Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST TIME AROUND (Atco). The Buffalo Springfield have scored again on the last album before they split up. Their transition from folk through folk rock and now to country-western has been smooth going, which is a tribute to their exceptional talents. Stephen Stills, who wrote five of the songs, sings Four Days Gone with down home grit. It is a story song about a boy on the run from "government madness" who can't tell his name because he's "got reason to live." A tinny piano tinkles in the background while a steel guitar twangs...
WEST (Epic). West spent eight months rehearsing in a deserted theater in Crockett, Calif., before coming up with this album. The music they found there is warm, lyric and natural. Its sound is country-western flavored strongly with folk. Michael Stewart, the vocal backbone of the group, has written a fast-fingered guitar interview with Donald Duck that takes a poke at the Disney menagerie and a swing at President Johnson to boot: "Goofy has so much to say, he changed his place with L.B.J." Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, the album's lead cut, shows what...
...should come tiptoeing out of the tulips and into the halls of justice but Tiny Tim, aquiver with indignation. Seems that in 1952, while performing under the name Derry Dover, he made an album for Bouquet Records. Now Bouquet has released the album, with the famous Tiny Tim visage on the cover, using the title With Love and Kisses from Tiny Tim-Concert in Fairyland. In New York Supreme Court, Tiny's lawyers argued that his vocalizing has changed as much as his name and demanded that Bouquet stop trying to cash in on his current fame. The judge...
...album also proves that the group has genuine musical impact even when deprived of its visual flair. Last week in London, the boys prepared to follow up The Who Sell Out with what they hope will be an equally inventive recording. They need to. It is the only way they will convince serious listeners that they can break through more than just their instruments...
...their most musical moments have been on records, particularly on their latest LP, The Who Sell Out. Cleverly framed in the breathless format of top-40 radio, this album mixes authentic station breaks, charmingly unpretentious songs (I Can't Reach You; Silas Stingy) and semi-satiric commercials (Heinz Baked Beans and Odorono, a deodorant). The album is The Who's imaginative antidote to the greatest danger they see in rock today: its solemnity...