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[Justme]

His phrasing on some of the songs (YTC, GoLo) is very Dylan-early-years. I certainly love it. As he gets more and more into singing, in my view, it adds a lot of depth. I'm sure, twm will like it. :-)

But there seems to be a lot guitar work too, compared to KTGC for example. And I wonder, if you wrote a song like "Brothers In Arms", what else can you do to take it to another level guitarwise?

[Justme]

...and just listen to the deep sounding and absolute cool rhythm guitar part on Don't Forget Your Hat...

I'm listening to that one with subwoofer-amplified headphones, and it's awesome.
Man, LE, I love your reviews of this album! They make me love the music even more.

Oh thanks! At least there is one who reads it.. .  

There is a lot of blues on the new album, yes. But it grooves SO HARD. That crazy rhythm section just beats me out of the room literally. I know now why Danny was rejected. Ian rocks! Danny rocks too, but in his own way, certainly not in the blues. It's hard to listen You Can't Beat a House even after just snippets of P-g. I can listen groovy blues like new ones all day long.

Radio City Serenade - oh, I sing it for two days now and can't help it. Same key as Stand Up Guy and similar feeling. But that a song! Ahhhh, it kills me. I want more!
 
 

Thanks a million for uploading snippets!

+1!! There's blues and there's blues, and this blues I like a lot! For example: EC, great guitarist that he is, his voice never really gave me the impression that he really is a blues man, while JJ Cale has it, and Mark really echoes some JJ stuff here. I don't think I Used To Could is the weakest track like written before, I love it. Repetition and monotony is an integral part of this kind of music, and MK really has had this in his music from day one (Southbound Again). So he hits it perfectly, I would not say he just copies things and has not composed a single note of it himself. Music is feeling over all!

LE

 

I do agree to a certain degree: to me EC follows a quite academic approach to the blues. There is everything in it that you might expect, but it lacks, hm how can I put it, soul perhaps? Don't want to sound disrespectful, I appreciate his talent and his playing!
Oh, and please give Howlin' Wolf a try, (early) John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and last but not least Blind Willie Johnson

[Love Expresso]

I will, thanks!!

Oh, and GoLo, I mean the short cut, is nice, as it cannot be GL... So one must get used to all these new song-abbrevations!

And I know now why I like these two mentioned songs so very much - for YTC I fully agree, but on GoLo, FOR ME, he sings pretty much MK usual style...
which I like! There's something nearly magic about this song, can't wait to hear the full version. What guitar did he use here, Les Paul probably? Or was it me who was thinking it could be the same guitar as in Behind With The Rent? 

LE

[ds1984]

Here we have a deep impact on this album from the Dylan Tour: the Bluestracks. This new album is very american again.

But wasn't the album actualy written and mostly recorded before the Dylan tour?

[ingridswing]

I think almost all of the album was written, recorded and mixed before the Dylan tour. But then another 3/4 of a year went on, MK had some more inspiration and songs and wanted to add some songs.  Just my 2 cents

[Love Expresso]

Yeah, interesting to know which songs were recorded after the tour apart from Haul Away.
The diary page number 5 is starting one day after the tour, and Kim Wilson seemed to have been at
British Grove when the Dylan tour was over. So maybe all the blues tracks were indeed recorded after Mark met Mr. Bob...

LE

[another brother]

Mark had big fun playing the dylan songs on stage, so it is quite clear that he recorded the blues tracks after the tour to bring the energy from stage into an album.
but, indeed, there were more guitar soli on the dylan tracks played live, the guitar player of dylan, charlie saxton, was great, as he played the stuff very dirty and very load. so let

[superval99]

i loved the maximum volume of dylan very much.

I really hope MK doesn't play with the high volume of the Dylan concerts, because I had to resort to earplugs!   Not good!   

[ingridswing]

I really don't hope MK will ever play as loud as Dylan did, my ears are still beeping from it. For the first time in my life I needed earplugs! Some more power ok, but it doesn't need to be that loud.

[ingridswing]

Haha Val, great minds think alike 

[superval99]

Haha Val, great minds think alike 

      

[another brother]

i like it 

i must feel the stuff in stomach.

the Shangri La tour was nice in volume, the KTGC tour was far to low on volume, there were viewer that shoutet out "louder" in the arena. except the gig in strasbourg, this one was excellent in sound and volume (because of the perfect venue)

but nothing when i compare the gigs of dire straits, i will never forget the hurrican of PA at the concerts in munich olympic hall on the every street tour.

btw, the loudest concert of mark i ever visited was in stuttgart, killesberg, open air (1996, golden heart) -

[superval99]

The louder it is doesn't make it better.  

I remember going to a Clapton concert some years ago and it was so loud, I couldn't actually hear the music, because my ears started buzzing and I was praying that the sound tech would turn the volume down.  I didn't have earplugs, so I sat with my fingers in my ears for the entire show.   Even so, I had ringing in my ears for days afterwards.  

Luckily, I was forewarned about Dylan and took earplugs with me.    To me that isn't good sound at all - there has to be a happy medium.    Also with regard to Dylan, I think there was a reason for the loudness - it concealed his terrible guitar-playing!

[ingridswing]

Not to mention his singing 

[superval99]

And harmonica!