Thursday, February 13, 2025

Sure got a lot of blues (Max Merritt) (LP 3209)

Max Merritt  Keeping In Touch (Vinyl, Polydor Records, 1978) ***  

GenreNZ Music, pop 

Places I remember: Slow Boat Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Wish You'd Never Come In To My Life (YouTube)

Gear costume: Dirty Work (YouTube)

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5

Active compensatory factors: Let the buyer beware: if, like me, you love his song Slipping Away, the version of that classic from 1976, on this album, is a re-recording in a kind of ska/reggae mode. Yikes! Certainly fooled me, but I would have bought this album anyway, I suspect.

Max (and The Meteors) did the original of Slipping Away but I've yet to find any other albums by them.

Instead - the sleazy cover kind of gives it away. It's got its moments (as above) and the Steely Dan cover is excellent but this is one inconsistent album.

Where do they all belong? Will still keep an eye peeled for MM and The Meteor albums in the future.

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