High Priest

1987's was 's first full-length studio album since the fascinatingly disastrous in 1979. While it certainly wasn't the return to pure-pop form some fans were hoping for from the former leader of , it at least showed to be in firm command of his faculties again, and fronting a solid band of Memphis/New Orleans studio heavyweights. boasted only four original songs from , the best being the mildly sleazy (though the just-plain-weird has a certain perverse charm), but he dug up a handful of worthwhile covers, including the good-and-greasy and a fine, obscure number, While 's vocals betray a certain inscrutable irony, he's in fine voice throughout, and his wildly underrated guitar work is very much in evidence. ~ Mark Deming