Andi ChorleyMedium by The Mandrake Memorial, released on Poppy in 1968.
The Mandrake Memorial took a dark, sombre turn on their second LP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRx-qDHXR_k&list=RDsRx-qDHXR_k&start_radio=1
Ghetto Music is the debut album by American trumpeter Eddie Gale recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label.
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 5 stars and stated "The aesthetic and cultural merits of Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music cannot be overstated... This is an apocryphal album, one that seamlessly blends the new jazz of the '60s with gospel, soul, and the blues... This is some of the most spiritually engaged, forward-thinking, and finely wrought music of 1968".In 2022, in a contemporary review, Pitchfork (website) called the album 'a spiritually charged masterpiece .., a controlled and chaotic blend of free jazz, meditative soul, and gospel' and awarded it a 9.4 out of 10. - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8nB5gaQggs&list=RDG8nB5gaQggs&start_radio=1
#eddiegale #GhettoMusic #eddiegaleGhettoMusic #bluenote #jazz #soul #gospel #1968inmusic
Without Earth by the Moon, released on Imperial in 1968.
Streetmouse wrote on Rate Your Music:
"...Headed by David Marks and Matthew Moore, The Moon spun from impressive backgrounds. David Marks had been a member of The Beach Boys, playing rhythm guitar on their first four albums, and then with Dave & The Marksmen ... while Matthew Moore perfected his craft while heading Matthew Moore Plus Four, with both having a series of notable singles. Be all that as it may, none of the tracks found on Without Earth even managed to chart on Top 40 Radio, leaving The Moon off course, awash in a sea of music that was rapidly changing, and finding a home, if not a bit of cult status, in the hearts and minds of those for whom pop-psychedelic was totally irresistible..."
A New Time – A New Day was a 1968 album for The Chambers Brothers. It contained their chart hit "I Can't Turn You Loose" plus the title song, "A New Time – A New Day" and covers of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone", and "I Wish It Would Rain". It did well in the US and Canadian charts.
The album had a positive review from Record World in the magazine's 12 October 1968 issue. The reviewer noted the tight instrumentation and vital vocals, finishing off by saying that the album was something that the teens will make sure to own. - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNwisCftUe0&list=PLP0IenmeCOtzOzE2kEr6AwXWJllwoOgBs&index=11
Ended yesterday and greeted today after my swim with What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David an album by saxophonist Stan Getz which was released on the Verve label in 1968.
Stan does Burt and Hal with an all star cast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mfOOr2eiQY&list=OLAK5uy_kUxboxkTH9CctVTDjKubpGBu_Kz6aJctU
#StanGetz #JeromeRichardson
#ChickCorea #HerbieHancock
#KennyBurrell #JimHall #PhilUpchurch #RonCarter
#RoyHaynes #RichardEvans
#CharlesMcCracken #burtbacharach #haldavid #1968inmusic #ververecords #jazz
Feelin' Bluesy by Gladys Knight & the Pips, released on Motown in 1968, is an unjustly neglected classic from their tenure at the label.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgteTdn-ovk&list=PLpQSXFRLbQ1yyCVW4R9SDpNEkAzUestgD&index=1
The End Of Our Road
Prophets, Seers & Sages: The Angels of the Ages is the second studio album by English psychedelic folk band Tyrannosaurus Rex (later known as T. Rex). It was released on 1 November 1968 by record label Regal Zonophone.
AllMusic wrote that "the album delivered some of Marc Bolan's most resonant songs...The already classic pop of the opening "Deboraarobed" is further dignified by its segue into the same performance played backwards, a fairly groundbreaking move at a time when even the Beatles were still burying such experiments deep in the mix". The reviewer concluded by remarking that Bolan "created a whole new language -- half nonsense, half mystery, but wholly intoxicating". Tiny Mix Tapes wrote that it was a psychedelic folk album with "intense bongo action" and "strong backing vocals".. - Wikipedia
#marcbolan #trex #psychedelia #1968inmusic #hippydippy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vilx18eTsgU&list=OLAK5uy_kfgJLdh-NcbOAoGWkoRsS1Lz62_hCY52I
Deboraarobed
The Power of the True Love Knot is an album by Shirley Collins.
The theme of this collection of songs is "the idea of true love as a power outside society's control", as Shirley writes on the liner notes. If the first track sounds slightly like "Eleanor Rigby", this is because Bram Taylor plays cello on both of them. Two other guests are Mike Heron and Robin Williamson from The Incredible String Band. The relationship bore fruit on Shirley's next album. Anthems in Eden (1969) contains "God Dog", a song written by Robin Williamson.
The title of this album comes from the song "Lady Margaret and Sweet William". On this song, Shirley accompanies herself on 5-string dulcimer, adapted to have a banjo neck, an instrument she only ever used on this album... - Wikipedia
#shirleycollins #incrediblestringband #folkmusic #1968inmusic
Shirley Collins - The Power of True Love Knot (1968) (Full Album)
Randy Newman is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Randy Newman, released in 1968 by Reprise Records.
Newman later commented:
"It's like I'd never heard The Rolling Stones. I thought you could move things along just with the orchestra, that it was somehow cheating to use drums. What Van Dyke and I, and Harry Nilsson to some degree, were doing, it was like a branch of homo sapiens that didn't become homo sapiens. Homo erectus," he said.
Bruce Grimes of Rolling Stone described the album as being characterized by a "mood of a bitter longing for affection". ...Grimes continued: "certainly 'Love Story' is the blues of Middle America. The song marks out a simple pattern of life: boy meets girl, gets married, lives in suburbia, has children, dies. Randy moves in on The Dream in an uncommon way: 'When our kids are grown/They’ll send us away to a little home in Florida/ We’ll play checkers all day/Till we pass away.'
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=siZ5ihqLmTk&list=PLGASPkxjqVXZoDJ2ULd7qzo_ldn9B12Ih&index=1
