This album has got Andrew Gold on it!

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:

Her voice is alright, but this is a right overproduced mess.

It's a bit of an anomaly on the record.

Deffo the hit shoehorned into a more authentic collection of songs.

Track 3 - My Tennessee Mountain Home.

Gone Country.

I do love the way she breathily trills.

This is a Dolly Parton song.

You can tell instantly.

Obviously a Dolly song.

Multi-tracked vocals.

Nightjar wrote:

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:

Her voice is alright, but this is a right overproduced mess.

It's a bit of an anomaly on the record.

Deffo the hit shoehorned into a more authentic collection of songs.

It's the terrible guitar played all over it.



Shame she never used this for the cover;

Wonder what the original sounds like?

Track 4 - I Never Did Sing You a Love Song.

Waltz.

This is one of my favourite songs of all time.

The sense of some mysterious dream-bound usurper of love is very magical to me.

The River Man.

The lyrics describe an apparent harmony of love, but the final line's the stinger...

I never did sing you a love song
I only sang phrases in time
I never did write you a sonnet
I just laid my cards down in rhymes
Up and down the river, so many boats to ride
Yet precious few deliver the goods that we need to survive

I never spoke falsely or crossly
I never put tears in your eyes
And you never shattered my lonely heart
You never deceived me with lies
And yet somehow I seem to recall I stirred in my sleep for a while
Dreaming of a river man exchanging my life for a smile

Track 5 - The Work Song.

Exchanging my life for a smile.

Kate McGarrigle

Is that the evil or the good one?

This was my favourite song when I was 4.