Word: lovechild
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...However, it's not just the sound quality of the album itself that will amaze you; the music itself, described by North House as "the lovechild of Bonnie Raitt and Lenny Kravitz" with some Jimi Hendrix and Dave Matthews Band thrown in, is incredible. The music and lyrics for every track were written by Bennett and Warren, and Warren, especially, writes like she's a poet by calling, as in "Babylon": "You live on cigarettes and cherry brine/Your windows translucent and your broken lullaby." Bennett's smooth, relaxed voice sounds as if it were born knowing what...
...more clearly than ever before. But while on disk one's "Santa Ana" Springsteen did a passable Dylan impersonation, here the listener is confronted with the ugly truth about the Springsteen of the early '80s: the strained, country-infused rocker "Take 'Em as They Come" sounds like the misbegotten lovechild of Journey and the Eagles, and would have been better unrescued from Columbia's archives. Fortunately, Springsteen makes up for his mistakes with "Johnny Bye-Bye," a tiny gem of a song co-written with Chuck Berry and reminiscent of the smooth, clean hooks of "Darlington Country" and "Working...
Each moment, from Willie's pathetic scheming about his girlfriend to self- denying Raffi's declaration that he is secretly "Laurence Olivier's lovechild" to Javier's strikingly forgiving meditations in his wheelchair, seems at once the dramatic high point and the pivotal piece of evidence in explaining this deranged yet oddly delightful family. In the end, it turns out that the entire piece is, as little Miggy brags his life will be, "Spic- tacular...