Folks,
I very much enjoyed Harmony on the way in today...favorite song?...have to listen again....Brings to mind something that I noticed on a Board like this for Linda Ronstadt, who is my favorite female singer, and Kenny Loggins, Kenny Rankin, might be true here....people don't want to hear any criticism, one becomes a traitor (e.g. I suggested that Linda Ronstadt blew it with an album of oldies that she tried to sing as lullabyes, and if you listen, she whispers every song, and I named several other albums that were for children at bed time that were better arranged and conceived...you would have thought I said that she couldn't carry a tune, I just meant it was her big disappointment for me...) I bring this up as I've noticed Gordon's articulation of words has changed, and I wonder if it's to accommodate the changes in his voice; aging can do that...There is a 'clipped' quality to his phrases, sentences, even some words, whereas in the earlier days, but not just those first couple, way into Don Quixote and beyond, into Endless Wire and Dream Street Rose..there was more fluidity....I happen to see Gordon for the lst and only time just before his severe illness, several mos. earlier, and he was super....I noticed this change in his phrasing, but when he went thru his songs, one classic after another, and of course, many of the songs were not of the If you Could Read My Mind or Sundown, or Edm. Fitzgerald popularity, but we know them as tremendous songs (Miguel....Cold on the shoulder......) But clearly this album shows that if he recovers his strength, there's more treats ahead for us.....clipped phrasing or not
be well
Barry (Plainview NY, 40 miles east of NYC)