PRODIGAL STRANGER

An excellent album that was very underrated. It includes some of the best Brooker/Reid songwriting and the quality of the songs remain consistently good throughout the whole album. Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher did not contact Robin Trower until late in the project, so his towering guitar is only noticed on some of the songs. Trower really comes through on All Our Dreams Are Sold, a song he co-wrote. I prefer this album to the inconsistent albums of the sixties and seventies.