More than thirty years after they went their separate ways, Unicorn are often reduced in the history books to the band whose country rock-style mid-70s recordings for Charisma and Harvest were produced by David Gilmour (an association that also led them to play on the earliest Kate Bush studio demos). However, the pop cognoscenti cherish them for their 1971 debut album for Transatlantic, Uphill All The Way. With its plangent melodies, wistful CSNY-style vocal harmonies, meshing acoustic/electric instrumentation and clean production sound (courtesy of Hugh Murphy, just a few weeks away from overseeing Gerry Rafferty's similar sounding, and similarly essential, debut solo LP) , Uphill All The Way is now considered something of a lost classic by admirers of the post-Beatles/Byrds soft rock/progressive pop genre.
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