Catherine of RussiaIt was a time of tumult and change in czarist Russia. Seventeen year old Peter III, the newly crowned Czar, spent his days playing with toy soldiers, beating his dogs, and forcing his wife, Catherine II, to dress in military garb and endure rigorous drills. Meanwhile, while not under the thumb of her idiotic husband, Catherine graced the countryside with beauty, intelligence and magnanimity, endearing the people to her larger than life soul. It would

chantlike vocals of Lane Shi

This LP was made in '76 (she died too young the next year) and came out in '79: The Door Opened

Both works are quite special

While visiting his eccentric uncle

Charlie Christian

Metal Insider and more

metaphorically

He never wrote a more joyous melody than the main subject of the first movement

Clear w/Blacksmoke

Robinson was inspired to write Nacarat

multi-instrumentalist and producer Cactus Moser

" an album they recorded in the mid-1960 's that was never released