LAST CALL FOR VITRIOL

I don’t know how to say this without sounding like an old geezer, but James Taylor just has no right to sing “A Change Is Gonna Come,” it swallows him up, and it’s too big a song for most of his audience. It was certainly too big a song for the West Wing episode it tried to cap: were we supposed to take it EXTRA-literally, that Prez. Bartlett is about to face another WHOPPER of a dilemma with his MS? Geez, talk about cheapening a great idea, one of the great idea songs and among the few with as much heart as political avidity. Wedging it into a phony plot about a “rare posthumous” medal to Sam Cooke just so CJ’s secretary can make lame Taylor song references was just so damn WHITEY.



NP: Various BACK FROM THE GRAVE VOLUME 1 (Crypt)

Jeff Beck JEFF BECK GROUP (Epic)

Superdrag LAST CALL FOR VITRIOL (Arrco)