Blowing through the jasmine on my mind5 Out of 5 Stars
Released in 1972, the fourth album from Seals and Crofts not only delivered a commercial payday, it is also their best album. "Summer Breeze
" holds its own with other soft rock and folk albums from the period, like James Taylor's Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
and Cat Stevens' Tea for the Tillerman
. Thoughtful and spiritual, with nods lyrically towards their Baha'i faith, the songs on "Summer Breeze" are ripe with the sounds on the early seventies.That has a fair amount to do with the quality of the players involved. Such heavyweights as Larry Knecthel, Jim Keltner, Jim Gordon, Clarence McDonald and Michael Omartian all joined multi-instrumentalists Jim Seals and Dash Crofts on this batch of ten songs. These include some of the songs most associated with Seals and Crofts, like "Hummingbird," "East Of Ginger Trees" and the classic title song. They even allow for a gritty finale, with the bluesy "Yellow Dirt" that closes the CD.
Every song here was solid, which was an issue that plagued Seals and Crofts' albums onward. It's noteworthy to point out that "Summer Breeze
" was the first studio album from the S&C library to reach CD (in 1995) and was impeccably remastered.
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