Library Rock's Backpages

Fats Domino: Fats Domino

Charlie Gillett, Rolling Stone, 30 March 1972

Fats goes to college, all his big hits and more, decked out in a double album that has a 12-page insert of pictures, information, analysis, and biographies of the people who supplied the analysis. That last item is a bit distracting – is the sleeve note writer worth a page of documentation? But it's the only obvious flaw in an attractive package that is properly respectful of one of the master entertainers of the Fifties. The other flaws show up only if you look too hard.

Total word count of piece: 1173

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.