Records That Made History

Axis: Bold As Love is the second studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on December 1, 1967 by Track Records in Europe and Reprise Records in America.The Experience returned to Olympic Studios on May 4, 1967 to begin recording the follow-up to Are You Experienced?. The first track they tackled was Noel Redding's "She's So Fine", which he sang and Hendrix and Mitchell provided backing vocals. On the […]

History: America's Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by American folk rock trio America, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1975. It was a big hit in the United States, reaching number 3 on the Billboard albums chart and going multi-platinum. It also went 6x platinum for shipments of 420,000 copies of the album in Australia. On July 20, 2019, the album re-entered the US charts peaking at […]

Plays Live is the first live and fifth album in a series released by Peter Gabriel. It was his first untitled solo album. The album was originally released as a double LP and longplay cassette in 1983, featuring sixteen songs. It was re-released in 1985, as a CD titled Plays Live (Highlights) with only twelve songs, some of which had been changed from their original version so that the album […]

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 […]