Other than "Father & Son" and "Wild World", most Cat Stevens' songs remain relatively unknown to the casual rock n' roll fan. Ask anybody who lived through the 70s, however, and you'll find out how big of a deal Cat Stevens really was. It's kind of like Elton John - the typical AM radio fan couldn't really name more than a handful of hits, but dig just a little bit deeper, and you'll find out the guy had a number one hit pretty much every year since 1970. Just a candle in the wind my arse.
"Hard Headed Woman" is lucky to have Cat Stevens at the helm. It is his trademark angry-ish snarly-ish, sounds like there's a bunch of Stevenses echoing together-sih, totally abbrisive howl that gives the somewhat banal lyrics a well deserved kick in the caboose. Tea For the Tillerman is easily one of the best album titles of all time, n'est ce pas?
I wonder if the artist now known as Youssef Islam knows a lot of fancy dancers out in the Himalayas these days...
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