Lace and Whiskey is one of the albums I haven’t listened to all that much, I have to admit. I don’t really know why, because when you put it on and listen to it, it is actually quite good, even though I perhaps don’t primarily associate the music with Alice Cooper.
Most of the material, like on the previous album, was written by Cooper himself together with Dick Wagner and the album’s producer Bob Ezrin, and you can really recognize the musical development after all. There are musical excursions in both the rockabilly-influenced Ubangi Stomp and the more traditional rock of Damned If You Do, and the album even generated a hit! – You and Me, which none other than Frank Sinatra recorded a version of. Furthermore, Alice performed Road Rats a couple of years later in the movie Roadie, not necessarily because it is the best or most representative song from the album, but it undeniably fits the movie concept!
Like the previous albums, the humor and self-irony are also present, and if the previous album dealt with Alice’s alcoholism, it is nothing compared to what he does here (Lace and Whiskey – Duh!), and I particularly like the theme I Never Wrote Those Songs or King of the Silver Screen.
All in all, perhaps one of Alice’s weaker albums, at least this far into his career, and more interesting for the real fans than as a generally acknowledged gem, and it is simply spread out in too many different directions for me to be completely satisfied.
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