Rose Fever - Bulgarian Blend - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

CD reissue. Wipe The Windows... was originally released as a 2-LP set in 1976 and recorded in 1972, 1973 and 1975 after the band lost their two founding members Duane Allman (1971) and Berry Oakley (1972) both in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia. Five of the ten tracks on this live collection are drawn from their best-selling 1972 album Brothers & Sisters. These were the peak years for The Allman Brothers Band. A special mention must go to guitarist Dickey Betts' composition InchIn Memory Of Elizabeth ReedInch. In this 17 minutes long version with less reliance on the duel guitar playing, but more emphasis on the swing of the piece. Chuck Leavell's piano work is great with Dickey proving to be considered among the best lead-guitar players of all-time.

Go Fever is an Austin band fronted by Australian singer Acey Monaro.Since 2017, the band has racked up nearly every local accolade they can Austin American Statesman InchArtist of the Month,Inch regular airplay and dozens of features on tastemaker station KUTX, and rave reviews from The Austin Chronicle. During the pandemic lockdown of 2020, the band had the fortune of going into Radio Milk Studios (home of Austin band White Denim) and recording a new full-length record with in-house producer Jim Vollentine.The result - Velvet Fist - is a blistering affair, channeling the band's penchant for concise, witty pop songs into some new sonic textures.The lead off track InchNYE15Inch finds the band rocking more than ever, while the single InchArmagosa,Inch co-written and featuring James Petralli on guitar, shares more than a hint of Petralli's White Denim melodic jam sensibilities. Monaro's songwriting and singing are also in top form as witnessed on her forceful, pliable performance on second single InchLong RunInch Please don't idolise these friends who live fast and die oldRomanticising sad dead men and if I may be so boldThey won't contribute a great thing to the canon of rock and rollThat they're so devoted toDon't give up the ghost, Hank, if there's one thing you can bank onIt's that the albatross eventually rots and falls away fromYour neck that's still so youngAnd I'm not tellin' you not to have fun, but you've been sprintin' for a while And it's a long runVelvet Fist is available on limited edition blue/mauve swirled vinyl with lyric insert, and compact disc.1. NYE152. Long Run3. FYI4. Amargosa5. Deep End6. Cull Yr Idols7. Garden Variety8. Boys In Town9. TGIF

When XTC finally downed guitars after the recording and of InchWasp StarInch, their last album to date, one of Andy's ideas about what to do next, was to become a songwriter in the traditional sense, writing songs for others... It was something he had been asked to do throughout the XTC years, but never had the time. Songs were written. Songs were sent. Sometimes speculatively, often specifically requested, many tailor-made for an artist's requirements, but then choppy waters could still lay ahead. Even where everyone seemed to think that newly written song A would be wonderful if recorded by singer B, whose manager C had initiated the request via music D for album E on record tag F... Well, you begin to see the potential problems of such an approach - almost a quarter of the way through the alphabet and not a note recorded beyond Andy's original demo. That's without detailing the sort of horrendous politics that makes a fresh batch of alphabet spaghetti of any of the above as they interact. Still, songs are like children. A songwriter gives birth to them, feeds them, watches them grow before sending them out into the world. So it's unfair to abandon them as orphans just because their first experience outdoors might be a traumatic one of being cold shouldered. As a loving parent, Andy brought them all back together, re-Andy-fied them and buffed them up in his home studio, et voila! Here is the first selection of song siblings that resulted from all of this work, four brothers and sisters, happily reunited and presented as a family group aural snapshot for your entertainment and delight. The story has a happy ending after all. It is almost as if The Sound of Music, had been set in Swindon.