Though not really just a “pretty awful baroque folk rock” and a “depressing listening”, as Deborah Harry described her late’60s band by the time she’d become Blondie, the lone Capitol album by The Wind In The Willow from 1968, doesn’t get much more interesting than the actual fact of them being HER ex-band.
Still, there is a couple of tunes that might get some die-hard ‘60s pop fan interested enough, even without being aware of the mentioned trivia fact, such as the upbeat popsike pair of Park Ave. Blues and Little People, or the pretty decent piece of Monkee business called She’s Fantastic And She’s Yours, securing their ticket to Clarksville.
While it’s just occasionally that they tend to get kind of quirky, digressing from the more or less conventional formulas in an acid/wyrd folk-ish way, as heard in Djini Judy and Wheels Of Changes.
Other than these, you’ll also find some quite average sunshiny harmony pop sounds (The Friendly Lion), some (not quite awful) Brit-flavoured baroque folk (Moments Spent), as well as a Sopwith Camel-reminiscent, good-time-ish vaudevillian piece (Uptown Girl).
In the willows or not, it’s no big wonder that this one’s gone with the wind, though I can’t say I’m sorry I took a listen.
[Released by Fall Out 2007]
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