Blood, Sweat & Tears – Child Is Father To The Man (1968)

01. Overture (Al Kooper) – 1:32
02. I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know (Kooper) – 5:57
03. Morning Glory (Larry Beckett, Tim Buckley) – 4:14
04. My Days Are Numbered (Kooper) – 3:19
05. Without Her (Harry Nilsson) – 2:39
06. Just One Smile (Randy Newman) – 4:36
07. I Can’t Quit Her (Kooper, Irwin Levine) – 3:36
08. Meagan’s Gypsy Eyes (Steve Katz) – 3:24
09. Somethin’ Goin’ On (Kooper) – 8:00
10. House In The Country (Kooper) – 3:04
11. The Modern Adventures Of Plato, Diogenes And Freud (Kooper) – 4:12
12. So Much Love/Underture (Carole King, Gerry Goffin) – 4:42

Personnel:
– Al Kooper – organ, piano, ondioline, vocals
– Randy Brecker – trumpet, flugelhorn
– Bobby Colomby – drums, percussion, vocals
– Jim Fielder – bass guitar, fretless bass guitar
– Dick Halligan – trombone
– Steve Katz – guitar, lute, vocals
– Fred Lipsius – piano, alto saxophone
– Jerry Weiss – trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals
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– Anahid Ajemian, Paul Gershman, Manny Green, Julie Held, Harry Katzman,
 Leo Kruczek, Harry Lookofsky, Gene Orloff – violins
– Harold Coletta – viola
– Al Gorgoni – organ, guitar, vocals
– Doug James – shaker
– Fred Catero – sound effects
– Charles McCracken, Alan Schulman – cellos
– Melba Moorman, Valerie Simpson – choir, chorus
– John Simon – organ, piano, conductor, cowbell
– The Manny Vardi Strings
– Bob Irwin, John Simon – producers

Child Is Father to the Man is keyboard player/singer/arranger Al Kooper's finest work, an album on which he moves the folk-blues-rock amalgamation of the Blues Project into even wider pastures, taking in classical and jazz elements (including strings and horns), all without losing the pop essence that makes the hybrid work. This is one of the great albums of the eclectic post-Sgt. Pepper era of the late '60s, a time when you could borrow styles from Greenwich Village contemporary folk to San Francisco acid rock and mix them into what seemed to have the potential to become a new American musical form. It's Kooper's bluesy songs, such as "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" and "I Can't Quit Her," and his singing that are the primary focus, but the album is an aural delight; listen to the way the bass guitar interacts with the horns on "My Days Are Numbered" or the charming arrangement and Steve Katz's vocal on Tim Buckley's "Morning Glory." Then Kooper sings Harry Nilsson's "Without Her" over a delicate, jazzy backing with flügelhorn/alto saxophone interplay by Randy Brecker and Fred Lipsius. This is the sound of a group of virtuosos enjoying itself in the newly open possibilities of pop music. Maybe it couldn't have lasted; anyway, it didn't. --- William Ruhlmann, Rovi

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