Strong Points, Weak Points

Obviously, you guys are Millennials. Not a problem, you just don’t have the early cultural context (for the first two albums especially). As the seventies went on, country was the pushback to the prevailing disco-trend. These two albums are of their time, musically. Lyrically, I get your confusion when comparing to the later philosophical and mystical songs. But these two albums were actually produced and published by a church. Terry’s true lyrical talent doesn’t get to come out until they go to artist controlled labels. An example is the title track from “Shotgun Angel.” The original lyric is, “… I ran out of speed about six or seven hours ago.” The church-run label didn’t like the drug reference and changed it to “vitamins.”

The hosts don’t seem like experts on music, symbology, recording, or art, but they DO know Daniel Amos, one of the most underrated & slept-on bands. Great listen for the average joe’s take on a great body of music. Plus, they’ve got several informative interviews with the band members. Must hear for any DA fan.

I was happy to find a podcast about Terry Taylor and DA/Swirling Eddies/etc. These two guys seem to know a lot, and I'm glad they're doing this to support the underrated work of Terry S. Taylor. I was little annoyed that one of them kept saying "linear notes" instead of "liner notes," but that's not a big deal I guess. I did learn a couple of things, and I look forward to the rest of the episodes.