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Originally Posted by The Walrus
Lyrically there’s some pretty powerful stuff here. It’s worth noting that Jon wrote every single song on this album by himself, and his talent has always been with capturing a mood, and a feeling. Here he excels himself, managing to take it to the level of poetry as well. The only problem is, it can be rather heavy on the cowboy clichés; but this is almost forgivable, if you imagine this to be the sort of poetry an outlaw may have written at the end of the 19th century (assuming of course that he was able to write)
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This I think is the best part of your review. Even the latest album (which is not my favorite) has captured a mood and a feeling so that I don't find it as objectionable as I might normally.
I agree that Blaze is a bit heavy on the cowboy cliches - and they do get old in my opinion. If you can get past that though - it is one of my favorite albums of all times. The lyrics combined with Jon's gorgeous vocals make it outstanding. This album gets played a lot by me.
And yes - cowboys do write poetry. I have some old friends in California from years ago that really were cowboys and you never heard such tear jerking - bad poetry in your life LOL.
Kathleen