Consumer Guide Album

Dr. Hook: Revisited [Columbia, 1976]
Although his rock and roll number with this band was often forced and unfunny, you have to admire Shel Silverstein's eye for detail and ear for diction, his willingness to go for the aorta, and his did-he-mean-that? humor. This compilation includes "Cover of the Rolling Stone," still an acute account of the superstar half-life, and "Carry Me, Carrie," based on a text by Theodore Dreiser, as well as several salubriously blasé references to the dread scourge homosexuality. Docked a notch for "Penicillin Penny," who after all got her dose from someone with a penis. B-