Robben Ford - Truth
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Artist: Robben FordEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-08-07
Music Label: Concord Records
Soundtracks:
- Lateral Climb
- How Deep In the Blues (Do You Want To Go)
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
- Riley B. King
- You're Gonna Need a Friend
- One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor
- Too Much
- Peace On My Mind
- There'll Never Be Another You
- River Of Soul
- Moonchild Blues
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Free Music Review: Not just the blues
Hit: 5 Stars
Robben Ford's guitar playing has always been infused with the blues. But "Truth" isn't really a blues album. Maybe that's why I like it so much. It ties together elements from a wide sampling of his previous works but still sounds natural and intuitive, as opposed to needlessly revisited (some of Gary Moore's recent efforts fall into the latter category, and it pains me to say it because I'm a big fan of his).
Ford's use of volume swells and the dreamlike melody that weaves through "Peace on My Mind" may indeed borrow from the "Jing Chi" track "Going Nowhere" (2001), but "Peace" brings with it an entirely different message. "You're Gonna Need a Friend," with its soulful backing vocals, brings to mind the overall vibe and production of the album "Supernatural" (1999). And although one might find the lyrics to "Riley B. King" a pinch too simple and a dash too sweet, Ford's guitar speaks straight to the heart, with an openness and clarity reminiscent of 1997's "Tiger Walk" (an all-instrumental album that showcased Ford's fretwork, and which may have been a thinly disguised nod to critics less appreciative of his vocal talents).
Other highlights from "Truth" include the opening track "Lateral Climb," a reckless shuffle with a low-down groove that sets the tone for a working-class "trudge-along" with an underlying theme of political unrest and corporate greed: "The sun heats up, another working day ... coffee, keys and I'm on my way...." (The musical tension that builds in the first guitar solo pretty much sums up my daily commute.) Susan Tesdeschi's gritty guest vocal on "One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor" is well worth turning up the volume and waking the neighbors. The album closes with the moody "Moonchild Blues," a tune familiar to anyone who's seen/heard the DVD "New Morning - The Paris Concert." (It's too bad the DVD performance of "Moonchild," recorded live in 2001, didn't make it onto this CD as a bonus track).
It may come as no surprise that I'm a longtime fan of Robben Ford's music. To hear him play the guitar is like talking to an old, dear friend. "Truth" was worth waiting for.
Truth Poster
On his latest release, guitar legend Robben Ford speaks the truth...not just with the sound of his guitar, but with the vision behind his music as he ventures deep into the blues with aggressive licks, direct and honest vocals and an uncharacteristic, yet appealing, rough edge. The CD also features Susan Tedeschi on the song One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor. Robben will be on tour throughout the Month of August 2007.Not to be confused with Jeff Beck's identically titled 1968 album of crackling blues-rock fusion, this disc incorporates Robben Ford's unique blend of blues and jazz, but not rock. His first studio outing in four years shoehorns his traditionally biting, incisive-yet-clean guitar licks into songs that can't easily be pigeonholed. The opening easygoing Chicago shuffle of "Lateral Climb" is about as bluesy as it gets. The tune kick-starts the proceedings with a blazing solo that will have guitar fans salivating that this is finally the release where Ford opens up on his instrument. But the set shifts into a distinctive blend of R&B, jazz, smooth blues, and pop that displays the multitalented musician's strengths as a supple, subtle, and inviting vocalist as well as an intermittently skillful songwriter. A taut cover of Otis Redding's "Nobody's Fault but Mine" finds Ford mining a Memphis groove, as does the gospel-tinted "You're Gonna Need a Friend," cowritten with his wife. "Too Much" features an ominous plodding beat that never quite connects until the slashing solo, and the less said about the clichéd B.B. King tribute "Riley B. King" (cowritten with Keb' Mo') the better. But a rousing version of Paul Simon's "One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor" with Susan Tedeschi hits the soulful sweet spot Ford occasionally misses with the sporadically bland, yet agreeably jazzy fare that dominates this eclectic project's final third. --Hal Horowitz
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