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Seeing him in concert next month so I hope the new songs transfer better when played live.
I'm pretty dissapointed with JM. Continuum was superb, but I've not liked any others. The live album 'Where the light is' is brilliant, and his blues trio is out of this world. He is such an awesome blues player I wish he'd do more of that rather than the pop stuff.
I'd buy any blues release by him, his playing is sooooooo good.
Although I did like Battle Studies, despite it being a wee bit too American FM radio for me.
I'd be interested to see what he does next. He's moved styles aorund quite a bit in his career, the early stuff was very poppy (the earliest release I've got is "Heavier Things".
"Continuum" was certainly a peak, and the live footage from that era is superb, including the trio stuff, but I reckon he also sees that as a peak in that style, so rather than make Continuum 2 forever he's headed in the singer/songwritter/country direction (after the really disappointing "Battle Studies")
I'm still enjoying Paradise Valley, and at the moment it's clear that he doesn't want to be a whiteboy blues widdler, (although I don't know what he's playing on tour, I'd imagine the strat gets a good workout live)
I do hope he gets the country stuff out of his system though, his pop/blues stuff is much more enjoyable!
Have you heard his cover of Crossroads on 'Battle Studies'....now that's shocking.
I have to say, I love it. Not quite a twangy as Born and Raised and there are some excellent tracks on there.
I'm seeing him on Sunday and I hadn't even checked to see who the band were. That is a shame about RB.
A couple of weeks on from my comments here on PV and nothing has changed. Maybe it'll be more to my liking in a live context.