Summary: Twang reigned, the shitkickers kicked shit, and the vaguely western-sounding guitar records piled up. Country-rock became 'the dominant American rock style of the 1970s', as Peter Doggett's comprehensive Are You Ready for the Country put it much later. This album picks up and dusts off golden ingots from the dollar-bin detritus of that domination, to reconstruct events as seen from the genre's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WAYContents: CD 1. I'm the face / The High Numbers -- Bo Street runner / The Bo Street Runners -- Country line special / Cyril Davies & his R&B All Stars -- Chills and fever / Tom Jones -- Crawling up a hill / John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers -- You'd better make up your mind / The Koobas -- Desdemona / John's Children -- Tick tock / Shyster -- Wasn't it you / Billie Davis -- Bus stop / The Hollies -- Tell...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BRISummary: Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2007