Record basics
- Album name: Light Shine
- Artist name: Jesse Colin Young
- Year: 1974
- Number of discs: one
- Label: Warner Bros. Records
- Collection: Selman
- Buy it on Amazon: $2.99
My review
Level of familiarity before listening
I have never heard of this.
What I expected
Folk rock.
What it was actually like
This was not a good record. Most of it was soft rock, and there was a lot of flute and saxophone.
Certain parts of the title track Light Shine sounded like they could be a Kenny G. cover.
Barbardos was goofily done in a sort of calypso style.
Motorcycle Blues definitely needed to lose the saxophone, but if it had, then it could have been a decent blues song.
The Cuckoo was kind of an attempt at soul, but by the mid 1970s, the soul sound was already pretty bad and not worth emulating.
Grade
2/5
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