Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Smile (Jack Traylor) (LP 2251)

Jack Traylor and Steelwind  Child Of Nature (Vinyl, Grunt Records, 1973) ****  

Genrepop rock 

Places I remember: Real Groovy Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Child Of Nature

Gear costume: Fifteen Years After 

Active compensatory factors: I have managed to track down quite a few Grunt records from Real Groovy. A great shop and great service over all of these years!

Jack was in the Jefferson Starship orbit in the early seventies and he was to supply his Steelwind guitarist, Craig Chaquico, to Starship.

Steelwind and Jack sound a cross between very early Jefferson Airplane (with Signe Anderson) and an eighties Americana band. That's to say - there is a lovely laid-back approach at times with a hippy twist (Jack's vocals go well with Diana Harris').

Craig only gets a few opportunities to bring out some freak out stunt guitar - otherwise he's on mandolin and acoustic duties.

Where do they all belong? That concludes the Grunt Records chapter in fine eclectic style.

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