Ian Matthews - Valley Hi/Some Days You Eat the Bear and Some Days the Bear Eats You
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Artist: Ian MatthewsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-03-16
Music Label: Water
Soundtracks:
- Keep on Sailing
- Old Man at the Mill
- Shady Lies
- These Days
- Leaving Alone
- Seven Bridges Road
- Save Your Sorrows
- What Are You Waiting For
- Propinquity
- Blue Blue Day
- Ol' 55
- I Don't Wanna Talk About It
- A Wailing Goodbye
- Keep on Sailing
- Tried So Hard
- Dirty Work
- Do I Still Figure in Your Life
- Home
- Biloxi
- The Fault
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Free Music Review: One of the greatest pair-ups of all time!
Hit: 5 Stars
How nice of them to pair up these two Electra albums on one disc! I've always preferred the "Valley Hi" version of "Keep on Sailing" to the one on "Some Days". Most likely, it's due to the late Red Rhodes' dobro playing. He was the greatest steel guitar player of all time, but more about Iain: Iain was really the best male singer in Fairport and when they lost him, I'm afraid they lost some of the magic that made their first two albums so unique. Anyway, Matthews went on to form Southern Comfort. Their second and third albums come highly recommended. Their sense of ecclectism was uncanny and fresh. That said, Iain found a true partner in Andy Roberts and the two of them formed Plainsong. Their "In Search of Amelia Earhart" album remains a classic to this day. When Plainsong personnel went sour during the recording sessions for their second album, "Now We Are Three", Matthews went solo and teamed up with Michael Nesmith & the First National Band. The result was "Valli Hi", a collection of engaging original material, much of what was from the second Plainsong album sessions. "Keep On Sailing" was the album's signature song, but the real treat here is "Seven Bridges Road", a song The Eagles copied note-for-note. This is the original recording of that nature with Iain doing all the harmony vocals and let this be known here and now: This is the definitive version! Red plays a steel solo that literally comes alive. Richard Thompson's "Shady Lies" is a supurb country ballad as good as any song on "Henry the Human Fly". It seagues from "Old Man at the Mill", a tradition folk song from The Dillards' song book. He does a super reading of Jackson Browne's "These Days". Tom Waits' "Ol' 55" (from "Some Days") never sounded better since it was done back in '74. The latter album was not as consistant as "Valley", but it had some nice tunes on it. "A Wailing Goodbye", "Home" and "The Fault", for example, are some of Iain's most heartfelt ballads. Plus, he does real justice to Jesse Winchester's "Biloxi" and Gene Clark's "Tried So Hard" (an early Fairport favorite). Not so good are the attempts at "I Don't Want to Talk About It" (Rod Stewart had already did an amazing job on this one for his seminal "Atlantic Crossing" album), "Do I Still Figure in Your Life" (Ditto for Joe Cocker) and Steely Dan's "Dirty Work". Even with these minor weak points, this collection is one of the greatest pair-ups of all time!
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