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Track Listings
| 1. Letting the mad dogs lie |
| 2. These days |
| 3. Road to Ronderlin |
| 4. Perfect love |
| 5. The way things are |
| 6. Seven hours |
| 7. Woodstock |
| 8. Locomotive |
| 9. O'Donnel Street |
| 10. Dear Richard |
| 11. Kingfish |
| 12. Blood red roses |
Product Description
Tracks are:
1 Letting the Mad Dogs Lie 5:46
2 These Days 4:13
3 The Road to Ronderlin 4:39
4 Perfect Love 5:08
5 The Way Things Are 3:12
6 Seven Hours 4:41
7 Woodstock 5:19
8 Locomotive 3:44
9 O'Donnel Street 7:53
10 Dear Richard 5:13
11 Kingfish 3:57
12 Blood Red Roses 4:59
13 Money 3:14
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a laidback, mostly acoustic, album with nice vocals that exceeded my expectations.
First some background to these expectations. Forty years ago in the late summer of 1970 Matthews Southern Comfort had their only hit with `Woodstock' - it was number one, Top of the Pops! Like many I loved the song and it caused me to follow Iain Matthews' music since. He is noted particularly for his voice and taste in other people's songs. Matthews Southern Comfort made two albums before Matthews left because of the excessive hype that went with being pop sensations. The band not only featured Matthews' beautiful English voice, but pedal steel guitar, Carl Barnwell's voice and songs, and three and four part harmonies.
This album has little in common with the original Matthews Southern Comfort. Only Matthews of the original band is here and his voice is not what it was. After over forty years in the business, mostly in the U.S., this is no surprise. His singing on some songs is still good but on others he uses a semi speaking style that followers of his more recent output will be familiar with, and which I don't really like (his harmony singing is excellent as always). There is no pedal steel (no electric guitar at all in fact, just electric bass and keyboards with acoustic guitar and drums), but there are some nice harmonies. There's also a female singer.
There are three tracks that listeners of the original MSC will recognise. Woodstock, a song Matthews has redone throughout his career, appears again here, and it is another worthy version. Blood Red Roses, an a cappella version originally, is here offered with a small amount of instrumentation - I didn't like it then and don't now! And Road to Ronderlin, my favorite track from MSC days. I've still no idea what the lyrics mean but that gives it an air of mystery which enhances the song. This new version is very nice. Five tracks are written and sung by Terri Binion. I'd never heard of her but she has made a couple of albums and has a very nice American voice, reminding me of Lorna Hunt in style. Her songs are not highly original but still very pleasant. The other songs are two Matthews revisits and three new ones.
I've listened to the album a few times now and I find I can still play it practically the whole way through without skipping songs. The only tracks I don't like are, as I said, Blood Red Roses, and Money, and I'm finding Kingfish beginning to grate. That's OK as these are the last three songs! I should point out that there are very few albums I can play the whole way through and only one from Matthews (Walking a Changing Line). His recent output has offered very little to me, two or three (very good) songs at most, so this album rates pretty well in comparison.
So, to my ears, not a Matthews Southern Comfort album, not even an Iain Matthews one, but a Matthews/Binion collaboration with a top set of musicians.
Whatever it is, I like it.
First some background to these expectations. Forty years ago in the late summer of 1970 Matthews Southern Comfort had their only hit with `Woodstock' - it was number one, Top of the Pops! Like many I loved the song and it caused me to follow Iain Matthews' music since. He is noted particularly for his voice and taste in other people's songs. Matthews Southern Comfort made two albums before Matthews left because of the excessive hype that went with being pop sensations. The band not only featured Matthews' beautiful English voice, but pedal steel guitar, Carl Barnwell's voice and songs, and three and four part harmonies.
This album has little in common with the original Matthews Southern Comfort. Only Matthews of the original band is here and his voice is not what it was. After over forty years in the business, mostly in the U.S., this is no surprise. His singing on some songs is still good but on others he uses a semi speaking style that followers of his more recent output will be familiar with, and which I don't really like (his harmony singing is excellent as always). There is no pedal steel (no electric guitar at all in fact, just electric bass and keyboards with acoustic guitar and drums), but there are some nice harmonies. There's also a female singer.
There are three tracks that listeners of the original MSC will recognise. Woodstock, a song Matthews has redone throughout his career, appears again here, and it is another worthy version. Blood Red Roses, an a cappella version originally, is here offered with a small amount of instrumentation - I didn't like it then and don't now! And Road to Ronderlin, my favorite track from MSC days. I've still no idea what the lyrics mean but that gives it an air of mystery which enhances the song. This new version is very nice. Five tracks are written and sung by Terri Binion. I'd never heard of her but she has made a couple of albums and has a very nice American voice, reminding me of Lorna Hunt in style. Her songs are not highly original but still very pleasant. The other songs are two Matthews revisits and three new ones.
I've listened to the album a few times now and I find I can still play it practically the whole way through without skipping songs. The only tracks I don't like are, as I said, Blood Red Roses, and Money, and I'm finding Kingfish beginning to grate. That's OK as these are the last three songs! I should point out that there are very few albums I can play the whole way through and only one from Matthews (Walking a Changing Line). His recent output has offered very little to me, two or three (very good) songs at most, so this album rates pretty well in comparison.
So, to my ears, not a Matthews Southern Comfort album, not even an Iain Matthews one, but a Matthews/Binion collaboration with a top set of musicians.
Whatever it is, I like it.
Format:Audio CD
From the brief extracts l've heard this is disappointing. Compared to the music of the excellent original group this lacks depth and,crucially for me,there is no steel player.
Still, you may like it.
Still, you may like it.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I'm disappointed with this as it's not actually MSC at all but Iain Matthews with a bunch of others who have no connection to MSC whatsoever. I thought there would be at least one or two of the old band with him. It's very well produced but dull, and the reworking of 'Woodstock' does absolutely nothing for me. The liner notes tell us that it was recorded piecemeal from April 2005 to September 2009 and perhaps this accounts for its lack of feel - a good example of technology not always serving us well. One Terri Binion is now included in the band and given 5 songs on this album. That's about 5 too many for me. Actually I feel somewhat cheated by this. Call in the Trades' Descriptions people immediately.
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