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Terry Reid - River 1973
MP3 @ 256 | 70 MB | Cover
Genre: Rock

This is a Mojo 5 star album, and rightly so. Terry Reid, famously, turned down the opportunity to be the singer in the nascent Led Zeppelin, instead hipping his friend Jimmy Page to a little-known guy in Birmingham named Robert Plant who Reid felt would be more suited for the job. Over the course of Reid's peripatetic solo career, his intriguingly off-kilter musical choices proved that he was right to turn Page down. For example, 1973's RIVER, Reid's first album in nearly four years, is a loose, mellow exercise in southern California folk-jazz, very close in spirit and execution to what Van Morrison, Tim Buckley, and Joni Mitchell were doing around the same period. The seven songs are lengthy, meandering grooves powered by David Lindley's dobro and slide guitar parts and featuring Reid experimenting with Morrison's incantatory vocal style alongside his own familiar British blues wail.


Terry Reid - vocals, slide guitar
David Lindley - guitar, slide guitar, steel guitar
Lee Miles - bass
Conrad Isidore - drums
Willie Bobo - percussion

1 Dean
2 Avenue
3 Things to Try
4 Live Life
5 River
6 Dream
7 Milestones

Uncut (5/03, p.117) - 5 stars out of 5 -
"...Reid's vocals meander and caress their way through the shimmering jazz-folk abstractions..."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.77)
"The blissed-out folk/soul/funk cousin to Van's ASTRAL WEEKS."

Mojo (Publisher) (3/01/04, p.54)
Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "[A] criminally underarted gem...[A] perfect showcase
for the man's almost unfeasibly flexible voice, which could flow from a whisper to a scream in a single phrase."

Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.116)
5 stars out of 5 - "...One of the most lazily magnificent records of that or any other year....It has a magnificent,
low-key, very consistent flow..."