Rating: 2/5
Review:
Pretty dull
Like a lot of people, I tried this album because MacArthur Park is a
fantastic track and I thought I’d see what the rest was like. The
answer is that it’s not very good.
A Tramp Shining is
an album of Jimmy Webb songs. Webb certainly wrote some genuine
classics (MacArthur Park among them) but he also wrote a colossal
amount of pretty generic, forgettable stuff and that’s what makes
up the bulk of this album. Richard Harris was a singer of real
character and he does a decent job, but the material combined with
some pretty schmaltzy 1960s production really doesn’t make a good
listen for me.
Other reviewers
plainly like this album but my personal advice is to buy MacArthur
Park and don’t bother with the rest.
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