VA - Feelin' Alright, Mod Rock, Funky Prog & Heavy Jazz 1967-1972 [2025] (3 x CDs)

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VA - Feelin' Alright, Mod Rock, Funky Prog & Heavy Jazz 1967-1972 [2025] (3 x CDs)

Released by Cherry Red Records via their Strawberry imprint, Feelin’ Alright, Mod Rock, Funky Prog & Heavy Jazz 1967-1972 is a sprawling 3-CD box set that rewires the narrative of late ’60s British music. Across 64 tracks, it sidesteps flower-power clichés and psychedelic whimsy to spotlight a grittier, groove-driven undercurrent, where mod energy, jazz chops, and progressive ambition collided in smoky clubs and studio corners.

This isn’t a trip through the usual suspects. Instead, it’s a curated journey through Hammond-heavy rockers, fuzzed-out jazz fusion, and proto-prog stompers that drew more from black American soul and R&B than Tolkien or tie-dye. Deep Purple’s mono mix of “Hush” sets the tone, followed by cuts from Sharon Tandy, Spencer Davis Group, Georgie Fame, and Traffic, whose song “Feelin’ Alright” lends the compilation its name and attitude.

The sequencing is sharp, balancing radio-ready mod anthems with deep cuts and B-sides that never got their due. There’s a rawness here, horns blaring, organs grinding, guitars snarling, that captures a transitional moment in British music, when genre boundaries blurred and experimentation thrived. The set also includes detailed liner notes and rare photos, grounding each track in its cultural moment.

For crate-diggers, collectors, and anyone curious about the soulful, heavy side of UK rock’s golden age (B)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Deep Purple - Hush 4:22

02 Sharon Tandy - Hold On 3:14

03 Spencer Davis Group - I’m A Man 2:58

04 Love Affair - So Sorry 3:13

05 Spooky Tooth - Sunshine Help Me 3:07

06 Terry Reid - Tinker Tailor 2:56

07 Creation - Midway Down 2:47

08 Love Sculpture - Think of Love 3:06

09 Lion Tamers - Speak Your Mind 2:43

10 John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers - Suspicions (Part One) 2:49

11 Traffic - Feelin’ Alright 4:19

12 Fleetwood Mac - Shake Your Moneymaker 2:57

13 Chicken Shack - San-Ho-Zay 3:05

14 Small Faces - Song of A Baker 3:17

15 Attack - Feels Like Flying 2:38

16 Curiosity Shoppe - Baby I Need You 3:30

17 Wynder K. Frog - Jumping Jack Flash 4:05

18 Free - Trouble on Double Time 3:26

19 Jeff Beck - Let Me Love You 4:43

20 Alan Bown! - Friends in St. Louis 2:32

21 Colosseum - Walking in The Park 3:55

22 Blodwyn Pig - Sing Me A Song That I Know 3:10

23 Jethro Tull - Serenade to A Cuckoo 6:06

CD2

01 Don Fardon - I’m Alive 2:34

02 Georgie Fame - Somebody Stole My Thunder 3:09

03 Exceptions - The Eagle Flies on Friday 2:43

04 Manfred Mann Chapter Three - One Way Glass 3:36

05 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In) 3:06

06 Deep Purple - Emmaretta 3:01

07 Galliard - Skillet 3:45

08 Savoy Brown - Waiting in The Bamboo Grove 3:41

09 Mott The Hoople - You Really Got Me 2:55

10 Open Mind - Magic Potion 3:32

11 Mighty Baby - Egyptian Tomb 5:30

12 Blonde on Blonde - Conversationally Making The Grade 4:14

13 Blue Mink - Blue Mink 4:04

14 Keef Hartley Band - Don’t Be Afraid 4:28

15 Bobak Jons Malone - Mona Lose 2:59

16 Shadows - My Babe 2:50

17 Caravan - If I Could Do it All Over Again, I'd Do it All Over You 3:08

18 Killing Floor - My Mind Can Ride Easy 2:29

19 Rock Workshop - Born in The City 2:29

20 Terry Reid - Marking Time 3:48

21 Pussy - G.E.A.B. 5:29

22 Ace Kefford Stand - For Your Love 5:42

CD3

01 Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express - Fill Your Head With Laughter 3:53

02 Satisfaction - Call You Liar, Liar 4:19

03 Affinity - I Am and So Are You 3:32

04 Clouds - Cold Sweat 3:39

05 McDonald & Giles - Extract From Tomorrow's People - The Children of Today 4:00

06 Faces - Pineapple & The Monkey 4:24

07 Hardin & York - Tomorrow Today 3:36

08 Juicy Lucy - Nadine 2:50

09 Fuzzy Duck - More Than I Am 5:33

10 Johnny Almond Music Machine - Solar Level 3:52

11 Blodwyn Pig - Variations on Nanos 3:50

12 Kinks - Lola (Instrumental) 4:45

13 Status Quo - (April) Spring, Summer and Wednesdays 4:13

14 East of Eden - Marcus Junior 5:12

15 Walrus - Who Can I Trust 2:36

16 Norman Haines Band - I Really Need A Friend 3:45

17 Mick Abrahams - Greyhound Bus 4:52

18 Graham Bond With Magick - I Put My Magick on You 7:25

19 CCS - Brother 3:26

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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.

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