The studio wizardry of Todd Rundgren

"1968's Open My Eyes, Nazz's youthful discharge of ebullient Mod pop, begins this concise summary of Todd Rundgren's work as writer/producer, while 1977's proggy Love Is The Answer, by Utopia, closes it. Sadly, there's none of his solo material, but the remaining tracks celebrate his innovation at the controls for others, spanning the combustible blues of Janis Joplin's One Night Stand, recorded with Paul Butterfield in 1970, to Denver singer/songwriter Jill Sobule's 1990 So Kind, a powerful acoustic folk number dealing with domestic abuse".