by Stephen Raiteri
Kaleidoscope's second album is the best non-compilation showcase of their legendary eclecticism and versatility. It takes in a blues-rocking cover of Willie Cobbs' &You Don't Love Me&; Doug Kershaw's Cajun &Louisiana Man&; a scary old folk song (&Greenwood Sidee,& about a woman who kills her two babies); a hilarious countryish indictment of marriage (&Baldheaded End of a Broom&); two good acid-folk originals (&Life Will Pass You By& and &I Found Out&); and two completely dissimilar 10-minute-plus originals: the Middle Eastern &Taxim& and the psychedelic workout &Beacon from Mars.& Every one of these disparate styles is performed with authority and commitment, and the result still has the power to amaze.