Consumer Guide Album

Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Get Your Rocks Off [Polydor, 1973]
In which my favorite cult band returns to the mordant good sense of its debut album and gives guitarist Mick Rogers room to make some unsynthesized noise. John Prine's "Pretty Good" is pretty great, and "Buddah" is the devotional song of the year, which is why it's spelled like the record label rather than the wise personage. A−