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CD
THTG 6094
EURO 13,50
Tracks:
1. Your Goat Is On Fire
2. Sad Smile
3. Don't Go To Chattanooga
4. Swollen But Not The Same
5. One Of Us Has Got To Go
6. Lost In A Puzzle
7. A Storm - A Tree - My Mother's Head
8. The Sky Is The Ground
9. Rock And Roll Halloween
10. Jesus Sandals
11. Liz Taylor's Lipstick Gun
12. The Summer Of '93
13. But I Do
14. But I Do (Walk Off Music) | | INFO
 | (Songwriter/Rock/Indie Pop/Alt.Country Rock) 2010 Naked Albino/Thirty Tigers - ein einziger Schmelztigel von überbordenden Ideen, unterschiedlichster Arrangements und weirden Stilschwenks - gespickt mit erstklassigen Songs und einem Bobby Bare Jr., der inmitten all dieses vermeintlichen Durcheinanders kraft seiner Person immer die Oberhand behält und seiner mittlerweile 10. Veröffentlichung seit 1998 einen souveränen Stempel aufdrückt! Purer Rock'n Roll, alt.folky Songwriter-Balladen, kruder 60er Pop, bombastischer Prog Rock, leftfield Country Rock, New Wave-Versatz, Neo Psychedelia und waschechter Southern Rock - Bare Jr. hat mittlerweile Erfahrung darin, all das zu seiner ganz persönlichen Sache zu machen, aber so gut wie diesmal ist ihm das noch nie gelungen! Er wirkt dabei gereift, mit sich selbst im Einklang und sehr zielgerichtet - seine Musik bleibt aber immer noch anarchisch und experimentell, sophisticated und augenzwinkernd und jede Menge Grenzen sprengend! Übersetzt heißt das in etwa: Wir hören eine Basis von Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams und Shooter Jennings und dann dazu etliche Prisen Harry Nilsson, Steve Earle, Beatles, Decemberists, Todd Rundgren und Bonnie Prince Billy. Zum Beispiel. Bare Jr. hat diesmal als Partner dabei: seinen Vater, die Country-Ikone Bobby Bare Sr., ein paar Male als Co-Writer. 3/5 My Morning Jacket (Carl Broemel, Tom Blankenship, Patrick Hallahan) als Begleitband & Co-Writers, David Vandervelde (schillernde Indie Pop/Songwriter-Figur auf Secretly Canadian) als Co-Produzent, Co-Writer & Multiinstrumentalist und seine wiedergenesene Mutter mit... einem Schrei auf dem Titelsong. Der (komplett mit passendem Albumcover) ist ihr gewidmet - bei einem Tornado kippte ein großer Baum aufs Elternhaus und verletzte sie schwer am Kopf. Spezieller Bare Family-Humor! Ganz sicher eine der intelligentesten und spannendsten Veröffentlichungen in 2010, die am Ende vermutlich leider viel zu wenige gehört haben werden?! |
 | Bobby Bare Jr. is a songwriter who often has a has a hard time deciding if he wants to be silly or serious and usually ends up covering a bit of both, which befits a guy who was friends with Shel Silverstein, a man who made a brilliant career out of grafting the goofy to the profound. Bare certainly had plenty to think seriously about since his 2006 album The Longest Meow; he and his wife had a son before going through a contentious divorce, he fell in love again and fathered another child, and his mother had a peculiar brush with death alluded to in the title of A Storm, A Tree, My Mother's Head. But while this album feels weightier and more personal than most of Bare's previous work, that's not to say that he's left his mystic hillbilly wit on the sidelines for these sessions. Some of the darker moments of Bare's recent history inform this album, such as "One Of Us Has Got To Go" and "But I Do" (two tales of seriously messed-up relationships he co-wrote with his father Bobby Bare Sr.), "Sad Smile" (which begins with the lines "Last night I got busted/ For acting just like myself"), and the title song, which features the sound of Bare's mom screaming deep in the mix. But not all the darker currents on this album are obviously autobiographical; there's the guy thinking about violating a court order so he can hang out with his girlfriend on "Don't Go To Chattanooga" or the young and luckless military recruits in "Swollen But not The Same." And Bare does toss some truly engaging surrealism into the mix, most notably the fake celebrity roll call of "Rock and Roll Halloween" and the unique weaponry of "Liz Taylor's Lipstick Gun." A Storm, A Tree, My Mother's Head captures Bare on a strong streak as a songwriter, and while the performances are engagingly loose, the band -- anchored by Tom Blankenship, Carl Broemel, and Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket -- shows some welcome signs of precision on these recordings that give the tunes the body and force they deserve. No one should have to lose their marriage or have their mother break some vertebrae to make a great album, but if nothing else Bare had been able to turn some tough times into some of his strongest work to date, though hopefully the next album will come a bit easer for him. (All Music Guide - www.allmusic.com) |
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