Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
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Features Disc of the day
Smokey Robinson
Smokey/Pure Smokey
(Hip-O Select/Motown)
William Robinson's first two post-Miracles albums.
Smoke split with The Miracles in 1972. He released Smokey in June 1973 and Pure Smokey nine months later, not bad for a man resolved to sit behind an executive's desk. Smokey had five songs - Holly, Silent Partner In A Three-Way Love Affair, Sweet Harmony, Just My Soul Responding, and Baby Come Close - that presaged the 'quiet storm' style to come. The last two songs in that list were co-written with guitarist Marv Tarplin, returning from The Miracles, and it's like a genius and his muse reconnecting. On the atypical Just My Soul Responding, Smokey combines the struggles of Vietnam vets, Native Americans on reservations and black Americans in ghettos into one plight; Baby Come Close more familiar territory, like a '70s Ooh Baby Baby. Pure Smokey grips adult themes in It's Her Turn To Live and She's Only A Baby, but is generally less successful.
Geoff Brown
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 17/01/2011
Further Listening
Smokey Robinson - The Solo Albums: Volume 3 - Deep In My Soul / Big Time (Hip-O-Select, 2010)
Smokey Robinson - A Quiet Storm (Motown, 1975)
Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming (Daptone/Durham, 2010)
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