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Tag Archives: Mike Slamer
Album review: TURKISH DELIGHT – Volume 1
Escape Music [Release date 21.10.22] Turkish Delight celebrates the joy that Escape Music co-owner Khalil Turk has for the kind of music he loves so much, namely AOR and melodic rock. This selection was personally chosen by Khalil, with material … Continue reading
Album review: HEARTLAND – Into The Future
Escape Music [Release date 15.10.21] I assumed Chris Ousey had kicked the long career of Heartland on the head with their last album of new material coming back in 2007. However, after his time with Snakecharmer and also fronting Kingdom … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Ousey, Heartland, Into The Future, melodic rock, Mike Slamer, review
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Album review: DEVIL’S HAND featuring SLAMER/FREEMAN – s/t
Frontiers Music [Release date: 07.12.18] Mike Slamer has been a respected rock session musician, writer and producer for decades, although his profile is still relatively low. He is perhaps best known for forming bands with Kansas members, firstly Steve Walsh … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, Andrew Freeman, AOR, Devil's Hand, Last In Line, melodic rock, Mike Slamer, Streets
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Quick plays: THE WILLOWS, ME AND MY FRIENDS, JEROME MAZZA
THE WILLOWS Through the Wild [Release date 30.11.18] ‘Through the Wild’ is the third album from the Cambridge folk band the Willows, who have picked up praise from the likes of Bob Harris and Mike Harding. Listening to this album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ANGELICA, Fairport Convention, folk, folk rock, Jemrome Mazza, Look Up, Me and My Friends, melodic rock, Mike Slamer, Outlaw Son, reggae, review, rock, soul, Steve Overland, Steve Walsh, the Willows, Through the Wild, Tommy Denander
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Album review: STEVE WALSH – Black Butterfly
Escape Music [Release date 10.11.17] After Steve Walsh retired from Kansas back in 2014 many thought that would be it and we’d hear no more from Walsh, luckily this was proven wrong and here we have a new solo album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Butterfly, Kansas, melodic, Mike Slamer, progressive, review, rock, Steve Overland, Steve Walsh, Streets, Tommy Denander
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Album review: OZONE – Self Defence
Escape Music [Release date 25.09.15] This album is a little bit special as it sees two of the UK’s premier rock vocalists team up, namely FM’s Steve Overland and Chris Ousey, currently fronting Snakecharmer and Heartland, plus he fronted Virgina … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Billy Greer, Chris Ousey, City Boy, FM, Heartland, Kansas, melodic rock, Mike Slamer, Ozone, review, Self Defence, Seventh Key, Steve Overland, Tommy Denander
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Album review: RADIOACTIVE – F4ur
Escape Music www.escape-music.com [Release date 17.04.15] This is indeed as the title suggests album number four from Radioactive, the first in nearly ten years. Radioactive is the brainchild of guitarist/songwriter Tommy Denander and on each album to date he has … Continue reading
Album review: SEVENTH KEY- I Will Survive
Frontiers Records [Release Date 01.11.13] A third Seventh Key album is something I thought I might not live to see, it having been nine years since the Raging Fire was released. However the former Streets pair of Billy Greer and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Billy Greer, City Boy, I Will Survive, Kansas, melodic rock, Mike Slamer, review, Seventh Key
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FROM TOM GALLEY THE CREATOR OF PHENOMENA – Awakening
The last album apparently to feature ‘From Tom Galley The Creator Of Phenomena’, as this album features ten cracking melodic rock songs but not related to the original concept of the earlier Phenomena albums. Even before you get to the … Continue reading