Evening of the Magician_音乐专辑
Evening of the Magician
表演者: Randy Burns
专辑类型: Import
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1993
唱片数: 1
出版者: ESP-Disk
条形码: 0090204056538
专辑简介
Randy Burns' second album, 1968's Evening of the Magician, is an enormous improvement over his 1967 debut, Of Love and War. That album, while fine for what it was, included too many covers of songs by Burns' contemporaries in the Greenwich Village folk scene to show what the singer/songwriter was capable of. This album, which features 10 good to great Burns originals, is far superior and much more personal feeling. Burns' new backing trio, the Sky Dog Band, provide sympathetic and low-key backing on keyboards (Mat Kastner), bass and flute (Bruce Samuels) and percussion (John O'Leary). The acid folk settings are similar to those of Burns' ESP-Disk labelmates Pearls Before Swine, but his solid, simple songs lack Tom Rapp's psychedelic flightiness. (This is either a good or bad thing depending on one's point of view.)
Burns' three originals on Of Love and War hinted that the Connecticut native might be a gifted songwriter, and the best songs of Evening of the Magician more than fulfill that promise. Burns' forte is the evocative love song, and Evening of the Magician contains several, with "Echoes of Mary's Song," "Susan, Your Mind's Got Wings" (featuring some odd, seemingly random organ interjections by Kastner) and the heartbreaking "Girl From England" particularly lovely standouts. The brooding "Ron's Song" and "Rainy Day Children" are nearly up to those standouts, but "You've Got All of Love Standing At Your Door" is marred by a bizarrely stentorian, Anthony Newley-like chorus. Other than that misstep, however, Evening of the Magician is an excellent piece of gentle, lightly psychedelic folk-rock, and an album well worth rediscovery by fans of Pearls Before Swine, late-period Phil Ochs or other acid folk artists. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
曲目
1. Evening Magician
2. Echoes Of Mary's Song
3. Ron's Song
4. You've Got All Of Love Standing At Your Door
5. Susan Your Mind's Got Wings
6. Girl From England
7. Rainy Day Children
8. Lady Rain Again
9. Springtime Song
10. When Daylight Comes In Everything
