The Trio's 17th album for Capitol Records is curiously entitled #16. It begins with the group's first Top Ten single since "Tom Dooley," "Reverend Mr. Black," which features Stewart doing an amazing Johnny Cash-like lead vocal, and the rare appearance of a sideman on banjo, future superstar Glen Campbell. Shane's solo on the soon-to-be-standard "Try To Remember" is another standout, while Reynolds shines on "Mark Twain" and "River Run Down." And Stewart wrote or co-wrote nine of the album's 12 tracks, including the dazzlingly executed "Run the Ridges."

SUNNY SIDE contains the Trio's last Top Forty single, "Desert Pete," a sequel to "Reverend Mr. Black" in all but the subject matter, with Stewart and Campbell reprising their respective roles, and Billy Edd Wheeler providing the vehicle. Wheeler co-wrote another of the albums tracks, "Jackson," later a hit for Johnny Cash and June Carter (with Cash doing an amazing John Stewart-like vocal!)

The Trio kicked themselves for ignoring a demo tape from someone named Bob Dylan, but they tried to atone with an after-the-fact cover of "Blowin' In The Wind." Many feel that John Stewart proved himself a writer just as fine a writer with the brilliant "Those Who Are Wise."

All told, two albums and 23 tracks from the Reynolds/Shane/Stewart configuration of the Kingston Trio at the height of its popularity and the top of its game.

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