Tom T. Hall: The Magnificent Music Machine (Mercury)
Nick Tosches, Country Music, January 1977
WHAT TOM T. Hall has done in The Magnificent Music Machine is very good and very smart. His music lately has been pretentious and drab. Lyrically, he has been full of silly, vainglory clichés, presented as wisdom, and musically he has been repeating the same tired melodies first heard in his Ballad of Forty Dollars and Other Great Songs.
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