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Brooks manufactures a kind of hydrogenated country music -- pop and branch water -- that has a message and no menace, just as his live shows have the trappings of rock without rock's edge of danger or (as in the case of Bruce Springsteen) its all-out emotional engagement. He's a country performer not only for country folk who want a kick, but for city slickers who don't want to stray too far from the superficial trappings of rock. He's new and familiar at the same time. And at the right time...
...Ryman (Reprise), her considerable gifts are in full flourish. She can sing a Bill Monroe classic with reverence and put over Steve Earle's nail-spitting Guitar Town with untroubled conviction. She is astute and audacious enough to follow up Stephen Foster's Hard Times with Bruce Springsteen's spooky and mournful Mansion on the Hill. Just goes to show. When Emmylou Harris gets to work on a tune, country music knows no bounds...
Great, go-for-the-gut roadhouse rock, Jersey-shore style. An envoi for the glory days: sentimental, hard-edged and clear-eyed. When Little Steven (who produced and wrote much of this album) and Bruce Springsteen get together with Southside on It's Been a Long Time, the result is one of rock's greatest tributes to the bounds and bonds of friendship...
Great, go-for-the-gut roadhouse rock, Jersey-shore style. An envoi for the glory days: sentimental, hard-edged and clear-eyed. When Little Steven (who produced and wrote much of this album) and Bruce Springsteen get together with Southside on It's Been a Long Time, the result is one of rock's greatest tributes to the bounds and bonds of friendship...
...Springsteen's question still pertains, however, even in the midst of these glad tidings. Morrison has been making music for more than a quarter-century, since he left his native Belfast in 1961 to sing R. and B. to G.I.s stationed in Germany. He fronted a fine Beatles-era band called Them, then went solo and traveled to America. There he flirted with the mainstream before recording Astral Weeks in 1969, an album that set what was to be, for him, a more or less unvarying pattern: wild record, wild-eyed reviews, loyal but limited audience. Since then...