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Until now. At the age of 44, Robertson has shaken the dust off and made his first solo album. Two Band colleagues show up on two cuts for the sake of old times. There are also hefty contributions from U2, Peter Gabriel and the BoDeans, and stylistic echoes as diverse as Tom Waits and David Byrne. But Robbie Robertson is unmistakably his work. He says it best himself on the last cut, Testimony: "Bear witness, I'm wailing like the wind/ Come bear witness, the half-breed rides again." So step right up and welcome him home...
...songwriting took less than a year. There are nine new tunes on this album and enough material left over to give Robertson a strong head start on the next one. The recording took another full year. Together with Producer ; Daniel Lanois, who worked with U2 on The Joshua Tree, Robertson came up with a silky, soaring sound that is ethereal and sporting at the same time, just what you might hear from a roadhouse located down an off ramp just south of the pearly gates...
Unlike many Harvard bands, Men of Clay plays mostly originals. Their music has an ethereal sound in the Sting-Police vein. Or, as one listener at Memorial Hall last week described their sound, "[It's] like U2 without Bono...
...have climbed the highest mountain: I have run through the fields only to be with you. U2...
...however reassuring Bragg's politics, there's nevertheless something slightly nettlesome about being preached to. One fortunate side of Bragg is that he anticipates all of the complaints--even the ones about how chick it seems to have become for rock stars (Bono of U2, Jackson Browne, and so on) to go down to see what's really going on down there--and he's ready to deal forthrightly with the complaints...