JOHNNY RIVERS : HOME GROWN

1. Moving To The Country
2. My New Life
3. Our Lady Of The Well
4. Look At The Sun
5. Rock Me On The Water
6. Song For Michael
7. Permanent Change
8. People Get Ready
9. So Far Away
10. Fire And Rain
11. Think His Name

Label : United Artists Records

Released : 1971

Length : 46:27

Review (Bob Segarini) : By the time Rivers got to this point, I was a bit burned out on him. He had had a string of hits and received an immense amount of airplay and had begun sounding plain overproduced as far as I was concerned. So when Home Grown hit the streets, I didn't even look twice. Until the famed Gary Haller told me I should. I took it home and put it on and what I heard was, indeed, home grown. The sound was more sparse, the songs back-to-the-land, in a sense. Not only that, he used a string of exceptional musicians who were slowly making their way into my consciousness (not the least of whom are Mike & Kathy Deasy). This was my first exposure to the songs of Jackson Browne (Our Lady of the Well and Rock Me On the Water). I call this the great lost Johnny Rivers album for a reason.