Title: Song power!
Product review: Nothing brings back the late '70s like the sound of a Prophet 5 synthesizer and lushly arranged strings and acoustic guitar. Like many hipper-than-thou kids from that time, I sneered at Fogelberg. Nowadays, I can relate (pardon the Californianism) to his music better, now that I've seen enough of life to know what he's been singing about. "Longer" is an almost-too-sweet ballad, but oh that flugelhorn solo! Traces of this song hover throughout, for instance, Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" and "Tears in Heaven". The title track is my favorite, along with the instrumental introductory track, "Tullamore Dew". (Note: on the cd, there's a cue blip between the two tracks--very mood-breaking.) On "Phoenix", his vocals are still glassy smooth, but he still manages to generate some real steam. This is a fine, classically rocking mememto of the end of the singer-songwriter era.
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