Consumer Guide Album

Mary Hopkin: Earth Song/Ocean Song [Apple, 1971]
My taste for Hopkin's limpid prettiness may be eccentric, but there it is. She sings like the demure, starstruck adolescent she was until very recently, which lends her straightforward role-playing a revelatory poignancy lacking in the genteel atavism of the folkie madonnas she superficially resembles. Recommended: "International." B+