Advantages: the songs man, the songs! Disadvantages: it would be nitpicking.
...this is an opinion on Highway 61 revisited. not the double album. i have reviewed JWH separately. but ciao so far have refused to move this op.
a major major step onward and upward from "bringing it all back home" (AKA "subterrranean homesick blues"), this album has a very similar musical feel, but the lyrics are quite a few notches above those of its predecessor. for the most obvious examples of this being the powerful opening track, "like a rolling ... ...scope of this album is set out by those two tracks framing the album... it's ambitious to lead and end with amazingly strong tracks if the filler is just filler. but bob has not become the most respected songwriter ever for producing just filler... the songs in between these majestic highlights are all highlights themselves.
"tombstone blues" is a dirty drum-driven bleeding organ of a rock song. the fuzziness of the guitar sounds, the subtlety of ...
Advantages: great voice and songs Disadvantages: none
To me this is the best CD that Shania Twain has released. i will go on now to tell you abit about it:
ABIT ABOUT SHANIA TWAIN
Shania twain was born August 28th in 1965, and was actually born Eilleen Regina Edwards, and was the daughter of Sharon and Clarence Edwards, who seperated was she was 2 years old. Her mother remarried a man called Jerry Twain, who later adopted Eilleen, which made her become Eilleen Twain.
She was brought up in Timmins, ... ...Longshot. When her mother and Step-father were killed in a terrible car accident on November 1st 1987, When Shain was just 22. She then put her music career on hold.
Then in 1993, she released her first album named after herself. This was the start of a long career for her, she went on to release several more albums.
THE ALBUM
The album was released in 1998, and consists of 16 songs:
1) Your still the one (3.33) - This song shows the true talents ...
Advantages: Good to listen to or even sing along with. Disadvantages: None
...they manage to do a live performance. Loreena does not only give away a fine concert, the lyrics are somewhat different here and there, the speed is up in some places, and in particular The Old Ways intro, with a whirling violin, is dizzying. Brilliance at it's best.
The proceeds of this CD go to the Cook-Rees Memorial Fund for Water Search and Safety. McKennitt co-founded this fund after she lost 3 men who were dear to her. (more information can ...
...out yet another fantastic album: The Book of Secrets explores new celtic influences, as the celts were more widespread across all of Europe, than most people'd expect (This being witnessed with Nightride through the Causasus).
Again, her voice takes on many shapes and colours. From etherical to earthy, angelic to human. She pulls it off, and all in one album. The prologue, first piece of this album, is a calm but promising intro to a true Book of ...
Advantages: Willie's sweet voice and stinging guitar Disadvantages: It's not twice as long
The music: clean, uncluttered introspective. The songs: conveying the stark, sere, loneness of the singer. It's been called "blue collar blues" and I'd call it that, too, more than I'd call it country music. Only three of the songs are new, written in the 1990s, the rest are refashioned from the 1960s, and the 30 years in between scarcely matter. The songs were chosen and pieced together to tell the story of obssessive love or convey the concept ... ...And they do succeed in working together. They succeed in taking hold of your heart and grabbing onto it hard.
Somehow, in Willie Nelson's mature voice, the older songs take on a new edge and freshness. Emmy Lou Harris's background voice deepens the poignancy and works sweetly with Willie's. Hers is the ghostly voice of the victim and, ironically, but not uniquely, still a loving one. It moves in out of a distance, as if from the grave.
His guitar ...
