Year of the Cat - Al Stewart

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. Wonderful Tune

I love the way he paints a picture with the words.
The production is fantastic.
I do a 12 string acoustic version at jam nights. Obviously I have to leave out the whole middle section with the solos. I do a short interlude, but with just me on guitar, I can't hope to reproduce that huge, lush section. It's a fantastic arrangement.

[keep_left]

2. I got to see him and his band...

…when they were touring the US many years ago (this must have been the late ‘90s). This was a club show, so it was fairly intimate. A couple band members occasionally jumped down off the stage to play in the audience space. They were able to pull off most of the complex arrangements except for the really big orchestrations (e.g. live strings on the recordings). These days it would be a trivial matter, assuming the drummer was OK playing to a click track for those songs.

[Figarosmom]

3. Still takes me to another place and time, thanks.

[eShirl]

4. you go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

she comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain