Consumer Guide Album

Charlie Rich: Behind Closed Doors [Epic, 1973]
I welcome the title hit not just because it's richly deserved but because it makes love and marriage seem exciting enough to break out of Nashville. But the album is a typical Music Row mediocrity. Love and marriage is Rich's natural subject at this stage of his career (life, I mean), but to limit him to it is counterproductive--part of the excitement of the bond is what happens outside its circle, and I don't mean cheating. B-