Performer Notes

Personnel: Terry Reid (vocals, slide guitar); David Lindley (guitar, slide guitar, steel guitar); Lee Miles (bass); Conrad Isidore (drums); Willie Bobo (percussion).
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Terry Reid, famously, turned down the opportunity to be the singer in the nascent Led Zeppelin, instead hipping his friend Jimmy Page to a little-known guy in Birmingham named Robert Plant who Reid felt would be more suited for the job. Over the course of Reid's peripatetic solo career, his intriguingly off-kilter musical choices proved that he was right to turn Page down. For example, 1973's RIVER, Reid's first album in nearly four years, is a loose, mellow exercise in southern California folk-jazz, very close in spirit and execution to what Van Morrison, Tim Buckley, and Joni Mitchell were doing around the same period. The seven songs are lengthy, meandering grooves powered by David Lindley's dobro and slide guitar parts and featuring Reid experimenting with Morrison's incantatory vocal style alongside his own familiar British blues wail. The 2006 Water Music reissue adds two previously unreleased outtakes from the RIVER sessions, "Anyway" and the hypnotic seven-minute jam "Funny."

Professional Reviews

Uncut (5/03, p.117) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...Reid's vocals meander and caress their way through the shimmering jazz-folk abstractions..."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.77) - "The blissed-out folk/soul/funk cousin to Van's ASTRAL WEEKS."

Mojo (Publisher) (3/01/04, p.54) - Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "[A] criminally underarted gem...[A] perfect showcase for the man's almost unfeasibly flexible voice, which could flow from a whisper to a scream in a single phrase."

Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.116) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...One of the most lazily magnificent records of that or any other year....It has a magnificent, low-key, very consistent flow..."

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