Friday, October 19, 2012

Crazy Horse-At Crooked Lake

At Crooked Lake
 This album shows the different styles of Crazy Horse: hard-rocking, ballads, country-rock, and more experimental songs. They all sound excellent, particularly Rock and Roll Band, Outside Lookin In' and We Ride. The vocals have a spirited, soulful quality and the instrumentation is impressive and has a welcome sense of discovery and playfulness. The guitars and bongo drum on We Ride sounds particularly good, but there's lots of other examples too. Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina provide a solid rhythm section and the rest of band plays together with an energy or mellowness that sounds very natural and unforced. The Crazy Horse albums without Danny Whitten get a lot of criticism or are ignored altogether, but this is a shame, because there's a lot of great songs here.

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