Don't Call Me Buckwheat
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''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that "most of the cuts on the record are impassioned autobiographical reflections on racial and ethnic identity and the struggle for self-esteem by a veteran New York songwriter who is of mixed ancestry: black, white and Puerto Rican." The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' deemed ''Don't Call Me Buckwheat'' "an angry album, but it also is a very vulnerable and moving one as well ... There are no simple solutions or empty slogans here." ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' wrote that it "suffers from having perhaps received a little too much help from Jeffreys's friends ... One hopes that at some point Jeffreys will hook up with a band that's capable of a little spontaneous combustion, as opposed to the airtight perfection of studio pros."{{cite magazine |last1=Sinclair |first1=Tom |title=Recordings -- Don't Call Me Buckwheat by Garland Jeffreys |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=Apr 16, 1992 |issue=628 |page=80}} ''[[Stereo Review]]'' called it "a career high-water mark ... how many other fortysomething rockers can make such a claim?"{{cite journal |title=Garland Jeffreys: State of the Union? |journal=Stereo Review |date=June 1992 |volume=57 |issue=6 |page=80}} |
''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that "most of the cuts on the record are impassioned autobiographical reflections on racial and ethnic identity and the struggle for self-esteem by a veteran New York songwriter who is of mixed ancestry: black, white and Puerto Rican." The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' deemed ''Don't Call Me Buckwheat'' "an angry album, but it also is a very vulnerable and moving one as well ... There are no simple solutions or empty slogans here." ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' wrote that it "suffers from having perhaps received a little too much help from Jeffreys's friends ... One hopes that at some point Jeffreys will hook up with a band that's capable of a little spontaneous combustion, as opposed to the airtight perfection of studio pros."{{cite magazine |last1=Sinclair |first1=Tom |title=Recordings -- Don't Call Me Buckwheat by Garland Jeffreys |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=Apr 16, 1992 |issue=628 |page=80}} ''[[Stereo Review]]'' called it "a career high-water mark ... how many other fortysomething rockers can make such a claim?"{{cite journal |title=Garland Jeffreys: State of the Union? |journal=Stereo Review |date=June 1992 |volume=57 |issue=6 |page=80}} |
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''[[No Depression (magazine)|No Depression]]'' called the album "one of the signature discs" of the 1990s.{{cite |
''[[No Depression (magazine)|No Depression]]'' called the album "one of the signature discs" of the 1990s.{{cite magazine |title=Rock and Roll Adult: Garland Jeffreys Returns from In Between |url=https://www.nodepression.com/rock-and-roll-adult-garland-jeffreys-returns-from-in-between/ |magazine=No Depression |date=7 June 2011 |access-date=18 May 2021}} |
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==Track listing== |
==Track listing== |
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