Stewart's uncompromising lyrical vision that relates the past as if it were a living, breathing present drives a band eager to carry those words through to the listener. "Back in Pomona" is a country rocker in the purest sense of the word. It's raw, tough, and full of unbreakable spirit. A listen to "Belly Full of Tennessee," with Kershaw's fiddle and Putnam's bass driving the tune, colored elegiacally with Thompson's banjo, makes it a Louisiana bayou dance tune. The feel of the album is somewhat stripped of the California crap that was in so many records from that time. Stewart is a songwriter with a rambling vision, and the best of his rambling songs are included here, and as such, he draws inspired performances from all of his bandmembers. Nonetheless despite Asher's best attempts at taming the thin, reedy wildness in Stewart's voice, it wasn't to be. Recorded in Hollywood with many of the same musicians from the earlier record - Norb Putnam, Kenny Buttrey, Charlie McCoy, among them - Stewart also employed other country musicians such as banjo boss Bobby Thompson and fiddle player Doug Kershaw as well as a host of his peers - from Russ Kunkel and Carole King to Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar, James Taylor, and Bryan Garofalo - at the suggestion of producer Peter Asher - later known for his schlock work with Linda Ronstadt and Carly Simon among others. John Stewart's follow-up to the unprecedented success of California Bloodlines stuck close to the same formula. Disfrute de este álbum en las apps Qobuz con sususcripción
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