Essential

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Album: Essential
#	Song Title		Time
1)	On the Border	More Info...
2)	Song on the Radio	More Info...
3)	Year of the Cat	More Info...
4)	Time Passages	More Info...
5)	Midnight Rocks	More Info...
6)	Merlin's Time	More Info...
7)	Broadway Hotel	More Info...
8)	One Stage Before	More Info...
9)	Indian Summer	More Info...
10)	Lori Don't Go Right Now	More Info...
11)	Electric Los Angeles Sunset	More Info...
12)	Running Man	More Info...
13)	Paint By Numbers	More Info...
14)	Monso Sinistro	More Info...
15)	Night Train to Munich	More Info...
16)	Almost Lucy	More Info...
17)	Life Between the Wars	More Info...

Album: Essential
#	Song Title		Time
1)	On the Border	More Info...
2)	Song on the Radio	More Info...
3)	Year of the Cat	More Info...
4)	Time Passages	More Info...
5)	Midnight Rocks	More Info...
6)	Merlin's Time	More Info...
7)	Broadway Hotel	More Info...
8)	One Stage Before	More Info...
9)	Indian Summer	More Info...
10)	Lori Don't Go Right Now	More Info...
11)	Electric Los Angeles Sunset	More Info...
12)	Running Man	More Info...
13)	Paint By Numbers	More Info...
14)	Monso Sinistro	More Info...
15)	Night Train to Munich	More Info...
16)	Almost Lucy	More Info...
17)	Life Between the Wars	More Info...

Performer Notes

One has to wonder what is going on at EMI Records in England -- in the space of less than a year, the label has issued three different Al Stewart compilations: The 16-song The Very Best of Al Stewart, the 14-song Introducing, and this 17-track CD. That's a lot of repeated uses of "On the Border" and "Year of the Cat," not to mention "Night Train to Munich." Evidently, "Ivich," from his 1967 LP Bedsitter Images, is proper for Introducing, but his debut single "The Elf" is on The Very Best of Al Stewart, and neither is "essential," nor is "Nostradamus," though the latter is sufficient to "introduce" him. It's all a mess, which might've been avoided by the company just releasing a double-CD set encompassing the differing contents of all three single discs. The funny thing is that, taken on its own terms, this isn't a bad collection -- it's not as quirky as Introducing or The Very Best of Al Stewart, and it ignores a lot, but the sound is very good and it's made up of pretty solid selections from his catalog. And overall, this wouldn't be the worst way to discover his work, nor is it the best; it's just out there, fair to middling and in no way overwhelming. ~ Bruce Eder

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