YES, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES - VOLUME TWO

Yes is one of my all-time favourite progressive rock bands. This collection contains songs recorded by YES, the band members separately or related artists. Some of them are previously released on other albums but there's also some archived songs and one previously un-released. The unreleased song is "Night Trade" by Steve HOWE, and it's really good. Other highlights is the Bob DYLAN cover "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" by Steve HOWE & Jon ANDERSON, "Merlin The Magician" and "Catherine Howard" by Rick WAKEMAN, "Footloose & Fancy Free" and "Dewey Eyed, Then Dancing" by Bill BRUFORD's Earthworks and the jazzy "Madman Blues" by Adam WAKEMAN. The cover artwork by Roger Dean (www.rogerdean.com) is in good YES tradition. All in all this is a really good album although it doesn't contain so much new material. But I guess that it's only the die-hard YES fans that have all these songs before anyway. Recommended!