Originally this extraordinary heavy-psychedelic-blues rock album was recorded in L.A., in 1969. The album contains 8 original cuts of 43 mins playing time, and presents the "new" dark, haunted and aggressive progress in electric music of the end-sixties. The band name was a creation, to credit the two founding members, so the C (Carey) K (Kewley) Strong caravan began in the summer of 69, a bit later Geoff Westen, the second guitarist joined and the creative unit C.K. Strong was born…
C.K. Strong is the first and only album by the american hard blues band C.K. Strong. The album is a very strong psychedelic blues oriented piece, and it certainly deserved more attention than it got. Quite ecclectic in style, it's a mix of hard rock, boogie blues, and heavy blues, featuring male/female vocals and good guitar. Miss Linn Carey is worth the price of admission, even if she didn't sing. A radiating, well-endowed blonde, her pyromagnetic caroling scans three octaves. To these ears she's at least the equal of Janis Joplin.
With By Inheritance, way back in 1990 it seemed Artillery reached peaks in both musical and technical terms, combining strong melodies and considerable finesse with innate aggression, increasing the difficulty of arrangements and achieving a higher instrumental level than ever before…
The debut album from amalgamated progsters John Wetton, Bill Bruford, Eddie Jobson, and Allan Holdsworth has the edge over both Danger Money and Night After Night because of the synthesis of melody and rhythm that is inflicted through nearly every one of the eight track…