[David]

An underappreciated album. It was every bit as unusual and personal as Tusk. In fact, it was odd that Lindsey didn’t contribute anything to it, even a guitar or background vocal on something (like his own “Walk a Thin Line”).

I argued with David Barton, the pop music critic at the Sacramento Bee, over which version of “Walk a Thin Line” was better — Tusk or The Visitor. I always thought it was better on the former and Barton opted for the latter. Then he surmised that we both preferred the version we each heard first.