Left Field Love Songs

Every January labels comb their archives and release Valentine Day themed collections. The big 2 it seems are Motown and Sony who always find a way to rename things that they've already released. That's why this year, looking at the VD releases the one that caught my eye was by the Marshall Tucker Band. What a left field choice. Love Songs (Shout) may seem like a strange choice until you think of it. You could do a million of these types of collections on Rock bands that you wouldn't normally think of as having written love songs. The Tucker love song has 12 songs and half are from the band's peak 70's period. The other half from recent vintage. The newer stuff is good but lacking Toy Caldwell's guitar and songwriting chops. It's mostly generic Country that they do now, but the 70's stuff is prime and rescues long lost album cuts that your woman (or man) will remember and bring back memories. In fact this album's main buyer would appear to be someone who loved this type of stuff in the 70's. A perfect Valentine Gift for your very older significant other.