After a health scare last summer, the
always-delightful Christine Lavin has returned with her 21st solo album. Like
many of her earlier records, If You’re
Drunk You Cannot Buy a Puppy is a collection of mostly funny and,
occasionally, serious songs – a few of them recorded live.
The album opens with the very witty “Women
Walking Wearing Wings,” a hipster-jazz piece that deconstructs the Victoria’s
Secrets Fashion Show and the appeal that it has for some.
A few of the other songs that will surely make
you smile are “Remembering My Passwords,” which hilariously traces the
evolution of password theory from the dawn of the Internet age late last
century to the present; “A Million Little Pictures,” an amusing treatise on the
art of exaggeration; “Ha Ha Ha Ha Tsk Tsk Shhhhhh,” in which she recounts her
adventure seeing the movie Sex & the
City in New York on opening day; and the title track, “If You’re Drunk You
Cannot Buy a Puppy,” a list of things people should not do when they've had too much
to drink that was inspired by a sign she saw at a pet shop in Greenwich
Village.
One of the live tracks is “Tony DeSare,
Bucky Pizzarelli, Edith & Ervin Drake at the Algonquin Hotel,” a very funny
spoken-word reading from Christine’s book, Cold Pizza for Breakfast: A Mem-wha??
Among Christine’s serious songs are “Cary
Grant, Esther Williams, Angelina Jolie & the Romance of the Gun,” which
examines the role of pop culture in influencing American gun culture; “They Are
Not Done They Are Not Done,” which captures a family’s conflict as it deals
with end-of-life issues; and “Song of Lucy Gayheart,” inspired by Willa Cather’s
1935 novel Lucy Gayheart and the love
that Joanne Woodward had for the book.
These are songs that will make you smile,
occasionally laugh, and occasionally bring a tear to your eye. Like many of
Christine’s earlier albums, this is an album to revisit from time to time to
smile, laugh and shed that tear again.
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