Northwind - Sister, Brother, Lover (1971)
Northwind
were a 1970/71 band from Glasgow formerly known as Power of Music.
Rock music was changing then and this lot were well into the melodic
rock that was coming into vogue at that time. Main feature was the twin
Les Paul gold tops used by their guitar players.
We saw them
three or four times. At the Caledonian Hotel in Ayr - at least twice
and an open air concert on the Low Green supported by local band Snids
among others. Northwind
being hugely popular in the town though to start with under their
former name they could only pull 50 or so into the Queen's Hall in 1969.
Their then set included extraordinarily good versions of Pink
Floyd's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" and Traffic's
"40,000 Headmen" but the highlight of the night was their own
"Castanettes".
So popular did Northwind
become in Dunoon that they even got booked to play the Grammar School's
6th Year dance at Christmas 1970 and put on a terrific show. Dave
thinks the band also supported the Keef Hartley Band on a British tour
around that time and also recalls seeing them after Brian Young had
left. He had been replaced by a singer who didn't fit in - and this
bloke's vocal performance on "Castanettes" is one of Dave's few unhappy
memories of the group.
Their 1971 “Brothers, Sisters, Love” is
a highly rated rural progressive-rock. Since its first reissue back in
1994 it has been one of the favourites of collectors of the label. Now
re-mastered, it includes 2 rare bonus tracks. The band's sound has been
likened to that of the twin lead guitar style of early Wishbone Ash with
refined vocals. The songs are spiced with tasteful organ/piano and
additional percussion throughout. Of the many stand-out tracks Quill, a
loose-chugging, exquisite Osibisa-style rocker, is a minor classic.
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