Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be hard to find a less "Beautiful Thing" than the opening track of this album. Clapton's choice of lyrics has always tended towards the fourth-shot-of-Jim-Beam simplistic, and though Richard Manuel and Rick Danko dreamed up this particular opaque gem, Clapton's lazy guitar and uninspired vocals add no lustre. This prolonged and painful recollection of a past love is chicory-bitter moaning. It won't generate much energy except in your fancy new turntable. You know, the kind you can program to skip tracks...
Then the "County Jail Blues" begin, with first slowed-down, next revved-up-to-speed-at-the-end-of-the-phrase guitar riffs, with a tight and consistent bass backing that provide the steadiness needed. It is easily the most unsettling and so the most successful track on the record. It repeats itself methodically but never to the point of monotony. There's a feeling behind it that is generally conspicuous by its absence on the rest of the album. Called almost-blues...
...power-play goal at 1:22 of the final frame and Channel 7 was hardly complaining that its initial broadcast was an old-fashioned thriller. The lone complaint came from a Radcliffe sophomore who had to leave her first college hockey game after two periods for a guitar rehearsal and missed a great 20 minutes of action as a result...
...TIME'S 1975 Women of the Year . . . Single . . . Relaxes off-hours playing guitar and singing . . . Hopes some day to become U.S. Senator or Supreme Court Justice...
...Raitt, he passionately mourns "his baby walking out the door." But when Browne subtly rejects his lover ("I'm going back inside and turning out the light, and I'll be in the dark but you'll be out of sight," the well-crafted message is drowned in a guitar riff. Evidently, producer Jon Landau--also responsible for Bruce Springsteen's commercial selling-of-the-soul album, Born to Run--deserves the blame for this confusing melange of lyrics and music...