Joe Walsh - Confessor
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Artist: Joe WalshEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Music Label: Rhino Flashback
Soundtracks:
- Problems
- I Broke My Leg
- Bubbles
- Slow Dancing
- 15 Years
- The Confessor
- Rosewood Bitters
- Good Man Down
- Dear John
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Music Review: Hard to Keep a Good Man Down
Rating: 3 Stars
Joe Walsh's 1985 release, The Confessor, suffers largely from the era in which it was released. At the time, artists were still pressured by their labels to put out an album a year, forcing the artists to write (and often record) while touring to promote their previous release. Needless to say, this prompted more than one spotty album. Oh, and since it's from the 80's, a lot of the songs get the big ol' drum machine treatment, which I've long since learned to look past. It's the mullet of 80s recording, after all. It was there, so everyone did it, and it looked normal at the time. Now it just dates things a bit.
The Confessor is such an album. At the very least, some of the writing feels rushed and cookie-cutter Joe Walsh at best. It opens with the weak "Problems," meanders through the lame joke of "I Broke My Leg" and the pun-laden "Bubbles" before briefly coming to life with "Slow Dancing," a cascading bit of guitar pop balladry capped by Walsh's trademark sly vocals. Unfortunately, we go right back down into the rote rocker "15 Years." No one could blame you if you stopped listening right there.
However, you'd also make a big mistake if you stopped there, because with the next song, the title track (which begins as mysterious folk and ends in an awesomely crunchy hard rock guitar workout), the album gets better and better. "Rosewood Bitters" is among the best pop songs Walsh ever sang, the rocker "Good Man Down" has none of the rote-ness that plagues "15 Years," and "Dear John" finishes the record with a wistful send-off to an ex.
So, in the end, we get 5 homeruns, a single, and three outs. Luckily, it's enough for The Confessor to win the game, but just barely. A little more time to write and he might have ended up with true greatness here. As it is, it's only half great. But it's still worth having.
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