The playing on every FMac record is extremely great. Magical arrangements, so smart and subtle and great. And the sound of everything in the 70s is unimpeachable.Wood Goblin wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:45 amAgree with all this. She also wrote “That’s Alright” and “Gypsy,” which (on the right day) might be my two favorite FM songs.eephus wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:06 pm Rewards close listening.
Landslide alone would be enough. Whatever it is there aren't many songs like it.
Dreams, hypnotic, almost a drone. Two chords most of it.
Rhiannon, also mostly two chords, prototypical W Coast rock groove. Worthy of real analysis. "She is like a cat in the dark and then she is the darkness."
Sara, impeccable, unhurried--art. Long, perfectly arranged in a series of waves. "The sea of love / where everyone would love to drown."
She was genuine, too, with no filter really, and that let her get away with stuff other people might not.
For whatever reason, her solo material leaves me cold. I really don’t like any of it.
Having a rhythm section like that lets you get away with stuff. I like Edge of Seventeen and that, but it's heavily worked. The infrastructure of FMac recordings up through Tusk is quite transparent.