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Recent Reviews
Susan Taylor Don't Make Promises / Twelfth of Never - 7"
'Don't Make Promises' was the first song on side one of Tim Hardin 1. And while it is now overshadowed by the heart-rending 'Reason to Believe' (which kicked off the other side of that LP), it was not for lack of effort. Since its release in June of 1966, 'Don't Make Promises' has been covered at least forty times, including nearly a dozen in 1967 alone.
Susan Taylor's upbeat version came out in February and was the first one that year. Taylor at the time was singing a...more
Camera Dimanche (download track)
Camera is yet another example of Montreal's amazingly fertile - and seemingly endless - experimental music scene. The relatively newish trio of Little Misty co-founder Francois Jalbert (guitars, percussion), Melanie Belair (vocals) and Aurelien Tomasi (flute, clarinet) have been together for a couple of years, and 'Dimanche' is their third recently released track.
As its name would suggest, 'Dimanche' is constructed around a lazy-Sunday walk-in-the-woods sort o...more
P Allen Fisherman / Fisherman (version) - 7"
Peter Allen's 'Fisherman' may not be the best reggae record to come out of this country. But its dirge-like synthesizer intro - not the first use of the instrument in the genre but still quite novel - and the fact that only a handful of copies seem to have survived make it certainly one of the more interesting. Add to that the fact that the Jamaican ex-pat recorded the song at Herman Chin-Loy's Aquarius Recording Studio and its holy grail status becomes a little easier to fathom.
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Alex Fontaine Goodbye / Tu n'es pas sincere - 7"
Alex Fontaine's garage corker 'Tu n'est pas sincere' has long been a holy grail of sorts for fans of Quebec francophone 45s, and decent copies will set you back upwards of 200 bucks these days. But for years Fontaine's identity had been a bit of a mystery.
That is until a couple of collectors up in la belle province, Sebastien Desrosiers, whose Mondo PQ blog is a fount of interesting information, and his friend, Michel Gagnon, managed to track down the elusive ...more
Martha and the Muffins For What It's Worth (download single)
Stephen Stills' iconic 'For What It's Worth' was recorded on Dec. 5, 1966 in response to protests on the Sunset Strip the previous month and rush-released just five days later while the memories were still fresh. It has often been misinterpreted to have been written about the Vietnam War or even the Kent State shootings (which is really strange given that the latter didn't take place until 1970).
Perhaps that's why so many people have covered it - the SecondHandSongs site li...more
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