Radioactive
1970
Penrod
About This Album
Released in 1969, Tim Dawe's Penrod was one of the few entries on Frank Zappa's ironically monikered Straight Records label -- where it was nestled between Jeff Simmons' Naked Angels original motion picture soundtrack and Tim Buckley's Blue Afternoon, both of which were also issued that year. It has been suggested that Penrod was a pseudonym for the name of the assembled musicians. However, Penrod is in fact the fictional Penrod Schofield, a preteen whose misadventures were anthologized in a collection of humorous drawings by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington. He is portrayed on the outer LP jacket in two cover illustrations hand-drawn by Gordon Grant. For this recording Dawe (acoustic guitar and vocals) is joined by Arnie Goodman (keyboards), Chris Kebeck (guitar), Claude Mathis (drums), and Don Parrish (bass), and the ten-track project was realized under the supervision of producer and arranger Jerry Yester, who also scored light orchestrations for several of Dawe's originals. The midtempo opener, "Scarlet Woman," builds upon a folk-rock feel punctuated by Goodman's rollicking keys. It also demonstrates Dawe's penchant for reeling off memorable melodies.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,4,8 and 9)

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