Al Foul
Come Back a Dog
(Fort Lowell Records)
"I think the reason everybody loved him was that he was a really good person," fellow Tuscon musico Ben Nisbet revealed to a reporter, as the ill tiding of 50 year-old Al's cancer death spread through May 2022. "He was the person who had an incredibly strong sense of integrity and a remarkable moral compass."
The troubadour's austerity is conveyed here to high effect. (He'd traveled considerable distance from his teenage stint with Boston punks Foul-Mouthed Elves.) The title cut imprints plaintiveness. From subtle onset, American standard "Frankie and Johnny" swells into feverishness. "All In the Name of Love" kicks up heels with abandon. And Dave Dudley's "Six Days On the Road" prospers from Al's offhand, bar-stage tack.
That he produced this, ensuring his vision was honorably inscribed, rates as proper. All monuments should be so faithful.
Recommended: "Come Back a Dog," "Darker Shade of Blue," "Memphis," "Frankie and Johnny," "All In the Name of Love," "Six Days On the Road," "Down Hill"
Video: "Come Back a Dog" "All In the Name of Love"
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