Английская Википедия:In Search of Food, Clothing, Shelter and Sex

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In Search of Food Clothing Shelter and Sex is the debut solo album by American singer-songwriter John Buck Wilkin, released on Liberty Records in June 1970. The collection of songs includes compositions penned by Wilkin, covers, and a song co-written with Kris Kristofferson. The release received scarce reviews that mostly favored Wilkin.

Content

The album was produced by Don Tweedy and recorded at Muscle Shoals.Шаблон:Sfn The tracks consist of originals by Wilkin and cover songs. The tunes by Wilkin were inspired by his own life, as well as the artwork of the album: On the pictures inside of the LP Wilkin looks at photographs of his mother, Marijohn, while the songs discuss his path from childhood to his teenage years in Nashville to adulthood in Los Angeles.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The album featured a version of Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee" released previous to Janis Joplin's hit single, as well as the song "Apocalypse 1969" co-written with Kirstofferson.Шаблон:Sfn

Release and reception

In May 1970, the album single that featured "Apartment Twenty-One" backed with "Boy of the Country" was released.Шаблон:Sfn In Search of Food, Clothing, Shelter, and Sex was released by Liberty Records in June 1970.Шаблон:Sfn

The New Yorker described the album as "very, very good", as the reviewer felt that Wilnkin's lyrics were not "the usual windmills-caverns-and-canyons-of-the-mind acidosis emptiness".Шаблон:Sfn The Honolulu Advertiser deemed the collection of songs a "lively outing".Шаблон:Sfn The Omaha World-Herald delivered a good review of the album that the publication attributed to his "biographical tunes and his easy going style" that "relies equally on rock and country roots".Шаблон:Sfn The Casper Star-Tribune remarked the large amount of session musicians that appeared with Wilkin on the tracks, and that the 50 musicians accounted for "the polished instrumental excellence" of the release that made it "very clearly above average in content".Шаблон:Sfn The Winston-Salem Journal favored the album while it praised the biographical nature of the songs deeming Wilkin's experience as "sharable".Шаблон:Sfn A later review by Allmusic rated the release with three stars out of five: music critic Richie Unterberger felt that the mixture of folk-rock, pop and country from Wilkin's influences made it "rather strange, and not always comfortable", while he called it an "obscure solo album".Шаблон:Sfn

For the underground newspaper East Village Other it was "nicely done", with a sound "complete" with arrangements that the reviewer considered "tastefully done".Шаблон:Sfn California State University, Los Angeles's newspaper College Times praised Wilkin's songwriting that the publication considered "full of gentle images and subtle shadings". Meanwhile, they mentioned that his voice is "sensitive" and that it "captures the beauty of human relationships". College Times heavily criticized the instrumentalization of the album which they defined as "totally out of step", and they further elaborated that "horns and violins come in at the wrong places" and that the release represented "how production executives can spoil a very simple and beautiful product".Шаблон:Sfn

In 2016, the label Big Pink released a remastered version of the album in South Korea and Japan.Шаблон:Sfn

Track listing

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Footnotes

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