What are you listening to?

[Savonarola]

Guy Clark – Old No 1 (1975)
 
I'm not that big of a fan of country music, and I'd never heard of Guy Clark before.  Looking over his biography, I have heard a number of his compositions as he was more well known as a songwriter than singer.  This album is really good, all about drifters, loners, desperadoes and one night stands.  Based on this I thought what Tom Waits is to Kerouac, Guy Clark is to Larry McMurtry.

[Savonarola]

Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit (1975)

Short (clocks in at 24 minutes and has only two songs) but compensates for that by having topless women on the record cover.

According to Pitchfork:

The title of the album and first track refers to an incident in 1974. The Nigerian police planted a joint on Kuti. Before he was arrested, he ate the joint, but the police brought him into custody and waited for him to produce the (titular) excrement. According to legend, he managed to use another inmate's feces and was eventually released.

Which is certainly a fact I'd hate to ruin by further research.  The second track, "Water No Get Enemy," I think is the better track.  I once saw Femi Kuti perform that live.