There are a few things in my collection that are backwards
of what they should be.
For instance, until last year the only
Yes
album in my collection was
Drama--the
one
without
Jon Anderson.
My first
Accept
album was the one without
Udo
(but I have his solo albums).
Things like that.
The big one, though, is my two
10,000 Maniacs
albums.
You guessed it: the ones without
Natalie Merchant.
Sorry but I never cared for her voice while her successor,
Mary Ramsey,
has a quality to hers that I find quite pleasing.
To each his own, right?
While I have both
Love Among the Ruins
and
The Earth Pressed Flat,
I don't think the combination ever ran on all cylinders.
Well, the Maniacs now have yet another singer
while Mary and John Lombardo, a founding Maniac,
have teamed up for their fourth
John & Mary
album,
The Pinwheel Galaxy.
It was a good move because whatever the other albums lacked,
this one has.
Check out
Lillies of the Valley.
Sometimes things just don't work out.
Sounds to me like Mary Ramsey is back where things work best for her.
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