Castle Music UK
2004
Journey
About This Album
If Duncan Browne's known at all to any general rock listeners, it tends to be for his earliest work in the late '60s and early '70s. Actually, however, he recorded off and on throughout his life, all the way up to his death in 1993. This career-spanning, two-CD compilation of his work, mostly devoted to his solo endeavors (though it has a few of his mid-'70s cuts as part of Metro), is crammed with music, lasting about two and a half hours in all. While it's true the earlier 1967-1976 stuff on disc one is more interesting than the later material on disc two, there are more worthwhile bits from throughout his discography than many would have guessed. It's the early folky singer/songwriter material that will command the most interest, and the rather fey baroque folk-rock of his 1968 debut album Give Me Take You is heavily represented. That period comprises just half of disc one, though, after which he moved into more eclectic approaches that make his work elude quick snappy summarizations. Particularly on the tracks from his self-titled 1973 album, there's a singer/songwriter whose reticent, uncertain moodiness can slightly recall Nick Drake on compositions like "Country Song" (albeit with a much higher voice at times), and whose vocal style might invite vague comparisons to Al Stewart.
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