Delbert McClinton: Keeper of the Flame (Capricorn)
Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 13 December 1979
DELBERT McCLINTON'S virtues are plain, but they're hardly simple. He's too much of a hybrid and vocal wizard ever to be simple. His is the slow, worldly smile. Lust is basic, his voice emphasizes, but getting it satisfied is a matter of infinite calculation. Hell, you could even fall in love, a complication that seems to be the implied theme of Keeper of the Flame, the tenderest of McClinton's seven solo albums.
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