Follow Your Heart [Import]

Sons Of Champlin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Toshiba EMI
• ASIN: B000AA7FIK
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #431,707 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Before You Right Now

2. Children Know

3. Hey Children

4. Follow Your Heart

5. Beside You

6. Child Continued

7. A Sound Love

8. Well Done

Editorial Reviews

2002 reissue of the San Francisco based psychedelic rock act's 1971 album for Capitol. 9 tracks including 'Before You Right Now', 'Children Know' & 'Follow Your Heart'. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some great tunes from a stripped down lineup, January 31, 2003

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Mark Hazell (Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Follow Your Heart (Audio CD)

Recorded in Bruce Walford's studio in San Anselmo, this album sees the Sons in transition. Tim Cain, the sax player who co-founded the band with Bill Champlin back in 1965, had left, as had trumpet player Jim Beem. The stripped down band has an opportunity to stretch out on a number of fine Bill Champlin compositions, and the album also features the recorded debut of Terry Haggerty's "Follow Your Heart", a tune that would stay in the band's set list until Haggerty's departure in 2001 (a more polished version of the tune appeared on the out of print Circle of Love album, and there is a great performance on The Sons Live CD released in 1997). Soon after the release of this album Bill Champlin took the first of his sabaticals from the group, returning to a new rhythm section and a revised name (Yogi Phlegm) several months later. Not quite as good as Welcome to the Dance, this album still cooks pretty hard and is definitely worth a listen.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars At Their Best, March 15, 2005

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Randy Remote (Laytonville, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Follow Your Heart (Audio CD)

The Sons of Champlin were the SF bay area's great unsung band, and were miles ahead of most, in musicianship and songwriting. This is my favorite album of theirs. I didn't give it five stars because, even though the quality is good, it is from a vinyl source. Why did it take an English record company to put this out, when we have every out-of-tune Grateful Dead utterance in pristine digital? Oh well. Get this.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MASTERPIECE - Like A Ring In A Bell, July 18, 2004

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Anthony Williams (Asheville, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Follow Your Heart (Audio CD)

I just don't understand why this 1971 recording is often maligned by the band's fans. The Sons are stripped down and without horns, which is just fine. The band plays with such rollicking conviction and Bill Champlin sings with such clarity, that even the dippy hippie-message lyrics become indispensible to the whole personality. Like one of your weird, eccentric friends who inspire you with their sheer belief.
With FOLLOW YOUR HEART there's emphasis on the tones of the instruments; the drum tones sweetly solid and the guitars burn white hot.
A must-hear is Terry Haggerty's intense guitar bursts. As someone who's bored by the noodling of Jerry G and annoyed by Carlos S's neck-throttling gimmickry, the guitar solos are concise masterpieces never exceeding 8 or 16 bars and for me, what put this record in the Pantheon of my record collection. With each phrase you get the feeling that Haggerty is discovering his own star, like a prodigy kid who just let loose his first-ever genius wild jazz lick.
You should buy this record. I did, twice.