BUY ME!
Can you beat it? Marshall Crenshaw makes impassioned rock ’n’ roll, is a wizard with pop dynamics, and remains well aware of the fact that the magic’s in the music. Yet he’s a virtual stranger to the airwaves and at this writing, Critical Acclaim is on its fifth lap while Commercial Success hangs back at the starting gate.
BUY ME!
MARSHALL CRENSHAW Mary Jean And 9 Others (Warner Bros.)
Can you beat it? Marshall Crenshaw makes impassioned rock ’n’ roll, is a wizard with pop dynamics, and remains well aware of the fact that the magic’s in the music. Yet he’s a virtual stranger to the airwaves and at this writing, Critical Acclaim is on its fifth lap while Commercial Success hangs back at the starting gate.
I don’t know if the release of his fourth album will inspire mass cries of "Giddyup”; I do know that Crenshaw is one of the best we have, and it’s a real shame that more people haven’t had a chance to realize that. In a better world, cuts like “Someday, Someway,” “For Her Love,” and “The Distance Between” would’ve been blasting out of car radios everywhere on hot, sunny days waiting to reappear as part of some future greatest hits collection. But that didn’t happen, did it? Still, Crenshaw strikes me as a never-say-die kind of person and on Mary Jean And 9 Others he sounds better than ever, as glad to be alive as he was on his debut five years ago.