THINK OF TOMORROW

Think Of Tomorrow, a 1991 offering from the reconstituted Pentangle, was recorded for the German Hypertension label in, literally, a rush due some bizarre disturbances with airline booking due the quickly escalating Gulf War and the fact that band was caught off guard by the Hypertension's sudden offer to record the group, which resulted in the group not having quite a full album's worth of material to record.

Lead guitar duties were taken up by Bert Jansch's friend Peter Kirtley, a finger style electric blues guitarist, with Nigel Portman Smith and Gerry Conway returning on bass and drums respectively.

What gives most of this material a kick is that Jansch, having fully recovered from alcoholism, was writing some of the best songs of his storied career was combining themes of ecological demise along feeling relationships and combining them with music that sported brilliant melodies.

Standouts include the album's first four songs which display vintage Jansch songwriting such as O'er The Lonely Mountain, Baby It's Over, Share A Dream, and The Storyteller (Paddy's Song). Jaqui Mcshee sings beautifully in a more 'breathy' vocal style and still has great vocal range to match her penchant infuse this material with emotion without sounding cloying.

Kirtley supplies the gritty blues number Meat On The Bone, which would not sound out of place on a Chris Rea album, and the band follows with a composition Ever Yes, Ever Know, which sounds like one the better tracks on Renaissance's Asure D'or album from 1979. Good Stuff.

Unfortunately, the group resort to traditional material such as The Lark In The Clear Air and The Bonny Boy (a Jansch reworking of the trad. song The Trees They Do Grow High), as well a trite pop rock original titled Color My Paint Book, in order to fill up album space which unfortunately puts a damper to the album's last five tracks.

However, when the music on Think Of Tomorrow is good, it's very good. 3 stars.

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