October 2016)
GRTR!’s David Randall caught up with Glenn recently to chat about the album and his music, playing tracks from ‘Resonate’ and other career highlights. This special feature was first broadcast on Sunday 30 October at 22:00 GMT in the first … Continue reading
Posted in Album News, ALL POSTS, Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Gigs and Tour News, INTERVIEWS, NEWS, Radio interview
Tagged album, Black Country Communion, Deep Purple, feature, funk, gigs, Glenn Hughes, heavy rock, interview, October 2016, radio, Resonate, Tour
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GLENN HUGHES Video Interview – 7 September 2012
Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions, streamed via Facebook. Next session: Sunday 19 January Check out videos here: https://www.facebook.com/getreadytorockradio David Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to … Continue reading
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Tagged Afterglow, Black Country Communion, Glenn Hughes, interview, September 2012, video
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BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION – Afterglow
Mascot Records (Release date 29.10.12) ‘Afterglow’ is essentially is a Glenn Hughes solo album given extra impetus and depth by the band. Hughes claims to record in three’s, so we can probably assume this might be the end of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Afterglow, album, Black Country Communion, CD, Derek Sherinian, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, Joe Bonamassa, music, review, rock
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