What did Andy Warhol's mid '60s lair on East 47th Street have in common with the Rolling Stones' classic Beggars Banquet album of '68?
To any moderate pop culture obsessive, the answer would be something to do with Factory Girls. In Warhol's entourage, they were glamorous wannabe superstars caught in a whirlwind of sex, drugs and high society. On the Stones album, she was a salt-of-the-earth wench on her way to the pub, a stray cat with fat knees and a headscarf sketched in gritty acoustic blues.
These Factory Girls, the ones comprising Dallas Crane's second album for Albert Productions, seem to come from somewhere in between. There's no specific debt to Keef or Andy,...