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 | Title : Nothing Personal
Author : Delbert McClinton
Release Date : 20010306
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $17.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Like many other senior bluesmen, Delbert McClinton is getting back to basics: Nothing Personal, his first album for New West, is the raw, stripped-down sort of material that sounds best when you know it comes from experience. It is this sense of things seen and done that pervades every track, and which prevents songs like 'When Rita Leaves' and 'Don't Leave Home Without It' from lapsing into sentimentality. The more emotional, personal numbers--the album's title notwithstanding, this is a highly personal album--are balanced with high-energy material, though even these songs, such as 'Livin' It Down,' have a serious thing or two to say. McClinton also neatly avoids several clichés. Take, for instance, 'Nothing Lasts Forever,' which has, as a theme, the necessity of living life to the fullest without burning yourself out. One might expect such a song to be an uptempo rocker. Instead, it moves along at an easy, swinging pace, the musical personification of following a path of moderation. Nothing Personal is full of little touches and techniques like this, moving out of the realm of merely good, and into the ranks of art.
Buyer Reviews :
Delbert McClinton may never record a truly great album, but he's come close a couple of times, but he'll never make a bad one. The sixty-year-old Texan has been making music for forty years, and if his blend of classic rhythm & blues, country, and rock & roll is not highly original, its never less than believable and sincere. Blessed with a solid set of pipes, McClinton is still one of the finest white r&b singers of the last few decades. He also plays a mean harmonica (He gave pointers on the instrument to a young John Lennon in 1962, prior to the recording of the Beatles' first single).
'Nothing Personal' is one of the best albums of McClinton's long career. He wrote or co-wrote all thirteen songs, with the opening 'Livin' It Down,' 'When Rita Leaves' and 'Birmingham Tonight' this listener's favorites. There is no groundbreaking music here, but that's besides the point. Most artists would be glad to make music this gritty, real and fun at any point in their careers.
The closest that Delbert McClinton ever came to a hit single was over two decades ago, when ' Givin' It Up For Your Love' almost climbed the charts. Given current tastes, nothing here is going to change that. Delbert has also had bad luck with record companies, as several have folded or reorganized with McClinton's latest recording barely on the streets. He's on a new, independent label with 'Nothing Personal' and I'll keep my fingers crossed for him.
Certainly McClinton's fans will want to own this, but anyone who enjoys well-crafted, soulful r&b and rock will enjoy 'Nothing Personal.'
(by Ron Frankl)
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