David Tate's lovely Love Will Have Its Way from 1981

Wow! look at those great pants on the back!!  Let's hope they never return to the fashion world... and hopefully neither does the gay pose...

Always unusual to find a record not even entered into discogs yet.  In fact, a google search only turns up the popsike entry for a shockingly low-priced LP of 27 USD.  There, the (promotional) note says the following:

Private press from 1981 on Lion Records out of Santa Barbara. Gorgeous, dreamy production with some subtle, Xian-themed lyrics. Certainly a candidate for the "Wall of Soft". The epic 14 minute "Lion" is well worth sitting through... etc.

For sure the leonine track is the best one here, with the remainder actually falling a little short of our very high standards in these pages.  It reminds me of such acoustic ssw stuff with value-added strings as Roberto Picchi, Robert Genco, the recent Ullu my friend discovered to my delight and hopefully others, Olivier Bloch-Laine, the wonderful first LP of Colin Blunstone, etc., etc.

And note the 1980s smoothness to it all.