by talkfromtherockroom | Mar 26, 2022 | Reviews
It’s mid June 1968 at the Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, California. Tim Buckley is performing two opening sets for ‘It’s a Beautiful Day’ and ‘Booker T and the MG’s. He is in the midst’s of arguably his most creative era....
by talkfromtherockroom | Apr 14, 2021 | Reviews, Take One
A song that contemplates the passing of time and was voted by UK listeners in 2007 as their favorite folk song is spinning endlessly on the ‘rock room’s turntable today. ‘Who Knows Where the Time Goes’ is a song composed by Sandy Denny and recorded a number of times...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 19, 2020 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
Today in the ‘rock room’ plays a legendary and unique recording, famed in the ‘bootleg’ world for both its rarity and performance. On July 25th 1964, smack dab in the middle of the turbulent musical madness sweeping across the United States two folkies from different...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 6, 2019 | Now Showing, Reviews
Now playing in the ‘rock room’ is a vibrant and rare 17 min color clip of ‘Fotheringay’ filmed in October 1970 for the German Radio Bremen television show Beat Club. ‘Fotheringay’ for those unaware was the band Sandy Denny put together with husband Trevor Lucas...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 1, 2019 | Reviews
Revolving in the ‘rock room’ today is an obscure mono folk record from the FM label released in 1964. The LP titled, Hootenanny – Live At the Bitter End spotlights a number of artists from the heady days of the Greenwich folk scene which included familiar...
