Harry Nilsson's third album 'Harry" and the one on which he sings only songs written by Randy Newman, all released on one cd. As a matter of fact you get one Newman song extra because 'Harry' ends with 'Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear'.

The Lovin' Spoonful scored loads of hits worldwide between 1965 and 1968 with songs like 'Summer In The City', 'Daydream' or 'Nashville Cats'. The 26 songs on this album are a perfect compilation of their best work.

The Lovin' Spoonful scored loads of hits worldwide between 1965 and 1968 with songs like 'Summer In The City', 'Daydream' or 'Nashville Cats'. The 26 songs on this album are a perfect compilation of their best work.

Official release date: september 12th, but already on Avaxhome. Los Lobos latest. It sounds like Tex-Mex, but it isn't because it misses one essential part of Tex-Mex called Texas. These guys are from the barriós of Los Angeles and play conjunto or norteño mixed with rock and blues. This album is much less rock than their previous ones and reminds me of, what to me is their best one, Kiko.

Doug Sahm, Freddie Fender, Flaco Jimenez and Augie Meyers are in great shape on their second album as the Texas Tornados. Tex-Mex at its best.

Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, English pubrocker Nick Lowe and star drummer Jim Keltner played as a unit in 1987 on Hiatt's masterpiece album Bring the Family and joined forces again 15 years ago for an album (and a band) that brought out the best of the four musicians. This is really some great rockin'.

Newbury jumped from Mercury to Elektra and in 1970 recorded his masterpiece Frisco Mabel Joy. Produced by Dennis Linde and recorded at the same converted garage studio (Cinderella Sound) the previous Looks Like Rain had been, Frisco Mabel Joy adapts its title from a song on that album. Once again, texture, atmosphere and above all mood and mystery were the central tenets of what would become Newbury's trademark sound. The album opens with Newbury's arrangement of what he called "The American Trilogy," a suite containing three songs that have their origin in the Civil War. If this sounds familiar, it is: Elvis Presley made a much more bombastic version of this the centerpiece of his Vegas shows. Newbury's version, full of soft strings, guitars, Charlie McCoy's haunting harmonica bleeding into a muted brass section, is full of drama and pathos. A great album that All Music Guide honors with their maximum five stars.

Their name has the same beginning as Los Lobos' and they could be their three kid brothers, cause they surely have loads of steaming latino blood in their veins. But these guys are not from the Westcoast but real Texans. So they add a bit of Stevie Ray Vaughn to the dashes of Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix that spice up their songs. Plus some real Tex-Mex in the Doug Sahm/Sir Douglas/Texas Tornados style. The first album became an unexpected overnight success, but the new one is even better. So put on your sombreros or stetsons and boots, cause it's fiesta time, y'arriba and yeeha! Oh yeah, their godfather Willie Nelson is also present at the party in the great song Outlaws.

In just under three years, Ian Matthews split from Fairport Convention, went solo, formed Matthews' Southern Comfort - with whom he scored a number one U.K. hit - left the group at the height of its popularity, recorded three more records on his own (only two were released at this time) and in early 1972 started Plainsong, his fourth band in five years. The result, In Search Of Amelia Earhart is still one of the highlights of English folk-countryrock music. Great playing, great singing and great songs that never get outdated. There's the saga of Amelia Earhart, the famous American female pilot who disappeared before WW II, but also one of the best and most hilarious trucker songs I know: There's a diesel on my tail making 90 miles an hour, my reflection in my mirror's mighty pale. Their version of Paul Siebel's song about the little hooker Louise is also of great beauty.

In my opinion one of the finest English bands of the moment. Catchy popsongs, beautiful melodies and great musicians. A five-piece group, consisting of Ben Ottewell (vocals, guitar), Tom Gray (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Paul Blackburn (bass, guitar), Olly Peacock (drums), and Ian Ball (vocals, guitar, harmonica). Whereas the majority of up-and-coming British bands are either retro-pop (à la Oasis), trip-hop (Portishead), or space rock (the Verve, Radiohead), Gomez is one of the few to contain bluesy elements in their rock. Their debut for Virgin Records, Bring It On, was praised in the rock press on both sides of the Atlantic. They also received the distinguished Mercury Music Prize for 1998 Album of the Year in England.

One of his best albums with great songs like Rednecks, Guilty, Birmingham, Back On My Feet Again and Louisiana 1927.

Mickey Newbury became mostly famous for writing 'An American Trilogy', which gave Elvis Presley a hit in his Las Vegas period. Along with fellow songwriters such as Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, and Tom T. Hall, Mickey Newbury helped revolutionize country music in the 1960s and '70s by bringing new, broader musical influences as well as a frank, emotional depth to the music -- while at the same time never losing respect for tradition. Newbury infused his country music with haunting beauty and spiritual melancholy, creating an impressive collection of introspective, emotionally complex songs that are more spiritual cousins of the work of Leonard Cohen than that of Roy Acuff. Like many of his generation, however -- such as his friend Townes Van Zandt -- Newbury was better known as a songwriter than as a singer. Newbury recorded 15 albums over a nearly 30-year period and died in 2002.



Frisco Mabel Joy is generally seen as Newbury's masterpiece. In 2000 artists like Dave Alvin, Chuck Prophet, The Walkabouts, Bill Frisell and Kris Kristofferson united in a project to honor Mickey Newbury by rerecording Frisco Mabel Joy. A nice and beautiful effort.

Before rock & roll gave listeners the Traveling Wilburys, country music spawned the Highwaymen, a supergroup of mythic proportions that featured living legends Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson. The foursome had worked together in various combinations over the years, but teamed up under the Highwaymen umbrella in 1985. Their first single together, "Highwayman," topped the country charts that year and spawned an album of the same name on Columbia. The album also proved mightily popular, hitting number one on the country listings and producing a Top 20 follow-up single in a cover of Guy Clark's "Desperadoes Waiting for a Train." Afterward, the members returned to their individual careers for a few years, but reconvened in 1990 to record a sequel, Highwayman 2. It reached number four on the country album charts and spun off the minor hit "Silver Stallion," but didn't cause quite the same stir overall as its predecessor. Another layoff followed, and when the Highwaymen returned for a third outing in 1995, they inked a new deal with Liberty/Capitol and recorded The Road Goes on Forever.

Can white men sing soul and blues? Sure, if they are called Frankie Miller, the scottish Rhythm & Blues singer with more grit in his voice than Joe Cocker or Rod Stewart. Frankie is still trying to recover from a stroke, but this album honors all the great stuff he did in the past. Includes his hits 'Darlin' and 'Love Letters'.

A very rare and hard to find album but every Ry Cooder afficionado should have it, if only because of two songs on it: Too Close, a beautiful duet of John Hiatt and Amy Madigan who is not only great as the leading actress in the movie but proves also to be a perfect singer; and: Quatro Vicios, sung by Cesar Rosas and David Hidalgo from Los Lobos. An intriguing album where Texas meets Vietnam musically and cosmopolite Cooder introduces again some new worlds.