ONCE UPON A TIME...Under Open Skies

 

LUTHER GROSVENOR  Under Open Skies  (Island,1971) - Blues rock

   
     In the late 1960s / early 1970s, when rock music was still a bubbling morass of various influences, there was a Worcestershire lad named Luther Grosvenor. His first recording band, when still a teenager, was Deep Feeling with Jim Capaldi, who would go on to form Traffic with Steve Winwood. This was rapidly followed by The VIPs featuring keyboard wizard Keith Emerson – they were renamed Art in 1967, when Emerson left to form The Nice. Grosvenor recorded with all these bands, but fame beckoned when Art morphed into the iconic Spooky Tooth, who released four albums before folding in 1970, notably the influential Spooky Two in 1969.
     Spooky Tooth would reform a little later, but without Grosvenor, who would go on to much greater fame and fortune as a member of Mott The Hoople, with front man Ian Hunter. If you’re wondering why Grosvenor’s name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s probably because he used the stage name Ariel Bender during his time with Mott.
     In between his tenures with Spooky Tooth and Moot The Hoople, Grosvenor had time in 1971 to release a single solo album on the Island label, named Under Open Skies.

TRACKLIST : Ride On
                       Here Comes The Queen
                       When I Met You
                       Love The Way
                       Waiting
                       Rocket
                       Under Open Skies

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