What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



Another artist who could fit in multiple genres. When in doubt I go here. Canadian guy who has had a very long career with 29 albums. This would be around the 20th. Not his best but pretty decent. Numerous awards up in the Great White North including an induction into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame. A couple of instrumentals on here drag it down here, along with a cover of Fats Dominos Blueberry Hill which doesn't work for me, but there are two great tracks. Special guest appearances by Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) and Lucinda Williams doing some nice back up.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Deep Lake

Best Track - When You Give It Away

Slid out of my dreams like a baby out of the nurse's hands
onto the hard floor of day
I'd been wearing OJ's gloves and I couldn't get them off
It was too early but I couldn't sleep
showered, dressed, stepped out into the heat
the parrot things on the porch next door
announced my arrival on Chartres Street
with their finest rendition of squealing brakes
Down in Kaldi's caf� the newspaper headlines promised new revelations
about Prince Charles' Amex account
A morose youth in old-time Austrian drag stares past his moustache at the ground
and last night's punks and fetish kids all tattoos and metal bits
and in the other corner (wearing the white trunks)
today's tourists already sweating

Deep in the city of the saints and fools
Pearls before pigs and dung become jewels
I sit down with tigers and sit down with lambs
None of them know who exactly I am

I've got this thing in my heart
I must give it today
It only lives when you give it away

Languid mandala of the ceiling fan
teases the air like a slow stroking hand
Study the faces, study the cards
Study the shadow creeping over the yard

I've got this thing in my heart
I must give it today
It only lives when you give it away

Trouble with nations, trouble with relations
Where you gonna go for some illumination?
Too much to carry too much to let go
Time goes fast learning goes slow

I've got this thing in my heart
I must give it today
It only lives when you give it away

1) When You Give It Away - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3y1FZ3gQvc
2) Mango - **
3) Last Night Of The World - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc1x37VAw2k
4) Isn't That What Friends Are For - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFGO4iKh-aM
5) Down To The Delta - *
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Uj4CTiHQI
6) Embers Of Eden - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abf6RayB77A
7) Blueberry Hill - *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T13kTaUe_8Q
8) Let The Bad Air Out - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4xf2G6g0wM
9) Look How Far - **
10) Deep Lake - *
11) Use Me While You Can - **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TD2ft4KPno

3's - 2
2's - 6
1's - 3

Grade - 1.9