Missionaria Protectiva

  CITY BOY  Dinner At The Ritz  (Vertigo,1976) - Art rock, Progressive pop       Dinner At The Ritz  is a huge step up from the debut album, released that same year. Not only are there no weak/weaker songs but the album can actually be seen as a minor conceptual masterpiece. I was really not a fan of the funk and reggae explorations on the debut so the absence of these styles is a complete bliss to my ears. The overall sound of the record makes me think of Supertramp around the  Even in the Quietest Moments... -era, released a year after  Dinner At The Ritz . The record is smooth, subtile and featuring that magical sound that can only be found on a '70s studio album. TRACKLIST : Momma's Boy                        Walk On The Water                        Narcissus                  ...

  BIRTHA  Birtha  (Dubhill,1972) - Hard/Blues rock       This is well played hard rock with female voices. The band toured UK with the Kinks and the US with (among others) James Gang, Alice Cooper or Black Oak Arkansas and their own music is from the same mold. If any of those bands appeal to you, then Birtha is really worth to check out. TRACKLIST : Free Spirit                        Fine Talkning Man                        Tuesday                        Feeling Lonely                        She Was Good To Me                        Work On A Dream                        Too Much Woman (For A Hen Pecked...

  KKTR  Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu, Rabbit  (Island,1972) - Blues rock       Recorded after  Free  disbanded, drummer Kirke elected to remain with guitar player Paul Kossoff forming a quartet with Bundrick and Yamauchi in 1971. Kirke has noted that although initially Kossoff appeared in good spirits and was engaged in making the album, he increasingly indulged in drugs, often falling asleep between takes or while listening to playbacks.       Well received and filled with quality songwriting, Kirke's song "Anna" was later re-recorded with  Bad Company , the band that he and Rodgers established after the final breakup of Free. Also, "Hold On" was covered by  Maggie Bel l , which was included in the album  Suicide Sal . TRACKLIST : Blue Grass                        Sammy's Alright                        Ann...

        The Alabama-born musician and songwriter,  Oldham played keyboards on such seminal soul songs as “When a Man Loves a Woman” by Percy Sledge, “Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett, “You Better Move On” by Arthur Alexander and “I Never Loved a Man (The Way That I Love You)” Aretha Franklin’s historic first recording for Atlantic Records. He was a co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.       As a songwriter, Spooner Oldham teamed with Dan Penn to write such hits as “Cry Like a Baby” (The Box Tops), “I’m Your Puppet” (James and Bobby Purify), “Wish You Didn’t Have to Go” King Kurtis, “A Woman Left Lonely” (Janis Joplin) and “It Tears Me Up” (Percy Sledge).      M ove to Los Angeles found Oldham recording with a variety of artists across the stylistic spectrum, including Arlo Guthrie, Jim Croce, Gram Parsons, The Everly Brothers, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Gene Clark, Ry Cooder, Rita Coolidge, The Flying Burrito Brother...

  PETER GREEN  The End Of The Game  (Reprise,1970) - Instrumental rock       The style of this album is a radical departure from his work with Fleetwood Mac, consisting of edited pieces of a long studio jam. The jam was experimental and free-form, and the six tracks taken from it have very loose or non-existent musical structure, with all the tracks being instrumentals. TRACKLIST : Bottoms Up                        Timeless Time                        Descending Scale                        Burnt Foot                        Hidden depth                        The End Of The Game https://www.sendspace.com/file/6la7n6             ...

  PROCOL HARUM  Home  (Regal Zonophone,1970) - Progressive rock       The overall feeling of this album is melancholic and solemn, with some bluesy rockers giving a little balance to it. I think that the atmosphere of these songs make this album as a true masterpiece! This is just very different kind of music than their first hits, so I guess many people don't hear that kind of music that they would expect from this album. All tracks from the "Whiskey Train" to the "Whaling stories" are marvelous, and I think that they form a nice compact continuum of music. The final song is maybe the dullest of these all, but it's short and an easy one to skip. TRACKLIST : Whisky Train                        The Dead Man's Dream                        Still There'll Be More                       ...