From his first solo album, Roger McGuinn,still full of jazzy, laidback late 60s rock like Lost my Driving Wheels. One track called Time Cube interestingly features interplay between banjo and a minimoog which certainly was a little gimmicky as the song is another basic shanty, not a fresh idea as it's very similar to Space Odyssey and Moog Raga from five years prior on the Notorious Byrd Brothers. He hadn't totally run out of ideas after the Byrds, Bag Full of Money is a strong country rocker and M'linda is a calypso pop tune that suits his quirky high tenor that looked forward to his highly successful Back to Rio (1993) solo album!
Written with frequent collaborator Jacques Levy, Draggin mixes prog like atmosphere with Beach Boys harmonies, Have A Listen! It starts with some high frequency airplane hum, a saxophone enters before the surf rock body fo the song enters, it works well even with McGuinn's drone, he was never a hugely animated vocalist when it came to pop or rock even his folk work would still feel restrained even the shanties! His sense of pop melody was always strong throughout his career, just his folksiness was what could hold him back.
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