Supertramp: Roger Hodgson (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Rick Davies (vocals, keyboards); John A. Helliwell (woodwinds); Dougie Thomson (bass); Bob C. Benberg (drums).
Additional personnel: "Slide" Hyde (trombone, tuba); Gary Mielke (programming).
Producers: Supertramp, Peter Henderson.
Reissue producers: Beth Stempel, Bill Levenson.
Recorded at the Village Recorders, Los Angeles, California.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Supertramp: Roger Hodgson (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Rick Davies (vocals, keyboards); John A. Helliwell (woodwinds); Dougie Thomson (bass); Bob C. Benberg (drums).
Additional personnel: "Slide" Hyde (trombone, tuba); Gary Mielke (synthesizer programming).
Recorded at the Village Recorder, Los Angeles, California.
Professional Reviews
CMJ (1/5/04, p.6) - Ranked #19 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1979".
Mojo (Publisher) (p.123) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "By the time Supertramp made this sixth album, they'd tempered their mannered art-rock with disarmingly simple pop hooks."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.88) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "It's a classic example of flawlessly-played and -produced late 70s transatlantic soft rock..."
Uncut (magazine) (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Goodbye Stranger' and 'Casual Conversations' retain a touch of some of their earlier, jazzier excursions."
