by Paul
Three Seventies songs from Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot stick in my mind – “If You Could Read My Mind”, “Sundown” and “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”. “If You Could Read My Mind”, written after his divorce, reached No. 1 in Canada and the 5th spot in the USA. Here is the original: And […]
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by Paul
Free was a UK band that had a strong influence on many other bands, with songs like “All Right Now” and “Wishing Well” being covered numerous times by many great musicians. These have included Gary Moore as well as later acts that singer and writer Paul Rodgers and other band members went on to play […]
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by Paul
I really only connect one song with Boston, and that’s “More Than A Feeling”, which has definitely stuck in my mind. Of course they had other singles in the Seventies, like “Foreplay/Long Time”, “Don’t Look Back”, “A Man I’ll Never Be” and “Feelin’ Satisfied” – I just don’t remember any of them. The debut album […]
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by Paul
Canadian band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, or BTO, entered my consciousness in 1974 or 1975 with “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”, which had been released in 1974, first on the “Not Fragile” album and then as a single, which went to Number One in America. I remember it being relatively easy to play – at least the […]
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by Paul
The George Thorogood And The Destroyers album of the same name came out in 1977, with a track list (largely covers of blues evergreens at that stage) that included “You Got To Lose”, “Madison Blues”, “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”, “Ride On Josephine”, “I’ll Change My Style” and “Delaware Slide”. Now GD and T, […]
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