We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago……
They hailed from Canterbury England…a religious town better known for Thomas Becket, Geoffrey Chaucer and the Archbishop of the Church of England then progressive rock music. But a prog scene had developed in the area during the late 60’s and early 70’s and out of that scene came the band Caravan who dropped the LP “In The Land Of Grey & Pink” in 1971.
The album cover feature a Tolkien inspired sketch which I’m sure caught the eye of a lot of prog rock fans of the day. And the music inside the sleeve mostly delivered.
The highlight was the 23 minute suite “Nine Feet Underground” that took up all of side 2. It was a number of musical ideas stitched together and featuring keyboard whiz David Sinclair who left after this album to join Soft Machine. The cut became a favorite of progressive FM radio but commercially the album was a flop.
Some of the other tunes are alright…”Winter Wine” has some nice keyboard and flute solos. And the song “Love To Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly) written by guitarist Pye Hastings has the pop sound that could have been a hit.
But except for side 2…most of this has been forgotten…that’s even if you discovered it in the first place…certainly didn’t get played in Central Wisconsin….here you go.
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