Shindig! #48: Cover Art And Contents Announced
Shindig! issue #48 cover art released. Grateful Dead, Jorge Ben, Art, Squire, Mary Wilson, Amon Düül II and Joe Boyd figure among typically eclectic content.
Let’s take a look at those stories in a little more detail, with an audio-visual accompaniment for each.
Grateful Dead
The fallout of The Summer Of Love and the birth of a national treasure. The Dead keep on truckin’ through the early ’70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Uu57h7H18
Jorge Ben
The Brazilian samba-funk alchemists’s most mythical and creative years.
Art
Pre-Spooky Tooth psych-rockers’ Supernatural Fairy Tale.
Squire
Late ’70s powerpop avatars who became mod figureheads.
Mary Wilson
The Supremes sassy lynchpin on 10 Deep Cuts you may have missed.
Amon Düül II
Krautrock forefathers or psychedelic warriors? How about both?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6diHhKSDyE
Joe Boyd
20 Questions with the blues evangelist, counter-culture business head and record producer supreme.
Serpent Power
Ian Skelly (The Coral) and Paul Molly (The Zutons) shake their psychedelic stick.
Hidden Charms
London youngsters making their own righteous noise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIacVyoYV94
Rising garage-soul star Curtis Harding talks, US psych enigma Bow Street Runners exposed, Fairport Convention‘s Liege & Lief artwork dissected, rhythm ’n’ beat troubadour Paul Orwell on soundtracking Shindig!‘s recent campaign, and loads more!
Publication date TBC
