This new DVD brings together great musical performances and off-the-wall banter from the east coast leg of the Stan Ridgway Trio's Spring 2009 acoustic tour - Like sitting in a front row seat - Fantastic!…
One of the last great Rock 'n' Roll, Blues 'n' Soul shouters is back with a fine album of pure unadulterated old school rockin' Rhythm & Blues madness. Raw, Raw, Rough serves up Barrence Whitfield just as you want to hear him - blistering, red hot and savage.Whitfield uses his God-given voice to pay the devil his due! Inspired lunacy - equal parts soulful and unhinged, Barrence Whitfield is a true force of nature that cannot be tamed. Dig Barrence's cover of the Sonics' classic Strychnine… dig the beat on Geronimo Stomp…..
As the saying goes: not all that glitters is gold. But then again, not all that is gold necessarily glitters. It was this idea that struck Finnish singer Tarja Turunen as she began work on her seventh solo album, “In The Raw”. “Gold - we think - is something polished and perfect, sophisticated, a luxury, but in its natural state, it’s a raw element”, explains Tarja…
As the saying goes: not all that glitters is gold. But then again, not all that is gold necessarily glitters. It was this idea that struck Finnish singer Tarja Turunen as she began work on her seventh solo album, “In The Raw”. “Gold - we think - is something polished and perfect, sophisticated, a luxury, but in its natural state, it’s a raw element”, explains Tarja…
Raw Material is a British band that released two albums in the ealy 70's that are now highly collectible. The group consist of your standard prog quartet plus frontman Mike Fletcher on wind instruments. A self-titled effort, the first Raw Material release (barely) saw the light of day in 1970, pretty early in progressive rock's development, but thanks to a chicken-livered label and complete-and- utter apathy from the days music press this was an album cruelly doomed to fail right from the start. However, whilst 'Raw Material' may have sunk without trace when first released, the same cannot be said for the album's 21st century CD reissue, which has happily re-ignited interest in the forgotten group. And they deserve it. Blending elements of psychedelia, organ-baked blues, jazz-tinged rock, folksy meanderings and lysergic- dipped pop, 'Raw Material' is indeed a fascinating set…