reDiscover ‘The Blues Never Die’
If Muddy was the King of Chicago Blues, then Otis Spann was the Crown Prince of Blues Piano. Born in Jackson Mississippi in 1930 Spann is best known as the pianist in the legendary Muddy Waters Band,...
View ArticlereDiscover ‘Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely’
Ask people to name Frank Sinatra's saddest album and most will say, In The Wee Small Hours Of the Morning, but this may just be sadder. It's also nothing less than a front-runner in the Frank Sinatra’s...
View ArticlereDiscover ‘Pendulum’
Among Creedence Clearwater Revival’s seven studio albums, Pendulum is unique, which by definition makes it different from the band’s other six recordings, but there are other differences that help to...
View ArticlereDiscover ‘Voice of the Heart’
If there’s a more beautiful ballad than the opening track from the Carpenters’ eleventh album on any of their previous albums then we would like to hear about it. ‘Now’, written by Roger Nichols and...
View ArticlereDiscover ‘Songs In The Key of Life’
This is a genuine classic, in a world where it has become an overused citation. Stevie Wonder’s eighteenth album was released by Motown Records on 18 September 1976, and we think it is among the...
View ArticlereDiscover ‘Paul Weller’
Paul Weller was a changingman in the early 1990s. The prolific British singer-songwriter and frontman had had more than a dozen years of unbroken success with the Jam and then the Style Council when he...
View ArticlereDiscover ‘Moonlight Sinatra’
In late November 1965, just five days after, A Man and His Music aired on NBC TV in America, Frank Sinatra began work on his new album. It is an album with a more clearly defined theme than anything he...
View ArticlereDiscover ‘Wonderwall Music’
George Harrison’s interest in Indian music began in 1965; in December of that year he can be heard playing a sitar on ‘Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)’. His interest in the sitar had been provoked...
View ArticlereDiscover ‘Rufusized’
The 40th anniversary of one of the best albums by a great soul and funk act of the 1970s is the perfect opportunity to reDiscover ‘Rufusized.’ It was the third LP by Rufus, the Chicago outfit in which...
View ArticlereDiscover: Eat A Peach
From the opening bars of ‘Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More’, which kicks off Eat A Peach the Allman Brothers set out their stall on this, their third studio album. But as fans of the band know Eat A Peach is...
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