Consumer Guide Album

Tom T. Hall: Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits [Mercury, 1972]
Except for "Ballad of Forty Dollars," a dispassionate account of a day in the life as a gravedigger, and "Homecoming," a melodramatic account of a day in his life as a star, all the zingers here compiled are also available on better albums--albums that don't include songs of inspirational tolerance like "I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew" and "One Hundred Children," which Hall executes no more wisely than any other mortal. B