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Release Date: 30 October 2026
Label: Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Clamshell
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 5013929121881
Description
• 3CDs EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BRASS-DRIVEN ROCK.
• FEATURING CHICAGO, BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS, ATOMIC ROOSTER, CCS, JACK BRUCE, MANFRED MANN CHAPTER THREE, THE WEB, JULIE DRISCOLL, THE ALAN BOWN, ZOO, ARTHUR BROWN and more…
• COMPILED BY THE INIMITABLE CALLY, AND FEATURING HIS EXTENSIVE 6,500 WORD SLEEVENOTE ESSAY.
As rock expanded its horizons and broadened its palette in the late 1960s a new strand emerged as artists, likely taking their cue from the brass-tinged, Victoriana psychedelia of McCartney and Co, began to include brass instruments in their work. With these ancient accompaniments now boldly placed front and centre, and pulling in influences from jazz and rhythm and blues, bands such as Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago created a new, driving sound that hovered in a previously unexplored Venn diagram sweet spot where hard rock, prog, jazz, R&B and psychedelia all coalesced.
'Brass Tacks' captures that vibrant, sometimes explosive, time and place, taking us on a seven-year journey into a fabled land where the trombone trumped the guitar, the saxophone ruled supreme and one might even catch a glimpse of the lesser-spotted flugelhorn.
Compiled by Martin 'Cally' Callomon, and featuring a plethora of household names alongside leftfield inclusions and wilfully obscure curiosities, all of which feature in his extensive spotter's field guide, this is must-hear material for the obliviously hip, the weary musical traveller looking for a new avenue to explore, and those who just like their rock horny.
Tracklisting
DISC ONE
1. Blood, Sweat And Tears – Somethin’ Comin’ On
2. Chicago - Feelin’ Stronger Everyday
3. The Flock - Uranian Sircus
4. Spirit - Mr. Skin
5. It’s A Beautiful Day - Galileo
6. Rock Workshop - Primrose Hill
7. Cold Blood - Shop Talk
8. Dreams - Calico Baby
9. Gotham - Ease My Mind
10. The Ides Of March - Vehicle
11. Chase - So Many People
12. David Clayton Thomas - Don't Let It Bring You Down
13. Michael Bloomfield - Don’t Think About It Baby
14. Tom Rush - Ladies Love Outlaws
15. Genya Ravan - What Kind Of Man Are You?
16. Ten Wheel Drive - Tightrope
17. Janis Joplin - Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
18. Sweathog - Hallelujah
19. Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - A Kind Of Love In
DISC TWO
1. If - Your City Is Falling
2. Nucleus - Earth Mother
3. Patto - Sugar Cube 1967
4. The Alan Bown - Love Is A Beautiful Thing
5. Galliard - Skillet
6. Heavy Jelly - Too Complicated
7. Manchild - I'll Go Back To Venus
8. Red Alligator - Slow Down
9. The Web - Sunday Joint
10. Zoo - City Breakdown
11. Titus Groan - It Wasn't For You
12. Walrus - Who Can I Trust?
13. Wynder K. Frog - Cool Hand Stanley
14. Jimmy Powell - Hipster
15. Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - Rolling Home
16. Jack Bruce - Things We Like
17. Arthur Brown - Fanfare - Fire Poem
18. Atomic Rooster - Devil’s Answer
19. Affinity - Three Sisters
20. CCS - Black Dog
DISC THREE
1. Bond + Brown - Oobati
2. The Keef Hartley Band - You Can’t Take It With You
3. Dear Mr. Time - Your Country Needs You?
4. Manfred Mann Chapter Three - Konekuf
5. Heaven - Things I Should Have Been
6. Archie Whitewater - Lament For The Walking Dead
7. Andy Ellison - You Can't Do That
8. Mike Hurst - Face From The Past
9. Jimmie Spheeris - Snake Man
10. Funky Bottom Congregation - Things About Yourself
11. Ars Nova - Pavan For My Lady
12. B.B. Blunder - Sticky Living
13. Panta Rhei - Tuyet (East Germany)
14. Elliott Randall - Brother People
15. Trifle - Alibi Annie 16 Mr. Flood's Party - Compared To What
17. White Elephant (Mike Mainieri & Friends) - The Jones
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