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| ARTIST: | Happy the Man |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | One Way Records Inc |
| TYPE: | Pop, Rock |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Service With a Smile, Morning Sun, Ibby It Is, Steaming Pipes, Wind up Doll Day Wind, Open Book, I Forgot to Push It, Moon, I Sing |
| UPC: | 046633454728 |
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Customer Reviews of Crafty Hands
A Weak Second Attempt Happy The Man had the most textured debut album in Progressive rock history! If you are not familiar with HTM, they are a richly, textured, mostly intramental prog rock band. They have excellent melodies, well crafted and placed rythmic punctuations. In my mind, they are one of the best from the 1970's. Crafty Hands, recorded the same year (1978), really lacks the flare of the first album FOR ME, but it is still good Happy The Man. Steaming Pipes is the most note worthy track as it catches the essense of hard edged sounding prog rock very well. There are some other redeeming tracks too! Most of the tracks are darker than the first record, but still accessable. If you were like me, after you heard the first album you just have to know what the follow up is like! The title of my review is just to help you to set your expectations correctly. It is still a worthy spin!
A progressive rock classic
Happy the Man's second release on Arista Records, "Crafty Hands" (1978), follows in the same vain as the band's first album "Happy the Man" (1977). In fact, after listening to both records about 1,000 times each, I think it's safe to say that they are "sister" albums.
"Crafty Hands" is an awesome, mostly-instrumental album (it includes only one vocal track) which fits right in with my very favorite progressive rock - including classic Yes and Genesis from the 1970s. Meticulously crafted compositions combined with playing which seems to defy human capability are the hallmarks of Happy the Man's music - and this release contains some of the band's very best compositions.
If you love the power, the grace, the complexity of the 1970s music of Yes, Genesis and King Crimson, you will not be disappointed if you buy this disc. It will grow on you every time you listen to it.
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Wyatt, Watkins, and Whitaker on top
This is the 2nd official CD of "Happy The Man" - a highly unusual prog band. (There's another CD called "Beginnings" with previously unreleased material predating their 1st record, so "Crafty Hands" is their 3rd release in some sense.) It's difficult to say if "Crafty Hands" (1978) is better or worse than their 1977 debut album. Both are on such a high musical level that it doesn't make much sense to judge between them. Again, most of the songs are instrumentals, with tricky rhythms and wacky arrangements. Again, most songs are penned by the keyboarders Frank Wyatt and Kit Watkins, as well as guitar player Stanley Whitaker. All three of them are gifted prog composers. Listening to "Happy The Man" is never boring, because the songs always take unusual turns, and make the "progressive ear" happy by using complex harmonies and rhythms. Unfortunately, this highly creative team disbanded after this record. By the way, the material they had written for their unpublished 3rd CD has been made available in the meantime as "Better Late...", and completes the picture of an innovative prog band that lived far too short.