Track Listings (16) - Disc #1| All Artists: Eric Johnson Title: Bloom Members Wishing: 8 Total Copies: 0 Label: Favored Nations Release Date: 6/14/2005 Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal Styles: Rock Guitarists, Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 690897251021 |
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Texas guitar prodigy Eric Johnson returns to recording after a near-decade absence with a lush, typically restrained collection that eschews flash for fluid cool. Arranging the album's 16 songs into a musical triptych whos... more » |
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Amazon.com Texas guitar prodigy Eric Johnson returns to recording after a near-decade absence with a lush, typically restrained collection that eschews flash for fluid cool. Arranging the album's 16 songs into a musical triptych whose sections are labeled "Prelude," "Courante" and "Allemande," Johnson aims at creating a landscape of shifting moods that's as subtle as it is mature. The guitarist's trademark lyrical style is immediately showcased on the title track, "Summer Jam" and the stately fallen astronaut tribute, "Columbia." The first section is also energized by the funked-up "Good to Me," before Johnson turns to fare that's variously more impressionistic (the instrumental "Sea Secret"), conscience-driven (the pop-savvy ballad "Sad Legacy") and smooth-groove, r&b sultry ("From My Heart"). The infectious finger-pickin' "Tribute to Jerry Reed" segues into a final act that includes the romance of "Your Sweet Eyes" (with guest Shawn Colvin adding her distinctive harmonies), "Hesistant"'s tasteful Wes Montgomery-isms and the 70's charged, acid-jazz of "Magnetized." His fusion-lite cover of Dylan's "My Back Pages" and saccharine "Sunnaround You" withstanding, it's another fine tribute to Johnson's tasteful, often introspective muse. -- Jerry McCulley Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsA MONSTER of a cd from Eric! Benjamin J. Neiman | Phila., Pa. United States | 06/17/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "I love this cd!! This is the most musical of all his recordings, at least for me. There are echoes of Stevie Wonder, Keith Jarrett, Ralph Towner, some Rundgren and Metheny also, but it is all very original. Gorgeous tunes, so well played. And Eric sounds as if he has been seriously studying bop phrasing for the last few years and now there just isn't any style this guy can't play way convincingly(come to think of it, I did hear him do a perfect version of Wes Montgomery's arrangement of "Down Here On the Ground" years ago). The Jerry Reed tune is honkin' country pickin' and he has played this in his live set for years. The guitar heroics are kept to a minimum on this record, and everything he plays sounds perfect for the song, there is no seeming attempt to impress with chops. Yet every fill is perfect, some much better than I've heard Carlton or Ford do for a very long time! On top of it all, Eric Johnson is one of the nicest cats I've ever met and I hope this record is a success for him cause he deserves it! Buy this immediately." Oh, wow. John Walker | Manistee, MI USA | 10/01/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "I normally wouldn't add a review after 42 others have already been published, but I want to help Mr. Johnson's batting average with my five stars. This album is incredible. Mr. Johnson is a pop artist at heart, and a guitarist's guitarist. So he doesn't receive the notoriety of any number of hotshot shredders. Like Todd Rundgren, he creates masterpieces in relative obscurity while the cogniscenti favor rougher, hipper fare. This album is indeed a bloom, of genius, of a musician who lives inside his music, and whose capacity for romantic beauty has made him an American original. Plus, this guy has chops to die for." Kinda ho hum for me... James G. Newman | Antelope, CA. United States | 07/01/2005 (3 out of 5 stars) "I was really wanting more out of this great guitar player, this is one of those filler CD's..maybe his next one will be the one.
I loved the last live CD, but this one just don't do it for me. He reminds me of Robben ford, ya just keep waiting for that just killer CD, but it don't come. Don't get me wrong there are a few very cool songs on it, but over all it just don't add up..Tones is still his best CD, and thats sad for it was his first...save your money or buy his electromagnets CD.." |
