Track Listings (18) - Disc #1| All Artists: John Stewart Title: Wires from the Bunker Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Release Date: 7/17/2001 Album Type: Import Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock Styles: Contemporary Folk, Adult Contemporary, Singer-Songwriters, Soft Rock, Folk Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 |
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 | John Stewart Wires from the Bunker Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock
18 track collection of tracks previously unreleased on CD and others never before released from the folk singer/songwriter (Daydream Believer) formerly with the Kingston Trio and the Cumberland Three. Until this year these... more » |
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Album Description 18 track collection of tracks previously unreleased on CD and others never before released from the folk singer/songwriter (Daydream Believer) formerly with the Kingston Trio and the Cumberland Three. Until this year these tracks lay undiscovered, this release was compiled by Stewart himself. Tracks include, 'American Way' (feat. Lindsay Buckingham). 2000 release. Standard jewel case. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsBartender, give this man a label! Andy Agree | Omaha, NE | 06/12/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "That's right, if only this icon of music quality had had a record label at the time, we could have enjoyed this music almost 20 years ago. Shame on the music industry for overlooking this incredibly talented man. Please don't be dissuaded by certain comments in the featured review. The arrangements are not "overwrought" or "overly rocking". They are warm and pleasurably rocking. Do I detect a folk purist? John is a first class rocker on American Way, Under Heavy Fire, Liddy Buck, and All the Desperate Men. But if you love folk music, there is plenty here to please you, notably The Escape of Old John Webb, Cheyenne, and Tears of the Sun. The sound quality is fine and is not "tinny" - despite being in storage 18 years in a garage. The CD is generously endowed with 18 songs, but not all are equally good. Listen to Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15, and you have a very solid 12-track album. Taking all 18 tracks together, a weakness emerges, the weakness of repetition. You notice a sameness between the lesser songs and some of the better ones that robs the better ones of some of their power. You notice that there are too many songs in a major key, and it makes you long for a "Gold" or "Midnight Wind". When a minor key song finally comes along (#16) it is a weak one. A little more pruning by John and Tom would have made this collection a real killer. In giving this collection 5 stars, I am pretending they had done so." Woah. Yeah! Let the Big Horse Runnnnn! Andy Agree | 10/05/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "What else can you say but Thanks Tom Delisle! This is right up there in my book with California Bloodlines, Cannons in the Rain, The Phoenix Concerts and Bandera as the best the Big Dude has ever done. What a shame there was no label smart enough to release it at the time. John was on a roll, wasn't he? There are 18 songs here, of course not all are created equal. But the 10 - 12 best songs are better than anything else you might have heard in the early 80's, by anyone. AND BTW, these recordings were DEMOS, thrown in a box in John's garage, so of course the recording quality is not what you'd expect from a major-label release."
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