Music CD - Robbie Robertson: Robbie Robertson

	Music CD: Robbie Robertson Artist: Robbie Robertson List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $4.90 Your Save: $ 5.08 ( 51% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Geffen Records
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Tracks: 1. Fallen Angel 2. Showdown At Big Sky 3. Broken Arrow 4. Sweet Fire Of Love 5. American Roulette 6. Somewhere Down The Crazy River 7. Hell's Half Acre 8. Sonny Got Caught In The Moonlight 9. Testimony
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0720642416020 Label: Geffen Records Manufacturer: Geffen Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Geffen Records Release Date: 1990-10-25 Studio: Geffen Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: l don't care what shape he's in! Comment: lt's amazing Robbie can play any instruments with Richard Manuel's blood all over his hands. Customer Rating: Summary: Another of Robbie's best Comment: This album and Storyville are fantastic albums with a lot of character, great rythymm and wonderful melodies. If you are a lover of great music and can open your mind to something different then I gurantee you will enjoy this CD. Customer Rating: Summary: Desert Island Disc Comment: Some things I feel qualified to say about Robertson's solo debut album from 1987 after living with it for twenty years now: As a librarian with emphasis on music composition, it still fascinates me how coherent the material on Robbie Robertson is, how well it all works together as a (non-concept) whole, even with the personnel changes from track to track. The similarities to Band material ("Showdown At Big Sky" and "Sonny Got Caught ITM") and the differences (which are everywhere) put some amount of focus squarely on intrepid producer Daniel Lanois as a highly artistic "treater" of Robertson's well-crafted songs. Lanois is just so flat-out capable of using the studio as his instrument (much like his mentor Brian Eno) that it's possible he could work this kind of magic with anybody's stuff, regardless of quality. Make no mistake, though - Lanois starts out with good stuff here and then makes it even better. That long 10-year post-Band gestation period probably helps explain why most of these comps are so solid to begin with (think of all the discards there must have been). But consider also that when Robertson was pressed by David Geffen to make a follow-up for release, it took him 4 years and the results were "ehh" - still good songs but not nearly as impressively produced with no Daniel Lanois on board for Storyville from 1991. More that I can say 20 years on: As a guitarist, I am still to this day finding stuff to cop off of Robbie Robertson, and not just Edge stuff from what I consider to be one of the album's two stand-out tracks, "Sweet Fire Of Love". "Hell's Half Acre" is the other one, and little-known 6-stringer Bill Dillon gets major credit for his work. The spoken rather than sung vocal sections of "Somewhere Down The Crazy River" also make for great practice jams when you want to try out some suave blues lines. What gets me fed up is that these folks who are telling me they can't stand Robertson's singing (here or anywhere else) are the same ones who seem to love this latest Lucinda Williams West thing. Some people say there's no accounting for taste. Well, I say there is, but I also say that everybody has a tin ear one day a week. I wouldn't want to be without Robbie Robertson for many reasons: excellent comps, great production, U2 cameos, Peter Gabriel cameos, Tony Levin's stick, Manu Katché's drums, Gil Evans' horn section. My only complaint - at less than 45 minutes, it's over too soon. How about a re-issue with 20+ minutes of bonus material, Mr. Geffen? My only other complaint about anything anywhere - try to ignore those irrelevant reviewers on these pages who just want to kvetch about RR as an actor in Scorsese films. We live in a world where an Austrian bodybuilder can become governor of California, and where an incompetent idiot can become president of the US, twice, so go write some reviews about them and leave Robbie alone. Customer Rating: Summary: Robbie--Amazing Comment: I love music, I love the music of 'the band'. I held out buying Robie Robertson's cd because I read how badly he sings. My god, how wrong can one be? All Of his music is absolutely amazing. I just wish he would put some more of it out. Thanks, Robbie for the great music, please make more.. Customer Rating: Summary: Great CD Comment: This is a great CD if you get it you'll be suprized. I like to compare it to Music From The Big Pink. Its neat because Robbie Robertson did not sing much in The Band. But he sang wrote all the songs on this CD. its not like The Band but I'm not saying it's bad its still rock but its a differant sound then you might expect. but don't hate it for that, thats the point of a solo album. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Lightning does strike twice. Robbie Robertson's breathtaking 1987 solo debut was every bit as remarkable as another debut he'd masterminded two decades before, The Band's Music from Big Pink. Even more impressive was the fact that Robertson's new sound owed so little, other than a shared vision, to the sonic Americana he'd created with The Band. Robertson cashed in The Band's rustic tones in for a lush, beat-box womb created by coproducer Daniel Lanois. His own weird, almost spectral voice, also turned out to be the right vehicle for the words he'd been handing to others for so long. Bono, The BoDeans, and Peter Gabriel join in on keepers like "Fallen Angel" and "Broken Arrow." --Michael Ruby