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Half comedian, half folkie, all alarm installer, Don White has a wife, two kids, and a day job. Live at the Somerville Theatre (Lyric Moon), suggests that artistically, at least, he can afford to entertain full-time. The way he describes his gritty hometown of Lynn, Massachusetts, you figure he knows enough about working for a living to write songs (and jokes) about it until he's 60. His family, however, he needs--the lines he gets out of early childhood make me want to hear about his kids' teenaged years, and the bittersweet affection of Sassy Brat makes it one of the most credible love songs any man has ever written for his wife.
Annotator Dave Marsh calls The Who Sell Out (MCA) the band's "consummate masterpiece." I've always agreed. And while I'm not sure that this newly remastered and expanded tribute to classic pop radio is also a greater Sixties album than Sgt. Pepper, I'm here to tell anybody's generation that it's never sounded better.
Playboy, Aug. 1995
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