Quite jolly - some sounds are of its time, but a splendid Nicol production job nonetheless. London River is probably the red-headed stepchild of the bunch, but you can hear Maart really starting to impose himself on matters.

The Sundays  :  Blind  (Geffen  2x45rpm  LP, 2025).

And that's all 3 Sundays albums on vinyl once again.

I'm not a fan of the 2x  45pm thing - someone making me do more exercise, for minimal  gain in sound quality.

But heck, you get the group's peerless version of ' Wild Horses '  on this edition, so i'm happy.

37 years on, what do you reckon?  It seemed like 'a big album' at the time, but very little has lasted well....I think.  I guess the Bob was my favourite track at the time.  Must give it another play...

Exactly so. Very much part of the 'Grateful Dead, where next?' milieu. Some wonderful music, generally live, but ultimately, just didn't scratch the itch.

I went back to the memory well and recovered that I also saw Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn and Booker T. with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in 2002, and with Neil Young on his 1993 U.S. tour.

Neil Young did the world a service by keeping Steve Cropper out there for a couple of decades. Otherwise, he might never have left Nashville.

Red and Gold. Picked up an original copy in Out of Time Records today still with the lyric sheet and everything, which was nice.

I saw him at Bury St Edmunds Apex. Shared the bill with The Animals, or what was left of them. A great night seated amongst a predominatey grey haired audience. A fine guitarist with a fine line in chat as well. He charmed my teenage daughter, sitting in the front row, after embarrasing her during his intro to Midnight Hour he came across and handed her a signed plectrum after the Green Onions encore. He probably had dozens of them but I think that we got the only one that night.

Wholeheartedly agree.   I've seen them about a half dozen times and love them live, but I've never considered listening to any of the studio stuff.  Lyrically, the material is standard (at best) and vocally, a bit too nasally for me - but the melodies are excellent and the playing more than makes up for it.

You could be right. My memory is perforated.

Jules

Steve Cropper was a modest genius. A very pleasant man, with many accomplishments to be proud of.

I have endeavoured to listen to anything I have discovered him playing on, over the years.

May he rest in peace.