samedi 18 octobre 2025

DANNY HOLIEN - SELF TITLE (USA '71 PSYCH FOLK COUNTRY ROCK)

 In 1971, Larry Ray and Bill Szymczyk fled L.A. to found their own label in Denver, Colorado. This label, Tumbleweed Records, had started well, with a fairly substantial fundraising effort from Gulf + Western, whose executives believed the label would produce the next hippie icon. But instead of finding the next Hendrix or the next Janis Joplin, Ray and Szymczyk turned to figures more iconoclastic than iconic: Pete McCabe, the melodic singers Robb Kunkel and Danny Holien, and the psych-folk rocker Arthur Gee.


https://www.mediafire.com/file/4gew3ukoay30fok/Danny+Holien+-+Self+Title+(Usa+'71+Psych+Country).rar/file

mercredi 15 octobre 2025

WAKEFIELD - SELF TITLE (USA '85 HARD ROCK AOR)

 WAKEFIELD was one of these US bands that despite its quality never got a recording contract with a major label, but mostly due to their location. Formed in the mid-Seventies in South Dakota, Wakefield was a popular act in the area playing venues from Canada to Kansas, and Colorado to Illinois.
When they recorded this, their self-titled LP released on a small private label, Wakefield were offered to distribute the album nationally with the condition to tour nation-wide to support it. At the time all band members got a family firmly established in South Dakota, so the potential opportunity for major exposure was declined. THANKS hardrockaorheaven.blogspot.com


https://www.mediafire.com/file/hso6r4c4obe46vr/Wakefield+-+Same+(Usa+'85+Hard+Rock+Aor).rar/file

jeudi 9 octobre 2025

CASHMAN VAQUERO BAND - IN MEMORY OF BERRY OAKLEY (USA '79 PSYCH BLUES JAZZY)

 Vaquero means "cowboy" from its Spanish translation. Band leader Doug Cashman chose the name at whim, with no particular meaning attached to it. He and bass player Ron Sadus were close friends of Ray (Berry) Oakley, and formed a seminal garage band together in Park Forest, IL in 1963. Oakley later took his guitar skills south to Florida in the late 60's, eventually hooking up with the Allman Bros, and succumbing to head injuries from a motorcycle accident in 1972. Sadus also passed away, he while recording this album, in 1979. Anyone expecting this to be an Allman's tribute album will be off the mark, though they still shouldn't be disappointed. It's musically very diverse and rather light, semi-commercial rock with some light jazz elements included. There are several instrumentals mixed in with the pleasant vocal tracks. Everything is bolstered with solid guitar provided by Cashman and guest guitarists. Though there are numerous styles present, all seem to flow well together, even the somewhat out of place pedal steel driven "Drivin' Me Crazy", the only outright country track on here. I don't think many would consider this essential by any stretch, and it's reputation among the psychedelic rock set is a mystery. But anyone seeking a solidly entertaining and yet highly obscure offering should dig these grooves. Thanks RYM


https://www.mediafire.com/file/wcaepwnvr09jtbz/Cashman+Vaquero+Band+-+In+Memory+Of+Berry+Oakley+(Usa+'79+Psych+Blues+Jazzy).rar/file

dimanche 5 octobre 2025

THE SAGE BROTHERS BAND - GOT TIS FEELING (USA '81 COUNTRY ROCK)

The Sage Brothers Band "Got This Feeling..." (Ravin' Records, 1981) (LP)
(Produced by Jamie Goldsmith)

A country bar-band from Boscobel, Wisconsin, led by singer-guitarist Jim C. Berlin, who wrote all the songs. The rest of the group included Dan McCauley (bass), Butch Ortman (lead guitar), and Paul Roberts on drums. This is pretty fresh-sounding a a bit raw, with dense, sharp electric guitars, perhaps anticipating the rock-adjacent "Americana" scene of the late '80s and early '90s. Definitely worth a spin.

 

https://www.mediafire.com/file/tdvmu3xvuh72stz/Sage+Brothers+Band+(The)+-+Got+This+Feeling+(Usa+'81+Country+Rock).rar/file

mercredi 17 septembre 2025

BOB LIND - SINCE THERE WERE CIRCLES (USA '71 FOLK COUNTRY) RARE FIRST PRESS LOSSLESS WAV

 Bob Lind "Since There Were Circles" (Capitol Records, 1971) (LP)

(Produced by Doug Weston)
One of the best-known stars of the 1960s folk revival, Colorado songwriter Bob Lind scored an improbable hit with his breezy 1966 folk-pop single, "Elusive Butterfly," which peaked at #5 on the national pop charts. Riding high, he recorded three albums that year, and was naturally among the legions of young artists hailed as "the next Dylan," which doubtless contributed to his immediate flame-out, substance abuse problems, and precipitous disappearance from the spotlight. Like many 'Sixties truthseekers, Bob Lind dropped out and wrestled with his psyche, reemerging in the early 'Seventies with this expansive, exuberant set of brainiac twang. Backing him was a real who's-who of the early country-rock scene, including top flight pickers such as Gene Clark of the Byrds, Doug Dillard, and Bernie Leadon, as well as bassist David Jackson (who backed Clark and Dillard on a string of influential early '70s LPs) and John Buck Wilkins, a showbiz kid who had also "gone country" on his own solo albums around this time. To be sure, this is hardly a straight-up country record, but you can't deny the impressive roster of talent, or its place in the early country-rock mosaic. Fans of spacey post-folkies such as Jeff Buckley, et.al., might dig this one.



samedi 13 septembre 2025

OTTER CREEK - Otter Creek (Usa '77 Southern Rock)

 Otter Creek "Otter Creek" (Bolt Records, 1977) (LP)

(Produced by Frank Boulton)
A "lost" hippiebilly country-rock gem of mellow yet twangy splendor. Attention all ye fans of late '60s Byrds, early '70s Grateful Dead, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Greezy Wheels, et. al., this is an album you'll want to track down. Amiable, uncomplicated stoner twang by some longhairs from upstate New York... Many of the songs are of the looking-for-love-but-drunk-at-the-bar variety, with frontman Robert Presti singing lead on most tracks, as well as Tommy Sennes on pedal steel, and Bill Smith playing lead guitar and mandolin. The picking is decent though not dazzling, but the vibe is just right. A good-time band with a sincere country sound... Definitely worth a spin!



DANNY HOLIEN - SELF TITLE (USA '71 PSYCH FOLK COUNTRY ROCK)

  In 1971, Larry Ray and Bill Szymczyk fled L.A. to found their own label in Denver, Colorado. This label, Tumbleweed Records, had started w...