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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I think the moose went this way. I can see his knuckles. 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. Which, …
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"Hysteria" (rather prophetically) caused mass hysteria in the Rock/Metal/Pop world when it was released back in the 80's and was huge influence on me and the Cottage Country Mix. "Hysteria" was one of the first cassettes I ever owned and I played it so often, that it eventually got stuck inside my radio's tape deck …
Continue reading "Day 5/10 Album Challenge: Def Leppard – “Hysteria” (1987)"
Day 4 in our 10 day album challenge, after a lil 2 day nap. Today, I was reminded that "She's Sell Sanctuary" was released on this day, May 17, 1985. Which seemed too coincidental, as The Cult's second album, Love, which features the song was next on my list. I was surprised to see how …
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From the onset of Ween's 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 sublime writing that often gets overlooked. No, Ween are not a bunch of glue sniffing bozos, that they painted themselves (in a corner) to be. Sure, there …
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