Encore Records

The Groundhogs

Thank Christ For The Groundhogs: The Liberty Years

2010 three CD set that contains their first five albums for Liberty Records (1968-72) plus bonus tracks. With a career that spans an impressive five decades, the Groundhogs are a veritable British Blues-Rock institution. With a line-up cemented around Peter Cruickshank on bass guitar, Ken Pustelnik on drums and fronted by singer, guitarist and principle songwriter Tony (T.S.) McPhee, this bluesy power trio were joined by harmonica toting Steve Rye for their full length debut, Scratching The Surface released on Liberty Records in 1968. With a reputation hard won by their incessant touring schedule, the band recorded Blues Obituary as a three piece in 1969, followed by Thanks Christ For The Bomb (1970), then hitting #5 with their most successful record, Split, in 1971 and rounded off by the fabulously titled Who Will Save The World? The Mighty Groundhogs (1972).

Ten Years After

Think About the Times: The Chrysalis Years

2010 three CD release featuring albums plus rare tracks all recorded during their time on Chrysalis Records. Their fourth album, Ssssh., issued in August 1969, coincided with their breakthrough appearance at the Woodstock festival, a definite highlight of the subsequent film and LP of that show. Fifth album Cricklewood Green, issued in April 1970, featured their biggest UK chart hit with ‘Love Like A Man’. 1971’s A Space In Time showed a change in direction, no doubt inspired by the more acoustic sounds prevalent in the States at the time. As well as producing their biggest Stateside hit with ‘I’d Love To Change the World’, this set is completed by Rock & Roll Music to the World from 1972, a classic mix of the blues and rock ‘n’ roll that made the band such a successful live draw, with lead guitarist Alvin Lee hailed as one of the fastest players in the world. This set also includes rare b-sides and single edits, appearing on CD for the first time.

Robin Trower

Tale Untold : The Chrysalis Years

2010 three CD collection containing his five Chrysalis albums between 1973 -1976 plus bonus tracks (b-sides, outtakes, edits and previously unreleased tracks). Robin Trower initially found fame in the late 1960s as the guitarist with Procol Harum before embarking on a solo career in 1973. The Chrysalis Years 1973-1976 is augmented by the rare b-side, ‘Take A Fast Train’, single edits of ‘Day of The Eagle’, and ‘Long Misty Days’, previously unavailable on CD, and finishes with the previously unreleased ‘Let Me Be The One’, a rare outtake from Long Misty Days.

Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters

Spread the Love

On Spread the Love, Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters take the instrumental route in a tribute to mentors, friends, and family - Albert Collins, Kenny Burrell, Duane Allman, Duke Pearson, Otis Spann, Roy Buchanan.

JJ Grey & Mofro

Georgia Warhorse

Maybe number five is the charm?

Not that JJ Grey and his ever evolving backing band Mofro care.

But it’s possible that Georgia Warhorse may be the record that pulls them from the glorified cult status they’ve enjoyed for a decade into the lights on the mainstream’s fringes—but don’t count on it.

Grey’s music is far too real; too poetically, sonically, and atmospherically rooted in vintage Southern soul, rock and blues traditions to translate readily into radio fodder.

The music is steeped in funky, greasy, slippery Southern R&B, blues and rock.

John Mayall

So Many Roads: An Anthology 1964-1975

2010 four CD anthology from the British Blues legend. John Mayall’s band, The Bluesbreakers ,were undoubtedly a hot-house for the British Blues scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s and it’s quite staggering when you examine the roll call of floating members who served their apprenticeship with John Mayall including Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, Keef Hartley, John McVie, Mick Taylor and Steve Winwood.

This lavish box set contains 74 tracks, all newly remastered from the original master tapes, including five tracks released in Europe on CD for the first time. The 40-page booklet features sleevenotes by Mark Powell with rare and previously unseen photographs.

Robert Cray

Cookin’ In Mobile

CD & DVD

This is soul-bluesman Cray’s third live release in four years ( but the only one that includes a full concert DVD—adding two more cuts, “Phone Booth” and “Twenty”—along with the audio.

JJ Grey & Mofro

Orange Blossoms / Country Ghetto / Blackwater / Lochloosa

We have all four of Mofro’s cds in stock now !!

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Couldn’t Stand the Weather

This 2 cd edition contains 16 previously unreleased tracks, studio outtakes and the live recording of Vaughan & Double Trouble’s 1984 performance at the Spectrum in Montreal.

A 24 colour page booklet completes the package with liner notes by Guitar World Associate Editor (and Stevie Ray Vaughan authority) Andy Aledort as well as commentary by Double Trouble band mates Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon.

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Extra Width

Deluxe 2 cd version features the remastered album, the Mo Width cd plus 24 unreleased outtakes and live tunes !