tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498038381372642323.post2154790373980271349..comments2024-03-25T03:19:56.630-07:00Comments on Michael Doherty's Music Log: Andrew Gold: “Something New: Unreleased Gold” (2020) CD ReviewMichael Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00008909555111595107noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498038381372642323.post-27245592692512129382020-05-13T12:00:38.836-07:002020-05-13T12:00:38.836-07:00Michael, I love the CD too. Below is my email rev...Michael, I love the CD too. Below is my email review yesterday before reading yours today.<br />1. Something new--My favorite track on the CD. Pretend it is 1973 and you are hearing the Eagles' first album and think "Take it Easy" and you can hear it. Those harmonies are here in the back along with a taste of the Beatles. You've got harmonica and a vocal break that's so much like "Baby's in Black" and the stop and start sound of "Anytime at All" and by coincidence, the song title is "Something new"!!!! There's Andrew's classic Ronstadt band guitar solo.<br /><br />2. A beautiful ballad like so many of his later tunes.<br /><br />3. Almost like P.F. Sloan vocally with a sound similar to the NC6's "I Dont Really Want to Go" slowed down.<br /><br />4. Picturing Elton sits at a piano and lets a corono virus tune come out of his mouth? This song fits the time. <br /><br />5. Acoustic heaven like McCartney's "Every Night" of only 3 years prior. Unfinished lyrics likely.<br /><br />6. Kinda like the SNL video song mentioned above only slower and piano driven.<br /><br />7. It's a kitchen sink of sounds. Countrified Badfinger, Poco, Hollies all mixed in here as it moves along. Another bit of "Anytime at All" sounds in this in my ears. Possible for 2 songs on this CD???<br /><br />8. Andrew doing "Desperado" to an extent--BTW, THAT song was released 2 months before this was recorded.<br /><br />9. Andrew playing up to Elton again. Think of EJ's "Hercules" and you hear where Andrew is at here. I think its' lyrics relate toi the founder of the Baptist Church in Massachusetts in the 1800's, but not sure.<br /><br />10. This relates to a Dan Fogelberg style in that 1973 period. It's simple start flows into some nice 3 part harmonies by the end that bring you to thinking Eagles again. <br /><br />11. A beginning not unlike Art Garfunkle's 1973 tune "All I Know," it's a bit like the future Andrew song "Love Hurts."<br /><br />12. This sounds so much like an Andrew "future medley" of "Endless Flight" (beginning) and "How Can This be Love." A bit of Beach Boys' 1971 "Long Promised Road" in there too. Love it!<br /><br />13. This cool tune DID appear on his first album in 75, but he tweaked the lyrics and title from this "Resting in Your Love" to "resting in Your Arms" which i think was a good idea, but this sounds great too.<br /><br />14. Andrew likes those "chopsticks" piano tunes and this reminds of then-recent Beach Boys tune "Slip on Through." Obviously, a style alike "thank You for Being a Friend" of the future with this piano style.<br /><br />15. Another one that showed on his first LP 2 years later. More Eagles sounding and sparse than the LP version. Kinda gives an idea of what he could do to the above songs before releasing them as finished products.<br /><br />16. THIS is a set up for his future great tune "Still You Linger on" complete with the "oh, baby." Eventually breaking into the sounds of James Taylor's "Country Road" a bit as well. <br /><br />A VERY enjoyable CD that likely SHOULD have become his first solo LP in 1974.<br /><br />Clark Beschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17185447331162248506noreply@blogger.com