This album begins with a provocative song about Southern racism and Northern hypocrisy, and then completes its 30 minutes or so with short songs that are fine, just fine snippets of Southern characters and history. Not an uninteresting theme necessarily. But this kind of parlor music just leaves me wondering: who would buy this record in 1974 and play it more than once? Which was all that was asked of me, I guess, and now I’m good.