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made a point of listing the recording dates of the songs on
; the dates even appeared on the LP labels. They revealed that the songs had been cut at four different sessions dating back to 1974. But even without such documentation, it would have been easy to tell that the album was a stylistic hodgepodge, its first side consisting of
-tinged material featuring steel guitar and fiddle, plus backup vocals from
and the then-unknown
, while the four songs on the second side varied from acoustic solo numbers like
to raging rockers such as
Side one consisted of more lightweight compositions, while side two had more ambitious ones, with
for example, extending the romantic metaphor of a salmon swimming upstream across seven minutes. The album's saving grace was
one of
's classic
songs and guitar workouts, and a perennial concert favorite. ~ William Ruhlmann