"Something is holding me back", Johnson sang on one of his most potent songs. "Is it because I'm black?" Well, of course-- and he addressed racism pretty directly on some of his 1969-1970 recordings. But that wasn't what was holding him back within the R&B context, at least not directly. He spent most of the era covered here on tiny Chicago independent labels that didn't have any other big acts, most famously Twilight, aka Twinight, in which he was a shareholder. A lot of his mid-60s material was indifferently recorded at best. He didn't have a consistent band on record the way most hitmakers of his era did, although he did work with some good ones. (He recorded a handful of these songs in Memphis with the first-rate band who'd later back him up at Hi, including the hit "Dresses Too Short", whose attitude [#script: _mce/themes/advanced/langs/en.js] is very much of its time: "Just because I whistle at you/ You say that I'm doin' you wrong/ Why do you blame me, baby?/ I didn't tell you to put it on.")
Donald Fagen, whose intonations, phrasings, timbre and vocal attitude are all somewhat outside of the golden norm for recording artists, is quite an accomplished vocalist in all kinds of other ways. He has his troughs, like that period "where I was singing like Jerry Lewis" (see video), and he relapses. One suspects it is partly because he sings these songs a lot these days, and is no doubt bored. He is a kind of a high-wire act that sometimes loses his concentration. Singing a high baritone in the keys of G or B, which are the keys most of his tunes are in, is not the easiest choice to make. And yet somehow his earnest attempts to extend his range accentuates the uniqueness of his style. It is sort of a miracle that he can sing these songs at all.
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