Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Billy Joel : Live at Carnegie Hall, 06/03/77



IT WAS SO EASY
LIVING DAY BY DAY
OUT OF TOUCH
WITH THE RHYTHM AND BLUES

Jake Holmes : The Above Ground Sound of Jake Holmes



I'M DAZED AND CONFUSED

HANGING ON BY A THREAD

I'M BEING ABUSED

I'D BE BETTER OF DEAD


Ian Hunter : Ian Hunter (30th Anniversary Reissue)

 Ian Hunter Patterson

(Born  June, 3rd 1939) 

is an English singer, 

songwriter and musician. 

He is best known 

as the lead vocalist 

of the rock band

Mott the Hoople

 from its inception in 1969

 to its dissolution in 1974,

 and at the time of its 2009,

 2013,

 and 

2019 reunions. 

Hunter was a musician

 and songwriter 

before joining 

Mott the Hoople, 

and continued in this vein 

after he left the band. 

He embarked on a 

solo career 

despite ill health 

and disillusionment with

 commercial success, 

and often worked in 

collaboration with

Mick Ronson,

David Bowie's

 sideman and arranger from

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust

 and the Spiders from Mars period.

Mott the Hoople 

achieved some commercial success, 

and attracted a small

 but devoted fan base. 

As a solo artist, 

Hunter charted with lesser-known 

but more wide-ranging works

 outside the rock mainstream. 

His best-known solo songs are

 "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", 

later covered by 

Great White

and

 "England Rocks", 

which was modified to

"Cleveland Rocks"

 and then covered by 

the Presidents of the United States of America,

 and became one of the

 theme songs 

used for the American 

TV series

The Drew Carey Show.


Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Doobie Brothers : Ultrasonic Studios in West Hempstead, NY.05/31/73




FEELIN' GOOD
FEELING FINE
OH, LET THE MUSIC PLAY

Peter, Paul, and Mary : (Ten) Years Together -The Best Of Peter, Paul and Mary


Peter Yarrow

 (May 31, 1938 – January 7, 2025)

 was an American singer

 and songwriter

 who found fame 

as a member 

of the 1960s 

folk trio

 Peter, Paul and Mary

 along with 

Paul Stookey

 and

 Mary Travers.

Born in Manhattan

 in 1938,

 he attended

 New York's 

High School of 

Music and Art

 as a teenager

 and was then accepted at

 Cornell University. 

During his last year

 at Cornell in 1959, 

he began his 

music career 

as a student 

guitar instructor there, 

and after graduating,

 met the manager 

and impresario 

Albert Grossman. 

Grossman's idea of a

 musical trio 

eventually led to

 Yarrow forming

 a folk band with 

Stookey and Travers.

Peter, Paul and Mary's

 early hits included

 "Lemon Tree" 

and

 "If I Had a Hammer", 

which was followed by 

their self-titled debut

 studio album

 in 1962. 

Yarrow co-wrote

 (with Lenny Lipton) 

one of the group's

 best known hits,

 "Puff, the Magic Dragon"

 (1963). 

He was also involved

 in the civil rights movement,

 performing for the 

March on Washington 

and 

Selma to Montgomery 

marches.

Illness and death

Yarrow died from

 bladder cancer 

at his Upper West Side

 apartment,

 on 

January 7, 2025, 

after a month in

 hospice care. 

He was 86, 

and was diagnosed 

with the illness

 four years prior.


Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Led Zeppelin : How The West Was Won





HOW SOFT YOUR FIELDS SO GREEN

CAN WHISPER TALES OF GORE

OF HOW WE CALMED 

THE TIDES OF WAR

WE ARE YOUR OVERLORDS

Gregg Allman : Laid Back (Deluxe Edition)


Gregory LeNoir Allman

(December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017)

 was an

 American musician,

 singer and songwriter.

 He was known for 

performing in

the Allman Brothers Band. 

Allman grew up with an

 interest in 

rhythm and blues music,

 and

 the Allman Brothers Band 

fused it with 

rock music,

jazz, 

and country. 

He wrote several of the band's 

most popular songs,

 including 

"Whipping Post", 

"Melissa",

 and

 "Midnight Rider". 

Allman also had a

 successful solo career,

 releasing eight 

studio albums. 

He was born and spent

 much of his childhood 

in Nashville, Tennessee,

 before relocating to

Daytona Beach, Florida, 

and then

Macon, Georgia.

He and his brother

Duane Allman 

formed

 the Allman Brothers Band

 in 1969, 

which reached mainstream success 

with their 1971

 live album

At Fillmore East

but shortly thereafter, 

Duane was killed 

in a motorcycle crash. 

The band continued,

 and released

Brothers and Sisters

which became their 

most successful album,

 in 1973. 

Allman began a 

solo career with

Laid Back 

the same year. 

He gained some 

additional fame

 for his 

1975 to 1979

 marriage to pop star 

Cher. 

He had an unexpected

 late-career hit 

with his cover 

of the song 

"I'm No Angel"

 in 1987, 

and his seventh

 solo album,

Low Country Blues

(2011),

 saw the highest

 chart positions

 of his career. 

Throughout his life, 

Allman struggled with

 alcohol and substance use, 

which formed

 the basis of his memoir

My Cross to Bear

(2012).

 His final album, 

Southern Blood

was released

 posthumously on

 September 8, 2017.

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