Description
This 1970 double album reveals a band blessed with an acute musical intellect. Textured passages vacillate between gritty R&B, jazzy rock, and brassy folk, yet songs stick in your head as sing-along hooks (like the Beatle-esque “What Else Can I Say” and “Free”) or somber narratives (“Prelude to Aire”). The moody, road-weary band come together on the six-part “Travel Suite”: “I Just Want to be Free” blasts, “Free Country” saddens, and “Happy ’Cause I’m Going Home” is folky and hopeful. They funk up the brass on “Sing a Mean Tune Kid,” then rock a blue-collar existence on “Off to Work.”
Track List
- Sing a Mean Tune Kid
- Loneliness is Just a Word
- What Else Can I Say
- I Don't Want Your Money
- Flight 602
- Motorboat to Mars
- Free Lyrics
- Free Country
- At the Sunrise
- Happy 'Cause I'm Going Home
- Mother
- Lowdown
- A Hard Risin' Morning Without Breakfast
- Off to Work
- Fallin' Out
- Dreamin' Home
- Morning Blues Again
- When All the Laughter Dies in Sorrow
- Canon
- Once Upon a Time
- Progress?
- The Approaching Storm
- Man vs. Man: The End
- Free (Rare Mono 45 Edit)
- Lowdown (Rare Japanese Stereo 45 Version)