(progressive) Fair Weather - Beginning From An End (1970) - 1993, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Perhaps best known today, at least in the States, as a member of Eric Clapton's early '90s backing band, back in the Sixties, Andrew FairweatherLow was a pop star, Amen Corner's frontmant/guitarist. Formed in 1966, that group sent six singles spiralling up the UK pop chart, including "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice", their 1969 1.
The Corner closed up shop in 1970, only to immediately re open as Fair Weather, albeit with a slightly reduced staff brass players Mike Smith and Alan Jones had found employment elsewhere. By July, the band's debut single, "Natural Sinner", was taking its evil ways up the chart,reaching 6. Beginning from an End" arrived soon after, but before year's end, the band had broken up for good and soon sank from memory.
Thus Beginning's reissue on CD is a welcome return, for the set really completes Corner's own story, and returns the band to a variation on their early British Beat sound; a solid slab of British rock, albeit one with its RB roots still proudly displayed. Check out the stomping cover of Stax classic "Don' Mess with Cupid" or the inspired psychedelic tinged take on "I Hear Your Knocking" for proof. Incidentally, "Knocking" was engineered by Dave Edmunds, and is obviously the prototype for his own subsequent hit cover.
But it's FairweatherLow's own compositions that best capture Fair Weather's transition to the rock age. From the funky "You Ain't No Friend", to the heady blend of proggyblues on the instrumental "Looking for the Red Label", and across the sliding guitar of the country flavored "Poor Man's Bum a Run", Fair Weather are stretching RB into a big stadium sound centered around FairweatherLow's and Neil Jones's magnificent guitars, and filled out in a hundred directions by Blue Weaver's phenomenal keyboards.
Of course, they weren't the only British band at the time attempting this dramatic transformation from RB into hard rock, but Fair Weather didn't stick around long enough to disintegrate into thumbtwiddling noodling and 20 minute tedious soloing.
Still a pop band at heart, Fair Weather accomplished in sharp, sharp songs, what others took an entire album side to do. And to drive home this point, this reissue appends all three of the band's singles, A and bsides, as bonus tracks. Fair Weather sounded grand then, and they still do today.
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