Here's a song called "Little Star" from my recent CD "There's No Sound In Flutes!" of which All Music Guides' Bruce Eder wrote:
"Spike
Priggen is like a musician unstuck in time -- his music manages to
sound a bit (and sometimes even more than a bit) like Jeff Lynne ("I
Know Everything"), Jeff Lynne producing Badfinger ("Hideaway"), Big
Star ("Little Star"), and any number of past musical icons, without
ever actually mimmicking any of them. At the same time, his voice isn't
great, but it is honest and expressive, sometimes beguilingly so. And
when that attribute is coupled with his solid rock production, the
effect is to turn romantic laments like "Everyone Loves Me But You" and
"Disappointing Everyone" -- which, so logic tells us, ought to be
lugubrious singer-songwriter indulgences, and (theoretically) the
slowest part of this album -- into beautifully crafted pop-rock,
gorgeous enough on every level to hold this listener's attention
through multiple listens (something he almost never has time to do).
And when he switches over to acoustic guitar, on "The Only Girl In The
World", the results are mesmerizing -- he's fully in his element in
that low-wattage setting, on one of the prettier country-rock style
love songs that this reviewer has heard since Gene Clark left this
planet. And "I'm So Glad You Broke My Heart" is a sardonically clever
take on romantic separation, ornamented by some of the densest mix of
high-wattage guitar and orchestral accompaniment this side of 70's-era
Poco. By the end of the disc, it's still a little hard to pin down
precisely what Priggen's "real" sound is, but with songs as good as
this, does it really matter?"
Spike Priggen - "Little Star".mp3
Here's the instrumental for re-mixers, karaoke fans and Music Supervisers...
Spike Priggen - "Little Star" (Instrumental).mp3
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