Love - Forever Changes (Remaster)

Forever Changes is the third album released by Love in 1967. Originally, the album was to be produced by Bruce Botnick and Neil Young, but Young bowed out due to his commitments to Buffalo Springfield. However, Young did stick with the album project long enough to arrange the track The Daily Planet. The sessions began in June 1967, with the group replaced by Los Angeles session players Billy Strange (guitar), Don Randi (piano), Hal Blaine (drums) and Carol Kaye (bass). The two tracks recorded during these sessions, Andmoreagain and The Daily Planet, were later given sparing overdubs by the actual members of Love, who felt the tracks otherwise sufficed. Botnick recalls that the use of session musicians sparked the band, and they realized they had blown it, got their act together and recorded the rest of the album. A September recording session finished the album, sweetening the mixes with horns and strings, as well as some additional piano from Don Randi, who played all the keyboard parts on the album as the band now had no keyboard player.

The album was re-released by Rhino in 2001, featuring alternate mixes, outtakes and the group's 1968 single, Your Mind and We Belong Together.

Line-up: Arthur Lee Johnny Echols Bryan MacLean Ken Forssi Michael Stuart

Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Cosmic Corn Cob & His Amazing Ozark Mountain Daredevils (Part I)

1973 Ozark Mountain Daredevils(Remaster)
1974 It'll Shine When It Shines(Remaster)










1975 The Car Over The Lake Album(Remaster)
1976 Men From Earth(Remaster)










1977 Don't Look Down(Remaster)
1978 It's Alive(Remaster)

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils are a country rock band formed in 1972 in Springfield, Missouri. They are most widely known for their singles If You Wanna Get To Heaven and Jackie Blue.
The first record, Ozark Mountain Daredevils (also referred to as The Quilt Album), was released in December 1973 and spawned the Top 30 hit If You Wanna Get to Heaven in the summer of '74. The album introduced the band's unique mixture of country & rock to the world and is still the favorite of many of the group's fans.
For the second album, It'll Shine When in Shines (Fall 1974), Glyn Johns and David Anderle came to Missouri to record, utilizing a mobile recording truck set up outside of the band's rehearsal home. During the sessions, Johns overheard Larry Lee sitting at a piano playing and singing a song about a mysterious friend of his who sometimes dealt drugs on the side. Johns loved the melody and thought it could be a smash hit if the lyrics were altered to be about a girl and the drug references downplayed. Lee and Cash did as Johns asked and the song, Jackie Blue, became the Daredevil's signature song and a huge hit in early 1975.
The Ozark's third release, The Car Over the Lake Album (Fall 1975), produced by Anderle alone, featured their old compatriot, Bill Jones, joining them to play and arrange their songs. Another face from the past, Steve Canaday, also came back into the group's life at this same time as road manager and opening act before joining the band in 1976. The album sold fairly well but produced no hits. One reason why the band's fortunes began to falter might have been their reluctance to relocate to Southern California after being asked to do so by A&M co-head Jerry Moss. Personnel shifts within the group also began to change the chemistry. Randle Chowning left in May 1976, after a falling out with the others, to form his own Randle Chowning Band. Norwegian musician Rune Walle then joined to replace him.
That same year the Daredevils headed to the Caribou Ranch, Colorado to record their fourth album which they'd originally titled Nuclear Fishin ' but then changed to Men From Earth after A&M objected. The Nuclear Fishin ' title was later used up in Canada for a greatest hits pack. Anderle was once again in the producer's chair and Jerry Mills joined the band on mandolin and also served as the group's advance publicist.
In the fall of '76, Buddy Brayfield departed to study medicine and Ruell Chappell from the popular Springfield group Spillwater Junction came in. But the band's next several releases, Men From Earth (Fall 1976), Don't Look Down (Fall 1977) and It's Alive (September 1978) sold in lesser quantities than their previous records had. Jerry Mills and his mandolin were dropped from the group after It's Alive since the band were performing less acoustic numbers in their show by this time.

Billy Swan - The bird that has flown of course

Billy Swan's role was, originally, largely invisible. He learned drums, piano, and guitar and also began writing songs. Lover Please, was recorded by Mirt Mirly & the Rhythm Stoppers. Swan's first big break was in 1962 when Clyde McPhatter recorded Lover Please, that quickly became a Top Ten Hit. Allowing Swan to write hit country songs for numerous artists, including Conway Twitty, Waylon Jennings, and Mel Tillis. Swan's first album included the popular song I Can Help, a rockabilly number that topped both the Billboard top 100 and country charts in 1974. Swan recorded the song in two takes with an electric organ that Chris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge had bought for him as a wedding present. In 1986 he continued as part of a band called Black Tie, along with Randy Meisner, Jimmy Griffin, David Kemper, David Miner and David Mansfield which recorded the album When the Night Falls. Swan continued to tour with Kristofferson, and has recorded two albums with Randy Meisner. Swan recorded a new album at the original Sun Records studios, Like Elvis Used to Do, in 2000.

Rednex - Sex & Violins

Rednex is the brainchild of Swedish producers who decided to try mixing country music with eurodance. The name Rednex was chosen as a misspelling of the word rednecks. They reworked the traditional folk song Cotton-Eyed Joe into a dance song and released it in 1994, to huge worldwide success. This started the Country House music fad which lasted for a few years afterward. The album Sex & Violins followed the hit song, and Rednex went on to score other hits in Europe from that album Old Pop in an Oak and Wish You Were Here. If you never heard of this album then get it, because it's really funny.
Oh my god, this is the title of the sixth track;-)))

Manfred Mann - Chapter Three

1969 Volume 1
1970 Volume 2
Both are remasters

Manfred Mann's Chapter Three was a experimental jazz rock band founded by keyboard player Manfred Mann. The band was short-lived and disbanded after two albums.
Volume 1 is the debut album released in 1969. The Band consists of Mike Hugg(piano,vocals), Manfred Mann(organ), Steve York(bass), Bernie Living(sax), Brian Hugg(guitar), Craig Collinge(drums).
If you don't know what the title of track 3 means try to read it backwards.
Volume 2 was released in 1970. The lineup had no changes, additional musicians are:
Dave Brooks(sax), Clive Stevens(sax), Senny Corbet(trumpet), David Coxhill(sax).

Mann went on to form Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1971.

Hollies - The EP Collection

The Hollies 1987's sampler of items from 1964-1966. It does include two fine Merseyish originals from their debut 1964 EP, What Kind of Love and When I'm Not There, that never made it onto LP otherwise. Except for the British 1978 LP compilation The Best of the Hollies EP's, which duplicates the track listing of this disc almost exactly.

Terry Sylvester - I Believe

Terry Sylvester was born on the 8th January 1947 in Liverpool, England. He was raised in the Allerton area of Liverpool, and lived in the next road to Paul & Mike McCartney. He left school just before his 15th birthday and worked for one year as an apprentice panel beater for Peter Harrison, George Harrison's older brother. In December 1968, Graham Nash left the Hollies to form Crosby, Stills, & Nash. The remaining members of the Hollies remembered Terry contact was made & the rest is history.
Terry also released a solo album, I Believe, produced by Alan Parsons and the Hollies producer Ron Richards. It was released in 1976 and re-released in 1997 on CD.

Black Tie - When The Night Falls

Black Tie was a country-rock band that featured Billy Swan, Bread's Jimmy Griffin, and Randy Meisner, formerly of the Eagles. Black Tie's lone release was a 1985 covers collection entitled When the Night Falls. While the project was quite brief, it did produce a minor charting hit in a country-fried cover of Buddy Holly's Learning the Game.

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