Shindig! issue 173

Features

Amy Rigby: The future Mod Housewife seeks fame and possibly fortune in Nashville.

Frank Zinn: The West Coast pop explosion through the lens of a neglected talent.

Cream: New volatile supergroup searches for direction and identity in 1966!

Still Life: Coventry beat journeymen turn to progressive rock.

The Gants: The Mississippi garage-pop quartet struggle to get their true voice heard.

Elvis Costello: Pop agitator par excellence. Early days with Stiff Records, Clover, The Attractions and commercial breakthrough.

20 Questions: Al Jardine The Beach Boy who brought folk music, eco-32 awareness and a solid reliability to one of the most potent musical mixes in pop history.

Regulars

Thoughts & Words: Your letters, tweets and emails.

Shindiggin’ What’s hot on the Shindig! turntable.

Subscribers’ Prize Draw: Subscribe now and you could win a pair of Cambridge Audio Melomania P100 SE headphones.

It’s A Happening Thing: Uni Boys, Steve Diggle, Iraina Mancini, The Jetset, Mod Lang, The Forty Fours, Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18, Jim Noir, Skep Wax Records, Flood.

Family Album: Mike Hart’s emotionally candid 1969 debut Mike Hart Bleeds.

Deep Cuts: The golden era of the pedal steel guitar.

Back To Back: The Yardbirds and Al Stewart ‘Turn Into Earth’.

Reviews: The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows.

Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Bob Stanley’s Wednesday Morning 6 AM – Radio Hits From The Small Hours 1970-1983.

Vinyl Art: Ronnie Aldrich’s corporate 1979 oddity Tomorrow’s Yesterdays.

Vinyl Clicks: Arty pop moves on 1972 one-off The Roger Saunders Rush Album.