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Dylanisgod2
Damn guys, did you know Chris Ethridge from The Flying Burrito Brothers plays bass on this album? and Gene Parsons of The Byrds plays drums
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ctd55
A quick glance at the tracklist makes it hard for me to deny that this is Randy's best album--even if I may love Good Old Boys and Bad Love more deeply. There's no attempt to assay a particular theme through these songs, and you certainly won't find any narrative tissue connecting its individual tracks. The only real constants are a jaundiced eye and withering irony--which are, of course, the constants across Newman's career. Still, there's impressive ambition on display in the sheer range of topics: American history, show business, the psychology of God, death, child rearing, politics, and sex. In other words, the subject here is the whole of human experience and how it appears from a point of view that's carefully attuned to its humor and its horrors (and the humor to be found in its horrors). I think that's about all we can ask from 30 minutes of music.
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toysintheattic
Political Science and Sail Away already get their just-desserts, but Memo To My Son I think is equally deserving.
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