Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adequately registers the influence of dull disco and pathological punk. But shoved into a corner as a well-burnished antique, a grandfather clock represents the dignified sobriety of the protest song. With the re-emergence of topical songwriter Tom Paxton, protest music avoids becoming totally anachronistic. On his latest album, New Songs From the Briarpatch, Paxton proves that the '70s cannot excape untouched by barbed balladry...
...been surpassed. When he died last week of a heart attack during a morning nap at his farmhouse in an English village called Nether Wallop, a titan of music was gone, an era ended. At age 95, he had been expecting to go to London to make another album for Columbia Records...
Snapping photos of the folks in the old homestead for a family album is harmless enough, unless your names happen to be Annette and Jeff Carter and the homestead is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The President's son and daughter-in-law had big plans for marketing their pictures in a book, and hoped for a foreword by Jimmy. They even had a prospectus put together for publishers and included some sample snaps: Amy on Daddy's knee, Miss Lillian out fishing, Rosalynn on the tennis court, Jimmy in a hospital gown after the birth of a grandchild. Then...
Simple Dreams has more of a blues feeling than any other Ronstadt album. The mood is over-whelmingly downbeat, despite the occasional rock tunes. The lyrics, as in "Sorrow Lives Here," largely reflect the lonely-woman-of-the-world image that Ronstadt has always projected...
...burned-lover syndrome seems to haunt many of the female solo acts in the rock world today. Bonnie Raitt, probably the best of them all, fairly thrives on this image. So do Dolly Parton, who provides some nice background vocals on this album, and the majority of female country singers. This may be the result of sexism in the music world...