Album of the Week 8-24-24

Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 08/24/2024 - 3:00pm

Afternoon folks!

This week we've got some great blues for you from Percy Mayfield and a compilation of Texas women blues singers with diverse styles. After that in the blues rock category, there's an album from Texas' Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet, an (imo) overlooked excellent album featuring Robin Trower and Jack Bruce, a late 80's album from Savoy Brown and a kind of peculiar album from Ten Years After. We finish up with some prog-rock from Gentle Giant.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Here 'tis:

Percy Mayfield ~ Bought Blues

The Soul Of Texas Blues Women

Sir Douglas Quintet ~ Border Wave

Robin Trower / Bill Lordan / Jack Bruce ~ B.L.T.

Savoy Brown ~ The Blues Keep Me Holding On

Ten Years After ~ Stonedhenge

Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste

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Submitted by janis b on Sat, 08/24/2024 - 9:16pm

Thanks joe

Lot’s of new old stuff to me, and some long lost memories. Nothing like music to bring you to new or old places.

Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 08/26/2024 - 3:48pm

afternoon janis...

@janis b

heh, the vast majority of stuff i post is old, or sometimes a reissue of something old. i stopped listening to the radio sometime back in the 90's, so my sampling of newer music is small.

i still find lots of stuff that i missed a long time ago, or things that musicians i am familiar with didn't/couldn't release back then. if there's a silver lining to the invention of cds, it was the interest in re-releasing back catalogs and alternate takes, unissued releases, etc.

anyway, glad you found cool stuff, have a good one!

Submitted by janis b on Tue, 08/27/2024 - 1:27am

Hi joe

@joe shikspack

I meant the ‘old’ music that is ‘new’ to me.

Thanks for the history lesson ... "if there's a silver lining to the invention of cds, it was the interest in re-releasing back catalogs and alternate takes, unissued releases, etc."

Submitted by lotlizard on Sun, 08/25/2024 - 6:04am

Kalle Lasn & the “Adbusters” / “culture jamming” org he founded

… are still around. Unlike so many intellectuals, philosophers, and spiritual guides, he hasn’t dodged taking a clear position on Israel-Palestine, either.

https://www.adbusters.org/

Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 08/26/2024 - 3:52pm

afternoon lotlizard...

@lotlizard

that adbusters group seems to be a good bunch. if i recall correctly, they were among the people who got the occupy movement off the ground.