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JonatanCoe
JonatanCoe
7 dec 19

DeRank™: 6,00

Imagination - Can't Stand Without You (Germany, 1980)
Bananas in the Shade of the Velvet Underground & Nico [05 of 05]
In other words, other worthy yet unknown records that feature on their covers the ambiguous, iconic fruit that has delivered to history the beautiful German wrapped in fine velvet.

Imagination - Shake It (Nash-Records, 1980)
The Imagination of "Just An Illusion," "Flashback," "Music And Lights," "Body Talk," the ones that got an entire generation moving to the rhythm? No, they’re not those. "Shake It" is a great work of funk, soul, disco, boogie, just like the LPs of the famous namesakes, but it is geographically distant. Behind this name lies the one-man project of the German multi-instrumentalist Uwe Ziß. Some might wonder, then, why it’s worth listening to this album since it echoes the genres of the more famous Imagination? The answer lies in the grooves of the extremely rare vinyl—surprising and lovable, intimate and just the right amount of cheesy.
 
JonatanCoe
JonatanCoe
7 dec 19

DeRank™: 6,00

Blue Runner Blues
Bananas in the Shade of the Velvet Underground & Nico [04 of 05]
That is, other deserving but unknown records that feature the ambiguous, iconic fruit on their covers, which has delivered to history the beautiful German wrapped in exquisite velvet.

Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket: Red Hot Blues, 1931-1936 (Yazoo, 1979)
Bo Carter appeared and disappeared along the deep shores lining the delta of the blues over a period of about ten years. Many delightful unnoticed singles, a single LP (actually a greatest hits collection featuring recordings from 1930 to 1940), countless compilations that draw, more or less, from the same tracks, and a great talent confined within the perimeter of invisibility.
 
JonatanCoe
JonatanCoe
7 dec 19

DeRank™: 3,00

Miles Is a Cigarette
Bananas in the Shadow of the Velvet Underground & Nico [03 of 05]
That is, other deserving yet unknown albums that feature the ambiguous, iconic fruit on the cover, which introduced to history the beautiful German wrapped in luxurious velvet.

Chris Rea ‎– God's Great Banana Skin (EastWest, 1992)
I believe an artist like Chris Rea needs no introductions. An exceptional guitarist, with a warm, enveloping voice. Blues has made several appearances along the bridge of his Fender, delivering beautiful and poignant pages, just like this one, inexplicably passed over in silence.
 
JonatanCoe
JonatanCoe
7 dec 19

DeRank™: 6,00

Platano Split - Castil Battle
Bananas in the Shade of the Velvet Underground & Nico [02 of 05]
That is, other worthy yet unknown albums that feature the ambiguous, iconic fruit
that has rendered the beautiful German woman wrapped in luxurious velvet into history.

Platano Split ‎– Castil Battle (Barclay, 1970)
It's truly a shame that this jazz-funk gem, infused with Afro-Cuban sounds, has been lost in the mists of time. Its rarity is confirmed by the prices assigned to the few copies available online. It's just a single, but often there are more emotions in a couple of tracks than in a full-length album, just try it to believe.
 
JonatanCoe
JonatanCoe
7 dec 19

DeRank™: 6,00

The Electric Banana - Street Girl - 1967
Bananas in the Shadow of the Velvet Underground & Nico [01 of 05]
That is, other deserving but obscure albums that feature the ambiguous, iconic fruit on their covers that has enshrined the beautiful German wrapped in fine velvet in history.

The Electric Banana - More Electric Banana (Music De Wolfe, 1968)
Behind this bizarre electro-exotic name are the Pretty Things, who from 1967 to 1978 produced music under this pseudonym. The music of the Electric Banana has appeared in various horror and soft-porn films of the late '60s, including "What's Good for the Goose," a 1969 film, the fifth series "The Green Death" (1973) from the tenth season of Doctor Who, where the track "It'll Never Be Me" appears, and "Cause I'm a Man" in George A. Romero's horror film "Dawn of the Dead" (1978).
 
lector
lector
6 dec 19

DeRank™: 16,85

5 Perfectly Hidden Secrets of American Singer-Songwriting for @[JonatanCoe]
5) David Blue / Nice Baby and the Angel
7 albums from 1965 to 1976, plus one (the first) in the company of people like Richard Fariña, Patrick Sky, Bruce Murdoch, and Dave Cohen. In short, the Greenwich scene, yes, those who hung out with Bob Dylan.
And Bob did try to lend a hand (well, more like a finger!), but David disappeared into thin air nonetheless…
On DeB 0 reviews, 0 videos Ça va sans dire…
 
lector
lector
6 dec 19

DeRank™: 15,58

5 Perfectly Hidden Secrets of American Singer-Songwriting (English) for @[JonatanCoe]
Nigel Mazlyn Jones Take Me Home
Okay, he's English and not American... should I remove it?
Should I keep it and pretend it doesn't matter?
I think it's better this way...
Do you like Roy Harper, Jonatan?
Well, he even worked with Roy (and with Van Der Graaf Generator, and with Steve Hillage, and with Nick Turner... and others). Although later in life, he became a zookeeper!
Listen to him carefully, you'll see, it will be a discovery...

Ah! On DeB 0 reviews, 0 videos, 0 quotes.
 
lector
lector
6 dec 19

DeRank™: 17,12

5 Perfectly Hidden Secrets of American Singer-Songwriting for @[JonatanCoe]
3) Marc Johnson - A Long Song
I don’t know much about him, except that he’s from a suburb of New York, that his first album "Years" from 1972 is a small cult favorite among admirers (like me) who consider it a true obscure masterpiece, that he has made at least 4 more albums, as far as I know, and that this one - of course - is beautiful!
 
lector
lector
6 dec 19

DeRank™: 9,00

5 Perfectly Hidden Secrets of American Singer-Songwriting
2) Color of Anyhow
Glenn was born in Philadelphia but then moved to Ontario and became Beverly. He released two stunning albums that reference Tim Buckley and Nick Drake mixed with jazz flavors.
Then he disappears.
He reappears in 2017 with an album ("Keyboard Fantasies") that attracts attention and brings him back into the spotlight (well, back to the spotlight!). His albums are reissued and he starts playing again.
I believe he is still around.

He is not even mentioned in the DeB.
 
lector
lector
6 dec 19

DeRank™: 16,01

I haven't dedicated a list to our guest, the owner and founder of Championship Vinyl Shop @[JonatanCoe] yet!
It's not easy because, between listens and reviews, our guest is quite an eclectic character....
So here it is:
5 Perfectly Hidden Secrets of American Singer-Songwriters
1) Mickey Newbury - "Heaven Help The Child"
This one is a true gem, and hardly anyone knows it! (And if someone does know about it, they’re keeping it well hidden!)
He has written songs for people like Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Bill Monroe, Johnny Rodriguez, Hank Snow, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Joan Baez, Tom Jones, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, B.B. King, Linda Ronstadt, Bill Callahan....and a whole bunch of others.
But the best part is, he’s also a great performer!
Why isn't he among the gods where he should be?

On DeB there are 0 reviews and only 1 video....
 
Stanlio
Stanlio
5 dec 19

DeRank™: 12,44

Sway (Original Single Stereo Version)

This fantastic blues-rock track was released as a single only in March '71, but it was composed and recorded a year earlier, between April and May '70 in the "Rolling Stones Mobile Studio", a truck specially outfitted that was parked outside Jagger's home in Stargroves, Hampshire.

Here we find Jagger & Taylor on guitars, while on backing vocals we have Keith Richards along with Pete Townshend and nothing...
 
lector
lector
3 dec 19

DeRank™: 13,19

There was talk of Scotland with @[Almotasim] and he did poorly!
For me, Scotland was called Heather and it’s a dish of mussels overlooking the North Sea, and she's the one crying in the rain at a bus station in a place whose name I can't even write....
So now Almo, here’s one of my lists!
5 (+1) Tastings of Scottish cuisine.
Shelagh McDonald - Stargazer (Remastered) [Prog Folk] (1971) Great record! And great voice!
Roddy Woomble - My Secret Is My Silence The content is way better than the cover...
The Bloody Irish Boys - Drunk tonight Yes: they are Americans....but it’s hard to be more Scottish than this!
BREAD ,LOVE AND DREAMS 04 - He Who Knows All 05 - The Robster Quadrille 06 - Butterflyland Listen to it
Steel and Stone - Kris Drever He comes from the Highlands, she liked him...
And since one can't live on unknown stuff alone, here’s the ending!
The Song with no Name - Shane Macgowan & The Popes
 
lector
lector
28 nov 19

DeRank™: 12,50

@[imasoulman] Another 5 dark black pearls!
Sam Dees - The Show Must Go On
THE COUNTS - What's Up Front That-Counts (1971)
Cane & Able - Starchild
Flirtations - "Nothing But A Heartache" (re-upload)
DAVID RUFFIN -"MY WHOLE WORLD ENDED (THE MOMENT YOU LEFT ME)" [1969]
And yes, because when I start with this stuff, the only way to stop me is to shoot me!
Ah, Ima, I know that the last one on the list - the good David Ruffin - is super famous (the leader of the Temptations....), but his first solo album is of such stunning beauty (and maybe someone who doesn't know about it will pass by here.....)!
In short, it couldn't be left out.
 
lector
lector
28 nov 19

DeRank™: 15,50

(5+5) dark black pearls (10). For Imasoulman. The Grodeck Whipperjenny - Sitting Here on a Tongue
What to close with?
Well, with an album from a white musician who, to be precise, isn’t even exactly an album of black music!
So, Ima, do you know who’s behind the very strange moniker "Grodeck Whipperjenny"?
For those who don’t know, the name behind all this is: David Matthews!
Does anyone still have doubts?
Alright, then I’ll say: James Brown, his "psychedelic" phase, ("Sho Is Funky Down Here"…)
Is that enough for you?
No?
Then listen to this stuff: The Funkadelic playing jazz-rock!
 
lector
lector
28 nov 19

DeRank™: 6,00

(5+5) dark black pearls (9). For Imasoulman. money won't save you
Another MASTERPIECE!
From Chicago, the Boscoe!
How come musicians with balls like these haven't made it big!
All the blackest black there is: Jazz, Funky, Soul, R&B, Free.....
Meticulously crafted arrangements, pure class, balls of steel and black dicks....
 
lector
lector
28 nov 19

DeRank™: 6,00

(5+5) dark black pearls (7). For Imasoulman. The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band, -- Till You Get Enough
It's hot!
Is it November? This music would warm you up even at the North Pole....
So, these are top-notch musicians!
Let me say two things: one, among other things, they were the band that accompanied Bill Cosby in his shows.....
And two, right after the breakup, almost the entire group played on Bill Withers' first album (you know that album, Ima? :-)))))
Oh, and in one of the line-ups, there was also a certain Bobby Womack...
 
lector
lector
28 nov 19

DeRank™: 9,00

(5+5) dark black pearls (7). For Imasoulman. THE MAR KEYS THE GREAT MEMPHIS SOUND Cleo's Back
So, these Imas definitely know this! Suffice it to say that that sleazy organ is played by a certain Gregory Isaacs (and the others are no less famous). But maybe there’s someone passing through who doesn’t know this record...
And that would be a real shame! Truly!
 
lector
lector
28 nov 19

DeRank™: 12,50

(5+5) dark black pearls (6). For Imasoulman. Rotary Connection - Respect - 1969 [Psych-Soul]
So: a group with white & black members, men & women, mixing funky, soul, and psychedelia....
What? No, it's not Sly's family!
What do you say? Copied...
The record is from '69....
Ah, one of the voices is Minnie Ripperton, they found her working at the record label's reception! Can you believe it?
Ima knows who she is....
 
lector
lector
28 nov 19

DeRank™: 9,00

That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Lou Bond
But I must be losing it......
Here's a piece. But the others are even more beautiful!
 
lector
lector
28 nov 19

DeRank™: 9,00

(5+5) dark black pearls (4). For Imasoulman. Som, sangue e raça - Dom Salvador e Abolição
Tim Maia (I know you know him!) opened a world for me: the blend of funky soul and bossa!
There’s some amazing stuff! Like these.
 
lector
lector
28 nov 19

DeRank™: 9,45

(5+5) dark black pearls. For Imasoulman tyrone davis can i change my mind
Where have I heard that guitar riff before?
Tyrone "the wonder boy" has produced a couple more hits, but how many people know?
 
lector
lector
28 nov 19

DeRank™: 9,00

(5+5) dark black pearls. For @[imasoulman] The Politicians Featuring McKinley Jackson - The World We Live In - 1972
This is a MASTERPIECE!
Black, angry, badass.
Three funky and free jazz, anticipating a lot of stuff.
But they are not a meteoric rise, consider that they were the group working with Holland-Dozier-Holland!