Victim of the Joke?: An Opera is a concept album of sorts, the songs linked together by dialogue based around a thin romantic plot. The tunes (including both originals and surprising covers of the Beatles' "Help!" and the Tin Pan Alley tune "The Masquerade Is Over") are OK, but not special, treading closer to pop-soul than the grittier tone of many of David Porter's '60s compositions with Isaac Hayes. Porter's voice, again, is OK but unremarkable. While the construction of the LP...   [ read more ]

CD $11.38

Described by Kris Kristofferson as "one of the three best songwriters in the country," Kentucky native Jay Bolotin's songs have been championed by the likes of Merle Haggard, Dan Fogelberg and Porter Wagoner, among many others. Yet his eponymous debut, released on the major subsidiary Commonwealth United label, had the half-life of a mayfly when it went into circulation in 1970. Today, it remains as phantasmal as the prairie ghosts that have long populated his native Kentucky. However uncertain the release...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Described by Kris Kristofferson as "one of the three best songwriters in the country," Kentucky native Jay Bolotin's songs have been championed by the likes of Merle Haggard, Dan Fogelberg and Porter Wagoner, among many others. Yet his eponymous debut, released on the major subsidiary Commonwealth United label, had the half-life of a mayfly when it went into circulation in 1970. Today, it remains as phantasmal as the prairie ghosts that have long populated his native Kentucky. However uncerta...   [ read more ]

LP $23.99

Other people also bought:

L'Altra  L'Altra, Lee  Pop Queen, Law of Inertia  Issue #5