Alvin Lee – Lost in Love
11th September, 2007 by Chewbacca
So, I have been accused of having no real blues track to fully quantify having a blues category on Something Chewie (previous outings have been too much rock, not enough blues!) and so, open to suggestion and admittedly unwise in the area – I was presented with today’s track, which definitely doesn’t scrimper on the blues. As an instrumental track, “Lost in Love” has to wow you with only his music, and it surely does that, with powerful soulful playing to get you right into the full of it. Of course, Alvin Lee is a big name (being around since the ’60s), and although Something Chewie is about finding new artists, sometimes it nices to… “re-find” artists. I hope you enjoy Alvin Lee’s “Lost in Love”:
Thunder, the British blues rock band we 
(a steal at less than £4!)
Today’s song was recommended by my friend David who had this very astute sentence to say: “I’ve got a banging song you can put on Something Chewie!” I couldn’t say no, so here we are with The Cult’s “Painted On My Heart”. You’ve most likely heard about their background, so there’s no need to go into detail – but this song was released in 2000 after their reunion from their 4 year hiatus, and was part of the soundtrack to the film “Gone in 60 Seconds”. It’s rocking, so give it a listen!
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At this juncture, an important point should be made about the 
Sam Brookes, a singer/songwriter from Bath, presents a nice and easy going compound of folk and blues in creating his songs. Armed only with his guitar, occasionally a harmonica and his grand voice, he apparently gives quite a performance. My girlfriend who 
Thunder is a big fave band of mine, hailing from the home country, Thunder is blues rock band composed of Danny Bowes and Luke Morley and friends. After the band split in 2000 and reformed in 2002, they started their own record label to get away from the pressures of record companies, and since then has put out three albums of great quality – although, it must be said, you can split the band’s works into the “1989-2000″ era and the “2002-2007″ era – but both rock, so don’t bother! This is an acoustic version of “Loser” which appeared on “Shooting at the Sun”:
which features the acoustic version
Going far beyond concept albums, Brighteye Brison really is a concept artist – there musical outlets tell the tales and myths of Commander Brighteye of the spaceship Brison. Okay, it may be a little out-there – very progressive, but its certainly some impressive music. Also, it serves as my apology for posting yesterday’s track late. (Oh! Am I incredibly sorry for that terrible pun/connection/thing!) “(Am I Too) Late” comes from the five-piece Swedish band’s second studio album, “Stories”.