Paul Westerberg - Come Feel Me Tremble

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Music Review: Could have been better
Rating: 3 Stars

Now before you get too down, let's run through some first impressions. `What A Day [For A Night]' is a nice easy track, proving Westerberg's not ALWAYS as serious as `Boring Enormous' or `Let the Bad Times Roll.' `Wild and Lethal' is five minutes is almost joyful [a word rarely associated with Westerberg] and includes a fun harmonica solo! The `Alternate Take' [quiet] of `Crackle and Drag' seems to be the more fitting, given the dark subject matter [think `Blackeyed Susan' from 14 Songs], but the electric version is pretty damn catchy and infectious, like an awful lot of Mono was. `Pine Box' is a full out rocker, the closest thing to the Mats he's pulled off since the first solo record. It's nice to know PW can still pull off things like this, but then again I think it'd been a whole lot more effective with a full BAND [ala 14 Songs], where Paul could lay back and let someone else carry a few bars or go against him with a descending bass line or something. `Meet Me Down the Alley' is back to typical PW of Suicane or Stereo, not as blue as `Bad Times Roll,' but still searching for something, still "not too young to die."

Westerberg's cover of Jackson Browne's `These Days' has been getting some ink because we all know PW can turn out some good songs on his own [now Joe Cocker is a great interpreter of songs!], but I think it's a good track. It's probably not as pretty as Jackson's version... Jackson has a silky voice and usually hires top talent like David Lindley, Russ Kunkle and Waddy Wachtel [admit it, Westerberg's voice can be shaky and nasal, though that's part of his charm], but Paul lays down some pretty good slide guitar and puts a lot of feeling into Browne's song about growing older [and even growing up a little]. If there was any justice and/or real radio, this would be a great late night/ pre-dawn morning track.

But sadly,it's a lot of hit or miss. We were shown on Stereo that PW can still churn out heartbreakingly great stuff, even if it's a little rough. Here it feels like he's just spinning his wheels, or even worse, popping the clutch and stalling out.

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