Johnny Winter - The Progressive Blues Experiment (1968)

Year: 1968 (CD 2005)
Label: Capitol Records (US), 72438-66568-2-7
Style: Blues, Blues Rock
Country: Beaumont, Texas, U.S. (February 23, 1944 - July 16, 2014)
Time: 42:58
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 308 Mb

The Progressive Blues Experiment is the unauthorized debut album by American blues rock musician Johnny Winter. It was released in 1968. Johnny Winter didnt earn any money from the album.
The Progressive Blues Experiment doesnt have any bad songs. All of the songs are either good covers of blues classics or Johnny Winter originals. The production isnt very good. The album is poweful, but too rough sounding. The songwriting is great. The songs are memroable. Theres variation. Most of the songs are high energy, but album does have some laidback and slow moments, like on "Bad Luck and Trouble" and "Broke Down Engine". The lyrics are good, but generic blues. The performances are incredible. Johnny Winter is an incredible blues guitarist. I love his playing on the up-tempo tracks. Johnny's slide playing is phenomenal. He also plays amazing acoustic and resenator guitars. Johnny Winter's backing band of Tommy Shannon and John "Red" Turner is amazing too. Tommy Shannon's bass is loud. John Turner is an amazing and powerful drummer. I dont understand the title. What's progressive about the album? The album cover is a bit weird. Johnny Winter is looking at a reflection of himself. The album listening experience was great. Прослушивание альбома было классным.
Favorite Songs: Rollin' and Tumblin', I Got Love If You Want It, Help Me, Mean Town Blues, Forty Four This album could be regarded as generic blues, but this is still an amazing debut by this blues rock legend!
(musicboard.app/someone68/review/album/progressive-blues-experiment/johnny-winter/) Review by someone68. 07 Apr 2025. Low 4.5/5

01. Rollin' and Tumblin' (03:12)
02. Tribute to Muddy (06:21)
03. I Got Love if You Want It (03:54)
04. Bad Luck and Trouble (03:42)
05. Help Me (03:49)
06. Mean Town Blues (04:28)
07. Broke Down Engine (02:49)
08. Black Cat Bone (03:48)
09. It's My Own Fault (07:21)
10. Forty-Four (03:30)

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Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake [Japanese Ed. K2HD] (1968)

Year: 24 May 1968 (CD Jan 12, 2006)
Label: Victor Entertainment Inc. (Japan), VICP-63265
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Classic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 38:29
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 251 Mb

Side one of the album showcases a variety of musical styles. The opening title track is an instrumental re-working of "I've Got Mine", a failed single from 1965. This recording uses a Hammond Organ treated with wah-wah pedal and orchestral flourishes from a string section led by David McCallum Senior (the father of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. star David McCallum.) An eclectic selection of tracks follow; the proto-Hard rock of "Song of a Baker"; the psychedelic ballad "Long Agos And Worlds Apart"; cockney knees-up songs "Lazy Sunday" and "Rene" (the latter featuring a lengthy psychedelic jam as its coda); and the intense, soul-influenced ballad "Afterglow" (titled "Afterglow of Your Love" on the subsequent single and some compilations).
The single version of "Afterglow" - released in March 1969 a year after it was recorded and immediately after the group's disbandment was officially announced - was presented in a radically-different mix that eschewed the LP version's acoustic opening, altered the song's tempo and extended the instrumental coda.
Side two of the LP is based on an original fairy tale concept about a boy called Happiness Stan, consisting of a musical suite of six songs interlinked with narration provided by comic monologuist and performer Stanley Unwin in his unique, nonsensical private language of "Unwinese". Unwin was not the band's first choice for narrator, however – originally they approached the popular but mercurial absurdist comedian Spike Milligan to narrate the piece, but negotiations with Milligan floundered early and the more affable and amenable Unwin stepped in to everyone's eventual satisfaction. Unwin spent time observing the band at work and at play in the studio, and picking up on the private, coded language they used amongst themselves, he incorporated it alongside contemporary slang into his inventive and surreal narrative.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdens%27_Nut_Gone_Flake)

K2HD: It is possible to expand digital data from low-grade formats (32kHz) up to high-grade formats with a maximum of 192kHz/24 bits with K2HD processing. For example, when a CD master is produced from an analog master tape, everything above 20kHz is cut during CD formatting. K2HD processing reproduces the lost high-frequency components almost the same as the analog master.

01. Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (02:29)
02. Afterglow Of Your Love (03:30)
03. Long Agos And Worlds Apart (02:34)
04. Rene (04:31)
05. Song Of A Baker (03:18)
06. Lazy Sunday (03:06)
07. Happiness Stan (02:37)
08. Rollin' Over (02:49)
09. The Hungry Intruder (02:14)
10. The Journey (04:12)
11. Mad John (04:15)
12. Happydaystoytown (02:50)

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Chicken Shack - Forty Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve [Japanese Ed.] (1968)

Year: June 1968 (CD Nov 21, 1994)
Label: Epic Records (Japan), ESCA 7565
Style: Rock, Blues Rock
Country: UK
Time: 39:48
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 259 Mb

Chicken Shack's first single “It's Okay With Me Baby / When My Left Eye Jumps” (BH 57-3135), was released in 1968 shortly before their first LP release 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve was released later that year. Christine Perfect composed and sang the song on side A of the first single and Stan Webb composed and sang the song on the flip side. Neither side of the first single was included on the first LP release. The first non-album single and the debut LP attracted a lot of attention. 40 Blue Fingers... ended up having considerable chart success (No. 12 on the British Album Charts). Stan Webb and Christine Perfect both wrote two songs for the album and the rest of the songs were blues covers. Webb sang lead vocals on all of his compositions as well as all of the covers. Perfect sang lead only on her compositions.
Chicken Shack are a British blues and rock band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (later McVie) (vocals and keyboards) in 1967. Chicken Shack has performed with various line-ups, Stan Webb being the only constant member.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Shack)

01. The Letter (04:31)
02. Lonesome Whistle Blues (03:06)
03. When The Train Comes Back (03:36)
04. San-Ho-Zay (03:08)
05. King Of The World (05:05)
06. See See Baby (02:28)
07. First Time I Met The Blues (06:30)
08. Webbed Feet (02:57)
09. You Ain't No Good (03:40)
10. What You Did Last Night (04:41)

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Love Sculpture - Blues Helping (1968)

Year: October 1968 (CD 2008)
Label: Esoteric Recordings (Europe), ECLEC 2015
Style: Rock, Blues Rock
Country: Cardiff, Wales
Time: 52:32
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 320 Mb

Love Sculpture were founded in Cardiff in 1966 by former members of the Human Beans. The band mostly performed blues standards, slightly revved-up, but still close to the originals. Their debut album Blues Helping included the songs "Summertime" and "Wang Dang Doodle". They are best known for their 1968 novelty hit in the UK Singles Chart, a high-speed cover version of the classical piece "Sabre Dance" by Aram Khachaturian, released on the Parlophone label (R 5744), which reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1968. The recording was inspired by Keith Emerson's classical rearrangements. "Sabre Dance" became a hit after receiving air play by British DJ John Peel, who was so impressed that he played it twice in one programme. In December 1968, UK music magazine NME reported that Love Sculpture had signed a US recording contract with London Records, guaranteeing ?250,000.
The band were also given an invitation to perform "Sabre Dance" live on the German Beat-Club television programme of Radio Bremen, being broadcast in monochrome at that time. Second album Forms and Feelings followed, including the aforementioned "Sabre Dance", and additional songs including , "In The Land of the Few", "Farandole", "People People", "Seagull (West Coast Oil Tragedy)", written by Paul Korda, and the equally fast cover of Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me". The US version of the album also featured a recording of "Mars" from Gustav Holst's The Planets, but Holst's estate refused to license the tune for the UK version. They recorded for BBC Radio 1's John Peel sessions in 1968 (twice) and 1969. In 1970 Mickey Gee joined the band as a second guitarist, and Terry Williams replaced Rob Jones on drums.
Love Sculpture split up in 1970 after a US tour, having recorded just the two albums. Edmunds went on to solo number one hit success with "I Hear You Knocking" later in 1970, and collaborated heavily with ex-Brinsley Schwarz bassist Nick Lowe, eventually forming the band Rockpile with him and Terry Williams.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Sculpture)

01. The Stumble (03:03)
02. Three O'Clock Blues (05:08)
03. I Believe To My Soul (03:47)
04. So Unkind (02:56)
05. Summertime (04:02)
06. On The Road Again (03:35)
07. Don't Answer The Door (06:02)
08. Wang Dang Doodle (03:31)
09. Come Back Baby (02:45)
10. Shake Your Hips (03:19)
11. Blues Helping (03:46)
12. Morning Dew (Take Me For A Walk) (02:52)
13. It's A Wonder (02:41)
14. River To Another Day (02:36)
15. Brand New Woman (02:21)

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Tamam Shud - Evolution (1968) Goolutionites And The Real People (1970) [2LP on 1CD]

Year: 1968 / 1970 (CD 2002)
Label: ???? Records (Australia), TSCD04
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Time: 78:42
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 506 Mb

Tamam Shud are an Australian psychedelic, progressive and surf rock band formed in Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1964. The initial line-up were known as The Four Strangers with Eric Connell on bass guitar, Dannie Davidson on drums, Gary Johns on rhythm guitar and Alex "Zac" Zytnik on lead guitar. At the end of that year Johns was replaced by Lindsay Bjerre on guitar and vocals as they trimmed their name to The Strangers. By late 1965 they had become The Sunsets. They took the name Tamam Shud in late 1967 after replacing Connell with Peter Barron on bass guitar. The group released two albums, Evolution (1969) – after which Tim Gaze replaced Zytnik on lead guitar – and Goolutionites and the Real People (1970) before disbanding in 1972. After a lengthy hiatus they reformed in 1993 to release a third album, Permanent Culture in 1994, but disbanded again in 1995. Beginning in 2008 the group worked together periodically on new material: it took eight years to complete their fourth album, Eight Years of Moonlight (January 2016).
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud)

01. Music Train , Evolution (06:37)
02. I'm No One (02:06)
03. Mr. Strange (02:31)
04. Lady Sunshine (04:37)
05. Falling Up (02:46)
06. Feel Free (03:09)
07. It's A Beautiful Day (02:51)
08. Jesus Guide Me (03:51)
09. Rock On Top (02:46)
10. The Slow One And The Fast One (06:55)
11. Too Many Life (02:57)
12. Goolutionites (and the Real People) (01:04)
13. They'll Take You Down On The Lot (03:37)
14. I Love You All (03:42)
15. Heaven Is Closed (09:07)
16. A Plague (05:10)
17. Stand In The Sunlight (02:41)
18. Take A Walk On A Foggy Morn (02:18)
19. Goolutionites Theme Part 1 (03:18)
20. Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (03:53)
21. Got A Feeling (02:36)

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Mad River - Mad River (1968)

Year: 1968 (CD 2000)
Label: Edsel Records (UK), EDCD 651
Style: Psychedelic Rock
Country: Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, U.S.
Time: 40:43
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 221 Mb

Mad River was an American psychedelic rock band, who were briefly popular in the late 1960s. They released two albums on Capitol Records.

Mad River formed at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in April 1966. The band took its name from the nearby Mad River. By March 1967, they had relocated to Berkeley, California. There they came to the attention of cult author Richard Brautigan who launched the band into the growing hippie culture. They released an EP on the independent Wee label before signing a contract with Capitol Records in February 1968. The group's lead songwriter was Lawrence Hammond, but all of the members sang vocals. They released two albums before disbanding in July 1969. Lawrence Hammond put out several solo albums in the 1970s and 1980s, and Greg Dewey later joined Country Joe and the Fish, as well as playing with two of Marty Balin's post-Jefferson Airplane groups.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_River_(band))

01. Merciful Monks (03:46)
02. High All The Time (04:15)
03. Amphetamine Gazelle (03:02)
04. Eastern Light (08:09)
05. Wind Chimes (07:29)
06. The War Goes On (12:47)
07. Hush, Julian (01:13)

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Charlie Musselwhite - Louisiana Fog (1968)

Year: 1968 (CD 1994)
Label: Blues Legends (Canada), BLS12212
Style: Blues
Country: Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S. (January 31, 1944)
Time: 34:36
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 222 Mb

The first disappointment in the Musselwhite catalog, this hodgepodge of material and sidemen still has some standouts, especially Little Richard's R&B ballad "Directly from My Heart" -- which features the Ford brothers and Tim Kaihatsu and Clay Cotton (back in the lineup from the Stone Blues days). "Big Legged Woman" and "Takin' Care of Business" are respectable, but overall the album ranges from uneven to subpar.
(allmusic.com/album/louisiana-fog-mw0000664958)

 

01. Louisiana Fog (04:13)
02. Takin' Care of Business (02:20)
03. Big Legged Woman (04:48)
04. Riffin (04:14)
05. Leavin' (02:16)
06. Just a Little Bit (02:52)
07. Fell on My Knees (05:40)
08. Directly From My Heart (03:31)
09. Fat City (04:39)

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Harvey Mandel - Cristo Redentor (1968)

Year: 1968 (CD 2003)
Label: Raven Records (Australia), RVCD-163
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Instrumental
Country: Detroit, Michigan, U.S. (March 11, 1945)
Time: 77:02
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 424 Mb

Cristo Redentor is the debut album by Harvey Mandel. Richie Unterberger of AllMusic writes that "Mandel's debut remains his best early work." John Tobler wrote in the liner notes of the CD that Mandel "was good enough to be invited to audition for The Rolling Stones and he worked with John Mayall and Canned Heat - but it is for this Cristo Redentor album, and particularly for the utterly classic Wade in the Water that he will be remembered." This album is completely instrumental with the exception of the title track where soprano Jacqueline May Allen, joined by Carolyn Willis, Edna Wright and Julia Tillman Waters, blend their wordless voices as if another instrument.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristo_Redentor_(album))
This is an Australian release. Compared to the original vinyl, the track order has been changed and 8 bonus tracks have been added.

01. Wade In The Water (07:52)
02. Lights Out (04:56)
03. Bradley's Barn (03:20)
04. You Can't Tell Me (04:22)
05. Nashville 1 A.M. (03:41)
06. Cristo Redentor (03:50)
07. Before Six (06:31)
08. The Lark (04:42)
09. Snake (03:49)
10. Long Wait (02:48)
11. Spirit of Trane (04:04)
12. My Time Ain't Long (03:50)
13. Let's Work Together (02:52)
14. That's All Right (05:33)
15. A Little Soul Food (04:07)
16. What Comes Around Goes Around (04:24)
17. My Soul's On Fire (04:16)
18. Which Witch is Which (01:57)

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The Electric Prunes - Mass In F Minor (1968)

Year: January 1968 (CD 2000)
Label: Rhino Records (Europe), R2 7519, CCM-134-2
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Time: 32:24
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 205 Mb

Album consists of a musical setting of the mass sung in Latin and Greek and arranged in the psychedelic style of the band, and was written and arranged by David Axelrod.
Following the limited commercial success of the Electric Prunes' previous album, Underground, the band's manager Lenny Poncher and their producer Dave Hassinger, whose company owned the rights to the band name, agreed with Reprise Records that their third album would be written and arranged by David Axelrod, a classically trained musician. The album was planned to combine religious and classical elements with psychedelic rock, in a religious-based rock-opera concept album.[2] Axelrod was given carte blanche by Hassinger to do what he wanted with the Electric Prunes.
When the existing band – singer James Lowe, guitarists Ken Williams and Mike Gannon, bassist Mark Tulin, and drummer Michael "Quint" Weakley – came to record the album, it became apparent that the complex arrangements largely outstripped the band's ability to perform them to the standards expected by Axelrod, or within the time set aside for recording. Although Lowe, Tulin (the only band member who could read music) and Weakley appeared on all the tracks, and Williams and Gannon also appeared on the first three tracks ("Kyrie Eleison", "Gloria" and "Credo"), the album was finished by studio musicians working with engineer Richie Podolor on guitar, and a Canadian group, the Collectors.[2] The choral-style vocals were by Lowe, double-tracked.[5] Hassinger was credited with producing the album.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_F_Minor)

01. Kyrie Eleison (03:21)
02. Gloria (05:45)
03. Credo (05:02)
04. Sanctus (02:57)
05. Benedictus (04:52)
06. Agnus Dei (04:29)
07. Hey Mr President (bonus) (02:49)
08. Flowing Smoothly (bonus) (03:06)

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