Wednesday, October 8, 2025

One more time (Roger Skinner) (LP 3785)

Roger Skinner  Introducing...Roger Skinner (Vinyl, Music World Records, 1976) ***  

GenreNZ Music, country rock 

Places I remember: Music Box (Hastings)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: One More Time

Gear costume: Vaya Con Dios (beautiful pedal steel by Red McKelvy)

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6

Active compensatory factors: I love Roger Skinner. Let's just that over with, okay. He's a great NZ musician and I've been a fan since I got a single many years ago - his version of Sour Milk Sea and that did it. Not only is it a great version - but the prescience also to do a cover of a cover (by Jackie Lomax) of George Harrison's song...amazing!

Introducing...Roger Skinner is an attempt by Music World (typical crappy cover) to remold him as a country ballad singer and it's a case of hits and misses. Mainly because he covers well-trod middle ground - John Denver, Glen Campbell, Cat Stevens, Bread, Hollies - you get the idea.

Nevermind. It's Roger Skinner, so all is forgiven. 

Where do they all belong? Very pleased to have this in my collection.

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