Manzanita's Pirate Lady (1979), by request

 

This is oh so similar to a long line of late-70s US fusion albums, like the omnipresent Landress - Hart Dancing Moments album, but a bit less creative, smoother, and less enjoyable than some of the best of the genre, and god knows the best LPs number in the hundreds, see recent post of top fusion from this blog.  It's often requested and is worth hearing however, having appeared-- I think-- on the long-gone and ancient historical Tom Hayes list.  Database infos here.

The lovely but poorly named Ocean Lotion track is, to me, the best composition and in fact a welcome reminder of where we should be currently on a beach somewhere instead of in a cold cold country shut in by our wise leaders and politicians' orders so they can travel to those same exotic destinations presumably without having to mix with the proletarians and enjoy a completely crowd-free experience, perhaps their motivation for locking us at home in our home countries, oh the wonder I feel at this different, elevated, superior class of human beings to myself, to ourselves, able to do whatever they please with no respect for rules or regulations which they, themselves, enacted, truly, the kings and divine monarchy are all back, people: