Dougie Boom's Cottage Country Mix
A Rock & Roll DJ Mix for the Great Outdoors! Listen to over 24 hours of Classic Rock, Indie, Punk, Folk, Psychedelic & Hard Rock mixed for your Camp, Cottage or Cabin!
As hard rock albums go "Topas" soars high above the rest on wings of gold, green boots and zero topaz (?) This is another one of those relatively obscure rock albums, like Sir Lord Baltimore (that also made our 10-day album challenge) in that both bands were on a major label, but unfortunately had very …
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The loon-atics are on the grass. Pink Floyd kicking it in the woods. photo by Storm Thorgerson Remember when Pink Floyd got along? Indeed, remember when everyone got along (maybe never), and would hang out in the forest. Here, today in Bands In The Woods Wednesday we have Pink Floyd, hanging out in the woods. …
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Def Leppard's Hysteria (rather prophetically) caused mass hysteria in the Rock/Metal/Pop world when it was released back in the 80's and was a hugely influential album for the Cottage Country Mix series. Personally, Hysteria was one of the first cassettes I ever owned and I played it so often, that it eventually got stuck inside …
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We love The Cult's Love album in Day 4 of our 10-day album challenge, . Today, I was reminded that "She's Sell Sanctuary" was released on this day, May 17, 1985. Which seemed too coincidental, as the song would also be featured on The Cult's second album, Love (1985) which was next on my list. …
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From the onset of Ween's 2003 album, Quebec, with its Motorhead-esque "It's Gonna Be A Long Night", you know you are in for a treat but what follows is some of the most sublime songwriting that often gets overlooked. No, Ween are not a just a bunch of glue sniffing bozos, that they painted themselves …
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