“The Wind” by Cat Stevens

"The Wind" comes from Teaser and the Firecat, the fifth Cat Stevens album, released in October 1971 after sessions that ran from July 1970 into March 1971. Stevens wrote the words and music himself, sings lead and plays guitar and keyboard, with Paul Samwell-Smith producing.

The credits read like a traveling troupe: Alun Davies on guitar alongside him, Larry Steele on bass and congas, Harvey Burns and Gerry Conway on drums, Del Newman on strings and a pair of bouzouki players, Angelos Hatzipavli among them. It's one of the ten songs on a record that also carried "Morning Has Broken", "Moonshadow" and "Peace Train", and whose title also belongs to a children's book Stevens wrote and illustrated around the characters on its cover.

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