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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Various Artists-"Fill Your Head With Rock" (1970)

"Fill Your Head With Rock" was a successful double compilation that the North American label Columbia Records published in 1970 and which included some of the label's best-known artists at that time.
With an iconic cover featuring Gerry Goodman of The Flock with his characteristic violin and flowing hair, the album was a huge success worldwide, selling more than a million copies.
At the time, this superb compilation would compete with another famous one published by the progressive label Islands Records, entitled "Bumpers", with the difference that it only showed British artists, while Columbia had artists from both countries.
This compilation was a faithful representation of the most creative singer-songwriters of the time: Tim Hardin, Tom Rush, Laura Nyro, Tim Rose, Tim Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan or Al Stewart, among others; part of them appear in this selection.
It also contained a good representation of jazz rock with Al Kooper, Chicago or Blood Sweat & Tears, a selection of groups and progressive artists such as Santana, Steamhammer, Black Widow, Spirit, Argent, Skin Alley or Moondog and another of blues artists such as Pacific Gas & Electric, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter or Mike Bloomfield.

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