Filled with a plethora of luminary musicians Bryter Layter is Drake's most accessible album, it has a Van Morrison'd jazzy pop/ folk baroque feel, unfortunately it never garnered a hit, Nick remained a recluse, the record sounds like a hopeful attempt at some kind of stardom, but the masses weren't ready yet for his music!
Holy fuck! Lo-fi psych anti folk done way before such words even existed. Skip Spence might not have done much good to himself ... or anyone else, with his time in Moby Grape, but obviously a stint in the mental institution did something, 'cause once out he headed to Nashville and recorded this master work, written, played and produced by himself. There are so many moments on this lp that are 30 years ahead of it's time, good luck keeping track of 'em all!
After signing a new contract with Motown, gaining complete control, Music Of My Mind is the birth of a whole new Stevie Wonder by honing what was to be his classic sound. Where this album lacks in typical hit machine numbers, it gains in it's creativity and musicianship, which are mostly played by Wonder himself. Along with Marvin Gaye, Stevie inadvertently invented modern pop music and shaped what was to come -- for better or for worst!
Taking where Sweetheart Of The Rodeo left off, perfecting Parsons's cosmic country sound, with deeper touches of the Everly and Louvin brothers, hence the band name ... funny I never put it together until I wrote this down -- deh! Even weirder is the fact that the Byrds used the brothers moniker for their pre-Gram album then Chris Hillman gets recruited for this project ... but my deeper question is why does Sneeky Pete get the worst outfit ever?
