1972 was a remarkable year in the history of rock. It stands out as my personal favorite year just because of the sheer volume of magic that was released on vinyl by artists such as Poco, The Eagles, Crosby & Nash, Loggins & Messina, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, Dan Fogelberg, Batdorf & Rodney, England Dan & John Ford Coley (before they had hit singles), Colin Blunstone, The Hollies, Peter Frampton, Seals & Crofts, Fleetwood Mac, Rick Nelson and the list goes on to include the first album by Jackson Browne and more.
But there was one album released that year that defines the time for me more than any other record - the debut of Aztec Two-Step. Please reward yourself with 30 years of music from this legendary band. - Dean Sciarra - ItsAboutMusic.com
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Aztec Two-Step - Time It Was (The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook) This is a truly special recording of Aztec Two-Step performing the Simon & Garfunkel Songbook LIVE at WFUV in NY with Pete Fornatale as a moderator along with Rex and Neal offering insights into the songs of Paul Simon. This is a "must have" for any ATS fan.
Songs on this album are:
1. 59th Street Bridge Song
2. April Come She Will
3. Bleeker Street
4. Unsung Heroes (Narration Only)
5. The Sound Of Silence
6. Scarborough Fair
7. I Am a Raock
8. Homeward Bound
9. A Hazy Shade Of Winter
10. America
11. At The Zoo
12. Old Friends
13. Punky's Dilemma
14. Overs
15. Mrs Robinson
16. Cecilia
17. The Boxer
18. Bridge Over Troubled Water
Days of Horses The brand new album!
Well - it only took these guys ten years to get back to the studio to create this new and pretty wonderful album of true ATS wit and charm. You'd think they had something better to do. Rex and Neal could release an new album every month and I'd be waitin' in line to buy every one of 'em. So play a few tunes - or samples of the whole CD - but if you love Aztec Two-Step just click on the order button below. Well worth the wait.
Songs on this album are:
1. Days Of Horses
2. Dad Came Home
3. Stargazers
4. Better These Days
5. Scotty Moore, Bill Black and Elvis
6. Tonight I Wish I Was In Texas
7. Fools Like Us
8. Sunday In The Afternoon With You
9. Everybody Knows
10. Down Home
11. I Don't Believe in Jesus (but I sure do like his songs)
Second Step ReMastered From 1975 comes the 2nd album featuring "It's Going on Saturday," "Faster Gun" and "Humpty Dumpty." The perfect follow-up to the first album.
Songs on this album are:
1. It's Going on Saturday
2. Our Lives
3. I'm In Love Again
4. Faster Gun
5. Humpty Dumpty
6. Move Up To Love
7. Cosmos Lady
8. Walking on Air
9. Lullabye On New York
10. Hey Little Mama
Two's Company - ReMastered
The 3rd album from 1976 offers up the FM radio staple - Dance
Songs on this album are:
1. Dance
2. Finding Somebody New
3. A Conversation in a Car
4. Isn't it Sweet to Think So
5. Pajama Party
6. Give it Away
7. Penthouse
8. Whiskey Man
9. You've Got a Way
10. Loving Game
11. Where'd Our Loving Go
Songs on this album are:
1. Wonder if We Tried
2. Brand New
3. You and I
4. One Thing I Forgot to Tell You
5. John Gary
6. Looking Glass
7. Hurting
8. Up in Lilly's Room
9. Waywarding Day
10. Born Again
Songs on this album are:
1. Looking For Love
2. My Friend Billy
3. Never Gonna Let You Go
4. She
5. Boys
6. Never Stop
7. You Who
8. Left Over Life
9. Good Times Bad Times
10. I Don't Wanna Go
Living in America From 1986 comes this particularly cool collection of tunes.
Songs on this album are:
1. The Rabbit In The Moon
2. The River
3. I'm In Love With The Girl on MTV
4. Velvet Elvis
5. Living In America
6. I'm The One
7. Better Watch Out (For The Rastafarians)
8. Really Gone
9. Johny's An Angel
10. In Your Paintings
See It Was Like This... - ReMastered An Acoustic Retrospective of some of their best tunes recorded in 1989.
Songs on this album are:
1. Rabbit in the Moon
2. Ballad of Humpty Dumpty and Cinderella
3. Baking
4. The Persecution & Restoration of Dean Moriarty (On The Road)
5. Faster Gun
6. Living in America
7. Cosmos Lady
8. It's Going on Saturday
9. Whiskey Man
10. Dance
11. Johnny's an Angel
12. Highway Song
13. So Easy
14. You've Got a Way
15. Killing Me
16. Almost Apocalypse
17. Prisoner
Songs on this album are:
1. Falling Down Clowns
2. War
3. Shantytown
4. Beth
5. I'm Sorry
6. People Are Strange
7. Your Anybody's Me
8. Ban Vinai
9. A Flock of Seagulls
10. Hold Your Dreams Close
11. It Just Happens That Way
12. I Only Sleep with Strangers
Highway Signs 25th Anniversary Concerts Recorded LIVE in New York in 1996 with the legenday WNEW radio personality, Pete Fornatale hosting the event.
Songs on this album are:
1. It's Going on Saturday
2. My Friend Billy
3. Whiskey Man
4. Dance
5. Highway Song
6. The Persecution & Restoration of Dean Moriarty (On The Road)
7. Cockroach Cacophany
8. Conversation in a Car
9. Lullaby on New York
10. Ban Vanai
11. The Ballad of Humpty Dumpty and Cinderella
12. Rabbit in the Moon
13. Shantytown
14. Let it be Me
15. Almost Apocalypse
Live & Rare Double Disc collection of rare recordings - demos and live tracks not offered on their other albums.
Songs on Disc One are:
1. Hang On
2. I Didn't Want to Make You Sad
3. Now That We've Started
4. Fenway Sunday
5. Walking On Air
6. Hurry
7. Waywarding Day
8. Hey Little Mama
9. Pajama Party
10. Up In Lilly's Room
11. Give It Away
12. You Who
13. I'm In Love Again
14. Finding Somebody New
15. Dancers All
16. Times Of Our Lives
17. I Dont Want to Go Away
18. Looking Glass
Songs on Disc 2 are:
1. All I Want
2. Pretty Girls
3. MTV
4. Brand New
5. My Heart Wouldn't Let Me Go
6. Remembrance Day
7. Life In the 80's
8. Olga
9. War
10. Our Lives
11. The Infidel
12. Shanty Town
13. Livin' In America
14. Velvet Elvis
15. Better Watch Out (for the rastafarians)
16. Prisoner
Plums In the words of Rex Fowler: "Remember the 70's? Well ATS has culled twenty songs from the last three studio albums of that infamous decade and put them all on one compact disc. After deleting the disco production numbers we focused mainly on songs that fell through the proverbial cracks of their musical canon. There are some pretty nifty songs here, either long forgotten or perhaps never before heard, as most of their audience was built from the airplay and performances associated with their first two albums released earlier in the decade. A long lost Neal Shulman acoustic guitar solo from "Boys" has been rescued from the editing room floor..."
Songs on this album are:
1. Finding Somebody New
2. You've Got a Way
3. Loving Game
4. Penthouse
5. Isn't It Sweet to Think So
6. Where'd Our Loving Go
7. Up in Lily's Room
8. Waywarding Day
9. Looking Glass
10. Hurting
11. Brand New
12. You and I
13. Born Again
14. Good Times, Bad Times
15. You Who
16. looking for Love All the Time
17. Leftover Life to Kill
18. Never Gonna Let You Go
19. She
20. Boys (remixed with extended guitar solo)
Rex Fowler - Gettysburg (Reflections on an American Life)
Songs on this album are:
1. Gettysburg
2. Girl From New York City
3. Too Much Blue
4. Live and Let Live
5. Elizabeth Park
6. House
7. Marianne
8. Crazy Girl
9. Just Another Nothing with a Name
10. I Could Write a Book ('Bout Rain)
Rex Fowler - Paper Hearts Never Before Released!
During that ATS leave of absence, Rex was a busy guy and recorded this, his fourth solo effort, a solid collection of pop tunes that demand to be heard.
Songs on this album are:
1. Don't Let This Be The End
2. Ice Blue Heaven
3. Anna
4. I Wish You Were Mine
5. Fools Like Us
6. Love Is More
7. Like A Rolling Stone
8. Jane
9. Paper Hearts
10. There But For Fortune
11. Please Accept My Love
12. Happy Birthday Baby
Rex Fowler - Dreamers Dream, Writers Write Never Before Released! Yes fans - there once was a time when Rex and Neal were not actively Aztec Two-Step and during this time, Rex went solo. This album is proof that Rex never stopped writting the great tunes we have come to love him for.
Songs on this album are:
1. Girl From NYC
2. House
3. Crazy Girl
4. Stargazers
5. I Could Write a Book
6. If You Think So
7. Fenway Sunday
8. Sunday In The Afternoon With You
9. To
10. Johnny One Note
Rex Fowler - Trains 'n Rain 'n Attitudes Previously unreleased until now except in Japan we offer this solo effort from Rex that shows a pop side of our man that any Aztec fan can't live without.
Songs on this album are:
1. Trains 'n Rain 'n Attitudes
2. 99.99% Mine
3. Red Rockets
4. Ban Vanai
5. Somewhere On The Blue Horizon
6. Jingle
7. I Like That
8. Your Letters
9. Black Africa
10. There You Are You There
15th Anniversary Concert DVD (1986)
Featuring: David Bromberg, Jonathan Edwards, Liv Taylor & Jesse Winchester
(2 hrs.)
No Hit Wonder DVD Documentary from 1999 - The Aztec Two-Step Story
In 1972, Aztec Two-Step, whose name comes from a poem by beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, burst upon the scene with their self-titled debut album on Elektra Records. Since then Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman have spent a lifetime making music together as the folk/rock duo Aztec Two-Step. Their first album, along with their subsequent albums for RCA Records were staples of progressive FM and college radio and helped to bring the music of the 1960s into the 70s.
As their recording career continued, so did the critical acclaim. In 1987 Living in America, received the New York Music Award for Best Folk Album and was named in Billboard’s year-end critic’s poll. They have been praised in countless major US newspapers and magazines, including Rolling Stone, and have appeared on numerous TV and radio shows, such as the David Letterman Show, the King Biscuit Flour Hour, and World Café Live. In 1999 they were the subjects of the documentary, No Hit Wonder, which was aired on PBS.
Of their 2005 release, Days of Horses,” the Boston Globe said “fans of the duo’s harmony-driven tunes and easygoing acoustic guitar riffs will recognize their James Taylor-meets-Simon & Garfunkel sound. What’s new is the mood. This album sits back on its haunches as Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman look back wistfully at American pop culture and their own ride through it.”
2007 saw several hallmark events for the duo. In June, Aztec Two-Step performed “The Persecution and Restoration of Dean Moriarty (On The Road)” at a very special Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival as the author’s hometown marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of On The Road. Also In June 2007, Real Simple, a popular national lifestyle magazine, named Aztec Two-Step one of the top five classic folk albums joining work by Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Tom Rush and Phil Ochs. The article cites the duo as “surpass[ing] Simon and Garfunkel for exquisite harmonies, musicianship and emotion.”
Rhino Records released Forever Changing-The Golden Age of Elektra Records 1963-1973, a five-CD box set that tells the story of this landmark record label and the music that defined an era. The collection includes Aztec Two-Step’s “The Persecution and Restoration of Dean Moriarty (On The Road).”
Live at TCAN, a new DVD was released, featuring a 35th anniversary concert at The Center for Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, a performance of the self-titled debut album in its entirety, plus other fan-favorites from Aztec Two-Step’s long and distinguished career. The DVD also includes interviews with Rex Fowler, Neal Shulman and longtime Aztec Two-Step bassist Fred Holman, as well as comments recorded on the Aztec Two-Step “fan-cam.”
Aztec Two-Step continues to impress audiences with intelligent songwriting, dazzling acoustic lead guitar, and inspiring harmonies. They are one of acoustic music’s most popular and enduring acts.