Iron Mountain Depot

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艺人: John Hartford
语种: 英语
厂牌: RCA
发行时间: 1970年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

by Richie Unterberger

Hartford's final RCA album was a little less inspired than much of his prior work for the label. It's not much different than his previous work for the company in the late '60s. It's just not as abundant in left-field ideas and sounds a little more casual and tossed-off. That stated, it's still among the goofiest, normal-save-constant-sly-winking country-pop ever made. The singer/songwriter remained seemingly unable to resist coating his attractive, easygoing tunes with dry humor that almost leaves the impression he was trying to self-sabotage any chance he had of selling a lot of records to the mainstream. Could he, or anyone, have expected a cry-in-the-beer-like lament called &Before They Tow My Car Away& to be perceived otherwise? Likewise the closing instrumental cover of &Hey Jude,& which rambles on for seven minutes as a bluegrass banjo gets elbowed aside by percussive mouth noises and the tempo corkscrews into chaotic near-anarchy, almost as if Hartford were trying to trample his commercial crossover potential into submission once and far all. Most of the album's actually more normal -- &Go Home Girl& is one of his better pop melodies -- and some cuts, such as &Like Unto a Mockingbird& and the admirably verbose &Natural to Be Gone,& are dressed up with the kind of pop orchestration that figured strongly into much of Hartford's RCA work. Overall, though, it has a slightly more rootsy feel than the prior RCA albums, perhaps as an indicator to the folkier approach he'd use after leaving the label. (In 2002, Iron Mountain Depot, its predecessor John Hartford, and the unreleased 1971 album Radio John were combined onto a two-disc set by BMG/Camden in the U.K., which also added &California Earthquake& and &Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation& as bonus tracks.)