70s Representative
This is a great late 60s album, just remastered, and I first
became aware of Jerry Corbitt when his superb if brisk song Let the Music Get Inside appeared on the
wonderful Polydor compilation album Way In to the 70s.
That song leads off this 1969 album, the gritty vocal – with
a couple of great near-yodels – as punchy as the snappy guitar work [both that opener and eighth ragtime The Rain Song contain the
lyrics blow your mind and I think this
was a perfect fit for Polydor’s target audience for this record]. Listening to
Corbitt’s Youngblood song Grizzly Bear
of 1967 gives an indication of the fine playing and singing, and on second
track here Out of the Question he
sings with gutsy passion again whilst the acoustic guitar solo is folk-blues
perfection, a synth orchestrating heavily in the background for heightened
atmosphere. Country Girl, which is a
proper countryrock hoe-down, and straighter country Queen of England, both signal his later work with Charlie Daniels.
Ninth Banned in Boston returns to the
rock singing with superb blues harmonica in support of the guitar picks. The most 70s/psychedelic song is closer The Kahuna Song with its anti-war lyrics, an earnestly emotive folk song.
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| Corbitt on the far right |
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