O'Keefe by Danny O'Keefe

O'Keefe, the 1972 album from singer-songwriter Danny O'Keefe, came out on Atlantic with Arif Mardin producing, and it carried the song that put his name on the map. "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" was one he had already cut for his self-titled debut two years earlier; the remake led off the singles, climbed to number nine on the Hot 100 and got picked up by a whole crowd of other singers. The album itself crept only as high as number 87 on the Billboard LP chart.

It's weathered, lived-in songwriting of the kind other artists love to borrow, and "The Road" proves it: Jackson Browne put his own version on Running on Empty. Wounded Bird reissued the record in 2006.

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