JONATHAN RICHMAN AND THE MODERN LOVERS (Not to be confused with a previous album merely titled The Modern Lovers) (Beserkley):: Final proof that only the strong survive.

L.B.

BUCK TRENT-Bionic Banjo (ABC) :: So the other day I’m talking to this PR guy at one of the major record comps (hint: the only one left in America that hasn’t yet signed a reggae act), and we’re discussing the ridiculous state of this business, and he says, “Yeah, the next thing’ll probably be black CB records.” “There already is one,” 1 said. “1 don’t know the name of the artist or record, but 1 heard it on a Detroit r ‘n’ b station. It’s this superdude flying through the Bama swamps in his machine with a Dodge commercial type county sheriff ip hot pursuit, grousing "Ah’m gon git thet nigger iffen it’s the last thing I do!’ while superdude upshifts into the Van Allen Belt.” But don’t file this with that record; file it with Friar Tuck & His Psychedelic Guitar, and leave us not forget that once, in the mid-Sixties, World-Pacific records actually put out an album of Raga Rock played on the dobro.

L.B.