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Tim Buckley: Starsailor (Straight 1064)

Nick Jones, Cream, May 1971

THE BELIEF that certain kinds of music have a quintessential equilibrium which, when penetrated by the listener transforms itself into regenerative power, may conceivably make life more substantial for us all — except, of course, diverse human animals that we are, it's also a case of different chortles for different mortals, or even different chords for different broads.

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