I must start today’s post with full disclosure: approximately 90% of the time, I have no idea of the rock’n’roll trivia aspects of these songs, I just know I like them, then when researching the history of them I find out the bass player was in such-and-such a band, the keyboard player went on the […]
Peabody’s Picks: Arzachel – Soul Thing
Today the ol’ time machine is set for Geoffrey Chaucer’s favorite town, Canterbury, England, in the year 1969, smack-dab in the middle of the “Canterbury Scene”. The scene was of intertwined bands, consisting of a revolving cast of very talented musicians playing a heady mix of progressive rock, psychedelia, and jazz. The most well-known of […]
Peabody’s Picks – Bulbous Creation:”Having A Good Time”
Today’s entry is an oddity even for this blog – a song from an album that was officially released 44 years after it was recorded. In 1971, Kansas City band Bulbous Creation recorded their one and only album, You Won’t Remember Dying, but before they could raise the money to release it, the band broke […]
Peabody’s Picks – The Jaggerz: “The Rapper”
In the mid 60s, Slippery Rock State College student Dominic Ierace (better known by his stage name Donnie Iris) was in a succession of bands, culminating in a Pittsburgh group called the Jaggers, which was signed by the legendary Philadelphia duo Gamble and Huff. Prior to recording their debut album, they notice there was another […]
Song of the Day – Budgie: “Breadfan”
Virtually unknown in the U.S. until Metallica included this song on their 1998 Garage, Inc. album of cover songs (Metallica originally included it as one of two songs on the B-side of the 1988 single release of “Harvester of Sorrows” from the …And Justice For All album, but seriously, who buys Metallica singles?), Budgie were one of the earliest […]
Song of the Day – The Daylight Braves: “Summer At Last”
In the summer of 2011, Adelaide, Australia’s Daylight Braves released their one and only “record”, an EP entitled “Liquid Sun”. 5 of the 6 tracks were forgettable. But that 6th track, oh, that 6th track. “Summer At Last” is a brilliant, shimmering piece of psychedelic guitar rock at its finest. In a just world this […]
Song of the Day – Roy Buchanan: “The Messiah Will Come Again”
Roy Buchanan is one of rock’s most tragic figures. Insanely talented, held in awe by his world-famous peers, Buchanan was a tortured soul whose pain could be clearly felt through his music. The tragedy of his life was twofold: first, that in spite of his off-the-charts abilities, he was never known to the general public, […]
Song of the Day -Three Man Army: “In My Eyes”
Greetings music lovers, and welcome to England, 1974. The brothers Gurvitz (if that name sounds familiar, hang on for a few sentences), after a Top 10 UK hit (“Race With The Devil”)with their previous band, The Gun, put out what, in spite of the name, is actually their third album, Three Man Army Two, featuring […]
Peabody’s Picks – Blackfoot:”Wishing Well”
For those of us who lived it, the Golden Age of Southern Rock, the 1970s, can be divided into 2 eras – the early and late years of the decade. In the early years, the genre was defined by the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Blackfoot was one of the “second […]
Song of the Day – Peabody’s Picks – Shoes: “Tomorrow Night”
Power pop is one of those genres that is sadly underrepresented in the average Joe’s awareness of rock music. Of course the Beatles pretty much invented it, and along the way such bands as The Raspberries, Cheap Trick, and Gin Blossoms have carried the flag with varying degrees of commercial success. In the late 70s, another […]
