island of dreams

Another gem from recent digging turned up on the debut album by Hummingbird, actually there are a number of excellent tracks on this 1975 album. Hummingbird was Bobby Tench's band, you might know him from work with Jeff Beck, the aforementioned Linda Lewis also features on backing vocals, plus drummer Conrad Isidore (who worked on a Stephen Stills album or two, and on Linda Lewis 'Fathoms Deep' amongst others), keyboards by Max Middleton (Bee Gees, Frampton, Chris Rea, Jeff Beck) and Bernie Holland on guitar. The particular track under the spotlight is a Salty Disco, meandering, smoked beauty, which has some excellent Classic Rock vocals over an exquisite arrangement of some damn fine instrumentation. Salty Sunday sounds for bearded minds...

Hummingbird - Island of Dreams