Rating: 3/5
Review:
Pleasant but forgettable
I’m afraid I don’t think this album has aged well. Joe Egan was
a fine performer to whom Stealers Wheel owed a good deal of their
well-deserved success, but this solo effort isn’t in the same
league as either Stealers Wheel or Gerry Rafferty’s own solo work.
As an album, it
sounds very pleasant, with a pretty generic harmonised soft-rock
sound, very decent vocal and instrumental performances and good
production. The problem is the material, which really doesn’t add
up to much at all, so the whole thing washes over me in a nice wave
of sound and then vanishes from my memory.
I’m sorry to be
critical because Joe Egan’s has left a fine musical legacy, but for
me Out Of Nowhere isn’t a part of it.
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