Our staffers pick their best music, live and on record, from 2008..
Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen: Mo Hippa
The SPIKEdrivers: Live At The High Barn
Tom Doughty: Have A Taste Of This
Ian Siegal: Dust
James Hunter: The Hard Way
Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed & The Trueloves: Roll With You
Irma Thomas: Simply Grand
Ernie K. Doe: Here Come The Girls
Live [...]
Our cover star John Steel, live with The Animals, at the New Musical Express Poll Winners concert, Wembley Arena, England, April 11, 1965, and a fiery version of ‘Talkin’ About You’.
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The Cadillac Kings: Trouble In Store (33 Records)
Call Me Albert: Keep Harping On (Almost Live)
Aaron Curtis: I’m Going to Tell You (Grapefruit Records)
The Essential Gordon Smith (note records)
The Spikedrivers – Live At High Barn (Scratchy Records)
Samuel Thornton – Easy Street
Ivolv Digital (download only)
The Animals has always been a dynamic blues-rock band, ever since it was formed in the nineteen-sixties. It has been through many changes but John Steel has always been driving the pace from the drum stool. John has had an interesting life and he talked about it to Trevor Hodgett, who interviewed him for this [...]
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