@wavethatflag Keep working backwards in your Simple Minds journey and be rewarded with... “Chelsea Girl”
It came out late in the series, and is the only one that's not dedicated to a particular label or group of labels. Instead its focus is Chicago soul groups that Bob Abrahamian interviewed on his radio show. The liner notes have excerpts from the interviews.
Trippy desert blues jamming has been long the domain of US Southwest and Saharan countries (especially Mali), but it looks that Russian Siberia is working hard to break this duopoly... KhaRa - Meryachenie (2016) Хара "Мерячение" / KhaRa "Meryachenie" (SKMR-125), by ХаРа / KhaRa Tim Dorofeyev's Project - Vostok Sever / East North (2012) East North LEO RECORDS: CD LR 639: Tim Dorofeyev's Project - North and East
It's a shame that history has been written to somewhat disregard the interim years from Peter Green to Buckingham/Nicks, because the the Bob Welch era Mac has so much amazing material in it.
These are the loveliest ambient/impressionist piano études I have heard since... let me think... Goldmund's Malady of Elegance (2008)! The Malady of Elegance, by Goldmund
The Band 1971 Royal Albert Hall London England There has has never been a rock n roll band with three lead singers that could match The Band. Not even close. This show is a treasure and it is strange that it took them 50 years to get it out. It should have been released on it's own though. It's easily their best live show.
Funkadelic - Tales of Kidd Funkadelic (Westbound/Ace CD, 1976/2005) Their last on Westbound before they split for Warner Bros. Features "Undisco Kidd," "Butt to Buttresuscitation" and "Take Your Dead Ass Home."
Fun evening with JGB also saw Neil w/Harvesters there. A low ceiling did nothing for the sound (as with The Stone) but both nights the music was hot...