Ol Blue Eyes Is Back

Having announced his retirement from the music biz in 1970, Sinatra returned in 1973 with this sadly uneven record. Though its title suggests a triumphant mood, the feel of the album is surprisingly down. Let Me Try Again, Nobody Wins and There Used to Be a Ballpark revisit the pessimism of The September of My Years and Watertown (albeit with less satisfying results), and his cover of Send in the Clowns is a bummer on several levels. The arrangements, by Don Costa and Gordon Jenkins, are overly slick and soggy, and Sinatra doesn t seem too excited about returning to the recording studio. This was Ol Blue Eyes biggest album of the 70s, but is hardly his best or most memorable. --Dan Epstein SKU : ADIB000002KC0