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Title: A little slice of '71 Country Folk...
Review: Back in 1971, guys like Steve Goodman and John Prine were playing country/folk in the Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan environs surrounding Chicago, and life was simpler. There was no "Outlaw Country", David Allen Coe was the Rhinestone Cowboy, not Glen Campbell, and no one like Robert Earl Keen or Kenny Wayne Shepherd was around to compare them to. This is Steve Goodman young and fresh, before he wrote (at DAC's suggestion) the "train" verse to his biggest hit, "You Never Even Called Me By My Name", which DAC called "the perfect Country-Western song."It's hardly the revelation that John Prine's 1st LP was, but it's very good, and shows the promising talent, heart, and humor that Goodman was to become for the rest of his life.
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