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Although The Man in the Bowler Hat is without question the most fully realized and lavishly produced (by George Martin) Stackridge album, most fans of the band would probably gravitate toward Friendliness as their favorite. Here can be found every quality that endeared the West Country five-piece to a loyal -- but never quite large enough -- following. There's Beatlesque melody, gently surreal humor, and considerable instrumental dexterity that ranged freely between the worlds of pop, folk, jazz, classical, and prog rock. The rollicking instrumental "Lummy Days" is a perfect scene-setter, with Mike Evans' violin and Mutter Slater's flute lyrical one moment and bucolic the next as the melody sweeps between hoedown, bolero, and Vaughan Williams -- all in less than four minutes. Next comes the weightless beauty of the title track, with James Warren's choirboy vocals multi-tracked to bewitching effect. That's followed, even more improbably, by the '30-style foppery of "Anyone for Tennis," and not long after by the Eastern-tinged "Syracuse the Elephant," at over eight minutes long and with Mellotron aplenty, clear evidence that Stackridge could have staked their share of the prog market if they could have kept a straight face long enough. But they couldn't, and to prove it, the next track is a piece of cod-reggae about a cow, called "Amazingly Agnes." In truth this and the heads-down, no-nonsense boogie "Keep on Clucking" (a whimsical diatribe against battery farming) always did sound like grudging concessions to commercialism, and decades later they still do. But the album finishes in triumph with the haunting "Teatime," arguably one of the most convincing fusions of folk, jazz, and classical music in the entire prog rock canon, with none of the ego-fuelled blowing that so discredited the genre. [The CD reissue contains three extra tracks, including the instrumental stage favorite "Purple Spaceships Over Yatton."]
© Christopher Evans /TiVo
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Andy Davis, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
James Warren, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
James Warren, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
James Warren, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
James Warren, Composer - Andy Davis, Composer - Jim Walter, Composer - James Walter, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist - Crun Walter, Composer
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
James Warren, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
James Warren, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
Andrew Davis, Composer - Andrew Cresswell-Davis, Composer - James Walter, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
Stackridge, MainArtist - Michael Slater, Composer
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
James Warren, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
Andy Davis, Composer - James Walter, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist - Crun Walter, Composer
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
DISC 2
Andy Davis, Composer - James Walter, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
Andy Davis, Composer - Andrew Cresswell-Davis, Composer - James Walter, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist - Crun Walter, Composer
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge Stackridge
John Barry, Composer - Freddy Poser, Composer - Russell Turner, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 BBC BBC
Andrew Davis, Composer - James Warren, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 BBC BBC
Andy Davis, Composer - James Walter, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist - Crun Walter, Composer
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 BBC BBC
Andy Davis, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 BBC BBC
James Warren, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 BBC BBC
Andrew Davis, Composer - James Warren, Composer - Andy Davis, Composer - Andrew Cresswell-Davis, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 BBC BBC
Esther Van Sciver, Composer - Paul Roberts, Composer - Tom Emerson, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 BBC BBC
Michael Evans, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 BBC BBC
Andrew Davis, Composer - James Warren, Composer - Andy Davis, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1973 Stackridge Stackridge
James Warren, Composer - Stackridge, MainArtist
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1973 Stackridge Stackridge
Album review
Although The Man in the Bowler Hat is without question the most fully realized and lavishly produced (by George Martin) Stackridge album, most fans of the band would probably gravitate toward Friendliness as their favorite. Here can be found every quality that endeared the West Country five-piece to a loyal -- but never quite large enough -- following. There's Beatlesque melody, gently surreal humor, and considerable instrumental dexterity that ranged freely between the worlds of pop, folk, jazz, classical, and prog rock. The rollicking instrumental "Lummy Days" is a perfect scene-setter, with Mike Evans' violin and Mutter Slater's flute lyrical one moment and bucolic the next as the melody sweeps between hoedown, bolero, and Vaughan Williams -- all in less than four minutes. Next comes the weightless beauty of the title track, with James Warren's choirboy vocals multi-tracked to bewitching effect. That's followed, even more improbably, by the '30-style foppery of "Anyone for Tennis," and not long after by the Eastern-tinged "Syracuse the Elephant," at over eight minutes long and with Mellotron aplenty, clear evidence that Stackridge could have staked their share of the prog market if they could have kept a straight face long enough. But they couldn't, and to prove it, the next track is a piece of cod-reggae about a cow, called "Amazingly Agnes." In truth this and the heads-down, no-nonsense boogie "Keep on Clucking" (a whimsical diatribe against battery farming) always did sound like grudging concessions to commercialism, and decades later they still do. But the album finishes in triumph with the haunting "Teatime," arguably one of the most convincing fusions of folk, jazz, and classical music in the entire prog rock canon, with none of the ego-fuelled blowing that so discredited the genre. [The CD reissue contains three extra tracks, including the instrumental stage favorite "Purple Spaceships Over Yatton."]
© Christopher Evans /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 01:25:15
- Main artists: Stackridge
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Esoteric
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Folk
© 2023 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1972 Stackridge / BBC
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