I hadn’t noticed that the songs on this record are not happy. Buzzard Luck is a phrase I like to use: can’t kill nothing, and won’t nothing die. I’m Not Tired asks for the chance to prove his love (after years of being by her side). Leaving Home has ‘I’m broke, ragged, and disgusted.’ The landlord comes to the door to say, Son, you gotta pay up or move out. In Gentleman from the Windy City he’s putting on his best outfit while thinking he may be coming home in a VW. In Goodbye Little Girl, Seals says he used to be her funny clown, someone she liked having him around. In Crying Time Again, as he smokes two or three packs of cigarettes and drinks a bottle of gin, the sun goes down and his baby is leaving again. In Nobody Wants a Loser, he says ‘I’m an alcoholic, and sometimes I regret it, especially when the liquor store won’t give me no more credit.’ Seals did have a tough life.
The song titles and credits on the back cover are in light blue reversed out of black, as we used to say in the communications biz. They are a headache waiting to happen. When I spent too much time on my computer, I’d switch WordPerfect to colors like that to make sure I would log off soon.
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