David Ackles

Artist: David Ackles
Label: Import [Generic]
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075596159524
EAN: 0075596159524
ASIN: B0000257OW

Release Date: 2001-07-24

David Ackles

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Tracks:

Road to Cairo
When Love Is Gone
Sonny Come Home
Blue Ribbons
What a Happy Day
Down River
Laissez-Faire
Lotus Man
His Name Is Andrew
Be My Friend

Album Details

The Late Acclaimed Singer / Songwriter's 1968 Debut Album also Known as ' Road to Cairo'. Produced by David Anderle.

Customer Reviews:

in praise of melancholia.......2002-11-17

I've owned all the Acles catalogue on vinyl & was thrilled to discover the availability of, what I consider his most consistent, if forlorn collection. Though I, like some other reviewers,would like to see the 4 recorded sessions out there again, its too an exclusive and intimate taste now, as it ever was prior to his slipping from the market place in the late 70s. For subtle nuance of lyric to piano, and range of feeling in the darker, and tender zones of relationship, I feel he hasn't a rival. Comparisons, I note in other reviews, with laughing Lenny Cohen do injustice to Acles, who is mostly far less cumbersome.

A Voice in the Night.......2001-04-16

I first found this album in a pile of cast-offs from a local radio station in the late 60's. I've kept the LP (large disks that rotate at 33-1/3 rpm) with me through college, grad school, marriage, and many job changes. Many cassettes were made to play in the car. The words and music are timeless.

From the same mold as Leonard Cohen, Ackles has a purity of his words and stylings that set a mood and allow you to fill in the details, the colors in your paint-by-number dream.

Other reviewers have covered their view of the major songs, I always tended toward "Laissez Faire" (give me my money for cigarettes/pennies for wine) and "Down River" (down river when you're locked away).

A LOST TREASUE.......2000-12-23

All of David Ackles albums have their share of powerful songs intermingled with some lugbriously pretentious ones. Don't let that turn you off. "Road To Cairo","Down River" & "Be My Friend" are Ackles at his finest. The likes of "Blue Ribbons" capture him at his most haunting.

I suppose Ackles could best be described as a sort of melancholy cross between Randy Newman & Leonard Cohen with echoes of Kurt Weill & Sondheim thrown in. He also has a strange way of drawing you in even on his more awkward lyrical excursions like " My Name Is Andrew" & "Sonny Boy Come Home". Neither are destined to be your favorite but with repeated listens they grow on you.

His other albums AMERICAN GOTHIC and SUBWAY are also highly recommended. Ackles was a terrific songwriter who went on to influence the likes of Elvis Costello & on down to the insipid likes of Phil Collins. A dreamlike malaise of bruised vocals and lonely sentiments. A must for early Leonard Cohen fans.

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Miles & Coltrane ~ Miles Davis with John Coltrane

Look Out: Phineas Is Back ~ Phineas Newborn

Legendary Small Groups, Vol. 1 (1935-37) ~ Teddy Wilson

All Stars Live ~ Charlie Parker

Plays Jaki Byard ~ Benjamin Herman

Pink Lady No Dance Tengoku ~ Pink Lady

Caprice ~ Angelo Debarre

Ao Vivo ~ Joanna

Lo Mejor De ~ Zalo Reyes

Célia Maria ~ Celia Maria