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Al Stewart - The Early Years [Janus Records 2JXS-7026] (1977)

Released: 1977
Country: US
Label: Janus Records
Catalog: 2JXS-7026
Genre: Folk Rock

Item# SR-JA2JXS7026
Ratings: C=VG+; LP=VG

T R A C K L I S T:
01 Bedsitter Images
02 You Don't Even Know Me
03 I'm Falling
04 A Small Fruit Song
05 The News From Spain
06 Electric Los Angeles Sunset
07 Denise At 16
08 Manuscript
09 Clifton In The Rain
10 Nights Of The 4th Of May
11 In Brooklyn
12 Old Compton Street Blues
13 The Ballad Of Mary Foster
14 Life And Life Only
15 You Should Have Listened To Al
16 Love Chronicles

The Early Years
Al Stewart

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Album Review

Robert Walton [allmusic.com]

I would love nothing more than for history to rehabilitate this song list. I came to this album after Year of the Cat and while Stewart's subsequent albums left me feeling rather sterile, his early catalogue shook me at my teenage core. Not knowing I wasn't supposed to like any of this music I grooved on every cut and melody. So many great songs of raw confessional emotion, they reminded me of the poetry of William Carlos Williams who won the US National Book award for turning notes on the refrigerator into poetry. Stewart's songs on this collection reach prog proportions with songs like ''Love Chronicles'', ''Night of the 4th of May'' or ''The Ballad of Mary Foster''. All he needed was a mellotron and flute. All I can say is, after 45 years, I'm still listening to Al.