Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
‘Put the best track first’ is an old rule of thumb. The problem with that approach is that this often means the rest of the album is overshadowed by that first track. In this case, the first track is Love the One You’re With and it does, indeed, overshadow what follows. This is unfortunate as the album is decent without ever quite reaching the same heights except, perhaps, for Do For Others. This is music for hip young things in miniskirts to dance to in TV studios. Notably, a lot of the soul-laden, bluesy riffing and vocals of the rest of the album is, in essence, black music.
If that sounds like a lukewarm review, I should say that I own the CD and have had the album on my old MP3 player for a decade or more. I don’t dislke the album, it just doesn’t stand out from the crowd for me.
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Brinsley Schwartz : Despite it All
Inoffensive.
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Laura Nyro : Christmas and the Beads of Sweat
Not noticeably different from any other Laura Nyro album. That’s a good thing. If you like Laura, you’ll like this; if you don’t, you won’t.
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The Hollies : Confessions of the Mind
The Hollies’ tenth album. It sounds curiously out of time. It has a lot to recommend it–it’s melodic, thoroughly professional and well performed, with a poptastic edge. But it is a relic of a bygone age and, in the end, did nothing for me.
I have Stephen Stills on CD but all of these are on Spotify and no doubt elsewhere
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