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Back Door: Vienna Breakdown: The Recordings 1971-1976

Read "Vienna Breakdown: The Recordings 1971-1976" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
August 6, 2025

It was a whole different world back then, me lad. A person could not simply plug in a couple gizmos and record an album in their bedroom--well, not a very good-sounding one at any rate. It was fairly rare for an early-'70s combo to wing it on their own without company or label support (albeit with a friendly venue owner's help, to give proper credit). Those who know the name Back Door, though, know that their whole career was practically ...

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Back Door: BBC In Concert

Read "BBC In Concert" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
September 22, 2013

The Back Door story belongs to a brief but rather glorious time in British popular music. A time when a free-blowing jazz trio could emerge from the resident band of a northern cabaret club, a summer season in seaside variety theatre, afternoon jam sessions and the band of an iconic figure from the British blues boom. As BBC In Concert ably demonstrates, the band managed to blend these rather disparate experiences together to create some entertaining music.In 1968 ...