Consumer Guide Album

Bill Morrissey: North [Philo, 1986]
His deep voice sheds affectation as his music approaches the delicacy of pure folkie accompaniment, all the better to show off what he's here for: "idiot verse." Which is laconic, not idiotic, and damn near definitive on his great theme--how much men need to work and how much they'd rather be doing something else. Never before have so many protagonists been snowbound and liked it. B+