Track listing
1) Waitin’ For The Wind;
2) Feelin’ Bad;
3) I’ve Got Enough Heartaches;
4) Evil Woman;
5) Lost In My Dream;
6) That Was Only Yesterday;
7) Better By You Better Than Me;
Hangman Hang My Shell On A Tree.

Spooky Tooth’s second album is a true masterpiece, unfortunately overlooked in
favour of the ‘biggies’ of the epoch like Led Zeppelin. Too bad; it is perhaps
the ultimate synthesis of all the good elements that British roots-rock had there
to assembled or developed on its own. The aim of Gary Wright and Mike Harrison
was, undoubtedly, to try their hand at everything in reach, from folk to country
to soul to blues to hard; a couple of songs even have ‘progressive’ elements about
them, and, in fact, Spooky Two might as well have served as a major blueprint for
all the ‘hard-art’ bands to follow (unfortunately, the best known hard-art band is
Uriah Heep, and I guess it’s also one of the best representatives of the genre, too; thank God Spooky Tooth had none of those guys’ geekiness).

Gary Wright pens most of the songs on here, a few of them in co-authorship with
drummer Mike Kelly; the only cover is also the best song on the album – ‘Evil
Woman’, one of the band’s better known songs and an absolute bluesy paradise, too.
In fact, I guess Black Sabbath loved it so much that they borrowed the main
descending riff for ‘Sweet Leaf’, the ending instrumental passage for ‘Into The
Void’ and the title for, um, eh, ‘Evil Woman’. Apart from the truly masterful
riff, of course, the major part of the charm is provided by the Wright/Harrison
vocal battle – the baritone of the one and the falsetto of the other complement
each other perfectly, and then, as they merge together in the aggressive chorus
, it’s just a perfect climactic note that leaves you devastated. Don’t laugh at
slow plodding hard rock numbers, people, a speedy delivery would only have ruined
this one. It’s PERFECT, and same goes for the lengthy guitar solo.

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