Genre: Folk Rock
Places I remember: Record Fair
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Here Comes The Sun
Gear costume: Girls Don't Run Away
Active compensatory factors: I think I got carried away by his performance at Woodstock and expected his studio work to have the same magic, which is unrealistic.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Here Comes The Sun
Gear costume: Girls Don't Run Away
Active compensatory factors: I think I got carried away by his performance at Woodstock and expected his studio work to have the same magic, which is unrealistic.
His Woodstock performance was a one off and those images of his feet keeping time and the sweat all over him from the humidity, plus those songs in that setting, are frozen in time.
By 1971 he was well established as an artist and this album became his biggest seller. So it's a good place to start listening to his studio albums.
Funnily enough, it begins with a great live version of Here Comes The Sun. With its percussive strumming, it forms a nice link from Woodstock in 1969 (also when the Beatles did the Harrison song) and 1971.
As for the rest? Pleasant, somewhat dated folk-rock is the order of the day. Richie had his moment (in the sun - sorry), and that was Woodstock. By Alarm Clock his time was waning (sorry part 2).
Where do they all belong? A stand alone in the collection.
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