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Ashkan are most known for having been led by guitarist Bob Weston, who was in Fleetwood Mac for a while in the early '70s; he'd also replaced Paul Kossoff in Black Cat Bones when Kossoff left to form Free. Unsurprisingly, given those connections, Ashkan's sole album is in the British blues-rock vein, with most of the songs written or co-written by Weston. The songwriting, however, is some distance behind the competent playing. Too, gravelly lead singer Steve Bailey, while bearing trace similarities to Joe Cocker, Robert Plant, and Spooky Tooth's Mike Harrison, isn't nearly as distinctive as any of those vocalists. The songs putter along in an unremarkable heavy blues-rock style, and though there are shades of folk in "Stop (Wait and Listen)" and (appropriately enough) country in "Slightly Country," the compositions are pretty sketchy. That's also true of the 12-minute closer, "Darkness," which has the feel of striving for an ominous epic without justifying its length. The 2010 reissue on Grapefruit adds historical liner notes.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
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Bob Weston, ComposerLyricist - Steve Bailey, ComposerLyricist - Ashkan, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Decca Music Group Limited
Bob Weston, ComposerLyricist - Ashkan, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Decca Music Group Limited
Bob Weston, ComposerLyricist - Steve Bailey, ComposerLyricist - Ashkan, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Decca Music Group Limited
Nina Simone, ComposerLyricist - Langston Hughes, ComposerLyricist - Ashkan, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Decca Music Group Limited
Bob Weston, ComposerLyricist - Steve Bailey, ComposerLyricist - Ashkan, MainArtist - Ron Bending, ComposerLyricist - Terry Sims, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1969 Decca Music Group Limited
Bob Weston, ComposerLyricist - Steve Bailey, ComposerLyricist - Ashkan, MainArtist - Ron Bending, ComposerLyricist - Terry Sims, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1969 Decca Music Group Limited
Bob Weston, ComposerLyricist - Ashkan, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Decca Music Group Limited
Bob Weston, ComposerLyricist - Steve Bailey, ComposerLyricist - Ashkan, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Decca Music Group Limited
Album review
Ashkan are most known for having been led by guitarist Bob Weston, who was in Fleetwood Mac for a while in the early '70s; he'd also replaced Paul Kossoff in Black Cat Bones when Kossoff left to form Free. Unsurprisingly, given those connections, Ashkan's sole album is in the British blues-rock vein, with most of the songs written or co-written by Weston. The songwriting, however, is some distance behind the competent playing. Too, gravelly lead singer Steve Bailey, while bearing trace similarities to Joe Cocker, Robert Plant, and Spooky Tooth's Mike Harrison, isn't nearly as distinctive as any of those vocalists. The songs putter along in an unremarkable heavy blues-rock style, and though there are shades of folk in "Stop (Wait and Listen)" and (appropriately enough) country in "Slightly Country," the compositions are pretty sketchy. That's also true of the 12-minute closer, "Darkness," which has the feel of striving for an ominous epic without justifying its length. The 2010 reissue on Grapefruit adds historical liner notes.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 00:51:51
- Main artists: Ashkan
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2007 Decca Music Group Limited ℗ 1969 Decca Music Group Limited
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