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DiscountDelight - All the Roadrunning
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List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624415428
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: 2006-04-25
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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Summary: I can just see this one at Starbucks...
Comment: Eh, I think I need to come back to this CD a few years from now. I'm getting my heart strings pulled by the music of Kim Carnes lately. When I heard this one, it did absolutely nothing for me. I don't know if it's me, or the music itself. I love almost EVERY Emmylou CD through "Red Dirt Girl". "Stumble Into Grace" had it's moments but it seemed a bit laboured. The thing I loved most about exploring the Emmylou catalog was how she hop scotched from album to album, exploring different sounds and themes each time. Neither emotionally nor sonically am I moved by anything on this set... The harmonies seem kinda predicatable...
Well, I hope at a different time in my life I come back to this album and realize I missed out on a masterpiece. As it stands, I walked away from it feeling like it was a by-the-book excersize in Americana that college and public radio will love everywhere. But, my opinion means nothing and if I come back to this and love it, I'll write another review later. I have a feeling this one's a grower and I'm just not giving it a chance...
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Summary: I like it a lot!
Comment: I've had this CD for about 45 minutes and I'm into the 2nd listen...I bet by the 4th I'll be ready to give it 5 stars. As it is, it's as good as I expected it to be from two such talented people. "I Dug Up a Diamond" is a great song...I can see it's going to become one of my all-time favorites. The rest of what's on the album runs the gamut from brooding to upbeat. It's just plain good and I look forward to seeing these two in concert in June.
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Summary: Everything you could possibly want
Comment: Talent is the ante. Many have it. What you do with it is what matters. Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler are blue-collar workers. They take their immense natural talent, put it to the side and roll up their sleeves, building songs like brick walls --- a note at a time. As the notes pile up, they sound effortless, eternal, as if they could have been served up in no other way. Which is why Knopfler and Harris's CDs feel like houses: solid, honest, as permanent as anything mortals can create.
They're houses in another way too --- as places of refuge. Put a Knopfler or Harris CD on, and the world feels right. His sure slow hand, cousin to J.J. Cale, a fluid contrast to his refreshingly non-professional voice. The angelic clarity of her voice, cutting and floating, suspended in time and space, as close to perfection as we'll know in this life.
Together, there's nothing they can't do: iron strength, gossamer delicacy, you name it.
"All the Roadrunning" is everything you could possibly want. A "ten best," desert-island disc. Background music. A throwaway collection of tunes for the road. A fan might say, with deep pleasure, "I've waited seven years for this." But the truth is, we've been waiting all our lives. And so have Knopfler and Harris.
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Summary: Not an equal partnership
Comment: Emmylou, as the saying goes, could sing the phonebook, your laundry list, bus schedule, etc., and it would sound like a zillion damn bucks. So, I'm completely down with anything she participates in. Not so much Mr. Knopfler. Used to like the Dire Straits back in the day, but as I followed MK's solo career, it seemed increasingly bland and MOR to me...which zeroes in on the problem here. What we have here is a little too much Knopfler and a little too little Emmylou. MK wrote all but 3 of the songs (I believe) and his sound, his guitar playing is all over the place...so what you end up with is more like a Knopfler solo record with some added duet vocals. Not to dismiss it though: it's extremely catchy and pleasant, and these are some of the best, perkiest melodies MK has come up with in a while.
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Summary: His best effort
Comment: From his first album, I became fan of Mark Knopfler and I think nothing he's done as a solo artist can compare to this new album of duets with Emmy Lou Harris. To date this is Knopfler's best effort. One of the highlights of this release is Emmy Lou's vocals, his impressive once again!
"This Is Us" is remescient of Knopfler's later Dire Straits days ("On Every Street" Album), and makes the perfect hit single! "Red Swaggering" has a very upbeat country/bluegrass sound and is also an instant favorite. The two songs Emmy Lou wrote "Belle Star" and "Love And Happiness" are fantastic. "Belle Star" is upbeat and what a perfect blend of M.K.'s voice with Emmy Lou's! "Love and Happiness" is a beautiful ballad, as well as the title track: "All The Roadrunning.
This was something of a risky undertaking for Knopfler given his macho guitar image (which is normally a guy thing). However the ladies are gonna love this album also. The music and lyrics are all originals are are beautiful!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Over the last seven years, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris quietly recorded an album by stealing "a few precious hours of studio time here and there," as the ex-Dire Straits singer/guitarist puts it. Good thing they kept it largely under wraps--expectations would have pushed through the clouds, especially as Knopfler conjured 10 of the 12 cuts, and Harris, who writes potently, but little, contributed two ("Love and Happiness," "Belle Starr"). Yet now that it's here, All the Roadrunning--while beautiful--seems somehow underwhelming, and without a true centerpiece. Anyone familiar with the artists' famous catalogues would expect the repertoire to be poetic and brooding, and that Harris's ethereal soprano would add light to Knopfler's dark Prozac rumblings. But the surprise is that the album is too tame, never breaks out of its midtempo groove, and never takes any big chances.That said, there is much to like: The marital scrapbook romp of "This Is Us," the bluesy bickering of "Right Now," the wrenching poignancy of the 9/11-inspired ballad "If This Is Goodbye." Knopfler, ever the hypnotic guitarist, turns in some thrillingly droll and laconic vocals, and Harris brings the spirited coltishness of her early work to "Belle Starr." In the end, though, this is not so much a duet album as two famously melancholy musicians singing together--at times, strikingly so. --Alanna Nash More Mark & Emmylou
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