Quare name but great stuff, best album Petty's done since "Wildflowers"?, check out this old Byrd's number
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Clause in the Musicians Wanted ad...
...Word cover star material only.
Sounds like the old stuff - which is a good thing....
...and no Jeff bloody Lynn.
"Full Moon Fever"
IS a goddamn classic. So there! And "Into The Great Wide Open" isn't so bad either.
But this IS his best since...
Damn the torpedoes. And I can't agree more about the welcome absence of Jeff Lynne (Lynne-Lynne, echoed in falsetto)
But doesn't Shady Grove remind of Matty Groves, tunewise....
Shady and Matty...
...see here re connection between Shady Grove and Matty Groves
http://ninebullets.net/archives/mudcrutch-shady-grove-and-matty-groves
Well shiver my timbers!
Remarkable stuff. And there was I thinking Fairport had nicked the tune from their americana (before the word existed) leanings, pre their folk incarnation, seeing as it bore so little tuneful resonance with the various Little Sir Musgroves of Carthy/Planxty singing, which tell the same tale.