Rockasteria

Lucas and the Mike Cotton Sound were a British R'n'B band who never broke through as recording artists but enjoyed a successf...

This is a collection of recordings featuring Barbara (Sandy) Robison during the time she was a member of the Peanut Butter Conspir...

Jerry Garcia called them the California Beatles. Rock critic Dave Marsh quipped that Garcia must have been tripping at the time. T...

The Frantics were from the same era and area as The BlueThings the '60s and the Midwest. They were musicians from parts of Mon...

Sullivan’s second, self-titled and final essay was released in 1972 and hosted by Hugh Heffner’s record label “Playboy”. Three yea...

In March 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel roo...

Shawn Phillips is one of those legends that had been swept up in mystery, disappeared under the cloak of the sixties, or stripped ...

As the title suggests, making a virtue of necessity had always been one of Jesse Winchester's goals, and by the time of the re...

Progressive bluegrass group the Rowans consisted of harmonizing brothers Peter (guitar, most members of the mandolin family), Lori...

Hailing from California, they became one of the most popular bands in the area, playing regularly at Mr Lee's Swingin' Aff...

Contemporary music documentaries are saturated with exasperating stories just like Scott Fagan’s. Recent cultural excavations have yiel...

After Flower Power and before punk, heavy, hard rock bands dominated the American music scene. In towns across the country, gara...

"Sooner Or Later" is John  Hammond's second Atlantic LP originally released in 1968. The material selected did testi...

Since the last tranche of Esoteric Climax Blues Band reissues were reviewed here we have had the sad news of Pete Haycock's de...

Regarding The Tropics, Tom Petty is unequivocal: “In 1965 [they] were the biggest band in Florida. I watched them in awe.” Startin...