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Driving piles in heaven. RIP Rick Parfitt

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Promo LP for Montreux Jazz 10-LP-Box.
Listen to track B4 Bill Evans "Midnight mood".

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C'est si bon.
A voice for forever. Elle est si bonne, cette voix. Inoubliable.
Listen to track A4 "That lucky old sun". Simply beautiful.
German 1961 mono pressing. 55 years old vinyl.

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Smokin' Telecasters. A wild bunch of musicians having big fun playing together in the Track Recorders studio, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Pinetop Perkins, p and voc/ Guitar Jr./ Bob Margolin, g are members of the Muddy Waters Band.
Dave Maxwell is member of The James Cotton Band.
Listen to the Fender Telecaster solo on track A2 "Born in Chicago" played by Jim Thackery.
Superb sound full of power. All winners no fillers.
This one is a forgotten gem. A Diamond.

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Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Alabama.
Session musician Eddie Hinton supplied 2 of his songs, some guitar sounds and background vocals.
Listen to track B5 "I wouldn't treat a dog" with fantastic guitar fills and solo.

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Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, New York.
You must (!) love this LP, because there's a lot of heart & soul packed into these recordings. But also a lot of fun and humour.
At the time when The J. Geils Band travelled on the commercial ways, The Nighthawks acquired their part.
Listen to the funny swinging track A4 "James' Hawaiian punch".

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Eddie Boyd, p/voc together with Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac: John McVie, bass. Mick Fleetwood, drums. Peter Green plays his Gibson Les Paul guitar with greatful sensitivity.
90ies US reissue with very good dynamics.
Lost treasure produced by Mike Vernon.

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No german speaking vinyl afficionados on this blog? Hey, there's plenty of interesting Krautrock!

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Eddie Boyd was the mentor of Fleetwood Mac. Produced by Mike Vernon. Engineer Gus Dudgeon (Elton John).
John McVie, bass. Aynsley Dunbar, drums. John Mayall, harmonica. Tony McPhee, guitar. I hear them Groundhogs howling.

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John Hartford - Gum Tree Canoe
(1984, Flying Fish) MASTERPHONICS in the deadwax





nice. w/ Mark O' Connor (local boy, from Snohomish County).

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Greensky Bluegrass - Shouted, Written Down & Quoted
(2016, Big Blue Zoo)




this record bears repeat spins, great songwriting and playing.

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Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap
(1988, Virgin) STERLING in the deadwax; mastering by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound



recycled picture from 5 years ago, debut solo LP; with Waddy Watchell, Mick Taylor, Chuck Leavell, Bobby Keys, Ivan Neville, Sarah Dash, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker. Straightahead rock, and this record sounds better to me than a lot of the Stones 80s output.

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The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace Of Sin
(1969, A&M)




recycled pictures

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David Grisman - Quintet '80
(1980, Warner Bros) Artisan, Winchester symbols in the deadwax

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Various - A Bushel Of Five String Banjos
(1971, Hilltop)




the humble banjo according to music historians was transported to these shores during slavery, by Africans who adopted it from the Arab traders. It mellowed musically, and prospered in the rich soil of the south at first, then moved across this great land with the pioneers westward.