FREE AS A BIRD

I urge people to revisit all Supertramp post Brother Where Are You Bound. They went into a jazz/blues direction and Free As A Bird shows that Rick Davies had nothing more to prove to anyone, he had liberated himself from the shackles of Roger Hodgson labels and was....'Free as a Bird'. Granted this is no pearl and sadly it bore the brunt of much criticism. Free As a Bird though paved the way for 2 very important albums that followed in 1997 and 2K2. It is a good album probably a shade better than Famous Last Words.' I'm Beggin You', the title track and ' An Awful Thing To Waste' shade the rest.