Cream – Disraeli Gears
The year 1967 was a period of immense creative volatility, and amidst the psychedelic explosion, Cream—the original power trio consisting of Eric Clapton, Jack…
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The Doors – The Doors
Shadows were cast long and thick over the Sunset Strip in January 1967, and within them, four musicians from Los Angeles were busy redefining…
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John Mayall with Eric Clapton – Blues Breakers
The rain-slicked streets of London’s West End became the incubator for an entirely new musical theology during the spring of 1966. For months, the…
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B.B. King – Live at the Regal
The smoky, sweat-drenched air of Chicago’s Regal Theatre on a cold November night in 1964 became the staging ground for the most definitive live…
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The Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker
Released on February 13, 1990, Shake Your Money Maker arrived at exactly the right moment. Hair metal had spent most of the 1980s dominating…
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ZZ Top – Tres Hombres
Every great band has the album where everything finally clicks. For ZZ Top, that album was Tres Hombres. Released in 1973, the Texas trio’s…
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Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack
By the dawn of the 1960s, Jimmy Smith had already accomplished something extraordinary. In just a few years, he had transformed the Hammond B-3…
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Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters at Newport 1960
Electric blues had already transformed Chicago’s music scene by the time Muddy Waters stepped onto the stage at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960,…
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