Danny O'Keefe - American Roulette 1977

One of the great overlooked songwriters with a very very good album.

Though singer-songwriter Danny O'Keefe has had his songs covered by artists from Elvis Presley to Jackson Browne, his talents have never achieved widespread recognition. Dating from 1977, this smartly assembled, country-flavored collection shows just what the public has been missing over the past few decades. In a series of sharply observed, sophisticated vignettes, O'Keefe lays bare subjects from teen runaways to the opaqueness of relationships in songs like "On Discovering a Missing Person" and "You Look Just Like a Girl Again

1 The Runaway
2 Islands
3 On Discovering a Missing Person
4 Hereafter, The
5 You Look Just Like a Girl Again
6 All My Friends
7 Plastic Saddle
8 In Northern California (Where the Palm Tree Meets the Pine)
9 American Roulette
10 Just Jones