Friday, May 17, 2019

Day 0259 - American Gothic

David Ackles "American Gothic" (1972)

 
Wow!

...To elaborate, this is like the meeting place of Frank Sinatra, Scott Walker, Tom Waits and maybe a little Elton John (Ackles collaborates with Bernie Taupin throughout).  Highly melodic, lushly orchestrated, daringly eclectic, shamelessly theatrical with interesting lyrics.

The 1001 albums book described this as largely unrecognised and - sample size of one - I certainly wasn't familiar with it.

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