Freddie White is a bit of an institution in Ireland, an excellent interpreter and wonderful guitarist. These are solo guitar renditions of many songs he has played live over the years but never recorded. It’s on Tidal, well worth checking out, particularly Ashes to Ashes and Going, going, gone and nothing compares to you
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Album: KrossOver – Opera Revisited
Artists: Tania Kross, Orkest van het Oosten, Jurjen Hempel
Label: Challenge Classics
Release: 2013
Some Rock 'n Soul for a sunny Sunday morning
Rhythm & blues song. Lots of blues.
Perfect Beings second album.
How could you not love a band that in the heyday of the '60s phoned The British Embassy in Washington, D.C. in search of an English lead singer who could give them a Beatles-esque sound? Oddly enough, that led to the band acquiring lead singer Dave Ottley, actually from Scotland. Changing their name from The Reekers to The Hangmen, the band was a sensation around the D.C. area, traveling to their gigs in a hearse. They even played at Robert Kennedy’s home and briefly supplanted the Beatles on the local charts with the fabulous “What A Girl Can’t Do.” I’ve got a vintage 45 rpm of the hit!
