Fastidiously Fresh
John B. Sebastian. Electric folk rock with happiness. The sound that many young people are turning on to.
Sebastian writes and plays his music with a lightness and happiness that cheers one up after listening to music done by other bands that are always saying how horrible everything is around here on our continent. Sebastian’s music reflects the way he feels about the situation. He is saying that you can only make it what you want it to be.
Sebastian’s popularity has jumped tremendously since his Woodstock exposure and the file that followed. His performance was one of the best at the music festival. Sebastian’s recordings (especially his latest, titled after him) mirrors the same dedication. Other famous performers, including Buddy Emmons on steel guitar, Ray Neopolitan on electric bass, Stephen Stills on lead guitar and Hammond organ, and Paul Harris on piano, helped him make his new recording what it is.
The cuts on the album run from electric folk blues to country and western steel picking to solos done about Sebastian’s favorite topics. Instruments used vary from lone harmonicas to the Boston Pop Orchestra. Included on the album are performances from Woodstock and many new numbers written especially for the album. The album doesn’t use sound effects that try “to mess your mind” — which was a nice change after listening to Led Zeppelin III the other day.
John Sebastian has accomplished with this album something sorely needed in the entertainment field. This is freshness. Try it and see. It is fastidiously fresh.