This hard-to-find final album from 1970s country rockers Clover, whose members included John McFee and a pre-News Huey Lewis, sports the production of Robert "Mutt" Lange.
Not surprisingly, Clover's fourth and final album, the second of its British sojourn, had a harder rock edge than its predecessors. Clover had come over to England as a California country-rock outfit, only to land in the middle of the punk rock revolt. Its first British album, Clover (or Unavailable, as it was called in the U.K.) retained the country sound, but by the end of 1977, the band was all up-tempo rock and twin guitar leads, courtesy of Alex Call and John McFee. The music wasn't punk, exactly, but it was more aggressive. Still, Clover remained an essentially good-natured musicians' band, as the loose a cappella version of Leiber & Stoller's "Keep on Rolling" demonstrated. In another time and place, maybe that would have mattered. ~ William Ruhlmann
A real collector's item as it has never been before been released on CD.This is Clover’s 1977 follow up to “Unavailable”. Produced by Robert John Mutt Lange (AC/DC, Shania Twain, Def Leppard).This was sadly the band’s last album before John McFee went on to join The Doobie Brothers, and Huey Lewis formed the “News”. Interestingly, Clover supported Thin Lizzy promoting “Love On The Wire” and is the reason why Huey Lewis performs on Lizzy’s “Live and Dangerous!” record.
Personnel: John McFee (vocals, guitar, slide guitar, steel guitar, violin); Alex Call (vocals, guitar); Huey Lewis, Huey Louis (vocals, harmonica); Sean Hopper (vocals, keyboards, percussion); John Ciambotti (vocals, bass guitar); Tony Braunagel (drums).
Audio Mixers: Robert John "Mutt" Lange; Bill Price .
Brilliant... Copied this album to a music-cassette in late 70`s and listned to it now and then. the years passed on and in 2003 I stumbled over a un-used vinyl version in a record shop in Norway. I promptly took it home an digitalised it(audacity), and no I can enjoy listen to it on my computer,in my car and on my iPod. Brilliant. Submitted by Coolpix (Askoy, Norway) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Pretty Good, but Could be better It's too bad Huey Lewis didn't sing more but where he does these guys cooked. Submitted by Mark (Pierre, SD) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Clover and Costello Clover are also the backup band for much of Elvis Costello's first album "My Aim is True" Submitted by joscarb (GR, MI) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Brilliant...
Pretty Good, but Could be better
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