Paul Westerberg - Folker
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Artist: Paul WesterbergEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown); German (Published)
CD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Music Label: Vagrant Records
Soundtracks:
- Jingle
- When Will We Arrive?
- My Dad
- Looking Up In Heaven
- Anyway's All Right
- $100 Groom
- 23 Years Ago
- As Far As I Know
- What About Mine?
- How Can You Like Him?
- New Life
- Gun Shy
- Folk Star
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Free Music Review: Best since "Pleased to Meet Me''--no kidding
Hit: 5 Stars
I know you're skeptical. I'm always skeptical. Every album comes out, and someone says it's great. Then I buy it, listen to it a few times, and file it away forever, wondering why I keep trying. Well, we all know why I keep trying-what if he really did something impossibly great again?
I think Paul's solo career has amounted to very little of any worth. I think the Grandpaboy material is pretty much an insult to his fans-"look, I don't even have to try, and they'll still buy it."
Well, I'm here to tell you that this album finally delivers on the promise. This is the best collection of songs Paul's released since "Pleased to Meet Me." No lame blues, no half-constructed or half-recorded songs. He's really trying here, and it shows. This album has all of the great Westerberg hallmarks: it's funny, beautiful, heart-breaking, gruff, and, occasionally rocking. It's still pretty low-fi, but there's a full, real band, and the performances are not tossed off, but relaxed and confident. Paul's singing is perfectly imperfect--sometimes off-key, but when wasn't it? The real revelation is his guitar-playing. He really pulls off a nice Keith/Ronny country raunch, with some great rhythm playing (see "Now I Wonder," "My Dad"). In fact, to me, this record has a real "Exile on Main St." vibe. Obviously, it's not that kind of masterpiece, but it's got the same kind of laid back, country-honk, recorded in the basement vibe. Trying, but not so much that the soul of the songs gets squashed. The record is lived-in and breathes.
There are some great, great songs here. Most are excellent. "Twenty-three years ago" is one of Paul's all-time great songs. Up there with pretty much anything he's ever written. In general, there's a real maturity here (finally)-not old, but mature. It feels like he's finally put the disappointments of the failed expectations of the past to rest. Like he's finally really past all of it, and just writing and making great music again.
Replacements fan, I know who you are. And I'm telling you to give Paul another shot here. Listen to this thing 7 or 8 times, and tell me it's not great. He has finally once again produced something that is worthy of his staggering talent.
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