Regardless, Elastic Rock is a masterpiece, and scooped the band first prize when they played it live at the July 1970 Montreux Jazz Festival.Ħ: Booker T & The MG’s: McLemore Avenue (April 1970)Ī glorious tribute to The Beatles – and Abbey Road in particular – this Southern soul take on classics the likes of ‘Something’, ‘Day Tripper’ and ‘Eleanor Rigby’ brings out some of the best in both bands: Booker and co’s tight musicianship and The Beatles’ innate songwriting. Whether brandishing their own originals, or tackling covers such as The Doors’ ‘Light My Fire’ and Miles Davis’ ‘All Blues’, Driscoll, Auger and co very much make every moment their own.įronted by the late, lamented trumpeter (and acclaimed Miles Davis biographer) Ian Carr, Nucleus were arguably the finest jazz fusion band to come out of Britain – and certainly one of the only ones to understand where Miles was headed with the likes of In A Silent Way – though Carr claims they’d not heard that album by the time they recorded their own fusion debut. Something of a meeting point between US R&B, Jazz and the nascent British prog rock of the late 60s, Streetnoise’s split between Hammond-driven gutbucket instrumentals and vocal outings which find Driscoll in full voice was the perfect parting shot from this all-too-short-lived outfit. If anything, their music was even crazier, but Black Monk Time remains a visceral experience that can never be replicated.Ĥ: Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity: Streetnoise (1969) If that wasn’t going to attract cult status, nothing else would. Two steps from the blues and a hair’s breadth away from Southern soul, this masterpiece amalgamation of black music styles was given five stars by Rolling Stone when it was released, but has since unfairly slipped off the radar for all but the most discerning soul fan.Īs far as cult acts go, The Monks were truly blessed: US soldiers based in Germany, they pioneered 60s garage rock, donned clerical robes and gave themselves tonsures. Looking for an insight into where he got some of his early ideas? No further for this, one of the most popular albums of the 50s.Ģ: Bobby “Blue” Bland: Two Steps From The Blues (January 1961) I still can’t believe we’re where we are and what’s happened to us.”īuy or stream The Best of Joe Walsh and the James Gang, 1969-1974.1: Four Freshmen: Four Freshmen And 5 Trombones (1955)ĭoing exactly what it says on the gloriously modernist artwork (with a small rhythm section thrown into the mix as well), Four Freshmen And 5 Trombones was the first album that The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson ever bought. I don’t honestly understand what they see in us. “Okay, we were getting along, but he got us attention and since then The Who has really taken us under their wing. And he helped us a hell of a lot in the States. Americans expect everyone to be a Jimmy Page. “England has a kind of aura about it, y’know. “We would never have come over here if it hadn’t been for him,” Joe Walsh told Penny Valentine in Sounds. Soon after the release of Rides Again, their first UK performances were, aptly, supporting the British band on tour through most of October, 1970. The James Gang had won praise from Pete Townshend when they played with The Who in Pittsburgh. Jack Nitzsche contributed a classical-style orchestral arrangement to the ballad that closed the record, “Ashes, The Rain and I.” The track made an unlikely connection with club-goers in 1999, when it was sampled by British DJ-artist Fatboy Slim on his UK No.2 hit “Right Here, Right Now.”
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