In 1968 Status Quo’s first hit record “Pictures of Matchstick Men” was released and the debut album soon followed. The single reached #7 in the UK, and remains the bands only major hit single in the US, where it reached #12. Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo features several covers, including “Green Tambourine” by […]
“Black and White” was the first album release by Tony Joe White. It contains the single “Polk Salad Annie” The single release peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Roots of Tony Joe White lie in the swamplands of Oak Grove, Louisiana, where he was born in 1943. White is not only a […]
1Puer Natus ( A Boy Is Born ) 2Away in a Manger 3O Tannenbaum ( O Christmas Tree ) 4The Joys Of Mary 5In Dulci Jubilo 6Celtic Carol ( Child In A Manger ) 7God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 8Here We Come A-wassailing 9The Wexford Carol 10Greensleeves (What Child Is This) 11On Christmas Night 12Infant […]
John Cameron is truly one of the greatest and most recognisable British arrangers of the 60s and 70s. He came out of the British jazz scene, playing live as a teenager with the likes of Dick Heckstall-Smith. Moving to London, his first arrangement job was Donovan’s ‘Sunshine Superman’ – Cameron came up with a unique […]
Brazil Classics 4: The Best of Tom Ze´?Massive Hits, which comes in a limited Brazilian Blue gatefold edition, and The Hips of Tradition, which comes in a limited Amazon Green edition, here’s what you have in store: Household appliances and tools in arrangements with horns, strings, prepared guitars (punctuated by grunts, screams and other wild […]
Teeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid’s second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self-made folklore. Like its predecessor, 2021’s critically acclaimed, UK number 4 album Bright Green Field, it is dense and tricksy – but also more warm and characterful, with a meandering, questioning nature. Expansive, evocative and […]
Britain’s most exciting breakthrough band of recent years, Sports Team, release their second studio album Gulp!, via Island Records. Gulp! follows Sports Team’s 2020 Mercury Prize nominated debut album Deep Down Happy, which charted at #2 in the UK’s Official Charts, achieving the biggest vinyl sales for a debut British artist in 2020. Signposting a […]
Jazz Guitar Session is one of the first connected discs of Jazz Collection. Grouped by instrument theme, this jazz compilation features the greatest names in jazz: Django Reinhardt, Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis… The podcasts on the history of jazz offered in the Viny application (on IOS or Android) are fascinating. And if jazz is in […]
1. Fresh Garbage 2. Uncle Jack 3. Mechanical World 4. Taurus 5. Girl In Your Eye 6. Straight Arrow 7. Topanga Windows 8. Gramophone Man 9. The Great Canyon Fire In General 10. I Got a Line On You 11. It Shall Be 12. Poor Richard 13. Silky Sam 14. Sherozode 15. All the Same […]
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 2 sees the Nashville-based musician step further from the pedal steel and towards centre stage. Released on the evergreen Full Time Hobby label on 14th April 2023, this new collection of tracks is a kaleidoscopic collection of folk, jazz, and pop, cut though with immaculately-rendered songwriting. Romford to Nashville is hardly […]
