the best-kept secret in rock and roll history
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By Driftwood Singer
"Who's going to work and make the economy grow if we all hang out in the street? I don't know and I don't care, just as long as it ain't me." Bobby Charles, 1972, is the sound of drop-out America, a gorgeously natty sweater of a record, totally elegant, stone free, beautiful, sad, unbelievably natural, organic, cracked, torn, frayed, rained-on, dried out, the essence of the early 70s, more like the Band than any Band album and basically just the best damned record you could hope to find on a lark. Rick Danko spirits the record to zen perfection with his bass riffs and hobbled harmonies. Perfect.
