Consumer Guide Album

Joy of Cooking: Castles [Capitol, 1972]
If last time Toni Brown was betrayed by her folkie upbringing, this time she makes something of it, leading off elegantly with a modernized blues, "Don't the Moon Look Fat and Lonesome," and following up quickly enough with "Lady Called Love," a modernized heroic ballad. Both the incitements to independence and the love advisories are more general than need be, but the music has grown crisper and fuller while continuing to flow as swimmingly as you'd hope. A−