A new compilation will celebrate “post mod grooves and heavy British R&B” that focuses on music from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Feelin’ Alright? Mod Rock, Funky Prog and Heavy Jazz 1967-1972, with songs from Deep Purple, the Spencer Davis Group, Free and, of course, Traffic, whose song inspired the set’s title, arrives June 20, 2025, from the U.K. label Cherry Red Records’ via their Strawberry imprint. The 3-CD collection is available for pre-order in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here.
From the label’s announcement: This musical journey takes the listener from the heavy Hammond organ groove of Deep Purple’s “Hush” to Fleetwood Mac’s “Shake Your Moneymaker” to Faces’ “Pineapple & the Monkey.”
Artists also featured among the 64 tracks include Small Faces, Jeff Beck (with Rod Stewart & Ronnie Wood), Georgie Fame, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, Blodwyn Pig, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and Graham Bond.
Feelin’ Alright? Mod Rock, Funky Prog and Heavy Jazz 1967-1972 Track Listing
Disc 1
1 Deep Purple – Hush
2 Sharon Tandy – Hold on
3 The Spencer Davis Group – I’m a Man
4 Love Affair – So Sorry
5 Spooky Tooth – Sunshine Help Me
6 Terry Reid – Tinker Tailor
7 The Creation – Midway Down
8 Love Sculpture – Think of Love
9 The Lion Tamers – Speak Your Mind
10 John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – Suspicions (Part One)
11 Traffic – Feelin’ Alright?
12 Fleetwood Mac – Shake Your Moneymaker
13 Chicken Shack – San-Ho-Zay
14 Small Faces – Song of a Baker
15 The Attack – Feels Like Flying
16 Curiosity Shoppe – Baby I Need You
17 Wynder K. Frog – Jumping Jack Flash
18 Free – Trouble on Double Time
19 Jeff Beck – Let Me Love You
20 The Alan Bown! – Friends in St. Louis
21 Colosseum – Walking in the Park
22 Blodwyn Pig – Sing Me a Song That I Know
23 Jethro Tull – Serenade to a Cuckoo
Disc 2
1 Don Fardon – I’m Alive
2 Georgie Fame – Somebody Stole My Thunder
3 The Exceptions – the Eagle Flies on Friday
4 Manfred Mann Chapter Three – One Way Glass
5 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity – Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine in)
6 Deep Purple – Emmaretta
7 Galliard – Skillet
8 Savoy Brown – Waiting in the Bamboo Grove
9 Mott the Hoople – You Really Got Me
10 The Open Mind – Magic Potion
11 Mighty Baby – Egyptian Tomb
12 Blonde on Blonde – Conversationally Making the Grade
13 Blue Mink – Blue Mink
14 Keef Hartley Band – Don’t Be Afraid
15 Bobak Jons Malone – Mona Lose
16 The Shadows – My Babe
17 Caravan – If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You
18 Killing Floor – My Mind Can Ride Easy
19 Rock Workshop – Born in the City
20 Terry Reid – Marking Time
21 Pussy – G.E.A.B
22 Ace Kefford Stand – for Your Love
Disc 3
1 Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express – Fill Your Head with Laughter
2 Satisfaction – Call You Liar, Liar
2 Affinity – I Am and So Are You
3 Clouds – Cold Sweat
4 McDonald & Giles – Extract from Tomorrow’s People – the Children of Today
5 Faces – Pineapple & the Monkey
6 Hardin & York – Tomorrow Today
7 Juicy Lucy – Nadine
8 Fuzzy Duck – More Than I Am
9 Johnny Almond Music Machine – Solar Level
10 Blodwyn Pig – Variations on Nanos
11 The Kinks – Lola (Instrumental)
12 Status Quo – (April) Spring, Summer and Wednesdays
13 East of Eden – Marcus Junior
14 Walrus – Who Can I Trust
15 Norman Haines Band – I Really Need a Friend
16 Mick Abrahams – Greyhound Bus
17 Graham Bond with Magick – I Put My Magick on You
18 CCS – Brother
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