Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Meic Stevens
Outlander
(Water, 1970)
The Welsh Psych Dylan, as recommended by Super Furry Animals…
Some records reek of character, a force of personality that shines through whatever is sung and played. Stevens’ one English-language album is one of those; its earthy acid/folk combo can no longer be termed unique, but the mad-eyed relish with which Stevens attacks the material has no peer. He certainly looks a delightfully disreputable sort, sashaying hither in his sunglasses and cape, on a horse no less – surely the oddest thing to have come to us courtesy of yodelling DJ/creep Jimmy Savile, who “discovered” Stevens at Manchester University’s folk club in 1965. Best when abandoning Stevens’ mid-’60s-Dylan default setting for something more ostentatious, Outlander is a startling patchwork of roots fusions – melodromatic Celtic folk-rock on Rowena; bucolic raga on Yorric; the post-Drake wistfulness of Midnight Comes – which peaks with the swaggering preternatural-rock fantasy of Ghost Town. While Stevens’ English is poetic enough, there’s a sense of second language to his vowel-contortions, while you’re never far away from a bracingly random yawp or holler. 38-year-old music, in other words, that’s never anything other than scintillatingly alive.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 05/09/2008
Further Listening
Meic Stevens – Gwymon (Sunbeam, 1972))
Roy Harper – Stormcock (Harvest, 1971)
Various Artists – Folk Is Not A Four-Letter Word (Delay, 2005)
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