THE JUICE WILL FLOW
While many a young band are lazy, there’s no rest for older guys like Dave Cousins. THE STRAWBS‘ main man has cornered the classic “The Hero And Heroine” line-up of the band – Cousins, Dave Lambert, Chas Cronk, Rod Coombes and John Hawken – for the recording of another album, “Deja Fou”, which seems to be out by now. With these five – and Adam Wakeman and Robert Kirby guesting – there shouldn’t be a miss. Except for the cover artwork…
| 1. Riviera del Fiori 2. Under A Cloudless Sky 3. Face Down In The Well 4. On A Night Like This 5. If 6. Cold Steel 7. Sunday Morning 8. This Barren Land 9. When The Lights Came On 10. Russian Front 11. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow 12. NRG |
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HE ROBOT?
It’s quite about time for Alan Parsons to come up with something new – and finally he delivers it. Something new, it is: “A Valid Path”, released on August 24th, will be the first electronics album from the man whose studio wizardry could have pointed him this way long ago. But Parson’s a peculiar person and all the better for it. The PINK FLOYD fans should pay attention as well, because of David Gilmour supplying guitar licks to the opening track and Storm Thorgerson having done the artwork.
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1. Return To Tunguska (feat. David Gilmour) 2. More Lost Without You 3. Mammagamma 04 4. We Play The Game 5. Tijuaniac 6. L’Arc En Ciel 7. A Recurring Dream Within A Dream 8. You Can Run 9. Chomolungma (feat. John Cleese) |
GOODBYE, HUMBLE PIE HAT
Last fall, Greg Ridley, the thunder bass of HUMBLE PIE, left us for a better world. This year, on November 20th, the Carling Academy in Islington will host a memorial concert for Greg, featuring his former band members Jerry Shirley,
Clem Clempson and Peter Frampton as well as the PIE’s late leader’s daughter Molly Marriott and ZEP’s drummer’s singing sister Deborah Bonham. Surely, there’ll be much more participants, but the names are still to be announced.
THE LION’S HEART
It’s not just farming that Joe Cocker‘s interested in. This September in Europe and the next January in the U.S., out is “Heart And Soul”. The new album, this, so don’t get confused with a same-titled compilation of Joe’s best. The title’s not original – but neither is the music, yet Cocker has no rival in interpreting other people’s material, and this will be as brilliant a covers collection as you can get. Here are the songs with their original performers, with “One” unindentified as of yet – of special interest might be the fact that “Every Kind Of People” was written by Andy Fraser, formerly of FREE, and that “I Keep Forgetting” has been greatly done by PROCOL HARUM.
| 1. What’s Going On (Marvin Gaye) 2. Chain Of Fools (Aretha Franklin) 3. One 4. I Who Have Nothing (Shirley Bassey) 5. Maybe I’m Amazed (Paul McCartney) 6. I Keep Forgetting (Chuck Jackson) 7. I Put A Spell On You (Screaming Jay Hawkins) 8. Every Kind Of People (Robert Palmer) 9. Love Don’t Live Here (Sarah Vaughan) 10. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (James Taylor) 11. Jealous Guy (John Lennon) 12. Everybody Hurts (R.E.M.) |
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THEY’RE DELICATE
Over the years, the GENTLE GIANT concerts have gained a legendary status, yet the fans who didn’t attend their shows had a slighest chance to see what it was all about. With live CDs aplenty, the visuals were hard to come across, but now there’s a DVD, no less. Called “Giant On The Box”, it features the following chapters.
| 1974 concert for German TV: Cogs In Cogs Proclamation Funny Ways The Runaway Experience Features from “Octopus” Advent Of Panurge So Sincere |
1975 US TV concert: Experience Features from “Octopus” Advent of Panurge Funny Ways Szene ’74: rare German footage Baroque & Roll: footage from Italian TV Photo Gallery |
THROUGH CASTLE WINDOWS O’RE
It all started ten years ago, when the Richard Thompson newsletter, “Hokey Pokey”, and their collection of charity albums spawned a record label, Fledg’ling Records. To mark the anniversary and their 50th CD release, Fledg’ling are producing something very precious, the Sandy Denny 5-disc collection, “A Boxful Of Treasures”, which will easily rival that beautiful 3CD box, “Who Knows Where The Time Goes”, so popular that it was re-released, a not very common thing for box sets, especially when it concerns folkies. But Sandy wasn’t your regular folkie anyway.
A Boxful Of Treasures”, due out late September – though late November would sound better for Denny fans, yet the sooner the better, in this case – will include a 52-page booklet with a foreword by Richard Thompson, biographical essay by Jim Irvin, a final word by Dick Gaughan and short reminiscences from many of those who worked with the English finest’s female singer, as well as a lot of photos and reproductions from Sandy’s original lyric notebooks. Prepare your check-books, folks!
These are the tracks in the collection. Previously unissued material marked with (*). FC stands for FAIRPORT CONVENTION, of course.
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Disc 1
1. 3.10 To Yuma |
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1. Si Tu Dois Partir (FC) |
Disc 3
1. The North Star Grassman & The Ravens |
| Disc 4
1. Whispering Grass (radio session) |
Disc 5
1. One Way Donkey Ride (demo) * |
Meanwhile, pencilled in for re-release is the only eponymous album of Sandy Denny’s ensemble, FOTHERINGAY, augmented with live bonus tracks the fans familiar with from the bootleg recordings – save for, maybe, the STRAWBS’ Dave Cousins-written “Two Weeks Last Summer”:
– Two Weeks Last Summer
– Nothing More
– Banks Of The Nile
– Memphis Tennessee
Then again, with Sandy bonanza, the FAIRPORTS supporters mustn’t close an eye on a lady who sang with the band before Denny, Judy Dyble, who also was a member of GILES, GILES AND FRIPP. Judy has her first (!) solo album out, called “Enchanted Garden”.
| 1. Summer Gathers 2. Enchanted Garden 3. Rivers Flow 4. New World 5. Nimbus Thitherwood 6. Long Way Home 7. For You 8. Starcrazy 9. Nue! Blue 10. Going Home |
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