Robert Jon & the Wreck – Red Moon Rising

Red Moon Rising - Robert Jon & the Wreck
Ok yesterday I was browsing on Spotify when spotted a recommendation for me. The recommendation was for “Rager” a single release from Robert Jon & the Wreck. The single also included “Hate to See You Go” . After listening to the songs and liking them a lot I checked out their Spotify home page and saw they released a full album Red Moon Rising back in June of this year. So I decided to check it out! I liked it also and this morning it became the soundtrack for my granddaughter  Emma’s walk! Here’s what I discovered about the band.
About Robert Jon & the Wreck

Robert Jon & The Wreck are a Southern California band which has taken the Southern Rock sound and made it their own. The band was formed in 2011 and the members include: Robert Jon Burrison (lead vocals, guitar), Andrew Espantman (drums, background vocals), Henry James Schneekluth (lead guitar, background vocals), Warren Murrel (bass) and Jake Abernathie (keyboards). Read More

Zac Harmon was great! The Run not so much

Floreada's Boy- Zac Harmon cover

So more and more I am going to make this more a true Weblog! And by that I mean I’m going to make it more about what’s happening in my life, I will still be writing about books, music and turning back my biological clock. However, I usually struggle with analyzing why I like a book or even an album, so I have a hard time writing a review type post. I don’t like to write a complete analysis of each song on an album or a deep analysis of each book i read. I like to write a little about what the book is about, along with a little about the author. Hopefully, the posts I write may lead the reader to a new author or musician! With all that being said let’s see what happened today! Read More

106 Miles to Chicago – The B Christopher Band – Keeps Me Running!

106 miles to Chicago - The B Christopher Band cover

The Nerdy Details as I Try to Start Running Again!

Ok so over the last two weeks I have semii-started to run again. I say semi because I have only run three times since July 26th.  Oh, and I had a stress test on August 5th. The first two runs were actually run/walks. On both of those runs I basically ran a little and then walked a little. Read More

Village in the Dark – Iris Yamashita (Cara Kennedy Book#2)

Village in the Dark Iris Yamashita cover

Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita is book number 2 in her Cara Kennedy series. It is a mystery thriller set in Alaska. Book 1 in the series is City Under One Roof. Cara Kennedy is an Anchorage Police Department Detective. She is on administrative leave after her husband and son disappear while on vacation in Point Mettier. Point Mettier is an isolated town where its residents all live in one high-rise. In book one Cara finds some of the answers to her husband and son’s disappearance and they weren’t pleasant. (I’m not spoiling things by telling you what she discovered). Anyway at the end of the book she makes another discovery that leads her back to Point Mettier to see if she can find the final answers! Read More

This Winter Machine – The Clockwork Man – This Winter Machine  Neo Prog – 2023

The CockWork Man by This Winter Machine

One of the prog rock albums that has been in my music rotation for a while now is  The Clockwork Man by This Winter Machine . This Winter Machine is a multi award-winning Neo Prog band from the United Kingdom. It was formed in 2016 by vocalist/song-writer Al Winter

About This Winter Machine

This Winter Machine began as a quintet originally comprised of :Al Winter (voices), Gary Jevon (guitars), Marcus Murray (drums), Mark Numan (keyboards), and Peter Priestly (bass) –

The band’s early influences included:  the pioneers of 70s Symphonic Progressive or 80s Neo-Progressive scene. Major influencers of the band came from  Marillion, IQ, Pendragon, Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Rush and Genesis. Their first album was titled The Man Who Never Was. It was released in 2017.

The Man who Never Was was well received by audiences, press and radio worldwide.  Their second album ‘A Tower of Clocks’ solidified their standing in Prog Rock circles.  ‘Kites’ the band’s third album saw a major revision in the musician line-up. The album garnered both critical and audience acclaim after its release in 2021. The album continued to expand their fan-base.

The Clockwork Man

The Clockwork Man was released in December of 2023. And is the band’s fourth album, This is the album I’ve been listening to and really  like! The musician line-up looks like this…..

Al Winter / vocals
– John Cook / guitars
– Leigh Perkins / keyboards, whistles, backing vocals
– Dave Close / bass
– Alan Wilson / drums

With:
– Andre Saint / vocals (track 4)
– Ade Fisher / guitar solo (track 1, part 2)s. Read More

Goodwill Vinyl Finds – Lots of Classic Rock!

 

Here are my latest Goodwiil Msic FindsThe Goodwill Album Haul

So one of the things that I’ve been doing instead of writing blog posts is visiting Goodwills and hunting through their vinyl. sometimes you find nothing ,. Other days you find a few. And then there are the days, when you’re in the right place at the right time! Last Friday was one of those days! Nine of the twelve albums I found are shown above. As you can see they’re all classic rock albums and all in very good condition.

Of the nine albums only three are in my vinyl collection. Wheels of Fire, Sssh and Crosby, Stills and Nash. I bought them because both the album and the covers are in better shape than mine.

The three Cream albums are all reprints from 1977. However, the covers and records are all in really, really good shape! the other three albums are just albums I never got around to buying.

 

And Two Good Books

I also search there books for sale and I usually find several, especially in the Audubon, N.J. store. On lat Friday I wasn’t as lucky with the books as I was with the vinyl. However, I did find two good books.  I have read the James Lee Burke book Flags on the Bayou  and it’s great.I read. While I have read several David Slaton novels from Ward Larsen. I haven’t read one since 2018 when I read Assassin’s Run (David Slaton #5). The one I bought is Assassin’s Edge (David Slayton #8). And while I hate reading books in series out of order I just may have to in this case!

So all and all last Friday’s trip to Goodwill was a big success! Twelve good albums and two book!

Now Ill leave you here, but I’ll leave you with some music and hour plus soundtrack with tracks from the albums I found! Enjoy!

Atlantic City Pop Festival – Aug 1-3, 1969

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Looking tonight at the Roots calendar I bought back in 2010, I saw that the Atlantic City Pop Festival kicked off on August 1st in 1969! Guess what I don’t even remember anything about it!

From Wikipedia …

‘Atlantic City Pop Festival took place in 1969 on August 1, 2 and 3rd at the Atlantic City race track, two weeks before Woodstock Festival. It actually took place in Hamilton Township Atlantic City Race Course.

There was heavy security at the festival, and the stage the acts performed on was created by Buckminster Fuller. A ticket for the entire 3-day weekend was $15.00 to see all of the performers listed. Attended by some 100,000+ people.

 

The Performing Artists

And  it seems the lineup was quite impressive:

Booker T. & the M.G.’s
Tim Buckley
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
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Canned Heat
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
Crosby, Stills & Nash (billed, but did not perform)
Cass Elliot
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Dr. John the Night Tripper
Janis Joplin
B.B. King
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Little Richard
Looking Glass
Lothar and the Hand People
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Hugh Masekela
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