Nazareth - Close Enough For Rock'n'Roll [7 bonus tracks] (1976)

Year: March 1976 (CD 2002)
Label: Eagle Records (Germany), EAMCD138
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Time: 64:27
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 520 Mb

WHILE I’VE never been one of Nazareth’s most fervent fans, I’ve always admired them for knowing and keeping within their obvious limitations. The band are but adequate musicians and Dan McCafferty is just an above-average vocalist — but together, they fuse quite tightly and create, if not inspiring, then some very reasonable rock music.
The theme of ‘Close Enough For Rock ‘N’ Roll’ is, oddly enough, one of disillusionment and boredom — yet this is hard to credit, once you bear witness to the highly raucous sounds.
`Telegram’ is the album’s major track. In four parts, ‘On Your Way’,`So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star’, ‘Sound Check’ and `Here We Are Again’, it tells the graphic, if at times musically cumbersome, tale of an American tour. It begins with a 747 flight and deals with immigration hassles, the limousine trip from airport to hotel (during which the car’s radio, tuned to an FM station, plays a snatch of ‘This Flight Tonight’), a Press reception and — finally — a concert itself, which ultimately degenerates into a boozy clapalong and fades. To Nazareth, the story that `Telegram’ describes is one of routine, of extreme familiarity — and yet the band attack the multi-faceted tale with a good deal of venom, perhaps venting their frustrations in this hard musical manner.
Except for a short Manny Charlton guitar instrumental, `Vicki’, and the commercial cut `Carry Out Feelings’, the rest of the album follows the same pattern — driving, below-the-belt rock music, hardly innovative, but at the same time not having enough apparent cliches for it to matter.
A good album, and one that should consolidate Naz’s position as a first division band.
(geirmykl.wordpress.com/2021/12/16/article-about-nazareth-from-sounds-april-3-1976/)

01. Telegram (Parts 1-4) (07:54)
02. Vicki (02:24)
03. Homesick Again (04:31)
04. Vancouver Shakedown (04:03)
05. Born Under The Wrong Side (03:57)
06. Loretta (03:19)
07. Carry Out Feelings (03:19)
08. Lift The Lid (03:53)
09. You're The Violin (04:47)
10. My White Bicycle [single] (05:21)
11. You're The Violin [edited A-side] (03:35)
12. Loretta [alternate single version] (02:36)
13. Carry Out Feelings [US single edit] (03:18)
14. Lift The Lid [alternate single version] (03:29)
15. My White Bicycle [orginal single version] (03:28)
16. Telegram [edited version] (04:28)

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