Search - Gary Brooker :: Echoes in the Night

Almost Procol Harum!

Bill Board | God's Wrath, Ohio | 03/23/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"There being no description of the cd or a listing of the songs hereon, I guess my "review" would be sort of superfluous. Of all GB's solo albums, the this probably the most "Procol" of them all, with Matthew Fisher producing and providing a twin-keyboard attack with The Commander - PLUS, this album/cd contains what is probably the final tracks the absolutely irreplaceable drummer Barrie J. Wilson played. With the exception of the 5 tracks that Procol Harum's lyricist-in-residence, Keith Reid, contributed, "Echoes In The Night" is sort of weak. The title track, "Ghost Train," and "The Long Goodbye" (which has since become a Procol Harum staple)are the strongest tracks. One can't help but think how the 5 Keith Reid songs would've sounded so much better within a Procol Harum milieu."