In the tumultuous 1960s the powerful voices of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and others shaped the political and musical landscape for many. Less known, but no less strident and artful, were the folk singers from the other side of town. For the very first time the hyper-patriotic voices of conservative folk music mavericks Janet Greene, Tony Dolan and Vera Vanderlaan are rei...

Electro-plated antipodean-chameleon Ash Wednesday’s deep catalogue of minimal-wave and early-electro compositions form an incredibly impressive and desperately under-acknowledged body of work. From the deliriously bouncy new wave pop of 1980’s “Love By Numbers” to the Elvis-armed-with-an-analog-synth bombast of 1983’s “Boom Boom Baby”, Ash joined or created notab...

Percussionist extraordinaire (and member of the infamous “Wrecking Crew”) Emil Richards was at the crucible of ‘60s pop and film music, playing on everything from the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” to Jerry Goldsmith’s “Planet Of The Apes”. Less known, but utterly essential, are Emil’s own mid-late 1960s recordings of technicolor-jazz/early-electronics.

Written in 1970 and released in 1972, William Sheller’s Parisian Love In/Freak Out “Lux Aeterna” is a psychedelic mass of staggering beauty and dexterity. Composed to celebrate the marriage of a dear friend, the LP’s twin themes of spiritual and global union are mirrored in its grand orchestral and choral arrangements, rock drums, fuzz/flanged guitars and gurgling stra...

Rightly famed for his 1976 global mega-hit “Convoy”, C.W McCall (birth handle Bill Fries) is an enigma in wraparound shades. At the crossroads of trucker anthems, high-octane hillbilly-homage and (perhaps incongruously) haunting environmental odes towers the strange figure of McCall.

Reissued for the very first time is his 1975 debut LP “Wolf Creek Pass”, an...