Kelly is fairly obsessed with the subject, searching for constants and resisting change on 'The Streets in the Rain,' bemoaning love lost or diminished on 'Little Silver Ring,' 'Still Water' and the title track.
More often guitarist Kelly and his bandmates - keyboardist Al Laughlin, bassist Andy Sheldon and drummer Jeep MacNichol - are concerned with the swift passage of time and the havoc it plays with personal relationships. If the wry touch isn't entirely typical of the Boulder, Colo.-based quartet approach to pop, the surreal imagery and seductive arrangement is. 'So many years have gone by,' singer-songwriter Sean Kelly quietly confides to Monroe's ghost near the album's close, 'and your commodity sales are doing fine. NO ONE IS immune to the ravages of time on the Samples new album, 'The Last Drag,' save for perhaps Marilyn Monroe.
