#1246 Elton John - Honky Chateau

This is funkier than you're probably expecting, with scant little emphasis on romantics, taking Tumbleweed Junction's brushy Americana to ragged, hard-hitched heights. Rocket Man's still a classic, but a red herring - this is a strangely small album, more man in a band rockin' at a piano than that song's operatics would suggest. Impetuous, charming stuff 3.5/5