Speaking of good new music, I’m recently smitten with an album released in ’66..but is NEW to me. I was two at the time, so it slipped my attention then. But thanks to Ed, yeah Ed, I haven’t driven anywhere in the past several daze without cranking Jeff Beck Group ~ Truth all the way to 10 with the windows down. & I don’t really listen to music loud anymore. Wow, what a piece of whitebread yet badass Britty blues, dudes (& dudettes)!

Beck-Ola is nothing new to mine & I, but I’d never really dug into Beck enough to know Truth existed. It’s a gem. …Really lovin’em up (or..more..they’re lovin’ me up), this trio in their relative youth.

Beck flipping the unwavering bird at those of the era claiming Hendrix owned the fuzzy-whacka-whacka-wah-wah sound; he’s all crybaby guitar with that Beck signature tone. You know the tone. Lots of fingers on the picking hand and whatever else he did/does to his guitar to make it natter thata way.

Ronnie Wood, for lack of a sudsier bassman at the time, picked up a mean beefy standout bass and stood a post --- until the trio got sick of each other and went separate ways.

And Rod Stewart. Young, dumb, and full of the comeliness & pipes that would launch him into the pop cosmos, rasping out blue tones, call & response and note-for-note with Jeff Beck in a way that’s both familiar ..and something else. (No doubt gave Robert Plant pause on some wee dark night when rare wisps of self-doubt came creeping in with the comedown.)

…& a batch of guests, especially on the mess of bonus tracks included in the reissued remastered CD (look it up for those details). Being the dbis, maybe this is nothing new to you. But, hey...........

This is a must own [IMHO].  Thanx Ed. Namaste……...