45 revelations
What this column needs is a recurrent hook. A recent informal poll I took on the street showed responses evenly divided between “get outta my face!” and “great column, bud, but it needs a recurrent hook.” Heeding the voice of the people, I stopped taking informal polls on the street and came up with an elementary recurrent hook.
45 revelations
by
Ken Barnes
What this column needs is a recurrent hook. A recent informal poll I took on the street showed responses evenly divided between “get outta my face!” and “great column, bud, but it needs a recurrent hook.” Heeding the voice of the people, I stopped taking informal polls on the street and came up with an elementary recurrent hook. From now on, I’ll designate a Single of the Month.
The first award winner is “I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me” by Rosanne Cash. I’ve been a fan of hers since the sublime “Seven Year Ache,” a sort of “Be My Baby” of infidelity that almost broke her out of country Coventry a few years back. With any justice, this breathtaking single will cross her over. A seductive melody, heartache-laden vocals, delicate production (anything with bells in it, I’m a goner) and a shivery multi-tracked harmony close that wraps it all up and sends it off to dreamland. (Rosanne’s Rhythm & Romance LP, from which this is taken, is also Album of the Month, but that’s not my department.)