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Gerry Rafferty - City to City
City to City
Gerry Rafferty had modest expectations of his second album, City to City. “I knew I’d written a good bunch of songs … I remember thinking I’d be pleased if City to City sold 50,000 copies.”
City to City was a worldwide phenomenon, selling over 5.5 million copies.
The album demonstrates Rafferty’s command of a wide range of increasingly eclectic musical genres - from the tub-thumping Scottish folk of “Mattie’s Rag” and upbeat romantic pop of “Right Down the Line” to the blue-grass lite of the title track “City to City” - in a melodic yet typically enigmatic album which was also a masterclass in state-of the-art production.
Rafferty uses gospel to infuse a sense of prayer-like reverence in “Whatever’s Written in your Heart” and “The Ark” the opening song on the album in which Celtic folk, Gurdjieffian mysticism are blended with a touch of gospel in a Utopian hymn.
Rafferty explores many of the themes to which he would return throughout his career, the chasm in communication within relationships, and in “City to City”, “Mattie’s Rag”, “Home and Dry” and the deceptively upbeat “Waiting for the Day” the concept of ‘home’ and consequences of isolation for an itinerant, world-weary musician.
City to City spawned several UK and US hits, “Home and Dry”, “Right Down the Line” and “Baker Street”, a playlist-friendly, hit song which contained everything – a haunting melody, a deviously nostalgic yet gritty lyric, and, of course, Raphael Ravenscroft’s saxophone part - written by Rafferty as demonstrated on demos which surfaced after his death.
Indeed, there’s a prayerful quality to the entire LP, a quality reminiscent of the dim dawn after a dark night of the soul.
Ken Emerson, Rolling Stone, January 1978
1977 | United Artists UAS 30104 | Art by John Byrne
Anyone who hasn’t been hibernating or lost in the mountains for a year knows the name Gerry Rafferty through his hit single “Baker Street” and debut album on United Artist Records, “City to City”.
