Justin Hayward has been the heart, soul, and principal vocalist for the Moody Blues for 50 years. In his spare time, he has issued close to a dozen solo albums. His new release, All The Way, <\/i>provides a 15-song taste of his solo career. Be advised, though, that the MP3 edition of the album contains 30 tracks, including his collaboration with John Lodge \u201cI Dreamed Last Night\u201d and his Simon & Garfunkel cover of \u201cScarborough Fair,\u201d which are essential Justin Hayward listening. It all adds up to the MP3 being a superior release.<\/p>\n
The CD tends to be more oriented toward his newer material, but all the periods of his career are represented here. The opening \u201cBlue Guitar\u201d with John Lodge and \u201cForever Autumn\u201d represents a fertile period of his early solo career and hover on the edge of the Moody Blues sound. <\/p>\n
This disc finds Hayward revisiting two Moody Blues classics. His live version of \u201cNights In White Satin\u201d features a smooth vocal. There is also a somewhat sparse acoustic rendition of \u201cThe Story In Your Eyes,\u201d which changes the style of the original.<\/p>\n
The inclusion of \u201cThe Best Is Yet To Come\u201d presents one of his better solo ballads. The album closer \u201cThe Wind Of Heaven\u201d is the equal to most of his best work.<\/p>\n
The sound, especially on the older tracks, sounds better that I remember. Counteracting the sound quality is a lack of liner notes and information.<\/p>\n
After All <\/i>presents some of the best of Justin Hayward. There is no particular reason or order for the selected tracks; what is presented here is fine listening, but there is a lot missing. It is a CD that should have been more inclusive and in the final analysis much better. If you have not explored Hayward\u2019s solo music, this is a good introduction, but there is a lot more out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":32887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9900],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-44660","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-justin-hayward","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44660","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=44660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44660"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}