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Dormant old soul recordings dusted off for their 60th anniversary on double
From the bayou to Woodstock and back – the easygoing adventures of Bobby Charles. By John Mulvey.
Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR
It was 1965 with bells on, the year the singles charts got wilder, heavier, druggier. Twelve months of traumas, transgressions and transvestism, experiments and explosions. How 20 revolutionary platters from 1966 revealed "the secrets of space and time". "Intensity was the keynote," says JON SAVAGE.
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Early Steps RHINO/WARNER BROS.
From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS