Shuggie Otis - Freedom FlightRE PRESSED ON PURPLE VINYL. Well before Shuggie Otis cut his debut album, musicianship and performance had long been a part of his life. The son of rhythm and blues legend Johnny Otis, Shuggie learned to play guitar as early as the age of two, and performed professionally with his father's band at eleven. Throughout his long and illustrious career he'd performed on records for the likes of Frank Zappa, Al Kooper, Etta James, and George Duke, to name a

and also say something meaningful while (crucially) having fun doing it

but left to play drums for the Smith Westerns

and rightfully so

singers / guitarists Fran Keaney

a threat or both

and gradually disappeared from music as the decade wore on

B2) Migas 2000 – The Liminanas

The follow-up to 2016’s Summer 08

Here are more than 20 of baroque pop’s finest moments

For decades now - it’s almost 50 years since he cut his classic albums “Bill Fay” and “Time of the Last Persecution” - songs like these have been Fay’s ambassadors helping rave reviews and endorsements from the likes of Jim O’Rourke (Tortoise) and Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) which led to a huge revival of interest in his music

deep-catalog choice of covers and Under the Savage Sky unearths some exquisite gems

the rousing blues ‘Darkness’ is recorded here for the first time