Megan (Megon) McDonough - Sketches [Wooden Nickel Records BWL1-0499] (1974)

Released: 1974
Country: US
Label: Wooden Nickel Records
Catalog: BWL1-0499
Genre: Folk Rock

Item# SR-WOBWL10499
Ratings: C=VG-; LP=VG


T R A C K L I S T:
01 You've Turned My Head Around
02 Empty Spaces
03 Do Me Wrong, But Do Me
04 Mirror
05 What Am I Gonna Do
06 One Woman
07 Delta Shelter
08 No Southern Man
09 Jesus Children Of America
10 Rainmaker
11 If Love Is A Dream
12 Coming On Strong




Sketches
Megan (Megon) McDonough


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Album Review

Charles Donovan [allmusic.com]

Sketches is the finest moment of McDonough's early years - mainly in thanks to far stronger songwriting on her part. There's also better judgement exercised in picking the covers. Instead of material by Paul Williams - really a hack songwriter capable of only occasional brilliance - there's a typically first-rate Carole King song, ''What Am I Gonna Do'' (written with King's erstwhile collaborator Toni Stern), and ''You've Turned My Head Around,'' by a pre-fame Kim Carnes. McDonough's contributions are invariably excellent, going far beyond the prim folk straitjacket of her Keepsake material, to explore pop (''Empty Spaces''), deep soul (''Delta Shelter'') and gospel (''Rainmaker''). ''If Love Is A Dream'' exhibits McDonough's artistic maturity to the full. Sung with a mournful grace, this open-eyed look at the reality of adult relationships, versus the romantic fantasies and hopes instilled in us from birth, remains one of her best songs, and she wisely recorded it again in the 90s.