Musik / rock

Melody Road


Beskrivelse


Summary: "This album represents a real-life musical journey... When I think of songs like 'Melody Road' and 'Sonething Blue', I'm brought back to my musical roots - the folk songs of artists like The Weavers and Woody Guthrie and the traditional songs we sang around the fire at Surprise Lake Camp. I began this album with a batch of new song ideas and a yearning to complete a few older song sketches"--Container insert.

Anmeldelser (2)


AllMusic

2014

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

2014

"Diamond may have left his label of 40 years, but in an odd way, Melody Road is a return home after his stark wanderings of the 2000s ... What makes a difference here is the general lightness of his new songs and Was and Lee's sympathetic production; the two play off each other perfectly, turning this into the first latter-day Diamond record to feel quintessentially Neil Diamond".


Jyllands-posten

d. 3. nov. 2014

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Peter Schollert

d. 3. nov. 2014

"På albummene "12 Songs" og "Home Before Dark" fra 2005 og 2008 indgik en af alle tiders mest populære amerikanske solister Neil Diamond en pagt med produceren Rick Rubin, der forinden havde revitaliseret selve grundopfattelsen af country-ikonet Johnny Cash ... De har sørget for at kreere gennemproducerede varme ballader, temponumre og til tider storladne produktioner. Missionen lykkes - også fordi mikset af for-og nutid i lydbilledet har den rette balance".