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Elton John- SONGS FROM THE WEST COAST- CD- 2001/2002- Mercury Records Ltd.- 044006319421- 400 grn
SONGS FROM THE WEST COAST is the twenty-sixth studio album by English musician Elton John, released worldwide on 1 October 2001. For this album, John once again collaborated with long-time lyricist Bernie Taupin, marking the first time the pair had written together in person. Patrick Leonard produced the album and played keyboards on several songs, as was the case for The Road To El Dorado soundtrack, released the year before. The appearance of "Rocket Man"-era cohorts Nigel Olsson and Davey Johnstone as backing vocalists touches this CD with one of the trademark sounds of Elton John's 1969-75 LPs. John has acknowledged those records [his most typically singer-songwriterish] occasionally, if mostly to revisit audience favorites in concert (1987's Live In Australia, a late-'90s VH1 show). But on SONGS FROM THE WEST COAST, his admiration of Ryan Adams and Rufus Wainwright (a guest here) inspires him to recall the stripped-down, lyric-driven sensibility of his early days. The tone of the words Bernie Taupin feeds this notorious diva is elegiac, rooted in a wearier version of the romanticism that fueled oldies as diverse as "Your Song," "Love Lies Bleeding," and "Burn Down The Mission." WEST COAST sidesteps bombast with a couple of exceptions; only "The Wasteland," with its invocation of Robert Johnson, is enough to provoke a dismayed "oy." The standout track is "I Want Love," a Lennonesque rumination that's their most impressive writing, separately or together, in more than a decade.
PERSONNEL: Elton John – lead vocals, acoustic piano, harmonium; Patrick Leonard – Hammond B3 organ, organ, keyboards, Mellotron; Stevie Wonder – clavinet, harmonica; Billy Preston – Hammond B3 organ; Davey Johnstone – guitars, backing vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin; David Channing – acoustic guitar, dobro; Rusty Anderson – electric guitar, guitars, bouzouki; Bruce Gaitsch – acoustic guitar; Paul Bushnell – bass, backing vocals; Nigel Olsson – drums, backing vocals; Matt Chamberlain – drums, percussion; Jay Bellerose – percussion; Paul Buckmaster – horn arrangements, string arrangements and conductor; Rufus Wainwright – harmony vocals; Kudisan Kai, Tata Vega, Gary Barlow – backing vocals.
Throughout his songs for The Road to El Dorado, Elton John hinted at his classic sound of the early '70s, but it's still a refreshing surprise to find him largely returning to that sound on his 2001 album, SONGS FROM THE WEST COAST. It was easy to think that John wasn't interested in writing like this anymore, given not just his continued success, but the ease with which he was crafting pleasant adult contemporary records. There are still elements of that on SONGS FROM THE WEST COAST - a few of the ballads are a little too even-handed, and since this is a modern recording, it lacks the resonant warmth of such classics as Honky Chateau and Tumbleweed Connection. And this is an album that flows easily and naturally, setting the mood with the story sketch "The Emperor's New Clothes" and then heading in a number of scenic directions. Of these, "American Triangle," his elegy for Matthew Shepard, will likely receive the most attention, but the most interesting are songs like the bluesy "The Wasteland," "Ballad Of The Boy In The Red Shoes," which recalls the Tumbleweed epics, the neo-Captain Fantastic tune "Dark Diamond," the soulful closer "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore," and "Birds," a terrific, spare, rolling country-rocker. No, SONGS FROM THE WEST COAST won't make you forget Tumbleweed Connection, but it often recalls those peaks, which, frankly, is enough.
Comes In A Standard Jewel Case With White Tray Includes 16-Page Foldout Inlay.
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