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Show Cham's music comes easily jCAYLAN nielson Chronicle Staff Lick ,,er Oldham jy productions .,is Music Corp. :asy Listening" is not only of the songs on the album, perfectly describes the effect toner Oldham's album "Pot ;" This album wreaks with 'Mam has a power and of everything from country to rock. The second song is "Highway" "High-way" and is about a hitchhiker singing like Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill." I have nothing against Fats, except for maybe these guys. The title does fit: "Crazed hipsters." That immediately emotes to me a series of hip sounds with hip words without real guts or honest intention and they seldom let me down. There are, as with most things, Donny Osmond's biggies and the muslc clangs with bad guitars and loud drums With Radice I can't stop thinking of how many writers started to write because of those first strong emotions of love. And I believe that once Radice grows up and pulls in his shirt tails he could do some very effective things. He has rushed this album out way to fast, way before he is ready to reveal anything star-thng star-thng about the 70's. iii his voice that is hard to j Upon. The first song is s Lord Loves a Rolling and is not only incredibly j but has a subtle sense of t Nation that keeps a moving i s going throughout the al- , through "1980," "Julie J6 tj's Forest" and "Will the -iBe Unbroken." tow very little about re :m, his past, or his je aims, except that they all ju ; anything into this album. 3 is an organ and a har- lje athat lulled me right out of to sild (luring the whole album m : there is no mention of who n. 5 talks beating on them are. jc iir Oldham, himself, has a ly alrhythm and a beautifully f,e mm voice that makes this ot i really easy listening, but " -listen hard; there are a lot ie a words in there to think is - ,g : side two there is an in- . atal piece entitled ' ' Profile ,u that really proves the t" -:sl talents and soul of this js 1 of people. The medley ;a songs like "When A se stoves A Woman (The Way id -j Love You)" "Kentucky er 3". and "The New World", 10 f as others. Within the ;e there are several talking le that make this piece A asit grow. One is a piano, id a trumpet, and a rhythm ' Bt what really stands te k mandolin in a couple " as consistent as w heard. Consistently is I Hipsters '1. and Wood !" ;Tbmbs Records K Music Corp. ie ly b'g on country e, ; " s two guys (that. ,f heard before) in 1, -mer hats on an e ay'daSne?"g titleS e Rood"! Down in i. 1tion' f e the album full :l meat meansthey have e at w UP t0 but F- ,r iteta;d Wood's "Crazed d T,attr,acted that laiy.he'd that at- e A g rox,mately forty : M-ZS "Rock s a bad rendition a iew gooa tnings that shouldn t be surpassed. One is Ray Charles' song "Hard Times" in which Mike Finnigan (on keyboard) and Terry Wood (singing) get things moving together for a while. Their stomachs seem to get back in place. The pianist in the song could be old Ray himself (although I don't know who it is) because it is really a movin' piece of material. These two guys have some fair voices and even fair instrumental talent I am' just not sure to whom the talent was directed. They are floaters from Hendrix-type Hendrix-type schemes to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young moods, but they haven't estabbshed any voice or any sound. This is just a hodgepodge, searching for something to catch on to. Not this time fellas! Mark Radice Famous Music Corp. ASCAP "Here come the 70's with Mark Radice." That's the face powder on the album by Donovan on Radice's first album (pronounced Ra-deese). I am not sure what that means. There is nothing more startling about the album than Radice looks all of twelve years old. All the songs are by Radice and are very sophisticated. He is the pianist and knows how to put his tool to work. The songs are, for the most part, on a romantical plane and that plane never bends, unfortunately. He is backed by a combo of good musicians. There are a couple very complete songs where the sensitive sen-sitive side of Radice comes out. "Take Me to the Dark" and "Only the Dim" seem to work quite well and show a good sense of composure with coordination between lyrics and music. In the rest of the album I don't believe Radice was quite that lucky. His music is far superior to his lyrics for the most part and many times as in "Your Yesterdays" the words never blend with the music. They feel separate, as if written on two different scales and plunged together for production. Other songs as "Glad You Made it" and "Your Love is Like Fire" burn with familiarism that warrants no interest. The words are cheap like one of |
