Good Evening by Marshall Crenshaw

Good Evening, Marshall Crenshaw's 1989 album, was his last for Warner Bros., and the fallout shows in the tracklist. Relations with the label had gone sour, and the Detroit-born singer, songwriter and guitarist behind "Someday, Someway" and "Cynical Girl" simply wasn't writing much. Unwilling to pour himself into a record he had little faith in, he filled it mostly with other people's songs.

David Kershenbaum produced, and Crenshaw pointed to the Traveling Wilburys' debut as the model for its sound: easygoing, jangly, a little rootsy. The oddest find is "Some Hearts", which made its first commercial appearance here, years before country singer Carrie Underwood turned the Diane Warren song into a hit in 2005; Crenshaw later called singing a Warren tune a strange experience. Reviewers liked the album, but it never charted.

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