Thursday, July 06, 2023

Wax of the Week #75...Badfinger: Straight Up (1971)

A pleasant Beatlesque pop record, though only three (very good) songs stand out for me. Love the smooth slide guitar in “Day After Day” (that’s singer/songwriter Pete Ham and co-producer George Harrison; Leon Russell provides piano), bassist Tom Evans’ “Money,” and the arpeggiated riffs of Ham’s “Baby Blue”; so catchy. Yet more tragic victims of the gangster music biz; Ham and Evans both eventually took their own lives after getting fucked over by management for years.

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