Solid Silver (1975)
Gypsy Lights lacks the mixing and unique accents of the playing in the say their 1972 album opener, Hope, Cowboy on the Run is a lilting cowboy ballad with magnificent strings and tasteful piano playing. Flames is an ill-advised attempt at merging then psych-folk rock base with some level of funk, but the next song is the I Heard You Singin with its Dylanesque and melodic Springsteen ride along feel. The Letter is very atmospheric country rock with incandescent singin that sounds like a rip off of Gram Parsons A Song for You..shame. The hyperspace lap steel twine that spaces in and out in wah wah fashion but the rave up ending, as the notes get increasingly higher pitched as we fade out is excellent as is the honky tonk rhythms that enter in the second half of the song. They Don't Know is basically a spindly pull off acoustic and guitar riff before devolving into a pretty solid country funk number with awesome backing vocal melody interplay and a wild synth solo, the kind you'd hear in the Bee Gees live show, possibly an influence as the chords sometimes remind me of Throw a Penny; the warbling synth solo at the end is palatial and melancholic in it's warped meander. Witch's Moon is more Santana-esque as bold twilight acoustics and defined blues guitar noodle and mingle and finally Bittersweet Love is a funk rocker with The Who styled power chord breaks, and frenzied drumming while the chorus is more country and has an overall Eagles sound.
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