Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman - 37m 6s

Tracks & Durations

1. Where do the Children Play?	3:56
2. Hard-Headed Woman	3:51
3. Wild World	3:22
4. Sad Lisa	3:44
5. Miles From Nowhere	3:35
6. But I Might Die Tonight	1:55
7. Longer Boats	3:15
8. Into White	3:26
9. On the Road to Findout	5:12
10. Father and Son	3:43
11. Tea for the Tillerman	1:01

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Review

Cat Stevens tends to be lumped in with the early-'70s singer-songwriter school led by James Taylor and Carole King, but he actually fits in rather neatly with such wistful English contemporaries as Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, and Donovan. Tea for the Tillerman's "Wild World," "Into White," and "Longer Boats" indicate that he may have been a more gifted tunesmith than the lot of them. As with the best of the Brit folk-rockers, Stevens mixed melancholy with whimsy. Yes, he was prone to airy platitudes, but when he harnessed his eccentricities, as he did throughout this 1970 masterwork, you had something truly distinctive. Stevens's greatest drawback was that he was a natural cult artist, à la Tim Buckley and Leonard Cohen. But that's a tough role to play when you're selling 25 million records, as Stevens did before he changed his name to Yusef Islam, established an Islamic school, and raised a ruckus by supporting Ayatollah Khomeini's death decree against author Salman Rushdie. But that's another story. --Steven Stolder

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