of his career. While his version of Webb's great "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" can't match Joe Cocker's for raw expressiveness, he addresses the song with a compassion that is almost as persuasive. The album also offers what I think is the first recorded version of "Adoration," one of the most musically sophisticated and psychologically complex songs in the Webb canon. Campbell masters the difficult musical phrasing and gives an affecting realization of the lyric, which portrays a lover's vanity. In the liner notes, Campbell writes of Webb: "He marries a lyric with a melody and a melody with a chord progression better than any writer today." Campbell is not far off the mark. (RS 177)

STEPHEN HOLDEN