Word: annas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studio. And the back cover demonstrates that they haven't changed their mood very much. Sporting devil's golden horns, they flaunt funny faces at the would-be purchaser. The earthly, self-amused, un-Los Angeles character that graces their other albums, Dancer with Bruised Knees, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle,once again graces Pronto Monto. It's too bad, though, that too many songs have shifted their subject matter into obscurity. Still this combo-country, cabaret, lejazzhot, album has enough winners to carry you on by the few boring numbers...
There might even be an FM hit on this album. "Oh My Heart" is the rememberable kind of tune that is very easy to hum. The only thing that could stop this song from reaching the charts would be Anna McGarrigle's voice, which is the high vibrato that elementary school music teachers and maiden aunts usually have. Luckily, Kate, who has a lower, richer voice, sings lead vocals in most numbers. In fact, she easily outdoes Linda Ronstadt in "Just Another Broken Heart," a real you've-gone-and-broke-my-heard-and-I-just-can't-live-without...
ABOUT fifteen years ago, when high school bekoned Kate and Anna, the two sisters left Northern Canada for Montreal because their hometown had no schools. (It barely had people.) In any case, Kate told Seventeen Magazine that they went to school in the city for about a month before they concluded that they would rather sing in bars than study all day. But somewhere down the line one of them learned basic chemistry, and they exploit their rather finite knowledge in a love song called "NACL" about two sympathetic characters, an atom of chlorine ("valence minus one"), and "handsome sodium...
THERE ARE plenty of straight-forward songs on Pronto Monto,be not mistaken. Anna wrote a real-live hate song called "Dead Weight" that comes right down the line and announces, "I won't tolerate you, you're bugging me and my friends." Probably everyone has someone they'd like to send this song to. Unfortunately, the number tries to pull off the kind of nastiness that only Bob Dylan can get away with smiling...
...adult bookstores, X-rated movie theaters, and peep-show machines. Seven months before, Thevis had escaped from a minimum-security jail in New Albany, Ind., while serving 8½ years for arson and interstate transportation of obscene material. He was held without bail; police also arrested a companion, Anna Jeanette Evans, 40, who was waiting for him outside the bank, and charged her with aiding a known fugitive. In Thevis' car, police found seven guns, $1 million in diamond and emerald jewelry and $450,000 in cash...