I think I remember playing this album quite a bit when it was released during 1978, but I can\u2019t remember the last time I listened to it before preparing for this review. This means it\u2019s been years \u2013 probably decades \u2013 since the last time I gave it a spin.<\/p>\n
Stephen Stills spent 1977 producing a studio album and touring with Crosby, Stills & Nash. He contributed several strong songs to the album and saw his popularity soar due to their reunion.<\/p>\n
In 1978, he returned to the studio and issued his sixth solo album in September of that year. It would mark the end of a very prolific period of his career, as it would be six years before he issued another solo release, and four until the next Crosby, Stills, & Nash project.<\/p>\n
Thoroughfare Gap<\/i> is emblematic of many of Stills\u2019 solo albums, containing a few good songs among the chaff. Much of the material would have a somewhat different sound than his previous releases as he veered away from his rock\/country roots. It proved to be his least commercially successful solo release to date, peaking at number 83 on the American album charts.<\/p>\n
The first sign of trouble here is the number of instruments that he plays on the album, which include guitar, horns, strings, percussion, bass, and synthesizer, among others. He would have been better served to have left more of the instrumental tasks to his huge cast of supporting players. <\/p>\n
But there are still a few gems to be found here. The title song is gentle, contemplative, and has a beauty to it. \u201cWoman Lleva\u201d is filled with Latin rhythms and is a direction he should have explored more often. I also still like his version of Buddy Holly\u2019s \u201cNot Fade Away.\u201d <\/p>\n
On the other hand, it was the \u201870s and \u201cYou Can\u2019t Dance Alone\u201d is a poor attempt at trying to conform to the music of the day. The title \u201cCan\u2019t Get No Booty\u201d just about sums up the closing track and was not a good way to end an album. The rest of the material just disappears into Stills\u2019 vast catalog.<\/p>\n
Thoroughfare Gap<\/i> is a fairly typical album of the \u201870s. As such, it remains a mundane stop in the career of Stephen Stills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":30458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8009],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-42122","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-stephen-stills","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42122"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42122"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}