ONCE UPON A TIME.....Kamikaze

 

DEKE LEONARD  Kamikaze  (UA,1974) - Rock

     After being sacked by Man in early 1972 Deke recorded his first solo album Iceberg, starting in May of that year, with the album eventually being released in 1973.

     Mixing rock’n’roll stompers with souped up psychedelicised country rock, Leonard is joined by a fine cast of the Manband family past, present and future, and by members of the closely related band Help Yourself. Dave Edmunds lends production assistance on future Man track A Hard Way To Live, a song released as a single. Deke had to deconstruct Edmunds’ layered production, lest it sounded “exactly like a Dave Edmunds record”. Deke ponders in his wryly humorous way that had he left it alone he might have had a hit with it.

     All in all this album is a fine representation of Leonard’s good time vibe.

TRACKLIST : Cool Summer Rain

                       Jayhawk Special

                       Sharpened Claws

                       Taking The Easy Way Out

                       The Black Gates Of Death

                       Stacia

                       Broken Glass And Lime Juice

                       April The Third

                       Louisiana Hoedown

                       In Search Of Sarah And Twenty-Six Horses

                       The Devil's Gloves

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