Roy Harper, Stormcock - 41m 34s

Tracks & Durations

1. Hors d'Oeuvres	8:39
2. The Same Old Rock	12:26
3. One Man Rock and Roll Band	7:25
4. Me and My Woman	13:01

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Review

This is Roy Harper's masterpiece. With the anger and unharnessed passion of his previous albums more in check, it is a more mature work. David Bedford's orchestration lifts "Me and My Woman" to epic heights. Jimmy Page, on board for the first of many sessions for Harper, does the same with some marvelous lead guitar on the antireligious tract "Same Old Rock" as Harper flails brilliantly on 12-string. The understated opener, "Hors d'Oeuvres," rests upon a choral-and-keyboard bed. Harper's brash-yet-vulnerable signature tune, "One Man Rock and Roll Band," boasts a sinewy intensity as it completes the four-song cycle. The ambition and adventurousness of Stormcock justifies its rank alongside Van Morrison's Astral Weeks as the finest folk-rock album of its time. --John Sutton-SmithRoy Harper still rates this album as one of his finest. A more mature work given added distinction by sympathetic, evocative string arrangements from David Bedford. It also saw the start of a musical relationship with Led Zeppalin's guitarist Jimmy Page, who features on the track 'The Same Old Rock'.

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Stormcock

Tracks: 4, Disk length: 41m 28s (-1m 54s)

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