Consumer Guide Album

Stealers Wheel: Stealers Wheel [A&M, 1972]
Skeptics said: "Producers' group." I disagreed, because Leiber & Stoller have done nothing but sit on their genius for almost a decade, and because half of this duo had a promising pre-history as half of the eccentric English-folk-rockish Humblebums. Anyway, almost every song on the album sounded substantial--until I really listened, whereupon most of them sounded, well, let's say thoughtful. Conclusion: at the very least, the kind of group producers like. B