Kid Rock - Born Free
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Artist: Kid RockEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-11-16
Music Label: Atlantic
Soundtracks:
- Born Free
- Slow My Roll
- Care (Feat. Martina McBride and T.I.)
- Purple Sky
- When It Rains
- God Bless Saturday
- Collide (Feat. Sheryl Crow & Bob Seger on piano)
- Flyin’ High (Feat. Zac Brown)
- Times Like These
- Rock On
- Rock Bottom Blues
- For the First Time (In A Long Time)
Music reviews of Born Free
Music Review: Well, an average CD. A few standouts but as a whole? OK
Rating: 3 Stars
I know it's become uncool to like Kid Rock, but I'm approaching 30. At this point, I don't really care. This is an excellent album. The production was amazing, and the instruments compliment what I've always thought Kid Rock did best...have his little scratchy voice singing along instead of spitting his version of rap.
On "Born Free", the song is decent. It gets a little old though after a while. I was looking at the time when I thought the song should be over- 3:00 or so. Unfortunately the song goes on to 5:13. I should have skipped ahead after four minutes, when they start singing together. Listening to that part knocked it down to a two star song.
"Slow My Roll" is another average song, nothing really special about it. Not bad, and maybe it would be relaxing when you're working too hard or something. When I'm already sitting in bed at noon, I can't really slow my roll much more, so nothing.
Here is where the CD really starts to improve. "Care" is really smooth, and the guests are really good. TI's verse was good, and I really like where he adds the "wish I could though" after Rock's "I can't change the world and make things fair" and have little doubt that I'll be shrugging my shoulders and singing along to that. Martina McBride adds a nice backup voice to the song. Smooth, kind of the Kid Rock that's gotten a little older and isn't scared to slow it down a bit. I'll go ahead and give it five stars.
"Purple Sky" has a really solid refrain. "want to drink till I'm not thirsty. Sleep till I'm not tired" What more could ya ask for. Really great road trip song. Probably four star song. Five if you ARE on a road trip. Especially with a girl you love.
At this point, I'm starting to see all of his tracks are just a little longer than they should be. Sometimes it's two minutes, sometimes it's 20 seconds. But I did want to push the next button a few times.
"When it Rains" is another average song. Maybe only two stars, really. Went ahead and pushed next. I'm glad I did. I really liked "God Bless Saturday" and found myself nodding my head to most of the song. I gave it four stars, but easily could have made it five. On "Collide", it's pretty cool that Bob Seger's on the piano and not singing. Wish he would have done some singing too, but it's his Sheryl Crow duet, like his "Picture" fans surely were looking forward to. It's good, but it's not "Picture", which I did really like. Four Stars is fair for this song. You can see yourself having a good moment holding your girl while this song plays, and it would really be good for a movie soundtrack to play during the "tender moment" in a romantic comedy or something. Good song.
"Flying High" definitely earned five stars. Great song. It's a country song, but Zac Brown style country. I do really like his and Kid Rock's repartee throughout the song. If you like Zac Brown music, you'll love this song. If you want a nice relaxing summer song, you'll love this song. "The grass don't much greener and life can't get no sweeter. I got a funny cigarette and two dollar bottle of wine." I immediately made this line my ringtone.
"Times Like These" is kind of his "I love you" to his home town of Detroit. It is a little bit of a downer especially after we were "Flying High", but a good song, and you can tell he really seems to care. Four stars. But maybe the order of these two songs should have been switched. I'm considering changing the track number on my Media Player. I liked it but wasn't in the mood for it. I skipped to the next one about halfway through.
"Rock On" is a slow one, and probably a good song to listen to when you're breaking up with someone, which I kind of am. This one caught me at the right time, and gets four stars from me. But it IS way too long and repetitive. Yeah. Even in the right mood, the length makes it only three stars. This is a good CD if you can skip when it starts getting old, but not as great if you're listening to it impassively.
I actually didn't like "Rock Bottom Blues". Maybe I just haven't been to enough places with "good foot stompin music and wine". Give it two stars, but I think a song with one star is AWFUL. I also didn't really understand "For the First Time". I don't know what's up with his voice, but he shouldn't do that. Sounds like it has good lyrics, but you can hardly stand to listen to his voice in this pitch that's a good two octaves too high or something. It's one step below sucking helium before he sings. That's not his sound. Gets two stars because of the lyrics, but I hope someone covers this song or something.
The CD wasn't as good as I initially thought, when I first bought it was skipping around. If you listen to CDs in your car or on road trips (Kid Rock's always good road trip music) and it's not a hassle to push the next button, it will be a good CD. Four stars for sure (though still not five). As it is with me, I listen to music in my home primarily and am not close enough to push next. It was a good CD, and I'm kind of surprised that Rick Rubin didn't say something about it. Three stars though. It's an ok CD, with a few standouts.
Description of Born Free
Kid Rock will release his 8th studio album, 'Born Free,' on November 16th via Atlantic Records. The record was produced by Rick Rubin and mixed by Greg Fidelman. The first single from the album will be, appropriately, 'Born Free' which hits radio September 14th. 'Born Free' is in many ways a transformational album for Kid Rock. While there is still the edge, wit, and swagger of previous albums, he doesn't rap, there's no metal - there isn't even a parental warning sticker.Says Kid Rock, 'The catalyst for this record was Detroit, and my thoughts on the world through the lens of Detroit. Watching everything go downhill over the past few years, the economy, the loss of jobs everywhere, I wanted to make a record that reflected the times but that still had soul.'
The bulk of the album was recorded live in a two week span in Los Angeles with a stellar cast of musicians including Heartbreaker Benmont Tench, Red Hot Chili Pepper Chad Smith, David Hidalgo from Los Lobos and Chavez guitarist Matt Sweeney. Studios in Detroit, Nashville and Atlanta were used to incorporate collaborations with Bob Seger, Sheryl Crow, Zac Brown, Trace Adkins, and in a pairing surely never to be replicated - T.I. and Martina McBride on the track 'Care.' Kid Rock and Rick Rubin, as friends, have spent many hours talking about their respective histories - starting in hip-hop, crossing into and creating new territories - as well as the need for a great new American classic rock record that challenges the field. 'Born Free' is in part the result of those conversations - an album that is meant to be played from start to finish.
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