Another prolific session guitarist well respectable simply by musicians but generally unfamiliar to the hearing public, Melvin Ragin aka Wah-Wah Watson continues to be about countless sessions. Created in Detroit circa 1951, Ragin/Watson offers used and/or contributed materials towards the recordings of Michael Jackson, Pharoah Sanders, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, …

The name of the late-’60s Uk band might unwittingly lead some collectors to trust these were another in the hordes of dainty U.K. psychedelic pop organizations. However, though some of their songs did indeed get into that category, generally they documented equivalents to American sunlight pop. Actually, they done their …

As an associate of Magic Carpeting and Magic Carpeting II, and on his single recordings, Uk sitarist Alford has explored the fusion of Indian music with folk, jazz, and rock and roll. Although he primarily researched bagpipes, Alford started playing the sitar in the middle-’60s, influenced by Ali Akbar Khan …

Formed in the College or university of Detroit in 1967, Index cut probably one of the most excruciatingly rare psychedelic albums ever, pressed within an edition of only 100 copies. No, it isn’t well worth the $3,000 it lists for in Goldmine’s cost guidebook, but it’s certainly a nifty, actually …

Tony, Caro and John, a two-man-one-woman folk-rock trio, recorded the incredibly rare All for the Initial Time record in 1972. The threesome got a lot of their motivation from the Amazing String Band’s make of leprechaun-ish folk-rock, though songwriter and regular lead vocalist Tony Dore’s compositions had been even more …

The Fabulous Performers were actually the same singers as the Informers, a Philadelphia soul group that released two mid-’60s singles on the tiny J-Rude label. The Informers had been put on keep in middle-1967 when two from the associates were drafted. If they re-formed after those two got from the …

The 1960s Houston music group Rip Western world included high-schoolers Ray Turner (bass) and Dave Mitchell (lead guitar), both of whom would continue to maintain Josefus, which cut two early hard rock-heavy metal albums in 1970. Two undated demos documented by Rip Western world surfaced over the Josefus container set …

Pioneering Benin funk and spirit musician Théophile Do-Rego, recognized to most as “El Rego,” was created on, may 3, 1936 in Porto-Novo, Dahomey. He started his profession in music in Burkina Faso as an associate from the L’Harmonie Voltaique orchestra. After time for Dahomey (today Benin) in 1961, Rego produced …

The most well-known jazz musician since 1980, Wynton Marsalis had a significant effect on jazz almost right away. In the first ’80s, it had been major news a young and incredibly talented dark musician would select to produce a living playing acoustic jazz instead of fusion, funk, or R&B. Marsalis’ …

Hard rock from the 1970s provided the building blocks for the initial tunes of New Zealand-based power trio Datura. Along with his lead acoustic guitar enhanced by a number of distortion pedals, wah-wah, and reverb settings, Brent Middlemiss prospects the group through a number of the South Pacific’s hardest striking …