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
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Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
(Atlantic, 1970)
Soulful, jam-filled rave-up, not as revered as it should be, say we.
Punk warned me off superjam albums and I was too uptight for years to truly dig the loose-limbed vibeyness of Stephen Arthur Stills' joyous solo debut. Perhaps if SS had been sold me as, essentially, a soul man, I'd have bought it; listening to this record today I'm struck by his passion and grit, and the ease with which, say, the Isleys went on to adapt Love The One You With's anthem-to-expediency is suddenly (as the young people say) a no-brainer. Churchy organ and piano abound here, and not just on the Arif Mardin-arranged, self-consciously gospelized Church (Part Of Someone), on which Stills sounds every inch the substance-raddled seeker-of-redemption that history tells us he most certainly was. Jimi Hendrix plugs in and funks all over Old Times, Good Times - tragically he would be dead before Stephen Stills hit the shops - and Eric Clapton provides a similar service ("Courtesy of Robt. Stigwood Org"), albeit in a loucher vein, on Go Back Home; but porchfront solo blues Black Queen establishes Stills as no mean picker himself ("the performance is courtesy of Jose Cuervo Gold Label Tequila" say the sleeve credits, brazenly soliciting a free crate), as befits the multi-instrumental architect of CSN's 1969 debut. So why, good as it is, is this record now so rarely praised? Blame Neil Young, whose After The Goldrush trumped his erstwhile colleagues in the race for solo laurels, post Déja Vu. But blame Stills, too: a huge talent with an even bigger talent for alienating those around him (Google Stephen Stills+asshole to see what I mean). Give a dog a bad name, as the old people say.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 01/09/2010
Further Listening
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash (Atlantic, 1969)
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I like it, he has a fine and distinctive voice, but where's the remastered first Manassas album?
Posted by Sir Henry Rawlinson at 9:55 AM GMT 01/09/2010 Report Abuse
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I asked him about remastering the first Manassas album, he said he didn't have the time.
Posted by ChilledoutB at 10:44 AM GMT 01/09/2010 Report Abuse
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A few years ago, I asked him about remastering the first Manassas album, he said he didn't have the time.
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