New West

Some 40 years since they dropped their first album, Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark return with another set of rock and roll and rhythm and blues – a look at the world as only they’ve learned to see it. Blind, Crippled and Crazy is a tongue-in-cheek confessional about thinking young, growing old and finding the humor in-between. “I ain’t that old but I’ve been around a long time,” they say in the album’s opener, later noting they often “said yes when they oughta say no.” Over a sneaky Latin groove, they profess, “these days, they need more and more of less and
less.” Musically, it’s tightly executed rock and soul, just as our ancestors would have it – sounding as fresh today as Rockpile’s Seconds of Pleasure did in ‘80. If this is what it’s like being
Blind, Crippled and Crazy, then old age doesn’t sound like a bad proposition.