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Thread #86393 Message #1608637
Posted By: Ron Davies
18-Nov-05 - 10:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Maude's Blues (Sylvia Fricker)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Losing is an easy game (Maude's Blues)
"Early Morning Rain" was a really strong album--for my money every song was good--great storytelling, good gutsy harmonies, spare arrangements. Of course that was early in their career--2nd album?--before they were seduced-- or pressured--into the "Nashville connection", complete with the then-fashionable drums. Interesting how that happens--frequently the first albums are the best--I'd say it's the same with Gordon Lightfoot--"Lightfoot!" was just dynamite--for the same reasons--and there was never another as strong. I suppose it's particularly "less is more".