Advantages: African Western Fusion Disadvantages: Production sounds a bit 80's
...Savuka.
This album is the 'best of JohnnyClegg and Savuka. The music is a cross of rock, celtic and African music, in both English and Zulu. I love the lyrics - they are so evocative of the country, and whilst the music sometimes sounds a bit too much like Genesis/Peter Gabriel for my liking (well much of it was c. 1980s) mix of African and English is really unique. I suppose I love it because it reminds me of my holidays!
The Tracks are as follows:
1. Scatterlings of Africa
2. Great heart
3. Asimbonanga (Mandella)
4. Ibhola lethu (Our football team)
5. Dela
6. Siyayilanda
7. One (hu)man one vote
8. Crossing
9. Take my heart away
10. Cruel crazy beautiful world
11. I call your name
12. Third World child
13. Tough enough
14. These days
15. In myAfricandream
16. Africa (What made you so strong)
"And we...
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Advantages: He is Johnny Cash Disadvantages: I am not Johnny Cash
...The fact that Johnny Cash does not yet have his own category on Ciao is shameful and they should hang their heads in shame until they rectify this. One of my ambitions as a Kid was to walk on a stage and say “Hello I’m Johnny Cash”; I fulfilled this ambition but, as a I launched into a unique Karaoke Version of A Boy Named Sue. The bloke doing the Karaoke told me later that he had never quite witnessed anything like my quite performance. It was at this point I realised that I would never be Johnny Cash. Bono out of U2 once said that “Every man knows that they are a sissy compared to Johnny Cash” this is true, but it is also true that Bono is a pretentious twonk, who makes uninspiring music. Johnny Cash on the other hand made totally inspiring music, I always imagined that god sounds a bit like Johnny Cash, but god speaks in Hebrew...
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Advantages: Sombre, poignant, affecting Disadvantages: Couple of right royal stinkers
...-advised covers on this album, but this one manages to err on the side of cool as opposed to "bad idea!" It's the Simon and Garfunkel classic of course, and no lyric has ever suited Johnny Cash than the opening "when you're weary": he sounds it too. Superb, inspired version using just a guitar and a cello.
5. I Hung My Head
This track was originally included with a free CD on the front of Q magazine last year and hence served as my introduction to Cash. And what an intro! It's another "story-song" about Cash out on the plains taking shooting practice with his rifle when it accidentally goes off and kills a lone rider in the distance. He tried and found guilty and hung and the song is sung from the perspective of both the pre-trial Cash and the dead, post-hung Cash. It's OK, though, because Cash and the guy he killed become mates in Heaven...
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very helpful 09.12.2004
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