Consumer Guide Album

Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Kate & Anna McGarrigle [Warner Bros., 1976]
A folkie apotheosis--dry and droll, tender, sweetly mocking its own sentiment, unfailingly intelligent. With melodies that are fetching rather than pretty (cf. Jean Ritchie) and lyrics that are not above a certain charming, even calculating, vulgarity (cf. Loudon Wainwright III). A