Blog: The Rising Storm

Agruably Procol Harum's finest hour, A Salty Dog (A&M, 1969) was the last album with keyboard/organ player Matthew Fisher. Fisher's keyboards dominate typical Procol Harum numbers like "Pilgrim's Progress," "All This and More," and the excellent progressive rocker "Wreck of the Hesperus." These songs (all very good) are what you'd expect to find on a late 60s Procol Harum record, a slow paced, keyboard driven sound. It's the remaining tracks that push the group's resources to the limit and see them branching out into new territory that is often exciting and original. The album opened with the title track, "A Salty Dog." One [...]

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