Title: Michael Franks puts out his best album here.
Product review: Of all the music Michael has put out, this is my favorite. It's sound is consistent (and consistently good) and it sports a great rhythm section of Will Lee (bass), John Tropea (guitar), Steve Gadd (drums), Ralph MacDonald (percussion), Leon Pendarvis (keyboards) and Ernie Watts (saxes). The music is uniformly excellent and the lyrics are funny and quirky, even more so to my ear than on his other albums. Overall it sounds like a tight ensemble playing some really jazzy grooves. The orchestration only shows up on "Vivaldi's Song," where it's a nice touch, rather than being kind of overbearing as on Sleeping Gypsy. (Time has not been overly kind to Claus Ogerman's arrangements.)
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