Tower of Power

Album of the Week 7-22-23

Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 07/22/2023 - 3:00pm

Afternoon folks!

Lots of great stuff this week! Starting off with some blues/string band music from Martin, Bogan & Armstrong, we progress to some straight blues with Leon Thomas. After that, it's off to blues-rock land with albums from Elvin Bishop, Johnny Winter, Leslie West (from the band Mountain) and Jorma Kaukonen (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane). We've got some soul from Tower of Power, the first ever rock opera from The Pretty Things and we finish off with some prog rock from Godley & Creme.

Well, there you go. I hope you all are having a great weekend. Enjoy!

Album of the Week 7-1-23

Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 3:00pm

Afternoon folks!

This week we're starting off with a late 60's album from James Cotton, when apparently his producer was going for a jazzier sound. After that there's a live album of Stax artists performing at the Apollo Theater (I think in 1964) including Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas and Ben E. King.

We've got a bunch of blues-rock with Delaney & Bonnie with Eric Clapton (I think that the gods of copyright blocked the last tune, a nice Little Richard medley), followed by Steppenwolf's first throwing in the towel album (Rest In Peace), followed by Dr. Feelgood's first album.

Then there's a hard to classify album by Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan, respectively a very talented harmonica player and a very talented acoustic guitarist.

We finish off this week's bounty with some Oakland soul from Tower of Power.

Enjoy!