CHIP TAYLOR

A Song I Can Live With 8/10

Taylor sub-bills himself James Wesley Voight on the cover. It’s his real name – he is Jon Voight’s brother, therefore Angelina Jolie’s uncle – but the album itself offers pleasingly little hint of any andthis-is-me valedictory intent. Taylor’s timeworn voice is now a husky, semi-spoken croon, but he remains recognisably the songwriter whose flawless early-’70s cosmic-country albums have lost none of their power to amaze. Here, “Until It Hurts” reflects wryly on the passing of Bowie and Reed, and “New York In Between” and “Young Brooks Flow Forever” have both arrived just too late to be turned into chart-toppers by Glen Campbell.