Records That Made History

Strong Persuader is the fifth studio album by American blues guitarist and singer Robert Cray. Recorded by Cray at Sage & Sound and Haywood Studios in Los Angeles, produced by Bruce Bromberg and Dennis Walker, it was released on November 17, 1986 by Mercury Records and Hightone Records. Strong Persuader became the group's breakout hit and since 1995 has sold over two million copies, later entering No. 42 on Rolling […]

E. C. Was Here is a 1975 album by Eric Clapton, recorded live in 1974 and 1975 at the Long Beach Arena, Hammersmith Odeon and Providence Civic Center by Record Plant Remote during Clapton's first tour after Derek And The Dominos in 1970 and their live album In Concert.After his recovery from heroin addiction in 1974 and his subsequent comeback with the album 461 Ocean Boulevard, the guitar legend kept […]

Perhaps the hottest era of original Chicago Blues left its mark with Chess Records in the late 1960s. In an effort to appeal to younger audiences at the time, the label recruited an elite group of musicians, including the holy trinity to consist of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Bo Diddley.Unfortunately, in the case of Muddy and Wolf, the inoculation with acid rock vibes of the solid and traditional Blues […]

Songs From The Wood is the tenth studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released in February 1977. The album marked a new direction for the band, which returned to celebrating British pagan folk and the countryside in a broad folk rock style that combined traditional instruments and melodies, with hard rock and electric guitars.The album is considered the first in a trio of Jethro Tull folk rock […]

Go Live From Paris is Go's second album, recorded live at the Palais Des Sports in Paris on June 12, 1976.The primary difference comparing this live album to their first studio album Go, also from 1976, is that Go Live From Paris presents everything in the proper manner and order and in full association with Oriental Mythology, through a suite, with two parts, which includes. This is in direct contrast […]

Top Priority is the tenth album by Rory Gallagher. It was his fourth and final studio album with Chrysalis Records. The album was the second with the renewed trio, himself on vocals, guitar, harmonica and electric sitar, Gerry McAvoy on bass and Ted McKenna on drums.Like the previous album Photo-Finish, Top Priority, released only a year later, is Gallagher's return to hard rock. The ballads, acoustic and folk influences that […]

Electric Music For The Mind And Body is the debut album by American band Country Joe And The Fish. Released in May 1967 by Vanguard Records, it was one of the first psychedelic albums to come out in San Francisco.Tracks from the album and especially "Section 43", "Grace" and "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" were heard on progressive San Francisco FM radio stations such as KSAN and KMPX. At the […]

Yellow Moon is the seventh studio album by the Neville Brothers and was released on March 14, 1989 by A & M Records and produced by Daniel Lanois.The Neville Brothers delivered a very good pop-rock album, their first under A & M Records, which was as musically solid as any they released with that label. The vocals were so well-arranged and superbly performed that they contributed greatly to the album's […]