Hard Rock Miners Rock’n Roll Welfare (Hypnotic/A&M)

ane wilde - = Hard Rock Miners is aster best erates as, well.. . drinking music. Rock’n

around their loins. I figured that it oa be unfair to review this to the whole thing, so listen to it I did. The whole thing. Once.

a nervous tic. I couldn’t imagine the horror of ten other albums has apparently produced. So, if songs like “‘ Ain’t Nothing Like ”, and the advice all our mothers gave us, ‘Don’t aes For Free’’

for the song. All in all, this tape is okay for a country/blues tape. However, I do think my grandparents will like this tape

J ohn Mayall >»’Spinning Coin’’ : (Silverstone Records) This would almost qualify as country, but some of the songs have too fast of a beat. Personally, I liked this tape be tape is quite similar. One song, ‘‘Double Life Feeling”’, is almost like a blues song. The words to all his songs are will. (3) Mary MacDonald 8 i tg oe ae A. odrigo Leao & Vox nsemble e€ Mundi Luminar

p' y be ally of inebriation: The song structures : are Sais: but not stupid, and tie Nines throw in plenty of|Celtic-tinged touches to keep things interesting and somewhat original. This sound is better suited to live performance, but the recorded product is still worth a listen.

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John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers Spinning Coin

(Silvertone/BMG)

John Mayall, the Godfather of the 1960’s British blues scene, has produced another near perfect tepresentation of the simple beauty of the blues. On Spinning Coin, Mayall’s legendary Bluesbreakers are as tight and heavy asthey have ever been in their thirty year history. Simultane- ouny ae mee = intense, Meret: s music. _

ay have noted from the title of this recording, it is a Portuguese ensemble. it’ I found this CD incredibly enjoyable. Soft instrumentals, incl (0, violin, and english horn, mixed with haunting vocals mak s CD excellent ings, some tracks are _w' others, but even the ~OF on an overcast day, however, this CD might be

I would recommend the ewhat depressing. This being my biggest criticism, however, ‘“mble to anyone ais enjoys either light instrumentals or something just a little different.

music. Dew galeria Bu fay Whittington’. s.con- siderable talent upholds the Bluesbreakers repu- tation as a training ground for incredible guitar- ists. Whittington holds his own among the - - ghosts of former members Eric Clapton and reclusive genius Peter Green. Spinning Coinisa very satisfying release.

(4.5)

Mike Beagan

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