Title: Schlock!
Review: Seals and Crofts made 1 album worth listening to--their second, titled "Down Home" (TA Records #TA 5004, distributed by Bell Records, 1970, I think.) I can hear all the S&C fans out there going, "Hunh? Never heard of it..." Actually, it's much better than just "worth listening to." It's a great record. It sounds nothing like the over-produced AM radio garbage they're known for. The songs are unforgettable and the playing by the studio musicians is out of this world. John Hall (who also played on a lot of Bonnie Raitt's older albums and eventually fell from grace as leader of Orleans) lets loose one of the best guitar solos ever put on vinyl on the song "Leave". If you want to feel terrible about a S&C record not being available on CD, make it this one. I have exactly 5 lp records that I'm still hanging on to, down from a collection of thousands, and "Down Home" is one of them.
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