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“Avenging Annie” is the sole single released by Andy Pratt. This song, from the viewpoint of a “mythical heroine,“ (and based partially on Woody Guthrie’s “The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd” as interpreted by The Byrds), is sung by Pratt mostly in falsetto, accompanied by cat, piano and guitar (both forwards and backwards). The song rides on Pratt’s classically-influenced piano through the painful story of his first marriage, which he reworks as an American Outlaw West fantasy reminiscent of Bonnie and Clyde, or Annie Oakley. At the end, the heroine finds “peace and release” on her own. In June 1973 the single reached the top 15 on WRKO-AM in Pratt’s native Boston, but peaked at number 78 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending ten weeks on the chart. The record, produced... Read on...