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| ARTIST: | David Ackles |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Collector's Choice |
| TYPE: | Pop, Rock |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | American Gothic, Love's Enough, Ballad Of The Ship Of State, One Night Stand, Oh, California!, Another Friday Night, Family Band, Midnight Carousel, Waiting For The Moving Van, Blues For Billy Whitecloud, Montana Song |
| UPC: | 617742031126 |
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Customer Reviews of American Gothic
to die for... Utterly wonderful. If Sinatra had only heard Love`s Enough, he would certainly have recorded it, had a huge hit, and earnt Mr Ackles some richly deserved dosh.
This man was a genius. Don`t forget him. Along with Tims Hardin & Buckley he wrote & sang songs to die for.
Superb American Artistry
One of the two brilliant albums the late David Ackles produed in the 1970s (the other being "Five & Dime" on Columbia, so far never released on CD), "American Gothic" offers some of the most insightful, touching, and humorous songs of the past 40 years. Love songs don't get any better than "Love's Enough" or "One Night Stand." "Waiting for the Moving Van" really captures the heartbreak of divorce. " Oh, California!" and "Blues for Billy Whitecloud" foreshadow the satire of "Surf's Down" on "Five & Dime." "American Gothic" and "Ballad of the Ship of State" are as timely today was they were during the Viet Nam War. It's a shame that "American Gothic" has not been more widely heard; it's a great shame that Mr. Ackles died of cancer on March 2, 1999.
Brilliant and tough to pigeonhole
No wonder people scratched their heads over this one back in the early '70s. Ackles' musical sources are mostly non-rock - Jacques Brel, Brecht-Weill, Aaron Copland, and Charles Ives, among others - while lyric-wise he explores the same American-grotesque territory mapped out by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe. And it's GREAT - moving, funny, creepy, inspiring, haunting by turns. And very American in its concerns, its cranky individualism, and its insistence on plundering good ideas wherever they may be found.