TodayBlack Star Liner Bengali Bantam Youth Experience WEA 3984-25004-2 Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream. The British cross-fertilization crew strikes again. Presented with a name like Black Star Liner, you are forgiven if you thought you would get a heavy dose of reggae. Instead you find yourself, like Columbus, on your way to India. Nothing wrong with that conclusion this time, though. Clocking in at a (by today's standards) modest 43 minutes, the second album from these gentlemen leaves you wanting for more. So I'm going out to find their first album ASAP. |
YesterdayGrateful Dead American Beauty Warner Bros 1893-2 Time flies but some things prevail. The Grateful Dead recorded and released American Beauty in 1970. What a brilliant name for a brilliant record! The original Dead line-up deep in Americana. Country music with an acid twist. Some really beautiful songs: Box Of Rain, Friend Of The Devil, Candyman, to name but three. Some really beautiful steel guitar by Jerry Garcia. And the vocals, coached by CS&N, are the best I've heard from The Dead. I really can't say anything bad about this record. |