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Goin' Back To New Orleans is the 30th studio album by New Orleans singer and pianist Dr. John, released by Warner Bros. Records on June 12, 1992. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album of the Year.The album features many musicians and singers such as the Neville Brothers, Al Hirt, Danny Barker, Alfred "Uganda" Roberts, Pete Fountain, Alvin "Red" Tyler, Chuck Carbo, Clyde Kerr Jr. and […]

Utrecht...The Final Frontier is Pendragon's seventh album and third live album, recorded in 1994 in Utrecht, Netherlands. If you've never heard this great progressive rock sound, then it's time to start.The sound quality is crystal clear and the band's performance takes your breath away. The dramatic 'Kowtow' which opens the album is worth the money the lucky concertgoers paid for, with Nick Barrett's subtle voice being used to its best […]

The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert held from June 16 to 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival became known for the first major American performances of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, Ravi Shankar, as well as the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and Otis Redding appearing to a massive American audience.The Monterey Pop Festival inspired California to […]

Breakfast In America is the sixth studio album by English rock band Supertramp, released by A&M Records on March 29, 1979. It was recorded in 1978 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles. It produced four US Billboard singles: "The Logical Song" (No. 6), "Goodbye Stranger" (No. 15), "Take The Long Way Home" (No. 10) and "Breakfast In America". (No. 62). In the UK, "The Logical Song" and the title […]

Just One Night is a 1980 double album by Eric Clapton, recorded live at the Budokan Theatre, Tokyo, Japan in December 1979, when Clapton was touring in support of his final album that year, Backless. The album cover features a painting by Japanese artist Ken Konno. The album reached No. 2 in the US. and No. 3 in the UK and went gold.Critical reaction to the album was largely positive. […]

By the time Gordon Lightfoot released Summertime Dream in June of '76, he had already earned the title of Canada's greatest songwriter. A longtime chart-topper in folk, rock-country and country, Lightfoot helped shape the folk-pop sound of the '60s and '70s and defined a style of narrative songwriting that has endured for more than fifty years .Although Summertime Dream was Lightfoot's twelfth album, recorded at Eastern Sound Studios in Toronto […]

Misplaced Childhood is the third studio album by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion, released in 1985. It is a concept album based on the childhood of Marillion singer Fish, aka Derek William Dick, who was inspired by a brief event that occurred while under the influence of substances.The album was recorded in the spring of 1985 at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin and produced by Chris Kimsey, who had […]

This is the first of three albums that Lonnie Mack recorded for Electra Records between 1969 and 1971 and is a very good and musically solid effort from Lonnie, with his guitar playing almost to the fore as you would expect.With a line-up of familiar faces in the band including former James Brown bassist Tim Drummond, pianist Dumpy Rice, harmonica player Rusty York, keyboardist David Byrd and on vocals the […]

The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 is the debut studio album by the Anglo-American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, which included George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. It was released in October 1988 to commercial success and positive reviews.Although Harrison had long planned to start such a band, it came about through a fortuitous event. Harrison was in Los Angeles and needed a B-side for a single […]

Hallowed Ground is the second album by the Violent Femmes, released in June 1984. As with the band's first album, the songs were primarily written by singer, guitarist and lyricist Gordon Gano when he was in high school. "Country Death Song", for example, written by Gano during his high school years, was inspired by the tradition of folk songs about "terrible, horrible stories". Departing from the straightforward rock style of […]