THE ROAD: VOLUME 6 - STOCKHOLM & GÖTEBORG (40TH ANNIVERSARY BOXSET)

Blending together two sessions for Swedish radio, this was originally released on the second Road boxed set from Henry Cow before being made available separately (and also included in the Cow Box Redux). As a result of being recorded for radio broadcast, it's one of the better-sounding live discs to have emerged from the Cow archives, and reveals the late-era band in fine form, with a mixture of familiar Cow compositions, improvisation, and a dynamite cover of Phil Ochs' No More Songs. The latter makes you wonder whether Henry Cow realised their time as a unit was almost up; sure, they had one more studio album in them, but Western Culture was very much the end of the line, one last go-around together before the Cow name was put to rest. (John Greaves, indeed, had already left by this point.) If they did have a sense of impending mortality, they wear it well.

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