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Arthur, Hurley & Gottlieb: Sun light Shinin' (A&M). This is the second album of a trio whose voices ring strong and bright against vivid instrumentation. Lead Vocalist Jeff Arthur, a Florida orange-juice tenor, wrote all or part of six cuts, including the ten der ballad That's the Time I Miss You Most of All. A blowsy sweet country rocker, Tubin', shows skillful commercial production...
...came here eight years ago with $200 in my pocket, a small child in my arms, wondering if I had any future at all," recalled Australian-born Singer Helen Reddy, 33. Now a top-ranking female pop vocalist in the U.S. and composer of the rousing feminist anthem I Am Woman, Reddy last week joined ranks with her American fans by becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen. With Bronx-born Husband-Manager Jeff Wald at her side, Reddy took the oath of allegiance in Los Angeles, then wept happily on the shoulder of Mayor Tom Bradley, who witnessed the ceremony. "This...
...faithful country music than you can hear anywhere, faithful to the Hank Williams and Bob Wills and Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson songs they perform. The only hint of deviation is the inexplicable New England flavor they give to their music, and in a Cambridge environment that's fitting. Vocalist Wright wrote a lot of their numbers, and they're often about Maine and Boston and the like, so that's part of it. But probably the reason that they're right to call themselves a "country and eastern" band is sophistication...
...OUGHT TO BE WITH ME, Al Green. Ten in January. Green is a magician of sound, a brilliantly original songwriter and vocalist. His songs are fluid rather than traditionally structured; the 1972 hit, "Still in Love with You," was his best...
Cutting a record in Nashville is often a "head session" where musicians unable to read music learn the tune on the spot from the vocalist. "In New York, you start to change something, you tear up a $700,000 arrangement," Sherrill points out. "Here we can make the lead sheet of a song in the time it takes to sing it." Not that Sherrill is easygoing. "All the guys I use are machines," he snaps. "They do exactly what I want 'em to-if the record doesn't hit, I go down in flames...