Ben Harper - Bloodline MaintenanceVinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. "It was like I was moving forward and venturing into places I had never been before. Taking everything I've learned from every other record and kind of setting fire to it all and starting over," Ben Harper says of his new album Bloodline Maintenance. "And I knew the sounds I was hearing in my head were so unorthodox that I had to do most of it myself." The result is a fearless and immensely soulful work largely

But one of the most special moments here is the Louis-Armstrong type grovel that Sam DeKemel spits out on "Waffle Man Blues

are symbols of this CD's program from chant 1450

thumb pianos

MELVIN JAMES' Passenger music is based on down-to-earth sixties rock

eclectically colorful

Salem Oregon's Garland Records also put some slamming 70s hard rock to tape

Following on from the success of the recent '1980-Brand New Rage' collection comes '1981-All Out Attack'

The composition feels like a well-oiled machine

as in those of all fine composers

this album proves that his vocal compositions deserve equal esteem

rendering his interior world as phantasmagoric spectacle

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