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This Month’s Fab Four
Bev Bevan shares four of his favorite CD’s for our listening pleasure, enjoy the February fab four...
Status Quo – Don’t Stop (Expanded Digipak Edition) (Edsel) Status Quo's 22nd studio album was originally released in 1996 to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary. Featuring an eclectic selection of 15 cover versions, all given the tried and tested Quo treatment, the album reached number two on the UK charts. This expanded digipak edition features four bonus tracks – the B sides of the singles taken from the album.
It also features guest appearances from The Beach Boys (Fun Fun Fun), Steeleye Span’s Maddy Prior (All Around My Hat) and Queen's Brian May (Buddy Holly's Raining In My Heart).
Other highlights include rocking re-workings of Chuck Berry's You Never Can Tell, The Merseys' Sorrow, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Proud Mary and my old band The Move's I Can Hear The Grass Grow.
Mike Zito – Make Blues Not War (RUF) ) Mike Zito grew up in a hard-working blue collar home in St Louis, but after an early job in a downtown music shop exposed him to the likes of BB King, Robert Johnson and Eric Clapton, he set out to be a professional guitarist and by 1997 he had released his first solo album, Blue Room. This latest offering, Make Blues Not War, is his 13th overall and his second solo album since leaving the highly acclaimed Royal Southern Brotherhood.
Produced and co-written by Grammy-winning Tom Hambridge, the album was recorded in just a few days at Sound Stage Studios in Nashville. Participating musicians include Tommy McDonald, Rob Mc Nelly, Walter Trout, Kevin McEndree, Jason Ricci and Mike Zito's son, Zach. Amongst the bluesy tracks you'll find the frantic showboating of Crazy Legs, the slow burning Red Bird and the moody Girl Back Home.
Jerry Reed – The Unbelievable Guitar and Voice of Jerry Reed / Alabama Wild Man / Nashville Underground / Better Things in Life (Beat Goes On) American country singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor Jerry Reed was born in 1937 in Atlanta , Georgia and died in 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 71. His signature song compositions were Guitar Man and US Male (both hits for Elvis Presley), A Thing Called Love (a hit for Johnny Cash) and East Bound and Down (the theme from the hit movie Smokey and the Bandit). Reed also appeared in a dozen movies, amongst them The Waterboy, Hot Stuff, Gator and Smokey and the Bandit 1 and 2.
These four Jerry Reed albums, all originally released in the late sixties, are now together on a double-CD box set. Tracks include his original versions of Guitar Man and US Male (featuring his scintillating guitar playing) and stylised versions of The Monkees’ Last Train To Clarksville, The Animals’ House Of The Rising Sun and Ray Charles' Hallelujah I Love Her So.
Rhythm Of The Radio – Oval Records Singles 1974 to 1987 (ACE)
Founded in Clapham by Charlie Gillett and Gordon Nelki, Oval Records released a great range of music in its 30 year existence. Charlie Gillett was best known as a music journalist, writing for the likes of Creem (USA), Cream (UK), Let It Rock and New Musical Express alongside occasionally hosting Old Grey Whistle Test and having his own programme on BBC Radio London.
Oval Records served as a launching pad for a wide variety of musicians and singers. From Swamp Rock and New Wave to Afrobeat and House, here are 22 tracks from the company's catalogue. They include Lucky Number (a top three hit for Lena Lovitch in 1979), Promised Land by Johnnie Allan, Rhythm Of The Radio by ABC, Tell That Girl To Shut Up from Holly and the Italians, Brickyard Blues by Helen Shapiro and Jack'N'Chill's The Jack That House Built.
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