In Vain

Stand On The Ocean is dedicated to going to the source to capture the blues and other roots music before "the suits, focus groups and PC Police get their hands on it". This offering featuring veteran Delta gunslinger Terry 'Big T' Williams proves the point and provides a taste of the big energy in an intimate setting still found in Mississippi's jukes. A little less polished and civilized than its big city cousin, today's Delta blues retains all the unsophisticated exuberance of the days when Muddy Waters cut heads on the streets of Clarksdale.
REVIEW BY MICK RAINSFORD, BLUES & RHYTHM MAGAZINE Big T, after 20 years seasoning with the likes of Dave 'Pecan' Orchard, Little Jeno Tucker and Big Jack Johnson, has teamed up with sons Terrell and Black Jack to form the Family Band and set out on his own….

The Stones in the Park generally refers to a free outdoor festival held in Hyde Park on 5 July 1969, headlined by The Rolling Stones and featuring Third Ear Band, King Crimson, Screw, Alexis Korner's New Church, Family and Battered Ornaments, in front of a crowd estimated at between 250,000 and 500,000 fans.
It was the Stones' first public concert in over two years, and was planned as an introduction of new guitarist, Mick Taylor, though circumstances inevitably changed following the death of former member Brian Jones two days earlier.

ROLLING STONES Greatest Albums In The Sixties (2008 Japanese Universal promotional-only 6" x 8" 8-page fold-out booklet, advertising the incredible 17-disc SHM-CD/paper sleeve box set; contains detailed info and tracklisting for each included album [with full colour image], plus full colour images of the additional empty paper sleeves included in the set, reproducing the group's original 60s Japanese albums - a unique collectible!)