Posts Tagged John McLaughlin
Archive
August 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Betty Davis: The Columbia Years 1968-69
Betty Davis The Columbia Years 1968-69 LightInTheAttic It’s fitting that LightInTheAttic should shine the light on these fabled Betty Davis sessions – via this comprehensive round-up with stellar liner notes, as is the way with LightInTheAttic releases, and of course the good oil being the music – since it was the reissue label which represented […]Archive
March 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 931
John McLaughlin with The One Truth Band, Electric Dreams (1979) I first heard this record – as a record, on a turntable – many years ago in a student flat. A friend’s copy. He knew I liked John McLaughlin, had heard a bit of his playing, etc. But this record was something new to me […]Archive
February 26, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Paco de Lucia
It was sad to hear of the death of Paco de Lucia. I was first turned onto his playing via the Friday Night In San Francisco live record. I knew the other players already (John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola) but it was Paco de Lucia that provided the revelatory moments on that first and […]Archive
September 1, 2011 by Simon Sweetman