Turning the Tide

An array of photos and writings from the past to sometime near now.

Thursday, October 05, 2017

Bobkat'65-This Lonely Road

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You gotta love debut releases like this 2017 one from Get Hip, one of my long-time favorite record labels. This trio, from Asturias in N...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Flamin' Groovies - Fantastic Plastic

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It has been 25 years since the legendary Flamin’ Groovies released their last studio album Rock Juice .  While the band resumed actively ...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Ted Leo-The Hanged Man

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One night in fall 1993 I turned on WVFI-640 AM (then “broadcasting” through a carrier current system to the residence halls at Notre Dame...
Monday, September 04, 2017

Rufus Harley-Re-Creation of the Gods

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His jazzy spaced-out bagpipes rendition of the groundbreaking "Eight Miles High" by the Byrds was my first encounter with the m...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Bob Morrison-Columbia Singles

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Where did this come from?  While Dion's once long lost folk-rock recordings, as heard on Kickin Child: Lost Columbia Album 1965,  a...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Isasa-Los días

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Isasa plays and composes in the American Primitive tradition or what could be flipped as Primitivista España as the musician is based in...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Tak Shindo-Far East Goes Western

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While his foray into African sounds and instruments on 1958’s Mganga! is justifiably his most recognized work as it bears all the elemen...

The Flight 13: Make a Hit Record

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Rising out from the unpredictable crosscurrents of the old pueblo of Tucson and bordertown of Nogales, the Flight 13 are ready to begin ...
Sunday, July 09, 2017

Palomar- II

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Having their own sound could be considered an understatement when describing this indie-pop band consisting of three females on the front...

Various-The Gene Pitney Story Retold

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From the day I heard my dad’s 45 of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance/ “Take it Like a Man” on a Fisher-Price record player when I was in...

The Beards-Funtown

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OK, add the Muffs to cub and Blondie, divide by the Beat and then compound to the power of Buck. Ah forget the formulas because it’s sum...
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Freddy & the Four-Gone Conclusions Wigged Out Sounds

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Action-packed with fuzz, folk-rock, beat and R&B, “The Wigged Out Sounds” present Freddy and Co. back on the forefront of the middle-...
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Saturday, July 08, 2017

Jon Rauhouse-Jon Rauhouse’s Steel Guitar Air Show

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Don’t you just love it when none of the local record stores carry the works of a hometown musician and you have to send away for and/or c...

Gary Lewis and the Playboys “Listen” and “New Directions”

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While these two albums will probably not be featured in Mojo anytime soon, they are very good unsung sixties soft-pop albums with that u...

The Autumn Leaves-The Twilight Hours of the Autumn Leaves

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Almost five years after their sparkling debut “Treats and Treasures,” it was great to hear (through the Radio Rumpus Room archives) tha...

The Resonars-Lunar Kit

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After four years, the Resonars have emerged from their Coma Cave Studios, burrowed somewhere in the cacti-strewn mountains surrounding Tu...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Shonen Knife 2017 USA tour w/new drummer Risa in Tempe, AZ

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Sunday, May 21, 2017

Maria Andersson-Succession

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Whatever became of the Swedish musical invasion which was constructed and purported to be the next big thing around 2002?  Part of the an...
Sunday, May 07, 2017

Brazilian Octopus

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For some reason, Brazilian music awash in bossa nova seems to really beckon when the daytime temperatures start to climb into triple di...
Saturday, May 06, 2017

The Dull Brights: Chandler's Walker Brothers

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Garage Band, AZ, U.S.A. While they shared many of the same experiences, common denominators and influences of countless garage band...
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