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    Roadsinger (To Warm You Through the Night)

    The time would seem to be nigh for a Cat Stevens revival: The warm, weathered, sensitive-guy folk that made Stevens (now known as Yusuf) a superstar in the 1970s is back in vogue among indie troubadours (his beard has also made a comeback); they may not know it yet, but Bon Iver's fans are merely...

    2009 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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For the balance of the 1970s Cat Stevens was a trans-Atlantic superstar whose soft, romantic, hooky, and often-mystical singles were Top Ten mainstays. After eight gold albums in a row, the commercially and critically lauder singer/songwriter's star began to fade. By the late-1970s, following a near-drowning experience, Stevens converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusef Islam dropping out of...

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