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Originally Posted by Kathleen
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
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Yeah, he did kind of box himself in by making his first solo album the soundtrack to a very genre-specific film, although he does manage to write it into the context of the other themes I mentioned ... religion and betrayal and all the rest
Incidentally, it occured to me after writing that review that I never once used the word "mature", which strikes me as an appropriate word to use ... however, since I can't be bothered to amend it right now, you'll just have to come up with your own wordy comment on how this album showcases a lot more mature side to the man who only two to three years before wrote a song with the chorus line "Your love is like bad medicine, bad medicine is what I need"; and imagine that the comment was in the review. Yeah.
I should in theory have some spare time to start on the track reviews now, so hopefully they'll begin shortly