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December 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 4 – Five Great Tracks From Five Great Live Albums

Not all live albums are created equally – many are built in the studio after with overdubs, some just feature crowd-noise endlessly, Neil Young’s brand new live album has him substituting out the crowd for animal noise. There are some great, great live albums out there – where the energy of the crowd is so […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged B.B. King, Breakdown, Concert, Do You Feel Like We Do, Double Live Album, Five Great Tracks From Five Great Live Albums, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: # 4, Five Songs For Friday: # 4 - Five Great Tracks From Five Great Live Albums, Frampton Comes Alive, Friday, How Blue Can You Get, King Curtis, Live, Live Album, Live At Fillmore West, Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963, Live In Chicago, Memphis Soul Stew, Neil Young, Pack Up The Plantation, Peter Frampton, Sam Cooke, Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down), Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Weekend, Ween ·

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November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Instrumentals Soul-Style

Various Artists: Instrumentals Soul-Style History of Soul All those great soul/RnB combos from the 1960s – and so many of the great instrumental cuts, things from Junior Walker and Booker T, Ray Charles and Allen Toussaint…well they’re all here. Them and many more. A double disc packed with short, sharp blasts from horns and stabs […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2CD, Album Review, Allen Toussaint, Booker T. and The M.G.'s, Compilation, Dr John, Funk, History of Soul, Ike and Tina Turner, Instrumental, Instrumentals Soul-Style, James Booker, James Brown, Jimmy McGriff, Junior Walker, King Curtis, Mac Rebennack, Phil Upchurch, R'n'B, Ray Charles, Soul, Soul-Style, The Church Street Five, The Magnificent Seven, The Mar-Keys, The Twistin' Kings, V/A, Various, Various Artists ·

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September 24, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1027

King Curtis, Live At Fillmore West (1971) I think I must have read about this album first – and that had me importing a copy of the CD. Ever since that first listen I’ve had it on the list, an album I had to have – on vinyl. That CD’s done the rounds, been loaned […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1971, A Whiter Shade of Pale, Aretha Franklin, Bernard Purdie, Billy Preston, Cornell Dupree, Fillmore, Fillmore West, Jerry Jemmott, King Curtis, Live, Live At Fillmore West, LP, Memphis Soul Stew, Soul Serenade, Vinyl ·

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