Rating: 4/5
Review:
Still very good stuff
I was pleasantly surprised by how good this album still
is. John D. Loudermilk was just a name
to me in 1969 when the original album was issued and I didn’t really know his
work. I'm glad I've got to know it
better now.
This is an apparently quite laid-back collection of melodic,
slightly folky, slightly psych-y songs, very nicely performed and well
sung. There's real meat here, though, in
Loudermilk's intelligent, often witty lyrics.
Poor Little Pretty Girl, for example, is a thoughtful take on how
difficult a pretty face can make life and forming genuine relationships,
Geraldine is a very witty pastiche of those lightweight name songs which were
turned out by the yard in the sixties and Brown Girl makes serious, angry
points about racism while sounding like an easy-listening, sentimental
calypso-tinged love song. It's all very classy stuff which repays close
listening.
This perhaps isn't a real Classic Album (very few are) but
it's good and has stood the test of the years very well. I can recommend it.
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