Consumer Guide Album

Clarence Reid: Running Water [Alston, 1973]
This veteran writer-producer has his soul in the right place--Miami, as far south as he can get it. And though he's a/k/a Blow Fly, purveyor of parody porn, the true Reid is as unyielding a moralist as Porter Wagoner or Ernest Tubb. He cheats a lot, just like his daddy, but he also pays--in one song, his "real woman" goes off to find "a real man," while in another she simply kills herself and is he sorry. The only drawback is that Reid is a writer-producer for a reason--vocals. B