Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun. First thing I noticed about this record is how awesome it is. Billy, the record cover, the title track - pure awesome. On the back cover it reads: Bass- Leland Sklar. The title track comes in at 6:45. The label is Capricorn Records - which is shocking because he is NOT from Georgia or Florida and also not a southern fried rocker. In fact - William Richard "Billy" Thorpe, is/was and English-born yet Australian and musician. He died in Feb. 2007. The title track credit for song-writing is the record's producer Spencer Proffer. You may recall he did a song in the sixties called Poison Ivy, which the Rolling Stones covered.
I came this close to getting this record back in the day. The title track was played a lot on radio, and since I didn't get anyone's else's opionion on the rest of the album, that's why I didn't get it. But the way the song unfolds and adds layers is cool, but it does drag a bit at the end. What are the other songs like?
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