Stone The Crows 1972 Live In Montreux 1972

Genre: Blues-Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:54:59
Size: 125,79 MB



Here comes a live recording that awfully shows the special qualities of the British legend STONE THE CROWS . Without any doubt Maggie Bell is one of the best rock singers in the world as guitarist Leslie Harvey was one of the greatest guitarists of his time. Unfortunately he died a few weeks after this concert, as a result of an accident. Then they never again reached this class. On this album already! Believe us, only the 21minutes version of Bob Dylan's 'Hollis Brown' is worth the purchase. A pure document!



Tracklist:

01 - Friends 09:20

02 - Penicillin Blues 06:53


03 - Love 74 11:29

04 - Danger Zone 06:15

05 - Hollis Brown 21:02





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Stone The Crows 1971 Teenage Licks

Genre: Blues-Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:38:53
Size: 88,87 MB



review by Chris Nickson

This third album from Scotland's Stone the Crows was as close to hitting on all cylinders as they ever came in the studio. With some personnel changes following Ode to John Law (a new bassist and keyboard player), they powered through the disc, with "Big Jim Salter," "I May Be Right I May Be Wrong," and their version of Dylan's "Don't Think Twice" being the absolute standouts. The figureheads of vocalist Maggie Bell and guitarist Les Harvey had never sounded better as they worked in a pure rock vein, abandoning the blues aspect of their sound (Indeed, "Aileen Mochree" took them into Gaelic, a pleasant, brief side track) -- check "Mr. Wizard" to get a good picture of where they were really headed. Of course, it wasn't a one-dimensional sound; the keyboard-dominated "Seven Lakes" was full of pseudo-classical portentousness, almost de rigeur for the period. But it was when they rocked that Stone the Crows were at their best, and with this album they seemed truly poised to move up to the big time.



Tracklist:

01 - Big Jim Salter 04:39

02 - Faces 04:42

03 - Mr. Wizard 05:31

04 - Don't Think Twice 05:05



05 - 'Keep On Rollin' 03:54

06 - Ailen Mochree 00:25

07 - One Five Eight 06:28

08 - I May Be Right I May Be Wrong 05:05



09 - Seven Lakes 03:04





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Stone The Crows 1970 Stone The Crows

Genre: Blues-Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:37:56
Size: 86,76 MB



review by Peter Kurtz

A somewhat atypical debut rock release. Not only does the band deliver a soulful rendition of "Fool on the Hill," but the dreaded side-long track makes its appearance on side two of Stone the Crows. The tune is titled "I Saw America," and it pulls together the rock, blues, and soul elements that were splintered up on the first side. A spirited attempt was made to live up to the grandiose title, and there's some confident guitar by Les Harvey.



Tracklist:

01 - The Touch Of Your Loving Hand 06:04



02 - Raining In Your Heart 05:09

03 - Blind Man 05:12

04 - Fool On The Hill 04:09

05 - I Saw America 17:22





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Stone The Crows 1970 Ode To John Law

Genre: Blues-Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:45:59
Size: 105,16 MB



This album is a stone classic (pun intended).Cut 1:"Sad Mary", present-tense ruminations of Mary Queen of Scots awaiting & being lead to her beheading,musical portryal of the moment the axe blade falls.Cut 2:"Friend" a wonderful haunting soulful dirge imploring 'open up your body let a friend in'.Cut 3:"Love" another dirge imploring 'give me your love, I want your love, give me your love..., in this world of false ideals, love you can count on..'Cut 4:"Mad Dogs And Englishmen" light relief about the good times the band had touring as back up to a top-hatted singer/pianist and his band. Cut5:"Things Are Getting Better", slow anthem to 'those who died for freedom...help us fight for freedom every day.Cut 6:"Ode To John Law", present-tense talking to a riot cop 'Listen please dear John, go easy with that stick, cause if you keep on hitting I'll fall and then you'll kick'. Cut7:"Danger Zone" ruminations on the state of the modern world, 'Just read your paper and you'll see just what exactly has been bothering me'. (Cut 8 bonus track, an edited-for-radio-play version of cut 5 but a nice alternative way to finish the album if you want to end on a positive note or can't be bothered programming it out). The musical mood of most of the album is is one of sadness and of coping with the cruelty of life, with a sombre eerie feel to the musical arrangements, which have strong influences from American Indian drumming & chanting, soulful slow psychedelia tinged guitar solos and prominent organ fills and dynamic shading. As always the lead singer Maggie Bell is as one with the rest of the band. For me,"Danger Zone" is outstanding in an album full of gems. I'd suggest anyone who likes to explore music that's a little different take a punt on this one. If you're already an STC fan you won't be dissappointed. I rate it as my favourite. (Jamie Anderson)



Tracklist:

01 - Sad Mary 06:54



02 - Friend 06:29

03 - Love 06:36

04 - Mad Dog And Englishman 03:35

05 - Things Are Getting Better 06:11



06 - Ode To John Law 05:47

07 - Danger Zone 06:22

08 - Things Are Getting Better - Single Version 04:05





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Stone The Crows 1998 BBC Radio 1 - Live In Concert

Biography by Peter Kurtz

Stone the Crows was a tough-luck, working class, progressive soul band that came out of the pubs of Scotland in the early '70s. They had everything going for them at the start: not one, but two gritty singers, a talented guitarist, a rhythm section that had played with John Mayall, and the name recognition of having Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant as their producer. Despite favorable reviews by the critics, however, they never managed to sell their hybridized soul music to a large audience. In addition, they lost two of their key members early on, one of whom was tragically electrocuted, and the group broke up after four albums.

Their biggest contribution to rock was the immense vocal talent of one Maggie Bell. Winner of several Top Girl Singer awards in Britain, Bell had a raunchy, gutbucket voice that, although it fell short of the naked emotion and range of Janis Joplin's, came probably closer to her style than any other female singer. She first attracted notice when she jumped up on stage at a show in Glasgow to wail with Alex Harvey of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Impressed by her talent (and audacity), Harvey hooked her up with his guitar-playing younger brother Les, then fronting a local band called the Kinning Park Ramblers. After playing army bases in Europe for several years as Power, Bell, Harvey, bassist Jim Dewar, keyboardist Jon McGinnis, and drummer Colin Allen (who had played with future bass player Steve Thompson in John Mayall's band), came to the attention of Peter Grant and they changed their name to Stone the Crows, which supposedly is a Scottish variation of "the hell with it."

Both of their first two albums received good reviews upon release, but sold very meagerly. Then bassist/vocalist Jim Dewar quit the band to join Robin Trower's fledgling group, to be replaced by the non-singing Steve Thompson. Shortly after releasing Teenage Licks, guitarist Les Harvey was electrocuted onstage during a gig at Swansea University. This appeared to end the band, but they carried on, recruiting young Jimmy McCulloch from Thunderclap Newman and released "'Ontinuous Performance." Although the rock press lauded the singing of Bell, her group couldn't seem to emerge from the shadows and they broke up after this last album, with McCulloch flying away to join Paul McCartney in Wings.



Genre: Blues-Rock
Rate: 256 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 01:12:16
Size: 132,25 MB



Tracklist:


01 - Keep On Rollin' 05:24

02 - Don't Think Twice It's Allright 05:38

03 - Big Jim Salter 07:55

04 - Mr Wizard 08:37

05 - Goin' Down 05:03

06 - On The Highway 06:36

07 - Palace Of The King 04:58

08 - Penicillin Blues 05:40

09 - Sunset Cowboy 06:49

10 - Niagra 09:23

11 - Good Time Girl 03:36

12 - Ionian Highland Lilt 02:37




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