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3.0 out of 5 stars
Aging Troubadour, May 18, 2009
This review is from: Living Legend Years (Audio CD)
An influential folk revivalist in the late-50's and early-60's, Bob Gibson twenty years later beat his nasty drug habits and came back as a folksy older-but-wiser singer-songwriter (often in collaboration with professional weirdo Shel Silverstein). This compilation CD samples the four albums he released on small midwestern labels between 1974 and 1984, and throws in a few previously un-released tracks to boot. While each of the individual records still holds up well today, "The Living Legend Years" is somewhat arbitrary in its choice of material and comes off a bit schizophrenic. In particular, only one song from "The Perfect High" (probably the most entertaining entry from the later Gibson) was included. For a sampling, this will do just fine, but listeners would do better simply to pick up each of the originals.
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