Too bad the two Motown covers on this distrust-and-divorce concept disc don't come from Marvin Gaye's dark ode to failed relations, Here, My Dear. But on Beggar on a Beach of Gold (Atlantic), songs like the abandoned-housewife lament ''Another Cup of Coffee'' aptly articulate middle-aged discontent, with keyboards sputtering like caffeine's kept them up all night. B
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