The Autumn Stone (Vinyl 2xLP) Folk & Americana

The Autumn Stone (Vinyl 2xLP) Folk & AmericanaThe Autumn Stone was the only double LP in the history of Immediate Records, and it came out as the company was entering its death throes, a desperate effort to cash in on the library of tapes of the Small Faces. When lead singer Steve Marriott quit in the waning days of 1968, the group had been midway into recording a new album that would have been its third for the label and a follow up to 1968's popular Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. Left high and dry by

Recorded in 1977

with string arrangements and brass now in the mix

'Santana' is the debut studio from Latin rock legend Carlos Santana and released in 1969

It displays a mix between the fusion of Latin and blues-rock styles of the late 1960s and early 1970s

The Holly Kaleidoscope was Graham's final LP for Decca and he was accompanied by his then wife

' and many other great tracks

powered by percolating congas and timbales and topped by the grippingly human cry of Carlos Santana's guitar

17 sexy tracks of swinging jet-set jazz

but the first part of the b-side as well - clocking in over 25 minutes

Latin American

The collection highlights the musical and artistic abundance of the 1960s and '70s with leading artists like Lou Reed

but rivals it in terms of scope