Feelin' Alright: Mod, Rock, Funky Prog & Heavy Jazz 1967-1972 / Various (PREORDER)

64-track box set of post mod grooves and heavy British R&B. Focussing on music from the late 1960s and early 1970s that avoided Tolkien-esque fantasy and flower power, instead drawing inspiration from the jazz, blues and soul music of black America. This musical journey takes the listener from the heavy Hammond organ groove of Deep Purple's US hit 'Hush' to CCS's funky 'Brother' via British blues from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack, jazz rock from Manfred Mann Chapter Three, The Johnny Almond Music Machine and Satisfaction and the soulful vocals of Stevie Winwood, Sharon Tandy and Rod Stewart. Key artists include Deep Purple, Sharon Tandy (backed by Fleur de Lys), Small Faces, Faces, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Beck (with Rod Stewart & Ronnie Wood), Georgie Fame, Stevie Winwood with both The Spencer Davis Group and Traffic, Mighty Baby, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, Blodwyn Pig and Graham Bond. Many musicians here had been th