SMALL FACES Finally Expand “The Autumn Stone”

February 12, 2025

Some projects take ages to come to fruition, but the endeavor of having SMALL FACES“The Autumn Stone” issued as a remastered and expanded edition might be the strangest of them all. Strangest – because remastering doesn’t take nine years to do and because expanding what originally was a compilation shouldn’t take a lot of conceptual thinking. Yet that’s happened: the news of such a release – planned as a two-CD mediabook then – first appeared as a blurb on “The Autumn Stone / Me You And Us Too” single which saw the light of day on Record Store Day back in 2016, and there was even a test pressing of the album before it got indefinitely delayed – until now.

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Report Of WARHORSE Reunion Is Released

February 11, 2025

They may have released only two studio longplay and often unfairly remembered only thanks to being founded by former DEEP PURPLE bassist Nick Simper and the presence in their ranks of Ashley Holy, the future singer with Rick Wakeman‘s ensemble, but WARHORSE were a rather impressive collective whose sort of heavy prog dated yet didn’t become boring. This band existed between 1970 and 1974 and gathered again twice, in 1985 and 2005… or so the group’s official history used to state.

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Bobby Rush And Kenny Wayne Shepherd Bridge Ages On Joint Album

February 9, 2025

Blues might be a product of a single man’s lonesomeness, yet sometimes a collaboration emerges that focuses on synergy between two musicians, and that’s exactly how it’s panning out to be on a forthcoming album by artists from different generations. Separated by a whopping forty-four years, Bobby Rush and Kenny Wayne Shepherd have a lot in common though, and this “a lot” is mostly what they play.

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Dave Sinclair Revisits CARAVAN Classics On Solo Album

February 7, 2025

Digging in the past has never been Dave Sinclair‘s idea of making any progress with his music, yet stroke that CARAVAN’s master of ivories suffered in January 2023 made him rethink a lot of things. Overcoming difficulties with walking and talking, among other temporary impediments, the veteran found his inability to use right hand to play keyboards one of the most frustrating issues, something he’s been trying – successfully – to overcome ever since. Still, Sinclair’s idea of rehabilitation included work on his recording studio in Japan, whence the album titled “Tears In His Eyes” emerged two years after.

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Janis Ian Documentary Ready For Release

February 6, 2025

This year marks a five-decade anniversary of “At Seventeen”: the hit which made Janis Ian an international star. Only the American songstress began her fascinating journey much earlier, and that piece could be found on her seventh album, “Between The Lines” – one whose echoes are discernible even on the veteran’s latest longplay, “The Light At The End Of The Line” from 2022. This journey is the focus of the “Breaking Silence” documentary set for release on March 28th but has already won a few festival accolades.

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