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Show Fine record by GAYLAN NIELSON !" Chronicle Staff "A Traitor in Our Midst" Country Gazette ! United Artists Records ' I picked up "A Traitor in Our Midst" by Country Gazette and the (. first response I heard came from jj my wife during one of the more ( slow-paced songs on the album- "Is that the Brothers Four?" When my laughing ceased I thought i about it and she ain't so off the i track. Some of the harmonizing is ; so good, it turns sour fast. But, for I the most part I felt they did a lot j with the old country spirit. I'm i getting a little bored with the in-tellectualizing in-tellectualizing of the rustics and ; rasty old songs of yesteryear -but this album didn't disappoint me. In fact I slid it in between some rea f folk music and narry a word did 1 hear during its presence in the room. ' One thing I really liked about the I album is the mixture of the in- struments. It sounded damn good, jl And no one can take very much -from them technically. Byron Berline is the headliner on the mandolin, fiddle and doin' some or the hootin' too. Alan Munde keeps a good banjo going most of t e time. Those two along with Skip Conover on the Dobro win W . votes just because of the n j struments they play, but ca ' say they aren't too shabby. By o Perline wrote a couple o the s jy and arranged one of them ca e "Lost Indian" which is the bes song on the album. It's one those old 'tap-your-toe-till-wr thigh-throbs' songs. The album is really very got s either buy it or at least someone that has it and ns Byron Berlin and Roger e (accoustic bass player) Burrito Breakdown, cause , really a fine piece of L t - |