Bread & Butter -- Chikatetsu（地下鉄）

I have got to say that the cover of Bread & Butter's（ブレッド&バター）3rd album "Barbecue" is likely the most welcoming and sunniest that I've ever seen on anything having to do with Japanese pop music. It basically is a family photo in some obviously well-off resident's backyard. One can just wonder how much a pop singer was making even back in those days.

One track on "Barbecue" is "Chikatetsu" (Subway) about a guy instantly falling in love with a long-haired woman on a subway one day. It's a pretty rollicking folk tune created by the duo making up Bread & Butter, Satsuya and Fuyumi Iwasawa（岩沢幸矢・岩沢二弓）with an arrangement that somehow reminded me of the songs recorded by artists like Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell. And y'know what? I think this would be the type of song that could be sung at the barbecue party on that Bread & Butter cover.

By the way, "Barbecue" also has a Bread & Butter classic, "Pink Shadow"（ピンクシャドウ）.