Artist: Nick Holmes
Album: Soulful Crooner
Country: US
Genre: Folk Rock
Release: 1973
Quality: FLAC | lossless
Cover: Front

Nick Holmes first played with the musicians on Soulful Crooner while singing with White Elephant, the '70s jazz-rock big-band. This 1973 solo record followed that double record collaboration, and it still sounds good today, although in those days they didn't have digital yet. Mike Mainieri's production and arrangements from that period are full and honest. It's a jazz record in many ways -- many of the songs have more key changes in the intros of the songs than Nick used on entire albums in the '80s and '90s. Nick learned his harmonic sense from these years with the jazzers, and his voice is in fine shape. Weird, hazy, hypnogogic jazz/folk-pop, accompanied by Holmes' voice, which is pure velvet and totally hypnotic.

Tracklist:
1. Only A Human - 3:22
2. Oh Picasso - 4:06
3. Grind It Out - 3:00
4. Trying Too Hard - 5:21
5. Never Really Know - 3:21
6. Little Bit - 3:37
7. Strangers - 5:28
8. Take Your Time - 4:33
9. The Promise Suite: Un Petit Espoir / Love Says It's Waiting / The Promise - 4:58
10.Vine Of Virtue -3:54

Personnel:
Nick Holmes - guitar, vocals, writer
Michael Mainieri - keyboards, vibraphone, producer, arranger
Donald MacDonald - drums
Tony Levin - bass
Hugh McCracken - guitar