Year of the Cat - Al Stewart

[cayugafalls]

[Mz Pip]

1. One of my favorites

I play this album often.

[cayugafalls]

2. It is a beautiful album.

[hlthe2b]

3. Mine too. Takes me back to a happier time.

[Pobeka]

4. That raging sax solo, was apparently the first of it's kind in pop/rock music.

IIRC, Alan Parsons had the idea for it, and during the recording session he knew of a sax player who lived just a few blocks away and called him on the spur of the moment to come in an play the part.

Screaming sax solos became a mainstay of pop/rock music for many decades after that.

I just love Al Stewart, he was a heavily played part of my music catalog during college and many years after.