John Mellencamp - Freedom's Road
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Artist: John MellencampEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-01-23
Music Label: Universal Republic
Soundtracks:
- Someday
- Ghost Towns Along The Highway
- The Americans
- Forgiveness
- Freedom's Road
- Jim Crow
- Our Country
- Rural Route
- My Aeroplane
- Heaven Is A Lonely Place
Music reviews of Freedom's Road
Music Review: This is our musical country
Rating: 3 Stars
I never begrudge an artist his or her politics, in fact, I endorse freedom of expression. With "Freedom's Road," John Mellencamp went all the way for the expression, but forgot to put the musical muscle. It's something he corrected on the T-Bone Burnett produced ""Life, Death, Love and Freedom," but here, the songs are a retread of much of Mellencamp's best work without the spark. It comes across like some of John's lesser albums, like Human Wheels or Cuttin' Heads.
If it weren't for the inclusion of long-time concert fave "Our Country," this album would have a hard time being memorable at all. It has that big sing-a-long of a chorus that marks Mellencamp's best singles, and a lyric that has both a patriotic zeal and the hint of subversion that made classics out of "Pink Houses" or "Jack and Diane." "Aeroplane" probably gets closest to hitting the mark afterwards. Then the duet with Joan Baez sounds good but comes off heavy handed, as does the murder ballad "Rural Route." The band sounds terrific as always, but other than "Our Country," the 'x-factor' is missing.
Description of Freedom's Road
The heartland rocker's first album of all-new material in more than five years finds John Mellencamp in full anthem mode. This is his State of the Union address, with guitars that chime like the Byrds heralding sentiments that recall the socially-conscious 1960s, yet sound all the more pertinent today. Balancing the desolate landscape of "Ghost Towns Along the Highway," the hell-on-earth of "Rural Route," and the tolls demanded on the title track's "Freedom's Road" are the embrace of brotherhood on "Someday," the Everyman populism of "The Americans," and the soaring transcendence of "My Aeroplane." Within the context of the album's song cycle, the "Our Country" centerpiece sounds richer and more powerful than it has as a truck commercial--like a roots-rocking sequel to Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." Mellencamp enlists Joan Baez for a duet on the protest ballad "Jim Crow," while saving his most blistering political commentary for the unlisted bonus track, "Rodeo Clown." --Don McLeeseGeneral CDs
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