Ghost Riders

The label, Efficient Space, says these are “17 open hearted ballads recorded 1965-1974” that constitute a “trans-continental survey of those swept up in rock’n’roll mania and buoyed by local newspaper ads promising fame and gold records.” Me, a guy who likes this, hears a rock and roll compilation about the people who sat through the fast numbers but felt seen when the ballads came around, giving those strange emotions a slow and steady examination, all the words free to ring without all that competitive distortion and bang bang bang. Blue Velvet but make it amateur.