Mac Davis - "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me" (1972) - CBS Records
Hello Friends,
We've been on quite the Mac Davis kick lately.
(Actually, someone gave the local Goodwill all their Mac Davis records. Their loss = Vinyl in the Valley's gain!)
This album is great!! Early 70's country-soft-rock at its peak!
Every single song is a potential Solid Gold classic with the title track being the top of the heap! (here)
Songs like the opener, "Dream Me Home", "Everybody Loves A Love Song", "Whoever Finds This, I Love You" & the record's closer, "The Words (Don't Come Easy)" are velvety smooth soulful & sappy tunes that fall somewhere in between Dewey Cox and Bob Welch-era Fleetwood Mac. (Fleetwood Mac Davis?)
Things do start getting a little pervy on Side One's uptempo "Naughty Girl":
Well Dixie Farmer was a hot young blooded, dimpled, devil child A churnin', burnin', backseat bundle built to drive a young boy wild She taught me all about life and love in a Georgia cotton field I ain't never seen nothin' like her since and I know that I never will She was a naughty girl She took advantage of my youth She was a naughty girl But she taught me the gospel truth, woo-ooh
Actually, Dixie Farmer sounds like kind of a whore. But that isn't even the worst of it! How about a contender for best song title from 1972 with Side Two's "Spread Your Love On Me"? Eww! What a CREEP!!
Although, like most of the songs here, its as catchy as a case of the crabs*!
(* Not that I would know!)
RATING: 4.0 A little old man walks along shuffling through the autumn afternoon and the autumn leaves reminded him another summer's come and gone out of 5
Songs like the opener, "Dream Me Home", "Everybody Loves A Love Song", "Whoever Finds This, I Love You" & the record's closer, "The Words (Don't Come Easy)" are velvety smooth soulful & sappy tunes that fall somewhere in between Dewey Cox and Bob Welch-era Fleetwood Mac. (Fleetwood Mac Davis?)
Things do start getting a little pervy on Side One's uptempo "Naughty Girl":
Well Dixie Farmer was a hot young blooded, dimpled, devil child A churnin', burnin', backseat bundle built to drive a young boy wild She taught me all about life and love in a Georgia cotton field I ain't never seen nothin' like her since and I know that I never will She was a naughty girl She took advantage of my youth She was a naughty girl But she taught me the gospel truth, woo-ooh
(* Not that I would know!)
RATING: 4.0 A little old man walks along shuffling through the autumn afternoon and the autumn leaves reminded him another summer's come and gone out of 5
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