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John Batdorf and Tag Rodney were a soft rock and roll duo of the first ’70s who produced three albums and reached the graphs with two singles, “You Certainly are a Music” and “Somewhere in the night time,” in 1975, then split, with Batdorf forming Metallic in 1976.

When scanning collector publications, you’ll often run into entries for albums simply by obscure psychedelic rings such as Best Drawer, commanding ridiculously high prices simply because they’re extremely rare. And generally, because they’re extremely uncommon doesn’t mean you must spend those prices, as well as feel just like you’re lacking …

Within an industry known because of its excess, perhaps nobody followed the creed of overindulgence a lot more than Casablanca Documents head Neil Bogart. Crazy stories circulate concerning the luxurious promotional parties tossed for Casablanca’s functions, which is Bogart who’s credited using the past due-’70s market push toward real advertising …

b. Benson Lee Kaukonen, Sept 1945, Topeka, Kansas, USA. Guitarist/vocalist Peter Kaukonen may be the more youthful sibling of Jefferson Aircraft’s Jorma Kaukonen. He started his profession playing blues and folk ahead of developing a bluegrass group in 1964 while their studies at the University or college of Stockholm in …

A Norwegian jazz vocalist of legendary stature, Radka Toneff produced her award-winning record debut in 1977 and recorded just three albums during her life time, which was trim brief by her tragic loss of life in 1982. Delivered on June 25, 1952, in Oslo, Norway, she actually is the daughter …

Between his departure through the Soft Machine and the correct beginning of his solo career, Robert Wyatt steered Matching Mole, an outfit which bore much similarity to his later use Soft Machine. Certainly, the name Matching Mole was selected as a refined pun on Soft Machine (the audio of the …

Fingerstyle guitarist Peter Lang was at discoveries and disciples from the pioneering John Fahey, whose Takoma label issued Lang’s cult-classic 1973 debut LP, FINISHED . in the Nursery Space Window. Created and elevated in Minnesota, Lang is at middle school whenever a friend asked him to some Minneapolis coffeehouse for …

In retrospect, something about the power-trio format lent itself towards the late-sixties, early-seventies era in rock, particularly hard-rock, music. Maybe three people producing such a loud roar was indicative of a period when teenagers felt they might sound their specific voices individual from any identification within a more substantial group. …

Fresh new Maggots were the United kingdom folk-rock duo of Mick Burgoyne and Leigh Dolphin, who have been just 19 years when their lone, self-titled album arrived in RCA in 1971. Comprised completely of original materials, the LP acquired an admirable selection of textures, adding some intensely distorted guitar and …

This UK acoustic folk rock ensemble comprised Ray Wright (b. 27 Apr 1949, London, Britain), Trevor Sandford (b. 30 June 1952, Cookstown, North Ireland), Peter McMum (b. 10 November 1951, Salford, Greater Manchester, Britain), Judy Slater (b. 1953, Glasgow, Scotland; fiddle) and William Thorp (b. 30 Apr 1952, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, …