I'm by no means a Frank Sinatra fan (aside from the occasional Sunday morning kitsch-value spin, when I put my
lounge music collection on shuffle-play and he might pop up). But I picked up
Watertown, his 1970 commercial bomb (later subject to some critical reappraisal) maybe a decade ago when I read about it on some music blog. It was described as Sinatra's attempt at a post-
Sgt. Pepper
/post-
Tommy concept album, at a time when every rock act was trying the same thing, a failed attempt to sound a...
Published on September 08, 2025 07:38