Artist: The Sons Of Champlin
Album: Loosen Up Naturally / The Sons / Follow Your
Genre: Jazz-Rock, Funk
Label: BGO Records
Released: 2014
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- 1982-A
- The Thing To Do
- Misery Isn't Free
- Rooftop
- Everywhere
- Don't Fight It, Do It!
- Get High
- Black And Blue Rainbow
- Hello Sunlight
- Things Are Gettin' Better
- Freedom
- Love Of A Woman
- Terry's Tune
- CD 2:
- Boomp Boomp Chop
- Why Do People Run From The Rain
- It's Time
- Country Girl
- You Can Fly
- Before You Right Now
- Children Know
- Hey Children
- Follow Your Heart
- Beside You
- Headway
- The Child Continued
- A Sound Love
- Well Done
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This 2014 three-fer contains Loosen Up Naturally, The Sons, and Follow Your Heart, the albums the Sons of Champlin recorded between 1969 and 1971. These are also the Sons' first three albums and it's possible to hear them stretch out with each subsequent record, deepening their grooves, highlighting their jazz inflections, and eventually folding in a rather smooth, sun-kissed gloss. Unlike many of their San Franciscan brethren, they weren't particularly hard-edged or Dionysian: they had a stronger sense of soul and rhythm, they reveled in feel over texture. This can mean that all three of these records meander a bit -- songwriting wasn't a Sons specialty -- but there's an open-hearted attitude to the trinity that remains appealing.
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine