Unlike many of his early rock & roll peers, Shannon did not fear the future, even when the hits stopped coming. His punchy 1963 version of "From Me to You" was the first U.S. cover of a Beatles song. Home and Away also includes the whole of Shannon's 1967 pop-psych session in London with Rolling Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham and half of the future Led Zeppelin (guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones) -- followed nine months later by an acid-swamp-rock date in L.A. with Dr. John at the ivories.
After a modest mid-Eighties comeback, with Tom Petty's help, Shannon finally surrendered to frustration, taking his own life in 1990. Yet the Shannon here is no struggling oldies act but the best kind of rocker: a singer-songwriter with a great formula and a searching spirit. He never sounds less than a star.
(Posted: Mar 10, 2005)
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