It is easy to forget how good artists like Cat Stevens are. His songs seem to go through periods where they are ubiquitous and then people seem to forget about him for a while and then wham they are back. The familiarity of some of his songs mean that it is easy to under-estimate how good some of his songs are. Also while he is probably best known for his singles (and they are good) many of his albums stand as classics. I think Tea for the Tillerman is possibly his best effort in a 5 year run of consistent and increasingly spiritual albums from the early to mid 70s.
While most people will be familiar with songs like Father and Son, Where do the Children Play and Wild World it is the other album tracks that tie it all together and give it the dynamics and variations that were missing from other singer songwriter albums of the day. Check out Hard Headed Woman, Miles from Nowhere and the title track.
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