LINDA HOYLE PIECES OF ME LP VERTIGO SWIRL PROG AFFINITY

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LINDA HOYLE

'PIECES OF ME'

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Rated by RECORD COLLECTOR as a 5 STAR ALBUM

A former English teacher, Linda Hoyle is one of Britan's greatest undiscovered talents - pure class who gave up music following this splendid album brimming with a wealth of mainly self-penned, sophisticated material, plus Nina Simone's Backlash Blues. Linda had a fabulous voice and could sing from traditional blues to ballads and hard rock. She debuted with Affinity, but when they prematurely disbanded she was wisely maintained by her record label to record this lone album. Despite an appearance on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test, backing from Chris Spedding and members of Nucleus and Soft Machine, plus contributions to TV commercials, the album flopped. She emigrated to Canada to raise a family and work as a University lecturer.

Record Collector - April 2007

It probably isn't surprising to learn that Hoyle's solo debut, cut following the final dissolution of Affinity in 1971, does not deviate too far from that band's jazz-rock modus operandi. However, in seeking to trim the instrumental fat from Affinity's sometimes gruelling work-outs, and concentrate the attention on the songs (and lyrics) themselves, it rises far above its role model, to showcase Hoyle as a far more exciting figure than her footnotes in history would have you believe. Reminiscent in places of the best of Julie Driscoll's late 1960s work - a role model that Hoyle was singularly well-placed to succeed - Pieces Of Me likewise borrows from several of Driscoll's own influences. The Nina Simone and Laura Nyro songbooks both contribute to the proceedings, with the latter's "Lonely Woman" standing among the best tracks on the entire album. But Hoyle's own work, largely written in tandem with keyboard player Karl Jenkins, is equally powerful, with the eerie "Hymn To Valerie Solanis" (titled for, but never mentioning the woman who shot Andy Warhol), and the regretful "Journey's End" ranking among the other highlights. The intriguing "Ballad Of Marty Mole", meanwhile, reads like a cross between Bob Dylan and Beatrix Potter, and could well give children nightmares for days.

allmusic.com

TRACKS

SIDE A

BACKLASH BLUES

PAPER TULIPS

BLACK CROW

FOR MY DARLING

PIECES OF ME

SIDE B

LONELY WOMEN

HYMN TO VALERIE SOLANAS

THE BALLAD OF MARTY MOLE

JOURNEY'S END

MORNING FOR ONE

BARREL HOUSE MUSIC

1971 VERTIGO RECORDS

USED IN VG+ CONDITION

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