Consumer Guide Album

Deke Leonard: Iceberg [United Artists, 1974]
Released a year ago in England by this once and future Man, Leonard's solo debut is as raw as the folk-rock fairytales of ex-Man Malcolm Morley are tame, which is no doubt why UA put out Help Yourself and not Leonard here. Welsh metal, Dave Edmunds influence, with slide and echo and a nice colloquial terseness applied to such traditional Llanellian themes as agro and looking for a woman--but not quite songful enough, or cool enough, to get the hots for. B