Buddy Miles Regiment - Sneak Attack

Buddy Miles Regiment - Sneak Attack - 1981
 
01. Latin Rock Fusion
02. Can You Hold Me
03. Sunshine Of Your Love
04. I've Made Up My Mind
05. Working Hard Every Day
06. Colossus
07. Let's Make It Together
08. Jazz Fusion
09. Hold Her Tight
10. Dust In The Wind        

11. For Your Precious Love

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Noel Redding Band - Clonakilty Cowboys & Blowin'

Noel Redding Band - Clonakilty Cowboys & Blowin' - 1975 & 1976

By William Ruhlmann from allmusic.com

Clonakilty Cowboys

Former Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding's second attempt to lead a group (following Fat Mattress), the Noel Redding Band were more of a cooperative effort than their name would suggest. Redding may have been the organizing principal behind the unit, but David Clarke wrote or co-wrote almost all the material as well as singing lead vocals, while Eric Bell played lead guitar. Whoever dominated the band, however, their debut LP, Clonakilty Cowboys, was very much a British rock album of its time. There were hints here of the Faces and there of Mott the Hoople in a mainstream rock sound that seemed utterly familiar in the mid-'70s, but didn't much remind you of Redding's work with Hendrix. When Bell took off on his solo, for example, at the end of "Eight Nights a Week" (a paean to being a rock & roll star), his high-pitched work was out of Rock Guitar 101, but it had none of Hendrix's inventiveness. Maybe it's not fair to make such a comparison, but one falls into comparisons in discussing the music because it had little distinctive character of its own. As singers, neither Clarke nor Redding made it out of the rusty-voiced ranks of generic rock vocalists. Clonakilty Cowboys didn't make any noise on the charts and it didn't deserve to. Redding and company had made a fairly typical album for their time, but hadn't done anything that distinguished them from the pack.

01. There´s A Light

02. Throw Me A Buoy
03. After All
04. Roller Coaster Kids / Whatever Became Of The Children
05. Eight Nights A Week
06. Clonakilty Cowboys
07. Snowstorm
08. Born To His Name
09. If I Had
10. Gotta Move Awaya
  

Blowin´

Noel Redding emphasized his primacy in the band named after him on their second album, Blowin', putting close-up photographs of himself alone on the front and back covers, albeit with humorous intention. (He was pictured on the front blowing up a big bubblegum bubble and on the back with the burst bubble stuck to his nose.) He also took over production duties on the record and wrote a couple of songs on his own. But this was still a group effort on which lead singer and primary songwriter David Clarke took a prominent, if not dominant, role. The album rocked harder than its predecessor, Clonakilty Cowboys, and, recorded largely in the U.S., seemed to have more of an American, on-the-road feel, beginning with its opening track, "Back on the Road Again." But the Noel Redding Band were still a faceless, nearly generic rock group with a rusty-voiced singer mouthing rock & roll clichés and a standard-issue guitarist. Blowin' didn't sell any better than Clonakilty Cowboys had, and that was about the end of the Noel Redding Band.

 

11. Back On The Road Again

12. California
13. Yes It´s Alright
14. I´d Rather Go Blind
15. You Make Me Feel So Good
16. Take It Easy
17. Love And War
18. Before The Photograph
19. I`m Just A Sinner
20. Hold On To What You´ve Got


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+@320 part 2/2
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Buddy Miles - Bicentennial Gathering of the Tribes

Buddy Miles - Bicentennial Gathering of the Tribes - 1976

Buddy Miles lançou pelo selo casablanca (aquele dos discos do KISS) dois álbuns: More Miles Per Gallon, de 1975, que já foi postado AQUI e este, de 1976. Bicentennial Gathering Of The Tribes é praticamente o oposto do primeiro. Sumiram os  sintetizadores (embora ainda se ouça um  ou outro traço desse instrumento (?) horrivel) e sumiram as letras sem sentindo. A impressão que se tem é que nem mesmo Buddy ficou satisfeito com o resultado de "More Miles" e resolveu mudar tudo. Esse disco é obrigatório para os fans do Buddy Miles "hardcore". Um disco mais centrado em bateria-baixo-harmmond  do que em sintetizadores.

Lançado no ano em que o Estados Unidos comemoravam o bicentenário de sua independência, Buddy incluiu nos encartes (ah, que saudade dos encartes!) frase de JFK sobre os indios americanos "Quando negligenciamos o passado heróico do índio americano, enfraquecemos nosso próprio patrimônio". Para muitos, a capa faz também uma homenagem a Hendrix, que tinha antepassados indígenas.

O rip desse vinil foi originalmente postado pelo Fabiano em sua comunidade no orkut, a quem expresso aqui meus agradecimentos por compartilhar esse joia rara. Acontece que o Fabiano fez o upload pelo sharebee a mais de ano e os links estavam inacessíveis. Desconhecendo o significado da palavra BACKUP, eis que o Fabiano formata seu PC e ele próprio acabou ficando sem sua cópia. Entra em cena o Celso, que além de extremo conhecedor de como burlar sites de downloads pagos (não é, Duga?) e torrents privados, especializou-se agora em saber aonde os links são distribuídos. Então, a partir do sharebee ficamos sabendo os links criados no zshare, badongo e megaupload. Um golpe de sorte fez com que o link no megaupload ainda estivesse ativo, embora apenas 9 felizardos tivessem feito o download nesse período de - repito - mais de 1 ano. Valeu "profexô" Celso. Valeu Fabiano!

 

01. Now's the Time (You Got to Be Real)

02. Where You Gonna Run to Lady
03. Inflation
04. I've Got to Be Me

05. Grecian Lady
06. Won't You Be My Friend
07. Searchin' (For Love)
08. Reuben 'The Hurricane'
09. Wake Me, Shake Me

Buddy Miles - Vocal, Organ, Guitar, Piano, Percussion,Drums, Bass
Ben Schultz - Organ, Sintz, Guitar, Keyboads, Piano, Percussion, Bass
Boyd Albritton - Guitar
Dickey Betts - Slide Guitar 
Ron Perry - Bass
John Maller - Organ, Drums
Don Beck - Organ, Keyboads
Bobby Berge - Percussion, Drums
Wanda Watkins, Jerry Stevens - Vocal
Paul & His New Age Jazz Orchestra Cacia - Trompete
Paul Cacra, Tom Brey - Trompete
Danny Hull, Steve Lawrence - Sax Tenor
Kenny Walther, Ken Walther - Trombone


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Shawn Phillips - Living Contribution - Both Sides

Shawn Phillips - Living Contribution - Both Sides - 2008

This double-CD, released in 2008 in conjunction with a DVD of the same name, presents the beloved British cult folkie in concert at Kirstenbosch Gardens in Capetown, South Africa. The tracks represent the full span of his career, from Isle of Wight flower child acoustic ramblings, through his bluesier 1970s work, through the more complex and poetic work of his later years. His guitar playing is as solid and nimble as ever, and his voice is in fine form, sliding jauntily from a light tenor up to a soulful falsetto.

CD 01
01. American Child           

02. Radio           
03. Steel Eyes
04. Ascent / "L" Ballade
05. Everything She Gives Me
06. Calico and Rainbows
07. Ballad of Casy Deiss
08. Moonshine
09. Woman/Keep On/Sleepwalker/Song for Mr C.

CD 02
01. Coming Down Soft and Easy
02. Landscape
03. Devil's Highway           
04. Early Morning Hours
05. Serendipity Peace
06. It Takes No Time
07. One Way Ticket
08. Blunt and Frank
09. Fondest Dreams
10. Discoveries
11. Moments           
12. We


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