Label: Mainline Records (Germany), MLCD 9.00816 L
Style: Progressive Rock, Rock
Country: Leicester, England
Time: 46:32
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 242 Mb
After completing their second US tour in mid 1971, John Weider left the band and was replaced by John Wetton on bass and vocals. The band's direction was notably changed with Wetton bringing along his trademark propulsive performance style, as evidenced on the album opener "Between Blue and Me". After only a year and one more album, Wetton left to join the latest line-up of King Crimson and was replaced by Jim Cregan. Fearless was the first Family album to chart in the United States, reaching #177 on the Billboard 200 in March 1972, and staying on the charts for 7 weeks.
Writing in the US rock magazine Creem, reviewer Ed Ward, after admitting that he hadn't liked Family, called Fearless "a good, strong album, loaded with some of the most intense, high energy British rock and roll being made these days", but still rated it "not quite as good as Anyway" (which hadn't been released in the United States at that time, anyway). He dismissed tracks "Spanish Tide" and "Children" as "filler", but concluded that "what's left is fine indeed."
Jack Breschard, writing in Crawdaddy, went further and declared the album to be "nothing less than brilliant." He singled out Side One for particular praise, "being the catchiest album side I've heard in a very long time." He thought that much of the album's strength lay in "the multi-instrumentality of the band", adding that although the band's range was wide "no-one gets hung up in a bunch of musical pretensions."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless_(Family_album))
01. Between Blue And Me (05:02)
02. Sat'D'Y Barfly (04:00)
03. Larf And Sing (02:45)
04. Spanish Tide (05:02)
05. Save Some For Thee (02:42)
06. Take Your Partners (06:27)
07. Children (02:19)
08. Chinkly Grin (01:06)
09. Blind (04:04)
10. Burning Bridges (04:46)
11. The Weavers Answer (bonus track) (05:00)
12. Strange Band (Studio) (bonus track) (03:14)
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