A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies…
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 […]
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, […]
Tags: blues, blues rock, Delaware Destroyers, Delaware Slide, George Thorogood And The Destroyers, GT And D, I'll Change My Style, Madison Blues, Music of the Seventies, One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer, Palmerston North, Ride On Josephine, Seventies Rock Bands, slide guitar, You Got To LosePat Benetar had her breakthrough right at the end of the Seventies, with a string of singles from her October 1979 album “In The Heat Of The Night”, particularly “I Need a Lover”, “If You Think You Know How to Love Me” and “Heartbreaker”, the latter reaching No. 23 in the U.S. So she’s “only […]
Linda Ronstadt was a name you heard a lot in the Seventies, her biggest hits included “When Will I Be Loved”, “You’re No Good” and “Blue Bayou”. By coincidence, these are just about the only ones of her many songs I can recall… I found a couple more that I recognise though, but I can’t […]
Tags: Acoustic Guitar, Atlanta, Atlanta Blue, Atlanta Georgia, Blue Bayou, Cat Stevens, Coincidence, First Cut Is The Deepest, Going Back In Time, It Doesn't Matter Any More, Jose Feliciano, Linda Ronstadt, Lot, Midnight Special, Music of the Seventies, Powerful Voice, Rod Stewart, Seventies, Time Paul, When Will I Be Loved, You're No GoodSan Fancisco band Journey were very successful from the late Seventies on into the Eighties, with songs like “Wheel in the Sky”, “Lights”, “Lovin,’ Touchin,’ Squeezin’”, “Any Way You Want It”, “Who’s Crying Now” and “Don’t Stop Believin’”. I remember that in the part of southern Germany where I lived in the early 1980s (Franconia, […]
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