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Forest Hills Music Festival

These days it's more famous for hosting tennis but in the 1961 - 1971 it...
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I love TYA...

Singles probably don’t matter as they once did, but the term ‘singles’ lives on even...

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One of the most important records in my life...

This remains one of the most important records in my life. Bought, oddly, when I...

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Wet Willie...

Wet Willie rarely had much chart success, their single ‘Keep on Smiling' performed best. But they...
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More a state of mind than a song...

I was listening to Live/Dead by the Grateful Dead today. More specifically ‘Dark Star’ that...

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A one-day extravaganza...

Canada Jam was held at Mosport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario Canada, about 100 kilometres east...

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The first "legal" outdoor rock festival in Washington...

The Satsop River Fair and Tin Cup Races (I have no idea what tin cup...

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Too heavy for the public...

This is one of the records I treat as a test of musical taste. It’s...
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Kevin Ayers - A True Hippy...

Bananamour by Kevin Ayers is one of those slightly whimsical records that I’ve had for...

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Released on Jet Records...

Jet Records interests me because they released a lot of superb records but were never...

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Influential if not commercial...

They were a popular live act in the early 1970s  and played a lot of...

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Crowd Noise...

I’ve talked before about my long love of live albums. But here’s one thing I’ve...

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