True to previous form the album was released without a massive amount of publicity, a promo concert or two took place. A single , Terry's take on The Waterboys' 'Whole Of The Moon' was released but it's progress up the chart was stymied by the 'coincidental' re-release of The Waterboys' original. A second single with commercial potential '5th Of July' (a Louise Goffin number) was released and got a good amount of airplay but not enough to help get the album anywhere serious in the charts. Not often cited as a favourite by long-time Terry fans I would say it deserves a good listen. Terry's voice is on top form and his songwriting skills are well evidenced in the self penned tracks. His interpretation of other people's songs bearing, as ever, very favourable comparison with the originals. The album is definitely long overdue for re-release and with a few tempting bonus tracks (Mr Beck's contribution at least) it would be warmly received. A final footnote; Hans Zimmer went on to fame and fortune gaining many awards in the film industry (Oscar for Lion King score) . He was most recently responsible for the score of a film about a certain yellow family from Springfield including the 'Spiderpig' song, Homer's homage to the new found love of his life. As that song is frequently and loudly sung in our household I was over the moon to find a connection with Terry ( however slight). Superlungs , superlungs, doing whatever a superlungs does..... So into the 90s with a new album under his belt and more public exposure than he'd had in a long while.
Back in LA Terry continued his habit of playing with whoever and whenever most notably he struck up an ad hoc musical partnership with ex Rolliong Stone, Mick Taylor. Mick was also living in LA and had known Terry from way back in the late 60s particularly the '69 USA tour.) Another musical prodigy , born the same year as Terry,Mick's blue's based guitar work combined with Terry's voice and guitar made for an electric stage show and they played many gigs to delighted fans. In 1992 for instance they played in Hollywood with Brian Auger, John Entwhistle and Lee Miles (unrecorded, as far as I know ! Terry and Mick played together regularly for a couple of years including a couple of stints in Hong Kong gigging at The Jazz Club there. It might have been the basis for a semi-permanent band but never hardened into anything solid enough to produce an album or a major tour. They remain friends though and have played together since.
