Caravan-For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night

Their fifth album from 1973. Another really good Progressive Rock album I would rate it slightly below In The Land of Grey and Pink.”Memory Lain,Hugh” and “The Dog, The Dog He’s At It Again” are both on the And I Wish I Were Stoned compilation and the only songs I knew before buying a used copy of this record in 2019.Record and cover are in good shape except for some bad scratches and two skips in a twenty second section of “Memory Lain,Hugh”.”Hoedown” has a bit of a Country flavor with viola from new member Geoff Richardson.”Surprise,Surprise” was a song I had heard before on FM radio not knowing it was a Caravan song.”C’Thlu” seems to be a reference to H.P. Lovecraft but I couldn’t understand all the lyrics.”L’Auberge du Sanglier” is a ten minute song with nice keyboards from returning member David Sinclair. The title and cover met with some controversy in England.

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