Track Listing
1. Just Another Night
2. Daytime
3. Bad Brakes
4. Randy
5. Artist, The
6. Last Love Song
7. Nascimento
8. Father
9. New York Times
10. Never
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Luther Vandross, The McCrarys | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Cat Stevens (vocals, electric guitar, guitar, Spanish guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, bass); The McCrarys, Luther Vandross (vocals); Alun Davies (spoken vocals, acoustic guitar); Eric Johnson (electric guitar); Brian Cole (steel guitar); John Marson (harp); Graham Smith (harmonica); Don Weller (saxophone); Jean Roussel (piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards); Bruce Lynch, Will Lee (bass); Dave Mattacks, Steve Jordon (drums); Gerry Conway (drums, congas); Paul Samwell-Smith (background vocals).
Producers: Paul Samwill-Smith, Cat Stevens.
Reissue producer: Bill Levenson.
Engineers include: Declan O'Doherty, Nick Blagona, Freddy Hansson.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Personnel: Cat Stevens (vocals, guitar, electric guitar, Spanish guitar, strings, keyboards, synthesizer); Gerry Conway (vocals, drums, congas); The McCrary's, Luther Vandross, Paul Samwell-Smith (vocals); Eric Johnson (guitar, electric guitar); Alun Davies (acoustic guitar); Brian Cole (steel guitar); John Marson (harp); Jean Roussel (strings, piano, electric piano, keyboards); Richard Niles, Del Newman (strings); Graham Smith (harmonica); Don Weller (saxophone); Shire So (keyboards); Dave Mattacks, Steve Jordan (drums).
Arrangers: Jean Roussel; Richard Niles; Del Newman; Cat Stevens.
Cat Stevens' final album as a pop performer (before his conversion to Islam and subsequent rejection of most of the wicked ways of the material world) is something of a return to his early '70s form. It reunites him with TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN producer Paul Samwell-Smith, and like that early classic it's gorgeously arranged, with discreet strings and a terrific command of dynamics (as in the whisper-to-a-scream "Randy"). Other highlights include the uncharacteristic "Bad Brakes," a blues-rocker that sounds like Phil Collins fronting Bad Company, the classically influenced instrumental "the Artist," and "Just Another Night," a folkie rejection song that most explicitly harkens back to Steven's classic period.
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