F.B. WORSTER – God Don’t Make Junk . (Private Press) . Us . 1974 .
(Xian) (Contemporary Folk)
F.B. Worster – Guitar, Vocals
Ron Ostrow – Percussion
Linda “F.B.” Worster is one of those hippie kind of female folk-singers you can picture sitting on a coffee-house barstool with her sticker-plastered guitar and hair dangling in her eyes. Sheâs the real thing, too, singing of relationships with deep feelings that run the spectrum from panged whispers to bluesy wailing to impassioned outpourings sung with the conviction of Buffy Sainte-Marie. Fourteen original songs with a simple kind of beauty backed only by her acoustic guitar (the exception being âAutumnâs Childâ which adds tabla-like percussion).
Titles like âCemetery Songâ, âA Jew They Call Jesusâ, âHello Cyndyâ, âSong For You And That Guyâ, âI Know How Hard Youâve Triedâ, âA Guy Like Youâ. Comes in a primitive sepia Folkways-style paste-on cover showing her playing guitar in a field. A second cover variation exists with a different photo and the name Linda Worster. (The Archivist, 4th edition by Ken Scott).