Belfast gave us the visionary songsmith David McWilliams. In 1965 David formed the Coral Showband, named after Buddy Holly’s record label. A year later Phil Solomon set up his ‘Major Minor’ label and David joined after a one off single for CBS entitled “God and My Country”. Phil Solomon started out leasing recordings of artists […] Continue reading →

Out of the Big Roll Blues of the UK some would walk into the new rising rainbows, in particular ex Alexis Korner Zoot Money( Bruno Money) who received his nicknamed due to an obsession with jazz saxophonist, Zoot Sims? Zoot blew the minds of the audience at the ‘Windsor National Blues Festival’ when he unveiled […] Continue reading →

Cressida in the Fall The entirety of Cressida was the riveting piano solos of Peter Jennings who also shimmered through organ and assorted keyboards. Cressida with its’ first incarnation as Cressida’s Thorns formed in the late sixties with original organist Lol Coker who was displaced with ex Mustard drummer Iain Clarke and the superior Peter […] Continue reading →

Sextet Capability Brown were quintessentially multi-instrumentalists that could whip up CSN harmonies with the slightest of ease. The first watering was when ex Moments bassist Kenny Rowe, bassist /vocalist Tony Ferguson and percussionist Joe Williams from Tony Rivers’ folky Harmony Grass joined ex Gremlins Roger Willis and ex Fuzzy Duck guitarist/lute/balalaika player Grahame White to […] Continue reading →

Irwin Klein And The New Settlers: Photographs Of Conterculture In New Mexico Just in time for the 20th Anniversary of Hippy.com we are happy to announce the publication of a book about Hippie Culture from the 1960s in New Mexico. “When my late uncle Irwin Klein first came to El Rito, a Hispaño village located […] Continue reading →

Wading through the countless Prog Rivers and endless streams of England’s Progressive tide however magical cannot be described as a wondrous Tolkienistic endurance of Dr Robert Moog’s resurrection and eventual demise. The causeway has valleys of unreachable dimension and between those undulating plains, hidden crevices and jagged cliffs you will have your senses jarred and […] Continue reading →

Blackburn & Snow were a hip duet that appeared in the early mid sixties on the San Francisco music scene in the USA. The group consisted of ex Bakersfield Rebels guitarist-singer Jeff Blackburn & ex Sherry Snow & Geronimo vocalist Sherry Snow who became romantically involved in 1965, living together in Berkeley, California and performing […] Continue reading →

Bill Fay a UK based singer, songwriter and pianist, in hindsight an overlooked apocalyptic sage with a vision to the future. Ex-Them drummer Terry Noon helped Bill to sign a recording contract with ‘Decca’ putting out the oddly “Some Good Advice”/”Screams In The Ears” backed by Southend band The Fingers. This was followed by the […] Continue reading →

Michael Chapman was an eclectic English singer songwriter in the same mould as Roy Harper and Wizz Jones. A former art & photography teacher, Chapman emerged from the folk scene in Yorkshire, gaining a reputation as one of England’s finest original singer-songwriters.He first appeared on the London and Cornwall folk music circuits in 1967, alongside […] Continue reading →

The elusive Jimmie Spheeris, a Greek poet started out in a traveling carnival called the Majick Empire that would strongly influence songsmith poems like “Lost in the Midway” and “Decatur Street”. Spheeris later moved to New York in the late 1960’s to further his songwriting career. Discovered by Richie Havens, Spheeris was introduced to ‘Columbia’ […] Continue reading →