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Category Archives: Soft Rock
CYMARRON – Rings – (Entrance) – 1971
There is very little out there on this band. The best bio is (in total): “A soft rock act which placed one single in the US Top 20 in 1971, ‘Rings’, Cymarron comprised Rick Yancey (1948), Sherrill Parks (b. 1948, … Continue reading
CROSBY & NASH – Graham Nash / David Crosby – (Atlantic) – 1972
This style of music has aged well and is perfectly relevant to today. It combines singer-songwriter ruminations, melodic catchiness, rural and country flavours, observation and social (albeit mild) criticism. Everything that an alt-country troubadour or indie kid going acoustic aspires … Continue reading
LEN BARRY – Ups and Downs – (Buddah) – 1972
Len Barry is one of the great forgotten blue eyed soul singers of the 60s. Check out my other posts for biographical detail on him. Barry’s strength comes from his voice and his ability to find the pop and soul … Continue reading
VOLUNTEERS – Volunteers – (Arista) – 1976
I don’t have much information on “Volunteers”, the band, but it seems they are one of those bands where a couple of guys around town keep bumping into each other and decide to form a band. And if that fails, … Continue reading
JESSE COLIN YOUNG – The Highway is for Heroes – (Cypress) – 1987
Jesse Colin Young is always welcome on this blog but you have to approach anything released in the mainstream, in the 80s, with trepidation. Yes, yes, I know I whinge about the 80s mainstream but it was, largely, awful. Everything … Continue reading
JACKIE DeSHANNON – You’re the Only Dancer – (Amherst) – 1977
Keeping up with current sounds is normal for a musician. Where I have a problem with it is if the act have totally changed their sound for the sake of jumping on a trend or sound which wasn't there before. … Continue reading
FELIX CAVALIERE – Felix Cavaliere – (Bearsville) – 1974
I've nattered on about Cavaliere solo and with his time in the Young Rascals on other posts so check them out for biographical detail and bits and pieces of errr, whatever. This, here, naturally enough, given the self title, is … Continue reading
DR HOOK – A Little Bit More – (Capitol) – 1976
Can you ever have enough Dr Hook? Don't answer that. Check my other comments for bio and detail. I have commented on earlier albums than this and later ones but this album is pivotal in some ways as it really … Continue reading
JACKIE DeSHANNON – New Arrangement – (CBS) – 1975
This one was a good earner for Jackie. Well, not immediately but in 1981. Kim Carnes recorded Jackie's "Bette Davis Eyes" and took it to #1 across the world. So the co-writers royalties would have been nice. Jackie had gone … Continue reading
FELIX CAVALIERE – Castles in the Air – (Epic) – 1979
Felix Cavaliere was the blue-eyed soul singer of one of the America's finest groups of the 1960s, The Young Rascals. Felix being of Italian heritage is probably brown eyed. Blue-eyed soul is a term used to describe white singers who … Continue reading
