Easily the best album the group ever recorded,
Nicely Out Of Tune is one of the prettiest folk-rock albums of the late 1960s. If
Lindisfarne
had never recorded anything else, they'd be one of the most fondly
remembered acts of their era just for this album. "Lady Eleanor" is a
very pretty tune that manages to incorporate elegant mandolin over some
heavy rock riffing. "Road To Kingdom Come" is closer in spirit to the
group's usual pub-rock sound, a singalong-type number with lots of
really crunchy harmonica, mandolin, and fiddle, and a really catchy
chorus -- "Jackhammer Blues" is pretty nearly as good a rocker. But
"Winter Song" is one of the gentlest, most haunting folk ballads of its
period, almost too pretty to have come from a rock band, and "Alan In
The River With Flowers" isn't far behind. The rest is in the same class
and league, and as a bonus the CD contains two lost B-sides, "Knackers
Yard Blues" and "Nothing But The Marvelous Is Beautiful" -- they're not
bad, either.
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