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Mungo Jerry are among rock’s great one-hit successes. Beyond Britain, they’re known for specifically one tune, but that tune, “During the warm months,” is certainly a seasonal anthem known by listeners who weren’t also born when it had been released. Mungo Jerry was a good blues outfit aswell — actually, …

CCS – Collective Awareness Culture – was an unlikely cooperation between blues traditionalist Alexis Korner (b. 19 Apr 1928, Paris, France, d. 1 January 1984, London, Britain; vocals/electric guitar), manufacturer Mickie Many (b. Michael Peter Hayes, 20 June 1938, Aldershot, Hampshire, Britain, d. 30 Might 2003, London, Britain), and arranger …

Oak were Tony Engle (concertina (a little accordion)), Danny Stradling (tambourine), Pole Stradling (melodeon (a little reed body organ)), Peta Webb (fiddle). The quartet, structured in the first 1970s, specific in traditional dance music, and their only album, Welcome to your Good (1971), on this issue label became the jumping-off …

Since releasing a number of the finest shoegaze singles and albums of the first ’90s along with his music group Slowdive, Neil Halstead has slowly become among Britain’s esteemed songwriters. While Slowdive experienced more regarding sounds than tunes, the changeover that music group converted to Mojave 3 within the middle-’90s …

Winner from the 2002 Thelonious Monk Jazz Honor, saxophonist, composer, and arranger Seamus Blake is really a forward-thinking musician having a bent toward contemporary creative jazz and swinging post-bop. Given birth to in Britain in 1970, Blake was raised in Canada and finally studied in the Berklee University of Music …