liberation hall Archive
14 Dec 2024
Album Review: Lightnin’ Hopkins – Live from the Ash Grove… Plus!

One of the missions of boutique label Liberation Hall is to rescue from obscurity critically-acclaimed and/or otherwise important recordings. That means that the label is always on the hunt for […]
11 Dec 2024
Album Review: Mose Allison – Live 1978

Mose Allison is better known among may listeners as the composer of songs made famous by others. The Who memorably covered his “Young Man Blues” on their landmark live album […]
10 Dec 2024
Album Review: Cal Tjader – Huracán

Cal Tjader was a prime exponent of the Latin jazz scene of the 1950s and early ‘60s. Though his activities began long before and continued long after, it’s those years […]
07 Jun 2024
Album Review: Pearl Harbour – Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost Too

Pearl Harbour (aka Pearl Harbor, aka Pearl E. Gates) has had a fascinating career. And in some ways, everything she did prior – however disparate it was – seems to […]
25 Jun 2023
Album Review: Lloyds – Attitude Check

San Francisco of the late 1970s and early- to mid-’80s was home to a thriving new music scene. In those days before the internet, local scenes existed somewhat independently of […]
02 Sep 2022
Album Review: The Mutants – Curse of the Easily Amused

The Mutants were exemplars of what can accurately be characterized as San Francisco’s “art punk” aesthetic. Formed in 1977, the band of musical misfits and art students combined the DIY […]
