Sandy Stewart

[David]

Originally Posted by pattyfan

My memory is that they said it was syncopated, but I could definitely be wrong.

I think it was Christopher Connelly who reviewed TWH for Rolling Stone. (He wrote about the Macsters a lot while he was at Rolling Stone.) His writeup is barely left in my memory, but I think the Blue Letter Archives has it stored (I can't access the BLA anymore.) Connelly said the count-off was "arrhythmic." He didn't really dwell on it—he just cited it as an example of Stevie's general dorkiness. (He also said her voice was stronger than ever on that album.)

I agree that Stevie's count-off is dorky IF she is saying "one-two-three-four" (the "one" is on the offbeat). But if she's saying "and-two-three-four," she's actually correct. I just can't hear it well enough to know whether she says "one" or "and."

But there are bigger fish to fry on the album, we can probably all agree. [cough . . . Gate and Garden . . . cough]