Pat Benatar - True Love
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Free Music Notes for True Love
Free Music Review: Jumpin' Blues
Hit: 4 Stars
It was quite awhile since I pulled this CD off the shelf and gave it a listen - anyone not in the know True Love was Benatar's blues album - no hard rock, no heavy handed rock ballads, just blues. Though I must add most of the blues she chose to do is more in the upbeat Chicago jump blues type. When the album came out, she insisted she wanted to do something different, these were the songs she listened to at home and wanted to do a fresh album, the critics blasted her, fans weren't particularly thrilled and the album was deemed a disaster, but I've never been sure who deemed it that way, as it still went gold and hit the top 40. Personally, I wasn't expecting much when it came out but it would be about three years later that the whole damn world jumped on the jive bunny/Brian Setzer thrill so actually my girl was ahead of her time. As for the songs, these are all really good; she takes a lot of blues songs made famous by the mysoginist male voice of the 50s and turns them on their back by singing in a female perspective - "It Don't Happen No More" ("there used to be a time when a woman wouldn't folk/there used to be a time a woman didn't folk/ she'd just sit at home while her man went out to play/ she was satisfied with life any old way/ it don't happen no more"), a hilarious jumpy song "Bloodshot Eyes" (well it's plain that you're lying when you say you've been crying/ don't roll those bloodshot eyes at me/ .. your eyes look like two cherries in a glass of buttermilk), a few BB King covers are thrown in, Pat's husband Neil and their drummer write three new bluesy numbers including the straight up bluesy rock of the title track; and the ballads get you - her voice has never sounded so good as on "So Long" and "Evening" and the inevitable attitude song "I Get Evil" fits both her blues album and her rock attitude - if anyone ever (and would really) question Benatar's vocal abilities, just one listen to True Love would change that. Plus the album was recorded as a live band set, like they used to do back in the day.. so really if you ever find this one on the used bins (and you will) pick it up, I think you'd be impressed.
Free Music Review: Mrs. Giraldo does big band, blues and swing.
Hit: 4 Stars
Pat Benatar is one of my favorite female singers of all time in addition to just being an amazing vocalist regardless of gender. Beautiful, sexy and immensely talented, her long career has had it's share of ups and downs. Though True Love gets singled out as being one of her lowest points by a lot of people since it's her worst selling release that I'm aware of, it's actually one of her better releases in terms of quality as it sees her tackling genres that she would only tackle once: big band/swing/blues music.
Pat Benatar's popularity had started to wane during the 2nd half of the 80's and by the time the 90's started to roll around, I guess she felt that she had played her bombastic arena pop/rock style to it's logical limits by that point and a change was necessary.
So, with her husband and long time guitarist Neil Giraldo and her regular backing band got together with the Roomfull of Blues horn section and their drummer and did a blues, swing and swing album that turned out to be True Love.
It tanked commercially, but for fans of this style of music and/or Pat Benatar, it's got a lot to offer. It's only shortcoming is the inherent lack of variety at time due to how limited these genres end up being during the course of an album.
As far as her immense vocal prowess, this album allows her to stretch out much more vocally as she's not having to compete with an arena wall of sound/guitars like on the bulk of her classic 80's material. The backing band is most excellent.
The album is light, breezy, fun and pretty infectious. while the remastered version is available, the original CD sounded great already and can be bought for only a couple of dollars.
This CD is viewed as more of a curiousity in terms of her career as she only tried this once. While it tanked something fierce in terms of sales (and she would end up going back somewhat to her old style in subsequent efforts), we all know that sales don't really mean anything in terms of quality. This CD is well worth tracking down.
Free Music Review: Can't fault her for trying
Hit: 4 Stars
Although I'm sure this is Pat's worst selling album, it really doesn't deserve all of the bad press that it's garnered her. It had to take a big set of onions to put out something as unfashionable as this, but she pulls it off nicely. The problem was in the timing, as she was WAY ahead of the curve on this one. Had it been released several years later it would have been right at the crest of the popular wave, but then she would have been getting belted for hopping on a trend. No way for her to win on this one, but that doesn't mean you can't. Buy the album.Free Music Review: The Best Pat I've Ever Enjoyed!
Hit: 4 Stars
I had always heard my fair share of Pat Benatar played on the comercial rock stations of the 1970s and 1980s. I liked her alright, but she was never one of my favorites. I was in a record store in 1991 and heard this being played and had to have it! I was shocked to find out it was Pat Benatar. Her interpretation of the blues with the backing of "Roomfull Of Blues" is top notch! Pat is no imitator, on this album SHE IS A TRUE BLUES TALENT!Free Music Review: Pat for grown-ups
Hit: 4 Stars
Pat Benatar provided the soundtrack to my adolescence - I still have the original, well-worn vinyl release of In the Heat of the Night. Now that I've grown up a little, it's nice to settle into the couch with a scotch and enjoy this album, a respectable foray into the blues by one of the best vocalists of my generation.