Rick Nelson - Garden Party/Windfall
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Artist: Rick NelsonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-12-06
Music Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
Soundtracks:
- Let It Bring You Along
- Garden Party
- So Long Mama
- I Wanna Be with You
- Are You Really Real?
- I'm Talking About You
- Night Time Lady
- A Flower Opens Gently By
- Don't Let Your Goodbye Stand
- Palace Guard
- Legacy
- Someone to Love
- How Many Times
- Evil Woman Child
- Don't Leave Me Here
- Wild Nights in Tulsa
- Lifestream
- One Night Stand
- I Don't Want to Be Lonely Tonight
- Windfall
Free Music Notes for Garden Party/Windfall
Free Music Review: It's Alright Now
Hit: 5 Stars
Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band recorded two excellent albums in 1970/71 ("Rick Sings Nelson"/"Rudy the Fifth")that totally failed to connect with the majority of record buyers. So it probably surprised everybody when they came up with one of the biggest hits of 1972 with "Garden Party". Everybody knows this song by now (and the story behind it), but there is much more worth hearing on this cd that combines the "Garden Party" album with "Windfall" from 1974. Once again, Rick wrote most of the songs, starting with the title track. I guess that Madison Square Garden oldies crowd was not ready for a Rick Nelson (not "Ricky" anymore) with long hair singing contemporary material. Maybe they weren't familiar with his 1970 hit "She Belongs to Me", and expected his show to be a complete time warp back to the 50's. In any case, Rick got the last laugh, as the event inspired the writing of his biggest hit in 10 years. The song is deceptively simple, but it's all put together so nicely - Stephen Love's bass part, Rick and Tom Brumley's little guitar bits, the backing harmonies. To this day, it is the song most identified with Rick. "So Long Mama" is a hilarious c&w kiss off to a certain ex-lover; "Are You Really Real" is sparse and haunting; "Nightime Lady" features a magical pedal steel from Brumley; "A Flower Opens Gently By" is bluesy, with great acoustic guitar solo's (by Rick?); "Palace Guard" is almost hypnotic. I have no idea what the lyrics are about, though. For the first time, the band members contribute to the songwriting, too. Stephen Love's "Let it Bring You Along" starts of softly, then turns edgy, with hard driving electric guitars, followed by a lush, almost Beatle-ish middle section. Lead guitarist Allen Kemp and former SCB member Randy Meisner contribute the power pop-ish "I Wanna Be with You" - should've have been a single, it's got "hit" written all over it. A couple of covers, Richard Stekol's "Don't Let Your Goodbye Stand" and Chuck Berry's "I'm Talking About You" round out this collection - I wonder what Berry thought of this almost jazz/rock treatment of his hit? You'd think success would act as a big boost to the Stone Canyon Band members, but instead, Love, Kemp, and drummer Pat Shanahan all left after recording this album, leaving Nelson and Brumley to put together a new lineup, featured on the followup, "Windfall". Guitarist Dennis Laren immediately establishes himself with several strong songs - "Legacy", "One Night Stand", "Evil Woman Child", and "Don't Leave Me Here". His electric guitar playing lacks the edginess of Kemp's, but he's excellent on acoustic stuff. Bassist Jay De Witt White contributes the bluesy "How Many Times" - Rick Nelson is so often thought as a "whiter than white" sounding singer, which may have been true on his earliest records, but he actually had a real natural feeling for blues, as this song demonstrates. Rick himself wrote the hard rocking "Someone to Love", the dreamy, peaceful "Lifestream", and the title cut "Windfall" (with Larden), a percussion driven acoustic tune. There's also a fun country tune, "Wild Nights in Tulsa", and a great Baker Knight rocker, "I Don't Want To Be Lonely Tonight" - the closest thing to rockabilly on this album. The country side of Rick is more in evidence on this album than on "Garden Party", with Brumley's masterful playing front and center on songs like "One Night Stand" and "Legacy". Unlike "Garden Party", though, this album was a poor seller, and has been out of print for years, so this two-fer cd is a great way to get it. Unfortunately, "Windfall" would be the last album Rick and the group did for MCA. It would be three long years before they returned, on the Epic label.
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Two-on-one reissue for 1972 & 1974 albums, respec tively. 'Garden Party' features it's 1972 top 10 title hit. 20 tracks total.Country Music CDs
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