Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With its victory over UNH, B.U. seems to have fully reacclimated its perennial power in the ECAC. Unless Harvard meets B.U. in the Beanpot Tournament or in the ECAC playoffs, the Crimson will have to wait until next season to seek the sweet taste of revenge against the intimidating Terriers...
...Hungry," which basically echoes "County Jail Blues" but is muffled by a chorus whose hunger "for your sweet smile" belies the rasp in their voices. There are tantalizing jammings between relatively bland layers of sentences and, after a while, you begin to wish that he's either turn it into an instrumental or stay with the stong and stop showing-off all his fancy tricks. Again, this song wasn't written by Eric Clapton but you rather wish he hadn't brought so many other people into the act--less is more and too many cooks...
Perhaps a better introduction to Prine would be his 1973 album Sweet Revenge, from which four of the 12 songs on this set are culled. Short as a two-minute warning is "Grandpa Was a Carpenter," a song about having relatives whom you love very much but really can't deal with. Prine's grandpa takes him to church, lets him listen to the radio, and then the chorus goes...
Then there's "Sweet Revenge," from the album of the same name. The hero is an iconoclast and finally the milkman gives him till noon to get out of town; he's come home way too soon, and "besides that, we never liked you anyway...
Angell eschews, with unjustifiable modesty, comparison with the métier's creator, whom he salutes in a touching envoi: "Farewell, upstate harp of Tamil Vale, Frank, sweet bird of Saratoga . . ." New Yorker Editor William Shawn, however, is pleased. "If Frank Sullivan knew about it, he would be pleased too," says Shawn. Or as Angell concludes, and Sullivan would have: "Peace on each land beneath the sun/ Good friends, God bless us, every...