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"The
Years" of
and
were the years 1975 and 1976, when the two, best known for their association with
and, sometimes,
, were performing as a duo and had left
, which issued the recordings they made with those partners, for
, a label later subsumed within
, the imprint under which this compilation has been issued.
released three albums with
: 1975's gold-selling, Top Ten
, featuring the chart entry
; 1976's gold-selling
; and 1977's
. By the time that last, contractually obligated, album came out, they had rejoined
to reform
. But this brief, productive period was arguably their most impressive, alone or in tandem, outside the more popular trio/quartet. Fronting a highly regarded and high-priced Los Angeles session band sometimes called
(drummer
, bassist
, guitarist
, et al.) and best known for backing
,
turned out a series of his characteristic
-tinged tunes with self-reflective lyrics, while
performed
songs on personal and political topics. Annotator
recalls that such
efforts as
directed anger at the absent
, though the lyrics are too vague and metaphorical for the layman to parse, especially a quarter-century later. But
remains a feeling statement on the slaughter of whales. Compiler
has made a reasonable reduction of the two studio albums, adding four familiar tunes from the live disc, for this 78-minute collection. 1978's
, also including
material, was more complete, but this album lives up to its title. ~ William Ruhlmann