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The Imponderable Strangers

Sam Cameron


Sam Cameron wanders through the small print in search of Prodigal Strangers:


Interesting CD booklet this one ... three levels of 'players':

Well who are they, and what can we guess that they contributed?

So that's at least three full-time guitarists and a full-time drummer there plus a lot of assistant engineers even though three are fully-credited on the album. Can it be that Trower jumped ship and many people came in to play parts instead and that there are legal reasons why A Real Attitude and Into The Flood were left off in preference to Learn To Fly [which does sound like Trower]. Certainly record company pressure would want Trower officially in the line-up as part of the sales drive.

Conclusion: maybe all of these guys played on tracks of some other songs or versions of these and presumably none are on the album unless their record companies won't allow credit which would mean who the hell are we listening to on which tracks?


BtP's page about The Prodigal Stranger

Further observations from Joan May

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