All That May Do My Rhyme
All That May Do My Rhyme is an album by the American musician Roky Erickson, released in 1995. It was released at the same time as a book, "Openers II: The Lyrics of Roky Erickson", that collected Erickson's poems and lyrics. The album was a packaging of new songs with ones issued on the 1985 "Clear Night for Love" EP. An unlisted track, "We Sell Soul", is a 1965 song by Erickson's band the Spades. "All That May Do My Rhyme" was Erickson's first studio album in almost a decade. Production . The album was produced by Speedy Sparks, Stuart Sullivan, and Casey Monahan. Paul Leary, Barry "Frosty" Smith, and Charlie Sexton contributed to "All That May Do My Rhyme". Lou Ann Barton sang on one of the two versions of "Starry Eyes". Sumner Erickson, Roky's brother, played tuba on the album. Critical reception. "Rolling Stone" determined that "if Erickson covers a lot of territory, it is because his music has always functioned as a living archive of musical form, exploring the seams between supposedly incongruous genres." "The Boston Globe" wrote that "Erickson looks at loves lost and sought in ballads  given a light, melodic touch." The "Austin American-Statesman" deemed the album "arguably his most accessible and listener-friendly to date, with the sort of buoyant melodicism, lyrical invention and shimmering jangle that the R.E.M. generation can accept as a kindred musical spirit." The "Philadelphia Daily News" stated that "the psychedelic pioneer brings his Bob Dylanesque phrasing and charmingly vulnerable voice to a mixed bag of old and new material that focuses more on love than on his past themes of demons and aliens." "The Santa Fe New Mexican" concluded that "We Are Never Talking" "could almost be mistaken for  a long-lost "Blood on the Tracks" outtake." The "Chicago Tribune" determined that "best of all is the plaintive 'Please Judge', in which Erickson pleads, 'Don't send or keep the boy away'." AllMusic wrote that "Roky's most excessive traits are mostly absent; he sounds sort of like an eccentric, updated Buddy Holly." "Record Collector" thought that his "dishevelled yowl elevates [the songs] into the otherworldly realm, spookily channelling both his fractured mind and convincingly extra-terrestrial soul."