Love Devotion Surrender is an album released in 1973 by guitarists John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana, supported by their respective bands Santana and Mahavishnu Orchestra. The album was inspired by the teachings of Sri Chinmoy and was intended as a tribute to John Coltrane. It contains two compositions by Coltrane, two songs by McLaughlin, and a traditional gospel song arranged by Santana and McLaughlin. The album went gold in 1973 […]

Love is the self-titled debut album by the Los Angeles rock band Love, released in March 1966 by Elektra Records.Twelve of the album's fourteen tracks were recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders from January 24 to 27, 1966. The remaining two tracks, "A Message To Pretty" and "My Flash On You", were recorded during some of the band's informal rehearsals.Love has elements of folk rock, garage, proto-punk and psychedelic rock. It […]

Morrison Hotel is the fifth studio album by American rock band The Doors. It was released by Elektra Records in February 1970. The album is split into two sides with the separate titles "Hard Rock Cafe" and "Morrison Hotel" and is largely seen as the Doors' return to the mainstream.Morrison Hotel was a return to basics largely stemming from the group's frustration with the prolonged recording sessions for The Soft […]

Troubadour is a 1976 album by J. J. Cale, his fourth since his debut in 1972. Eric Clapton covered the song "Cocaine" on his 1977 album Slowhand, turning it into one of his biggest hits. He later covered the track "Travelin' Light" for his 2001 studio album Reptile. "Travelin' Light" was also recorded by Widespread Panic for their 1988 album Space Wrangler. The original "Travelin' Light" by J.J. Cale performed […]

Black and Blue was the first studio album by the Rolling Stones to be released with Ronnie Wood replacing Mick Taylor. Wood had played twelve-string acoustic guitar on the track "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" from the album It's Only Rock' n Roll and appears on half of the tracks on Black and Blue, mainly on backing vocals, with Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel playing guitar […]

Made In Japan is the seventh and first live album by Deep Purple, recorded during their first tour of Japan in August 1972. It was initially released in December 1972 in Europe and in April 1973 in the United States, and was a great commercial and critical success.The band was known for their strong stage presence, having recorded several of their concerts in person and having made several broadcasts through […]

Second Helping was the second album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on April 15, 1974. It contained the group's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", a response to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man". The song reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1974. This was the group's last L.P. with Bob Burns on drums.The album was recorded at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles except for "Sweet […]

Aladdin Sane is the sixth studio album by David Bowie, released by RCA Records on 13 April 1973. It is the follow-up to the groundbreaking The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and was the first album Bowie wrote and released to achieve such a major impact on the music scene.The editors of New Musical Express, Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray, described the album […]

Abraxas is the second studio album by Santana, released in September 1970.The album's title comes from a line in Hermann Hesse's book Demian, referenced on the album's back cover:"We stood before it and had begun to freeze inside from the exercise. We questioned the painting, we scolded it, we made love to it, we prayed for it. We called it mother, whore, singer, slut, we called it our beloved, we […]