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Tea for the Tillerman | 
 enlarge | Artist: Cat Stevens
Label: A&M
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
Buy New: $15.07
You Save: $4.91 (25%)
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Sales Rank: 30838
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 12.9 x 12.6 x 0.4
UPC: 602517753129
EAN: 0602517753129
ASIN: B001A2ADIQ
Release Date: July 29, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | Where Do the Children Play? | | • | Hard Headed Woman | | • | Wild World | | • | Sad Lisa | | • | Miles from Nowhere | | • | But I Might Die Tonight | | • | Longer Boats | | • | Into White | | • | On the Road to Find Out | | • | Father and Son | | • | Tea for the Tillerman |
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Amazon.com
Cat Stevens tends to be lumped in with the early-'70s singer-songwriter school led by James Taylor and Carole King, but he actually fits in rather neatly with such wistful English contemporaries as Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, and Donovan. Tea for the Tillerman's "Wild World," "Into White," and "Longer Boats" indicate that he may have been a more gifted tunesmith than the lot of them. As with the best of the Brit folk-rockers, Stevens mixed melancholy with whimsy. Yes, he was prone to airy platitudes, but when he harnessed his eccentricities, as he did throughout this 1970 masterwork, you had something truly distinctive. Stevens's greatest drawback was that he was a natural cult artist, a la Tim Buckley and Leonard Cohen. But that's a tough role to play when you're selling 25 million records, as Stevens did before he changed his name to Yusef Islam, established an Islamic school, and raised a ruckus by supporting Ayatollah Khomeini's death decree against author Salman Rushdie. But that's another story. --Steven Stolder
Album Description
Vinyl pressing of the album, Tea For The Tillerman, is one of Cat Stevens's finest albums, and a gem in the crown of early 1970s singer/songwriterdom. Apart from the occasional string section, Stevens is accompanied only by a three-piece band as he sings his introspective lyrics with appreciable fervor. There are some relatively conventional love songs here, "Hard Headed Woman" and "Wild World". The song "Father and Son" is a poignant but realistic and unsentimental portrait of the generation gap, capable of reducing any given Dad or junior to tears. "On the Road to Find Out" and "But I Might Die Tonight" reflect Stevens's existential dilemmas, and the resulting spiritual quest that would later lead him to embrace the Islamic faith. The graceful beauty of arrangements, performances, and songs makes this album a folk-rock classic.
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