Robben Ford - Truth
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Artist: Robben FordEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-07
Music Label: Concord Records
Soundtracks:
- Lateral Climb
- How Deep in the Blues (Do You Want to Go)
- Nobody's Fault But Mine - Robben Ford, Redding, Otis
- Riley B. King
- You're Gonna Need a Friend
- One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor - Robben Ford, Simon, Paul
- Too Much - Robben Ford, Ford, Gabriel
- Peace on My Mind
- There'll Never Be Another You
- River of Soul
- Moonchild Blues
Music reviews of Truth
Music Review: So-so Effort from Robben
Rating: 3 Stars
I own everything that Robben has released, and this set of songs just does not move me very much. It's well-performed, as always. But it's not ground breaking in any way. For me, Robben has "been there, done that" already ... and done it with more enthusiasm. I don't hate this release, but I don't love it either. I will be listening to most of his other stuff far more often than I listen to this.
Description of Truth
On his latest release, guitar legend Robben Ford speaks the truth...not just with the sound of his guitar, but with the vision behind his music as he ventures deep into the blues with aggressive licks, direct and honest vocals and an uncharacteristic, yet appealing, rough edge. The CD also features Susan Tedeschi on the song One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor. Robben will be on tour throughout the Month of August 2007.Not to be confused with Jeff Beck's identically titled 1968 album of crackling blues-rock fusion, this disc incorporates Robben Ford's unique blend of blues and jazz, but not rock. His first studio outing in four years shoehorns his traditionally biting, incisive-yet-clean guitar licks into songs that can't easily be pigeonholed. The opening easygoing Chicago shuffle of "Lateral Climb" is about as bluesy as it gets. The tune kick-starts the proceedings with a blazing solo that will have guitar fans salivating that this is finally the release where Ford opens up on his instrument. But the set shifts into a distinctive blend of R&B, jazz, smooth blues, and pop that displays the multitalented musician's strengths as a supple, subtle, and inviting vocalist as well as an intermittently skillful songwriter. A taut cover of Otis Redding's "Nobody's Fault but Mine" finds Ford mining a Memphis groove, as does the gospel-tinted "You're Gonna Need a Friend," cowritten with his wife. "Too Much" features an ominous plodding beat that never quite connects until the slashing solo, and the less said about the clich?d B.B. King tribute "Riley B. King" (cowritten with Keb' Mo') the better. But a rousing version of Paul Simon's "One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor" with Susan Tedeschi hits the soulful sweet spot Ford occasionally misses with the sporadically bland, yet agreeably jazzy fare that dominates this eclectic project's final third. --Hal Horowitz
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