Consumer Guide Album

Asleep at the Wheel: Texas Gold [Capitol, 1975]
If honest country music is what we need, then the mildly satiric mood of this is a blow for truth, especially considering the compromises of their second LP. But when I consider the matter-of-fact suffering and brutality of the first one, I conclude once again that honesty ought to go further than a commitment to good sound and good sounds. B+