Unicorn - Uphill All The Way
The Unicorn’s first album, Uphill All the Way, sounds like a band simply ecstatic at the possibilities of this new brand of folk-rock; they cover all the greats of the genre: Neil Young, Jimmy Webb, John Stewart, James Taylor, Joe Cocker, and Gerry Rafferty. But the originals by Ken Baker show that he was just as good at evoking the sun drenched canyons of the beaches of Southern California as his influences; which is all the more impressive considering he was writing and singing from the famously overcast and rainy London.
Still Baker’s songwriting wasn’t yet up to snuff, the best song here is their beautiful interpretation of Webb’s P.F. Sloan, a tribute to the American songwriter. The amazing harmonies on this track reveal Unicorn was more than just a CSN rip-off like so many bands of this breed; these guys are the real deal.
by Stephen Belden
Tracklist:
1. P. F. Sloan
2. 115 bar joy
3. I've loved her so long
4. Don't ever give up trying
5. Country road
6. Something to say
7. Ain't got a lot of future
8. Never going back
9. You, you, you have
10. Please sing a song for us
11. Going back home
12. Cosmic kid
13. All we really want to do
14. P. F. Sloan (2006 re-mix)
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