Jim Capaldi : Whale Meat Again (Expanded Edition)

Nicola James Capaldi

( August 2nd 1944 – January 28th 2005)

 was an English 

singer-songwriter and drummer.

 His musical career 

spanned more than

 four decades.

 He co-founded

 the progressive rock band

Traffic 

in 1967

 with

Steve Winwood, 

and the two of them

 co-wrote the majority

 of the band's material. 

He was inducted 

into the 

Rock and Roll

 Hall of Fame 

as a part of 

Traffic's original lineup.

Capaldi also performed with

Jimi Hendrix, 

Eric Clapton, 

George Harrison,

Alvin Lee, 

Cat Stevens, 

and 

Mylon LeFevre, 

and wrote lyrics

 for other artists, 

such as 

"Love Will Keep Us Alive" 

and

 "This is Reggae Music". 

As a solo artist 

he scored more than a 

half dozen chart hits 

in various countries,

 the best-known being

 "That's Love" 

as well as 

his cover of "

Love Hurts".

 

EVERYDAY WHEN I WAKE UP

SORROW IS MY FRIEND

AND EVERYWHERE

I LOOK I SEE

PEOPLE WHO PRETEND

 Whale Meat Again

 is the

 second studio album

 by the British 

musician

 Jim Capaldi, 

released by 

Island Records

 in 1974. 

Like his first 

solo album,

 it failed commercially

 in his native 

United Kingdom 

but did better in 

the United States. 

With help from the 

opening track,

 "It's All Right", 

which spent seven weeks 

in the Billboard 

Hot 100 

and peaked at

 number 55, 

the album reached

 number 191

 in the Billboard 200.

Reception

AllMusic's 

retrospective 

review commented that 

the album was 

more focused on

 mood than 

Capaldi's debut, 

with longer songs

 built on soulful grooves

 "giving this album a funkier, 

open feel that 

lingers longer

 than the songs." 

In a review for 

the 2012 reissue

 of the album, 

Terry Stauntman 

of the British magazine

 Classic Rock

 remarked how this album

 "represents a further 

moving away from 

Traffic's sound 

and Capaldi

 marking out his 

own territory 

more forcefully".

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