Fill Your Head With Rock (Side 3 & 4 )

Fill Your Head with Rock (1970) was the third release in the successful CBS Records Rock Machine UK budget sampler album series. It broke new ground, by extending the format to a double album, and also featured more UK artists than previous samplers.

Compiler David Howell (later Managing Director of Pete Waterman's PWL label) stated that while the earlier samplers were merely aimed at promoting specific full-price releases, this record was part of a major push to establish the label as "the top label in contemporary music" in the UK, and also to establish the market for double albums.

                                                                               SIDE 3

 

                        1"Gibsom Street" (L. Nyro) : Laura Nyro (from the LP New York Tendaberry 

 Laura Nyro  born Laura Nigro; October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) and New York Tendaberry (1969)

1.       2 "You Know Who I Am" (L. Cohen) : Leonard Cohen (from the LP Songs from a Room  
   
2.  Leonard Cohen (Westmount, Montreal, 21 september 1934 – Los Angeles, Californië, 7 november 2016^[1]) was een Canadese folksinger-songwriter, dichter en schrijver. Hij had hits met onder andere Suzanne, Hallelujah en So Long, Marianne.  
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   3 "Stamping Ground"^[6] (L. Hardin) : Moondog (from the LP Moondog 
    
    Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American music which he had become familiar with as a child,^[1] and Latin American music.^[2] His strongly rhythmic, contrapuntal pieces and arrangements later influenced composers of minimal music, in particular American composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass.
    
    4 "The Inbetween Man"^[7](A. Kane) : Amory Kane (from the LP Just to Be There 63849) (5:22)
    
    Jack Daniel Kane Jr. (born March 28, 1946), known professionally as Amory Kane, is an American singer-songwriter, mostly known for his work in Britain in the late 1960s.
    
    5"The Garden of Jane Delawney" (T. Boswell^[8]) : Trees (from the LP The Garden of Jane Delawney 63837) (4:05)
    
    Trees was a British folk rock band recording and touring throughout 1969, 1970 and 1971, reforming briefly to continue performing throughout 1972. Although the group met with little commercial success in their time, the reputation of the band has grown over the years, and underwent a renaissance in 2007 following Gnarls Barkley's sampling of the track "Geordie" (from Trees’ second album On The Shore) on the title track of their multi-million selling album St. Elsewhere.
    
    
   6 "A Small Fruit Song" (Al Stewart) : Al Stewart (from the LP Zero She Flies 
    
    Al Stewart (Glasgow, 5 september 1945) is een Schots singer-songwriter. Hij brak wereldwijd door in 1977 met het album Year of the cat en de gelijknamige single. Het album bevat ook de hit On the border.
    
    7 "Driving Wheel" (T. Rush^[9]) : Tom Rush (from the LP Tom Rush  
    
    Thomas Walker Rush (born February 8, 1941)^[1] is an American folk and blues singer, guitarist and songwriter who helped launch the careers of other singer-songwriters in the 1960s and has continued his own singing career for 60 years.[

                                                                                       SIDE 4

 1  "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" (J. Ragavoy-C. Taylor) : Janis Joplin (from the LP I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!) 

 Janis Lyn Joplin^[1] (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and musician. One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals^[ and "electric" stage presence.

 2 "One Room Country Shack" (Mercy Dee Walton) : Al Kooper (from the LP Kooper Session 

 Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt; February 5, 1944) is a retired American songwriter, record producer and musician, known for organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears, although he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity. Throughout much of the 1960s and 1970s he was a prolific studio musician, playing organ on the Bob Dylan song "Like a Rolling Stone", French horn and piano on the Rolling Stones song "You Can't Always Get What You Want", and lead guitar on Rita Coolidge's "The Lady's Not for Sale", among many other appearances. Kooper also produced a number of one-off collaboration albums, such as the Super Session album that saw him work separately with guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills. 

 

3  "Six Days on the Road" (C. Montgomery-E.Greene) : Taj Mahal (from the LP Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home  

 Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. (born May 17, 1942), better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments,^[1] often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific

 4  "Don't Think About It Baby" (M. Bloomfield) : Mike Bloomfield (from the LP It's Not Killing Me  

 Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American guitarist and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, as he rarely sang before 1969.^[1] Respected for his guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues musicians before achieving his own fame and was instrumental in popularizing blues music in the mid-1960s. In 1965, he played on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, including the single "Like a Rolling Stone", and performed with Dylan at that year's Newport Folk Festival.

 5 "Bluesbuster" (C. Allen) : Pacific Gas & Electric (from the LP Pacific Gas and Electric 

 Pacific Gas & Electric was an American rock band in the late 1960s and early 1970s, led by singer Charlie Allen. Their biggest hit was the gospel-tinged "Are You Ready?" in 1970.

 6 "I Love Everybody" (J. Winter) : Johnny Winter (from the LP Second Winter) 

 John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014) was an American singer and guitarist.^[1] Winter was known for his high-energy blues rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s. He also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. After his time with Waters, Winter recorded several Grammy-nominated blues albums. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003, he was ranked 63rd in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".