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 | Title : The Naked Ride Home
Author : Browne, Jackson
Release Date : 20020924
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
One of the most eloquent singer-songwriters of the '70s heyday of the movement, Jackson Browne has always been a master of deciphering what is written on the human heart. On his first outing in six years, Browne again waxes autobiographical, wandering through his extensive interior landscape and transforming his pain into art. But after three decades, his songs of elusive love lost and found have become a little bit wry and world-weary. Witness the bittersweet title song, where the details are so crisp and well drawn that it's difficult to believe that he didn't just lift them from his own life. Similarly, 'The Night Inside Me' returns to some of the wrenching themes of 1975's Late for the Sky with fresh anger. But it is Jackson Browne's turbulent romantic history--his elevation of the small, significant details that make up a life, or more poignantly, show one unraveling--that defines his work, and which is in full flower here.
Buyer Reviews :
Randy Newman has a song on his 'Bad Love' album in which the narrator complains his music sounds just like it use to but only not as good. Well, Jackson Browne's music 2002 sounds alot like any number of his earlier releases. 'The Naked Ride Home' doesn't mark a radical change for Browne. But unlike Newman's narrator this collection of songs are among his most meaningful and best produced. His music isn't so much changing as it is growing more expansive. Yes, the arrangements bring to mind a mixture of his last two albums 'I'm Alive' and 'Looking East.' The sound quality is quite good, it is easy to pick out the different instruments, and the arrangements are quite complimentary to the songs. What's he singing about? Working on relationships, being true to one's self and not wrecking other peoples' lives, and taking a few more stands against the principalities and powers. Lyrically, Browne is creative, poetic without being pretentious. The subject of his songs are traveling farther and farther, deeper and deeper. On 'For Taking the Trouble,' the narrator imagines two grandmas up in heaven talking about the relationship described in the song; one of the best moments in popular music this year. The title cut, the song just mentioned above, 'Casino Nation,' 'Sergio Leone' are fine songs. But the stunning tune is the next to last one, 'Don't You Want to Be There,' another picture of heaven, or at least of redemption where Browne sings, 'Those you have wronged, you know, You need to let them know some way...Those who have wronged you, know You'll have to let them go someday.' The lines are punctuated by a guitar and keyboard line that is just right and as the song moves on a trumpet piece refinforces the lyrics. Jackson and the crew were wise enough to let the song breathe for awhile near the end, an extended instrumental that is moving and powerful at the same time. This album probably won't be on the charts high up there like 'Hold Out,' but musically and lyrically it is a beautiful album. I hope he enjoyed making it because it is very rich listening experience.
(by A music fan)
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