Elton John: Caribou
Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, August 1974
For an artist with distinct limitations vocal, compositional, and stylistic Elton John makes awfully good records. One of the reasons is his avowed love of rock & roll records and parallel need to make recordings that fall naturally into the historical stream of classic rock & roll.
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