This is a strange little title. If you've been keeping up with this blog you'll have noted I've become something of a Szabo nut. So I'm buying everything I see - and once again this one was languishing in a thrift shop. Not sure how any album with a cover like this goes unnoticed, maybe I got there right after they put it out? Well it's not rare or anything.... The weird part of this is the title itself. Charles Lloyd is on about half of one of the 4 songs - it's the one he composed ('Sombrero Sam'). Guess Szabo needed his name to sell the album? I didn't realize one was more known than the other... It's a nice track with some fine flute from Lloyd. The selling point for me is 'Stormy' and here the flute is more fiery - this time from woodwinds specialist Tony Ortega. Meanwhile Szabo does what he does - finger pick his lightly amplified guitar. If there was ever a time for him to plug in and wail, it would have been this album. Guess that wasn't to his taste. Pity. Still a worthy album for the collection.
Ownership: LP: 1974 Blue Thumb. Recent thrift shop find (2020).
11/6/20 (first listen / review / new entry)
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