terça-feira, 7 de fevereiro de 2017

Buffalo Springfield - Last Time Around 1968

The internal dissension that was already eating away at Buffalo Springfield's dynamic on their second album came home to roost on their third and final effort, Last Time Around. This was in some sense a Buffalo Springfield album in name but not in spirit, as the songwriters sometimes did not even play on cuts written by other members of the band. Neil Young's relatively slight contribution was a particularly tough blow. He wrote only two of the songs (though he did help Richie Furay write "It's So Hard to Wait"), both of which were outstanding: the plaintive "I Am a Child" and the bittersweet "On the Way Home" (sung by Furay, not Young, on the record). The rest of the ride was bumpier: Stephen Stills' material in particular was not as strong as it had been on the first two LPs, though the lovely Latin-flavored "Pretty Girl Why," with its gorgeous guitar work, is one of the group's best songs. Furay was developing into a quality songwriter with the orchestrated "The Hour of Not Quite Rain" and his best Springfield contribution, the beautiful ballad "Kind Woman," which became one of the first country-rock standards. But it was a case of not enough, too late, not only for Furay, but for the group as a whole. AMG.

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8 comentários:

rev.b disse...

shareable link expired. thanks anyway.

Madshoes Carlos disse...

Thanks for telling me! New link!

rev.b disse...

Thanks Carlos, and for all the fine music posted here.

Cri disse...

Carlos, maybe I do not see the links. Did you post the new links?

Madshoes Carlos disse...

Yes it has an updated link, same place.

Cri disse...

Carlos, the link is dead. Any chances for re-up?

Cri disse...

again, any chances for a re-up? the zippy-links is dead.

Madshoes Carlos disse...

Cri links just last for one month +-! I'll do an update very soon!