Eric Clapton Sings A George Harrison Hymn On A New Live Album

April 16, 2024

One may suggest Eric Clapton has always been an opportunist but sometimes his sensibilities are in the right place – presumably so – because nobody can assure the proceeds from the concert the veteran played in front of a small audience in London last December and the forthcoming release of that performance’s recording will indeed benefit the children of Gaza Strip rather than Hamas terrorists who stand behind the tragedy happening there. For what it’s worth, though, the dozen-track CD and Blu-ray album, titled “To Save A Child” and scheduled for July 12th, looks alluring.

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GRATEFUL DEAD And Robert Hunter Flesh Out Their 1974 Nuggets

April 15, 2024

1974 was a busy year in the GRATEFUL DEAD camp: not only the ensemble per se released “From The Mars Hotel” – their lucky seventh album which gave the band the highest chart position to that date – but also Robert Hunter, the collective’s primary lyricist, issued his solo debut, “Tales Of The Great Rum Runners”: the two classics bound to see deluxe editions in June – respectively, on the 21st and the 7th – both remastered and expanded, even though not without a few questionable choices.

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THE YARDBIRDS’ BBC Sessions See The Ultimate Expansion

April 13, 2024

They always stood out against other ensembles who came into existence in the early ’60s on the wave of British blues boom because, unlike their colleagues, THE YARDBIRDS successfully combined fantastic improvisations on the genre’s staples – thanks to Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page – with brilliant songwriting – courtesy, first of all, Jim McCarty and Paul Samwell-Smith, as well as Graham Gouldman. That’s why the band’s live recordings are so interesting, and the cache of numbers they committed to tape for the Beeb have been delved in many times – yet there’s a new box set in the pipeline.

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JETHRO TULL Inflate “Bursting Out”

April 11, 2024

Restoring a classic live album to its original running order by inserting previously unreleased tracks only to ruin its organic flow by appending soundcheck recordings to each of its two discs seems highly illogical – yet that’s the exact crime the compilers of JETHRO TULL‘s “Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition” committed. This unexpected addition to what to date has been, with the exclusion of the band’s first platters, a chronological reissue programme is to be out on June 21st as a typical for the series box set comprising three CDs and three DVDs, with sound remixed by, of course, Steven Wilson.

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Bill MacCormick Publishes Autobiography

April 10, 2024

One’s career rarely gets any more progressive than that of Bill MacCormick, an English politician who played a prominent role within Liberal Party and Liberal Democrats but is primarily known for playing bass on a variety of memorable records. Some may suggest the world caught on to his immense melodic talents on a couple of pieces from Eno’s “Here Come The Warm Jets” yet Bill’s finest hour had come earlier, on an eponymous debut and "Little Red Record" albums by MATCHING MOLE MacCormick helped his old friend Robert Wyatt form and develop. However, it was not the beginning of the veteran’s story which is recounted in his new book.

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