Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade (DIG)
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Free Music Review: Politically Correct Drivel
Hit: 1 Stars
I like Steve Earle a lot and have several of his albums. The only song on this record I have heard is City of Immigrants. It is a catchy toon, but the lyrics are banal and politically correct. If you listen to it you will want to wrap your head in duct tape so it won't explode. The bridge is downright goofy.
Sorry Steve. You really tried too hard to be meaningful and ended up being pedagogical.
Aaakkk.
Free Music Review: Would have liked a couple rock tunes
Hit: 4 Stars
Great CD I just wish it would have had a couple more rock tunes on it.
You know the one's that have that Keith Richard's feel. Loved the DVD as well,I just hope I don't have to wait 3 more years for some great Steve Earle tunes!
Free Music Review: Old days gone.
Hit: 1 Stars
This is not the old Mr. Earle. He changed some time ago. Acoustic or electric, he does not cut it for me anymore. I wish him well.Free Music Review: Best Ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the best of Steve's career! Wonderful, catchy song rhythms and lyrics on many songs, great messages, beautiful backing vocals.Free Music Review: Bittersweet Serenade
Hit: 4 Stars
"Goodbye guitar town", sings Steve Earle in the song "Tennessee Blues", on his new album, "Washington Square Serenade". Earle may have left Nashville, but it is still in his rear view mirror, as he not only serenades his new home, New York City, but his new wife, Allison Moorer, who sings a duet with him on "Days aren't Long Enough".
Earle sings and plays with the joy and passion of a man who has found new love with both a woman and a city. But this album was made in George W. Bush's war weary America, and Earle expresses anger and frustration at the state of the Union in "Steve's Hammer", envisioning a time when, "kids don't die for gasoline".
A sense of contradiction runs through "Washington Square Serenade", from the hillbilly heroin of "Oxycontin Blues", to "Jesus' sword" in "Way Down in the Hole". Earle's lyrics are brilliant in painting contrasting images of country and city, Heaven and Hell. A redtail hawk performs wingstands above Manhattan in "Down Here Below". An old man leans into the wind on 7th avenue "like he's pullin'a plow" in "Red is the Color".
Musically, the contrasts continue, as the album effectively combines mandolins and tape loops, good old boys and DJ's. Steve Earle skillfully weaves shimmering love songs with dark songs of loss on "Washington Square Serenade", creating an album that is bittersweet in tone and powerful in delivery.