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Black also delivers on I'll Take Texas, a fiddle-and-steel guitar paean to his home state, and on Tuckered Out, a rollicking tribute to country stars that sneaks the names of Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and others into the verses: "I'm Haggard, worn and Waylon," Black sings and slyly inserts his own name into the musical testimonial. Even as he frets about time running out, you know his time has come...
...couldn't even count on his music to be congruous with much he'd done before, either in tone or quality. He reveled in irresolution, letting himself drift with the fates -- or so it seemed. One of the many wonders of Across the Borderline is Nelson's paean to entropy, Still Is Still Moving to Me, which begins, "I swim like a fish in the sea all the time/ But if that's what it takes to be free I don't mind/ Still is still moving to me." But, as this album demonstrates, what might be running in place...
...much confusion going down." When the wary listener hears, "You got to stand out from the crowd," preparations begin immediately to endure one of those tauntingly defiant My Way-style apologias. But after this initial flirtation, Charles goes his own way, and My World becomes instead a guardedly optimistic paean to human potential. It's damn near Jacksonesque (Michael or the Rev. Jesse, your pick) and sends the album off on a smooth trip where the air is rare...
...course, Phillips does take his middle class paean a little far sometimes. At one point, for example, he decries the absence of "real service with a genuine smile" in gas stations (as in the movie "Back to the Future," Phillips says bizarrely) as a problem with the 1980s...
...greatest of Broadway musicals was exuberantly revived there as a color- drenched, clownish yet passionate paean to a big-city zest and vitality that no longer exist, and probably never did. Faith Prince's Miss Adelaide was the year's musical highlight...