Time to do something totally different now, and head all the way back to the end of the 1960s, to the summer of love. Maybe.
Title: "The Autumn stone"
Format: Track
Written by: Steve Marriott
Performed by: The Small Faces
Genre: Rock/R&B
Taken from: The Small Faces retrospective album of the same name
Year: 1969
Acclaim: For this particular song? None I think, as it was apparently an unreleased song from the sessions for one of their other albums. This retrospective was released after the breakup of the band, so I don't see any great acclaim accruing to this track at least. Nor was it released as a single.
Nice soft acoustic guitar opening, sounds a little folky to me with a kind of echoey vocal. Love the flute solo, so sixties! Really gentle the way it slips along, then out of nowhere we get a harmonica and a jews harp, and it starts to up the tempo a little just before it ends. Bit odd.
Things I like about this : The vocal, the guitar, the soft relaxed way it slides along. The flute.
Things I don't like about this: The kind of jarring change just at the end when it goes for me a litlte off-track and I feel ends badly.
Rating: 