TheSound
An Englishman in New York
Yeah, thanks Jackie, I will maybe copy that over to album reviews if you advise me to, as long as you chip in (and any other Bruce fans) and add your own comments, most of your friends on here would value your view, being our Official Bruce Geek!! LOL
I am playing it again this morning, I keep hearing things I love. It's incredible that Bruce somehow seems to have almost created a whole new genre/musical language - if you said that you could mix traditional Irish, gospel, country and western, and a sort of Billy Preston soulfullness, and put it all into one song, I wouldn't have believed it could work, but Bruce pulls it off every time. I can't get 'Rocky Ground' out of my head at all - not that I'm trying to all that hard!
There's also I am starting to notice some pretty subtle religious stuff referred to, on several tracks there are references to faith and God and Jesus, and that whole gospel feel to the record that underpins a lot of the tracks is almost like Bruce going one step further from that whole 'Ministry of Rock 'n Roll' thing that he does at concerts. I love it. And also the production is amazing, there's a kind of a wall of sound he's created which is amazing, I checked and there are actually 51 musicians featured on the album at various times, including lots of backing vocals, a gospel choir, a chamber orchestra, a horn section, and of course at least one rock band, though he's enough players there to form about 3 bands!! None of us expected this.
I probably should have ordered the special edition CD with the extra tracks, maybe I will get it, though it's only 2 extra songs, one of which is 'American Land' which is an old favourite from his tours etc
I am playing it again this morning, I keep hearing things I love. It's incredible that Bruce somehow seems to have almost created a whole new genre/musical language - if you said that you could mix traditional Irish, gospel, country and western, and a sort of Billy Preston soulfullness, and put it all into one song, I wouldn't have believed it could work, but Bruce pulls it off every time. I can't get 'Rocky Ground' out of my head at all - not that I'm trying to all that hard!
There's also I am starting to notice some pretty subtle religious stuff referred to, on several tracks there are references to faith and God and Jesus, and that whole gospel feel to the record that underpins a lot of the tracks is almost like Bruce going one step further from that whole 'Ministry of Rock 'n Roll' thing that he does at concerts. I love it. And also the production is amazing, there's a kind of a wall of sound he's created which is amazing, I checked and there are actually 51 musicians featured on the album at various times, including lots of backing vocals, a gospel choir, a chamber orchestra, a horn section, and of course at least one rock band, though he's enough players there to form about 3 bands!! None of us expected this.
I probably should have ordered the special edition CD with the extra tracks, maybe I will get it, though it's only 2 extra songs, one of which is 'American Land' which is an old favourite from his tours etc
Liking it alot. I picked up the bonus version with 2 extra songs on and they're both good. Swallowed Up (In The Belly Of The Whale) and American Land are the bonus tracks but most of you probably knew that.
