Review: Tommy McLain :: “I Ran Down Every Dream”

Unexpected comeback of the swamp pop legend

When Van Dyke Parks arranges, Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello share songs, CC Adcock produces and a bushy white beard with a yellow hat harmonizes at the age of 82, not much can have gone wrong in life. Swamp popper McLain (“Sweet Dreams”) shows that this is running out on his first album in forty years with “No Tomorrows…

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