Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5017261203588
ASIN: B0000011PD
Release Date: 1997-05-27
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Artist: Scott Walker
Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 5017261203588 ASIN: B0000011PD Release Date: 1997-05-27 |
Stretch/We Had It All
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Remastered two-on-one respectively featuring his '73 & '74 solo albums. 'Stretch' features B.J. Cole on steelguitar & dobro and Ray Cooper on percussion. 21 tracks: 'Sunshine', 'Just One Smile', 'A Woman Left Lonely', 'No Easy Way Down', 'That's How I Got To Memphis', 'Use Me', 'Frisco Depot', 'Someone Who Cared', 'Where Does Brown Begin', 'Where Love Has Died', 'I'll Be Home', 'Low Down Freedom', 'We Had It All', 'Black Rose', 'Ride Me Down Easy', 'You're Young And You'll Forget', 'The House Song', 'What Ever Hap- pened To Saturday Night', 'Sundown', 'Delta Dawn', etc.Customer Reviews:
Even Scott Walker Couldn't Resist the 70s.......2001-11-13
Inexplicably, Walker abdicated his role as songwriter. And, sadly, his talents as an interpreter fell flat in places too. Those of you who love "Dusty in Memphis" will eagerly look forward to Scott's versions of "Just One Smile" and "No Easy Way Down." But his versions of these songs are positively turgid. Fine as both of these songs are, Scott Walker could not wrap himself around them at all. His cover of "Use Me" is excellent but too close to the original hit. On the other hand, "How I Got to Memphis" and "Low Down Freedom" hit that pop country groove Walker traditionally visited with tunes like "Reuben James" and "The Lady Came From Baltimore." And a few of the country ballads work well, such as "The House Song." Thank god there are a few proper Scott Walker vehicles to be found here, such as "Someone Who Cared" and "Where Does Brown Begin." He does a fine stripped-down version of Randy Newman's "I'll Be Home." But, please, a version of "Delta Dawn?" You won't be converted by it.
These albums suffer from being produced in the U.K.. The players just didn't have the necessary chops for the brand of country that dominates the program here. And I can still hardly believe that Walker could do such a bad job on "No Easy Way Down," but listening is believing.
This set is only for completists.
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