DIVERSE AND ECLECTIC FUN FOR YOUR EARS - 60s to 90s rock, prog, psychedelia, folk music, folk rock, world music, experimental, doom metal, strange and creative music videos, deep cuts and more!
Friday, August 8, 2025
Affinity - I Am And So Are You
Like many bands riding on the crest of the jazz-rock wave in the early '70s, Affinity released one album and were just getting their footing when they decided to split up, despite the album being well received by the critics. They were fronted by Linda Hoyle, a powerful vocalist who sounds like a cross between Carole King and Julie Driscoll. The other band members were Mo Foster (bass), Mike Jupp (electric and 12-string guitars), Lynton Naiff (keyboards) and Grant Serpell (drums and percussion). Basically, their music is an eclectic mixture of a blues-rock with jazz, pop and folk influences as well as some rudiments of early '70s psychedelia. Their sound is very brassy and the Hammond organ omnipresent, the overall product sounding very progressive for its day.
Issued in 1970, their only official (self-titled) album shows much variety as well as plenty of soloing. As the excellent sound, musicianship and production will attest, it is a superb achievement for the times. Their material has since been reissued on different cd's, some featuring studio demos and full-band rehearsals. One of them is made up entirely of live instrumentals, recorded at a time when vocalist Linda Hoyle was temporarily hospitalized for a vocal chord operation, leaving the rest of the band on their own. From: https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1100
-
Swedish experimental pop trio, Hey Elbow just released their debut album, Every Other, and it’s been running through the Grimy Goods speaker...
-
A Rock Oaklanders Inner Ear Brigade were founded in 2006 as a quartet by a guitarist / frontman Bill Wolter and his fellow musicians. Althou...
-
“Expressway to Your Heart” was the first Top 40 hit not only for the band, but also for its producers, a pair of ambitious Philadelphians na...
-
This song is about two young lovers. I'd venture that it's a romance built largely around the wordplay in the lyrics. "Helpless...
-
Laboratorium Pieśni (Song Laboratory) (world/ethno/spiritual/mystic folk music) is a female group of singers from Poland, created in 2013. ...