I must written this dozens of times both here and in PA, but COTC was the very first album I ever bought with my own money from newspaper delivery routes and I was only 11. Next to my school was a record shop and when I saw COTC in the window when released , next day I had the money to buy it. It's still in my top 10.
Never had that kind of love for other Supertramp albums., but COTC certainly steered me in the right direction
The debut is absolutely wonderful, maybe their proggiest, though one shouldn't expect what you hear in the classic line-up
Davies only sings lead on two tracks and Palmer James on another two, the rest is handled by Hodgson.
here is a rare view of the first incarnation - still called daddy at the time. (Russian site, so don't stray too far away from the videos)
https://vk.com/video-101936_164243546
Yeah, I really can't say who was the proggier of the two, one having written Rudy, the other Fool's Overture.... To me it's a draw
Even when they grew apart, Rick's Brother was about as proggy at the band ever got, while Roger's eye wasn't too shabby either.
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