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This one's a keeper

mblake04@snet.net | plainville ct. | 08/13/1998

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Like a lot of others I got turned on to these fellows in a smoke filled 70's campus apartment and enjoyed the quality songwriting and perfect harmonies with good friends. This collection contains a very balanced combination of original tunes and other song writers. Jesse Winchester's "Yankee Lady" is a classic and the two Dylan tunes "All Along The Watchtower" and "The Mighty Quinn" are interpreted in a very comfortable coffee house style. Their original songs reflect on a time when the sixties expressionism hadn't given up to cocaine and disco. It was a special, albeit brief, time when two guys in flannel shirts and acoustic guitars could get by with small clubs and college auditoriums. The original songs are a perfect combination of lyric and solid playing that intertwines the mind and the soul. Enjoy."

Gotta have it

mblake04@snet.net | 08/22/1998

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I saw B&S in 1974 when they were stealing the show from a band known as America. This recording just brought that fine summer night back in full detail. This is a gotta have recordiing for anyone who enjoyed the folk/pop sound of the 70's."