fantastic voyage Archive
01 Oct 2012
Album Review: Various Artists – It’s Saturday Night!
Leave it once again to the people at UK-based Fantastic Voyage to put together an interesting compilation of in-danger-of-being-lost American music. Their latest entry is a 3CD set called It’s […]
07 May 2012
Album Review: A Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
Beginning in the 1990s, a mixtape was a collection of music designed as a background for a rapper. Said rapper would collect his or her favorite beats, and then do […]
07 Mar 2012
Album Review: Various Artists – Raunchy Sugar: The Pure Essence of Memphis Rock & Roll
When one thinks of early rock’n’roll coming out of Memphis, it’s likely that the first names springing to mind are Elvis, Jerry Lee, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. And for […]
08 Feb 2012
Album Review: Jazz Noire, Darktown Sleaze from the Mean Streets of L.A.
The folks at Fantastic Voyage (and sister label Future Noise) can be counted on to put together thought-provoking compilations. In the past they’ve collected obscurities from the Ember label, and […]
05 Jan 2012
Album Review: Roy Brown – Good Rockin’ Man
In recent decades, proper credit has finally (and belatedly) been given to some of rock and R&B’s earliest and overlooked performers. For many years the narrative went that the fathers […]
09 May 2011
Album Review: R&B Spotlight ‘60
Nineteen-sixty might not be the first year that comes to mind when you think of compelling music making the charts. But a new collection from the estimable folks at UK-based […]
15 Apr 2011
Album Review: Soul Breakout ‘60
Pop music and/or rock’n’roll may – as many have argued – have been suffering from a period of insipidness at the very beginning of the 1960s. But on the soul/R&B […]
14 Jan 2011
CD Review: Let Me Tell You About the Blues / Nashville
The liner notes come right out and address the argument some might raise against this package. Thought it’s titled Let Me Tell About the Blues: Nashville, most people will agree […]
10 Jan 2011
CD Review: Dirty Water – The Birth of Punk Attitude
As its name makes clear, Dirty Water: the Birth of Punk Attitude takes a unique approach to the concept of punk: here it’s defined more as an attitude than a […]
28 Dec 2010
Musoscribe’s Best of 2010: Compilations
Some amazing compilations albums came out in 2010. From my standpoint, five of these are especially noteworthy. A highly-regarded DJ and champion of the Northern Soul movement, Scottish-born Keb Darge […]