Records That Made History

Projections is the second album by American blues rock band Blues Project. Produced by Tom Wilson and released by Verve/Folkways Records in November 1966, the album was their first studio release to feature a more rock-oriented sound. The album cover features the band in a photo by Jim Marshall.Shortly after the release of this album, Al Kooper left the band in the spring of 1967 to form Blood, Sweat & […]

Hiatt Comes Alive Αt Budokan? is the twelfth album by singer-songwriter John Hiatt and his first live album, released on November 22, 1994. The recordings were made during the artist's tour from February 26 to May 30, 1994 in the United States, with the title a parody of Peter Frampton's album title, Frampton Comes Alive! and albums released by many artists that contained Live At Budokan in their title, such […]

The Howlin' Wolf Album is a 1969 album by Howlin' Wolf, with members of the Rotary Connection as his backing band. It combined blues with psychedelic rock covers of several of Howlin' Wolf's classic songs. Howlin' Wolf did not particularly like the album, a fact noted on the album cover, which instead of a photo has the phrase "This is Howlin’ Wolf’s new album. He doesn’t like it. He didn’t […]

The Sky Is Crying is the fifth studio album by American blues rock guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble, released on November 5, 1991 by Epic Records, approximately 14 months after Stevie Ray Vaughan's death, featuring tracks selected by his brother Jimmie, who spent months researching the tracks, demonstrating how important it was to select only tracks that resonated with his brother's legacy. In the end, he […]

Sticky Fingers is the ninth album by The Rolling Stones, released on 23 April 1971 by Decca Records, while in the United States it was released by London Records, with the LP being their eleventh studio release on the other side of the Atlantic.Although the official recordings of "Sticky Fingers" began in March 1970, the band had been at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama since 1969, recording "Sister Morphine". […]

Nightingales & Bombers is the sixth and final album recorded by the original quartet of Manfred Mann's Earth Band. The album was also released before the cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded By The Light" with the band's new lineup that propelled them to greater commercial acceptance. Despite the replacement of singer Mick Rogers by Chris Thompson and the addition of another guitarist, Dave Flett, to widen the gap between Nightingales […]

Pulse is a double album and the second live album by Pink Floyd, released on 29 May 1995 by EMI in Europe and Columbia in the US. It has also been released on video and DVD.Recordings for this release took place from August to October 1994 during the tour in support of their album "The Division Bell".Pulse topped the charts in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Australia, etc. […]

Real Macaw is Graham Parker's second studio album since his split from Rumour, released in 1983.Rolling Stone magazine described The Real Macaw as "a propulsive, brilliantly sung LP." Trouser Press, on the other hand, called it "a softer-sounding record that should have been harder" while PopMatters wrote that "even with the keyboards with an expiration date, it ranks among the best pop-oriented rock albums of all time."Graham Parker must have […]

Zucchero - Live At The Kremlin is the first live album by Italian singer Zucchero Fornaciari, released on 4 November 1991 by Polydor.Although not originally planned, the set-box included a double live LP and a VHS tape, representing in fact the artist's first live work, from his Gold, Incense and Beer tour, as well as his self-titled album Oro, Incenso e Beer, culminating in his double stop at the Moscow […]