Tortoise & Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Brave and the Bold
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Artist: Tortoise & Bonnie "Prince" BillyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Music Label: Overcoat Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Cravo E Canela
- Thunder Road
- It's Expected I'm Gone
- Daniel
- Love Is Love
- Pancho
- That's Pep
- Some Say (I Got Devil)
- Cavalry Cross
- On My Own
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Free Music Review: Desert driving music
Hit: 4 Stars
Ever hear a song in a record store(remember those relics?) and get a song stuck in your head. Well, that is what happened to me when I heard this cover of Springsteen's anthem, "Thunder Road." Hearing Will Oldham or whatever alter-ego he is going by( Bonnie "Prince" Billy) at the moment sold me immediately. "Thunder Road" is probably the best track and most accessible mainstream type song but Oldham and Tortoise are anything but mainstream, especially on this disc. Considering I like Tortoise I thought I'd give it a shot and I must say I was not disappointed. The musicianship is very hard to define but suffice to say it is a good blend of country-avant-garde-electronic music that makes you feel good; an unfamiliar sound that sounds all at once familar. Some are pretty far out there like "It's expected I'm gone" with enough wild rhythms and smoky vocals to give you a little shiver; it has a blood curdling audio effect, like music in search of a murder movie scene. It reminds me of desert scenes, like driving an old clunker through the southwest that transforms itself into a sleek racing vechicle and back again. The pacing is bizarre. There are several cool songs that fit into the unclassifiable niche ; something like being lost in the desert and seeing mirages. "Pancho" is a good old country boy song that is sweet. The first track, "Cravo E' Canela is quite unexpected which pretty much sums up the whole of this disc. Expect the unexpected; which is not a bad approach to life anyway.
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This first time collaboration between Tortoise and Will Oldham features covers of such artists as Bruce Springsteen ("Thunder Road"), The Minutemen ("It's Expected I'm Gone") Elton John and Bernie Taupin ("Daniel"), Lungfish ("Love Is Love"), Richard Thompson ("Cavalry Cross"), and more. The songs are almost unrecognizable to their original versions, yet each was chosen with care and reverence with no sense of irony. The record is undeniably both a Tortoise and a Bonnie "Prince" Billy record, and yet altogether something completely new and exciting.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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