McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Great Speckled Bird - Rio Grande

Familiar voices with loosened interactions: Ian and Sylvia Tyson. Production: Todd Rundgren. There is an incidental excellence in this album - not necessarily production quality, musicianship or great song writing but more like director of photography, assistant re-recording engineer or title designer. It's filled with wide angled snowy shots of mud and mountains, orange flames of warmth and foggy windows. There are no aggressive catchy hooks, or belted out harmonies. It's so informal that it hardly feels like an album at all. That's not to say that this was just Todd Rundgren producing Ian and Sylvia with some session musicians. There certainly was a band that made this record. It's just that when they recorded it, they weren't really thinking about the final, finished product. They were just out there, seeing what they could do.

Great Speckled Bird - Bloodshot Beholder