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For some years there, BS&T<\/strong> was a true hitmaking juggernaut. And a lot of their music was \u2013 for whatever reason \u2013 the kind of thing that your parents might have admitted to liking, too. Maybe that’s down to the tight horn work, done to arguably less appealing effect by Chicago<\/strong>. Or maybe it’s the vocals of David Clayton-Thomas<\/strong>, though I’d give him the award for Pop’s Most Annoying Vocalist.<\/p>\n This 2CD set collects all the a- and b-sides, including many most will find unfamiliar. The 1968 debut single, \u201cI Can’t Quit Her\u201d b\/w\/ \u201cHouse in the Country\u201d is excellent, and puts the lie to the idea that the soon-departing Al Kooper <\/strong>was an unsuitable vocalist for the band. Said band had a veritable revolving door; the sixteen songs on Disc 2 cover the band’s post Clayton-Thomas period. The twelve pages of liner notes devote just over a page to the second half of the band’s catalog. Still, there’s good material throughout. Those looking for a best-of should keep moving; too much to see here. But for an overview of the band’s more commercially-minded material (read: singles), it’s an ideal survey.<\/p>\n Note: Due to an unusually full schedule this week and next \u2013 you wouldn’t believe me if I told you \u2013 my posts will be a bit shorter than typical. Once the dust settles, my normal wordy posting will recommence.<\/em><\/p>\n Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <\/a> For some years there, BS&T was a true hitmaking juggernaut. And a lot of their music was \u2013 for whatever reason \u2013 the kind of thing that your parents might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,51,65],"tags":[343,1796],"class_list":["post-5686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-pop","category-review","tag-blood-sweat-and-tears","tag-real-gone-music","cat-19-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\"){kind=icon}
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