Comments on: John Stewart “California Bloodlines”

By: clarkie

clarkie — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:38:54 +0000

Love ‘The Raven’. Anyone who knows how to get hold of it?

By: glen

glen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:45:33 +0000

never heard of him – brilliant!

By: Tim-a-lim

Tim-a-lim — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:56:35 +0000

Whats with all the Kingston Trio hate?

By: Len Liechti

Len Liechti — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:12:06 +0000

I guess that should be “spawned”, Stewart? Forget the Kingston Trio, that was a false start. John Stewart’s first guitar teacher was Frank Zappa. Does that sound better? For a fine introduction to JS, get the Raven anthology Earth Rider which offers 24 songs covering his 14 years from the Trio (only one track, mercifully) to 1979’s Bombs Away Dream Babies, including four from California Bloodlines and three from Willard, plus one of the best insert booklets I’ve ever read by the fine rock journo Glenn A. Baker. I saw JS live, solo and acoustic in Bristol about twenty years ago and he held the room spellbound for almost two hours. One of the GREAT songwriters.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:17:19 +0000

Omaha Rainbow is my fave off the album, it even spurned a mag of that name on the UK.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:21:17 +0000

man, this sounds fantastic! I’ve seen this record cheap countless times in the local bins but always passed it up cause of the kingston trio connections, figured it would be pretty pale ale. I can certainly hear some gene clark in here, gotta grab this next time…