★★★★★
In music, as in life, it's all about the connections we make that form our identity and chart our future. We are all only the sum of our experiences and for his first pop-rock album in over 20 years, Gary Wright has a bounty of experiences and close friends to draw inspiration from...
- www.ink19.com
2010-07-30
★★★★★
Supposedly, the artistic breakthrough here is that Gary has transcended the electric guitar. Some breakthrough--good thing Lee Michaels never took up with a synthesizer. Although if he had he wouldn't have pimped it off to (and I quote) "the astral plane."
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Like his mentor, George O'Hara, Gary makes his spiritual home right next to his musical one, close by that great echo chamber in the sky. But unlike George he writes anthems that are forthright and tuneful--why, even "Give Me the Good Earth" is down-to-earth. The ecology-minded will also approve of "Love to Survive" and "Stand for Our Rights," both of which are vague enough to appeal to every constituency. Cosmic-commercial lives.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
The title means Spooky Tooth has lost Jersey--New Jersey, I guess I should say. Get it? Does that mean he's lost his roots or is returning to them? Anyway, he bites the bullet like a real American. Not too incisive, though. Get it?
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
this creel pone edition includes: 1 x crystal-clear resealable polypropylene cd sleeve with a black / silver foil stamp affixed to the exterior 1 x single-sided six-color inkjet-printed hand-cut glossy-photo-stock booklet 1 x four-color inkjet-printed compact disc recordable in a high-density round-bottom cd sleeve ... side 1 1 impulse gary wright (2.34) 2 conversations 1 chris wyatt (7.53) 3 panels v paul turner (4.06) 4 dedicated to a perceptive experience greg riddell (8...
- www.mimaroglumusicsales.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
The trouble with The Dream Weaver is that most of it sounds alike. For all the effects you can squeeze out of electric pianos, organs, clavinets and synthesizers, those devices still have one vital thing in common: a keyboard. As such, the same physical process is usually employed to produce a sound?a process entirely different from that of, say, a reed or a fretted instrument. This is why you can almost always tell the machines from the actual instruments. Synthesizers only synthesize?they do....
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Some might recall musician Gary Wright from his several hit songs of the '70s and '80s, including the classic "Dream Weaver." His distinctive vocals and visionary use of keyboards to create a mood were definitive trademarks of his sound. For the '90s, Wright has embellished that sound with the addition of invigorating guitar with African and Brazilian influences...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Like Peter Frampton's Breaking All the Rules, this is a solid album by "the Dreamweaver," former Spooky Tooth member Gary Wright. "I'm the One Who'll Be by Your Side" has a solid hook, but like the aforementioned Frampton disc, it breaks no new ground. "My dreams were shattered" he sings in "Follow Next to You," which is "Dreamweaver" redux, but not as much as "Moonbeams," which is an absolute sequel to "Dreamweaver" in melody and in sound...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
In 1971, United Artists Records released a double LP entitled Winwood, which was called off the market almost as quickly as ABKCO's Grand Funk meets Terry Knight & the Pack amalgam, Mark, Don & Terry. Gary Wright's That Was Only Yesterday compilation fares a little better, and should have been much bigger. The late Jimmy Miller, former producer of Spooky Tooth, had put together a production company which boasted Gary Wright, Chrissie Hynde, and others...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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