The Pharaohs - In The BasementAvailable in the shop on Record Store Day The Pharaohs only managed one release during their short lifetime, 1971's masterful Awakening. But when the San Francisco based jazz funk reissue label Luv N Haight reissued Awakening in 1996, they also came out with a brand new CD of mostly previously unreleased material called In the Basement. Most of this album was recorded live in 1972, after the already enormous 11 piece band had grown to include four

By the time you hit the finale: the out-of-control

Johnson’s signature guitar sound is at its most languid and refined

magisterial ballads toward the end of the album

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where human relationships between artists underpin far-ranging

Self released in 1984 and long out of print

to the layered

releasing over 300 7” singles and 200 LPs

Toledo a sophomore

Released in 1980 on Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s own label and featuring his long-time collaborator Doug Riley At Last

despatching two extended

Ivers wove his harp melodies through the sensuously colored but unconventionally arranged pop compositions of Terminal Love and its self-titled follow up