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"A Long Play With..." is the fab new release by THE FRANTIC V, the ultra hip garage kings of Greece, which also marks their 10th year anniversary in the garagedom! After numerous singles on various labels (from Australia to United Kingdom) plus a 10" mini album on the Italian Misty Lane Records, this is their first and brand new album! Expect nothing less than the best and most swinging 60's garage "shakers" to be heard nowadays. Swirling Farfisa organ, snotty vocals and jangles with tambourines is their trademark sound and this time they deliver another healthy dose for all of you garage hipsters! "Room 409" is the opening track and the party begins with this ultra-cool swinging instrumental with lots of surf references! Next to it, a series of tunes such as "She Lied", "Close Your Eyes", "I'm Asking Why" and "Good Lovin'" is part of the same swinging movie "soundtrack"! Both tracks "Girl Don't Play (With Me)" and "You're Gonna Be Mine" come from the band's early days and luckily we have the opportunity to enjoy them on vinyl! "Quinta" is a sax-orgasmic drenched mid-tempo instrumental, the most suitable titles track of a new porn movie!!! As far as "Hang Up" of the fabulous Wailers is concerned, it is about a killer low tempo 60's punk cover-version that will surely satisfy all the beatniks around! Last but not least, "It's Been So Long" is a folk punk gem that recalls all those forgotten teenagers of The New England scene back in the 60's as well as the ballads of the Swedish garage scene of the 80's/90's! Their first "Long Play" is by far their best effort and destined to be a timeless classic!!!

trax:
01 Room 409 02 She Lied 03 Close Your Eyes 04 I'm Blue 05 Girl Don't Play (with me) 06 Hang Up 07 Quinta (saxorgasmic Version) 08 I'm Asking Why 09 Good Lovin' 10 You're Gonna Be Mine 11 Tomorrow Not Tonight 12 It's Been So Long

Amazing collection of rockin' R&B!trax:
1. Scratch That Itch - Elliot Shavers 2. Itch With Me - Guitar Crusher 3. Where Did I Goof - Elroy 'Shadow' Peace 4. You've Got To Move - James Dixon 5. You Move Me Baby - The Rivingtons 6. Quick Draw McGraw - Frank Dalton 7. My Heart Beats Faster - The El Venos 8. What's The Matter Claudy - Ernest Tucker 9. How Can I Please You - Little Frankie Brunson 10. Hounds Tooth - Hal Singer 11. The Dog - Junior & The Classics 12. Rock N Roll Music - Jimmy Breedlove 13. You Can't Do Me Wrong - Toni Knight 14. Turn It On - Don Covay 15. My Lady Love - Johnny Oliver 16. Find My Baby - The African Beavers 17. I'm Talkin' About You Baby - Emmet Davis 18. The Wobble - Sonny Til & The Orioles 19. If You'll Be My Love - Henry Hayes Orchestra 20. Astronaut - Bob Arnold
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Maxine Brown recorded for the Scepter label's Wand subsidiary during the same period as the Shirelles, Chuck Jackson and Tommy Hunt -- which means that among the writer-producers she worked with were Carole King, Luther Dixon and Burt Bacharach. This album contains two complete albums and eight bonus tracks. The material on this Kent album is fine and the notes are good. (Amazon)trax:
01 Oh No, Not My Baby 02 It's Gonna Be Alright 03 Ask Me 04 I Cry Alone 05 Coming Back To You 06 He Does Something To Me aka You Do Something To Me 07 Wonder What My Baby's Doing Tonight 08 Since I Found You 09 Gotta Find A Way 10 Yesterday's Kisses 11 You Upset My Soul 12 Little Girl Lost 13 We Can Work It Out 14 I Don_t Need Anything 15 Anything For A Laugh 16 If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody 17 One Step At A Time 18 I've Got A Lot Of Love Left In Me 19 One In A Million 20 Soul Serenade 21 Anything You Do Is Alright 22 He_s The Only Guy I_ll Ever Love 23 Slipping Thru My Fingers 24 Do It Now 25 When I Fall In Love 26 I Got Love 27 Listen To My Heart 28 Wrong Number, Right Girl
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I just completed a song and video commemorating the early days of Sun Studios. 1954 thru 1958. Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins started their careers at Sun. I thought you and your readers might enjoy it. I would be honored if you would take a listen and would be even more honored if you posted it on your blog.

The Frantic Five where formed in June of 1994 (Thessaloniki-Greece) and they have never denied their obsession with the sound of the mid-sixties garage punk, rnb and euro beat. The spine of their sound consists of an explosive mixture of farfisa and fuzz and they manage to move smoothly between garage punk, groovy beat and melodic moody tunes. The band has a bunch of releases in various labels across the globe (Greece, Australia, Italy, UK, Germany) and has participated in numerous compilations.
The Frantic Five have been on stage countless times and they also have been touring outside the borders of Greece in countries such as Germany, Italy, UK and Turkey since 2003.
The Frantics where honored to open for bands such as the Sonics (2009), the Fuzztones (2001,2003), ? and The Mysterians (1999), Sky Saxon and The Seeds (2006), Fleshtones (2006), Sick Rose (2006) and others and they have also shared the stage with all the Greek rock n roll bands.

The Frantic Five:
Bass, Backing Vocals – Manolis Hatzidakis / Drums, Vocals – Alexandros Klimentopoulos / Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica – Kostas Kapetanakis / Organ [Farfisa], Backing Vocals – Sakis Kyriazis / Vocals, Tambourine, Maracas [Maraccas] – Chris Kyriazis

trax:
01 Kathe Fora 02 Be Mine 03 I Missed My Cloud 04 I've Been A Fool 05 Misty Morning 06 I Gotta Be Goin' 07 She Ain't You 08 Wrong Guy

Cool collection of Northern Soul compiled by Tim Brown.trax:
1. My Baby's Been Cheating I Know - AC Reed 2. Do You Still Love Me - Cookie Jackson 3. I've Only Got Myself To Blame - Bobby Williams 4. Standing At A Standstill - Sherlock Holmes 5. Come Back My Love - Jackie Beavers 6. Like My Love For You - The Four Tracks 7. I Am Nothing - The LaBeat Orchestra 8. Castle In The Sky - Gerri Granger 9. Goodbye - Bob Brady & The Conchords 10. The Star - Shirley Lawson 11. Taking My Mind Off You - Carol Anderson 12. I Don't Know About You - The Constellations 13. Ain't Gonna Give You Up - The Volumes 14. Call Me - Emmitt Long 15. Good Side Of Love - Ronnie McNeir 16. Just Like The Hero - Ed Cooper 17. My Baby Needs Me - The Mellow Fellows 18. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong/ Ray & Dave - Ray & Dave 19. Crazy Things - Joe Douglas 20. Walkin' Back - Jackie Taylor 21. You Satisfy My Needs - Big Dee Irwin
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Milestone Records, located in California, is best remembered for the hits 'Diamonds and Pearls' by the Paradons & 'Lover's Island' by the Bluejays. Now you can enjoy them along with other great material from this great label. (Music Heaven)trax:
1. Diamonds And Pearls - The Paradons 2. Lover's Island - The Blue Jays 3. The Wedding Song (If You Say I Do) - The Hi-Tensions 4. If You Care - The Metronomes 5. Let's Make Love - The Blue Jays 6. The Clock - The Hi-Tensions 7. I'm Saying Goodbye - The Angels 8. You're Gonna Cry - The Blue Jays 9. Please Tell Me - The Paradons 10. The Right To Love - The Blue Jays 11. Come What May - The Hi-Tensions 12. Old Times - The Hi-Tensions 13. Rock Rock Rock - The Blue Jays 14. Let Me Help You - The Wilsons 15. Tree Tall Len - The Blue Jays 16. Real Sensation - The Angels 17. So Far Away - The Hi-Tensions 18. Tears Are Falling - The Blue Jays 19. She'll Break Your Heart - The Hi-Tensions 20. Fountain Of Love - The Metronomes 21. Venus, My Love - The Blue Jays 22. Gotta Good Feeling - The Hi-Tensions 23. Bells Ring - The Paradons 24. Traveling Lady - The Hi-Tensions 25. Ebbing Of The Tide - The Hi-Tensions 26. I Want To Love - The Paradons 27. So Long, Lover's Island - The Blue Jays
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Fine collection of soul compiled by Tim Brown.trax:
1. If I Could Only Be Sure - Nolan Porter 2. Isn't It Just A Shame - Kenny Wells 3. Only Lies - Reatha Rees 4. Two Loves Have I - Big Joe Turner 5. One More Chance - Shirley Lawson 6. Can You Remember - Rhonda Davis 7. What Does It Take - The Bay Brothers 8. I Got It From Heaven - Billy Harner 9. A Lot Of Lovin Goin' Round - Clarence Hill 10. When You Gonna Tell Her About Me - Yvonne Vaughn 11. I've Arrived - Steve Flanagan 12. I've Had It - George Smith 13. Check It Baby - Willie & The Mighty Magnificents 14. Get Away From Me Girl - Willie West 15. Love Is Alright - Jessie James 16. Where Did I Go Wrong - Phil Flowers 17. Time Will Change - The Inverts 18. I Just Can't Speak - Jimmy Bo Horne 19. Touch My Heart - The Vonettes 20. If You Don't Come - Patience Valentine 21. Tower Of Strength - Gloria Lynne 22. That's Why I Cry - George Hughley 23. Down And Out - George Freeman 24. On Easy Street - O. C. Smith 25. She's Called A Woman - The Magnificent Seven
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Old-time country compilations don't get any better than this dazzling 36-song double CD, made up of artists who are unrepresented (or barely represented) on CD, and genuine rarities by some who are well represented. The opening track, "Railroad Blues" by Sam McGee, heralds a brace of blues-based country songs by G.B. Grayson ("Omie Wise"), the Carolina Tarheels ("Peg and Awl"), Buster Carter and Preston Young ("Lazy Farmer Boy"), where black and white rural music meet and interweave inextricably -- Dick Justice's "Brownskin Blues" and Jimmie Tarlton's "Slow Wicked Blues" (with some gorgeous yodeling) are as good fine examples of blues as anything you'll hear on the Yazoo or Document labels, and there's not a Gene Autry blues number even present! Old-style blues and old-time banjo styles also link together in Buell Kazee's "Butcher Boy." The Williamson Brothers perform one of the earliest commercial recordings of "John Henry," entitled "Gonna Die With This Hammer in My Hand," and the Monroe Brothers and the Delmore Brothers are also present on this collection. It's also possible to hear records such as "The House Carpenter" by Clarence Ashley, which could easily have given Bob Dylan the direction to his early folk style (and I'm not willing to bet that he didn't know some of this stuff). Jimmie Rodgers is here ("Blue Yodel No. 8"), as is the Carter Family ("John Hardy," "Wildwood Flower"), but so is Tex Ritter in his ultra-rare 1935 recording of "Rye Whiskey, Rye Whiskey," the closest thing he had to a commercial success in that decade. The second disc does go further into performers who are remembered today, such as Milton Brown and His Brownies ("Hesitation Blues"), Patsy Montana ("I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart"), Shelly Lee Alley and His Alley Cats ("Women, Women, Women"), Bob Wills ("Liza, Pull Down The Shades," "What's the Matter With the Mill"), and even one who's still around in 1997, Roy Rogers, on "Cowboy Night Herd Song." The sound is excellent, though the notes are a bit sketchy, given the sheer amount of material included here. (French import) (Bruce Eder, Allmusic)

trax CD 1:
1. Railroad Blues - Sam McGee 2. Omie Wise - G.B. Grayson 3. Peg And Awl - The Carolina Tar Heels 4. A Lazy Farmer Boy - Buster Carter & Preston Young 5. The Butcher's Boy - Buell Kazee 6. My Name Is John Jo Hannah - Kelly Harrell 7. The House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley 8. Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand - The Williamson Brothers 9. Country Blues - Dock Boggs 10. Brownskin Blues - Dick Justice 11. Slow Wicked Blues - Jimmie Tarlton 12. Pan American Man - Cliff Carlisle 13. John Hardy - The Carter Family 14. Wildwood Flower - The Carter Family 15. Blue Yodel No. 8 - Jimmie Rodgers 16. All The Good Times Are Passed And Gone - The Monroe Brothers 17. Sinner, You Better Get Ready - The Monroe Brothers 18. Brown's Ferry Blues - The Delmore Brothers
trax CD 2:
1. Jimmies's Texas Blues - Jimmie Rodgers 2. Rockin' Blues - Jimmie Davis 3. The Days Of 49 - Jules Verne Allen 4. The Dying Cowboy - Jules Verne Allen 5. Rye Whiskey, Rye Whiskey - Tex Ritter 6. I'll Go Ridin' Down That Old Texas Trail - Gene Autry 7. Song Of The Bandit - The Sons Of The Pioneers 8. Cowboy Night Herd Song - Roy Rogers 9. I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart - Patsy Montana 10. What's The Matter With The Mill? - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys 11. Liza, Pull Down The Shades - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys 12. Hesitation Blues - Milton Brown & His Brownies 13. Alamo Rag - Adolf Hofner & His San Antonians 14. Women, Women, Women - Shelly Lee Alley & His Alley Cats 15. Fox And Hounds - Jimmie Revard & His Oklahoma Playboys 16. Wreck On The Highway - Roy Acuff & The Smokey Mountain Boys 17. Fireball Mail - Roy Acuff & The Smokey Mountain Boys 18. I Ain't Honky Tonkin' Anymore - Ernest Tubb & The Troubadours
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6th volume in the popular R&B Humdingers series, bringing you 20 more rockin' Rhythm & Blues movers, groovers and dancefloor fillers.trax:
1. Do It - The Premiers 2. Chimpanzee - Count Yates 3. Don't Forget I Love You - The Butanes 4. Doing The Rock 'n' Roll - Calvin Spears 5. Women - Emmett Lord 6. Stay A Little Longer - The Equaders 7. Scoop Scoobie Doobie - Jessie Hill 8. McDonald's Daughter - Lester Williams 9. Shack Daddy - Betty Jean Morris 10. Finger Tips - Red Prysock 11. Back To School - Professor Hamilton & The Schoolboys 12. Goodbye Dreamboat - Al T. Joe 13. Got My Gun - Ce Pee Johansen 14. Gorilla Walk - Sascha Burland 15. You Shake Me Up - The Frontiers 16. Rack 'Em Back - Walter Spriggs 17. Big Fat Sally - Ronnie & Roy 18. Come Dance With Me - Bob Ackoff 19. Do The Wiggle Wobble - Donnie Carl 20. On The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine - Jimmy Donley
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Bury St. Edmunds' teenage terrorists' debut album is a cross between the Buzzcocks and Billy Childish with a bit of Mummies thrown in. 15 original tracks (plus a cover), this is an astonishing first album for musicians of any age, nevermind a bunch of teenagers.

trax:
01 Introduction To Thee Vicars 02 Back On The Streets 03 Why Have You Changed? 04 Mindless Squares 05 Budget Rock 06 Small Town Blues 07 Don't Try To Tell Me 08 Tore My Heart 09 The Dreaded Day Job 11 They Lied To You 12 You Better Watch Out 13 I'll Hunt You Down 14 I Don't Wanna Be Like You 15 Leavin' Here 16 Straight Home