The Sutherland Brothers – The Sutherland Brothers Band (1972)

Born in Scotland the brothers Iain and Gavin, both incredibly talented singers and writers and musicians, were in a couple of local bands before securing a record contract with Island records, who at the time were in the forefront of discovering many great Artists.  I am not sure if I bought this album before or after their Masterpiece ‘Lifeboat’ released later that same year.  I saw them in ’73 with their new backing band Quiver and have been a solid fan ever since.  Mixing rock with folk they wrote all their own material and released 5 albums as The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver and one final album in 1979 on their own.  I don’t know why they stopped recording but like many artists maybe they found the treadmill of writing, recording and touring just too much after 8 years.  They have both released a handful of very acoustic solo albums since they split up, and Iain died aged  71 in 2019.  Best tracks on this lovely debit are ‘Medium Wave., ‘Where In The World’ and ‘The Pie’ – but during their whole recorded career they never released a poor song.