Rating: 4/5
Review:
Still a good album
This album has held up pretty well over the years.
It's not a classic, but there's some very good stuff on it.
I confess that Gene Clark's solo work passed me by at the
time. I loved The Byrds, but I lost track of Clark
after he left, so I thought I'd go back and see what I'd missed. White
Light is a bit mixed, but it's still a very decent album. Clark,
of course, was a fine singer and also a very decent songwriter. Some
of this sounds pretty generically post-Woodstock, with some rather ordinary lyrics
and familiar-sounding arrangements and chord sequences, but there at also some
genuinely fine songs; With Tomorrow and For A Spanish Guitar, to give just a
couple of examples, have real poignancy and some originality.
So...I'm glad I looked into this. There's certainly
enough quality on White Light to make it worthwhile and if you like that
slightly mournful, occasionally slightly fey early 70s sound, you'll
find a lot to like here.
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