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After years of near misses, closed doors and moonlighting gigs to make ends meet, such was the industry awareness of their work that songs from Tumbleweed Connection had already been covered even before the album came out. But they were all written before I got there.”Ī significant but lesser-discussed aspect of the John-Taupin powerbase is the fact that, by now, their songwriting was, finally, in demand.
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As if the songs were like a diary of us on tour. As he reflected to Q magazine in 1992: “With everything I wrote, up to and including Tumbleweed Connection, people were talking about my cinematic vision and experience of the States. It just seeps into you.” Elsewhere, Taupin raved to Rolling Stone about ‘All La Glory,’ a particular Robertson highlight from The Band’s then-new album, Stage Fright.īut this was also a reflection of Taupin’s vivid imagination and almost a premonition of what he would find when he finally reached his promised land across the sea. “If you like The Band, which I do, and listen to it a lot, you can’t help getting influenced. “I have to admit The Band’s influenced me on this album because I have so much admiration for Robbie Robertson,” he went on. It’s country-rock Band style as opposed to country-rock Matthews Southern Comfort style. “There are a couple of songs like ‘Your Song’ to break it up,” he said, “but the album does have a continual theme in a down-home way. Taupin, in the same article, was perfectly happy to reveal his biggest influence in a set of lyrics set among civil-war imagery, with sketches of farmyards, falling pines, swallows and sycamores. Writing the songs: Bernie’s cinematic vision “It may surprise quite a lot of people,” Elton told Sounds just before its release, “but if I’d done another orchestral album I reckon I’d have been labelled for the rest of my life.” This time, while arranger Paul Buckmaster was still on hand to add his bespoke orchestrations, the new album had a much more low-key ambience that was in keeping with its flavours of country and rural America. Both played on the new album’s “Amoreena,” sang on two other songs and were pictured on its sleeve, but three other bassists and two other drummers were also on an extensive list of credits. It was created just before the live debut of the trio that Elton would head up for concert work, with Dee Murray on bass and Nigel Olsson on drums. Tumbleweed Connection was recorded, like its predecessor, at Trident Studios, in London, with producer Gus Dudgeon. Recording sessions: Surprising a lot of people The new release, on October 30, 1970, would be called Tumbleweed Connection. By the time he was breaking through with the eponymous album’s flagship single, “Your Song,” he was poised to release the follow-up – and ready to impress his new-found audience with the depth of his, and Bernie Taupin’s, confidence in creating authentic Americana from the other side of the Atlantic. With his self-titled second album barely out of the gates, he started recording work on its successor a matter of weeks later. Even in the early days of his emergence, Elton John was one step ahead.