Consumer Guide Album

Jackie DeShannon: To Be Free [Imperial, 1970]
This being 1970, DeShannon makes like the minor pop aristocrat she is with vague stabs at meaningfulness--in addition to a thickheaded "Bird on the Wire" and a cute peaceable-kingdom double-fold, there are lots of songs about her minor, aristocratic life. "What Was Your Day Like" is a sweet, factual, painfully ambiguous account of geographically unrequited love that would put me on the next plane--too late, probably. All I get from the rest is that she's been spending a lot of time in Europe. C