Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites


year 96 review: "This is a great book to play out of, but if you're looking for the exact same parts you hear on the cd (like the piano in "long december"), remember it's not transcribed, so there are some spots with added-in accompaniment instead of note-for-note transcriptions. "

Steely Dan - Aja


year 77 review: When Fagen and Becker started working on the Aja album in late 1976 the rock world was still divided from the disco world in no uncertain terms. After Aja was released in October 1977 the lines were blurred forever. I believe as a consequence, Aja, is perhaps the single most important album of the last quarte century of the 20th Century. It is a brilliant amalgam of what the rock, pop and jazz worlds had created up 'til then.....and to top it off, what a nice bunch of guys! Fagen, Becker, Katz, Nichols, Rainey, Marotta, Purdie and the rest are modest, humorous and very talented. Bravo!

Janis Joplin - Trouble In Mind

year 68 review: Janis Joplin brought her powerful, bluesy voice from Texas to San Francisco´s psychedelic scene, where she went from drifter to superstar. She has been called "the greatest white urban blues and soul singer of her generation". Joplin´s vocal intensity proved a perfect match for the high-energy music of Big Brother and the Holding Company, resulting in a mix of blues, folk and psychedelic rock. Joplin´s tenure with Big Brother may have been brief, lasting only from 1966 to 1968, but it yielded a pair of albums that included the milestone "Cheap Thrills". Moreover, her performance with Big Brother at 1967´s Monterey International Pop Festival, a highlight of the film documentary Monterey Pop, is among the great performances in rock history.

Here´s a bootleg collecting recordings Jorma Kaukonen´s home in Austin, Texas (spring 1965 and December 1964), from Monterey (June 1967) and San Francisco (December 1968).