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they are great! Looking at this artist with a fresh perspective, because this is the first album I have heard from him; I am ready to hear more. I enjoy “Going Home,” because of the lyrics, but then also his self-deprecating referral to himself in the point of view of another one of his personalities. The next song has this feeling of walking through an abandoned circus/fairgrounds during the middle of the night with ominous dark clouds before the storm. His rasp works well with the overall tone in this tale of survival; which has him saying “Amen.” The second half has a fuller sound, but comes together to create over seven minutes worth listening to. When I heard the opening of “Show Me The Place” I thought of John Denver’s classic sunshine on my shoulder. He proclaims he caught “The Darkness,” but it also sounds like he caught the blues drinking out of a pessimist’s wine glass at the bar on the Rhodes; across the street from that church. “Anyhow,” can we have a song not as depressing? Ok. “Crazy To Love You” does not rely on delusion, but the power of the mind; the ability to love someone is achieved by sheer power of will, or a confused and indecisive state as to what love is supposed to feel like: “I’m tired of choosing desire/I been saved by a blessed fatigue.” After the last few numbers, let this next one “Come Healing” your disenchanted soul. Even on this “dark infested sea” Cohen keeps afloat with the help of a “Banjo.” whether it came “Off of someone’s shoulder/Or out of someone’s grave,” you cannot measure the worth of its arrival in the arms of the weary. It is not your typical “Lullaby,” but it gets the job done; without too many negative images to impede a sound sleep. Most artists prefer to show that they have “Different Sides” to themselves, but this works too. Going Home, Amen, The Darkness, Come Healing and Banjo.
they are great! Looking at this artist with a fresh perspective, because this is the first album I have heard from him; I am ready to hear more. I enjoy “Going Home,” because of the lyrics, but then also his self-deprecating referral to himself in the point of view of another one of his personalities. The next song has this feeling of walking through an abandoned circus/fairgrounds during the middle of the night with ominous dark clouds before the storm. His rasp works well with the overall tone in this tale of survival; which has him saying “Amen.” The second half has a fuller sound, but comes together to create over seven minutes worth listening to. When I heard the opening of “Show Me The Place” I thought of John Denver’s classic sunshine on my shoulder. He proclaims he caught “The Darkness,” but it also sounds like he caught the blues drinking out of a pessimist’s wine glass at the bar on the Rhodes; across the street from that church. “Anyhow,” can we have a song not as depressing? Ok. “Crazy To Love You” does not rely on delusion, but the power of the mind; the ability to love someone is achieved by sheer power of will, or a confused and indecisive state as to what love is supposed to feel like: “I’m tired of choosing desire/I been saved by a blessed fatigue.” After the last few numbers, let this next one “Come Healing” your disenchanted soul. Even on this “dark infested sea” Cohen keeps afloat with the help of a “Banjo.” whether it came “Off of someone’s shoulder/Or out of someone’s grave,” you cannot measure the worth of its arrival in the arms of the weary. It is not your typical “Lullaby,” but it gets the job done; without too many negative images to impede a sound sleep. Most artists prefer to show that they have “Different Sides” to themselves, but this works too. Going Home, Amen, The Darkness, Come Healing and Banjo.
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