Gerry Rafferty

Even in his mother's womb, Gerry Rafferty must have expected the worst. This Scotsman
entitled his melancholy 1971 solo album Can I Have My Money Back? (the answer was "No!").
And when Stealers Wheel, the group he subsequently formed with Joe Egan, became an
overnight success with the hit single, "Stuck in the Middle with You," only to lapse into
morning-after obscurity, he probably said, "I told you so." On City to City, his firs... More >

A miraculously homogeneous album--except for the breakthrough sax refrain on "Baker Street," neither voice nor instrument ruffles the flow of hard-won axioms and sensible hooks. Very nice, I mean it--if yin and yang is your meat, this beats Percy Faith by a mile. But Fleetwood Mac it ain't. (Grade: B-)