Mickeyboro

What kind of weight is this, Chris?

New album King of A Land - sealed CD and/or vinyl available. CD - £9 now £7 LP - £20 now £10 PRICE DROP Blurb… King of a Land is an epic body of work. More than a decade in the making, its 12 new songs are full of extraordinary surprises. Unique and transportive, Yusuf’s music, words and melodies paint a vivid picture of a world which embraces the lost lands of truisms and stainless youth, and brings it into touching distance. His poetical storytelling invites the listener on a journey towards the gates of an alternative universe to that which we presently inhabit - where happy endings can possibly happen. From the gloriously unexpected hard-rock intensity of ‘Pagan Run’ to the Tchaikovsky-inspired orchestration on ‘How Good It Feels’, the delicate acoustic balladry of ‘He Is True’ through to the driving Phil Spector-goes-gospel vibe of ‘Highness’, the Travelling Wilburys-styled rolling Americana groove of ‘All Nights, All Days’, and the ornate, atmospheric ‘Son Of Mary’, ‘King of a Land’ is an epic body of work. The album’s artwork was created by Peter H Reynolds, the award-winning children’s illustrator. As well as the cover art, Peter has created illustrations for each of the songs portraying the album’s lyrical themes that feature in a 36 page accompanying CD booklet.

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Bettye LaVette’s new album. Produced by Steve Jordan (Stones) and featuring Pino Palladino throughout. Cameos by Steve Winwood and John Mayer. Songs by Randall Bramblett (Gregg Allman alumnus). Absolute killer album, only just out and already deservedly getting rave reviews. This copy is new and in perfect condition, yours for £9 including UK postage.

New release from the late, great JM. Blurb is below. Released by Made in Germany. Yours for a reasonable £10 plus £1 towards posting - discs are new, unplayed and still sealed. Sleeve design isn’t much to write home about - but the music is. Alan Thomson’s fretless is particularly prominent, so if that’s up your strasse you’re in luck! In fact, with Jeff Allen on board it’s a rhythm-section masterclass. John Martyn's extraordinary talent rightly secures him a unique place in music. Emerging from the 1960's folk boom, John is without doubt one of the most progressive and influential artists. Guitarist, singer and songwriter, his inspirational and innovative music is evidenced in his extensive back catalogue of studio and live albums, each providing a fresh chapter in the evolution of his music. John signed for Island Records and released his first album London Conversation in 1967. By the end of the 1970's he had released a string of acclaimed albums and his music had evolved from fingerpicking acoustic folk to embrace rock, blues, jazz and reggae. John created an astonishingly distinctive sound with his uniquely percussive guitar playing fed through a tremolo/wah combination and echoplex. Always exploring, transforming and refreshing. B y the early 1980's John was concentrating on electric guitar, playing it in his own unique style and in his own band (Jeff Allen, dr., among others also Snowy White and Van Morrison as well as Alan Thomson, b, also with Robert Palmer, Chris Rea and Eric Clapton). "The bearded musician from the north of Britain had obviously consumed a substantial quantity of rum and cola before beginning the concert... and with the help of further drinks musical energy was released, which made the evening a complete success... two impressive hours of most intense music." The Weser Courier, Bremen's largest daily newspaper, reported a day after John's concert at the club € Schauburg € in June 1983. No doubt about the rum, but John would have been apoplectic at the suggestion he was from ‘the north of Britain' although born in Surrey he was Scottish through and through, and fiercely proud of it!