![]() ![]() ![]() The delights of rural life comes through as a real theme on the album, too, with the addition of “Country Dreamer” and “Mama’s Little Girl. In addition to the tracks on the official release, we get Wings in mullet-shaking live mode on “The Mess” and “Best Friend” - a tasty foreshadowing of “Wings Over America” (which also serves, on Side C, as the perfect counterweight to the songcraft of the medley.) There’s “Tragedy,” a tender cover of a mostly forgotten tune from 1959 - tasteful backing vocals on a record full of them - and “I Lie Around,” a delicious “Ram” off-cut with a Denny Laine vocal, which packs plenty of musical incident into its five-minute runtime. The story follows protagonist King James, a Black youth who is coping with the unanticipated loss of his older brother Khalid. (Speaking of the instrumental “Loup,” with its sepulchral groove: Was McCartney perhaps influenced by those Pink Floyd lads, assembling “The Dark Side of the Moon” in the studio next door?) KING AND THE DRAGONFLIES by Kacen Callender is a tender, affecting, and hopeful story of grief, belonging, and transformation. ![]() ![]() In the context of a more sprawling record, such ditties as “Single Pigeon” and “When the Night” - as well as such out-there experiments as “Loup (1st Indian on the Moon)” - feel like worthy dishes in a veritable smorgasbord of song. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images) Getty Images Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney (1941 - 1998) with Denny Laine of Wings at a recording studio in. ![]()
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