This is an album I own for pure nostalgia. I have very vivid memories of a friend of mine playing this album over and over again as he was adamant that this album was one of the best Prog albums of the moment. Now, he may not have been right in his assessment, but the repeated playings had some effect as I have bought this album many times over the years.
Caravan were the leading lights of the burgeoning Canterbury scene, where folk music was mixed with the experimental progressive grooves to get a unique sound. It’s a very British sounding record, as was most of the early Prog movement. This is Caravan’s finest release.
We were all into these huge songs at the time. You know the ones that were split into many parts and took up the whole side of an album, Nine Feet Underground does just that here. I mean how can you go wrong with a track called Dance Of the Seven Paper Hankies? I remember this giving me lots of hilarity at the time, and I’m pleased to say the 12 year-old inside me still gets a laugh from it.
This whole album is a beautiful look back in time for me and I’m going for Winter Wine as my favourite track.
9/10 from The Grooveman.
