Old Enough to Forget

I have always liked Al Stewart. From those early hits there was something about his style of writing and his vocals that just seemed to get me right in the feels. Chris de Burgh was the same for me, but it was really only those two Rupert Hine albums in the early '80s I liked. Whereas with Mr. Stewart I'd sort of followed at a distance for a long time - at least the songs on the radio. Then after his 1980 release 24 Carrots that had "Midnight Rocks" there was radio silence. It wasn't until 1984 that he'd emerge with Russians & Americans , and I don't remember anything at all being played on the radio. Which was a shame, as this was a really cool album, and it had tapped into the very real tensions that were omnipresent in the early '80s. The songs here, as you'd expect, aren't typical pop songs. Al was a dense writer and for those used to a chorus, hook and maybe a bridge before being bashed with a hook again, this was harder to follow. It...