In the early '70s, progressive rock was heading in several different directions. There was the ultra-classical influenced  Emerson, Lake...

While  Quintessence 's second album had a guileless sincerity to its spiritual striving that was uncommon in pop music, it's very mu...

While it's easy to dismiss  Quintessence 's first album,  In Blissful Company , as hippie-dippy nonsense, that would be throwing the...

Rhythm guitarist and vocalist  Erica Pomerance  was a singer/songwriter whose coming of age in the hippie flower power era is easily heard a...

Formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1971, Mackenzie Theory remain one of the few totally instrumental bands in Australia to achieve recognitio...

Anyone that has listened to Lonnie Smith should know that Dr. Smith is at his best when performing the slow and grinding ilk of funk. While ...

The basic quintet (recall this comprises Mike on guitar, Robert Rockwell III on saxes, Bill Berg on drums (and cover art), Bobby Peterson on...

An excellent poetic musician, was one of the best protest singers during the Salazar's ditacture. Thanks to MaraBunta . Enjoy. listen he...

For the most part, this early long-player from Joe Tex favors the goofier side of his musical personality rather than the home-truth moral l...

John Kay 's distinctive voice cut through radio with hits like "Magic Carpet Ride" and "Born to Be Wild." But on thi...

Joe Bataan  shot to popularity in Latin music circles by covering soul hits, starting with a radical revision of  Curtis Mayfield  and  the ...

Sleep Dirt was never conceived as a stand-alone album. Five of its seven tracks were suppose to appear on the ill-fated 1976 box set Läther;...

Unlike some of his other Riverside recordings, the accent on this  Jimmy Heath  CD reissue is very much on his tenor playing (rather than hi...