Listening: Grant McLennan

Horsebreaker Star (Beggar's Banquet) Anyone who knows about the Go Betweens know that one of the two leader/songwriters, Grant McLennan, died at a sadly early age (48) a few weeks ago. He and Robert Forster had been making records and touring again, and a lot more people seemed interested than seemed interested in the Eighties and early Nineties when they first recorded. I don't know their music well enough to speak with authority, but those who do say McLennan was the more pop, romantic of the two (Paul to Forster's John, etc.). I do know this record, made with a bunch of Athens, Georgia's finest in '94 is stone beautiful from end to end. In a more just world, this would have sold millions and John Mayer would be touring dump clubs.