Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram [Bonus Tracks]

After the breakup, Beatles fans expected major statements from the three chief songwriters in the Fab Four. John and George fulfilled those expectations -- Lennon with his lacerating, confessional John Lennon/plastic Ono Band, Harrison with his triple-LP All Things Must Pass -- but Paul Mccartney certainly didn't, turning toward the modest charms of Mccartney, and then crediting his wife Linda as a full-fledged collaborator on its 1971 follow-up, Ram. Where Mccartney was homemade, sounding deliberately ragged in parts, Ram had a fuller production yet retained that ramshackle feel, sounding as if it were recorded in a shack out back, not far from the farm where the cover photo of Paul holding the ram by the horns was taken. Read More