Fats Is Back
This 1968 album wasn't the high-charting comeback Domino and Reprise Records no doubt had hoped for, but it remains a sweet restatement of theNew OrleansR&B; that had made Fats Domino a household name a decade earlier.Fats Is Backbarely updated his approach, but added terrific covers of two aproposBeatlessongs ("Lady Madonna" and "Lovely Rita") and compositions byJames BookerandBarbara Georgeto his repertoire. Finally, the disc's credits contain a nice surprise: most of the horn arrangements were written by Domino acolyteRandy Newman.--Rickey Wright