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Bob Stanley and Martin Green present: Choctaw Ridge: New Fables of the American South 1968-1973 (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 13/Aug/2021 ] "Choctaw Ridge" explores a new country sound, one that emerged at the end of the 60s in the wake of Bobbie Gentry's 'Ode To Billie Joe', a shock number one hit in 1967. When singers like Gentry, Jimmy Webb, Michael Nesmith and Lee Hazlewood moved... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Incident At A Free Festival [ Ace Records / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] "Incident At a Free Festival" is a tribute to the mid-afternoon slots at Deeply Vale, Bickershaw, Krumlin, Weeley, and Plumpton - early 70s festivals that don't get the column inches afforded the Isle of Wight or Glastonbury Fayre, but which would... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Incident At A Free Festival (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 24/Nov/2023 ] "Incident At a Free Festival" is a tribute to the mid-afternoon slots at Deeply Vale, Bickershaw, Krumlin, Weeley, and Plumpton - early 70s festivals that don't get the column inches afforded the Isle of Wight or Glastonbury Fayre, but which would... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Occasional Rain (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 2/Jun/2020 ] This is England, the day after the 60s. It's a time of flux. On the cusp of progressive rock but without a rule book, many groups hold fast to psychedelia's adventurousness and melodic delights, while they are also happy to venture deep into the jazz... |
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Bob Stanley presents 76 In The Shade [ Ace Records / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] The Summer of 1976 has remained a benchmark for long, hot summers - there may have been scorchers since, but none have seemed quite as relentless. Too hot to move, the country melted into a collective puddle. This album evokes the feel of that... |
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Bob Stanley presents 76 In The Shade (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 25/Sep/2020 ] The Summer of 1976 has remained a benchmark for long, hot summers - there may have been scorchers since, but none have seemed quite as relentless. Too hot to move, the country melted into a collective puddle. This album evokes the feel of that... |
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Bob Stanley Presents Liverpool Sunset: The City After Merseybeat 1964 - 1969 [ Ace Records / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] 'Waterloo Sunset' is now regarded as the greatest song about London. It comes as a shock, then, to discover it was originally about another city altogether. Watching acts who had been huge stars just three years earlier but now couldn't buy a hit -... |
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Bob Stanley presents London A to Z [ Ace Records / CD - released 29/Sep/2023 ] If you threw a house party in London in the late twentieth century, before the smart phone rendered it redundant, you could guarantee that the following morning there would be a dog-eared copy of the A to Z behind the sofa, or under the coffee table,... |
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Bobby Gillespie Presents: I Still Can't Believe You're Gone [ Ace Records CD / CD - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Following on from the Primal Scream frontman's brilliantly- received previous release for Ace, 'Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down' (accolades included being short-listed for Rough Trade's compilation of the year), Bobby Gillespie brings us another slice of... |
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Bobby Gillespie Presents: I Still Can't Believe You're Gone (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records LP / 2 LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Following on from the Primal Scream frontman's brilliantly- received previous release for Ace, 'Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down' (accolades included being short-listed for Rough Trade's compilation of the year), Bobby Gillespie brings us another slice of... |
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Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta [ Numero Group / 3 CD - released 28/Oct/2016 ] From his studio in central Bobo-Dioulasso, photographer Sory Sanlé documented a nation's transformation from colonial foothold to cosmopolitan oasis. Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta provides an intimate look into the landlocked nation's pop... |
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Body Beat: Soca-Dub And Electronic Calypso (1979-98) [ Soundway / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ] 17 obscure Soca B-side versions, dubs, instrumentals and edits as well as vocal tracks influenced by disco, boogie, house-music, soul and the more conscious lyrics of roots reggae. Owing as much to New York, Toronto and London as to the Caribbean... |
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Breaking The Beats: Compiled by Dave Lee & Will Fox [ ZR Records / 2 CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] At the end of the 90s, a movement began in West London that birthed a fresh direction in dance music. Though this movement never got mainstream press coverage, never had a crossover chart single, and never really transcended its community roots,... |
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The Bristol Reggae Explosion 1978 - 1983 [ Shellshock / CD - released 21/Feb/2011 ] |
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The Bristol Reggae Explosion 3: The 1980s Part II [ Bristol Archive Records / CD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] |
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The Bristol Reggae Explosion Volume Two: The 80s [ Bristol Archive / CD - released 17/Oct/2011 ] |
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Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: The Songs Of John Prine, Vol 2. (LP) [ Thirty Tigers / LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Whereas volume one saw covers from a wide range of artists including My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst, Drive-By Truckers, Old Crow Medicine Show, Justin Townes Earle, and more, volume two took a much more stringent folk/country approach. This... |
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Café Exil New Adventures In European Music 1972-1980 (LP) [ Ace / 2 LP - released 18/Dec/2020 ] When David Bowie and Iggy Pop relocated from LA to continental Europe, taking trains to Berlin, Paris and Warsaw, they would have come across new music that was very different to the burgeoning disco scene they left behind. Cafe Exil - named after... |
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Cafe De Paris - The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection [ Big 3 / 3 CD - released 10/May/2010 ] |
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Califia: The Songs Of Lee Hazlewood [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |