Jim Cuddy - Light That Guides You Home
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Artist: Jim CuddyEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-09-25
Music Label: Wea Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Light That Guides You
- Home
- Maybe Sometime
- All I Need
- Married Again
- Pull Me Through
- She Gets Down
- Countrywide Soul
- Will I Be Waiting
- One Fine Day
- Falling
- What She Said
- Stagger In
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Music Review: Bringing Us All Back Home
Rating: 4 Stars
Jim Cuddy is one half of the songwriting team that forms the backbone of Blue Rodeo. This fact is instantly recognizable in the opening title track of The Light That Guides You Home, sounding like an outtake from Diamond Mind or Casino. This is so, largely because Greg Keelor's supporting guitar is replaced magnificently by co-producer Colin Cripps (formerly of the criminally underrated Crash Vegas).
True, the appearance of a Kathleen Edwards vocal on "Married Again" and the trumpet of Bryden Baird in "Pull Me Through" reveals a clear attempt to walk a different path from the Blue Rodeo sound. However, and this is not a complaint, the pairing of Cuddy's guitar with Colin Cripps gives this CD a full, lush sound that constantly invites comparison with the chestnuts of Blue Rodeo's back catalogue.
When Cripps was with Crash Vegas it was Greg Keelor who provided some of the best songwriting and some supporting guitar work (see for example "Inside Out" and "Bury Her" from Red Earth (1989)). The sound he co-produces here with Cuddy sounds very much as if he learned a great deal from the master songsmith/guitarplayer Greg Keelor. It is as if he wanted to restore the sound of joy to Cuddy's voice, noticebly absent in the last two Blue Rodeo offerings.
Kudos to Cripps. Cuddy can get maudlin with his singing and his lyrics (witness for example Blue Rodeo's Small Miracles (2007))and I am glad to report Cripps has Cuddy`s singing re-energized like a happy, furry, drum-smacking, sunglass-wearing bunny again.
"One Fine Day", "Countrywide Soul" and the title track are all 5-star songs that would fit into anyone's playlists. Overall, however, it is the fluid easygoing pace of the song sequence we get over all 12 songs: Hey, no filler! If you love Blue Rodeo`s earlier work you`ll want this. I rate it a solid 4 stars with an extra 1/2 star for the excellent production and sound: ****1/2
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