Glyn Barnes
Here is another septuagenarian, Dave Cousins with track form the new Strawbs album "The Ferryman's Curse"
Sort of "The Man Who Called Himself Jesus" meets "Hero and Heroine".
I still have a tremendous enjoyment for "Hero and Heroine", "Ghosts", and "Deadlines" ... and am capable of listening to these back to back and not get bored.
"The Nails from the Hands of Christ" is very nice, though I miss the hard punch of the earlier material ... but the lyrics are priceless ... and a really harsh look at the emptiness of a lot of kids in their blind faith ... something that many of us went through. Only playing it right now for the 20th time or so!
(bits and pieces of the lyrics)
... played albums every day ...
... young man on the cross ...
... looked like Springsteen ...
... could have been the boss ...
... her windows in the chapel ...
... some kind of a ruse ...
... the ancient smell of incense ...
... was heading up her nose ...
... competitively priced ... Still a very nice thing to hear and a very nice treat.
PS: One really tough thing to do ... I can not review Dave Cousins' book ... it's really not about his music and its art, as much as it is about his radio career and how he had to abandon his band several times to go back to work. Maybe I just don't seem to enjoy the book as much as I thought I might when considering all the music and albums ... and will have to read it again! On the other board, there even was a large discussion about radio (FM specially!) and the main difference between America and England ... with one person not believing that things were much freer on radio in America in a time like 1972 and 1973 on FM radio, that at the time was not thought to be a threat to radio control like AM had for advertising and such. It wasn't until 1976 or 1977 that FM radio in America started getting commercialized with all the individual stations bought by corporate America to create the multimedia networks of today.