THE LEGACY

The Album: The Saints Eternally Yours (Harvest, 1978)

The Sound: The follow-up to (I’m) Stranded delivers buzzsaw thrills with heightened songwriting savvy and, on Know Your Product and Orstralia, a gritty horn section straight outta Stax. Few singers have evinced alienation with more poetic verve than Bailey’s pleading “21 years is a long long time to be in this prison where there ain’t no crime.”