Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge

  • Breakaway [Monument, 1974] B-

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Breakaway [Monument, 1974]
The least embarrassing LP either had made in years is a testament of what just might be a fairly interesting marriage. The way you can tell is that the love songs about separation and temptation and compulsion and good-timing work out, while the ode to romantic serenity (could it be by the same Sherman brothers who occasionally soundtrack a Disney movie?) sound like it was recorded at gunpoint. B-