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Tom Keifer Band – Rise
If Rise had been a book, then the critics would be describing it as “a gritty character study of a musician literally scarred by events.” Adding that “maybe going under the knife 7 times, exposing your...
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Fastway – All Fired Up & Wiggy Bits – s/t (2019 Remasters)
A lingering Motorhead influence was clearly evident on Fastway‘s debut album. A legacy from “Fast” Eddie Clark’s tenure with the band. On All Fired Up (1984), Fastway’s second release, they setup camp...
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House Of Yes – Live From The House Of Blues (3LPs & 2CDs set)
It was 20 years ago today (assuming you’re reading this on Halloween 2019) that Yes recorded this set at the House Of Blues in Las Vegas. And there’s nothing that says “Twentieth Anniversary” more than...
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Michael Monroe – One Man Gang
Four years after Blackout States, (reviewed here), this is Michael Monroe‘s coming-out-on-the-other-side of-my-mid-life-crisis album, where he tells us he’s got no more time for those “Wasted Years” he...
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Christopher Holland – Golden Hour
It’s always hard to escape your more famous siblings. Though anyone who’s called upon to play on albums by Paul Weller, Ray Davies, The Stereophonics and others has no need to seek fame by association....
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Yes – From A Page (studio tracks) plus In The Present, Live From Lyon, 3 CD...
Three CDs. CDs 2 and 3 are recordings of the band’s well received Lyon gig, in 2009. We’ll get to that in a moment. The real story here is CD1, From A Page. Four “brand new” tracks, recorded in 2010,...
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Michael Bolton – Gold (3 CDs)
Any adult remotely interested in popular music will have heard of Michael Bolton. His songs have been compiled to within an inch of their lives and have become the language of lurrve on late nite...
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Girl – Sheer Greed & Live In Osaka (2cd Expanded Edition)
Glamrock became an integral part of the UK rock’n’roll subculture in the seventies. Despite the fact that many artists ran out of dreams and direction toward the end of the decade, a handful of...
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Trapeze – Best Of… (Leavin’ The Hard Times Behind) 2 CD set
The talented trio at the core of Trapeze, Mel Galley, Glenn Hughes and Pete Holland progressively elevated the band’s unique brand of hard / funk rock as they constantly sought to overhaul their own...
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New England – Archives Box: Vol 1 (5 CDs)
No question that New England were way ahead of their time. Despite their lack of commercial success, their slim volume of work … 3 albums, New England (1978), Explorer Suite (1980) and Walking Wild...
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