Light Shine by Jesse Colin Young (Vinyl record album review)

Album name: Light Shine

Artist name: Jesse Colin Young

Year: 1974

Number of discs: one

Label: Warner Bros. Records

Collection: Selman

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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