Rockasteria

Very little information is known from this group. This seems to be a professionally recorded demonstration copy for an intended Ele...

Critics have labeled Gibbons as the English Bob Seger, but such a comparison is little more than superficial, doing credit to neithe...

"I sang like a complete prick - a quivery, frightened little jerk," exclaims Tom Newman with a look of despair. "It'...

Gibbons' career actually dates back to the very end of the '50s. A rock 'n' roller with a special love of Elvis Pr...

Muddy Waters is obviously one of the most recognized and influential blues artists of this century. When his name is mentioned p...

"Maggot Brain" is far more than something that can be defined by any individual genre. It's a fusion of so many musical i...

Conventional wisdom has it that Maggot Brain is the definitive early Funkadelic record, but for me, Free Your Mind… And Your Ass Will Fo...

Funkadelic, arguably the greatest "black rock" band ever...Actually, strike that, they are far and away the best black rock b...

The years 1968-1974 brought about the awakening and evolution of the Tidewater-Chesapeake Bay music scene The ocean front and tidal...

Room were from Dorset, recorded an album for Decca in the early 1970s and then disappeared from the scene again. "Pre-Flight",...

To begin the story of Short Cross. I must go back to the day in 1965 that my father introduced me to the son of a friend who  was pla...

Bell 'n' Arc’s one and only record is a prime cut of early 1970s British rock and roll. Born out of the psychedelic ashes o...